White collar crime

18 episodes

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  • 1

    The Dropout tells the story of the rise and fall of former Silicon Valley darling Elizabeth Holmes, the youngest self-made female billionaire. She dropped out of Stanford to launch her company Therano...Show More

    mm recommended:

    This will be good! Can't wait to hear what happened to Theranos with interviews from Elizabeth Holmes herself.

  • 2

    31. The Socialite (Anna Delvey)

    Swindled

    1:03:31 | Jul 7th, 2019

    A Russian-born con artist posing as a wealthy German heiress scams businesses and acquaintances in an attempt to develop her own art foundation in New York. Prelude: Kari Ferrell's Brooklyn exploits e...Show More

  • 3

    There’s nothing as intoxicating as piles of money, unless the Feds are watching you count it.

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    The Airplane Game sounds absolutely crazy. I was trying to figure out what they were "selling" for most of the episode, but it turns out they were just playing some weird pyramid cash game? Still tryi...Show More

  • 4

    Episode 1: The Arrival

    Sanctioned: The Arrest of a Telecom Giant

    31:32 | Apr 25th, 2019

    5 recommendations

    Meng Wanzhou lands in Vancouver on what was supposed to be a routine transit stop. Instead, she finds herself under arrest, accused of violating economic sanctions in Iran and facing the possibility o...Show More

    mm recommended:

    Started listening to this about the Huawei Meng case. They definitely amped up the drama. Terrific use of the podcast form.

  • 5

    With exclusive interviews and thought-provoking discussion, Andrew Jenks examines the people involved and the larger debate around higher education in America. To learn more about listener data and ...Show More

    mm recommended:

    This sounds like it will be a great series on the admissions scandal. It’s pretty amazing how these topical investigative podcasts are churning out so quickly before the cases even end.

  • 6

    The One Who Almost Got Away

    The Grift

    32:07 | May 9th, 2017

    Sam Israel not only ran one of the most successful Ponzi schemes in history, he would eventually go on to the single most extreme con there is: the con of life and death. Who knows how often it happen...Show More

  • 7

    The Greatest Impostor

    The Grift

    40:02 | Jun 6th, 2017

    Ferdinand Demara is quite possibly the greatest con artist you’ve never heard of. With good reason: he hardly ever used his own name. Demara was a professional impostor. In his long and prolific caree...Show More

  • 8

    S1 Ep. 1: Martha

    Slow Burn

    27:28 | Nov 28th, 2017

    6 recommendations

    People called her crazy, and to be fair she must have seemed crazy. But she was onto something. How Martha Mitchell, the celebrity wife of one of Nixon’s closest henchmen, tried to blow the whistle on...Show More

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    Very well produced podcast. If only people took Martha Mitchell seriously then Watergate would have been resolved much faster. But nope, newspapers just treated her as gossip in the women's section of...Show More

  • 9

    The Day Max Died

    Who the Hell is Hamish?

    19:26 | Feb 8th, 2019

    1 recommendation

    Tracy fell in love with Max Tavita, a man who won her over with tales of a life in the investment world and how he was working in the World Trade Center in New York when the first plane hit in 2001. T...Show More

  • 10

    What’s up Con-gregation & welcome Scam Goddess, the #1 pod dedicated to all things fraud! In this initial episode comedian, actor, and podcast papi Paul F. Tompkins joins host Laci Mosley for a deep d...Show More

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    I didn’t just lol for this episode, I roflmao all the way to the end for the Anna Delvey/Sorokin portion. I don’t remember laughing this much for a podcast. There is a portion about a dog scam in the ...Show More

  • 11

    Episode 1: Dr Ruja

    The Missing Cryptoqueen

    22:53 | Sep 19th, 2019

    11 recommendations

    Dr Ruja promised financial revolution. And then, two years ago, she disappeared. Why? The Missing Cryptoqueen is an eight-part series for BBC Sounds, with new episodes every Thursday. Presenter: Jam...Show More

    mm recommended:

    This is an intriguing true crime podcast! This is the first time I've heard of the Crypto Queen Dr. Ruja.

  • 12

    Ep 1. Fake Heiress

    Fake Heiress

    27:22 | Dec 16th, 2019

    3 recommendations

    Reporting by Vicky Baker Drama by Chloe Moss Anna Delvey was due to come into a trust fund of $67m on her 26th birthday. She was on her way to establishing the Anna Delvey Foundation, a multi-million...Show More

    mm recommended:

    I binged on this entire series. It was really interesting and innovative, because it's 30% investigative reporting with testimonials and 70% audio fiction (re-enactments). Lots of new information I ha...Show More

  • 13

    The first season of Sick starts with the story of a mother and son, a generation apart, who both struggled with infertility. And they learn a terrible secret about an Indianapolis doctor who abused hi...Show More

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    Holy. Moly. Oh. My. Lord. Horrifying investigative series about an ob-gyn who artificially inseminates his patients with his own sperm in the 70s. Now there are 60+ half siblings with his DNA. This po...Show More

  • 14

    Trailer: The Baron of Botox

    The Baron of Botox

    03:06 | Jan 2nd, 2020

    1 recommendation

    This is the stranger-than-fiction story of an extraordinary doctor named Fredric Brandt. A man with a surgeon's hand and an artist's eye, whose famous patients saw him as a side door to eternal youth,...Show More

  • 15

    How two well-respected New York art galleries sold more than $80 million in fake art. * *Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.

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    Wow, this is next level art fraud. One of the top art galleries in NYC sells fake paintings. Did they know it was so and was "in" on the scam or were they scammed too? Even though this is a story lite...Show More

  • 16

    #102 Long Distance

    Reply All

    51:29 | Jul 27th, 2017

    138 recommendations

    This week, a telephone scammer makes a terrible mistake. He calls Alex Goldman.   Further Reading If you suspect you are a victim of a tech support scammer, you see a suspicious pop-up, or get an uns...Show More

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    Hilarious look into scam calls and the people and companies behind them. Cracked up so hard at the desktop screen part but I won’t spoil it. This episode was a terrific use of audio for investigative ...Show More

  • 17

    Stopping White-Collar Crime at Your Company

    HBR IdeaCast

    23:25 | Jul 2nd, 2019

    Eugene Soltes, associate professor at Harvard Business School, studies white-collar crime and has even interviewed convicts behind bars. While most people think of high-profile scandals like Enron, he...Show More

  • 18

    Chinese Americans are being targeted by scammers in schemes known as the “Chinese consulate scam” and the “blessing scam,” through which victims have lost millions. When Mandarin-language calls began ...Show More

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    Finally! An episode that got to the bottom of this. As a Chinese person living in a Chinese-dense area, I always get these mandarin robocalls voicemails but unsure what they would be about. This episo...Show More

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