White Lies: The Scammer Who Left Brides In The Lurch And Couldn't Stop

Chameleon

Audiochuck | Campside Media

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

4.6 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Michael Esposito hired 50 journalists, promised them a dream job, and disappeared without paying a dime. Years later, he resurfaced under various new names, taking tens of thousands from couples on their wedding day. But one of his early victims never let it go in their attempt to unmask the scammer who just wouldn’t stop.

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0:00.0	Campside Media
0:02.9	Hello?
0:06.2	What is, so what do you want me to say?
0:08.7	Oh, it's just my
0:09.8	Camelion.
0:11.2	Camelian Weekly.
0:12.9	Oh.
0:15.1	I can relate a lot to Justin Sales,
0:18.1	a guy who wanted badly to work in a big media job. We both grew up in places
0:22.8	that weren't exactly global hotspots for glamorous writing gigs. In my case, the Appalachian
0:28.4	Frontiers of Western Maryland. In his case, Providence, Rhode Island. But Justin was ambitious
0:34.1	and talented. So after a decade or so of unsatisfying jobs at local newspapers, he decided to move to Los Angeles
0:41.8	to try and make his dreams come true.
0:44.3	That was back in early 2016.
0:47.0	Justin was in his late 20s.
0:49.0	And he hadn't been in L.A. long when he got a break.
0:52.3	I was contacted by a head hunting firm that was looking to staff up a new media venture, which
1:02.0	claimed that it was, quote, the Huffington Post, but better.
1:06.6	Ambitious.
1:07.8	That was the literal tagline for the company. The name of the company was
1:10.9	Nuzerati. Justin didn't exactly love the name or the tagline, but it felt like a good
1:16.5	opportunity. He went in for an interview with the founder, a guy named Michael Esposito,
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