American Greed Season 3 Episodes

Episode 3

Art Heist: Fine Arts Express; Medical Scams: Dr. Martinez

Sun, Sep 21, 2008

Co-workers steal more than $4 million in fine art; a doctor's fraud, amounting to millions of dollars, turns deadly.

Episode 4

Meth Identity Thieves/The Wheaton Bandit

Sun, Sep 28, 2008

STORY 1: Meth Identity Thieves and ID Theft -- A crime is committed by criminals who are high on illegal methamphetamine drugs. The victim's wallets are stolen. But the thief takes more than just money. The victim's identity is stolen, too. Identity thieves fueled by the illegal stimulants are running rampant across America's West. STORY 2: The Wheaton Bandit -- The Wheaton Bandit is an unidentified bank robber suspected to be responsible for as many as 16 armed robberies around Wheaton, Illinois from 2002 to 2006. He appeared to be 25 to 35 years old at the time of the robberies, always wore a hood or ski mask, and wore different clothing in each robbery. Instead of placing his finger on the gun trigger, he often kept his trigger finger along the side of the gun, a safety position that suggests firearms training. Outlines of his jackets suggest that he also wore a bulletproof vest.

Episode 6

Diluted Trust: Robert Courtney

Sun, Nov 16, 2008

Robert Ray Courtney (born September 15, 1952) is an American former pharmacist from Kansas City, Missouri. In 2002, after initially being caught diluting several doses of chemotherapy drugs, he pleaded guilty to intentionally diluting 98,000 prescriptions involving multiple types of drugs, which were given to 4,200 patients, and was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.

Episode 7

Worldcom/Joseph Medawar Television Scam

Wed, Mar 5, 2008

STORY 1: WorldCom -- The WorldCom scandal was a major accounting scandal that came to light in the summer of 2002 at WorldCom, the USA's second-largest long-distance telephone company at the time. From 1999 to 2002, senior executives at WorldCom led by founder and CEO Bernard Ebbers orchestrated a scheme to inflate earnings in order to maintain WorldCom's stock price. The fraud was uncovered in June 2002 when the company's internal audit unit, led by unit vice president Cynthia Cooper, discovered over $3.8 billion of fraudulent balance sheet entries. Eventually, WorldCom was forced to admit that it had overstated its assets by over $11 billion. At the time, it was the largest accounting fraud in American history. STORY 2: Joseph Medawar Television Scam -- Joseph Michel Medawar (born November 22, 1961 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese American financial strategist and investment-banking counselor specializing in media, entertainment and related industries, film producer, and ex-convict. In 2006, he was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and was ordered to pay $2.6 million in restitution to the defrauded investors.

Episode 8

The Bonnie and Clyde of Mortgage Fraud

Thu, Jan 8, 200944 mins

In a tell-all exclusive interview, Matt Cox and Rebecca Hauck explain how lust and greed are a hot combination for fraud.

Episode 9

Boy Band Bandit: Lou Pearlman's $500 Million Ponzi

Wed, Jan 14, 200942 mins

A successful businesswoman is targeted by a serial grifter who poisons her for money.

Episode 10

Hazardous Healthcare

Wed, Jan 21, 2009

Hazardous Healthcare: A Wall Street Wonder Takes a Fall -- Richard Marin Scrushy (born August 1952) is an American businessman and convicted felon. He is the founder of HealthSouth Corporation, a global healthcare company based in Birmingham, Alabama. In 2004, following an investigation by the FBI, Scrushy was criminally charged by the U.S. SEC. He was charged with 36 of the original 85 counts but was acquitted of all charges on June 28, 2005, after a jury trial in Birmingham. Four months after his acquittal in Birmingham, on October 28, 2005, Scrushy was indicted by a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, along with former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. The indictment included 30 counts of money laundering, extortion, obstruction of justice, racketeering, and bribery. Scrushy pleaded not guilty to all charges, but was convicted along with Siegelman in June 2006.

Episode 11

Two Brothers, Two Murders: The Kissel Case

Wed, Jan 28, 2009

Episode 12

Greater Ministries International/It Takes a Thief

Sun, Feb 1, 2009

Episode 13

Skin Doctor Takes His Cut/Revolutionary Guru of Greed

Wed, Feb 4, 200944 mins

Dermatologist Michael Rosin took his cut on dozens of mostly elderly patients, performing unnecessary and invasive skin cancer surgeries.

Episode 15

A Scam Exposed: Strippers and Insider Trading/Economan: Superthief

Wed, Feb 11, 200944 mins

It's one of the biggest cases of insider trading in history. Raj Rajaratnam had it all...a wildly successful hedge fund, billions in the bank, and the respect of Wall Street. But behind closed doors, Rajaratnam was gaming the system to the tune of $75 million-dollars!

Episode 16

The Mustang Ranch: Money, Women and Murder

Wed, Feb 18, 2009

Episode 17

Gardner Museum Theft/Abraham Kennard

Sun, Feb 22, 2009

Episode 18

The Body Snatcher: Michael Mastromarino

Wed, Feb 25, 2009

Episode 19

Sotheby's-Christie's/First International Bank

Sun, Apr 12, 2009