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Descubre un mundo infinito de historias

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A Concerned Citizen

Utilizes narrative storytelling, archival audio, and immersive soundscapes to explore true stories of white-collar criminals, con artists, and corporate evil. From corruption and fraud to Ponzi schemes and environmental disasters, these financially motivated crimes have shaped our world in unimaginable ways. All in the name of greed.
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Swindled

A newly elected congressman is expelled and prosecuted for financial crimes after his elaborate web of personal and professional lies unravels.

Prelude: JP Maroney's inventive "digital marketing arbitrage" is revealed to be a Ponzi scheme.

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133. The Fabulist (George Santos)

A prominent Christian businessman operates a massive, "too-good-to-be-true," charity-based Ponzi scheme.

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Bonus: The Foundation (New Era Philanthropy)

A catastrophic contamination strikes Michigan when an industrial chemical (PBB) is mistakenly mixed into cattle feed.

Prelude: Workers at a Texas chemical plant are turned into “zombies" after exposure to the toxic pesticide Phosvel.

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132. The Mix-Up (Velsicol Chemical Company)

A proposed libertarian paradise in the Chilean countryside devolves into a spectacle of betrayal and broken promises.

Prelude: Lazarus Long's Principality of New Utopia.

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131. The Utopia (Galt's Gulch Chile)

Originally published June 5, 2022. 

The untimely death of an outspoken advocate for foster children reveals his despicable double life. Prelude: A tragedy occurs after a woman in Rhode Island adopts eight children with developmental issues.

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Rerun: The Crusader (Nicholas Alahverdian)

A self-proclaimed “socially conscious” entrepreneur uses church seminars and motivational speeches to lure investors into a nationwide Ponzi scheme.

Prelude: "King" Perry Santillo and Chris Parris perpetuate a financial fraud to which they had fallen victim.

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130. The Wunderkind (Ephren Taylor II)

A tourism industry's ugly past is revealed after a "duck boat" sinks on Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri, during a storm.

Prelude: The sinking of Miss Majestic in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

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129. The Death Trap (Ride the Ducks Intl.)

A Fort Lauderdale lawyer's ostentatious lifestyle is supported by the largest Ponzi scheme in Florida history.

Prelude: The body of attorney Melissa Britt Lewis is found in a Florida canal.

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128. The Charade (Scott W. Rothstein)

Originally published September 27, 2021. 

Incompetence and negligence lead to a devastating loss of life at a concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island. Prelude: A fight in the E2 nightclub in Chicago triggers a deadly stampede.

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Rerun: The Inferno (The Station nightclub fire)

A bizarre and sinister harassment campaign targeting a married couple in Massachusetts is linked to executives at one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies.

Prelude: A content creator orchestrates a grievance-driven attack on YouTube's headquarters.

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127. The White Knight (eBay)

The organizational culture of the United States space program leads to one of the deadliest disasters in aeronautics history. Prelude: Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov embarks on a doomed mission to space.
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56. The Space Program (Challenger Disaster)

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