Hi, I'm Lindsay Graham, the host of Wondries Podcast American Scandal.

Our newest series looks at the Kids for Cash Scandal,

a story about two judges who stood accused of making millions of dollars

in a brazen scheme that shattered the lives of countless children.

Listen to American Scandal on Amazon Music or wherever you catch your podcasts.

Where did all this stuff come from?

It's from China. It's manufactured in China.

Some of this fentanyl was seized by the DEA.

The rest was found in the mail by US Postal Service Inspectors.

This is essentially enough fentanyl and car fentanyl to kill every man, woman,

and child in the city of Cleveland. Just this. Just this.

Car fentanyl is a derivative used by veterinarians to tranquilize elephants.

Car fentanyl is another hundred times more potent than fentanyl.

As if you touched this stuff, it could kill you.

Yeah, just touch it. There's a reason we have a medic standing by.

This is a story about the cruelest disease you've never heard of.

It's called Frontotemporal dementia or FTD.

FTD is the number one form of dementia in Americans under the age of 60.

I was washing my hands and I looked in the mirror and I did not recognize my own face.

Didn't recognize yourself.

No, I looked in the mirror and I kept looking.

I remember. I kept looking at this woman wondering who was she.

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