This is the American Greek podcast presented by CNBC. I'm Stacey Kitch.

In this episode of American Greed,

the hunt for a high-flying businessman playing a very dangerous game.

He did have a while couple of years.

T.R. Wright III presents himself as a gloat-trutting dealmaker with style to burn.

Being on fire, there's nothing like that.

Frequently posing for photos with his sports cars, gots and jets.

It was almost like made for Instagram.

But something odd keeps happening to all his panty toys.

They tend to crash, sink, even blow right up.

Everybody who watched this video thought that the individual was either dead or severely severely burned.

He's accidents proof of plain old bad luck or the money-making scheme almost too wild to believe.

To find out, American Greed cracks down the key players.

The relentless investigator.

And at that point, we start to realize this is a total scam.

The co-conspirator.

He didn't care about anybody or anything.

And in a television exclusive from Federal Prison,

the ringleader himself, who explains what it all adds up to.

It turns broad.

Inside a Texas prison, the once jet-setting criminal named T.R. Wright buys his time.

He's never given a TV interview about the audacious scheme that landed him here.

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