We wrap up our series on Sunny Balwani with Ariel Leaty giving you Big Hinge Sunny Energy reading his and Elizabeth Holmes' text messages. Later, find out what it was like working at Theranos when you're super smart and your boss isn't. We got - our resident Bill Nye The Science Guy - former Chief Science Officer Seth Michelson giving us the scientific skinny working at the doomed start-up before it imploded. Listen now!

Everyone talks about Elizabeth Holmes building up then bringing down Theranos but what about her other fraud half Ramesh aka "Sunny" Balwani? She was the black-turtle-neck-Steve-Jobs-face of the company while he was the acid-wash-jeans-creep-at-the-club-in-Gucci-loafers-wearing-too-much-cologne pulling the levers. Where did this guy come from and would Elizabeth have gotten as far without him? Also we got Fraudster Exclusive footage of Sunny that may or may not be from the TV show Lost....

It's time to say Bye Bye Bye to our final deep dive into Fraudster Lou Pearlman. He was a blimp scammer, a boy band scammer, and now he's a talent scout scammer. Just fork over the dough and he'll glamour shot you to stardom. Also, Lou creates 84 businesses to create the largest ponzi scheme to rip off retirees of their savings before Madoff ever did. Listen now to how it all comes crashing down on Big Poppa as he's sent to the Big House!

It's the late '90s. Backstreet Boys and NSync are at the height of their fame. Little do they know that both groups have a sixth member - dreamy heartthrob con Lou Pearlman. Find out how exactly Lou conned the boys out of their money and how he took advantage of them in other inappropriate ways. *Trigger Warning* This episode talks about predatory sexual harassment of minors.

Did you know that Lou Pearlman was in the *blimp* business? Before he was Big Poppa he crashed his first blimp only a mile away from where the Hidenberg went down. He entire empire started with insurance fraud and was amplified by Art Garfunkel - found out way on the show. And we get a guest appearance from our writer Nick Turner to play the Name Game: Lou Pearlman artist or dot come bubble business? Listen now cause we know you want it that way.

We continue our series on Fake Abortion Centers - not clinics! - who fraudulently represent as medical health care services to pregnant women. How do these fraudsters get away with it? We interview two people who help us get answers and explain these centers’ mind-melting con tactics. First we speak to the author of the Reproductive Care Act, current San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu. He explains how the bill went from providing women factual information to the Supreme Court ruling in...

Have you put a ring on it, yet? We wrap up our series on the Diamond Industry cartel talkin about peacocks! More like Zahavi's Handicap principle (which is basically about peacocks) helps humans (men) send signals (DIAMONDS) to con women into trusting it as a symbol of love. Plus get ready to rumble with Colonel Debeers, listen to an Oppenheimer side step pesky questions about fair trade, Elizabeth Taylor's friends wear diamonds while raising money, and remember that classic '90s Debeers...

A Diamond is Forever! We continue our series on the diamond industry with the world's favorite family the Oppenheimers! Together with De Beers they created a cartel that controls the entire diamond market. We discuss how female Don Drapers launched an advertising campaign right after WWII (who needs a sandwich when you can have a diamond?) and created the most successful ad slogan of the 20th century. With the help of an ad agency, De Beers became the original Jacob the Jeweler and outfitted...

We’re headed to Jared! We begin our multi-part series on the Diamond Industry and the imperialist who started it all: Cecil Rhodes. His entrepreneurial ambitions made him walk 14 hours in a day to conquer a mine that would later become the international diamond corporation known as De Beers. How does this English kid with a heart of an 80 year old build a diamond monopoly off the backs of millions of Africans, have a country named after him, start the Rhodes Scholarship, and create so much...

We’ve reached the end of our Candace Owens series (or is it?). In this episode we talk about how much she got paid while at Blexit and how she collaborated with Kanye. And we’ll show you that Candace Owens’s promoted Freedom Phone is definitely NOT just an Android with an American Flag wallpaper. She also explains how George Floyd was a bad person and therefore deserved to die at the hands of police while she harassed his family. Finally, Candace sees herself in “White Lives Matter”…because...

Part 2 of our Race Hustlers Series - we’re learning more about Candace than we ever thought. We’ll track how she goes from Turning Point USA to a teeth-sucking worthy testimony before Congress, and her initial collaboration with Kanye– Blexit. From her fried hair to her love of shrimp, we'll be covering it all. Tune in for a hilarious and eye-opening look at Candace’s reality distortion field.

Candace Owens, conservative author, talk show host, political commentator, activist… but did you know she was a tech entrepreneur? We know - crazy, what a multi-talented person… … … Join us as we learn about Candace’s origin story, what her early projects were and how she was AS A DEMOCRAT. Ya think you know somebody… Follow Us: https://twitter.com/seenanow https://www.instagram.com/justin_williams_comedy/ https://twitter.com/arielleaty Follow the show join the discord: Discord:...

It’s another week- come back onboard the crazy train! We keep grinding deeper into the journey of Mr. Cruz, the ultimate grifter and his bizarre world of deception and campaign fraud. Thankfully, we are joined by Professor Lawrence Lessig who helps us wrap our heads around how this all came to fruition.

Episode 63: Campaign Fraudsters Part 2 - Ted Cruz, the Darling of the Senate The bizarre rise of Ted Cruz’s campaign masterpiece. We dive head first into how this man became the most laudable figure on the hill in the GOP. His shape-changing journey would have even a chameleon’s tail between it’s legs. Once again- Fraudsters plows down the doors of deception to look at this mad man’s journey to the top. Buckle up for another roller coaster into the land of the fraud.

He’s awful. His own team admits that the election defense fund was just *marketing*. And that won’t change the mind of any of his supporters, even the ones he’s lied to. But NY AG Tish James has put together a case that could mean the end of the Trump Org in NY and potentially remove Trump’s status as a “billionaire.” Oh and… the best..is yet… TO COME!

Hello Fraudstans! It’s voting day- let’s kick it off by diving into the bizarre world of Donald J. Trump and his campaign fraud. In this first episode we explore the insane journey via WWF wrestling and scams that catapulted Trump into the American mainstream to become the former President of the United States. We check in with @benkissel1, @travisirvineusa, and @maelstronando of Abe Lincoln’s Top Hat to unravel Trump’s grand fraud journey….Welcome to the Woke Dome everybody.

There are several maneuvers that Crisis Pregnancy Centers do, one is the keepsake ultrasound complete with sound effects and the slow hand of guilt on your tummy. The other is even more insidious - abortion reversal. Find out how this is like playing Russian roulette with hormones. Erin Matson is the co-founder and executive director of Reproaction, she joins the trio to talk about how these clinics operate. We'll be moving on to Campaign Fraudsters next week, but we'll be coming back to...

Have you ever been inside of a Crisis Pregnancy Center? Seena, Justin, and Ariel are joined by Max Carwile, Program Director of Abortion Access Front as she describes her own experience in a CPC. And how anti-abortion organizations like the Human Coalition can weaponize public and private data to steal people from abortion providers.

In 1967, Robert Pearson, a Catholic carpenter, made the first “Crisis Pregnancy Center” - in an effort to steal women away that were seeking an abortion and convince them not to. Today, even before Dobbs, these public and privately funded centers outnumber abortion clinics 3 to 1. There are THOUSANDS of these places, that use the same font, branding, and even setup show right next to actual abortion clinics. Some will wear white lab coats, but that’s all a ruse to make you feel like it’s an...

Welcome to our last Fraudwire before Season 3! This week Justin was on vacation, but we were able to invite Ariel Leaty back and Charles McBee. We had to bring up Ye again, because we couldn’t avoid talking about that mud-way Tecmo Bowl Balenciaga video? And staying within the family Kim Kardashian got fined by the SEC for pumping a crypto, and guess what, when the fine got announced, the crypto spiked! The irony of crypto markets continue… Then we run through a list of celebs who have got in...

Rounding into October with another Fraudwire and this time we've got the great Ed Larson from The Bright Side joining us. This week we cover Kanye West's new Donda Academy - have you read their Non-Discrimination Policy? It's very robust! And who woulda thought that the NY Attorney General is serving up not only Trump but the entire family with a fraud investigation (of course everyone but Tiffany). As always we rock a crypto story and finish up with a delicious story about the deli in New...

This week on Fraudwire we cover the subject of the Netflix doc "Be Sweet" about the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-day Saints and how they scammed their own followers into free labor and marrying their cousins (oof). Then we just got breaking news about the largest COVID scam to date out of Minnesota where a group was defrauding a program that was supposed to help feed needy children. And finally how can we miss talking about Ron DeSantis, and how he scammed migrants into getting on a plane...

We're back with more Fraudwire! This week we cover Brett Farvre and the biggest welfare scam in Mississippi history, a woman in Florida who was deemed the Mother Theresa of her community when in reality she was running a nearly $200m ponzi scheme, EY is finally breaking up their auditing and consulting business, and we learned that if Steve Harvey isn't showing up at your door then it's NOT Publishers Clearing House! Seena Ghaznavi and Justin Williams are joined by comedian Brendan Fitzgibbons.

Our latest Fraudwire before the end of summer break at LPN. This week we cover Juicyfields.io - a hybrid cannabis and crypto scam where people could "invest" in different grows of their favorite weed strains. There is a special place in hell for those that defraud around the sweet sinsemilla. And have you ever heard of the Carried Interest loophole? It's one of those things you hear in the news, but wtf is it all about? We do a quick dive into that and who is holding up congress for it....

Breaking news from the #fraudwire discord - Steven Seagal is in east Ukraine repping the Russians and throwing shade on everyone but the fascists. We also cover a Trump-supporting clothing brand that that was ripping tags off their clothing to restamp them as Made in America, and as always a bit from cryptoland - Tornado Cash is a mixer that was laundering money for North Korean hackers... WE ARE SHOCKED. And finally - we are ashamed we missed this story earlier, but we have a full update on...