Josh Kovaks lleva diez años como encargado de los pisos más lujosos y más vigilados de todo Nueva York. Nada le pasa desapercibido. Arthur Shaw es un pez gordo de Wall Street que está en arresto domiciliario en el piso más ostentoso del edificio después de ser acusado del robo de dos mil millones de dólares a sus inversores. Y de estos últimos, ¿quién va a sufrir más? El personal de “The Tower”, que le entregó su plan de pensiones. Sólo faltan unos días para que Shaw se salga con la suya. Josh y su gente deciden recurrir a Slide, un delincuente de poca monta, para conseguir lo imposible: robar los 20 millones de dólares que deben estar escondidos en el piso donde Shaw permanece vigilado por un equipo del FBI encabezado por la agente especial Claire Denham.
Tras dieciséis años de mentiras, Bernie Madoff está harto. A lo largo de una década y media, ha estafado y embaucado a todos los inversores potenciales que se le han puesto a tiro, erigiendo una gigantesca estafa piramidal que, al estallar, deja tras de sí decenas de víctimas. Entre ellas, la mujer de Bernie, Ruth, y sus dos hijos, Andrew y Mark. Adaptación del libro de Diana Henriques sobre el caso real del fraude de Bernard Madoff.
Part 2 picks up where the original film left off, with the program trying to recover from the devastation left by NCAA sanctions and scandals that had some calling for the school to drop football. The Hurricanes rose from those ashes to win another national championship, only to face new controversies when a booster used a Ponzi scheme to win favor with the program.
Ponzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in inventing the first fraud of modern times on a large scale, and inspired Bernard Madoff.
Nueva entrega de las aventuras de la loca abuela Madea (interpretada por su creador, Tyler Perry). En esta ocasión, su casa servirá como refugio dentro de un programa de protección de testigos. Un acaudalado banquero de Wall Street y su familia se trasladan a la casa de Madea por este motivo...
Alister, the leader of a young sales force who deals in cutlery, appears to be a passionate entrepreneur but it turns out he is a pawn, lost in a multilevel marketing scheme.
En 2014, salió a la luz una nueva criptomoneda: OneCoin. En eventos masivos que parecían congregaciones religiosas, su carismática fundadora, Ruja Ignatova, afirmaba que estaba destinada a convertirse en la mayor moneda digital del mundo y cambiaría el rumbo de la historia. Sin embargo, resultó ser una gran estafa piramidal. No había blockchain, ni sistema de pago, solo la promesa de retornos y beneficios por encima de lo estipulado. Una moneda que convertiría a los pobres en príncipes. En realidad, solo convirtió a Ruja Ignatova en la autoproclamada "Cryptoqueen". ¿Cómo logró Ignatova engañar a autoridades y clientes por igual? ¿Quién sabía qué y cuándo? Y lo más importante, ¿cómo logra OneCoin seguir operando?
A look at how one investigator spent ten years trying to expose Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme that scammed an estimated $18 billion from investors.
Just days before Bernard Madoff captured headlines as the largest Ponzi schemer in U.S. history, Marc Dreier, a prominent Manhattan attorney, was arrested for orchestrating a massive fraud scheme that netted hundreds of millions of dollars from hedge funds. Brazen forgeries and impersonations branded the white collar crime spree remarkable. "Unraveled" is set in the purgatory of house arrest -- an Upper East Side penthouse -- where the Court has ordered Dreier confined until his sentencing day. The film weaves Dreier's struggle to prepare for the possibility of life imprisonment with first-person flashbacks, which reveal his audacious path of destruction. Destroyed by his own hubris, Dreier attempts to grasp his tragic unraveling. With unprecedented access, "Unraveled" exposes a mastermind of criminal deception.
Heists do not solely exist in the movies. These high profile schemes are elaborately planned, artful in their Machiavellian plotting, and so meticulously coordinated that they are often referred to as "the masterpieces of the confidence game". Often aimed at impossibly ambitious targets - casinos, jewelry stores, or famous museums - the masterminds behind these crimes are often heralded as the ingenious magicians of the underworld. The mystery and magnitude of these real crime stories sparks an undeniable interest for us innocent onlookers - a sense of seduction, spectacle and entertainment.
Ripped Off: Madoff and the Scamming of America tells Madoff's story superbly, although it was put together before Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison without parole, so it's not quite complete—perhaps when he gets out, he can watch this DVD and fill in any gaps. There's a little bit of sensationalism here and there (and really, how could there not be? The man stole $65 billion!), but for the most part it's surprisingly levelheaded and, yes, even historical.
A polka kingdom crumbles in this documentary tracing the rise and fall of dubious duple meter master Jan Lewan. A Grammy-nominated polka superstar who defected from Poland to the West in the 1970s, Lewan created a musical empire that made him an internationally-recognized figure. When scandal erupted and Lewan's shady dealings were revealed, fans couldn't believe that their hero had committed one of the largest polka-related financial crimes in history.