Tomoff Keene has been in prison for 13 years, but he's been looking for ways to make money on the outside. Tomoff was doubling in investing, but things really changed during COVID. America's government handed most citizens stimulus checks at the height of the pandemic. Congress didn't bar prisoners from getting those checks, but the Internal Revenue Service tried to.
Charitable giving is being disrupted by the same youthful tech folk who got rich disrupting other sectors: these days it is fast, data-driven and bureaucracy-light. We meet a new class of investors who trade shares from behind bars. And reflecting on the life of Maya Widmaier-Picasso, who spent her childhood painting alongside her father, becoming an expert on his work.
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