On this episode of Misfortune: A Financial Crimes Podcast, Adam and Danger discuss the crazy case of Eddie Tipton, the former information security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association, and the person behind the largest lottery fraud in U.S. history. Listen and subscribe via iTunes – and if you like what you hear, please rate…
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On this episode of Misfortune: A Financial Crimes Podcast, Adam and Danger discuss the allegations against Wyclef Jean’s charity, Yele Haiti. Note: Neither Wyclef Jean nor anyone associated with this foundation has been charged or convicted of any of the allegations discussed in this episode. The New York Attorney General’s office did not return our…
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On this episode of Misfortune: A Financial Crimes Podcast, Adam and Danger discuss the Kids For Cash scandal. Between 2003 and 2008, two Pennsylvania judges allegedly accepted more than $2.6 million from the developer and co-owner of two for-profit juvenile detention centers in return for sentencing thousands of children to those centers. Many of the…
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On this episode of Misfortune: A Financial Crimes Podcast, Adam and Danger discuss the bizarre case of Belle Gibson, a blogger and “alternative health advocate” who built a business off claims that she had cured her cancer through natural remedies and healthy eating. Our guest is Beau Donelly, an award-winning journalist who written for many…
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On this episode of Misfortune: A Financial Crimes Podcast, Adam and Danger discuss Nick Leeson, the derivatives broker who single-handedly brought down U.K’s oldest merchant bank through unauthorized speculative trading. Listen and subscribe via iTunes – and if you like what you hear, please rate and review as well. We appreciate it! Nicholas Leeson was…
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On this episode of Misfortune: A Financial Crimes Podcast, Adam and Danger talk about the insane case of Rita Crundwell. Our guest is Kelly Richmond Pope, Ph.D., a forensic accountant, associate professor at the School of Accountancy and Management Information Systems at DePaul University, and the producer and director of All the Queen’s Horses. For…
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On this episode of Misfortune: A Financial Crimes Podcast, Adam and Danger discuss the strange life and history of disgraced Hillary Clinton campaign donor Norman Hsu. Listen and subscribe via iTunes – and if you like what you hear, please rate and review as well. We appreciate it! Norman Hsu was born in Hong Kong…
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The inaugural episode of Misfortune: A Financial Crimes Podcast covers the tragic story behind boy band impresario Lou Pearlman. Our guest is Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough, author of Mad About the Boys, the bombshell article which detailed the sexual misconduct allegations against Pearlman. Louis Jay “Lou” Pearlman was born on June…
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