Million Dollar Vandal

Million Dollar Vandal : The story of one of New York's most reviled citizens: a graffiti writer named Robert Morrissey, best known as DESA, the moniker that brought him the hate. There were writers who did more graffiti, but no one matched Desa when it came to bad luck: he was in the midst of a hard-luck life when he became the whipping boy of New York's law enforcement whenever it needed to make its graffiti crackdown visible. Desa's legal trials for graffiti made headlines: notoriety which Desa alternately relished and ran from. Million Dollar Vandal chronicles Desa's violent and tragic life, from his Bushwick childhood to his present day as a reclusive, unemployed man moving about his day-to-day life -- every bit of it punctuated with the graffiti that brought him fame and trouble. Presented by Also Known As, renowned for magnificent print, photographic, and production quality.