Season 2

Episode #7 The Martin Frankel Case
Financier Martin Frankel

Martin Frankel

Martin R. "Marty" Frankel is an American financial criminal who conducted a series of investment frauds in the late 20th century, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses...

, a con-man who vanished with $200 million dollars. A story of money laundering, prostitution, bizarre sex and drug abuse.

Episode #8 When Greed and Giving Collide
A major charity scam...John Bennett

John Bennett

-Arts & entertainment:* John Bennett , British actor from the film The Fifth Element* John Bennett , British composer and organist* John Bennett , drummer of the UK doom metal band The Prophecy...

's "Foundation for New Era Philanthropy" stole millions of dollars from unsuspecting patrons. A story of deception, theft and "American Greed."

Episode #8 Confessions of a Con Man
Eric Stein, mastermind of one of the largest Ponzi schemes in Nevada history, cost his victims nearly $34 million.

Episode #9 Unsolved: $300 Million Art Heist
A dark night. A clever plan. $300 million in art is stolen from a Boston museum. Paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Manuet disappear into the night!

Episode #9 Preying on Faith
He's a man of faith and his name is Abraham Kennard. But this pastor preys on his flock. Trusting Christians from small, struggling churches who are hoping to better their communities hand over their savings to this pastor. But instead, as many as 1600 churches nationwide are swindled out of $10 million.

Episode #10 Stealing $$$ From Scientologists
A religious man leads a deceptive life and scams investors out of more than $600 million! The rise and fall of Scientologist minister Reed Slatkin

Reed Slatkin

Reed Eliot Slatkin was an initial investor and co-founder of EarthLink and the perpetrator of one of the largest Ponzi schemes in the United States since that conducted by Charles Ponzi himself....

 is a story of "American Greed."

Episode #10 The Art of Fraud
Enter the mysterious world of art fraud. An elaborate sting operation exposes Dr. Vilas Likhite, a doctor stripped of his medical license who begins a new career as a con man selling fake art treasures!

Episode #11 Deadly RX For Greed
Patients are at risk. A respected pharmacist is on the take. Robert Courtney

Robert Courtney

Robert Ray Courtney is a former pharmacist who owned and operated Research Medical Tower Pharmacy in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2002 he was convicted of pharmaceutical fraud and sentenced to federal prison.-Early life and education:...

 mixes a prescription of greed; diluting life-saving drugs and the hopes of cancer patients.

Episode #12 Inside the WorldCom Scam
Inside the WorldCom Scam - Bernard Ebbers

Bernard Ebbers

Bernard John "Bernie" Ebbers is a Canadian-born businessman. He co-founded the telecommunications company WorldCom and is a former chief executive officer of that company....

, CEO of WorldCom, rises from rags to riches. But the "telecom cowboy" becomes the poster child for everything that went wrong on Wall Street in the 1990s. WorldCom's eventual downfall shakes the financial community and the lives of thousands of investors. - American Greed investigates one of the most notorious cases of corporate fraud in US history.

Episode #12 DHS: Department of Hollywood Scams
It reads like a Hollywood script: Joseph Medawar is a hotshot television producer. He creates a new action packed adventure series based on real-life national security cases. Investors fund the project. But there's no show.... only a scam to rob investors out of millions of dollars!

Episode #13 Fraud in Cyberspace
A conman. Some say an "evil genius." The once- chairman of Cybernet

Cybernet

Cybernet was a weekly video gaming magazine programme, originally broadcast overnight on the ITV network in the United Kingdom. The programme was commissioned by Yorkshire Television and produced by Capricorn Programmes and also aired on GBC TV in Gibraltar...

, a wildly successful global technology company, stands accused of stealing millions in an elaborate fraud. American Greed profiles one of the biggest scams of the 21st century!

Episode #14 Party's Over - Tyco's Kozlowski
Dennis Kozlowski

Dennis Kozlowski

Leonard Dennis Kozlowski is a former CEO of Tyco International, convicted in 2005 of crimes related to his receipt of $81 million in purportedly unauthorized bonuses, the purchase of art for $14.725 million and the payment by Tyco of a $20 million investment banking fee to Frank Walsh, a former...

, once described as "The Most Aggressive CEO in America," now sits behind bars. A poster boy of excess, the former CEO of Tyco

Tyco International

Tyco International Ltd. is a highly diversified global manufacturing company incorporated in Switzerland, with United States operational headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey...

 stole millions from his company, using the money for a lavish party, a gilded shower curtain and expensive art. American Greed goes behind prison walls for a rare glimpse into Kozlowski's personal life and one of the biggest cases of white collar theft in U.S. history

Episode #15 Driven By Greed
It's called the "Miracle Car Club." Starting with members of their own church and then branching out, two young men take investors for a ride to the tune of more than $21 million. American Greed profiles one of the largest car scams in U.S. history! It was known as the Miracle Cars scam

Miracle Cars scam

The miracle cars scam was an advance fee fraud that ran from 1997 to 2002. It was one of the largest advance fee frauds in world history, as well as the largest automobile fraud in American history...

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Episode #15 Conned in the Caribbean
It sounds too good to be true. An offshore bank promises astronomical returns to investors...100% guaranteed. But, the bank is a sham and investors lose more than $170 million!

Episode #16 Robbing Hollywood's A-List
Dana Giacchetto advises Hollywood's hottest stars... and finds his own fame and fortune. But, his star-power fades when nearly $10 million goes missing!

Episode #16 Soaking The Rich at Auction
He's an art collector, the former chairman of Sotheby's and a convicted felon. Alfred Taubman takes us inside the price-fixing scandal at Christie's

Christie's

Christie's is an art business and a fine arts auction house.- History :The official company literature states that founder James Christie conducted the first sale in London, England, on 5 December 1766, and the earliest auction catalogue the company retains is from December 1766...

 and Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Sotheby's is the world's fourth oldest auction house in continuous operation.-History:The oldest auction house in operation is the Stockholms Auktionsverk founded in 1674, the second oldest is Göteborgs Auktionsverk founded in 1681 and third oldest being founded in 1731, all Swedish...

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Season 3

Episode #17 The Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow were well-known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression. Their exploits captured the attention of the American public during the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934...

 of Mortgage Fraud
An attractive, sinfully dishonest Tampa mortgage broker meets a single mom looking for love. Together they team up and make millions in the real estate market. In a tell-all exclusive interview, Matt Cox

Matthew Cox

Matthew Bevan Cox , commonly known as Matthew Cox, also sometimes known as Matthew B. Cox and Matt Cox, is an American felon and con man who has been convicted of conspiracy and grand theft...

 and Rebecca Hauck explain how lust and greed are a hot combination for fraud.

Episode #18 Boy Band Mogul
Lou Pearlman

Lou Pearlman

Louis Jay "Lou" Pearlman is a former impresario of the successful 1990s boy bands such as The Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, Take 5, O-Town and US5. In 2006, it was discovered that Pearlman had perpetrated one of the largest and longest-running Ponzi schemes in American history, leaving more than $300...

... the legendary manager of boy bands like *NSYNC and The Backstreet Boys... the king of an entertainment empire that crumbles. Pearlman lives a glamorous life of fame, fancy cars... and crime. He's the mastermind who scams $500 million from investors!

Episode #19 A Wall Street Wonder Takes a Fall
Richard Scrushy is the Superstar CEO of HealthSouth

HealthSouth

HealthSouth Corporation , based in Birmingham, Alabama, is the nation’s largest owner and operator of inpatient rehabilitative hospitals. Operating in 26 states across the country and in Puerto Rico, HealthSouth serves patients through its network of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals , outpatient...

, a huge provider of outpatient rehab services. But the billionaire falls from grace after federal prosecutors accuse him of masterminding a $2.7 billion fraud!

Episode #20 Two Brothers, Two Murders
Multi-millionaire businessmen and brothers Andrew and Robert Kissel have it all...beautiful families, mansions, country clubs, and fast cars. They appear to live charmed lives. But, the Kissel brothers’ good fortune runs out and ends in murder. Who would want them dead?

Episode #21 Skin Doctor Takes His Cut
A respected doctor. Trusting patients. Dr. Michael Rosin runs a thriving dermatology practice specializing in a highly effective procedure for skin cancer. But, Dr. Rosin’s surgery isn’t just a cancer treatment... it’s a goldmine.

Episode #21 Revolutionary Guru of Greed
He proclaims himself "King of the Offshore World." Marc Harris promises financial freedom in paradise... a way to keep assets out of the reach of government. But the "guru" is running a Ponzi scheme and bilking clients out of millions of dollars!

Episode #22 A Scam Exposed: Strippers and Insider Trading
A shocking scheme to use strippers to solicit information from Wall Street

Wall Street

Wall Street refers to the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, or...

 bankers. Another plan to steal secrets and cash in on stock that's about to soar. Two young traders, David Pajcin and Eugene Plotkin, are the masterminds behind a complex Wall Street con.

Episode #22 Economan: Superthief
Al Parish: An economics professor. A trusted financial advisor. A genius. But the self-proclaimed "Economan" is the suspected mastermind behind an $80 million investment scam.

Episode #23 The Mustang Ranch: Money, Women and Murder
The Mustang Ranch

Mustang Ranch

The Mustang Ranch, originally known as the Mustang Bridge Ranch, is a brothel in Storey County, Nevada, about fifteen miles east of Reno. It is currently located at 1011 Wild Horse Canyon Dr Sparks, NV 89434....

. It's the famous brothel where sex is always for sale. Joe Conforte is the pioneering pimp who makes millions peddling sex at the Nevada Ranch. He’s creates a brothel empire and defies the law. But his thirst for power and influence ultimately bring him down.

Episode #24 The Body Snatcher
A disgraced dentist carves out a gruesome new business. From a secret room in a Brooklyn funeral home he runs a multi-million dollar business... cutting up corpses and stripping the bodies for parts. Michael Mastromarino is a modern day body snatcher!

Season 4

Episode #25 Suicide is Painless Samuel Israel III

Samuel Israel III

Samuel Israel III is a former hedge fund manager for the fraudulent Bayou Hedge Fund Group, which he founded in 1996. He was born in Louisiana....

 turns his wall street hedge fund

Hedge fund

A hedge fund is a private pool of capital actively managed by an investment adviser. Hedge funds are only open for investment to a limited number of accredited or qualified investors who meet criteria set by regulators. These investors can be institutions, such as pension funds, university...

, "Bayou Investments", into a Ponzi scheme after poor management, then attempts a fake suicide to flee prosecution.

Episode #26 The Black Widows: 2 elderly ladies take in homeless people and alcoholics, buy insurance policies on them and name themselves as beneficiaries....then murder them and try to cash in.

Episode #27 Raffaello Follieri

Episode #28 The Mad Max of Wall Street

Episode #29 Crash and Burn

Episode #30 Sholam Weiss A Jewish-born man helps fix a life insurance company's gaping $35 million accounting hole and ends up partnering up with them - and bilking customers out of $500 million.

Episode #31 Funny Money

Episode #32 Flipping Frenzy Scam

Episode #33 Case 1: Sexual Performance Pill

Case 2: Kirk Wright

Episode #34 Kentucky Fen-Phen Attorneys

Episode #35 Case 1: Dr. Stokes

Case 2: C&D Distributors

Episode #36 Cybercrime