American Greed

- Season 9

(2015)

A coin collector and his brother start mail order coin businesses. They go bankrupt in 2008. After they're jailed, one plots murder of the judge and prosecutor.

In the Midwest, the head of a firm that buys and sells companies does business from his 12,000-square-foot home with a Playboy model at his side, but his arrest exposes a $216 million Ponzi scheme that sets a record for the state of Indiana.

Con man Rodney Hailey runs a fake green energy business and collects millions by scamming major corporations. When this environmental entrepreneur litters the front of his suburban home with a fleet of luxury cars it exposes the dirty money he makes on clean green fuel. And, for nearly 30 years, notorious cat burglar Blane Nordahl steals sterling silver in America's most expensive zip codes. His crimes spark a nationwide man hunt for the man behind an estimated $15 million precious metal meltdown.

A visionary entrepreneur with a lavish lifestyle solicits investors for a fund dealing in everything from strip clubs and real estate to currency, diamonds and mind control technology, but it turns out to be a $19 million Ponzi scheme.

In less than four years Claudio Osorio steals more than $40 million from investors and the U.S. government. To draw big money and big names into his con, Osorio casts himself as a wealthy, brilliant international business tycoon. In fact, he is an international crook. His company Inno Vida's financial statements to the SEC in March list more than $35 million in cash. In fact, there is only $185,000 in company accounts. As investments pour in, so do lawsuits. In 2012 Osorio is indicted. He pleads guilty to wire fraud and money laundering, is sentenced to 12 and a half ...

Stockbroker Jordan Belfort runs a sex, drugs and rock 'n roll brokerage firm. He pleads guilty to fraud and does jail time. After his release, Belfort gets a Hollywood makeover, but do his victims get justice?

L.A. fine wine collector makes millions from auctioning off his prized wine. Crowds will pay anything for them. Some question their authenticity. Could these bottles be too good to be true?

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A personal injury attorney pockets the winnings of his desperate clients and uses the cash to fuel his own over-the-top lifestyle. And a Kentucky oil man's wild scheme comes undone after he makes an appearance on a reality TV show.

A conman profits by selling the insurance policies of terminally ill patients. When his scheme is uncovered, investors say their last goodbyes to over $800 million dollars.

Kevin Halligen, a private security contractor is a James Bond wannabe who spins lies to desperate clients only to boost his ego and feed his greed.

A brash New York stock broker once known as the bad Boy of Wall Street gets sober and re-invents himself as an international power player. But has he really gone legit? Or is he addicted to greed?

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A multi-million-dollar yacht, 80 sports cars, a Playboy-magazine-model girlfriend. Tim Durham is the picture of success as a fix-it and flip-it business king. But in the comfort of his 30,000 square foot home he's running a $200 million fraud.

Rich husband, beautiful wife, perfect life. Pamela Phillips and Gary Triano are Tucson's golden couple. But their life unravels in a fury of greed and hate. When Gary ends up dead, all eyes are on Phillips. Could she kill for money?

No investment idea is too exotic for visionary entrepreneur James "The Cash King" Duncan. He sets his sights on strip clubs, real estate, Iraqi currency, diamonds, and even mind control technology. And his over the top lifestyle is a devious facade built with empty promises, costing investors millions.

I interviewed Barry Minkow in Lompoc Federal Prison October 1994. He was released that December and became my first speaker. Went back to prison. He's been released again.

Infomercial kingpin Kevin Trudeau is making millions but the government says he's selling lies and they'll do whatever they can to shut him down. And, Remington Financial Group's decades long 26 million-dollar advance fee scheme is about to be exposed by an unlikely group of victims.

Ferrari Mike Banuelos takes musical artists' lives in the fast lane, but his promotions make his investors crash and burn. And Former IRS Agent Steven Martinez may seem like a normal accountant, but when he's caught in a $12 million fraud, he diverts taxpayer money to the ultimate crime - Murder.

Profiting millions from America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, David H Brooks lives the high life until evidence of his greed outshines his claims of patriotism.