Fraudsters
Fraudsters
Feb 14, 2023
Lou Pearlman Part III - Big Poppa's Final Ponzi Scheme
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It's time to say Bye Bye Bye to our final deep dive into Fraudster Lou Pearlman. He was a blimp scammer, a boy band scammer, and now he's a talent scout scammer. Just fork over the dough and he'll glamour shot you to stardom. Also, Lou creates 84 businesses to create the largest ponzi scheme to rip off retirees of their savings before Madoff ever did.  Listen now to how it all comes crashing down on Big Poppa as he's sent to the Big House!

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Sources:

Documentary: The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story. (2019). YouTube. Retrieved December 23, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcCRs0Ic3FI.

Book: Gray, T. (2008). The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History . Harper Collins.

Articles:

https://vault.si.com/vault/1993/01/25/baron-blimp-lou-pearlman-head-of-airship-international-ltd-is-fulfilling-adolescent-dreams-of-glory

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lou-pearlman-backstreet-boys-nsync-remembrance-7480300/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/lou-pearlman-backstreet-boys-nsync-lure-people-massive/story?id=67630954

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/13/lou-pearlman-was-disgraced-mogul-who-defrauded-s-boy-bands-then-came-million-ponzi-scheme/

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/11/pearlman200711

https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5qgey/that-time-lou-pearlman-tried-to-send-a-boy-band-to-space

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/we-live-in-the-pop-culture-world-that-lou-pearlman-created  

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/n-sync-slapped-with-150-million-lawsuit-255197/

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/backstreet-boys-sue-pearlman-trans-continental-1403688/ 

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