White Collars, Red Hands

This week we delve into the extremely weird, and disturbing story of Jacob Kingston. A prominent member of a Mormon adjacent cult, that used his engineering doctorate to start a biofuel company, that ended up not making biofuel. Instead, he stole money through a series of schemes, that ramped up in a big way when he got in bed with the Armenian mafia.

This week we sit down to talk about the literal father of the Kennedy curse, JFK's daddy Joseph who was the first one to lead the SEC, after some dubious dealings qualified him to be there in the first place. This week involves bank examiners, natural family planning and lobotomies so join us for a wild one!

You've heard of Bernie Madoff, especially if you've listened to all of our episodes in which case we love you! You might not have heard of Allen Stanford however, operating at roughly the same time Allen Stanford takes second place in largest Ponzi scheme and longest sentence for white-collar crime in America. Learn all about the Texas swindler on this week's episode!

This week we take on the subject of famous children who had their earnings squandered and stolen by their parents. Through the 3.5 tales of entertainers who lost it all to those who raised them we find out that blood is not always thicker than water.

We're back with our twelfth season, we finally have a whole dozen! This season we kick things off by turning the clock back to the 1800s with the rise of the Hawaiian Kingdom, a sovereign nation that through unfortunate events became subject to a coup by wealthy foreigners on the islands, including an enduring symbol of nobility the first and last queen of Hawaii Queen Lili'uokalani.

It's the season 11 finale and woof do we have a rough one. For this season finale, we dive back into the realm of murder committed by the wealthy but this one is especially heinous as we detail the story of Issei Sagawa the Japanese-born tiny little man who became obsessed with the idea of eating a tall blonde woman, so much so that he finally followed through with it, and then never spent a d...

It's another one of Nina's favorite episodes packed with trashy people doing trashy financial crimes. We return for the third time to a Real Housewives series, this one set in Salt Lake City. This time though she isn't even a housewife, Jen Shah was the breadwinner. Follow along with us for a story of waterboarding, a telemarketing empire, and fraud of all kinds! It definitely wasn&#39...

This week we delve back into a topic that has had success with us before, Silicon Valley biotech startups that are complete scams. This time it isn't Theranos, it is what was dubbed the 23 and Me of poop. uBiome was a gut microbiome fingerprinting company that went from being able to be ordered by consumers, to being a clinical diagnostic, to being a complete scam in the few years that it oper...

Join us this week for the tale of an absolute idiot that stole millions in sham companies, who was a broker that was so terrified of actually executing trades that he had to tell someone else to do it, and also had so many $ex $laves at his house that neighbors called it a harem when they could see over his ridiculously tall fence. Oh also I forgot to mention, he did all of his trades by consultin...

It was the early 2000s and Raffaelo Follieri had everything, money, a close connection to God, and an A- list actress girlfriend. He would tell you he was the Chief Financial Officer of the Vatican, but was all of it a lie to help steal money to fund his extravagant lifestyle? Find out on this week's episode!

We have a short sweet and relaxed episode this week as we discuss a few of the ways that the crowdfunding app GoFund Me has been used to separate individuals from their cold hard cash. Expect more asides than usual this week as we were constantly distracted with some police sirens outside the building that we record in, *mostly* cut out for your listening pleasure.

This week we get to sit and discuss research from "primary scientific literature" about some of the drug controversies that shaped the rules and regulations imposed by the FDA in America through three case studies. That of the strep throat medicine for children Elixir Sulfanilamide, the anti-nausea sedative Thalidomide, and an early IUD in the Dalkon shield.

Oh no! Someone let us talk about crypto currency again! This week we revisit everyone's favorite crypt currency the ¢umRocket! After that, we discuss a Bulgarian cryptocurrency OneCoin that quickly after its introduction in 2014 sold 4Bn worth of Euros over the next few years despite many governments calling it a scam that specifically targeted the poor, and had some interesting features akin...

This week we sit down for a little bit of a different episode because the subject matter is so recent. Just weeks ago we saw both the second and third-largest bank collapses in American history by asset holdings, and maybe we are your only source of news so you have come to us for the skinny on the whole situation. We will give you that and on top of it a hilarious story of inept insider trading d...

Welcome back for season 11 of White Collars, Red Hands! This season we kick things off by picking on a religion besides Catholicism for the first time as we discuss a recent story where three men ran a Ponzi scheme that defrauded multiple members of the Mormon church out of almost half a billion dollars! Listen to the official podcast of shoveling snow while you can before summer comes to ruin our...

Welcome to the Season 10 Finale! For this finale, we dig into a terrible story of a real estate heir who took his silver spoon and did nothing but spread agony and pi$$ in trash cans. Join us for the story of a grocery store owner, master of disguise, and potential serial killer, Robert Durst.

This week we sit down to discuss one of the most infamous mobsters in history: Al Capone. A man that terrorized the city of Chicago during the prohibition era but still somehow went to jail on financial charges. Find out all about his nicknames, kid gangs, and venereal diseases on this weeks episode!

This week we are sitting back and having a more relaxed feel episode, so join us, between anecdotes, to learn the story of three different cases of romance fraud that enriched people anywhere from one thousand to over a million dollars.

This week we continue a topic we touched on a couple of seasons ago that begins with Red Granite, the production company that made The Wolf of Wall Street but ends with corruption cases for a Prime Minister halfway across the globe and an international fugitive who is still on the run. So join us as we sneak in the tale of 1Malaysia Development Berhad between asides(as per usual.)

This week we sit down to discuss wage theft, a crime committed so ubiquitously that I guarantee almost all of us have been victims of it. Your employer conveniently forgot to pay you time and a half for overtime, or you are 1099ed as a contractor when you don't get to set your own hours or charge your own prices, the list goes on, and the amount of money that companies have gained from these pract...

This week we discuss one of the newest entrants into the world of organized religion, the Church of Scientology. We talk a little about its backstory and then about one of its members that made millions of dollars in the dotcom bubble and invested money for many of his "friends" in the Church including a few famous names. The only issue is that the entire 15-year investment club was nothing but a...

This week we sit down to talk about a few of the many scandals associated with Proctor and Gamble, one of the biggest home product companies in the world, whose products are used by over half of the population. These include very serious tampon issues and ridiculous claims of Satanism affiliation. You even get to find out what an "industrial river" is, as if we wouldn't all know by looking at one....

This week we discuss one of the hottest topics in the news right now as we detail the rise of Sam Bankman-Fried,  a dork who gained popularity and a billion dollars on his way to creating one of the most recognized companies in the crypto market. His ascent has been coupled with a quick fall into ruin that has drawn comparisons to some of the biggest corporate failings in American history. Al...

Hey there brotherrrr, welcome to the world of the Dubya Dubya Eee, a favorite pass time for rednecks and nerds alike. The world of professional wrestling didn't start with all the momentum that launched it into the living rooms of people across the nation and eventually across the world however, it was methodically built by one man: Vince McMahon. Is he a shining beacon of heroism? No. This week w...

With Nina out of the picture due to the 'Rona, this week Kishan sits down on short notice to share the story of a few companies' attempts to overstate the immunity boost given by their products. After we discuss how cornflakes were made to keep you from touching yourself... kinda.