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American GreedStacy 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.S10, EP6 "The Bar Girls Trap"Russian gangsters use beautiful women to seduce amorous men in nightclubs out of their money and jewelry.
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.
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.
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, EP4 "The Polka King Con"Polka band leader Jan Lewan rips off his adoring fans with false promises of sizable investment returns.
S11, EP11 "From Peanuts to Sick Millions"A CEO knowingly ships peanut products tainted with salmonella, killing nine and sickening thousands.
S11, EP1 "Deadly Gold Digger"A femme fatale with a way of getting men to do what she wants sets a trap for a multi-millionaire divorcee.
S11, EP5 "Clean Teeth, Dirty Money; Comic Book Murder"A sex trafficking ring, comprised of violent pimps who exploit women, enlists a Chicago dentist to launder their money; a plot to steal a valuable comic book collection ends in murder.
S11, EP6 "Sticky Fingers; Life in the Fraud Lane"A famous Texas fruitcake bakery's accountant conducts a check writing scam; a self-proclaimed financial wiz rips off investors while he funds a professional race team with money stolen from his church.
S11, EP7 "Making a Killing; Doctor Drug Dealer"A motivational speaker murders to get cash for his wild scams; a Los Angeles pain clinic doctor makes millions writing illegal pain prescriptions.
S11, EP9 "Recipe for Murder"A successful businesswoman is targeted by a serial grifter who poisons her for money.
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.
S11, EP12 "A Glamorous Showbiz Lie"A man convinces people that he is a movie producer and money management professional while collecting millions to promote his own image.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
S15, EP3 "How WeWork Went Wild"Inside the rise and near-collapse of WeWork, the startup co-founded by its former CEO, Adam Neumann, who mesmerizes venture capitalists with grandiose promises, even though WeWork turns out to be a traditional real estate leasing business.
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.
S13, EP1 "The College Admissions Scandal"College admissions coach Rick Singer accepts money from parents to have their kids admitted to elite colleges.
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.
S10, EP12 "Jamaican Lottery Scam"U.S. law enforcement teams up with Jamaican authorities to stop criminals using call centers in Jamaica to flood the U.S. with lies about lottery millions won by unsuspecting victims.
S4, EP5 "Crash and Burn"A profile of Marcus Schrenker.
S4, EP6 "Sholam Weiss"Man responsible for the largest insurance scam in history.
S4, EP7 "Funny Money"Albert Talton puts a modern twist on one of the nation's oldest crimes - making counterfeit money.
S8, EP1 "Murder in Memphis"A wife finds out her insurance agent husband has been stealing money from their friends by selling bogus annuities.
S8, EP2 "Young Lust Goes Bust"A middle-aged real estate investor finds love and steals client money to impress his new bride.
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.
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.
S8, EP6 "Detroit "Crime Boss" Mayor"A former Detroit mayor and his friends extort city contractors, abuse public funds and turn the mayor's office into their own cash-making machine.
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, EP3 "Raffaello Follieri"An Italian real estate developer romances a Hollywood starlet and misappropriates investor funds.
S5, EP4 "TJX; Albert Gonzalez"A group of hackers live it up and decide to get rich or die trying.
S5, EP5 "Robert McLean"Trusted adviser and a philanthropist Bob McLean runs a successful investment firm and donates millions to his favorite causes, but he carries with him a dark, devastating secret.
S5, EP6 "Scott Rothstein"Scott Rothstein, a Ft. Lauderdale attorney making millions, is the life of the party and a guy who wants the world to love him, while also secretly playing the part of criminal mastermind.
S5, EP7 "Danny Pang and the Bling Ring"A group of wannabe-celebs make off with millions from Hollywood's rich and famous.
S9, EP14 "Friends Without Benefits"Mutual Benefits buys life insurance policies from AIDS patients, the chronically ill and seniors and fraudulently resells them as low risk investments to clients.
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.
S14, EP9 "Confessions of a Scam Artist"T.R. Wright -- the architect of what's been called the wildest insurance fraud scheme Texas has ever seen -- shares his almost-too-crazy-to-be-true story with American Greed.
S4, EP2 "The Black Widows"Two elderly California women befriend homeless men, then kill them to collect insurance money.
S10, EP2 "The Surfer Slayer?"A man, appearing to be nothing more than a wealthy surfer, allegedly commits murder and robs an armored car, leading the FBI on a chase spanning multiple states.
S10, EP3 "A Mother's Costly Revenge"A financial fraudster seeks deadly revenge after being placed behind bars for propositioning his assistant's daughter.
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.
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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