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Real Progressives and the creators of “The Con” present a new series, “The New Untouchables: The Pecora Files,” meticulously detailing the rampant financial fraud that has been poisoning our economy for the last century, and what is to be done about it. “The Con” took a simple but revolutionary approach to explaining the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008. The New Untouchables presents the heroes, one at a time, who sought to prevent it and hold the elit ...
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S2:E14 The Pecora Files: Why the Media Doesn’t Understand Control Fraud
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This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today. Paul Jay is a remarkable journalist, filmmaker, and political commentator…
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S2:E13 The Pecora Files: Ferdinand Pecora Where Are You Now?
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This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today. If you’ve ever wondered why this series bears the name of Ferdinand Pecor…
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S2:E12 The Pecora Files: Populism Saved Us Before. Where is it Now?
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This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today. Thomas Frank is one of the most prolific authors and experts in the Ameri…
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S2:E11 The Pecora Files: Systemic Corruption is the Point
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This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today. Countless numbers of Americans believe all politicians are corrupt and th…
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S2:E10 The Pecora Files: Justice is Coming
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This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite “Control Fraud” driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today. Bruce Jacobs, a veteran prosecutor and defense attorney in Miam…
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S2:E9 The Pecora Files: Ignore at Your Own Peril
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This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today. Co-hosts Patrick Lovell, Steve Grumbine and Eric Vaughan delve into the o…
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S2:E8 The Pecora Files: Insurance is the Point
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This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today. In this episode, co-hosts Patrick Lovell, Steve Grumbine and Eric Vaughan…
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S2:E7 The Pecora Files: You Really Thought You Knew It All
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This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today. Steve Grumbine, Patrick Lovell, and Eric Vaughan are joined in this episo…
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S2:E6 The Pecora Files: Smoking Gun
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Musical content License Number: CQXEULN7SXMY4GHT This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and still with us today. Ask a thousand random…
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S2:E5 The Pecora Files: When the Foundation Rots, Systems Collapse
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The New Untouchables is an extraordinary journey that reveals regular people from around the country who actually had the character to do their jobs correctly. People doing their jobs correctly isn’t particularly the extraordinary part, rather, the grotesque revelations about how many people were willing to lie, steal and cheat their way to fiction…
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S2:E4 The Pecora Files: The Walls Cave In
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This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008. Who caused the 2008 great financial crisis? What was the continuing aftermath for real people …
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S2:E3 The Pecora Files: The Devil is in the Details
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What’s everyone’s ‘take’ in this scheme of financial terrorism? Doug Boggs and Paris Dube join Steve Grumbine and Patrick Lovell to discuss their personal victimization engineered by liars and thieves. “It’s the same, old story,” Boggs says. Banks tell people who are current in their mortgage payments, “We can’t do anything until you stop making yo…
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Victims. Millions of them. No matter who you were and are, financial terrorism looms large. In the aftermath of the 2008 Global Economic Collapse, tens of millions of people around the world were thrown into upheaval. The immediate narrative shouted by mainstream media was people got greedy, or in over their heads, using their homes as ATM machines…
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S2:E1 The Pecora Files: The American Nightmare
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A nightmare of unprecedented magnitude destroyed millions of Americans and tens of millions of people around the world caught in the web of deceit and no way out. No matter one’s race, gender, or even economic status, let alone personal achievement, if they got trapped in the machine of corruption, no one was immune to the inhuman betrayal of a jud…
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S1:E5 The Pecora Files: Those Who Would Have Drained the Swamp
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In this final episode of The New Untouchables: The Pecora Files, Steve, Eric, and Patrick introduce Chris Swecker, former Chief Deputy in the FBI Criminal Division during the George W. Bush administration and Paul Pelletier, former prosecutor in the Department of Justice under Obama. What we’ve learned so far through this series is that diabolical …
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S1:E4 The Pecora Files: Inside the Belly of the Beast
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Are you ready to ask the $50 trillion dollar question? You know what a trillion is? It’s a thousand billion. How many times have we been asked, “How are you going to pay for that? Meanwhile do you know how much the Fed has pumped into the financial system since 2009? That’s right: $50 trillion. Richard Bowen, former Citigroup VP and whistleblo…
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S1:E3 The Pecora Files: If You Can Fog A Mirror
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This episode features Lori Noble, a professional real estate appraiser from West Virginia, as she discusses with Steve, Eric, and Patrick her experiences when honest appraisers were forced out of the mortgage process. Why did this happen? Because lies, greed and money were taking over. First there was the Federal Government’s 1999 repeal of Glass-S…
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This episode brings Marc Dann, former Attorney General of Ohio, and Tom Murphy, the leader of the successful Cleveland and Summit County Ohio’s Law Enforcement task force, to tell their stories. Dann was elected to the AG’s office committed to taking down mortgage fraud and put the resources of his office at the disposal of Murphy, a no-nonsense co…
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S1:E1 The Pecora Files: The Vaccine For Systemic Corruption
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Steve, Patrick and Eric talk with two of the foremost experts on corruption within the financial system, William K. Black former Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) Regulator and Arthur Wilmarth, Professor Emeritus of Law, George Washington University. Listen as they describe how banking was made safe and “boring,” and how the walls that had worked …
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