This week, comedian and writer Laurie Kilmartin joins the show to discuss Jeff Carpoff, a free-wheeling drug dealer who rose to become a millionaire by dealing in solar generators that were sold everywhere from NASCAR to Hollywood. Stay Schemin’!
This episode was recorded on Tues. March 26th, 2024.
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Research by Kaelyn Brandt.
SOURCES:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/06/dc-solar-power-ponzi-scheme-scandal/673782/
https://robbreport.com/lifestyle/news/jeff-carpoff-fraud-solar-panels-1234842072/
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This week, Kimia Behpoornia (Atypical, Reboot) joins Laci to discuss how the FBI was looking into a woman who spent considerable time at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate, claiming to be an heiress. Plus, a manga artist was scammed out of 75 million yen by someone who claimed to be Mark Ruffalo. Stay Schemin’! (Originally Released 10/10/2022)
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Research by Kaelyn Brandt.
Sources:
https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/anna-de-rothschild-trump-mar-a-lago-security-fbi-investigation/
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/inventing-anna-ukrainian-born-scammer-posed-with-trump-and-wandered-mar-a-lago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11151329/PICTURED-Ex-husband-Ukrainian-posed-Rothschild-infiltrate-Mar-Lago-meet-Trump.html
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14722566
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The incomparable and hilarious Danny Pudi (Community, Going Dutch, Mythic Quest) joins Laci on today’s episode to talk about the ultimate discount: the five-finger discount. Laci entertains cousin Danny with tales of Lululemon looters, the TikTok Target thief, and a private island owner who stole from K-Mart. Danny shares his altar boy church scam, while Laci and the crew lose their minds trying to name a buttercrunch toffee chocolate commonly found at Ross stores. Plus, Danny discloses his passion for healthy floor grass and finding balance in daily life. Stay schemin'!
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Research by Kathryn Doyle
SOURCES
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/business/lululemon-theft-connecticut-couple.html
https://connecticut.news12.com/danbury-couple-charged-in-ring-suspected-of-stealing-1-million-in-lululemon-clothes
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/local-news/couple-arrested-in-minnesota-alleged-to-be-behind-1m-lululemon-theft-conspiracy/
https://westfaironline.com/fairfield/tiktokers-from-danbury-busted-in-1m-shoplifting-refund-scheme/?print=print
https://www.fastcompany.com/91235908/a-tiktok-influencer-was-arrested-for-shoplifting-in-florida-after-posting-a-video-showing-her-target-haul
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/us/tiktok-influencer-shoplifting-target.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47868321
https://www.flkeysnews.com/news/local/article228779659.html
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What’s poppin’ con-gregation? This week, JB Smoove joins us to discuss an Italian artist who sold an invisible statue for thousands of dollars. Plus, a Florida man is charged with impersonating a doctor while injecting botox into patients while drinking. Stay schemin’! (Originally Released 07/05/2021)
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Research by Kaelyn Brandt.
Sources:
https://www.republicworld.com/entertainment-news/whats-viral/artist-sells-invisible-sculpture-for-over-rs-13-lakh-says-the-vacuum-is-nothing.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/06/04/artist-sells-invisible-sculpture-adtech-sells-the-same-thing/?sh=1676ed0b67a0
https://hypebeast.com/2021/6/salvatore-garau-lo-sono-invisible-sculpture-18k-usd-sale
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This week, Jordan Carlos joins us to discuss how, during the 1970s, the FBI hired Mel Weinberg, a career con man, to tackle some of Washington’s biggest politicians. This story inspired the movie American Hustle! Laci and Jordan dive into growing up in Dallas near the same churches, driving a Ford, and the con of writing ad commercials. Plus, Late Night Talk Show Host John Oliver is scamming the scammers…Congress, that is. Stay schemin’!
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Research done by Kaelyn Brandt
SOURCES
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/last-week-tonight-john-oliver-recap-season-9-episode-7-congress-data-1335598/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/obituaries/mel-weinberg-dead-abscam-informant.html
https://www.nj.com/inside-jersey/2013/11/jersey_hustle_the_real-life_story_of_abscam.html
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/abscam
https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/expulsion/140HarrisonWilliams_expulsion.htm
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It’s the iCarly, Scam Goddess crossover we’ve all been waiting for! We got Miranda Cosgrove and Nathan Kress discussing Cassie Chadwick, who at the turn of the 20th century became one of the US’ foremost accomplished fraudsters. Plus, a Florida man is charged with 114 counts of various fraud, after he was caught in an alleged decades-long scheme to defraud Florida State’s Division of Unclaimed Property. Stay Schemin’! (Originally Released 6/14/2022)
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Nathan Kress: @nathankress
Research by Kaelyn Brandt.
Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-high-priestess-of-fraudulent-finance-45/
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/11/22/the-turbulent-life-of-cassie-chadwick-the-impostor-who-claimed-to-be-carnegies-illegitimate-daughter/
https://www.wctv.tv/2021/07/13/man-faces-114-charges-alleged-2-million-unclaimed-property-fraud-scheme/
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CON-gregation, US Rep. George Santos' sentencing has been delayed so he can keep making podcasts! What?! Here's a refresher on this fraudster with a legitimate podcast host Brittany Luse (NPR’s It’s Been A Minute A Minute) joining Laci to discuss the disgraced former CON-gressman, who is making history as the most fraudulent politician to have been elected to Congress. Plus, a man who has been using Chance the Rapper’s name to scam two victims out of tens of thousands of dollars has been arrested. Stay Schemin!
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Brittany Luse: @bmluse
Research done by Kaelyn Brandt.
SOURCES
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/accused-con-artist-arrested-after-cbs-2-investigation/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/nyregion/george-santos-donors-fund-raising.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/01/13/george-santos-everything-the-embattled-congressman-has-lied-about/?sh=357d28854557
https://nypost.com/2022/12/26/rep-elect-george-santos-admits-fabricating-key-details-of-his-bio/
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/george-santos-the-luckiest-liar-in-politics.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/13/nyregion/george-santos-republicans-lies.html
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2023-01-14/george-santos-election-fraud
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/17/1149491284/martin-luther-king-mlk-statue-boston-consternation-laughs-reaction-coretta
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What’s poppin’ con-gregation? Jonathan Van Ness joins us to discuss how Margaret Keane didn’t know that her husband, Walter Keane, was taking credit for her famous “Big Eyed” children paintings popularized during the 1950s and 60s. Plus, find out how one woman found a stack of 70 Chase bank credit cards in her mailbox. Stay Schemin’! (Originally Released 7/26/2022)
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Sources:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/outintheopen/deception-effects-1.4628704/how-margaret-keane-helped-deceive-the-art-world-1.4629030
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/26/art-fraud-margaret-walter-keane-tim-burton-biopic
https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/margaret-and-walter-keane-art-fraud
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Legendary comedian Margaret Cho joins the CONgregation as a self-proclaimed deacon. Margaret helps Laci uncover the surprising connection between Prince, Michael Jackson, and the art of smooth talk—and how it all leads to wire fraud scammer Tanya Smith, who, to her chagrin, is the last person you’d expect to pull one over on the FBI. Laci and Margaret also dive into a "purr-fectly" peculiar lesson about buying a new pet with gift cards and so much more. Stay schemin'!
Check out Margaret's new single "Lucky Gift" and tickets to her Live and Livid stand-up tour are on sale now at https://margaretcho.com/tour/
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Research by Kate Doyle.
SOURCES
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/books/review/never-saw-me-coming-tanya-smith.html
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/22/tanya-smith-stole-40m-evaded-fbi-broke-out-prison
https://www.instagram.com/neversawmecomingbook/reel/C_egcnYPTTT/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zfS7IYWx-k
https://www.chicagotribune.com/1986/09/24/twin-sisters-found-guilty-of-fraud/
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Comedian Caleb Hearon (Jurassic World Dominion) returns to discuss Norman Baker, a vaudevillian, business-owner, and radio-show host in the 1800’s who claimed to have a cure for cancer. Plus, a Hong Kong student has been arrested after participating in an elaborate kidnapping to scam her parents out of ransom money. Stay schemin’! (Originally Released 10/24/2022)
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Research by Kaelyn Brandt.
SOURCES:
https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/news/hong-kong/article/3194630/student-arrested-hong-kong-role-fake-kidnapping-scam
https://fsuspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2022/06/01/norman-baker-and-the-naked-truth/
https://historycollection.com/norman-baker-man-claimed-cure-cancer/
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/norman-baker-4885/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charlatan-ozarks-still-looms-over-haunted-crescent-hotel-180973743/
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This New Years Eve we thought we'd revisit a classic ep so at midnight you can count down all the ways that so-called civil rights activist Jeffrey Shaun King has continued his scamming ways. Also, a worker in Chile accidentally got paid 286 times his salary. Stay schemin’! (Originally Released 07/18/2022)
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Ashley Ray: @theashleyray
Research by Kaelyn Brandt.
SOURCES
https://www.blackenterprise.com/shaun-king-daughter-kendi-has-a-word-family-move/
https://www.blackenterprise.com/calvin-crime-black-twitter-rips-shaun-king-after-he-begs-for-money-for-new-fashion-line/
https://twitter.com/MrErnestOwens/status/1407733142769831944?s=20&t=XD6Se6jkQmSc6OPoI2L_bw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwxI_DE4S0A
https://jezebel.com/samaria-rice-asks-shaun-king-accused-grifter-how-the-1847160251
https://www.blackenterprise.com/grifter-or-nah-shaun-king-lives-it-up-in-luxe-jersey-estate-while-begging-for-money-for-his-wife/
https://www.yahoo.com/video/shaun-king-asks-assistance-move-153036273.html
https://www.newsonyx.com/update-shaun-king-accused-of-clothing-line-scam/
https://scoop.upworthy.com/his-company-accidentally-paid-him-286-times-his-salary-so-he-promptly-resigned-and-disappeared
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