American Greed

- Season 6

(2012)

An accountant to stars mismanages clients' money, pockets millions and marries an exotic dancer. Series, Season Premiere.

Carlos Perez-Olivo is a successful lawyer with a silver tongue and solid gold taste. But when he's disbarred for fleecing desperate clients, he finds another way to make money...and proves how greed really is a deadly sin.

Nevin Shapiro, a former University of Miami Football booster, and a fixture on the Miami social scene, orchestrated a $900 million Ponzi scheme - and tried to bring the University football team down with him.

Van Thu Tran and her crime ring, The Tran Organization, steal millions during a cheating scheme at more than 20 casinos across North America.

Minneapolis businessman Tom Petters buys big companies with other peoples money. He earns double-digit profits for investors, saves thousands of jobs, and makes himself rich in the process. The secret to his success? A 13-year Ponzi scheme.

Sex, lies, and insider trading. Galleon Group co-founder Raj Rajaratnam turned his hedge fund into one of the most profitable in the world, managing more than $7 billion in assets - by creating one of the biggest insider trading schemes in U.S. history.

Viewers across the country tune in to watch a live auction show that turns out to be nothing more than con artists selling fake art. They bilk buyers out of $20 million.

One of the nation's top homebuilders runs a multimillion-dollar scam that wreaks financial havoc on homebuyers, subcontractors, and banks. Nearly 300 homeowners face the threat of foreclosure.

He's dubbed Long Island, New York's "Mini-Madoff." Nicholas Cosmo promised huge returns on booming real estate opportunities. He brought white-collar crime to blue-collar Americans and scammed thousands of trusting investors.

Michael Lock is a ruthless Milwaukee crime boss who bilks borrowers and lenders of $2 million, and leaves a murder trail along the way.

Fund manager & investment adviser Shawn Merriman takes money from investors to fund a lavish lifestyle, including $4 million in fine art, antique cars, and sports memorabilia.

In the city of brotherly love, car wrecks piled up, and auto insurance policies were treated like ATM machines. American Greed takes you inside a Philadelphia car insurance fraud ring where everybody got a piece of the action.

Lee Farkas and co-conspirators at Taylor Bean & Whitaker misappropriate more than $2.9 billion in a fraud scheme that contributed to the failure of one of the largest U.S. banks in 2009.

Solomon Dwek schemes to defraud financial institutions in a $50 million bank fraud scheme and goes on to become a government informant in a public- corruption and money-laundering sting that results in the arrest of dozens.

Allen Stanford orchestrates a 20-year investment fraud scheme in which he misappropriates $7 billion to finance his personal businesses and lifestyle.

Fraudsters solicit more than $50 million, purportedly for participation in high-yield trading programs and venture capital investments, and use investors' funds to make lulling payments to other investors.