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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Hi, guys, Nancy Grace here,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Crime Stories. Do you love a good con

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Speaker 1: artist's story? Because I do. You've got to check out

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Speaker 1: this new series. It's called Scam Preneur. It's streaming now

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Speaker 1: exclusively on Fox Nation. Like Entrepreneur, but scam Preneur. It

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Speaker 1: explores the incredible lies the elaborate scams of notorious con artists.

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Speaker 1: Three of them Elizabeth Holmes Man She Takes the Cake,

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Speaker 1: Carrie Farrell, and Anthony Gignook. We all know Elizabeth Holmes

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Speaker 1: the Silicon Valley swindler. Now you think people out in

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Speaker 1: Silicon Valley with all of their smarts, I mean that's

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Speaker 1: the heart of the computer software tech universe, that they

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Speaker 1: had no better. Wrong. Elizabeth Holmes sets out to revolutionize

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Speaker 1: the world of medicine with her company Theranos, which claimed

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Speaker 1: to have developed a blood testing device that could perform

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Speaker 1: hundreds of tests with just.

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Speaker 2: A single drop of blood. Okay, did you hear that,

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Speaker 2: Mayo Clinic?

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Speaker 1: You're out of business because Elizabeth Holmes has come up

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Speaker 1: with a single drop of blood tests that completely makes

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Speaker 1: all of your work obsolete. Not exactly, now, Elizabeth Holmes

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Speaker 1: becomes a billionaire. Her company their nose valued at nine

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Speaker 1: billion with a bee as in brother, not an M

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Speaker 1: as in mother, nine billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: But it's all a fraud.

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Speaker 1: The technology was a big lie. It didn't work, of course,

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Speaker 1: How did she fool so many people for so long

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Speaker 1: and get this She's done it again. The judge said,

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Speaker 1: this is your court date. This is your court date.

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Speaker 1: This is your court date. This is the day you're

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Speaker 1: going to jail. But oopsie, Elizabeth Holmes conned somebody else.

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Speaker 1: She's gotten a last minute reprieve. She's just been sighted

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Speaker 1: walking barefoot on the beach. Yes, barefoot on the beach,

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Speaker 1: as she has avoided reporting to prison after a court

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Speaker 1: grants her appeal. Now, I've prosecuted a lot of people

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Speaker 1: and I have never seen anybody get an appeal bond.

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Speaker 1: But somehow her motion to remain free while her appeal

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Speaker 1: is processed was just granted. And she's literally taking a

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Speaker 1: walk on the beach.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Then there's Carrie Farrell. That's the name many people might recognize,

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Speaker 1: also known as the hips Grifter. Carrie Ferrell, the hipster grifter.

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Speaker 1: She coned her family and friends out of thousands and

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Speaker 1: thousands of dollars. She thought she'd get away with it

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Speaker 1: until cops orchestrated a skim of their own to catchure.

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Speaker 1: The so called hipster grifter made headlines for duping men

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Speaker 1: in Williamsburg. Now she's planning a comeback. She's plotting her

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Speaker 1: return to the spotlight. Twenty one year old Carrie Farrell

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Speaker 1: left Salt Lake City and several arrest warrants for sixty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars in check fraud to Brooklyn. That's where she landed.

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Speaker 1: Then somehow she faked her credentials to land a job

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Speaker 1: at Vice as administrative assistant. It goes on and on

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Speaker 1: and on, but this person preyed on her own family

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Speaker 1: and friends to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.

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Speaker 2: And that's pretty low.

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Speaker 1: Not only doing a con, the conning your own family

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Speaker 1: and friend. Now this is one I really love. A

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Speaker 1: fake Saudi Prince Anthony Gignak spent two decades committing low

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Speaker 1: level gris before he thought he was ready for the

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Speaker 1: big leagues. His next get rich quick scam turned out

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Speaker 1: to be his biggest mistake.

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Speaker 2: Listen to this. A fake chic.

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Speaker 1: Swindled eight million dollars from investors, including El McPherson's ex husband,

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Speaker 1: flaunting his lifestyle on Insta and boasting about his Saudi

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Speaker 1: royal family. Yeah, eight million dollars For the most part

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Speaker 1: of his criminal enterprise. In Gignuk impersonated someone named Prince Khalid,

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Speaker 1: who is a real prince in real life is a

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Speaker 1: seventy nine year old governor of Mecca.

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Speaker 2: Who would fall for that? Did it have anything to

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Speaker 2: do with his living a life of profound well driving

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Speaker 2: a red Ferrari, donning carrier bracelets or tens of thousands

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Speaker 2: of dollars? Believe it or not.

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Speaker 1: His cover was blown once when a billionaire El McPherson's

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Speaker 1: ex noticed Gignak eating bacon and sausage during a business lunch,

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Speaker 1: suggesting he was not the devout Muslim prince he claimed

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Speaker 1: to be. Auchie Scamprini are featuring interviews with investigator's victims

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Speaker 1: whistleblowers who reveal how master manipulators are captured and convicted.

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Speaker 1: Each episode reveals an incredible and cautionary tale of greed, consumption,

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Speaker 1: and deception.

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Speaker 2: Listen to a preview of the series.

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Speaker 1: There's an old saying that you'll never meet a con

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Speaker 1: artist that you don't like Elizabeth Holmes took Silicon Valley

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Speaker 1: by storm.

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Speaker 2: She knew she was lying to investors. Jerry Ferrell come

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Speaker 2: out all kinds of fraud, redit guard of fraud, forgery.

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Speaker 1: Retail faft. Anthony Gignac, who is so outrageous that people

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Speaker 1: say he has to be remember of the Royal family.

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Speaker 1: How far does hype go until it becomes fraud? If

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