Sarah Howe (The Scheme Queen) & The Ladies Deposit Company

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sara and Danny take it all the way back to eighth grade Social Studies and recount the story of the woman who started a Ponzi scheme before it was even a thing. Howe launched a ‘charity’ to help unmarried women (aka Unprotected Females aka millennial Girl Bosses) and got them to make small donations to help her Swanky Bank. Her #gatekeeping was so successful that male reporters literally couldn’t even get inside her building when her business endeavors got suspicious. Unfortunately she wasn’t a #womanhelpingwomen; when her clients demanded their money back, Howe couldn’t pay them back. Then, the NY Times claimed that women shouldn’t be trusted with money. But Howe was anything but stupid. Finally, Sara and Danny finish things off with some trivia: Sarah Howe did it happen? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back everybody to not another true crime podcast. I'm Sarah Levine and I'm Danny Murphy.
0:09.1	You know where your partner's in one crime time anything else that rhymes, you know, any rhyme you want
0:13.0	to do with you. We went to it. I'm like, what else is there? Limes? Sure. Why not?
0:18.1	Oh, I do love and you know you supposed to roll your lines to get them extra juicy.
0:22.4	Ah, really? I think Rachel right does that. She either does that or microwaves them.
0:26.4	The microwaving thing throws me off, but I think she is a roller. I feel like they would just explode.
0:32.4	Don't try it. I also haven't turned on my oven since December, so do not trust me with any.
0:37.5	Yes, do not try this at home folks. No, no, no. But I'm excited about today's topic because it came
0:45.5	to us in the DMs. Actually, it's a really deep cut. I was like bored and I had no foam service,
0:51.1	so I was just going through my old photos and screenshots as you do. Oh, 100%.
0:55.2	Yeah, and it came across this suggestion to the Instagram at not another true crime. So I was like,
1:00.5	oh, shit, okay, this is a good one. I'm also glad they sent it to you because I don't, I was trying
1:04.9	to do like extra research from like the two main articles I found and all of it is like archival.
1:10.1	Yeah, drive to Boston to go to a library to like magnifying glass. Literally, look it up on
1:16.4	the microfilm. I did find like pretty much a photograph of this woman's old tissue area in the
1:22.1	newspaper. Yeah. So I was like, that's where I'm basing my facts on. Well, and we'll get into like
1:29.2	kind of at the top in the middle. I like how I was like, we'll get into it. I guess at every part of
1:32.5	the episode, how so many of the newspapers of the time, you have to be careful what you read about
1:37.4	her because some of it wasn't true. Yeah, the haters, man, they were really just driving the
1:41.9	coverage. Yeah, before Dubois, there was just newspapers, I guess. Right. The old buck rakers and
1:49.1	whatever yellow journalism. Okay. These are my two talking points from eighth grade social studies.
1:56.0	But yeah, so we're going to be talking about Sarah how relatively unknown scammer. I don't even know
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