American Crimes

An inmate with an influential family in one gang, joins its arch rival; a female inmate who has ties to both gangs finds her mail has jail officials concerned.

The Louisville Metro Department of Corrections Jail has a daily population of about 2,000 men and women charged with anything from minor crimes to capitol murder; both buildings are overcrowded and their layouts are outdated.

An inmate's erratic behavior triggers the emergency response team and mental health staff; a murderer faces the death penalty while his girlfriend awaits trial in the women's wing of the same jail.

A Minneapolis businessman buys big companies and makes himself rich in the process.

A man threatens investment professionals to make him rich; two judges get rich off of a secret deal to build juvenile detention centers.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his associates extort city contractors, abuse public funds, and turn the mayor's office into their own cash machine, costing the city millions.

A man attempts suicide and confesses to an extraordinary fraud that he perpetrated for the past two decades at a leading commodity futures brokerage.

A financial fraudster seeks deadly revenge after being placed behind bars for propositioning his assistant's daughter.

Authorities charge a nurse with murder after an illegal silicone injection leads to death and knock-off cosmetic injections paralyze four others.

A phony psychic scams a wealthy but lonely timber baron out of millions while her devious daughter pretends to be in love with him.

From luxury properties to an ostrich coat, the hard charging political insider uses his power and influence to fuel a multimillion-dollar mortgage and tax fraud.

Leaders of a polygamous religious sect demand perfect obedience from followers, luring them into welfare fraud and stealing more than $2 million from American tax payers.

When an epidemic of teenage nicotine addiction breaks out across the country, some people ask whether Juul's founders are intent on saving lives or targeting the next generation.

A Minneapolis businessman buys big companies and makes himself rich in the process.

A man threatens investment professionals to make him rich; two judges get rich off of a secret deal to build juvenile detention centers.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his associates extort city contractors, abuse public funds, and turn the mayor's office into their own cash machine, costing the city millions.

A man attempts suicide and confesses to an extraordinary fraud that he perpetrated for the past two decades at a leading commodity futures brokerage.

A financial fraudster seeks deadly revenge after being placed behind bars for propositioning his assistant's daughter.

Authorities charge a nurse with murder after an illegal silicone injection leads to death and knock-off cosmetic injections paralyze four others.

A phony psychic scams a wealthy but lonely timber baron out of millions while her devious daughter pretends to be in love with him.

From luxury properties to an ostrich coat, the hard charging political insider uses his power and influence to fuel a multimillion-dollar mortgage and tax fraud.

Leaders of a polygamous religious sect demand perfect obedience from followers, luring them into welfare fraud and stealing more than $2 million from American tax payers.

When an epidemic of teenage nicotine addiction breaks out across the country, some people ask whether Juul's founders are intent on saving lives or targeting the next generation.

A Minneapolis businessman buys big companies and makes himself rich in the process.

A man threatens investment professionals to make him rich; two judges get rich off of a secret deal to build juvenile detention centers.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his associates extort city contractors, abuse public funds, and turn the mayor's office into their own cash machine, costing the city millions.

A man attempts suicide and confesses to an extraordinary fraud that he perpetrated for the past two decades at a leading commodity futures brokerage.