Exposed Empire
Every empire tells a story. Exposed Empire investigates the greatest business frauds, corporate collapses, and financial crimes in American history — but also the builders who created something real. Power, greed, vision, and collapse. One story at a time.
Exposed Empire
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Bre-X: the $6 Billion Gold Mine That Never Existed
In 1993, an obscure prospector found a neglected site in the jungle of Borneo. Four years later, it was worth six billion dollars. None of the gold was real. This is the story of Bre-X — the largest mining fraud in history — and the question no...
Madoff: Everyone Trusted Him. That Was The Plan.
He was the most trusted man on Wall Street. Three terms as chairman of the NASDAQ. A reputation so solid that doubting Bernie Madoff felt absurd — and that trust wasn't a side effect of his fraud. It was the engine. This is the full story of th...
Andrew Left Exposed Wall Street's Frauds. Then He Became One. Citron unveiled
The most feared short seller on Wall Street spent two decades exposing other people's frauds. Then a federal jury convicted him on 13 counts. The rise and fall of Andrew Left and Citron Research. ▶ Watch the full documenta...
Nissan: The CEO Who Escaped Japan In A Box
He ran three carmakers on three continents. Then a courtroom that convicts more than 99% of defendants came for him — and what he did next has never been pulled off by a fugitive CEO. In 1999, Carlos Ghosn took over a Nissan weeks from collapse a...
OneCoin: The $4 Billion Crypto Scam That Fooled 3 Million People
In 2014, a Bulgarian-German entrepreneur with a PhD in law launched a cryptocurrency she called OneCoin. Three million people across 175 countries bought in. It was never real. By October 2017 she had vanished — and today she remains on the FBI's ...