The New Untouchables
Real Progressives and the creators of “The Con” present a new series, “The New Untouchables: The Pecora Files,” meticulously detailing the rampant financial fraud that has been poisoning our economy for the last century, and what is to be done about it. “The Con” took a simple but revolutionary approach to explaining the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008. The New Untouchables presents the heroes, one at a time, who sought to prevent it and hold the elite predators accountable.
S2:E14 The Pecora Files: Why the Media Doesn’t Understand Control Fraud
This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.
Paul Jay is a remarkable journalist, filmmaker, and political commentator who has been shining lights into all the right places for years. According to Matt Taibbi, the news is the new religion and we are in the midst of a holy war. Whether it’s the Clinton apparatus that influenced Rachel Maddow and the Beltway press to...
S2:E13 The Pecora Files: Ferdinand Pecora Where Are You Now?
This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.
If you’ve ever wondered why this series bears the name of Ferdinand Pecora, watching this episode will leave no doubt in your mind. Patrick Lovell, Eric Vaughan, and Steve Grumbine talk with Michael Perino, author of “The Hell Hound of Wall Street,” the story of Ferdinand Pecora’s investigation into Wall Street in 1933 that led to Glass-S...
S2:E12 The Pecora Files: Populism Saved Us Before. Where is it Now?
This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.
Thomas Frank is one of the most prolific authors and experts in the American experiment/experience existing today. His prescient work consists of “What’s the Matter with Kansas” to “Listen Liberal” to “The People, No.” The sum of Frank’s profound revelations is to fill in the blanks how a massive dystopia undergirded by the enormity of an econom...
S2:E11 The Pecora Files: Systemic Corruption is the Point
This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.
Countless numbers of Americans believe all politicians are corrupt and there’s nothing they can do about it, but this episode’s guest, Dennis Kucinich, once the youngest Mayor of a major US City, Cleveland, Ohio in the early 70’s and later elected to Congressman, reveals the remarkable story of the “Boy Mayor” who stood up to corruption...
S2:E10 The Pecora Files: Justice is Coming
This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite “Control Fraud” driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.
Bruce Jacobs, a veteran prosecutor and defense attorney in Miami, joins Patrick Lovell, Steve Grumbine and Eric Vaughan for a discussion beginning with the concept of integrity.
The story of David vs. Goliath has been memorialized throughout history and popular culture as each generation puts its own spin on the timeless story to transla...
S2:E9 The Pecora Files: Ignore at Your Own Peril
This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today. Co-hosts Patrick Lovell, Steve Grumbine and Eric Vaughan delve into the opaque world of misdirection that obfuscates the true nature of the scheme which is theft by deception. In this episode our guests Kathleen Engel, research professor of law specializing in financial services at Suffolk University in Boston, and Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, former foreign exchange analyst at the Fede...
S2:E8 The Pecora Files: Insurance is the Point
This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.
In this episode, co-hosts Patrick Lovell, Steve Grumbine and Eric Vaughan talk with Terrie Crowley, who fought her illegal foreclosure in the courts of Chicago for 12 years through 11 judges on her own against the legal fire power of one of the largest financial firms in the world. She understood the financial system having been both a broke...
S2:E7 The Pecora Files: You Really Thought You Knew It All
This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.
Steve Grumbine, Patrick Lovell, and Eric Vaughan are joined in this episode by attorneys Thomas Cox and Max Gardner who are legal professionals and experts in real estate and foreclosure law making them invaluable “whistle-blowers” in the legal profession and judiciary as they expose the criminal rot within the system.
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S2:E6 The Pecora Files: Smoking Gun
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This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and still with us today.
Ask a thousand random people what climate change is and does and imagine the array of responses you’d get. It would be great if the baker, the butcher, and the brewer could unpack an accurate depiction of cause and effect that leads to a solution...
S2:E5 The Pecora Files: When the Foundation Rots, Systems Collapse
The New Untouchables is an extraordinary journey that reveals regular people from around the country who actually had the character to do their jobs correctly. People doing their jobs correctly isn’t particularly the extraordinary part, rather, the grotesque revelations about how many people were willing to lie, steal and cheat their way to fictional profits perversely incentivized by a criminal racket who never paid the price of accountability because CEO’s were able to float above the law puppeteering the whole thing and the law let them get away with it because everyone got in line and danced to the...
