This is the American Greed Podcast presented by

C and B.C. I'm Stacy Kich.

In this episode of American Greed,

DePaul Wanna Kawadii enjoys a life of success

thanks to his medical glove importing empire.

Now he wants to go bigger, hiring American workers.

175 jobs.

It was like almost the answer to our prayers.

But his enterprise is built on false promises

and propped up by an astonishing $230 million of other people's money.

He was a skilled manipulator and a gifted con man and he would use anything, rip anything from the headlines to

to kind of add to his story. And nothing will stop his compulsion for cash, not

an FBI raid, not even a jail cell.

The man was still a financial danger when he was locked up in jail.

But when everything looks so real, could the biggest lie he's telling be the one he tells himself?

If some of the truth came out just gets the bad things that I did I might have had a better

chance. I think he believed his own BS and somehow felt this was all going to have a happy ending. Oh, Hello, you have a prepaid call from the Paul, you want a coyote. An inmate at Sacramento County Jail.

Hi, mom.

I agree, but I'm doing fine.

I got the 20 years, I only had to serve 10.

On the day of his sentencing,

for one of the biggest Khan Sacramento has ever seen,

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