Hook, Wine and Sinker

Cheat!

Sony Music

True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In the mid-2000s a young guy from Indonesia single handedly changed the world of fine wine. He bought and sold hundred thousand dollar bottles without a second thought. He was a hero to a new generation of fine wine connoisseurs who had cash to flash in the boom years before the recession. But what a lot of those connoisseurs didn’t know was that this one guy, this guy that they idolised and adored, was actually carrying out one of the biggest frauds the wine world – or any world for that matter – had ever seen. A Somethin' Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's 6 o'clock in the morning in Arcadia, California, Marine Downey's waiting.
0:13.2	She's been years building a case against one man, a scam artist, and it's all led up
0:18.5	to this moment.
0:20.6	The FBI are closing in on a house with a Lamborghini, a Mercedes-Benz, and a Range Rover parked
0:26.1	outside.
0:27.5	They thought they were going to go out and then have to kind of pull out of him, you
0:32.5	know, what he did and where he did it.
0:35.2	They knocked and announced themselves.
0:37.8	They opened up the door.
0:40.0	A guy opens the door in his pajamas.
0:42.6	His mother is right behind him, and the FBI agents were in utter disbelief.
0:47.4	All the windows in the house were covered with foil, and the house itself was very cool.
0:53.5	Wine cellar temperature.
0:56.2	Wine cellar temperature?
0:58.2	You see, that's a relevant detail because the man Marine had been chasing wasn't just
1:03.3	your regular two-bit scam artist.
1:06.1	No.
1:07.1	This guy, he single-handedly carried out one of the craziest wine frauds in history.
1:12.9	And now, here he was, standing in his pajamas with the evidence of his crime all around
1:17.9	it.
1:18.9	He actually had a note to himself that said, blend wine, cork bottle, make labels.
1:24.3	He would batch produce this stuff.
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