Fraudsters

We wrap up our series on Sunny Balwani with Ariel Leaty giving you Big Hinge Sunny Energy reading his and Elizabeth Holmes' text messages. Later, find out what it was like working at Theranos when you're super smart and your boss isn't. We got - our resident Bill Nye The Science Guy - former Chief Science Officer Seth Michelson giving us the scientific skinny working at the doomed start-up before...

Everyone talks about Elizabeth Holmes building up then bringing down Theranos but what about her other fraud half Ramesh aka "Sunny" Balwani? She was the black-turtle-neck-Steve-Jobs-face of the company while he was the acid-wash-jeans-creep-at-the-club-in-Gucci-loafers-wearing-too-much-cologne pulling the levers. Where did this guy come from and would Elizabeth have gotten as far without him? Als...

It's time to say Bye Bye Bye to our final deep dive into Fraudster Lou Pearlman. He was a blimp scammer, a boy band scammer, and now he's a talent scout scammer. Just fork over the dough and he'll glamour shot you to stardom. Also, Lou creates 84 businesses to create the largest ponzi scheme to rip off retirees of their savings before Madoff ever did.  Listen now to how it all comes crashing down...

It's the late '90s. Backstreet Boys and NSync are at the height of their fame. Little do they know that both groups have a sixth member - dreamy heartthrob con Lou Pearlman. Find out how exactly Lou conned the boys out of their money and how he took advantage of them in other inappropriate ways. *Trigger Warning* This episode talks about predatory sexual harassment of minors. It's the late '90s. B...

Did you know that Lou Pearlman was in the *blimp* business? Before he was Big Poppa he crashed his first blimp only a mile away from where the Hidenberg went down. He entire empire started with insurance fraud and was amplified by Art Garfunkel - found out way on the show. And we get a guest appearance from our writer Nick Turner to play the Name Game: Lou Pearlman artist or dot come bubble busine...

We continue our series on Fake Abortion Centers - not clinics! - who fraudulently represent as medical health care services to pregnant women. How do these fraudsters get away with it? We interview two people who help us get answers and explain these centers’ mind-melting con tactics. First we speak to the author of the Reproductive Care Act, current San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu. He expl...

Have you put a ring on it, yet? We wrap up our series on the Diamond Industry cartel talkin about peacocks! More like Zahavi's Handicap principle (which is basically about peacocks) helps humans (men) send signals (DIAMONDS) to con women into trusting it as a symbol of love. Plus get ready to rumble with Colonel Debeers, listen to an Oppenheimer side step pesky questions about fair trade, Elizabet...

A Diamond is Forever! We continue our series on the diamond industry with the world's favorite family the Oppenheimers! Together with De Beers they created a cartel that controls the entire diamond market. We discuss how female Don Drapers launched an advertising campaign right after WWII (who needs a sandwich when you can have a diamond?) and created the most successful ad slogan of the 20th cent...

We’re headed to Jared! We begin our multi-part series on the Diamond Industry and the imperialist who started it all: Cecil Rhodes. His entrepreneurial ambitions made him walk 14 hours in a day to conquer a mine that would later become the international diamond corporation known as De Beers. How does this English kid with a heart of an 80 year old build a diamond monopoly off the backs of millions...

We’ve reached the end of our Candace Owens series (or is it?). In this episode we talk about how much she got paid while at Blexit and how she collaborated with Kanye. And we’ll show you that Candace Owens’s promoted Freedom Phone is definitely NOT just an Android with an American Flag wallpaper. She also explains how George Floyd was a bad person and therefore deserved to die at the hands of poli...

Part 2 of our Race Hustlers Series - we’re learning more about Candace than we ever thought. We’ll track how she goes from Turning Point USA to a teeth-sucking worthy testimony before Congress, and her initial collaboration with Kanye– Blexit. From her fried hair to her love of shrimp, we'll be covering it all. Tune in for a hilarious and eye-opening look at Candace’s reality distortion field. Fol...

Candace Owens, conservative author, talk show host, political commentator, activist… but did you know she was a tech entrepreneur? We know - crazy, what a multi-talented person… … … Join us as we learn about Candace’s origin story, what her early projects were and how she was AS A DEMOCRAT. Ya think you know somebody… Follow Us: https://twitter.com/seenanow https://www.instagram.com/justin_william...

It’s another week- come back onboard the crazy train! We keep grinding deeper into the journey of Mr. Cruz, the ultimate grifter and his bizarre world of deception and campaign fraud. Thankfully, we are joined by Professor Lawrence Lessig who helps us wrap our heads around how this all came to fruition.  Follow Us: https://twitter.com/seenanow https://www.instagram.com/justin_williams_comedy/ http...

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Hello Fraudstans! It’s voting day-  let’s kick it off by diving into the bizarre world of Donald J. Trump and his campaign fraud. In this first episode we explore the insane journey via WWF wrestling and scams that catapulted Trump into the American mainstream to become the former President of the United States. We check in with @benkissel1 , @travisirvineusa , and @maelstronando of Abe Lincoln’s...

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Welcome to our last Fraudwire before Season 3! This week Justin was on vacation, but we were able to invite Ariel Leaty back and Charles McBee. We had to bring up Ye again, because we couldn’t avoid talking about that mud-way Tecmo Bowl Balenciaga video? And staying within the family Kim Kardashian got fined by the SEC for pumping a crypto, and guess what, when the fine got announced, the crypto s...

Rounding into October with another Fraudwire and this time we've got the great Ed Larson from The Bright Side joining us. This week we cover Kanye West's new Donda Academy - have you read their Non-Discrimination Policy? It's very robust! And who woulda thought that the NY Attorney General is serving up not only Trump but the entire family with a fraud investigation (of course everyone but Tiffany...

We're back with more Fraudwire! This week we cover Brett Farvre and the biggest welfare scam in Mississippi history, a woman in Florida who was deemed the Mother Theresa of her community when in reality she was running a nearly $200m ponzi scheme, EY is finally breaking up their auditing and consulting business, and we learned that if Steve Harvey isn't showing up at your door then it's NOT Publis...

Our latest Fraudwire before the end of summer break at LPN. This week we cover Juicyfields.io - a hybrid cannabis and crypto scam where people could "invest" in different grows of their favorite weed strains. There is a special place in hell for those that defraud around the sweet sinsemilla.   And have you ever heard of the Carried Interest loophole? It's one of those things you hear in the news,...

Breaking news from the #fraudwire discord - Steven Seagal is in east Ukraine repping the Russians and throwing shade on everyone but the fascists. We also cover a Trump-supporting clothing brand that was ripping tags off their clothing to restamp them as Made in America, and as always a bit from cryptoland - Tornado Cash is a mixer that was laundering money for North Korean hackers... WE ARE SHOCK...

  Who would've thought those loot boxes in video games that make kids (and many adults) dump millions to get the latest 'skin' - well the EU is looking at their exploitative practices.   The big news though is from the scientific community where a foundational research paper for Alzheimer's turned out to be deliberately fraudulent.   Shaun King is at it again, getting his progressive PAC to buy a...