American Greed

- Season 7

(2013)

From spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on clothes and cars to leaving thousand-dollar tips at bars, Michael Vorce is a twenty-something playboy living it up. By all appearances he makes millions selling and buying luxury yachts, which allows him to borrow millions from banks. But when the loans come due, questions float to the surface - where are all the yachts? And where is all the money?

Perry Griggs runs an investment fraud claiming to sell coffee futures when all he did was keep investor money. While in prison for his conviction, he starts another scam where the victims are fellow prisoners and their families, many of whom took second mortgages on their homes to fund Griggs' fraud.

A trio of Texas con men score $100 million, telling investors there's big money in the "life settlement" insurance. When the fraudsters fail to pay returns and keep the money for themselves, it all comes crashing down, leaving investors' finances in critical condition.

A trio of Texas conmen scores $100 million, telling investors there's big money in the "life settlement" insurance biz. They claim policy holders can cash out before they die and investors can double their money. When the fraudsters fail to pay returns and keep the money for themselves, it all comes crashing down, leaving investors' finances in critical condition.

Melissa King is entrusted with overseeing union benefits and uses workers' retirement funds to cut herself checks. And smooth-talking ladies-man Carl Estep looks for love and money to fund his phony gold scheme.

Jack Walsh and Charles Martin appear to be getting very rich running One World Capital's foreign currency trading brokerage until a routine audit reveals some "irregularities" in accounting. And one-man CPA firm Juan Carlos Rodriguez lures friends into an investment scheme that would cause financial ruin.

Samuel "Mouli" Cohen starts an internet music company and fraudulently takes in $31 million from celebrities, investors, and a charity dedicated to help the poor.

Investment fund manager Trevor Cook appears to be a local boy made good in Minneapolis, where investors think their money is going into securities, but they'll be shocked to see how Trevor and his boys blow their hard-earned savings... turning a historic mansion into a den of debauchery.

Brooklyn investment manager Philip Barry starts the longest-running Ponzi scheme in history. And Kevin Carney says his stock trading program delivers an incredible 20 percent return, but it turns out to be a $19 million scam.

New Age evangelist Lydia Cladek draws in two thousand victims, but the greedster doesn't have a prayer when the F.B.I. finds out about her scam. And Ronnie Gene Wilson tells his followers that the path to a secure future is paved with investment in precious metals.

A Florida man hits it big with a $13-million lottery jackpot and, when Dee Dee Moore offers to help manage his winnings, he ends up paying a deadly price.

Michael McCant is a former bank robber who says he's gone "legit" by promoting up-and-coming rap musicians, but his millions are coming from investors who've given McCant their entire nest eggs. And Mark Anderson owns a fine wine storage business in California, but when clients discover their wine is missing, Anderson tries to conceal his crime with gasoline and a blowtorch, destroying more than $200 million dollars' worth of wine.