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04/23/2014: AMERICAN GREED 86 – DETROIT "CRIME BOSS" MAYOR
Is it possible to run a criminal empire out of City Hall? According to the feds, that's exactly what Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick does during his six years in office. Once hailed as the savior of this struggling rust-belt metropolis, Kilpatrick is actually the leader of a cabal that cost the city millions of dollars. Throughout his tenure, Kilpatrick and his friends extort city contractors, abuse public funds, and turn the mayor's office into their own cash-making machine. But while the mayor counts his cash, it's a high-profile sex scandal that ultimately brings him down. The trial and resulting publicity eventually expose the mayor's dirty deeds for all to see.
04/30/2014: AMERICAN GREED 87 – THE FALCON & THE CON MAN"
Oh my God," the caller gasps in horror, choking back tears. "Ma'am," the 9-1-1 dispatcher replies evenly, "can you tell me what's going on?" At Peregrine FinancialGroup – a leading commodity futures brokerage – employees are struggling to revive founder and CEO Russell Wasendorf Sr. The 64-year-old entrepreneur has taken an overdose of sleeping pills while attempting to asphyxiate himself in his car with exhaust fumes. Until today, Wasendorf appeared to have it all. But in a signed confession found at his side, he reveals an extraordinary fraud that he perpetrated for the past two decades, deceiving financial regulators and robbing his customers of more than $200 million.
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CNBC's shocking true crime series examines the dark side of the American Dream. Some people will do ANYTHING for MONEY.
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