White Collars, Red Hands

We have a short sweet and relaxed episode this week as we discuss a few of the ways that the crowdfunding app GoFund Me has been used to separate individuals from their cold hard cash. Expect more asides than usual this week as we were constantly distracted with some police sirens outside the building that we record in, *mostly* cut out for your listening pleasure.

Oh no! Someone let us talk about crypto currency again! This week we revisit everyone's favorite crypt currency the ¢umRocket! After that, we discuss a Bulgarian cryptocurrency OneCoin that quickly after its introduction in 2014 sold 4Bn worth of Euros over the next few years despite many governments calling it a scam that specifically targeted the poor, and had some interesting features akin to a cult. The whole thing culminates in the cofounder being one of the only women to make it onto the FBI's most wanted list, and she is still at large today!

This week we sit down for a little bit of a different episode because the subject matter is so recent. Just weeks ago we saw both the second and third-largest bank collapses in American history by asset holdings, and maybe we are your only source of news so you have come to us for the skinny on the whole situation. We will give you that and on top of it a hilarious story of inept insider trading done by a former Senior VP of Silicon Valley Bank: Mounir Gad.

Welcome back for season 11 of White Collars, Red Hands! This season we kick things off by picking on a religion besides Catholicism for the first time as we discuss a recent story where three men ran a Ponzi scheme that defrauded multiple members of the Mormon church out of almost half a billion dollars! Listen to the official podcast of shoveling snow while you can before summer comes to ruin our fun!

Welcome to the Season 10 Finale! For this finale, we dig into a terrible story of a real estate heir who took his silver spoon and did nothing but spread agony and pi$$ in trash cans. Join us for the story of a grocery store owner, master of disguise, and potential serial killer, Robert Durst.

This week we sit down to discuss one of the most infamous mobsters in history: Al Capone. A man that terrorized the city of Chicago during the prohibition era but still somehow went to jail on financial charges. Find out all about his nicknames, kid gangs, and venereal diseases on this weeks episode!

This week we are sitting back and having a more relaxed feel episode, so join us, between anecdotes, to learn the story of three different cases of romance fraud that enriched people anywhere from one thousand to over a million dollars.

This week we continue a topic we touched on a couple of seasons ago that begins with Red Granite, the production company that made The Wolf of Wall Street but ends with corruption cases for a Prime Minister halfway across the globe and an international fugitive who is still on the run. So join us as we sneak in the tale of 1Malaysia Development Berhad between asides(as per usual.)

This week we sit down to discuss wage theft, a crime committed so ubiquitously that I guarantee almost all of us have been victims of it. Your employer conveniently forgot to pay you time and a half for overtime, or you are 1099ed as a contractor when you don't get to set your own hours or charge your own prices, the list goes on, and the amount of money that companies have gained from these practices is immense. This week interspersed between frivolous arguments as usual, we discuss three of the biggest examples of wage theft in America.