The CNBC limited series American Greed: Biggest Cons investigates the latest developments in our most shocking cases of Greed. The series goes beyond the courtroom to reveal surprising updates. From new plots, to controversial plea bargains, to the prospect of dying behind prison walls. American Greed: Biggest Cons never stops following the money.
See episode information below:
Monday, 07/20/20 at 10PM ET/PT
AMERICAN GREED: BIGGEST CONS: THE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS SCANDAL
College admissions consultant Rick Singer awaits sentencing for his role as mastermind of the $25 million Varsity Blues scandal. While TV star Lori Loughlin and her fashion mogul husband Mossimo Giannulli, face prison after admitting they paid Singer to rig the system and buy their daughters admission into college.
Monday, 07/27/20 at 10PM ET/PT
AMERICAN GREED: BIGGEST CONS: THE REAL WOLF OF WALL STREET
Jordan Belfort the real “Wolf of Wall Street” runs a sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll brokerage firm. He pleads guilty to fraud and serves time in prison. After his release, the story becomes a hit film-but now he’s filed a 300 million dollar lawsuit against the production company of the film based on his life story.
Monday, 08/03/20 at 10PM ET/PT
AMERICAN GREED: BIGGEST CONS: MADOFF BEHIND BARS
Bernie Madoff is the disgraced mastermind behind a $65 billion Ponzi scheme. Now he faces the prospect of dying behind bars. A look inside his life in prison, the lives of his victims, and the search for his stolen billions.
Monday, 08/10/20 at 10PM ET/PT
AMERICAN GREED: BIGGEST CONS: THE MOST HATED MAN IN AMERICA?
Martin Shkreli, the notorious “Pharma bro,” jacked up the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000% and is in prison for defrauding investors. Now from behind bars he’s found using a contraband cellphone violating prison rules to allegedly run his company, getting sued by federal regulators for trying to keep a drug monopoly, and requesting that he be freed because he might be able to cure deadly COVID-19.
Monday, 08/17/20 at 10PM ET/PT
AMERICAN GREED: BIGGEST CONS: BILLIONAIRE BOYS BUST
John Bravata uses free lunch seminars to lure 440 middle class victims into his $50 million real estate investment scam. The mastermind behind his firm nicknamed “Billionaire Boys Club”, Bravata is now serving 20 years, but could his son be plotting a crooked comeback?
Monday, 08/24/20 at 10PM ET/PT
AMERICAN GREED: BIGGEST CONS: CONN JOB
Eric Conn, the convicted mastermind of the largest U.S. Social Security fraud in history vanishes and is apprehended, but leaves thousands of his former clients struggling to survive… until a whistleblower uncovers startling new evidence that could help them regain their disability benefits.
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