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🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is the American Greet Podcast presented by CNBC. I'm Stacey Keach. |
0:07.0 | In this episode of American Greet, when COVID first hits, the U.S. government opens the Money Spicket. |
0:18.0 | Today I'll sign the single biggest economic relief package in American history. |
0:24.0 | But that package leads to what is quite possibly the largest fraud. |
0:30.0 | Estimates start around $100 billion. |
0:33.0 | A staggering amount of COVID relief money disappears into the hands of criminals. |
0:38.0 | The fraudsters are bold, buying luxury cars, flights on private jets, mansions. |
0:44.0 | And in the crowd of crooks, one swindler stands out. |
0:49.0 | Richard O'Vasier runs a family fraud factory designed to steal millions in COVID cash to spend on houses, |
0:57.0 | watches, and gold. |
0:59.0 | You know, in a crisis, most of us turn to each other, and there are some of us that turn on each other. |
1:04.0 | It was cruel to their fellow Americans, people who actually needed that money to survive. |
1:09.0 | American Greet goes inside the assembly line of fraud, inside the Avasians' mansion. |
1:16.0 | It was what they called a child their dream house. |
1:19.0 | Inside their private conversations. |
1:22.0 | She's not saying that because Mom and Dad are coming over for dinner. |
1:26.0 | There's an intent behind that. |
1:28.0 | And inside the decision to leave their children and run. |
1:32.0 | Richard tries to justify it as if he had no choice, but he had a choice. |
1:37.0 | They chose to commit fraud. They chose to steal money. |
1:40.0 | And they choose their place on the FBI's notorious list, most wanted. |
1:56.0 | Tonight, over 16,000 now dead across America. |
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