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American Greed

Stacy Keach narrates this dissection of the dark side of the American Dream, a survey of how far some people go to become rich, no matter the cost to themselves and those around them. Real-life cases are reviewed and involve such criminal activity as credit card scams, identity theft, counterfeiting and Ponzi schemes.

S11, EP13 "Deadly Black Gold Riches"

A man schemes to strike it rich in the North Dakota oil fields and he lets no one get in his way.

S12, EP7 "Blood Relatives; End of Life Scam"

A thieving shopaholic son murders his family to cash in on the family's wealth; a Chicago health facility owner uses an inflated billing scheme in a $20 million rip off.

S14, EP4 "The Fall of an Opiod Mogul"

As the opioid epidemic destroys the lives of millions of Americans, billionaire drug mogul John Kapoor looks to cash in; he concocts a conspiracy to bribe doctors and lie to insurers to sell as much fentanyl as possible.

S8, EP13 "The Home Invaders; Nashville's Predator"

Rivertown Financial, a home's equity and owners becoming homeless; a financial planner reaps millions from client accounts including the 401k of workers at a camp for seriously ill children.

S14, EP7 "Inside El Chapo's Empire"

Few are familiar with the betrayal that helped land Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, billionaire drug lord and for years the world's most wanted man, in prison; the Flores twins earned El Chapo's trust and then helped the Feds put him away for life.

S12, EP16 "Just a Dollar and a Scheme; Lousy Landlord"

An Iowa man rigs a $16.5 million lottery jackpot, triggering the biggest lottery scam in American history; notorious New York City landlord Steven Croman finds a new home in jail.

S11, EP14 "Art Schlichter: All American Fraud"

Former quarterback Art Schlichter was once a living legend at Ohio State University; Art Schlichter throws it all away when he sinks into a gambling addiction, becoming a fast-talking con artist whose only game is looking for the next score.

S10, EP8 "Capturing The Fugitives"

Law enforcement apprehends criminals featured on the show with the help of vigilant viewers.

S11, EP18 "Fraud Collectors"

Memorabilia legend Bill Mastro helps turn a childhood hobby into a billion dollar business and rigs bids to scam collectors and sellers.

S7, EP2 "The Wealth Builder Club"

The son of a preacher bilks believers out of nearly $65 million promising huge returns for short-term investments.

S7, EP6 "Union Bu$ter; The Fool's Gold"

Construction workers unwittingly foot the bill for Melissa King's lifestyle; a smooth-talking ladies-man creates a phony gold scheme.

S8, EP3 "The Cunning Cowgirl Crook; Dollars for Dumps"

A small town comptroller steals $53 million from her city to fund a horse-breeding empire; a crooked real estate developer lures victims to his phony residential oases.

S8, EP4 "$udden Death; Hip Hop Hustle"

A successful financial advisor's world crumbles under a multi-million dollar scam; a Chicago-area rapper convinces a local businessman that he's got a new gig that doesn't exist.

S9, EP4 "A Widow's Web"

After golf, millionaire Gary Triano puts the keys into the ignition and is killed instantly by a car bomb, uncovering a bizarre murder-for-hire plot hatched by his ex-wife and her lover that's revealed in a series of recorded conversations.

S4, EP5 "Crash and Burn"

A profile of Marcus Schrenker.

S11, EP15 "Red Carpet Rip-Off"

Musician Donald "Ski" Johnson uses his Jazz for Life foundation to make empty promises that leaves generous donors feeling scammed when his bogus trips to the Grammy Awards turn into red carpet nightmares.

S13, EP4 "Prophets of Greed"

Leaders of a polygamous religious sect demand perfect obedience from followers, luring them into welfare fraud and stealing more than $2 million from American tax payers.

S9, EP15 "The Spy Who Scammed Me"

A private security contractor promises to help win the freedom of detained oil executives and claims he can find out who abducted Madeleine McCann.

S11, EP2 "The Real "War Dogs""

Miami party boys turned arms dealers bid on government contracts worth millions to fight the war on terror, inspiring the 2016 film "War Dogs."

S11, EP20 "Top Gun of Fraud"

A man burns through $52 million from a trust he was hired to protect, buying helicopters, fighter jets, rocket launchers, and a fleet of WWII bombers to feed his fantasy of running "black ops" for the CIA.

S7, EP7 "Windy City Wipeout; Miami Burn"

Chicago business partners steal millions; an investment scheme that causes financial ruin.

S4, EP7 "Funny Money"

Albert Talton puts a modern twist on one of the nation's oldest crimes - making counterfeit money.

S8, EP5 "Make Me Rich or Die; Kids For Cash"

A man threatens investment professionals to make him rich; two judges get rich off a secret deal to build juvenile detention centers.

S10, EP14 "The Phantom Fraudster of Broadway"

The Broadway premiere of "Rebecca" implodes thanks to New York stockbroker Mark Hotton, who allegedly swindles millions of dollars from investors.

S6, EP17 "Allen Stanford: The Dark Knight"

Allen Stanford is sentenced to 110 years in prison for running a 20-year Ponzi scheme to the tune of $7 billion.

S14, EP2 "Nightmare at NXIVM"

Using powers of persuasion, along with classic multilevel marketing techniques; amassing thousands of followers -- many of them rich and famous -- and hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions.

S15, EP1 "The Life & Crimes of Joel Greenberg"

Joel Greenberg is a privileged millennial from a rich Florida family who one day decides to run for Seminole County Tax Collector and wins; once in office, he embarks on a breathtaking series of crimes, ranging from fraud to sex trafficking.

S14, EP11 "Burned by Greed"

How multibillion-dollar company Pacific Gas & Electric comes to repeatedly kill its customers by putting profits over safety as alleged by critics.

S15, EP4 "Boeing's Deadly Design"

Two new Boeing 737 Max jets fall out of the sky five months apart, killing 346 people; investigators home in on a software program known as MCAS; some critics say the real culprit is a corporate culture that values shareholders over passengers.

S13, EP14 "Fake Heiress Cons High Society"

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.

S13, EP5 "Black Market Dirty Gold"

Three Miami salesmen import billions of dollars' worth of gold from South America, then learn it has connections to drug cartels and organized crime.

S12, EP18 "Scams on Film; God and Gold"

Fraudster John Rogers builds one of the most impressive photo archives in the world until his partner rats him out; while Larry Bates preaches about salvation through precious metals, his clients wind up investing in "fool's gold."

S10, EP9 "Six Feet Plunder"

Doug Cassity sells fake prearranged funeral contracts, amounting to $500 million, with the help of sexy saleswomen.

S12, EP9 "Billion Dollar Fraud Goes Viral"

By promising enormous returns on a work-from-home scheme selling TelexFree phone service, Carlos Wanzeler and James Merrrill entice nearly one million people in an extraordinary $1.7 billion internet scam.

S11, EP17 "Neighborhood Inferno"

Scammers blow up a house for insurance money, but end up engulfing dozens of homes in flames and killing a young couple.

S13, EP12 "The Luxury Curse Scam"

From penthouse apartments to a $10 million stadium luxury box, financial adviser Dawn Bennett orchestrates a $20 million scheme and conjures spells to silence investigators.

S10, EP7 "Sick Profits; Hollywood Swinging"

A mother and son score millions in the Bay Medical Clinic scam; Gigapix collects millions from would-be movie producers before being revealed as a fraud.

S11, EP8 "Fouled Out: Rumeal Robinson"

A former champion basketball player's schemes land him in prison and his mother gets kicked out of her home.

S12, EP6 "Conn's Job"

Superstar disability lawyer Eric C. Conn offers guaranteed client wins by cheating, scoring a massive Social Security fraud, then vanishes.

S12, EP14 "Online Dating Trap"

Daylon Pierce is a consummate ladies' man who claims to be a licensed stockbroker, wooing unsuspecting women through internet dating sites; after the women hand over millions of dollars, Pierce robs them blind and breaks their hearts.

S10, EP4 "Vanity and Greed: Deadly Beauty"

Authorities charge a nurse with murder after an illegal silicone injection leads to death and knock-off cosmetic injections paralyze four others.

S5, EP11 "The Art of the Steal; Folsom Felon"

A famous art dealer cons New York high society out of millions.

S4, EP1 "Suicide Is Painless"

Hedge-fund manager Samuel Israel III fakes his own death after defrauding investors of more than $450 million.

S4, EP2 "The Black Widows"

Two elderly California women befriend homeless men, then kill them to collect insurance money.

S10, EP5 "Psychic Fiend's Network"

A phony psychic scams a wealthy but lonely timber baron out of millions while her devious daughter pretends to be in love with him.

S10, EP11 "Pain Killer Profits"

Twin brothers make millions from the illicit sale of oxycodone and other drugs out of their South Florida pain clinics.

S12, EP1 "The Most Hated Man in America"

Businessman Martin Shkreli raises the price of a life-saving drug 5,000 percent, but it's his shady accounting and Internet trolling that lands the "Pharma Bro" in hot water.

S12, EP17 "Something's Fishy: The Codfather"

Carlos Rafael makes millions as the owner of one of the largest commercial fishing businesses on the East Coast but his big mouth gets him hooked in an undercover IRS sting with agents posing as Russian mobsters.

S14, EP5 "A Family Vanishes"

When all four members of the McStay family seemingly vanish into thin air, a yearslong quest for answers begins; a biker in the Mojave Desert finds the family members' bodies in shallow graves; a close friend of the family falls under suspicion.

S14, EP12 "A Father's Fraud"

Karl Karlsen is a hardworking man with what seems to be a terrible streak of bad luck, as his wife and son both die in accidents nearly 20 years apart; Karl has a secret: their suspicious deaths have been keeping his bank account full.

S11, EP16 "Wine, Women and Fraud"

A man steals millions from rich wine clients, and spends the money on fast cars and faster hookups, until he himself falls prey to a scheme.

S14, EP3 "The Real Dr. Death"

In Dallas, a delusional, debt-ridden, and allegedly drug-dabbling spine surgeon maims and even kills patients in one botched surgery after another; it falls to two colleagues to step in where others won't and bring him down.

S14, EP6 "Social Media Scam Artists"

Crowdfunded charities are supposed raise funds for good causes, but some are actually scams.

S8, EP11 "The Car Con"

Brothers Darain and Cory Atkinson start a business selling vehicle service contracts, but the warranties prove worthless and the brothers pocket millions.

S6 "Dr. Stokes: C&D Distributors"

Successful doctor endangered patients lives by reusing medical supplies.

S4, EP12 "Computer Hacker Masterminds"

Computer hacker Max Butler's online scheme which sold millions of stolen credit cards leads the feds on a year-long chase.

S5, EP1 "Stephen Trantel: Bank Robbing Broker"

The story of Wall Street wiz, Stephen Trantel, a one time successful commodities broker who turns to bank robbing to support his greedy lifestyle.

S5, EP2 "Troy A. Titus: Financial Guru Gone Bad"

An "asset protection" guru steals millions from the famous, elderly and sick.

S5, EP3 "Tri Energy"

Philantropist, diplomat, international man of mystery, and criminal Dr Henry Jones led a double-life that was unknown to all he knew.

S5, EP4 "TJX; Albert Gonzalez"

A group of hackers live it up and decide to get rich or die trying.

S12, EP12 "Artistic License to Steal"

A wannabe art dealer sells fake works by American masters of Abstract Expressionism in an $80 million scam, fooling rich collectors and pocketing millions.

S15, EP6 "The Kingpin Next Door"

The story of a suburban Eagle Scout turned Dark Web drug lord; Aaron Shamo launches a new type of American drug ring, recruiting other Utah millennials to help him manufacture deadly counterfeit opioids and sell them online.

S10, EP15 "Medical Gloves With Holes"

A fraudster in California promises to build a medical glove factory in the U.S. and steals millions of dollars from investors.

S10, EP16 "Hack Me if You Can; Goodfella Gone Bad"

A 28-year-old hacker named Daniel Rigmaiden allegedly steals millions of dollars from the U.S. government; a wise-guy wannabe in witness protection creates a mortgage fraud scam.

S11, EP10 "Junk in a Box; Been Caught Stealing"

Cancer charities that raise millions but gives only three percent to patients and families; a family brings in millions shoplifting in a nationwide crime spree caught on camera.

S15, EP24 "Lawyers, Lies, and a Housewife"

Personal injury attorney Tom Girardi posits himself as a champion for the little guy, but jilted clients cry foul when they discover him cheating them out of millions in settlement money as his wife flaunts her wealth on reality television.

S15, EP23 "Fame, Fortune & Fraud"

Jason Van Eman is a B-list actor from Oklahoma who decides to seek fame and fortune as a Hollywood producer.

S15, EP22 "Drunk With Power"

With his long beard, ponytail, and ubiquitous advertising, Jamie Balagia - AKA The DWI Dude - is well-known in Texas as flamboyant defense attorney who can get drunk driving defendants out of a jam.

S15, EP21 "Preaching Pyramid Schemes"

Marlon and LaShonda Moore are accused of exploiting vulnerable people during the pandemic and convincing thousands of their fans to invest in their illegal scheme; regulators claim the Moore's "blessed" themselves to the tune of millions of dollars.

S15, EP20 "VIP Schemers"

Convicted fraudster and identity thief Tracii Show Hutsona is once again up on federal charges after a high-profile client discovers more than $1 million missing from her bank accounts.

S15, EP19 "Follow the Juul Money"

When an epidemic of teenage nicotine addiction breaks out across the country, some people ask whether Juul's founders are intent on saving lives or targeting the next generation.

S15, EP18 "The Busted Mogul"

Lobsang Dargey, a Tibetan Buddhist Monk, escapes Chinese oppression and claws his way to freedom in the U.S.; uneducated and broke, but rich with ambition, Dargey catapults from odd jobs to real estate development.

S15, EP17 "A Legacy of Fraud"

A sprawling investigation into the prominent and powerful Murdaugh family uncovers years of unchecked power and privilege that has allegedly resulted in years of fraud, conspiracy, corruption and even murder.

S15, EP16 "The Decline of a Dynasty"

A well-respected lawyer from a prominent family is accused of stealing millions from the suffering clients who turn to him for help.

S15, EP15 "Streaming and Scheming"

Zachary Horwitz has dreams of making it big in Hollywood; while his onscreen career never quite flourishes, Horwitz acts his way into raising more than $600 million for an investment opportunity that is completely bogus.

S15, EP14 "California Schemin'"

In sun-drenched San Diego, entrepreneur and real estate developer Gina Champion-Cain lures in investors with a glamorous, beachy image and promises of sky-high returns on short-term liquor license loans.

S15, EP13 "Million Dollar Prison Kickback"

Chris Epps charms his way up the ladder, from prison guard to the top post of Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner. Once in office, he and his businessman buddy, Cecil McCrory set up shop, siphoning kickbacks and bribes.

S15, EP12 "The Spy Who Conned Me"

A former weatherman claiming to be an undercover spy infiltrates Washington's intelligence circles where he collects millions with his tales of running a top-secret national security operation for the CIA.

S15, EP11 "Financial Infidelity"

Purported entrepreneur Antonio Mariot Wilson changes his name, pitch, and act to play a series of roles, and the inveterate huckster fleeces unsuspecting investors for decades, including television star Jenifer Lewis.

S15, EP10 "The Accused Crypto Couple"

Heather Morgan transforms herself into a business owner, journalist and fledgling rap artist known as Razzlekhan; She and her husband stand accused of laundering 4.5 billion dollars worth of stolen bitcoin, breaking a government record.

S15, EP9 "COVID Cons"

While an estimated $100 billion in COVID relief funds is stolen, this seasoned family of fraudsters easily grabs millions of dollars Americans desperately need to buy themselves mansions, jewelry and gold.

S15, EP8 "Chasing Tesla"

Serial entrepreneur Trevor Milton founds the electric vehicle company Nikola, which suggests it will be the next Tesla, but for long-haul trucks.

S15, EP7 "The Polygamist and the Bio Fuel Baron"

CEO Jacob Kingston appears to be a rising star in Utah's fledgling biofuel industry, until a member of a secretive polygamist group called The Order reveals that Kingston is committing a 1.1 billion dollar fraud.

Stacy Keach narrates this dissection of the dark side of the American Dream, a survey of how far some people go to become rich, no matter the cost to themselves and those around them. Real-life cases are reviewed and involve such criminal activity as credit card scams, identity theft, counterfeiting and Ponzi schemes.
Original Air Date: Jun 21, 2007
Genres: DramaTV Series
Rating: TVPG
Playback: HD
1 seasons available on demand (18 episodes)
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