American Crimes

TV cameras are there when armed bank robbers take hostages at a large, international bank; police don't realize the robbery only masks a more spectacular heist taking place right under their feet.

When a violent gang of bank robbers executes a perfect heist, cops don't realize that one of the terrified bank tellers is actually the mastermind behind it all.

A model bank employee pulls off the second-biggest cash heist in history when he stuffs a work van with $17 million in untraceable cash and flees to Mexico, only to be betrayed by his partners when greed fuels a murder plot.

Four clean-cut college students risk it all to become super-thieves by targeting $12 million in rare books in a brash daylight heist that baffles the cops hunting them.

The best bank robbers in American history hatch an ingenious plan to steal 30 million from a rumored Nixon slush fund, sparking the biggest FBI manhunt since the Kennedy assassination.

A report on corporate espionage is estimated to cost United States companies over $13 billion a year.

Inside the high-tech underworld of media piracy: individuals accused of ripping off music, movies and games.

How the lucrative underworld of health care fraud can put peoples money, health and lives at risk; businessmen who sell phony insurance policies.

Criminals look to make big money in the art world through home invasions, museum thefts and forgeries.

Rogue pharmacies and strong prescription medicine in the wrong hands cause tragic outcomes; the problem of prescription-drug abuse.

Authorities say synthetic drugs are an industry earning as much as $5 billion a year; critics assert the deadly but legal product is being sold directly to kids.

Car theft rings that operate as global enterprises, exporting stolen luxury cars to Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.

Going undercover from China to Chinatown to reveal the latest trends in fakes which have gone far beyond designer bags.

Carl Quintanilla investigates the counterfeit goods industry, which brings in billions every year.

Young girls line the streets of Mexico; sex houses litter Midwest neighborhoods; U.S. immigrants are exploited.

Criminal networks of thieves break into everything and cash in on a fortune online, at flea markets and on the shelves of stores.

The multibillion-dollar business of illegal gambling; online wagering; the debate over legalizing gambling.

A report on corporate espionage is estimated to cost United States companies over $13 billion a year.

Inside the high-tech underworld of media piracy: individuals accused of ripping off music, movies and games.

How the lucrative underworld of health care fraud can put peoples money, health and lives at risk; businessmen who sell phony insurance policies.

Criminals look to make big money in the art world through home invasions, museum thefts and forgeries.

Rogue pharmacies and strong prescription medicine in the wrong hands cause tragic outcomes; the problem of prescription-drug abuse.

Authorities say synthetic drugs are an industry earning as much as $5 billion a year; critics assert the deadly but legal product is being sold directly to kids.

Car theft rings that operate as global enterprises, exporting stolen luxury cars to Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.

Going undercover from China to Chinatown to reveal the latest trends in fakes which have gone far beyond designer bags.

Carl Quintanilla investigates the counterfeit goods industry, which brings in billions every year.

Young girls line the streets of Mexico; sex houses litter Midwest neighborhoods; U.S. immigrants are exploited.

Criminal networks of thieves break into everything and cash in on a fortune online, at flea markets and on the shelves of stores.

The multibillion-dollar business of illegal gambling; online wagering; the debate over legalizing gambling.