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.
Episodes
13 episodes
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 ...
4,500 Bitcoin In A Dead Man's Wallet. CEO Fled To Israel. The story of BitBay-Zondacrypto
A Polish crypto exchange. A body in the Baltic. A CEO who fled to Israel. And $500 million in Bitcoin — locked in a wallet nobody can open. This is the story of BitBay, zondacrypto, and the alleged Russian organized crime network the Polish int...
1MDB: The $4.5 Billion Scandal That Funded The Wolf of Wall Street
In 2009 a 28-year-old from Malaysia walked into Goldman Sachs and walked out with billions in financing. Five years later, four point five billion dollars had vanished from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund called 1MDB. The money allege...
Luckin Coffee: The $2 Billion Lie That Fooled Wall Street
Luckin Coffee went from zero to IPO in eighteen months. Faster than any company in history. Wall Street loved it. Then a short-seller report revealed that eighty percent of its revenue was fabricated. Two billion dollars in fake sales. This is ...
Lehman Brothers: The Weekend the World Nearly Ended
September 2008. The largest bankruptcy in American history. One hundred and fifty-eight years of history, gone in a weekend. What happened inside Lehman Brothers in those final seventy-two hours — and why the US government let it fail when it h...
Enron: The Blueprint for Every Corporate Fraud That Came After
Before Wirecard, before Theranos, before FTX — there was Enron. The company that invented the playbook for modern corporate fraud. Special purpose vehicles, mark-to-market accounting, and twenty thousand employees who lost everything. This is t...
Wirecard: The €24 Billion Company Where the Money Never Existed
The story of Wirecard — Germany's most celebrated tech company, worth twenty-four billion euros, on the DAX 30. Then one morning in June 2020, they announced that 1.9 billion euros in Philippine bank accounts simply didn't exist. The banks had ...
Nikola: The $34 Billion Truck That Never Moved Under Its Own Power
A truck that couldn't move. A company worth $34 billion. And a founder who allegedly knew the truth the entire time.Trevor Milton built Nikola Motor Company on a single promise: hydrogen-powered trucks that would revolutionize clean tra...
Theranos: The Ten Billion Dollar Blood Test That Never Worked
**Show Notes**What happens when Silicon Valley's youngest billionaire builds an empire on technology that never existed? The courtroom in San Jose held the answer to a decade-long deception that fooled presidents, generals, and America's most p...