In light of recent news about Leonard Glenn Francis' escape from house arrest ahead of his U.S. sentencing, we're revisiting our episode with Doyle Hodges, Commander, USN, ret., and Stephen Wrage, Professor, U.S. Naval Academy. They describe how "Fat Leonard" of Glenn Defense Marine Asia organized and executed a scheme that corrupted at least 30 officers and compromised over 400 others. (This episode was originally published in 2019.)

Tom Wright joins the podcast to discuss the latest developments in the &lsquoFat Leonard&rsquo story, summarized from his lively podcast series by the same name. Tom recorded hours of interviews with Leonard Glenn Francis and so brings fresh insight to this lengthy saga as we await Leonard&rsquos sentencing in response&mdashseven years later&mdashto his 2015 guilty plea.

Matt Sarnecki joins the podcast today. Matt is a senior producer with the OCCRP and the direct of a new documentary about the murders in Slovakia of Jan Kuciak and Martina Ku&scaronnírová. The Killing of a Journalist explores the public outrage, the criminal investigation that was based in part on leaked phone records, and the political fall-out from this tragedy.

Investigative journalist Erlend Ofte Arntsen of Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang joins the podcast to discuss his work on the Tinder Swindler story, recently adapted into a Netflix documentary. Erlend and his colleagues broke the story of Shimon Hayut, an Israeli con man who found women on the dating app, impressed them with private jets and bodyguards, concocted stories about being in great personal danger and then drained their bank accounts and left them with extraordinary credit card debt.

As is holiday tradition, we're revisiting our podcast with Peter Hellman, who describes Rudy Kurniawan&rsquos audacious scheme to defraud wine collectors in his excellent book, In Vino Duplicitas: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire. (This episode was originally published in 2019.)