Artistic License to Steal

When the winner of a $16 million jackpot refuses to identify himself, officials suspect a rigged game. It turns into the biggest lottery scam in American history. (Original television broadcast: 9-17-2018) Want to binge watch your Greed? The latest episodes at: https://www.cnbc.c ...  Show more

The feds link Joseph Jose Banks to 20 bank robberies totaling millions of dollars in losses. But from a cell in a high-rise jail, he shows the world he won't be caged. (Original television broadcast: 9-15-2016) Want to binge watch your Greed? The latest episodes at: https://www.c ...  Show more

Basquiat started as a graffiti artist but soon through talent and ambition he became one of the greatest painters in American history, an artist whose works regularly set records for their auction prices. And you know what that means… crime! Meet the art fraudsters pushing fak ...

He’s the art detective who hunts stolen masterpieces and who re-unites works of art with their rightful owners years after they have been looted.

From lost works by artists like Picasso or Warhol to flash designer watches worth more than €100,000, Chris Marinello of Art ...  Show more

Who can put a price on art? Every year, anonymous buyers and sellers across the planet move works of fine art for millions of dollars, with no questions asked. It's a playground of the well-off -- and, it turns out, one of the best places in the world to launder dirty money. I ...

Alec looks at the art world from two angles -- from someone in it, and from someone who has observed the world from a distance. First, writer Michael Shnayerson -- his latest book, Boom, gives an exhaustive history of how today’s art market came to be. Shnayerson writ ...