White Collars, Red Hands
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Who knew rich people committed crime? Not the American justice system! Join Chicago based comedians Nina Kern and Kishan Batcheldor as they talk some of the most prolific crimes committed by the wealthy.
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This week we talk about two nerds who moved to the Silicon Valley in the hopes of achieving tech startup fame, but one of them ended up searching for fame producing the absolute worst rap you have ever heard. Meanwhile their lavish lifestyle was funded by the largest crypto fraud in history!
This week we discuss the first acting mayor of Detroit to serve time in prison as we dive into the story of Kwame Kilpatrick. Politics ran in the family, but only Kwame threw stripper parties at the White House of Detroit, at least if his mom threw some they were slightly more tight lipped.
This week we discuss a story that was supposed to be fun, but instead gets dark as we talk about a scam involving Chinese traditional medicine products made from ants. Wang Fengyou had one of the most popular companies in China that "employed" 1 million ant farmers, but was the ant life as good as he promised?
On the Season 13 premiere we're not playing games as we discuss a 1 Million pound caper that almost took one of Her Majesty's favorite gameshows for a ride. Did Charles Ingram get to keep his ill-gotten gains, or did he lose them along with... his toes?! Find out on this week's episode!
Alright everybody, another season finale, another murder so hold on to your butts. This season we recognize ourselves as an equal opportunity podcast as we tell the first female murderer story for a finale! Join us as we discuss the stout and comely black widow who killed multiple suitors and buried their bodies on her pig farm aver 100 years ago.
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 day behind bars. This episode is rife with stomach-churning things so listen at your own discretion!
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't Shah-mazing for Jen Shah, but this episode might do something for you.
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 operated. Now it's founders are wanted fugitives and I have to sequence my own gut microbiome at my house, in this economy?!?
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 consulting astrology, how Taurus of him.
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 to a cult. The whole thing culminates in the cofounder being one of the only women to make it onto the FBI's most wanted list, and she is still at large today!
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 done by a former Senior VP of Silicon Valley Bank: Mounir Gad.
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!
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