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🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | It's September 17th, 2015. Nick Castelucci is a 24-year-old recent graduate. He's just |
0:17.1 | chilling at home in New Jersey when he hears a knock at the front door. Nick's not expecting |
0:24.0 | any company, but he gets up anyway to go answer it. He pushes down the handle and the door |
0:29.3 | swings open. What he sees next will stay with him for the rest of his life. Dozens of FBI agents |
0:37.0 | all over the front yard waiting to be let inside the house. Nick's stomach drops. The agent |
0:45.4 | spread out over the house and they start going through all of his stuff. They take his computers, |
0:49.7 | hard drives and they even drive off with the man's car. And Nick, he's left standing there |
1:00.2 | probably scared and wondering what the hell is going on. Little does Nick know, FBI agents are |
1:07.2 | simultaneously swooping down on three of his best friends homes around the country. They |
1:12.4 | confiscated $1.9 million in cash from a house in North Texas. They seized a bunch of funds from |
1:19.3 | these bank accounts of these guys, $2.8 million from Anthony Clark, $2 million. Who wouldn't |
1:26.2 | he'll keep $2 million of cash in their house? $200,000 from Ricky Miller, $105,000 from Nicholas |
1:33.6 | Castelucci. They were taking vehicles that these guys had purchased, froze assets and investment |
1:38.9 | accounts. You see, Nick and his 20-something-year-old accomplices had recently made almost $20 million. |
1:47.6 | But these guys aren't drug dealers, or bank robbers, or even crooked inside traders. They're |
1:56.2 | video gamers. You know, the guys who wear the headsets and sit in these command center-like |
2:02.9 | chairs. These are the criminals? I'm Alzo Slade. And from something else, this is cheap. |
2:10.7 | The show where we ask, is it ever okay to break the rules? This week, we're looking at |
2:15.9 | the legal gaming industry, and how four young men stole from one of the biggest video game |
2:21.0 | developers in the world. |
2:33.0 | I remember growing up playing video games back in the day. It's when they had Super Nintendo |
2:37.8 | and Sega Genesis. You play like Mario Kart or Zelda. One of my favorite games was Super |
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