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Episode 30: Trouble 0-7: A Wannabe Spy and the Con Man Who Loved Him, Pt. 2

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True Crime Campfire

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In Part 1 we introduced you to chronic spendaholic and solider-boy wannabe Mark Avery, who should have been happy as an ocean full of clams with his INHERITED, 600k a year job as trustee of the Smith family trust, but who instead managed to hemorrhage money so badly that he sunk himself into hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt in the first six months of the gig. And his buddy Rob Kane, or should I say “COMMANDER” Rob Kane, a wannabe Jason Bourne who liked to spin wild stories about his alleged “covert ops” work with the CIA and FBI. When these two put their knuckle-heads together and started fantasizing about creating their very own air force, they set about bilking the Smith trust for all they could bilk, and the employees at their newly acquired aviation company were starting to feel like they were living in a bad movie. Suddenly there were guns everywhere, state of the art security, and talk of safe houses and terrorists and interrogations. It was all a bit…much. And nobody could figure out how much of it was real and how much was just a very expensive game of “Soldier Boy.” Join us now for Part 2 of this wild story.

Sources:

CNBC's "American Greed," Episode "Top Gun of Fraud"
https://smithct.org/about-the-trust/may-and-stanley-smith
https://www.courthousenews.com/13-years-for-52m-milking-of-widows-trust/
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ak/pr/former-anchorage-prosecutor-sentenced-over-13-years-prison-massive-wire-fraud-and-money
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SAN-FRANCISCO-Wealth-prestige-gone-a-lawyer-2588112.php

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0:00.0

Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

0:05.0

We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.

0:08.0

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.

0:12.0

We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the

0:13.8

true-crime campfire.

0:17.0

So, campers, in Part 1, we introduced you to chronic Spendaholic and Soldier Boy

0:26.8

Wannabe, Mark Avery, who should have been happy as an ocean full of clams with

0:30.9

his inherited 600K a year job as trustee of the Smith Family Trust, but who

0:37.2

instead managed to hemorrhage money so badly that he sunk himself into hundreds of thousands

0:42.1

of dollars of debt in the first six months of the gig.

0:45.2

And his buddy Rob Kane, or should I say Commander Rob Kane?

0:49.6

No, I shouldn't, because he was not Commander of anything, no matter how often he insisted on being called one,

0:55.5

a want to be Jason Bourne, who liked to spin wild stories about his alleged covert ops work with the CIA and FBI. When these two put their knuckleheads together

1:04.6

and started fantasizing about creating their very own Air Force, they said about

1:08.8

bilking the Smith Trust for all they could bilk and the employees at their

1:12.4

newly acquired aviation company were starting

1:14.7

to feel like they were living in a bad movie. Suddenly there were guns everywhere, state-of-the-art security,

1:20.3

and talk of safe houses and terrorists and interrogations.

1:24.6

It was all a bit much, and nobody could figure out how much of it was real and how much was

1:30.0

just a very expensive game of Soldier Boy.

1:33.2

Join us now for part two of Trouble 07, a wannabe spy

1:36.9

and the con man who loved him. Oh, And meanwhile during their off hours, Mark and Rob enjoyed their toys.

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