This is the American Greed podcast presented by CNBC. I'm Stacey Keach.

In this episode of American Greed, the Romano brothers of Long Island are working the phones,

selling $75 million worth of coins to eager and naive investors.

The salesman knew who they could trick and confuse,

and they kept going back to the well.

But when the family is arrested for mail and wire fraud,

Joseph Romano wants payback from the ones who put him away.

A total of $40,000 would be paid for the killing of the judge and the prosecutor.

God, revenge, revenge, revenge.

Prison cameras catch Romano plotting with a hired killer.

I have a couple of things.

I have a couple of them.

That's what I'm doing. But murder's only part of the gruesome clan.

He wants both her heads, it's a melbourne.

For the first time, Romano's chosen hitman tells the whole story.

His hatred towards these two people is so great.

He wants her in a 35-gallon drop, not a 50, but a 35-gallon drop.

That's a little freaky here.

In Levitown, Long Island, 18-year-old Michael Romano is an entrepreneur with a plan.

He's recently graduated from Division Avenue High School.

And now he's selling collectible coins for a local telemarketing company.

He knows nothing about coins, but he's a strong-willed salesman, says Assistant U.S. attorney Lara Gatz.

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