American Greed

- Season 3

(2008)

Co-workers steal more than $4 million in fine art; a doctor's fraud, amounting to millions of dollars, turns deadly.

STORY 1: Meth Identity Thieves and ID Theft -- A crime is committed by criminals who are high on illegal methamphetamine drugs. The victim's wallets are stolen. But the thief takes more than just money. The victim's identity is stolen, too. Identity thieves fueled by the illegal stimulants are running rampant across America's West. STORY 2: The Wheaton Bandit -- The Wheaton Bandit is an unidentified bank robber suspected to be responsible for as many as 16 armed robberies around Wheaton, Illinois from 2002 to 2006. He appeared to be 25 to 35 years old at the time of ...

A charitable foundation run by the U.S.' largest Protestant denomination collapses in 1999 after years of hiding bad loans with new investors' money; the chief witness against a doctor accused of fraudulent billing is murdered days before his trial.

Robert Ray Courtney (born September 15, 1952) is an American former pharmacist from Kansas City, Missouri. In 2002, after initially being caught diluting several doses of chemotherapy drugs, he pleaded guilty to intentionally diluting 98,000 prescriptions involving multiple types of drugs, which were given to 4,200 patients, and was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.

STORY 1: WorldCom -- The WorldCom scandal was a major accounting scandal that came to light in the summer of 2002 at WorldCom, the USA's second-largest long-distance telephone company at the time. From 1999 to 2002, senior executives at WorldCom led by founder and CEO Bernard Ebbers orchestrated a scheme to inflate earnings in order to maintain WorldCom's stock price. The fraud was uncovered in June 2002 when the company's internal audit unit, led by unit vice president Cynthia Cooper, discovered over $3.8 billion of fraudulent balance sheet entries. Eventually, ...

In a tell-all exclusive interview, Matt Cox and Rebecca Hauck explain how lust and greed are a hot combination for fraud.

A successful businesswoman is targeted by a serial grifter who poisons her for money.

Hazardous Healthcare: A Wall Street Wonder Takes a Fall -- Richard Marin Scrushy (born August 1952) is an American businessman and convicted felon. He is the founder of HealthSouth Corporation, a global healthcare company based in Birmingham, Alabama. In 2004, following an investigation by the FBI, Scrushy was criminally charged by the U.S. SEC. He was charged with 36 of the original 85 counts but was acquitted of all charges on June 28, 2005, after a jury trial in Birmingham. Four months after his acquittal in Birmingham, on October 28, 2005, Scrushy was indicted by ...

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Dermatologist Michael Rosin took his cut on dozens of mostly elderly patients, performing unnecessary and invasive skin cancer surgeries.

American Greed profiles one of the biggest insider trading rings in history.

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