The BEST episodes of American Greed

#1 - Million Dollar Prison Kickback

Season 15 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/15/2022

Chris Epps charms his way from prison guard to the top post of Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner. Once in office, he siphons off millions in bribes and kickbacks.

#2 - Diagnosis: Temptress Health Scam

Season 13 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/13/2020

Entrepreneur Keisha Williams is really a high-rolling shopaholic with a taste for strip clubs and exotic travel; she takes investors for millions of dollars with a can't miss bid to secure a medical money-making technology that never materializes.

#3 - The Polygamist & The Bio Fuel Baron

Season 15 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/27/2022

CEO Jacob Kingston appears to be a rising star in Utah's fledgling biofuel industry, until a member of a secretive polygamist group called The Order reveals that Kingston is committing a 1.1 billion dollar fraud.

#4 - Social Media Scam Artists

Season 14 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/22/2021

Crowdfunded charities are supposed raise funds for good causes, but some are actually scams.

#5 - The Busted Mogul

Season 15 - Episode 18 - Aired 12/20/2022

Lobsang Dargey, a Tibetan Buddhist Monk, escapes Chinese oppression and claws his way to freedom in the U.S.; uneducated and broke, but rich with ambition, Dargey catapults from odd jobs to real estate development.

#6 - The Spy Who Conned Me

Season 15 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/1/2022

A former weatherman claiming to be an undercover spy infiltrates Washington’s intelligence circles, where he collects millions with his tales of running a top-secret operation for the CIA.

#7 - The Accused Crypto Couple

Season 15 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/18/2022

Estimated at over $4.5 billion, the largest heist in cryptocurrency history has been linked by authorities to a pair of unlikely suspects: Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein.

#8 - Financial Infidelity

Season 15 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/25/2022

Purported entrepreneur Antonio Mariot Wilson changes his name, pitch and act to play a series of roles to fleece unsuspecting investors for decades, including television star Jenifer Lewis.

#9 - Psychic Fiend’s Network

Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/12/2016

A wealthy timber baron is rolled by a phony psychic for $15 million while her daughter pretends to be in love with him.

#10 - Judgment of Terror

Season 13 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/9/2020

#11 - The Fall Of An Opioid Mogul

Season 14 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/8/2021

As the opioid epidemic destroys the lives of millions of Americans, billionaire drug mogul John Kapoor looks to cash in. His company, Insys, has its own brand of potentially deadly fentanyl.

#12 - Sholam Weiss

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/24/2010

Sholam Weiss is a bold and brazen dealmaker. He’s a consultant to con men and the brains behind one of the largest insurance scams in history. But Weiss doesn’t hide in the shadows. He’s attracted to music, gambling and women. Are these the fatal attractions that will do him in? American Greed profiles a multi-million dollar con!

#13 - The Mad Max of Wall Street

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/10/2010

Anthony Elgindy. He's young, self-assured... and loaded. He claims to be a crusader, fighting fraud on Wall Street. But, this so-called good guy is running an insider trading scam... and his partner is a crooked FBI agent. American Greed profiles "The Mad Max of Wall Street!"

#14 - A Family Vanishes

Season 14 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/15/2021

When all four members of the McStay family seemingly vanish into thin air, a yearslong quest for answers begins; a biker in the Mojave Desert finds the family members' bodies in shallow graves; a close friend of the family falls under suspicion.

#15 - Baby-Faced Drug Lords

Season 12 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/8/2018

Florida teenagers cash in on the opioid crisis, then they expand their operation, jeopardizing their lives of sex, drugs and money.

#16 - The House Flipping Reality Star Fraudster

Season 13 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/16/2019

Trash-talking reality star Scott Menaged ("Property Wars") buys up hundreds of foreclosures in Phoenix, then his money lender discovers that Menaged is a fraud, and the consequences are deadly.

#17 - Florida Rehab Gone Wild

Season 12 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/2/2018

Kenny Chatman runs a string of corrupt drug rehab facilities, stealing millions by keeping insured addicts hooked on drugs.

#18 - The Trials of Michael Avenatti

Season 14 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/18/2021

Michael Avenatti makes a splash as the litigator representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her dispute with Donald Trump...but it’s soon revealed that he has legal troubles of his own brewing.

#19 - Diagnosis: Blood Money / Chicago Jailbreak

Season 10 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/15/2016

A Michigan doctor treats cancer-free patients with poisonous chemotherapy while taking millions in payment; two Chicago-area bank robbers repel 17 stories to escape the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

#20 - Black Market Dirty Gold

Season 13 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/9/2019

Three Miami salesmen import billions of dollars worth of the precious metal from South America then later learn the gold has connections to drug cartels and organized crime.

#21 - Bextra / The Foreclosure Scammer

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/7/2010

(1) Pfizer designs Bextra, a painkiller, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) limits the use of Bextra. Pfizer, using shady and strong-arm tactics, distribute the pill outside of FDA regulations... and the law. (2) Jeanetta Standefor offers a way to help troubled homeowners... and make some extra money on the side. In truth, she's just using investor money to pay off older investors, and pocketing what's left for herself.

#22 - The Fake Housewife of Orange County

Season 12 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/27/2018

In sunny Laguna Beach, social climber Elizabeth Mulder finances her plastic surgery, Arabian horses, and ocean view real estate worth millions by swindling her best friends.

#23 - The Tran Organization: Blackjack Cheaters

Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/30/2012

Van Thu Tran is a sexy Vietnamese-American who knows how to beat the odds. She makes millions in casinos using one of the oldest tricks in the book … with a new high-tech twist. Find out how the notorious Tran gang brings down the house!

#24 - Crash for Cash

Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/27/2012

In the city of brotherly love, car wrecks piled up and auto insurance policies were treated like ATM machines. American Greed takes you inside a Philadelphia car insurance fraud ring where everybody got a piece of the action.

#25 - Online Dating Trap

Season 12 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/3/2018

Daylon Pierce is a ladies' man who claims to be a licensed stockbroker, wooing unsuspecting women through Internet dating sites. But when they hand over millions of dollars to this "investment expert," he robs them blind, parties his way through their money and breaks their hearts.