High Crimes

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Overview

If you follow the news in any way, shape or form, our day-today headlines are fairly predictable. Even Google News Tabs are categrized by generic topics; US, World, Local, Business, Technology, Entertainment, Sports, Science and Health.

One headline that every-so-rarely sneaks will be about some outrageous theft—something extraordinary, headline grabbing, attenton-getting.

These types of thefts include larceny from the world of Art, Book Collectors, Rare Coins and Stamps, Confidence Games, etc...and nowadays, you will even hear about NFT theft, digital banking fraud, and even music publishing thefts.

These ‘White Collar” crimes rise above the constant din of muggings and murders, these crimes are SEXY. Think Steve McQueen as Thomas Crown in the Thomas Crown Affair, stealing art masterpieces of the walls of a museum, or John Cusack, Anjelica Houston and Annette Benning in Grifters, and of course, the creme de la creme, Cary Grant as John Robie in To Catch a Thief.

In Season One of High Crimes we will detail these rarely heard stories. Each episode will be self-contained and follow a crime from one of the aforementioned categories.

“For what it’s worth, I never stole from anybody who would go hungry.”

John Robie, To Catch a Thief

Episodes EPISODE 1: HEROES & MONSTERS The FBI’s art crime team confiscates 25 paintings from a Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art under suspicion of forgery. The curator of the exhibit, owners & authenticators are all under investigation.

EPISODE 5: CRIME & PUNISHMENT The FBI Art Crime Team is made up of special agents from across the country. Since its inception in 2004, the Art Crime Team has recovered more than 15,000 items valued at over $800 million.

EPISODE 2: BOOK WORM Filippo Bernardini, a 29-year-old working at Simon & Schuster is arrested by FBI agents at JFK and charged with a spree of digital robberies that has baffled the world of book publishing, Hollywood IP, and cybersecurity.

EPISODE 6: JANUS OF THE JUNGLE Deep in the Cambodian jungle, investigators unravel a network that trafficked antiquities on an unprecedented and historic scale, and brought them all the way to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

EPISODE 3: OMI THE HELLCAT A YouTube.com personality from New Jersey who shows off his luxury lifestyle on his well-watched channel was arrested in a $30 million online piracy scheme—the largest-scale internet protocol television theft scheme.

EPISODE 7: VOODOO CHILD Maryland investment adviser Dawn Bennett was sentenced to 20 yrs for defrauding investors out of millions, which she spent on astrological gems, religious rituals in India, and kept cow tongues for hexes against the feds.

EPISODE 4: STOCKS & STINGERS Kevin Ingram named one of the top 25 Blacks on Wall Street in ‘96 and three other men, busted in a spy-novel tale of arms smuggling and money laundering aimed at putting high-tech Stinger missiles in terrorists’ hands.

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