ENCORE: Sandy Jenkins: Have Your Cake And Steal It, Too | 195

Scamfluencers

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4.1 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We’ll be back in two weeks with a brand new episode. In the meantime, here’s one of our favorites: an unlikely scam baked up in a small Texas town.

Sandy Jenkins moves to the gossipy, small town of Corsicana, Texas to work in its world-famous fruitcake factory. Desperate to keep up with his cliquey neighbors, Sandy starts cutting himself checks to pay for jewelry, cars, a second home and private jet trips. But this half-baked scheme starts to crumble when a new employee takes a closer look at how Sandy cooks the books.

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0:00.0	Hey Scam Fluencers fans, Sarah here. If you love the drama, deception, and mind-blowing
0:05.6	reveals, Wondery Plus is your VIP ticket to more. Add free episodes, early access to the juiciest
0:11.8	scandals, and deep dives you won't find anywhere else. Get the full Scampluencers experience. Sign up today.
0:19.2	We'll be back in two weeks with all new episodes of scamplencers.
0:23.5	But since we're in the holiday season and fruitcake seems to be everywhere, we thought it was
0:28.1	the perfect time to revisit one of our most unforgettable confectionery capers.
0:33.2	Sachi, do you remember our episode on Sandy Jenkins, the accountant who turned a Texas fruitcake empire
0:38.9	into his personal piggy bank? Oh, yes. Sandy was the bookkeeper at the Collins Street
0:44.5	Bakery in Corsicana, Texas. But behind the scenes, he was quietly siphoning off millions of dollars
0:50.5	to fund a luxury lifestyle. Think private jets, expensive wine, and designer everything,
0:56.9	all so that he could keep up appearances with his small Texas town. Well, since that first episode
1:02.5	aired, the bakery has finally spoken and shared their side of the story, along with how they've
1:07.5	rebuilt their operations and how the scandal has reshaped their company culture.
1:12.1	Thomas McNutt, Colin Street Bakery's executive vice president, calls the company the ultimate
1:17.8	comeback kid. Big words for a fruitcake company. Yeah, you know what? Nevertheless, they persisted.
1:25.8	Also, a feature film based on the scandal called Fruitcake was announced last year,
1:30.9	starring Jennifer Gardner and Paul Walter Houser. So with Sandy Jenkins back in the conversation,
1:36.5	we thought it was the perfect time to revisit the story. So enjoy the encore, ideally with a slice of
1:43.1	fruitcake.
1:50.7	Thank you. So enjoy the encore, ideally with a slice of fruitcake. Sachi, I am so curious, what is the craziest thing you've done to fit in?
1:56.3	Honestly, I probably just let people say my name wrong a lot.
2:00.0	Other than that, it wasn't really going to happen for me, so I didn't do a lot.
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