Woman at center of sprawling Minnesota fraud case gets nearly 42-year prison sentence

Mary Carole McDonnell transitioned from a successful television producer to a high-profile fugitive after allegedly orchestrating a massive financial fraud. Through her company, Bellum Entertainment, ...

26 Jul 40min

The episode details the federal prosecution and sentencing of Ruthia He, the former CEO of Done Global, for orchestrating a massive telemedicine-based drug distribution scheme. By utilizing Silicon Va...

12 Jul 47min

The episode details the meteoric rise and spectacular fall of Sam Bankman-Fried and his cryptocurrency exchange, FTX. It explores how Bankman-Fried leveraged the philosophy of Effective Altruism and h...

12 Jul 45min

The provided transcript recounts the criminal career of an individual who transitioned from legal debt collection into a high-stakes credit card and identity theft scam. The narrator details his sophi...

9 Jul 43min

This episode provides a transcript of a interview where a former criminal recounts his life story, beginning with a juvenile robbery at age twelve. He explains how early incarceration served as a "cri...

9 Jul 59min

This Bloomberg Originals transcript details the criminal case of Christina Chapman, an Arizona woman who facilitated a sophisticated North Korean cyber scheme. Chapman operated a "laptop farm" from he...

7 Jul 45min

This source describes the rise of a global sextortion empire based in the Philippines, allegedly masterminded by a woman named Maria Caparas. The criminal operation utilizes social engineering on plat...

7 Jul 34min

This interview features Denisa White, popularly known as Bella Barcode, who details her transition from a high-stakes criminal lifestyle to a legitimate career as an author and entrepreneur. During he...

6 Jul 51min