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Hank Lee
| Hank Lee | |
| Born | Harry Levy 1950 |
|---|---|
Hank Lee (b.1950) is the founder of Hank Lee's Magic Factory in 1975, a magic store in Medford, Mass., just outside of Boston.
Biography
He invented commercially available tricks like Sharpshooter (a version of Alan Alan's routine wherein a realistic-looking toy gun is fired at a deck of cards, whereupon a previously chosen card in the middle of the deck is now seen to have a bullet hole in its center), and Cereal Killer, a trick with cereal-box covers based on Billy McComb's McCombical Prediction and Don Wayne's Top Ten.
In 2012 Levy was sentenced to two years in prison for a nearly two-year fraud where he charged $560,000 on a regular customers credit card and then mislead investigators when confronted about it. Levy was also be required to pay restitution to the victim.[1]