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American Greed Podcast

Ea$y Being Green

American Greed Podcast

CNBC

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

At the helm of a company called Clean Green Fuel, Rodney Hailey claims to make biodiesel from recycled restaurant grease and takes part in an Environmental Protection Agency program meant to boost the production of renewable fuel and cut the U.S.'s dependence on foreign oil. And it pays well. He uses private planes for vacations and buys more than a dozen luxury cars. The problem: Hailey's producing zero biofuel and is merely generating fake information and passing it off to unsuspecting buyers. (Original television broadcast: 1-29-15) Want to binge watch your Greed? The latest episodes at: https://www.cnbc.com/american-greed/

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

In this episode of American Greed, one practical man makes some serious green in green energy.

0:18.0

Rodney Haley exploits a government program from voting biofuels.

0:23.0

I think Mr. Haley was surprised at how easy it was to make an extraordinary amount of money

0:28.0

by doing essentially nothing.

0:30.0

After selling fake energy credits, Haley takes spending into overdrive.

0:35.0

On 6-1 2010, he gets a deposit from Conoco Phillips for Renzi Cells for $231,000.

0:41.0

The next week he buys a Lamborghini for $230,000.

0:45.0

It's a wild shopping spree backed by stolen millions.

0:49.0

The obvious question comes up when you see all these cars pulling in your neighbors like with this guy doing.

0:55.0

And later, in America's swankiest zip codes, a cat berser strikes in the dead of night.

1:02.0

When I opened the doors to the silver closet and the bottom two drawers were missing.

1:06.0

That's when I said, I ain't, we've been robbed.

1:08.0

For Master Thief Blaine Nordol, no window is too small.

1:13.0

That's all the room that he needs.

1:15.0

No wall, too high.

1:17.0

Blaine could probably be successful in any profession. He just chose to be a burger and he's good at it.

1:22.0

For three decades, Nordol turns Thievery into stellar business.

1:27.0

But how long can he keep it up?

1:29.0

Blaine could be 80 years old, walking down the street with a cane,

1:33.0

and he's still going to be breaking into home still and still.

1:43.0

The fields of White Marsh is a quiet subdivision just north of Baltimore.

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