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American Greed Podcast

The Sky's the Limit

American Greed Podcast

CNBC

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

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A brash New York stock broker gets sober and re-invents himself as an international power player. (Original television broadcast: 11-06-2015) Want to binge watch your Greed? The latest episodes at: https://www.cnbc.com/american-greed/

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0:00.0

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

0:08.0

In this episode of American Greet,

0:11.0

Ross Mandel is a pumped up New York power broker.

0:15.0

I'm coming to you on cut, unedited.

0:20.0

Flexing his muscle on Wall Street and living a life of excess.

0:24.0

He was a cocaine user. He was a heavy alcohol user and used it to

0:29.0

stay pumped up.

0:31.0

After hitting bottom, he turns it around and gives up his

0:35.0

delinquent weight.

0:37.0

I'm Ross Mandel.

0:39.0

By publicly sharing my personal battles, I can help millions of people

0:43.0

avoid the pitfalls and the rattles that I've had to claw my

0:47.0

way out of my old life.

0:49.0

But Ross Mandel replaces drugs and alcohol with addictions to money.

0:53.0

Power and pseudo-sublippity.

0:56.0

I paid millions of dollars.

0:59.0

And now he stands accused of orchestrating a $140 million stock scam.

1:05.0

It was mind-boggling with things he would do.

1:08.0

Everyone would be left scratching their heads saying,

1:11.0

how was he not in trouble?

1:13.0

Well, eventually he got in trouble.

1:16.0

Yes! I was still under arrest!

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