Framing Money Laundering

They say fake it ’til you make it but this false heiress only made it to jail. This episode follows a young girl with big dreams who posed as an heiress and lived the high life on the Manhattan scene. After skipping out on luxury hotel bills and hoodwinking all those around her, Anna Sorokin’s fantasy life came crashing down.

Our first stand-alone Funny Money episode follows a popular radio host whose fraud scheme landed him in prison.

How did a small Eastern European nation become the center of a scandal that reverberated throughout Europe? ABLV Bank, Latvia’s 3rd largest bank, was outed as having lax AML controls when it was discovered that billions of dirty money flowed through the bank, including money for corrupt officials and money related to North Korea’s ballistic missile program.

We unpack the nitty gritty of the fallout of the Panama Papers. What happened with Mossack Fonseca, how did the leak affect world leaders and the wealthy, and how did one of the biggest leaks in history change the legal and regulatory landscape in AML? All of these questions are framed for you in this installment.

We are starting our second season with a bang by discussing one of the most notorious leaks-the Panama Papers. Hosts Brianna and John go over the origins of the law firm at the center of the Panama Papers, Mossack Fonseca and how they managed to get away with helping their clients launder money and evade taxes for decades.