Back in March 2012, the FBI charged down wine expert Rudy Karniawen's front door and made

a shocking discovery, one that finally closed a four-year-long investigation.

The designer's suit-wearing, Lamborghini driving Karniawen wasn't everything he claimed to be.

He'd been scamming some of the world's wealthiest people out of millions of dollars.

How?

Well, crack open your favorite bottle and pour yourself a glass.

This story has notes of deception, betrayal, and more than a hint of fraud.

Because we're investigating how one man and his family stole millions from bankers and wine

officiators.

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To find out exactly what happened, we need to go back to the year 2001, when a mysterious

new contender appeared on the U.S. wine auction scene.

His name was Rudy Kerni Awen, and two years prior he traveled from Indonesian to the U.S. to study accounting at California State

University, Northridge. Little else was known about him other than his interest in wines, but he was

about to become embroiled in one of the biggest scams the country has ever known. To understand

the madness that came next, you've got to understand Rudy's true passion,

Burgundies.

These are wines grown exclusively in the Burgundy region of Eastern France, and they're super expensive.

Many vineyards in Burgundy have been owned by the same families for generations, using the same soil to grow the same grapes.

And there's something kind of romantic about that idea, so romantic that some collectors are willing

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