NPR. Philip S forms was pretty flashy for someone who ran nursing homes.

He's this kind of insanely handsome, drives a $2 million dollar Ferrari,

kavorts with models.

This is Malcolm Gladwell, the host of the Revisionist History

Podcast and the author of many books.

His upcoming book is Revenge of the Tipping Point and it has a chapter all about

Philip Asforms. He and his father build this nursing home empire and they expand from Chicago to Miami and Philip moves down

there and he goes crooked. In 2019 Philip goes on trial for one of the biggest

Medicare fraud cases in history. In his defense,

a rabbi who had known Philip's wider family for decades took the stand.

He said when he was living in Chicago he was an upstanding citizen from this

You know deeply philanthropic family and then he goes to Miami and everything falls apart.

And the rabbi, the family friend, says,

it's Miami's fault.

And I actually agree with him.

I think it's Miami's fault. It's this idea that a city can ruin an individual that fascinated Malcolm Gladwell.

This is the indicator from Planet Money, I'm Whelan Wong.

And I'm Darien Woods.

Today on the show how Miami became known as the

capital of Medicare fraud. We learn what went wrong in South Florida and what it says

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