art fraud

The podcast 'Forged' investigates one of the largest art fraud cases in Canadian history, in which more than 1,000 forged works were attributed to celebrated Ojibwe artist Norval Morrisseau and sold for enormous sums.

Lou Pearlman, creator of Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, orchestrated a 20-year Ponzi scheme defrauding investors of over $300 million through fake companies and falsified documents before his 2007 arrest.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist is an unsolved 1990 art robbery in Boston, where two men posing as police officers stole 13 artworks worth an estimated $500 million.

Ruja Ignatova founded OneCoin in 2014, promising investors astronomical returns through what she claimed was a revolutionary cryptocurrency. Billions were defrauded from millions of victims worldwide before she vanished from public view in October 2017. The FBI has been searching for her ever since and added her to its Ten Most Wanted list in 2022.

A Stuttgart-based artist and an ambitious reporter defrauded the world with 60 forged Hitler diaries for 9.3 million DM. The case is called the greatest postwar fraud.

On March 18, 1990, two men posing as police officers executed what the FBI calls history's largest known art theft at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Thirteen masterpieces worth approximately $500 million vanished in a single night—and have never been recovered.

Rebecca Jarvis hosts The Dropout, an ABC News true crime podcast that chronicles Elizabeth Holmes' federal criminal fraud trial over Theranos, the blood-testing company she founded. Through never-before-aired depositions and exclusive interviews, the series examines how Holmes allegedly defrauded investors and patients.