meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
American Greed Podcast

The Kingpin Next Door

American Greed Podcast

CNBC

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The story of a suburban Eagle Scout turned Dark Web drug lord; Aaron Shamo launches a new type of American drug ring, recruiting other Utah millennials to help him manufacture deadly counterfeit opioids and sell them online. (Original television broadcast: 02-02-22) Check out the new season of American Greed at: https://www.cnbc.com/american-greed/

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

This is the American Greet Podcast, presented by CNBC, I'm Stacey Keech.

0:07.0

In this episode of American Greet...

0:11.0

Aaron Shemmo was the kid next door.

0:13.0

Eagles carved.

0:15.0

Churchgoer.

0:16.0

Kingpin.

0:18.0

He ran a criminal syndicate that had numerous people underneath him, millions of dollars.

0:25.0

Aaron Shemmo is a clean cut millennial from Salt Lake City.

0:29.0

A young man with the resources to succeed.

0:32.0

He had very, very good parents, good siblings, and really sort of fashioned himself a little bit of an entrepreneur.

0:39.0

But despite his daily affirmations and positive thinking, he's breaking bad. Very bad.

0:47.0

He was down in the basement, running a pill press.

0:51.0

In your able to produce seven to 10,000 pills an hour, in your churning out pills all day, you do the math.

0:59.0

Tonight, the story of an unlikely dark web drug lord, whose lifestyle is documented in social media photos that would come back to haunt him a trial.

1:09.0

A story told by the reporters who chased him.

1:12.0

You have a stereotype of what a drug kingpin is, and I don't think for a lot of people he would necessarily fit that stereotype.

1:21.0

The feds who collared him.

1:23.0

This product went to all 50 states, and the amount going to each place was just astronomical.

1:31.0

And the families whose lives he changed forever.

1:35.0

When we found out it was made in someone's basement, we're just like you have to be kidding me.

1:40.0

This was one pill. They didn't know what they were really buying.

1:46.0

Mr. Shamo was motivated entirely by greed.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CNBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CNBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.