Oh My Fraud

Caleb and Zach discuss the classic Mel Brooks satire, "The Producers."

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Stories of brash conmen convincing people to buy some of the world’s most recognizable landmarks

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Music: "Offenbach Can Can / Infernal Gallop" provided by Gregor Quendel / Classicals.de
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Sources:
Introduction:
Chick-fil-A Bilked for $80,000 in Fake Mac-and-Cheese Refunds, Police Say [NYT]

Act I: 
Arthur Furguson [Wikipedia]
Brooklyn Bridge [Wikipedia]
George C. Parker [Wikipedia]
Bird's-Eye View of the Great New York and Brooklyn Bridge and Grand Display of Fire Works on Opening Night [Wikipedia]
FAILURE OF J. LLOYD HAIGH.; EMBARRASSED BY HIS WIRE CONTRACT WITH THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE TRUSTEES [NYT]
J. LLOYD HAIGH ARRESTED; CHARGED WITH FORGERY IN THE THIRD DEGREE. [NYT]
For You, Half Price [NYT]

Act II: 
Eiffel Tower [Wikipedia]
Victor Lustig [Wikipedia]
Victor Lustig [Biography via Wayback Machine]
The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice. [Smithsonian]
The Smoothest Con Man That Ever Lived [Smithsonian]
The long con of underworld grifter ‘Count’ Victor Lustig [The Mob Museum]

In the 1990s, a blimp enthusiast with a checkered business record inexplicably dominates pop music by assembling not one but two boy bands.

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SOURCES:
Lou Pearlman [Wikipedia]
Baron Blimp Lou Pearlman, head of Airship International Ltd., is fulfilling adolescent dreams of glory [Sports Illustrated]
Lou Pearlman, Boy Band Impresario, Blimp Tycoon, and Bunco Artist, Dead at 62 [Slate]
How Lou Pearlman used Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC to lure people into massive Ponzi scheme [ABC News]
*NSYNC, O-Town members on learning the truth about Lou Pearlman [ABC News]
*NSYNC vs. Backstreet Boys: The True Story Behind Their Epic Boy Band Rivalry [E! Online]
Lance Bass on the 'NSync and the Backstreet Boys rivalry: 'The animosity was real' [Yahoo Entertainment]
Backstreet Boys Turn 25: Untold Stories [Entertainment Tonight]
Lou Pearlman Ran 1 of America's Biggest Ponzi Schemes [A&E]
Pop Dreams and Ponzi Schemes [Schneider Downs]
The "Con" in Trans Continental: Lou Pearlman [Gavin P. Smith]
AS HE RAN, CASE WAS BUILT [Tampa Bay Times]
IN JAIL AND ON THE PHONE, LOU PEARLMAN REVERSES THE CHARGES [Tampa Bay Times]
Victims who lost millions in Pearlman Ponzi scheme could recover a pittance [WFTV]
Backstreet Boys' Lou Pearlman's Prison Interview: My Ponzi Scheme Was Smarter Than Madoff's [The Hollywood Reporter]
Lou Pearlman Dead: Remembering the Ponzi Schemer Who Spawned the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync and More [The Hollywood Reporter]
Lou Pearlman, disgraced creator of 'NSync and Backstreet Boys, dies [NBC News]
Netflix's 'Dirty Pop' exposes Lou Pearlman's deceptive role in 'NSYNC and Backstreet Boys' fame [MSNBC]
The True Story of Lou Pearlman in 'Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam' [Netflix Tudum]
The True Story Behind Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam [TIME]
10 Most Shocking Reveals From Netflix's Dirty Pop [Screen Rant]
The Biggest Revelations From Dirty Pop [Den of Geek]
Mad About the Boys [Vanity Fair]
Inside the rise and fall of the record store chain Tower Records [Clicktrack]
Viewpoint: The Backstreet Boys phenomenon [BYU Daily Universe]
Remembering Lou Pearlman: The Ponzi Schemer Who Spawned the Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC & More [Billboard]
The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story [YouTube Originals]
The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History — Tyler Gray

To help his down-and-out Ohio hometown, an unassuming entrepreneur builds a fast-growing chain of discount drugstores. 

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Sources:
Phar-Mor [Wikipedia]
Michael I. Monus [Wikipedia]
World Basketball League [Wikipedia]
Edward J. DeBartolo Sr. [Wikipedia]
PricewaterhouseCoopers [Wikipedia]
How to Steal $500 Million [PBS Frontline]
How to Steal $500 Million — Transcript [PBS Frontline]
Mickey's Secret Life [Newsweek]
Rockies born of Monus' work, but he never saw his baby grow up [ESPN]
Souls of the departed haunt Youngstown [ESPN]
How Phar-Mor Came Tumbling Down [Business Journal Daily]
Phar-Mor Reorganizes as Monus Goes to Prison [Business Journal Daily]
Jury Disagrees on All 126 Counts Against Fired Phar-Mor President [Deseret News]
Convicted Drugstore Embezzler Now Accused of Jury Tampering [Deseret News]

The Catholic Church’s financial entanglements draw scrutiny after a banker is found hanging under a bridge.

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(00:00) - Body Under Blackfriars

(00:47) - Welcome to Oh My Fraud

(04:43) - Meet Roberto Calvi

(07:10) - Vatican Bank Ties

(12:55) - Offshore Web And Scrutiny

(17:47) - Circular Money And Conviction

(22:35) - Flight And Bridge Death

(26:17) - Bigger Web Vatican P2

(33:04) - Collapse And Missing Billions

(39:24) - Murder Mystery And Trials

(41:42) - Lessons And Wrap Up

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SOURCES:
Roberto Calvi [Wikipedia] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Calvi
Banco Ambrosiano [Wikipedia] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Ambrosiano
Michele Sindona [Wikipedia] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Sindona
Propaganda Due [Wikipedia] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due
Licio Gelli [Wikipedia] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licio_Gelli
Scandal at the Pope's Bank [TIME, July 1982] — https://time.com/archive/6856828/scandal-at-the-popes-bank/
Italy: The Great Vatican Bank Mystery [TIME, September 1982] — https://time.com/archive/6697494/italy-the-great-vatican-bank-mystery/
The Vatican Hiding Behind the Walls [TIME, March 1987] — https://time.com/archive/6708575/the-vatican-hiding-behind-the-walls/
Four indicted in '82 death of 'God's banker' [NBC News, 2005] — https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7546141
All acquitted in 'God's banker' murder trial [NBC News, 2007] — https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna19075395
23 years on, five stand trial for death of 'God's banker' [Irish Times, 2005] — https://www.irishtimes.com/news/23-years-on-five-stand-trial-for-death-of-god-s-banker-1.502326
Roberto Calvi: Who Killed God's Banker? [OwlCation/The CrimeWire] — https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Who-Killed-Gods-Banker
The mysterious death of 'God's Banker' [Crime+Investigation UK] — https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/articles/roberto-calvis-mysterious-death
Roberto Calvi [Forensic Cold Case Murder Investigation] — https://www.forensic-access.co.uk/cold-cases/roberto-calvi/
The Vatican Bank Scandal [Christianity Today, 1982] — https://www.christianitytoday.com/1982/09/vatican-bank-scandal/
Vatican Bank mired in laundering scandal [NBC News/AP, 2010] — https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna40628315
Liquidators and creditors of the failed Banco Ambrosiano [UPI Archives, 1984] — https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/05/25/Liquidators-and-creditors-of-the-failed-Banco-Ambrosiano-of/8243454305600/