American Greed Season 13

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The College Admissions Scandal Aug 13, 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.

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The Fyre Festival Aug 19, 2019 Disgraced Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland uses fraud to launch his brand and a luxury music festival in the Bahamas.

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Paul Manafort 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.

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Prophets of Greed 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.

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Black Market Dirty Gold 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.

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The House Flipping Reality Star Fraudster Sep 16, 2019 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.

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The Fake Prince's Royal Scam Jan 6, 2020 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.

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Diagnosis: Temptress Health Scam Jan 13, 2020 Entrepreneur Keisha Williams cheats investors out of millions of dollars with a medical money-making technology that never materializes.

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The Fast and the Fraudulent Jan 20, 2020 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.

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Painful Greed Turns Deadly 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.

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Starstruck Studio Swindle Feb 3, 2020 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.

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The Luxury Curse Scam 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.

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Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino 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.

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Fake Heiress Cons High Society Feb 25, 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.

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All-Star Sports Scam Mar 2, 2020 Peggy Fulford, a sweet-talking beauty, steals millions of dollars from professional athletes.

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Judgment of Terror Mar 10, 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.

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The Fake Prince's Royal Scam Jan 6, 2020 An outlandish con artist poses as a Saudi royal to cheat investors out of millions, promising them access to Arabian oil stock.

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Painful Greed Turns Deadly Jan 27, 2020 Healing turns harmful when pharmacist Barry Cadden chooses profits over safety while running a drug compounding center where mold and bacteria thrive.

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The Luxury Curse Scam Feb 10, 2020 From penthouse apartments to a $10 million stadium luxury box, financial advisor Dawn Bennett orchestrates a $20-million-scheme and conjures spells to silence investigators.

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Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino Feb 17, 2020 On MTV's "Jersey Shore," Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino flaunts washboard abs and a party boy image. But when it comes to his taxes, he'd rather play than pay.

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Fake Heiress Cons High Society Feb 24, 2020 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.