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Introducing: Kingdom of Fraud

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It’s the unlikeliest of criminal partnerships: a devout polygamist from an insular Utah sect joining forces with a shadowy Armenian tycoon from LA. The result - a billion dollar fraud conspiracy...

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How does this member of a polygamous organization in Utah, who earnestly star...

how do you go from there to goal-for-arms private jets, meeting the president of Turkey?

I'm Michelle McFeed.

I'm an investigative journalist who has worked the crime and corruption beat for decades.

But in all my years reporting, this must be the strangest conspiracy I've ever ever come across.

We were God's chosen kingdom on earth.

There's Jacob, an oddball, even within his isolated polygamous community.

He was so socially awkward in Levant, a swaggering Armenian businessman with an eye for

a deal. He has a very scar-faced persona. Together they'd cook up a truly audacious fraud, an empire entirely built on lies. We found another bank account, another bank account, and another bank account. Millions and millions of dollars stolen from the United States Treasury.

Soon, Jacob would find himself far from the quiet plains of Utah in a dangerous new world. Seduced by this lifestyle. Trips, money, big house, nice cars. This is a story of high men and crooked cops, paranoia and revenge. It was a scene out of a Hollywood movie.

It at the heart of it in a unlikely partnership. Two men from entirely different worlds united by an ambition to get filthy, rich. But there's a reason empires don't have two kings. Jacob told Levant, you're ruining my life. And when it all hits the fan, just how long will their alliance survive?

The largest tax investigation in American history, he's going to go to Turkey and never

come back.

You need to tell me what you know is somebody coming after me.

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