(MONEY Magazine) – Another crook in the ranks of corporate execs? Yes, but this is different: Connecticut-based Trilegiant, which sells credit-monitoring products, recently hired Frank Abagnale because of his criminal behavior--plus, we suspect, the fact that his story is the subject of Catch Me If You Can, a Steven Spielberg film starring Leonardo DiCaprio that opens Dec. 25. Decades after serving five years in prison in the 1970s--in part for posing as both an airline pilot and a stock broker and for cashing some $2.5 million worth of bogus checks--the 54-year-old con man-turned-security consultant now lectures on check fraud and ID theft for upwards of $20,000. --MAYA JACKSON