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White Collars, Red Hands

White Collars, Red Hands

Who knew rich people committed crime? Not the American justice system! Join Chicago based comedians Nina Kern and Kishan Batcheldor as they talk some of the most prolific crimes committed by the wealthy. Checkout our Merch!: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/white-collars-red-hands?ref_id=23248

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00:55:33

Cola Wars Pt. 1- Coked Out

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2026/01/16

So it turns out that making sugar water can entitle you to some great power throughout the world. No one knows that better than Coca Cola, a Fortune 500 company that started by selling the stuff you can get under a bridge for $120/g nowadays, and saying it helped in the bedroom. Join us for this two part series where we talk about the largest cola makers in the world, how they rose to prominence and the many skeletons lurking in their ice chests.

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00:36:49

Girlbossing For the Wein- Dina Wein Reiss

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2026/01/09

We hope you all had a great Holiday Season! After a week off we come back with a story about Dina Wein Reiss, who went through a surprising amount of effort to scam companies into giving her truckloads of merchandise at cost which she then turned around and sold, stealing all of their profit margin. Find out how a fake store and actors on the payroll setup the scheme, and how one disgruntled employee took it all down.

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00:48:24

Where Are They Now?- A Holiday Update Episode

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2025/12/26

Hey Everyone! Nina and Kishan are both travelling for the holidays so we are dropping this gift of an episode updating what has happened since we posted our episode on ten different stories. Hope you enjoy finding out whose been naughty and who turned nice, and we will see you in a couple of weeks!

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00:36:05

A Marriage Story- Kraft Heinz

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2025/12/19

This week we discuss the absolute food giant in Kraft Heinz. Starting as two lonely multinational food corporations, they decided they would be better together when they merged in 2015. Unfortunately the relationship turned out toxic as the new couple immediately started some lengthy accounting fraud that was uncovered in 2019 and now they are on the verge of divorce.

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00:39:35

Good Times Are Clover- The Irish Banking Collapse

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2025/12/12

Anglo Irish Bank had one motto: if you can’t afford it, lend it anyway. With Sean FitzPatrick at the helm, the bank inflated Ireland’s boom and then helped detonate its bust. After billions vanished and investigators uncovered hidden loans, the whole thing unraveled into a courtroom saga that become one of the longest in Irish history.Join us as we unpack the rise and fall of Anglo Irish, and how one banker helped sink a nation.

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00:42:30

Too Rich to Jail?- T Cullen Davis

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2025/11/14

On the season 20 finale we discuss Texas oil tycoon T. Cullen Davis who was once the richest man in the state until his life exploded into a double murder case, a bitter divorce, and a dramatic courtroom drama. After his stepdaughter and his ex-wife’s boyfriend were killed, Priscilla Davis identified Cullen as the gunman, but with immense wealth and a powerhouse legal team, he walked free not once, but twice.

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00:32:07

Formula for Disaster-Sanlu Group

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2025/11/07

While the financial crisis was unfolding and ruining the economies of the world, China had a little more to contend with. In 2008 babies began to contract kidney stones, and all of them were fed with the same baby formula produced by Sanlu Group. Join us this week as we discuss how milk in China became contaminated, how it affected the world's dairy trade, and how it led to the deaths of multiple people.

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00:30:47

Methin Around- Zhenli ye Gon

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2025/10/31

This week we discuss Chinese-Mexican businessman Zhenli ye Gon, who operated one of the largest drug manufacturing plants in Mexico. The only problem is that the drugs he was manufacturing were less than legal. Join us on the journey that pseudoephedrine took from China, to Mexico, to the meth pipes of America all transported in Zhenli's back seat

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00:48:06

Forging Ahead- Wolfgang Beltracchi

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2025/10/24

This week we discuss master art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi, who created paintings to fill the holes of lost work by great artists. Holes that had largely been left after the Nazis destroyed many pieces of artwork during WWII. Find out if he was a genius, or just an egotist, on this week's episode.

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00:33:10

The Bull is Raging- Harshad Mehta

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2025/10/17

This week we discuss one of the craziest stock market manipulations in history. This time we travel to India where Harshad Mehta is the king of the world in the early 90's, and he is trading at ridiculous volumes and has a stranglehold on the market. But his methods are not just unconventional, they're illegal. Listen to discover how it all unfolded.

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00:44:20

Going, Going...Con!- Mastro Auctions

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2025/10/10

This week we discuss Bill Mastro, who helped build the multi-million dollar industry of sports memorabilia trading with his auction site Mastro Auctions. However, he also helped to build the massive corruption that lurked behind these sites by cheating the buyers and hawking fake merchandise before eventually striking out.

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00:30:27

Malpractice Makes Perfect

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2025/10/03

This week we give you vignettes of healthcare fraud that was uncovered in a sweeping shift by the DOJ to root out these kinds of scams earlier this year. Join as as we discuss unnecessary skin grafts, improper billing codes and so many more things that I swear are more interesting than they sound.

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00:50:47

The Forgotten Watergate- The Teapot Dome Scandal

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2025/09/26

This week we dive into the backstory of one of the lesser talked about US presidents Warren G Harding. We talk about his humble beginnings in journalism, his rise to the presidency, and the scandals that left his legacy tarnished including what was widely considered the worst US political corruption scandal... that is until Richard Nixon set the bar even higher.

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00:43:31

Fantasies for Sale- Jean Palfrey

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2025/09/19

This week we discuss the madam at the center of a prostitution ring that serviced the most powerful men of Washington D.C. Learn Jean Palfrey's story about how she built an escort service that prided itself on fulfilling fantasies, and how she was maybe unfairly targeted when the ivory tower dwellers her service catered to got jumpy.

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00:54:13

Not So Bulletproof- David H Brooks

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2025/09/12

We are so back baby! Did you miss us? We know you did. But life trudges, and one of our hosts moved multiple states so our hiatus between seasons was a little longer than we hoped. Oops. But to make it up to you we have our Season 20 finale all about one of the largest douche bags to profit off of the fallout of 9/11 David H Brooks. Who milked PointBlank Industries, a company who exclusively made bulletproof vests for the armed forces and police, for millions of dollars to personally enrich himself

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00:40:21

Murder in the Capital- The Murder of Philip Barton Key

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2025/07/04

For the season 19 finale we once again talk murder committed by the wealthy. This time we travel to the years leading up to the American Civil War when a congressman shot a man in public, admitted to the crime, showed no remorse, and still lived a long life. How did Daniel Sickles get away with murder? And he introduced who to the queen of England?! All answered in this episode!

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00:33:40

SWIFTLY Stolen- Bangladesh Bank Hack

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2025/06/27

This week we sit down to discuss how a broken printer led to a huge hit on a nation's economy when the Bank of Bangladesh was hacked to the tune of $81MM, but it could have been a lot more than that. Find out the circumstances that led to the hack and how the money was cleaned before being shipped to one of the craziest countries out there.

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00:35:56

Just Breachy- 2017 Equifax Data Breach

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2025/06/20

Although not in the top ten data breaches by people affected, the 2017 Equifax Data Breach showed us just how bad data leaking online can be when it comes because a huge corporation pays absolutely zero attention to cybersecurity. Join us this week as we discuss just how royally Equifax messed up, and also a little about the history of credit reporting in general.

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00:41:08

Taking New Orleans for Granite- Ray Nagin

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2025/06/06

This week we discuss disgraced former mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin, who for years (encompassing the disaster of Hurricane Katrina) funneled money through backdoor deals into his... rock business. How boring. The rocks... not today's episode... please still listen.

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00:50:20

Telegraphs & Fake Countries- Blanc Bros/ Gregor...

White Collars, Red Hands ·

2025/05/30

This week we delve into two stories from the history books filed under "The Early 1800s Ridiculous Scams" . First up is the Blanc brothers who used the first telecommunications system to commit the first telecommunications fraud. Then we dive into the truly awful story of Gregor MacGregor who duped all of Europe into buying into a fake South American country.

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