American Crimes

A man steals millions from rich wine clients, and spends the money on fast cars and faster hookups, until he himself falls prey to a scheme.

Scammers blow up a house for insurance money, but end up engulfing dozens of homes in flames and killing a young couple.

Inside the rise and near-collapse of WeWork, the startup co-founded by its former CEO, Adam Neumann, who mesmerizes venture capitalists with grandiose promises, even though WeWork turns out to be a traditional real estate leasing business.

T.R. Wright -- the architect of what's been called the wildest insurance fraud scheme Texas has ever seen -- shares his almost-too-crazy-to-be-true story with American Greed.

Karl Karlsen is a hardworking man with what seems to be a terrible streak of bad luck, as his wife and son both die in accidents nearly 20 years apart; Karl has a secret: their suspicious deaths have been keeping his bank account full.

A former weatherman claiming to be an undercover spy infiltrates Washington's intelligence circles where he collects millions with his tales of running a top-secret national security operation for the CIA.

Mutual Benefits buys life insurance policies from AIDS patients, the chronically ill and seniors and fraudulently resells them as low risk investments to clients.

A former bank robber makes millions by promoting musicians; a man's fake fine wine storage business.

Lee Farkas invents fake loans and funnels millions in a scam that leaves thousands jobless and leads to one of the largest bank failures in America.

The story of Milwaukee crime boss Michael Lock who leaves a murder trail on his way to bilking borrowers and lenders out of $2 million.

A group of wannabe-celebs make off with millions from Hollywood's rich and famous.

The $10 million king of counterfeit money lives it up.

A man claims to be reformed after serving seven years in prison for turning his carpet cleaning company into a multimillion-dollar scam.

Billy McFarland organizes the Fyre Festival in the Bahamas, selling thousands of tickets on the strength of a social media pitch that results in a disastrous music event that goes up in smoke.

Trash-talking reality star Scott Menaged ("Property Wars") buys up hundreds of foreclosures in Phoenix, then his moneylender discovers that Menaged is a fraud, and the consequences are deadly.

A former weatherman claiming to be an undercover spy infiltrates Washington's intelligence circles where he collects millions with his tales of running a top-secret national security operation for the CIA.

Mutual Benefits buys life insurance policies from AIDS patients, the chronically ill and seniors and fraudulently resells them as low risk investments to clients.

A former bank robber makes millions by promoting musicians; a man's fake fine wine storage business.

Lee Farkas invents fake loans and funnels millions in a scam that leaves thousands jobless and leads to one of the largest bank failures in America.

The story of Milwaukee crime boss Michael Lock who leaves a murder trail on his way to bilking borrowers and lenders out of $2 million.

A group of wannabe-celebs make off with millions from Hollywood's rich and famous.

The $10 million king of counterfeit money lives it up.

A man claims to be reformed after serving seven years in prison for turning his carpet cleaning company into a multimillion-dollar scam.

Billy McFarland organizes the Fyre Festival in the Bahamas, selling thousands of tickets on the strength of a social media pitch that results in a disastrous music event that goes up in smoke.

Trash-talking reality star Scott Menaged ("Property Wars") buys up hundreds of foreclosures in Phoenix, then his moneylender discovers that Menaged is a fraud, and the consequences are deadly.

A former weatherman claiming to be an undercover spy infiltrates Washington's intelligence circles where he collects millions with his tales of running a top-secret national security operation for the CIA.

Mutual Benefits buys life insurance policies from AIDS patients, the chronically ill and seniors and fraudulently resells them as low risk investments to clients.

A former bank robber makes millions by promoting musicians; a man's fake fine wine storage business.

Lee Farkas invents fake loans and funnels millions in a scam that leaves thousands jobless and leads to one of the largest bank failures in America.