Dark Money: True Crime Finance

The movie made almost five hundred million dollars.  The victims received about twenty-five cents for  every dollar stolen from them. Jordan Belfort is  still on the speaking circuit. This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes  inside the real Stratton Oakmont — the Long Island  boiler room that defrauded fifteen hundred ordinary  Americans of over two hundred million dollars through  pum...

He arrived in America with two dollars and fifty cents.  He invented a financial crime so perfectly replicable  that over a century later it still carries his name.  And he died in a charity hospital in Brazil with  seventy-five dollars to his name. This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes  back to the original — Charles Ponzi, the international  reply coupon scheme, and the summer of n...

It was the largest accounting fraud in American history.  And it was uncovered not by the SEC, not by Wall Street  analysts, not by the auditors — but by a vice president  of internal audit working alone at night after hours  because she couldn't look the other way. This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes  inside WorldCom — how CEO Bernie Ebbers and CFO Scott  Sullivan hid eleven b...

It had survived the Napoleonic Wars, two World Wars,  and the Great Depression. It took one twenty-eight  year old trader with a secret account and a bad  bet on the Kobe earthquake to bring it down in  a single weekend. This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes  inside the collapse of Barings Bank and the story  of Nick Leeson — how account eighty-eight-eight-eight  hid losses for nearl...

He testified before Congress. He donated hundreds of  millions to charity. He was on the cover of Forbes.  And he stole eight billion dollars from the customers  who trusted him with their money. This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes  inside the collapse of FTX and the rise and fall of  Sam Bankman-Fried — how the world's second-largest  crypto exchange evaporated in seventy-two...

She dropped out of Stanford at nineteen. She raised  nine billion dollars. She put her blood testing machines  into Walgreens stores across America. And the machines  didn't work. This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes  inside Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes — Silicon Valley's  most audacious fraud. We follow the story from the  founding myth to the fake Edison machine to the Wa...

Fortune Magazine named Enron America's most innovative  company six years in a row. Its CEO was on the covers  of business magazines. Its stock hit ninety dollars  a share. And almost none of it was real. This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes  inside Enron — the Houston energy giant that used  mark-to-market accounting and hundreds of fake offshore  entities to inflate profits by...

He was a former chairman of NASDAQ. Senators had dinner  with him. Charities trusted him with their entire  endowments. For forty years, Bernie Madoff ran the  largest investment fraud in human history — and nobody  who could stop it did anything about it. This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes  inside the Madoff Ponzi scheme from the ground up.  How sixty-five billion dollars vanishe...