This week on The Perfect Scam.

I laid everything out to him and he looked at me and dead in my eyes and he said,

You are...

And I was like I'm sorry what do you mean he's like it sounds like this is the

mob I'm like man I've lost everything I told there and you don't need to go down there. I think there's a pretty good

possibility if you go down to Florida that you're not coming back alive. Welcome back to the Perfect Scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan.

If you read enough indictments and press releases from the Department of Justice, as I do, you get used to seeing simple

initials in the documents rather than full names sometimes. Like this, Lyle Livesay and Brant Holloway submitted false loan applications in the name of Holloway's roommate,

T.M. The initials usually indicate a cooperating witness that the DOJ isn't prosecuting. They've decided to

preserve the witness's anonymity instead. But today, for the first time, you're going to

hear from a person behind those initials.

He's a brave member of the National Guard in Oklahoma,

a victim who went online looking for a roommate after a divorce

and ended up in the middle of a notorious Russian crime gang.

And that gang's boss was once implicated in the murder of rapper Little Fat among a long list

of other crimes.

T.M. journey into and his escape from a global luxury car crime ring,

helped by his girlfriend, also a brave National Guard member,

is a tale of courage and honesty that deserves careful

telling.

Scarier than anything either of them faced during tours of duty into combat zones.

And this crime involving expensive cars is so elaborate, it's really worthy

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