Social Scammers | Liver King, Madison Russo, Brittany Dawn Updates

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🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In this age of social media, it can be all too easy for a person to pretend to be someone they are not.

In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast we discuss the cases of social scammers – Liver King and Maddie Russo.

Brian Johnson aka Liver Ling lives what he calls an “ancestral lifestyle”, which includes eating large amounts of raw organs and meat, and he recommends eating liver daily. His businesses based on this ‘ethos’ are said to make around $100 m per year. He vehemently denied taking any steroids to achieve his insane physique.

In December 2022, Liver King’s empire started to crumble. He is now facing a $25m class action lawsuit after it was revealed that he was taking around $11,000 worth of steroids each month.

Maddie Russo was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer AND leukemia, at age 19. Maddie seemed to be defying the odds after undergoing 15 rounds of oral chemo and 90 rounds of radiation. Except, Maddie wasn’t sick at all. Her lies became public in January 2023 after medical professionals became concerned about the legitimacy of photos that she posted of herself online. When Maddie’s apartment was raided, police found wigs, cash and medication that did not belong to Maddie. She had managed to scheme almost $40k from 439 donors.

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Read our blog for this case - https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2023/03/05/social-scammers-liver-king-and-maddie-russo/

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0:00.0	The True Crime Society podcast contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:05.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:23.9	What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of True Crime's
0:26.0	Society podcast with Stephanie and Olivia. It is March 2nd. I don't know if it'll matter for
0:32.6	these cases. They're all just, they're all just kind of a shit show, honestly.
0:36.0	Learn into one. Yeah, so this will be kind of a fun episode. We like to do a fun
0:42.7	silly one every once in a while. You know, disclaimer I'll say, obviously it's not great for
0:49.1	the victims of these social scammers and the fraud and everything that goes on. So before anyone's
0:55.4	there's still victims. I'll say that. But usually the people involved in these are quite the
1:00.9	characters. I was going to say they're ridiculous. Yeah, most of them are ridiculous. They tell
1:05.7	these stories and like just that the fact that a lot of them get away with it for a long time
1:11.2	is crazy. Yeah, it's usually they get caught usually because they end up just being so ridiculous
1:17.4	that's like what are you doing? They're like not, they're literally characters and I guess
1:22.8	I guess that's how they become influencers in a way. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, today we're going to
1:26.5	talk about some social scammers. We've done an episode like this before where we talked about
1:33.8	Britney Dawn, our fave, Cocoa Brothers and Belle Gibson. I think that was who was in our first episode.
1:40.8	Yeah, so we'll get into all of that. I did want to give an update though on the case that is
1:49.2	local to me that I talked about a few podcast episodes ago. A girl that I went to high school with.
1:55.0	I said she was like the the popular like Regina George girl like Queen of the school. She I had heard
2:02.1	rumors and whispers that she was being investigated for well, she was working as a
2:08.4	a cafeteria aid at a middle school near us and there was rumors that she was under investigation
2:15.6	for having an inappropriate relationship with a 14 year old boy. So she did end up getting arrested
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