• Air date: 27 Jun '21 6 episodes
      American Greed, also called American Greed: Scams, Scoundrels, And Suckers and American Greed: Scams, Schemes, And Broken Dreams, is a weekly American "true crime" television documentary series aired on CNBC. The program is narrated by Stacy Keach Jr. and produced by Kurtis Productions. The program focuses on the stories behind some of the biggest corporate and white collar crimes in recent U.S. history; examples include WorldCom, HealthSouth and Tyco International. In addition, stories about common financial crimes that affect scores of everyday citizens are also featured. Other topics have included the story behind Nevada's infamous Mustang Ranch, and rise-and-fall pieces on such highly successful, high-profile businesspeople as boy band impresario Lou Pearlman and Mark Dreier. The series has also produced specials on subjects like Bernie Madoff's life behind bars, and how organized crime groups earn money. In season four, the show covered stories including high-profile cases such as...
  • List of Episodes (6)
    • 1. Inside El Chapos Empire

      27 Jun '21
      Few are familiar with the betrayal that helped land Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, a billionaire drug lord and for years the world’s most wanted man, in prison; the Flores twins earned El Chapo’s trust and then helped the Feds put him away for life.
    • 2. The Con in Congress

      28 Jun '21
    • 3. Confessions of a Scam Artist

      05 Jul '21
    • 4. The Imposters

      07 Jul '21
    • 5. Burned by Greed

      07 Jul '21
    • 6. A Father's Fraud

      12 Jul '21
      Karl Karlsen is a hardworking man with what seems to be a terrible streak of bad luck, as his wife and son both die in accidents nearly 20 years apart; Karl has a secret: their suspicious deaths have been keeping his bank account full.