finance documentary

Killer Ratings is a Netflix docuseries about Wallace Souza, a Brazilian TV host and politician accused of ordering murders to boost his own crime show's ratings.

Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga is a Netflix documentary about the January 2021 GameStop short squeeze, when Reddit's wallstreetbets traders took on Wall Street hedge funds.

Kareem Serageldin, a Credit Suisse executive, was the only major Wall Street banker jailed in the U.S. for conduct linked to the 2008 financial crisis, convicted of securities fraud.

The Centra Tech fraud case is a U.S. cryptocurrency securities fraud scheme in which three founders raised over $25 million through false claims and celebrity endorsements in 2017.

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.

Bank of Credit and Commerce International collapsed in July 1991 following massive fraud, money laundering, and corruption spanning 73 countries. Losses are estimated at up to $20 billion USD.

Between 2007 and 2015, billions of euros in suspicious transactions passed through Danske Bank's Estonian branch. A whistleblower raised the alarm and was ignored. The fallout cost the bank over $2 billion and sent employees to prison.

On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy—the largest in U.S. history. The 160-year-old investment bank, once the fourth-largest in America, carried $639 billion in assets and $613 billion in liabilities. Its failure set off a chain reaction that would erase nearly $10 trillion in global stock value and reshape financial regulation worldwide.

Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical executive who became infamous for raising drug prices 4,000%, was convicted of securities fraud in 2017 and sentenced to seven years in federal prison. He was released early in May 2022 after serving roughly four years.

More than 1,000 savings and loan institutions failed across the United States between the late 1970s and early 1990s, wiping out over half a trillion dollars in assets and leaving American taxpayers with a bill exceeding $124 billion—one of the costliest financial catastrophes in modern history.

Volkswagen agreed to pay up to $14.7 billion in October 2016 to settle allegations that it deceived millions of consumers and the U.S. government by installing software that helped nearly 590,000 diesel vehicles pass emissions tests they couldn't legitimately pass on the road.

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.