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16 Episodes 2019 - 2021
Episode 1
Mon, Aug 12, 2019
College admissions consultant Rick Singer awaits sentencing for his role as mastermind of the $25 million 'Varsity Blues' scandal which included coaches and others which were insiders.
Episode 2
Mon, Aug 19, 201943 mins
Disgraced Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland uses fraud to launch his brand and a luxury music festival in the Bahamas.
Episode 3
Mon, Aug 26, 2019
From luxury properties to an ostrich coat, the hard charging political insider uses his influence to fuel a multimillion-dollar mortgage and tax fraud.
Episode 4
Mon, Sep 2, 2019
Leaders of a breakaway polygamous Mormon sect, Lyle Jeffs and Seth Jeffs of the 'Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' (FLDS), admitted to orchestrating what authorities have called the nation's largest scheme to defraud the federal food benefits program. They rose to power after the cult founder, their brother Warren Jeffs, was imprisoned due to sex crimes.
Episode 5
Mon, Sep 9, 2019
Three Miami salesmen have gold fever, as they import billions of dollars worth of the precious metal from South America. But their business plan falls apart when authorities learn the gold has connections to drug cartels and organized crime. Renowned private investigator David Bolton of South Florida-based Bolton Investigations Inc., whose professional achievements include handling the largest gold heist in Florida history, was quoted extensively throughout the program about the illegal gold mining trade, its ties to drug cartels and organized crime, and its alarming impact in the United States and South America. "Miami's biggest import and export for years was gold," said Bolton. "I am one of the few private investigators who has handled significant crimes involving the theft of gold and other precious metals. Throughout my career, I have worked closely with many of the major players in the industry as a consultant." Prosecutors said Miami received about 90 percent of the black market gold imported from Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador, totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Bolton said the enormous social costs of the operation extended well beyond the culprits' financial crimes. "They've used child labor in Peru and Colombia, they've been poisoning the environment, they've been deforesting the Amazon," he told "American Greed." Bolton added the workers were exposed to harsh work conditions that included exposure to deadly levels of mercury with more than 200 tons of the chemical element dumped in the heart of the Amazon.
Episode 6
Mon, Sep 16, 201943 mins
Scott Menaged is a trash-talking reality TV house flipper buying up hundreds of foreclosures in Phoenix. But when his moneylender discovers that Menaged is a fraud, the consequences are deadly.
Episode 7
Mon, Jan 6, 202043 mins
An outlandish con artist poses as a Saudi royal to cheat investors out of millions by promising them access to Arabian oil stock. From his penthouse on Miami's exclusive Fisher Island, phony sultan "Khalid Bin Al-Saud," lures victims with dreams of untold riches.
Episode 8
Mon, Jan 13, 2020
Entrepreneur Keisha Williams cheats investors out of millions of dollars with a medical money-making technology that never materializes.
Episode 9
Mon, Jan 20, 202043 mins
Payday loan scam mastermind Scott Tucker swindles millions of cash-strapped borrowers with his convenient online loan business and uses the profits to fuel his race car team dreams. But when he steers investors into his predatory scheme, he speeds head on into trouble.
Episode 10
Mon, Jan 27, 2020
Pharmacist Barry Cadden chooses profits over safety while running a drug compounding lab where mold and bacteria thrive, harming almost 800 patients and leading to more than 100 deaths.
Episode 11
Mon, Feb 3, 202043 mins
Carissa Carpenter is an aspiring Hollywood mogul whose latest plan is to construct a major movie studio in Northern California. But federal authorities say this is only a sequel, as she uses investor money to bankroll her big-budget lifestyle for nearly two decades in different cities around the country.
Episode 12
Wed, Feb 10, 2021
From penthouse apartments to a $10 million stadium luxury box, New York financial adviser Dawn Bennett orchestrates a $20 million scheme and conjures spells to silence investigators.
Episode 13
Mon, Feb 17, 2020
Reality star Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino flaunts washboard abs and a party boy image, but when it comes to paying his taxes, he'd rather play than pay.
Episode 14
Mon, Feb 24, 2020
Anna Sorokin is a Russian-German convicted con artist and fraudster. Between 2013 and 2017, Sorokin pretended to be a wealthy German heiress under the name Anna Delvey.
Episode 14
Mon, Feb 24, 2020
An artsy German heiress Anna Delvey makes a splash in Downtown New York's social scene, but she's really a Russian-born con artist who's trying to swindle $23 million from banks while dodging unpaid bills.
Episode 15
Mon, Mar 2, 2020
Well-heeled financial advisor Peggy Ann Fulford builds a cache of all-star clients and a personal fortune by convincing A-list players like Dennis Rodman and Ricky Williams that she's in their corner, while bleeding their bank accounts in a game of winner takes all.
Episode 16
Mon, Mar 9, 2020
When a judge in Texas is shot four times, a tip leads investigators to Chimene Onyeri, an aspiring Houston rap artist facing prison after his crooked card skimming plots are exposed.