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Mr 10 Percent: The Suburban Dad Who Fleeced Global Soccer

He rode a mobility scooter through Central Park with a parrot on his shoulder. He also helped pull off one of the biggest financial scams in sports history. This is Chuck Blazer, the flamboyant soccer bureaucrat turned FBI informant whose corruption helped reveal criminal activity at FIFA — the organization responsible for world soccer, including the World Cup — from the inside.  Chameleon is a production of Campside Media and Audiochuck. Follow Chameleon on Instagram @chameleonpod [https://www.instagram.com/chameleonpod/?hl=en] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com [https://pcm.adswizz.com] for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Fetal Attraction: The Reality Star And The Woman He Wished He’d Never Met

When Clayton Echard’s season of The Bachelor ended, he thought the public humiliation was behind him. Then a woman he barely knew claimed she was carrying his twins — something which, according to Clayton, was impossible. As the story exploded online sleuths begins pulling at loose threads. What they uncovered led to allegations of deception, forgery, and a pattern stretching back years. Listen to Stephani’s podcast Love Trapped [https://www.google.com/url?q=https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/love-trapped/id1878220033&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1780346005559518&usg=AOvVaw1ZA1L7a_4IwZAzKTZDBaBG]"   Chameleon is a production of Campside Media and Audiochuck. Follow Chameleon on Instagram @chameleonpod [https://www.instagram.com/chameleonpod/?hl=en] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com [https://pcm.adswizz.com] for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Laundry Man: The Wild Ride of the Pig Butcher's Banker

A swashbuckling South African expat, Benjamin Mauerberger, rose up as a boiler-room stock hustler in Southeast Asia, then reappeared years later with a diplomatic passport and extraordinary wealth. When reporters start pulling at threads, they uncover an entirely new identity: this stock scammer seems to now be a key player in the industrial “pig butchering” scam economy. How does a small-time con artist end up orbiting political dynasties, buying yachts and private jets?… And what happens when the doors finally start to close? To learn more about Tom Wright and his team’s work on this story: Project Brazen reporting on Mauerberger [https://whalehunting.projectbrazen.com/tag/benjamin-mauerberger/] Read the US Department of Justice’s announcement of their crackdown on the Prince Group [https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chairman-prince-group-indicted-operating-cambodian-forced-labor-scam-compounds-engaged]   Chameleon is a production of Campside Media and Audiochuck. Follow Chameleon on Instagram @chameleonpod [https://www.instagram.com/chameleonpod/?hl=en] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com [https://pcm.adswizz.com] for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Introducing: Crimeless

Join your Chameleon host Josh Dean and his partner in (dumb) crime, comedian Rory Scovel, as they dive into the incredible story of a shady Swami who scammed Newark, New Jersey into adopting the Hindu city of Kailasa as a “sister city.” The problem: Kailasa doesn’t exist. And the swami behind it? A notorious scammer who’s on the run from various charges, some of them very serious. “Very embarrassing for the city,” one Newark resident told CBS. “Truly no words,” said another. Crimeless [https://www.instagram.com/crimelesspod/] is a production of Campside Media, Smartless Media, and Big Money Players. Every week, Josh and Rory unpack some of the world’s wackiest crimes, injecting a little humor into these dark times. New episodes air every Wednesday. Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crimeless/id1844700671?i=1000747988429], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/episode/6oGJCDXRTu1VyBqUEf4Ohq?si=2d2c90f772c34583], or wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com [https://pcm.adswizz.com] for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Dumpster Fire Phoenix: The “Festival” Organizer Who Just Can’t Stop Himself

Fyre Festival was sold as the most exclusive party on earth — a luxury music festival in the Bahamas for influencers, celebrities, and the ultra-wealthy. It became one of the most shared disasters of the social-media era, but by the time the truth had emerged, thousands of people had already bought into the dream. And if the organizer was right, could be persuaded to do so again. And again. And again.  Read Gabrielle Bluestone’s book Hype: Inside the Fyre Festival and the Golden Age of Grift [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hype-Scammers-Grifters-Internet-Following/dp/1335425829] Watch the Netflix Doc she executive produced Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened. [https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81035279] Chameleon is a production of Campside Media and Audiochuck. Follow Chameleon on Instagram @chameleonpod [https://www.instagram.com/chameleonpod/?hl=en] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com [https://pcm.adswizz.com] for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.