Saul Goodman

James Morgan "Jimmy" McGill, better known by his professional alias and business moniker Saul Goodman, is an Irish-American Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer, scam artist, and convicted criminal. Saul goodman is one of the most infamous people in Oklahoma. He has a wanted level of 4

## Crimes

### Defending Criminals In Court

Saul Goodman is very convincing, and many of his criminal clients have been deemed "Innocent" due to his skill to convince

### Scams

Saul is a scam artist and has pulled many scams, there are to many to list, but some of his most infamous scams include:

#### The Veteran Scam

Jimmy wants to film a high-quality commercial on a low-quality budget, so he does what he does best and scams his way onto a US Air Force Base to film one.

The creativity and ingenuity in this scam are again, mainly rooted in Jimmy’s ability to thread a convincing story. By calling on the help of an elderly man he once defended (a registered sex offender by the way) and dressing him up as a veteran he already has a good start. But Jimmy also needs to get his rag-tag film crew on board as well, so they instantly become relatives of the World War II veteran. Finally, he needs to smuggle the equipment, camera, microphone, etc. So Jimmy relies on a wheelchair to double as a sympathetic part of his story and as a caddy. Jimmy talks the captain who is providing the tour into bending the rules and taking them to visit a WWII bomber plane named Fifi. While the eager captain is gushing over the veteran, Jimmy convinces him that the elderly man needs water. Jimmy has now forced the captain to run back to the base to grab water simply out of verbal obligation, leaving them alone with the plane and their equipment.

Like a pit crew in the heat of a race, Jimmy’s ‘veteran’ is out of his wheelchair, posed heroically in front of Fifi, while the film crew uses the wheelchair as a dolly to shoot the scene. They don’t waste a single second, and they get out undetected. Jimmy now has the commercial footage he needs and the misplaced respect of an entire Air Force Base. The manipulation in this one is off the charts as Jimmy demonstrates powerful use of pathos in his speech to sell the captain on his fake veteran's story. Not only has Jimmy crafted the perfect story, but he is able to sell it convincingly to such a degree that if he had been caught, he'd be able to talk himself out of any trouble (Source: https://collider.com/better-call-saul-scams-ranked/#:~:text=3.%20The%20Veteran%20Scam%20%2D%20%22Fifi%22%20%28Season%202%2C%20Episode%208%29)

#### The Xerox Scam

The Xerox scam is by far the most meticulous and intricate of Jimmy’s entire catalog. In an attempt to prevent Chuck and HHM (Chuck and Howard’s law firm) from stealing the Mesa Verde account from Kim, Jimmy tampers with Chuck’s files from Mesa Verde. Chuck happens to be out cold, suffering from his journey into the outside, “electric” world, which gives Jimmy the perfect opportunity to snag the files. He takes them to a copy center where he spends the entire evening using an Exacto knife, glue, and precise measurements swapping the last two numbers of the Mesa Verde law firm’s address on every single document in Chuck’s file. He then returns the file with Chuck none the wiser.

The beauty of this con is in its sheer simplicity. Jimmy knew this minuscule, seemingly benign, numbers error would drive Chuck over the edge much more than anything else, all while directing Mesa Verde back in Kim’s direction. His successful forgery checks all the boxes of a quintessential *Better Call Saul* scam, it’s clever, resourceful, and serves a greater purpose. While certainly unethical, this is another scenario where Jimmy does the wrong thing for what he believes is the right reason. HHM is trying to pluck the Mesa Verde account away from Kim, even though she was the one who discovered and acquired their business in the first place. Through Jimmy’s endlessly creative psyche he realizes if he can forge an indisputable error on HHM’s side, Mesa Verde will stick with Kim. He pulls this scam off, one which could severely compromise him all to better Kim and her career (Source: https://collider.com/better-call-saul-scams-ranked/#:~:text=3.%20The%20Veteran%20Scam%20%2D%20%22Fifi%22%20%28Season%202%2C%20Episode%208%29)

#### The Huell Scam

Elaborate, colorful, strenuous, expensive, ingenious. This scam that Jimmy pulls is by far his most creative. After Huell assaults a man he didn’t realize was a cop while working as Jimmy’s security for his burner phone hustle, Jimmy and Kim team up to keep him out of prison.

Relying on Huell’s birthplace of Coushatta, Louisiana as his inspiration, Jimmy intends to paint him as a hometown hero. He boards a bus from Albuquerque to Louisiana and spends the entire time writing/addressing letters (and bribing passengers to help in the effort), to the judge back in Albuquerque trying Huell’s case. Jimmy has a bag of assorted pens and colored craft paper which he uses to appear as if coming from different senders. We have seen Jimmy go to great lengths before, and while the stakes don’t feel intimidating amidst all the colored pencils and glitter, there is still so much to be in awe of.

Once all the letters, which amount to a duffel bag full, have been mailed and left the judge and prosecuting attorney beside themselves, Jimmy continues the con back in Albuquerque. Again displaying his one-of-a-kind resourcefulness, Jimmy utilizes his side gig of selling burner phones to benefit his scam. With over twenty burner phones laying across his desk and the help of his film crew, Jimmy fields calls from the baffled prosecuting attorney who is calling the multiple phone numbers that Jimmy planted on the cards. Jimmy and his crew go through a variety of accents and improv, most notably, Jimmy’s impersonation of a Louisiana pastor that claims he will be sending a charter bus to the trial. Every character passionately vouches for Huell. The scam is so thorough that he has even established a fake website for the Coushatta church where donations can be sent in support of Huell. There is so much faux outpouring of love for Huell that it completely overwhelms the prosecuting attorney, allowing Kim to get her to agree to a misdemeanor charge.

The level of detail and care that went into this con was so significant that it took an entire episode to completely unfurl. It is undoubtedly the most creative scam of his It’s also important to note that this con worked towards helping someone, in this case, Huell, out of a tight spot, and not just for the benefit of himself. It transcends the genre of a con or scam through its ingenuity, and it also serves as the perfect way to show how Jimmy begins to form into the greatest criminal lawyer we know (Source: https://collider.com/better-call-saul-scams-ranked/#:~:text=3.%20The%20Veteran%20Scam%20%2D%20%22Fifi%22%20%28Season%202%2C%20Episode%208%29)