Michelle McPhee
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Is somebody coming after me?
Listen to Kingdom of Fraud starting on May 12th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Oh, I thought you were going to say endowed.
I'm Michelle McPhee, and I've been unraveling the strangest criminal alliance I've ever reported on.
A Mormon polygamist and an Armenian businessman.
But how long can this alliance last?
Is somebody coming after me?
Listen to Kingdom of Fraud starting on May 12th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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The Binge. Feed your true crime obsession. Remember what I said at the beginning of this story? Sarah King seemed to be speeding towards a collision. She's bobbing and weaving, in and out of traffic, searching for daylight. Well, at this point, the marijuana empire was stalled. But Sarah's mortgage on those two industrial buildings wasn't going anywhere.
The Binge. Feed your true crime obsession. Remember what I said at the beginning of this story? Sarah King seemed to be speeding towards a collision. She's bobbing and weaving, in and out of traffic, searching for daylight. Well, at this point, the marijuana empire was stalled. But Sarah's mortgage on those two industrial buildings wasn't going anywhere.
It feels like we need one of those walls with photos, pins, and string on it. You know, the ones in a detective TV show. A murder board. Except instead of a map of bodies and bloody crime scenes, we're going to track money. How it moves from a contract on a yacht to cash in a Chanel pocketbook to another contract in a glove box in a Ferrari.
It feels like we need one of those walls with photos, pins, and string on it. You know, the ones in a detective TV show. A murder board. Except instead of a map of bodies and bloody crime scenes, we're going to track money. How it moves from a contract on a yacht to cash in a Chanel pocketbook to another contract in a glove box in a Ferrari.
It seemed like loans were happening so fast and loose it was hard to keep track of who owed what to whom. It was like trying to play a shell game in the bottom of the ocean. And on the bottom of the ocean, there are, what else? A lot of hungry bottom feeders.
It seemed like loans were happening so fast and loose it was hard to keep track of who owed what to whom. It was like trying to play a shell game in the bottom of the ocean. And on the bottom of the ocean, there are, what else? A lot of hungry bottom feeders.
Sarah was living the dream she told me that she had wanted. Being the boss lady in charge, lady mafia. But it also looked to me like that territory came with a lot of riffraff. Pretenders, felons, and hucksters. Now that she was a hard money lender, desperate people would come to her for help. She'd negotiate hard. They'd have to kiss the fucking ring. She'd be a kingmaker. She'd be rich.
Sarah was living the dream she told me that she had wanted. Being the boss lady in charge, lady mafia. But it also looked to me like that territory came with a lot of riffraff. Pretenders, felons, and hucksters. Now that she was a hard money lender, desperate people would come to her for help. She'd negotiate hard. They'd have to kiss the fucking ring. She'd be a kingmaker. She'd be rich.
But was she ready for it? From Sony Music Entertainment, this is Lady Mafia. It's a story about going from lawyer to lawless, living high and blowing millions. I'm Michelle McPhee. This is episode four, Cut Up Into Little Pieces.