American Greed

2007
4.9
40 reviews
TV-PG
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Season 13 episodes (16)

1 The College Admissions Scandal
8/12/19
College admissions coach Rick Singer rakes in $25 million from rich parents who pay big bucks to rig their kids admission into elite colleges.
2 The Fyre Festival
8/19/19
Disgraced Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland uses fraud to launch his brand and a luxury music festival in the Bahamas, selling thousands of tickets on the strength of a social media pitch that results in a disastrous event that goes up in smoke.
3 Paul Manafort
8/26/19
The hard-charging political insider takes a fall. From luxury properties to an ostrich coat, he uses his power and influence to fuel a multimillion-dollar mortgage and tax fraud.
4 Prophets of Greed
9/2/19
Leaders of a polygamous religious sect demand "Perfect Obedience" from followers, luring them into welfare fraud and stealing millions of dollars from American tax payers.
5 Black Market Dirty Gold
9/9/19
Three Miami salesmen have gold fever as they import billions of dollars' worth of the precious metal from South America. But their business plan falls apart when authorities learn the gold has connections to drug cartels and organized crime.
6 The House Flipping Reality Star Fraudster
9/16/19
Scott Menaged is a trash-talking reality TV house flipper buying up hundreds of foreclosures in Phoenix. But when his moneylender discovers that Menaged is a fraud, the consequences are deadly.
7 The Fake Prince's Royal Scam
1/6/20
An outlandish con artist poses as a Saudi royal to cheat investors out of millions by promising them access to Arabian oil stock. From his penthouse on Miami's exclusive Fisher Island, phony sultan "Khalid Bin Al-Saud," lures victims with dreams of untold riches.
8 Diagnosis: Temptress Health Scam
1/13/20
"Entrepreneur" Keisha Williams is really a high-rolling shopaholic with a taste for strip clubs and exotic travel. She lures investors into pouring millions of dollars into a can't-miss bid to secure a medical moneymaking technology that never materializes. She leaves even her savviest backers on financial life support.
9 The Fast and the Fraudulent
1/20/20
Payday loan scam mastermind Scott Tucker swindles millions of cash-strapped borrowers with his convenient online loan business and uses the profits to fuel his race car team dreams. But when he steers investors into his predatory scheme, he speeds head on into trouble.
10 Painful Greed Turns Deadly
1/27/20
Healing turns harmful when pharmacist Barry Cadden chooses profits over safety while running a drug compounding center where mold and bacteria thrive. Tainted pain medicine flows from the filthy factory into innocent patients across the country, sickening hundreds and leading to the deaths of 100 people.
11 Starstruck Studio Swindle
2/3/20
Carissa Carpenter is an aspiring Hollywood mogul whose latest plan is to construct a major movie studio in Northern California. But federal authorities say this is only a sequel, as she uses investor money to bankroll her big-budget lifestyle for nearly two decades in different cities around the country.
12 The Luxury Curse Scam
2/10/20
From penthouse apartments to a $10 million stadium luxury box, financial advisor Dawn Bennett orchestrates a $20 Million scheme and conjures spells to silence investigators.
13 Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino
2/17/20
Starring in MTV's "Jersey Shore," Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino flaunts washboard abs and a party boy image. But when it comes to paying his taxes, he'd rather play than pay. So it's GTL: Gym-Tan-Lock-up.
14 Fake Heiress Cons High Society
2/24/20
Artsy German heiress Anna Delvey makes a splash in downtown New York's social scene, but she's really a Russian-born con artist who's trying to swindle $23 million from banks while dodging unpaid bills. A classic fake-it-till-you-make-it scheme.
15 All-Star Sports Scam
3/2/20
Well-heeled financial advisor Peggy Ann Fulford builds a cache of all-star clients and a personal fortune by convincing A-list players like Dennis Rodman and Ricky Williams that she's in their corner, while draining their bank accounts in a game of winner-takes-all.
16 Judgment of Terror
3/9/20
When a judge in Texas is shot four times, a tip leads investigators to Chimene Onyeri, an aspiring Houston rap artist facing prison after his crooked card-skimming plots are exposed.

About this show

This series takes an in-depth look at the masterminds behind medical scams, international art heists, bank robberies, identity theft, religious scams, and pyramid schemes. Probing investigations reveal the mechanics of the actual scams as well as offer insight into the psychology that drives certain men and women to swindle unsuspecting marks for millions. American Greed is a fascinating study into the American Dream gone sour, as the ambition and desire for wealth turns the enterprising into criminals and fugitives from justice.

Ratings and reviews

4.9
40 reviews
deborah elliott
June 23, 2021
The Chicago Tribune (June 15, 2021) says that the wives of the Flores twins are being sentenced to prison for money laundering, so I would be skeptical of their statements in the segment on El Chapo. It's segment number 7. American Greed is a good show though. With regard to the money laundering, there was $165,000 for private schools and $100,000 for world travel. It sounds like the wives and their husbands, the Flores twins, are unreformed criminals who are probably also liars.
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Ms. Opinionated
February 10, 2022
Love the show, but why can't I buy season 15 episodes? There are 4 or 5 episodes that have premiered in 2022.
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Media Maven
August 10, 2021
Stacey Keach's narration is perfect! That man can deliver a line--whether scripted or improvised. Oh the sarcasm, wit and hilarity from the takedown of many of these swindlers and sometimes murderers.
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