Overall, Bogdan-Pitești claimed to have been held in judicial custody for some forty separate incidents, stressing that all these convictions were owed to political crimes—while reporting this statement, T. Vianu noted that at least some should in fact be considered punishments for various misdemeanors. In time, the anarchist boyar had also come to be known as an inveterate criminal and jailbird, which attracted him the disparaging moniker "Bogdan-Văcărești" (after Văcărești prison in Bucharest). Others twisted his birth name into the parodic "Bogdan-Ciupești" (from "a ciupi", "to gyp").