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A Concerned Citizen

Utilizes narrative storytelling, archival audio, and immersive soundscapes to explore true stories of white-collar criminals, con artists, and corporate evil. From corruption and fraud to Ponzi schemes and environmental disasters, these financially motivated crimes have shaped our world in unimaginable ways. All in the name of greed.
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Swindled

A Virginia governor and his wife are indicted after receiving lavish gifts from a local businessman.

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Bonus: The Tic Tac Man (Bob McDonnell)

A tiny Calgary-based exploration company ignites a global market frenzy when it discovers the world's largest gold deposit before collapsing into one of the biggest frauds in mining history.

Prelude: The "Bushman of the Shuswap" flees society after uncovering a massive conspiracy.

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134. The Motherlode (Bre-X Minerals)

A newly elected congressman is expelled and prosecuted for financial crimes after his elaborate web of personal and professional lies unravels.

Prelude: JP Maroney's inventive "digital marketing arbitrage" is revealed to be a Ponzi scheme.

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133. The Fabulist (George Santos)

A prominent Christian businessman operates a massive, "too-good-to-be-true," charity-based Ponzi scheme.

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Bonus: The Foundation (New Era Philanthropy)

A catastrophic contamination strikes Michigan when an industrial chemical (PBB) is mistakenly mixed into cattle feed.

Prelude: Workers at a Texas chemical plant are turned into “zombies" after exposure to the toxic pesticide Phosvel.

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132. The Mix-Up (Velsicol Chemical Company)

A proposed libertarian paradise in the Chilean countryside devolves into a spectacle of betrayal and broken promises.

Prelude: Lazarus Long's Principality of New Utopia.

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131. The Utopia (Galt's Gulch Chile)

Originally published June 5, 2022. 

The untimely death of an outspoken advocate for foster children reveals his despicable double life. Prelude: A tragedy occurs after a woman in Rhode Island adopts eight children with developmental issues.

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Rerun: The Crusader (Nicholas Alahverdian)

A self-proclaimed “socially conscious” entrepreneur uses church seminars and motivational speeches to lure investors into a nationwide Ponzi scheme.

Prelude: "King" Perry Santillo and Chris Parris perpetuate a financial fraud to which they had fallen victim.

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130. The Wunderkind (Ephren Taylor II)

A tourism industry's ugly past is revealed after a "duck boat" sinks on Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri, during a storm.

Prelude: The sinking of Miss Majestic in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

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129. The Death Trap (Ride the Ducks Intl.)

A Fort Lauderdale lawyer's ostentatious lifestyle is supported by the largest Ponzi scheme in Florida history.

Prelude: The body of attorney Melissa Britt Lewis is found in a Florida canal.

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Bonus: The Tic Tac Man (Bob McDonnell)

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