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First Aired: June 21st, 2007

Network: CNBC

Summary: A dissection of the dark side of the American Dream, a survey of how far some people go to become rich, no matter the cost to themselves and those around them. Real-life cases are reviewed and involve such criminal activity as credit card scams, identity theft, counterfeiting and Ponzi schemes.

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Season 13

Episode 1: The College Admissions Scandal

Air Date: August 12nd, 2019

Summary: College admissions coach Rick Singer accepts money from parents to have their kids admitted to elite colleges.

Episode 2: The Fyre Festival

Air Date: August 19th, 2019

Summary: Disgraced Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland uses fraud to launch his brand and a luxury music festival in the Bahamas.

Episode 3: Paul Manafort

Air Date: August 26th, 2019

Summary: From luxury properties to an ostrich coat, the hard charging political insider uses his influence to fuel a multimillion-dollar mortgage and tax fraud.

Episode 4: Prophets of Greed

Air Date: September 2nd, 2019

Summary: Leaders of a polygamous religious sect demand “Perfect Obedience” from followers, luring them into welfare fraud.

Episode 5: Black Market Dirty Gold

Air Date: September 9th, 2019

Summary: Three Miami salesmen with gold fever import billions of dollars’ worth of the precious metal from South America.

Episode 6: The House Flipping Reality Star Fraudster

Air Date: September 16th, 2019

Summary: Trash-talking reality star Scott Menaged ("Property Wars") buys up hundreds of foreclosures in Phoenix, then his money lender discovers that Menaged is a fraud, and the consequences are deadly.

Episode 7: The Fake Prince's Royal Scam

Air Date: January 6th, 2020

Summary: An outlandish con artist poses as a Saudi royal to cheat investors out of millions, promising them access to Arabian oil stock.

Episode 8: Diagnosis: Temptress Health Scam

Air Date: January 13rd, 2020

Summary: Entrepreneur Keisha Williams is really a high-rolling shopaholic with a taste for strip clubs and exotic travel; she takes investors for millions of dollars with a can't miss bid to secure a medical money-making technology that never materializes.

Episode 9: The Fast and the Fraudulent

Air Date: January 20th, 2020

Summary: Payday loan scam mastermind, Scott Tucker, swindles millions of cash-strapped borrowers with his convenient online loan business and uses the profits to fuel his race car team dreams.

Episode 10: Painful Greed Turns Deadly

Air Date: January 27th, 2020

Summary: Healing turns harmful when pharmacist Barry Cadden chooses profits over safety while running a drug compounding center where mold and bacteria thrive.

Episode 11: Starstruck Studio Swindle

Air Date: February 3rd, 2020

Summary: Carissa Carpenter is an aspiring movie mogul who plans to construct a major movie studio in Northern California. But the feds say that investors end up bankrolling her big-budget lifestyle.

Episode 12: The Luxury Curse Scam

Air Date: February 10th, 2020

Summary: From penthouse apartments to a $10 million stadium luxury box, financial advisor Dawn Bennett orchestrates a $20-million-scheme and conjures spells to silence investigators.

Episode 13: Mike “the Situation” Sorrentino

Air Date: February 17th, 2020

Summary: Mike The Situation Sorrentino flaunts washboard abs and a party boy image, but when it comes to paying his taxes, he’d rather play than pay.

Episode 14: Fake Heiress Cons High Society

Air Date: February 24th, 2020

Summary: An artsy German heiress Anna Delvey makes a splash in Downtown New York's social scene, but she's really a Russian-born con artist who's trying to swindle $23 million from banks while dodging unpaid bills.

Episode 15: All-Star Sports Scam

Air Date: March 2nd, 2020

Summary: Well-heeled financial advisor Peggy Ann Fulford builds a cache of all-star clients and a personal fortune by convincing A-list players like Dennis Rodman that she’s in their corner.

Episode 16: Judgment of Terror

Air Date: March 9th, 2020

Summary: When a judge in Texas is shot four times, a tip leads investigators to Chimene Onyeri, an aspiring Houston rap artist facing prison after his crooked plots are exposed.

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