Lie, Cheat, & Steal

Kath tells Pat about a local Brooklyn mystery, that when unraveled reveals a predatory real estate scheme run by a notorious slumlord.The information in this episode is from investigative reporting from The City, which can be read here: https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/19/sherita-billboard-dinosaur-mystery-real-estate-deed-theft/

Pat tells Kath about the Shaun King of 1880s Scotland, Annie Gordon Baillie. To hear the rest of this episode, go to patreon.com/liecheatandsteal on your browser and sign up for our patreon today for 100+ bonus episodes, ad-free version of our main episodes, and discord access!

Pat explains how our new "technofeudalist" economy, where increasingly, goods and services are rented rather than paid for outright (our podcast subscription is the exception of course).

Kath tells Pat about the King of Bougainville, Noah Musingku, who turned a ponzi scheme borne of an economic crisis into a would-be monarchy in the emerging island nation of Bougainville. Much of the information in this episode comes from the Harper's article The Island King by Sean Williams, which you can read here: https://harpers.org/archive/2024/11/the-island-king-sean-williams-bougainville/ To hear the rest of this episode, navigate on your browser to patreon.com/liecheatandsteal and subscribe to our patreon :)

Kath tells Pat the story of Alan Todd May, who turned an engaging personality and a small inherited oil claim into a Ponzi scheme that had him living large across the country with a series of young boyfriends. Much of the info in this episode comes from Charles Bethea's article on May in the New Yorker, "The Fake Oilman", which you can read here: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-south/the-fake-oilman

Pat and Kath talk some topical scams, frauds, and thefts. We cover some pope-related shenanigans, Fyre Fest 2, a Looney Tunes-style break-in, and more in this roundup episode.For the full episode (and 100+ more subscriber-only eps), check out our patreon at patreon.com/liecheatandsteal!

In this episode, recorded in person in Austin, Pat tells Kath about the reason behind the modern scourge of fake job listings, wasting applicants' time and inflating economic indicators.

Kath tells Pat about a would-be communication breakthrough for nonverbal and autistic people that maintains popularity, despite being labeled a pseudoscience. To listen to the rest of this episode, navigate to patreon.com/liecheatandsteal on your browser and sign up today!

Kath tells Pat credit repair agencies, an industry which take the scam that is the credit score an adds another scam on top of it. We talk about the conditions that allowed this industry to flourish, and recent attempts to protect consumers from its manipulations.Much of the info in this podcast is available in Maddy Crowell's recent article "The Big, Empty Promises of the Ballooning Credit Repair Industry", available here: https://newrepublic.com/article/192064/big-empty-promises-ballooning-credit-repair-industry

Pat tells Kath about Shawn Bolz, a Charismatic Christian who combines two classic forms of scamming: "psychic" cold reading and prophetic ministry. To listen to the rest of this episode, navigate to patreon.com/liecheatandsteal on your browser and sign up today!