American Greed
TVPG
Newsmagazine
Docudrama
Crime
A dissection of the dark side of the American Dream, a survey of how far some people go to become rich, no matter the cost to themselves and those around them.
Cast & Crew
Upcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Wednesday, November 13
Mike The Situation Sorrentino
Season 13 • Episode 13
Mike The Situation Sorrentino flaunts washboard abs and a party boy image.
Thursday, November 14
Ea$y Being Green; Stealing the Silver Medal
Season 9 • Episode 3
A con man runs a fake green energy business and collects millions by scamming major corporations.
Friday, November 15
Lawyers, Lies, and a Housewife
Season 15 • Episode 24
Personal injury attorney Tom Girardi faced lawsuits for stealing his clients' settlement money.
Friday, November 15
William Erpenbeck Real Estate Home Wrecker
Season 6 • Episode 9
The collapse of Erpenbeck wreaks financial havoc for area home buyers, subcontractors and banks.
Friday, November 15
Solomon Dwek: The Jersey Score
Season 6 • Episode 16
Solomon Dwek becomes an informant for the FBI in the biggest case of corruption in New Jersey.
Friday, November 15
The Fake Prince's Royal Scam
Season 13 • Episode 7
An outlandish con artist poses as a Saudi royal to cheat investors out of millions.
Friday, November 15
The Imposter
Season 14 • Episode 10
A private eye digs into Ed Shin's past and finds something horrifying.
Friday, November 15
The Car Con
Season 8 • Episode 11
Darain and Cory Atkinson start a business selling vehicle service contracts.
Saturday, November 16
Fine Art: A Portrait of Fraud
Season 6 • Episode 7
A live auction show turns out to be nothing more than con artists selling fake art.
Saturday, November 16
Tom Petters: Generous With Other People's Money
Season 6 • Episode 5
A Minneapolis businessman buys big companies and makes himself rich in the process.
Saturday, November 16
Shawn Merriman: The Mormon Madoff
Season 6 • Episode 13
Shawn Merriman pleads guilty to mail fraud and is sentenced to more than 12 years in prison.
Saturday, November 16
Detroit "Crime Boss" Mayor
Season 8 • Episode 6
A former Detroit mayor and his friends abuse public funds and cost the city millions.
Saturday, November 16
The Playboy of Indiana
Season 9 • Episode 2
A man with a multimillion-dollar yacht and 80 sports cars runs a $200 million fraud.
Saturday, November 16
The Cash King
Season 9 • Episode 5
A man sets his sights on strip clubs, real estate, Iraqi currency, diamonds and mind control.
Saturday, November 16
Diagnosis: Temptress Health Scam
Season 13 • Episode 8
Entrepreneur Keisha Williams scams with medical money-making technology that never materializes.
Saturday, November 16
Confessions of a Scam Artist
Season 14 • Episode 9
T.R. Wright shares his almost-too-crazy-to-be-true story with American Greed.
Saturday, November 16
Burned by Greed
Season 14 • Episode 11
How multibillion-dollar company Pacific Gas & Electric comes to repeatedly kill its customers.
Sunday, November 17
Loan Scam: Money for Nothing; Hawaiian Punched: Fraud in Paradise
Season 6 • Episode 8
A sting operation brings down a Denver businessman; a con man puts $30 million in his own pocket.
Sunday, November 17
Nevin Shapiro: Major League Fraud
Season 6 • Episode 3
Nevin Shapiro, a football booster and a fixture on the Miami social scene, creates a Ponzi scheme.
Friday, November 22
Junk in a Box; Been Caught Stealing
Season 11 • Episode 10
Cancer charities that give back little; a family brings in millions shoplifting.
Friday, November 22
Neighborhood Inferno
Season 11 • Episode 17
Scammers blow up a house for insurance money, but end up engulfing dozens of homes in flames.
Friday, November 22
Top Gun of Fraud
Season 11 • Episode 20
A man burns through $52 million from a trust he was hired to protect, buying helicopters and more.
Friday, November 22
How WeWork Went Wild
Season 15 • Episode 3
Inside the rise and near-collapse of WeWork, the startup co-founded by Adam Neumann.
Friday, November 22
Fake Heiress Cons High Society
Season 13 • Episode 14
An artsy German heiress Anna Delvey makes a splash in Downtown New York's social scene.
Saturday, November 23
Medical Gloves With Holes
Season 10 • Episode 15
A fraudster in promises to build a medical glove factory and steals millions from investors.
Saturday, November 23
The Sky's the Limit
Season 9 • Episode 16
A brash New York stock broker gets sober and re-invents himself as an international power player.
Saturday, November 23
The Sky's the Limit
Season 9 • Episode 16
A brash New York stock broker gets sober and re-invents himself as an international power player.
Saturday, November 23
Friends Without Benefits
Season 9 • Episode 14
Mutual Benefits buys life insurance policies from the chronically ill and fraudulently resells them.
Saturday, November 23
Sick Profits; Hollywood Swinging
Season 10 • Episode 7
The Bay Medical Clinic scam; fraud operation Gigapix collects millions from would-be film producers.
Saturday, November 23
Sticky Fingers; Life in the Fraud Lane
Season 11 • Episode 6
An accountant conducts a check writing scam; a self-proclaimed financial wiz rips off investors.
Saturday, November 23
A Glamorous Showbiz Lie
Season 11 • Episode 12
A man convinces people that he is a movie producer and money management professional.
Saturday, November 23
The Busted Mogul
Season 15 • Episode 18
Rich with ambition, Lobsang Dargey catapults from odd jobs to real estate development.
Saturday, November 23
Preaching Pyramid Schemes
Season 15 • Episode 21
Marlon and LaShonda Moore are accused of exploiting vulnerable people during the pandemic.
Sunday, November 24
Ray Nagin: New Orleans Shakedown
Season 10 • Episode 1
The former New Orleans Mayor exploits the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina.
Sunday, November 24
A Con Man's Deadly Revenge
Season 9 • Episode 1
A man and his brothers run a massive $40 million rare coin con until they're caught.
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