Showing results for "Scam" in Arts & Entertainment

When comedian Barry Rothbart was growing up in Queens in the 90s, there were two things he knew for sure… his father, Allan, was his best friend and he was also Jon Bon Jovi’s manager. But then everything changed in 1997, when Barry’s dad got arrested and admitted that he actually worked for the Italian mafia, running the largest bookmaking operation in the United States.

This program is read by the author and contains original interviews with Gary Vee, Mel Tal, and Steve Aoki. National bestselling author and streetwear entrepreneur Bobby Hundreds’s manifesto about NFTs, the future of creativity, and bringing his brand and community into the modern digital...

Rapper Fat Wizza in a collaboration with Nuke Bizzle – real name Fontrell Antonio Baines – released the track ‘EDD’ (which is the acronym for California’s Employment Development Department) last month. The video shows the two performers waving around envelopes (seemingly containing fraudulently obtained cheques) and wads of cash. On the track, they brag that while other rappers “gotta sell cocaine”, they make money simply by filing false benefit claims online. As well as bragging about the illegal get rich quick scheme with a scam in a music video, prosecutors claim that Baines ...

This is the twenty-first Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes or less in duration -- perfect to listen to during commutes, workouts or coffee breaks. The topic for this collection is fairy tales... traditional children's tales, tall stories and notorious scams and the authors of thm may be uncovered! Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, prose, essays... all are welcome here.