This is the American Greed Podcast presented by CNBC. I'm Stacy Kich.

In this episode of American Greed, John Rogers is amassing one of the biggest and most impressive photo archive

collections in the world. These archives are extremely rare, they're extremely

valuable and we're able to obtain lifeless images and that's what we do.

But the business he claims is worth $32 million is rooted in fraud.

With John Rogers, you can't believe anything he says,

and you can't believe what he shows you either.

Nothing, because most of it was bogus.

Investors are duped in sending him millions of dollars

based on counterfeit pieces of sports memorabilia.

Could be card collections, could be trophies, could be signed baseball bats.

It could be anything.

But what it adds up to is stacks and stacks of cash.

American Greed has an exclusive prison interview

with John Rogers.

I mean, I could have soaked kilos of cocaine

I would have made less money. In March 2014, 2014, the FBI records a conversation between Chicago's sports memorabilia dealer

Doug Allen and a little rock entrepreneur John Rogers.

If you don't say shit in me, that you were chipping me off.

He now never heard.

John. John. You now never worked. John.

John? Don?

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