We continue our series of podcasts with a focus on what happens when you are cooperating with the Government.

We continue our discussion of what happens if a person is investigated for and charged with a white collar crime. In this episode, we discuss what occurs when the defendant wishes to make a plea deal with the government.

What happens when a white collar crime prosecution begins and how does it end? In this multi-part episode, we will discuss the beginning and end of a white collar prosecution from the investigative phase through the end of trial.

Stage magicians have been around since at least the time of the ancient Egyptians. We are amazed at how someone can appear to levitate on stage or how someone can be sawed in half. It should come as no surprise, then that the art of misdirection, so critical to the work of stage magicians, is also in the arsenal of fraudsters and white collar criminals.

The Friendship Bracelet scam is a scam that is perpetuated on foreigners and travelers. It involves a scammer's knowledge of human psychology, especially the principle that most people will want to pay for a gift, even if payment is not initially required. A scammer also relies on the fact that most people just want to be left alone, even if it means paying money. It's an old scam but one that travelers encounter every day.

Wine is a multi million dollar, if not multi billion dollar, industry spread across the world. Wine has a history stretching back tens of thousands of years as humans learned to domesticate grapes and then learned that the simple product of fermentation would yield..............what today we call "wine." It is no surprise then that just as wine has a long history, wine fraud also occurs.

This is the second part of a two-part episode. In this episode, I continue my discussions with film critic Alan Cerny regarding movies that have a fraud and/or white collar theme.

This episode does contain some profanity.

This is part 1 of a 2 part episode. Fraud and White Collar Crime are topics that are naturally made for the movies and TV. A con man always uses his knowledge of human emotions and weaknesses to do his job. In the hands of good actors, directors and screenwriters, fraud and white collar crime can make for an enjoyable movie experience. I am proud to host Alan Cerny, noted movie critic, as my guest on these two podcasts as we explore fraud and white collar crime at the movies.

NOTE - this episode does contain some profanity.