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Fri, Apr 1, 2022
This mock episode released on April fools day looks at the events surrounding the fictional Saul Goodman character as seen in Breaking Bad (2008) and Better Call Saul (2015).
Tue, Oct 11, 2022
While an estimated $100 to $400 billion dollars in COVID-19 federal relief funds are stolen by scammers and criminals, one seasoned California family of fraudsters easily grabs millions of dollars that Americans desperately need. Richard Ayvazyan, along with his wife Marietta Terabelian and other family members were convicted of stealing up to $350 million dollars in federal COVID-19 relief loans. The family members bought luxury cars, multi-million dollar mansions, jewelry, gold coins, watches, vacations and more with their ill-gotten gains. They obtained bank loans in other peoples' names that they never intended to pay back. Three of them ended up on the FBI's 'Most Wanted' list. Those three (Richard Ayvazyan, his wife Marietta Terabelian and his sister-in-law Tamara Dadyan) had cut off their ankle monitor bracelets and abandoned their also-guilty children and fled to the mountains of Montenegro, a country in the Balkans in Southeastern Europe. The three fugitives were tracked down by law enforcement and apprehended. In the end, the criminals were caught. Richard Ayvazyan, age 43, was sentenced to serve 17 years in prison. His wife, Marietta Terabelian, age 37, was sentenced to six years in prison. His brother, Artur Ayvazyan, age 41, was sentenced to five years in prison. Manuk Grigoryan, age 28, was sentenced to six years in prison. Edvard Paronyan, age 41, was sentenced to 30 months in prison. Vahe Dadyan, age 42, was sentenced to 12 months in prison. Arman Hayrapetyan, age 39, was ordered to serve 10 months of probation. Richard Ayvazyan's sister-in-law, Tamara Dadyan, age 42, was sentenced to 10 years plus 10 months in prison.
Tue, Oct 18, 2022
In February 2022, the Justice Department announced charges against Heather Rhiannon Morgan and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein for their alleged roles in the conspiracy to launder $4.5 billion in stolen Bitcoin cryptocurrency. Heather Morgan was as also known as 'Razzlekhan', a fledgling rap artist.
Tue, Oct 25, 2022
Purported entrepreneur Antonio Mariot Wilson changes his name, pitch, and act to play a series of roles, and the inveterate huckster fleeces unsuspecting investors for decades, including television star Jenifer Lewis. In this installment, Jenifer Lewis opens up about her relationship with Antonio Wilson and how it went from a storybook romance to a nightmare. In the end, Antonio Mariot Wilson, aka 'Brice Carrington' and 'Dr. Tony Mariot', age 58, was sentenced in March 2021 to 8 years in federal prison for deceiving women he met online and elsewhere into investing hundreds of thousands of dollars into his sham companies, and then spending their money on himself. From May 2015 to October 2018, Wilson defrauded four women with whom he had engaged in romantic relationships, including actress Jenifer Lewis, whose credits include the television series 'Black-ish'. Wilson falsely told his victims that he was a Navy SEAL, a graduate of Oxford University, and an Oxford professor. He conveniently 'forgot' to tell the victims that he had previously pleaded guilty in federal court in Oakland, California to carrying out a similar fraud scheme, and had served a four-year term in federal prison after pleading guilty in 2009.
Tue, Nov 1, 2022
This installment discusses Garrison Courtney, who infiltrated Washington DC's intelligence circles. In doing so, he collected $4.5 million dollars with his tall tales of running a top-secret national security operation for the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency. Now age 44, when Courtney's lies unraveled after four years of fraud, he was apprehended and was sentenced in October 2020 in federal court in Alexandria, VA to seven years in prison.
Tue, Dec 6, 2022
American Greed Murdaugh Saga, Part 1: Alex Murdaugh, a well-respected lawyer from a prominent family is accused of stealing millions of dollars from the suffering clients who turn to him for his legal knowledge, compassion and help. This brazen act of fraud results in the decline of a dynasty. This installment discusses details about the deaths and multiple legal cases surrounding South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, who was accused of killing his wife and son in June 2021. The sprawling investigation into the prominent and powerful Murdaugh family uncovers years of unchecked power and privilege that has allegedly resulted in years of fraud, conspiracy, corruption and murder.
Tue, Dec 13, 2022
American Greed Murdaugh Saga, Part 2: Alex Murdaugh, a well-respected lawyer from a prominent family is accused of stealing millions of dollars from the suffering clients who turn to him for his legal knowledge, compassion and help. This brazen act of fraud results in the decline of a dynasty. This installment discusses details about the deaths and multiple legal cases surrounding South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, who was accused of killing his wife and son in June 2021. The sprawling investigation into the prominent and powerful Murdaugh family uncovers years of unchecked power and privilege that has allegedly resulted in years of fraud, conspiracy, corruption and murder.
Tue, Feb 21, 2023
With his long white beard, ponytail and ubiquitous advertising, a former police officer who is now an attorney, James Morris Balagia of Manor, Texas, is also known as the 'D.W.I. Dude'. He is well-known in Texas as a flamboyant defense lawyer who can get 'drunk driving' defendants out of a jam. His advertising slogan was, 'Busted? Call the Dude!'. However, he pocketed money that he told drug dealers would be used to bribe officials, prosecutors said. In the end, when Jamie Balagia, now age 65, got convicted for his crimes in May 2021, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Tue, Mar 7, 2023
Personal injury attorney Tom Girardi posits himself as a champion for the little guy, but jilted clients cry foul when they discover him cheating them out of millions of dollars in settlement money as Girardi's wife flaunts her wealth on reality television. Girardi was the subject of 205 attorney ethics complaints between 1982 and June 2022 when he was disbarred in California.