This week we discuss an Austria-Hungarian born conman named Victor Lustig (maybe?) who left a string of scam victims across two continents, found great success selling magic boxes and... The Eiffel tower... twice.

On the season 15 premiere episode we discuss Brian Kolfage, a purple heart recipient who used his military hero status to spread far-right conspiracies and to swindle a large sum of money from thousands in his " We Build the Wall" fundraiser.

It's the season finale so this week we take on the dark history of the Murdaugh family in South Carolina, who were considered an affluent small county dynasty. But what happens when their influence wasn't enough to keep all their skeletons in the closet? Find out on the conclusion to season 14!

This week we hop across the pond to talk about a recent accounting scandal from Great Britain. Patisserie Valerie is a century old bakery with beginnings shrouded in mystery but we know where they ended up... almost bankrupt from accounting fraud! Find out more about their delicious dupe on this week's episode.…

This week's a quickie where we talk three stories surrounding the third largest company in the world: Amazon. And weirdly enough only one of the three has Amazon as the villain. Find out more on this week's episode!

This week we discuss the incredibly real tale of one time radio DJ Joel Greenberg, who after being elected as Seminole County Tax Collector started a string of unbelievably brazen crimes that got progressively worse and ended with an investigation in the highest seats of government.

This week we dive into the story of Renee Bach, a Christian missionary who started a group feeding children in Uganda. From there she moved onto running an unlicensed medical facility where she got a reputation for losing her child patients but what do you expect from a homeschooled doctor? Find out more on this week's episode!…

This week we discuss the members of Forbes Hall of Shame that we haven't already covered. Join us as we detail the stories behind seven people picked to the 30 under 30 list that the publication later regretted.

This week has a more relaxed feel as we sit down to discuss some popular Multi-Level Marketing businesses, that are definitely not pyramid schemes guys! They do so much more, like create the Subway sandwich artists of leggings, and make vitamins weirdly backed by the church.

This week we dive into another listener-submitted topic as we discuss the rise and fall of online poker in the United States, focusing largely on the crimes perpetuated by the biggest offender of them all Full Tilt. a company run by professional poker players, but was still a bad bet.

This week we dive into a listener-submitted episode as we discuss the dealings of serial con artist Tracii Show Hutsona who made her illicit gains from a cancer patient and bank-rolled it into poorly themed restaurants, also looks like she was on the Real Housewives but in a first for us, she wasn't actually on the show.…

Welcome back for the Season 14 premiere! To start off this season we are discussing the blatant Tesla ripoff Nikola, whose CEO Trevor Milton promised would create a fleet of semi-trucks run on hydrogen but built an empire of lies just to falsely inflate their stock to cash out.

Hey everyone, we said we wouldn't be back until the new year, and we are also filthy liars! We're dropping a relaxed feel, unscripted bonus episode talking about holiday hijinks, Christmas cons, and Kishan gives a gift by telling you about one of his favorite people in history, the delightfully stupid and lucky Lord Timothy Dexter. Happy Holidays!…

Welcome to the Season 13 Finale, like always this season we end in a murder committed by the wealthy. Join us as we take a trip to the beautiful neighborhood of San Luis Capistrano in Orange County California, where a previously married millionaire couple was gunned down in their bed at night. The police thought it was a scorned business partner, b…

Hey everyone, it's Thanksgiving here in the states so we are taking a break this week to gorge on the flesh of fowl. If you didn't get to catch our special podiversary Q&A live on YouTube, we're posting it here to tide you over until next week in it's unadulterated and unedited form.

In this week's episode we travel through the audio medium to a small town in Ohio, that was the victim of a conman who bought the buildings from half the town, and stole from the other half. Party barns, sheep with coke addictions, and high end furniture stores are featured in this episode!

This week we talk about two nerds who moved to the Silicon Valley in the hopes of achieving tech startup fame, but one of them ended up searching for fame producing the absolute worst rap you have ever heard. Meanwhile their lavish lifestyle was funded by the largest crypto fraud in history!

This week we discuss the first acting mayor of Detroit to serve time in prison as we dive into the story of Kwame Kilpatrick. Politics ran in the family, but only Kwame threw stripper parties at the White House of Detroit, at least if his mom threw some they were slightly more tight lipped.

This week we discuss the electronics store Crazy Eddie that ballooned in New York City during the 1980s because it had marketing so memorable they were better known than the president. But the whole thing was an illicit front for its scuzzy owner Eddie Antar to steal whatever he could get his hands on.…

In this week's episode we discuss Aimee Bock, who started out her journey looking to feed the hungry children of America, but was corrupted with greed and soon used the entire business to con the government. Find out how it all went down in this relaxed feel installment of White Collars, Red Hands! Also, check out our live show on YouTube…

This week we head back "Down Under" to the land that spawned Men at Work classic hits- Australia. In this episode, we cover Christopher Skase who took a page out of the American's book in the 1980s by spawning an empire built on shaky foundations, and when it all came tumbling down he turned and ran rather than facing the music, sparking a decades-…

This week we are bringing a more laid back episode as we discuss three stories of some of the worst schemes we could rustle up. The people who committed these cons targeted the people who have gone or are going through some of the worst things you can imagine, milking human sentiment to feed their greed. Sound like fun?…

This week we discuss a story that was supposed to be fun, but instead gets dark as we talk about a scam involving Chinese traditional medicine products made from ants. Wang Fengyou had one of the most popular companies in China that "employed" 1 million ant farmers, but was the ant life as good as he promised?…

On the Season 13 premiere we're not playing games as we discuss a 1 Million pound caper that almost took one of Her Majesty's favorite gameshows for a ride. Did Charles Ingram get to keep his ill-gotten gains, or did he lose them along with... his toes?! Find out on this week's episode!

Alright everybody, another season finale, another murder so hold on to your butts. This season we recognize ourselves as an equal opportunity podcast as we tell the first female murderer story for a finale! Join us as we discuss the stout and comely black widow who killed multiple suitors and buried their bodies on her pig farm aver 100 years ago.…

This week we discuss the interesting story of a poor Tibetan Buddhist monk by the name Lobsang Dargey, that went against all of his teachings to seek a life of excess in the United States, only to con other immigrants like himself out of over $100 Million.

This week we discuss some of what has led up to the downfall of congressman George Santos, the untruths that got him to his seat in the House of Representatives, and the crimes that might very well land him in prison.

This week we take a break from our regularly scheduled programming because Nina always gets sick on weeks when she is supposed to be the one hosting, so Kishan is going solo like a bird from the nest for the first time. Will he fly or crash and burn as he gives you updates to stories that WCRH has covered throughout almost 3 years of podcasting…

This week we discuss a hunky Midwesterner who dropped everything in life to move to LA and pursue a career in acting after college, even though he never talked about acting. Once there though Zach Horwitz used his newly developed acting "talents" not to land roles but land suckers in a Hollywood Ponzi Scheme that amassed over half a billion dollars…

Join us this week as we discuss a self-made hotel magnate in Leona Helmsley whose terrible reputation of being a mega Karen earned her the title of The Queen of Mean, and whose dealings on the books of her hotels landed her in prison, and wait until you found who inherited the most money in her will. Find out on this week's episode!…

This week we delve into the extremely weird, and disturbing story of Jacob Kingston. A prominent member of a Mormon adjacent cult, that used his engineering doctorate to start a biofuel company, that ended up not making biofuel. Instead, he stole money through a series of schemes, that ramped up in a big way when he got in bed with the Armenian maf…

This week we sit down to talk about the literal father of the Kennedy curse, JFK's daddy Joseph who was the first one to lead the SEC, after some dubious dealings qualified him to be there in the first place. This week involves bank examiners, natural family planning and lobotomies so join us for a wild one!…

You've heard of Bernie Madoff, especially if you've listened to all of our episodes in which case we love you! You might not have heard of Allen Stanford however, operating at roughly the same time Allen Stanford takes second place in largest Ponzi scheme and longest sentence for white-collar crime in America. Learn all about the Texas swindler on …

This week we take on the subject of famous children who had their earnings squandered and stolen by their parents. Through the 3.5 tales of entertainers who lost it all to those who raised them we find out that blood is not always thicker than water.

We're back with our twelfth season, we finally have a whole dozen! This season we kick things off by turning the clock back to the 1800s with the rise of the Hawaiian Kingdom, a sovereign nation that through unfortunate events became subject to a coup by wealthy foreigners on the islands, including an enduring symbol of nobility the first and last …

It's the season 11 finale and woof do we have a rough one. For this season finale, we dive back into the realm of murder committed by the wealthy but this one is especially heinous as we detail the story of Issei Sagawa the Japanese-born tiny little man who became obsessed with the idea of eating a tall blonde woman, so much so that he finally foll…

It's another one of Nina's favorite episodes packed with trashy people doing trashy financial crimes. We return for the third time to a Real Housewives series, this one set in Salt Lake City. This time though she isn't even a housewife, Jen Shah was the breadwinner. Follow along with us for a story of waterboarding, a telemarketing empire, and frau…

This week we delve back into a topic that has had success with us before, Silicon Valley biotech startups that are complete scams. This time it isn't Theranos, it is what was dubbed the 23 and Me of poop. uBiome was a gut microbiome fingerprinting company that went from being able to be ordered by consumers, to being a clinical diagnostic, to being…

Join us this week for the tale of an absolute idiot that stole millions in sham companies, who was a broker that was so terrified of actually executing trades that he had to tell someone else to do it, and also had so many $ex $laves at his house that neighbors called it a harem when they could see over his ridiculously tall fence. Oh also I forgot…

It was the early 2000s and Raffaelo Follieri had everything, money, a close connection to God, and an A- list actress girlfriend. He would tell you he was the Chief Financial Officer of the Vatican, but was all of it a lie to help steal money to fund his extravagant lifestyle? Find out on this week's episode!…

We have a short sweet and relaxed episode this week as we discuss a few of the ways that the crowdfunding app GoFund Me has been used to separate individuals from their cold hard cash. Expect more asides than usual this week as we were constantly distracted with some police sirens outside the building that we record in, *mostly* cut out for your li…

This week we get to sit and discuss research from "primary scientific literature" about some of the drug controversies that shaped the rules and regulations imposed by the FDA in America through three case studies. That of the strep throat medicine for children Elixir Sulfanilamide, the anti-nausea sedative Thalidomide, and an early IUD in the Dalk…

Oh no! Someone let us talk about crypto currency again! This week we revisit everyone's favorite crypt currency the ¢umRocket! After that, we discuss a Bulgarian cryptocurrency OneCoin that quickly after its introduction in 2014 sold 4Bn worth of Euros over the next few years despite many governments calling it a scam that specifically targeted the…

This week we sit down for a little bit of a different episode because the subject matter is so recent. Just weeks ago we saw both the second and third-largest bank collapses in American history by asset holdings, and maybe we are your only source of news so you have come to us for the skinny on the whole situation. We will give you that and on top …

Welcome back for season 11 of White Collars, Red Hands! This season we kick things off by picking on a religion besides Catholicism for the first time as we discuss a recent story where three men ran a Ponzi scheme that defrauded multiple members of the Mormon church out of almost half a billion dollars! Listen to the official podcast of shoveling …

Welcome to the Season 10 Finale! For this finale, we dig into a terrible story of a real estate heir who took his silver spoon and did nothing but spread agony and pi$$ in trash cans. Join us for the story of a grocery store owner, master of disguise, and potential serial killer, Robert Durst.

This week we sit down to discuss one of the most infamous mobsters in history: Al Capone. A man that terrorized the city of Chicago during the prohibition era but still somehow went to jail on financial charges. Find out all about his nicknames, kid gangs, and venereal diseases on this weeks episode!…

This week we are sitting back and having a more relaxed feel episode, so join us, between anecdotes, to learn the story of three different cases of romance fraud that enriched people anywhere from one thousand to over a million dollars.

This week we continue a topic we touched on a couple of seasons ago that begins with Red Granite, the production company that made The Wolf of Wall Street but ends with corruption cases for a Prime Minister halfway across the globe and an international fugitive who is still on the run. So join us as we sneak in the tale of 1Malaysia Development Ber…

This week we sit down to discuss wage theft, a crime committed so ubiquitously that I guarantee almost all of us have been victims of it. Your employer conveniently forgot to pay you time and a half for overtime, or you are 1099ed as a contractor when you don't get to set your own hours or charge your own prices, the list goes on, and the amount of…