American Greed - Season 9 Episode 01 - A Con Man's Deadly Revenge

In this

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of American Greed the Roman brothers from Long Island are working on the phone selling 75 million dollars worth of coins to eager and naive investors. The sellers knew who they could fool and confuse and they kept coming back to the well but when the family arrested for postal and electronic fraud Joseph Roman wants

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on those who imprisoned him a total of forty thousand dollars would be paid for the murder of the judge and the prosecutor the prison cameras capture Roman conspiring with a hitman for the first time Roman's chosen Hitman tells the whole story.

His hatred for these two people was so great that he wants her in a 35 gallon drop, not a 50 but a 35 gallon drop in Levittown, Long Island. Michael Romano, 18, is an entrepreneur with a plan that he recently graduated from. Avenue High School and now sells collectible coins for a local telemarketing company. He doesn't know anything about coins, but he is a strong-willed salesman. He says Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Gatz enjoyed the power she had over people and enjoyed manipulating them and pulling their strings. and get them to do what he wanted them to do, Romano quickly decides that he has learned enough to run his own company.

He lives in this suburban house where he is already planting the seeds of a family criminal empire. Romans were from a middle class family on Long Island. From a business point of view, they were not very sophisticated, I don't think they were highly educated, but their plan was still ingenious. Which they did in 1988. Romano sets up shop in this store in nearby Massapequa and calls it Wall Street. Rare coins. He hires a small sales staff to work his phones, including his older brother, Joseph, who recently left the navy. None of these people had experience in the coin industry.

None of them collected coins. None of them liked coins, from what we understand, it was just a quick way to make money Joseph weighs almost 300 pounds and over six feet tall He's loud and imposing He's the sales manager who runs the store by hand Iron are selling a variety of coins, but Ben Franklin half dollars are particularly easy to move. Investors like them because they cost 90 silver and because they can be very cheap at a basic level with their start you can't go wrong, so They will sign and for 110, 120 or 150 dollars they will buy a couple of rounds of Ben Franklin half dollars experts in real coins known as numismatists carefully classify the minted coins on a scale of one to seventy coins that are between 60 and 70 are the most precious Roman sellers claim to have made a windfall, near-perfect coins recently discovered at estate sales and I came across the hundred rolls of Benjamin Franklin half dollars that had not seen the light of day in 40 years all day.

Sellers work all day with phones aimed at amateur collectors, mostly retired and elderly, with once-in-a-lifetime offers, so the idea was to get started. little people with silver coins tell them they are going to increase in value, make them buy more and more coins and ultimately steal their life savings and that is really their business model. The speech grabs anyone willing to listen, especially those new to buying coins. If you were a

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ed coin collector, you would never buy Michael or Joe Romano coins because you would have known right away that something was up. The thing is that the Romans are not selling rare mint condition coins discovered at estate sales, they were purchasing their coins locally, they had wholesalers located on Long Island, one of them was in Queens and Michael is sorting the coins himself itself, giving them arbitrary numbers to inflate their value.

Michael Romano decided what he wanted to sell that coin for and then slapped the grade like frankly, michael Romano's only job in his life was defrauding people by selling them fake coins and he's good at it, Michael Romano is on his way to pocketing almost seven million dollars, but that success leads to serious sibling rivalry and in 2001 Joseph quits to start his own company has been described as a fight over money has been described as a fight over sales practices Joe Roman is not leaving empty-handed he takes his brother salvatore and vincent with him joe had an amazing ability to attract people from all walks of life to do what he wanted them to do things they knew were wrong things they didn't even want to do, but he had a Incredible way to convince people to do his bidding.

He opens Last Quarter Coin Inc in the nearby kopeg using all the tricks he has. He learned from his younger brother that identical scams were being run in two different locations on Long Island. They had a rivalry between them about who makes the most money, who is the smartest, and who could outdo the other. Soon millions will also flow into Joseph Romano's pockets. Next, at American Green, we get into the Romano brothers' boiler room fraud to see how well it pays off over time. I think I made over three million dollars. Brothers Michael and Joseph Romano each perfected coin telemarketing scams separately on Long Island between 2001 and 2008, but Washington State AARP Director Doug Shedell says the real masters are their salespeople who work with the phones tirelessly.

It's like going toe-to-toe with Michael Jordan. You know you're not going to win. These guys are really good on the phone. That's all. do all day michael likes to hire border youth that he can easily control, he would select people to work for him that he knew could manipulate people with drug problems, people with emotional problems, people with family problems, artie who asks not to be reveal your identity. Revealed starts working for Michael Romano in 2006. He is 25 years old and addicted to the ghb club drug, although he knows nothing about coins, he was offered a job on the spot.

They didn't originally describe the job to me. They did a very good job. The job of showing me all his beautiful cars, boats, houses, money, watches and jewelry for a penniless drug addict. Seeing Michael's lifestyle is the only thing Artie needs to hear. I want that. I want money. I want a boat. I want a house. I want a good car soon. Arty is earning a direct commission of 17 selling collectible coins. His office is a textbook boiler room. A pressure cooker designed to make quick money. No windows, no light, just desks, phones and good pitches. Artie works the phone all day selling coins.

For anyone he can keep online, this coin has been trending for over five hundred dollars today, he can get it for 350 out of 100 potential customers. I would say maybe once or twice someone would say yes. Each page is carefully written. Every word is written. written condition amazing shine beautiful lowest price in years very limited supply we just got back into town from a big corn show and something very exciting arrived you know we're trying to create a sense of urgency to buy something artie the young man from 25 years. "A drug addict will make 250,000 during his two and a half years working for Michael Romano.

Admit that amount of money eases the pain of scamming people when you get a job that pays you 2,000 a week and your conscience really isn't." It doesn't influence it. Drugs are prohibited in the office, but after work anything goes, says attorney Mateen Imuna, who represents another Romano salesman. After work, a lot of these salespeople would go stand in lines together, go to strip clubs, go to bars, and waste a lot of time. imuna money says that michael Romano usually went out partying and did drugs with employees after hours he had that godfather mentality he was the one who made the decisions he meant not only do I control your life during work hours I control your life after work hours like Well, Joseph Roman does his job differently.

His closers are the best salesmen who don't take no for an answer. These were guys who weren't kids and knew all the angles. Tom Arnold, 38, is Joe Roman's best closer. His trick is. Befriend your clients so he can access their wallets, you would stay in touch with them, they would become your new best friend, the better you talked to people, the better results you would get. Arnold works the phones with precision and earns 25 commission on everything he sells. would inevitably close the deal because tom arnold knew how to get people to buy coins, he was great at it, he's a great lawyer, this video of arnold and Romano, Brother Salvatore, shows the men talking and enjoying smoke breaks outside of the company, but these images recorded by Joe Romano himself offer a rare behind-the-scenes look at a working boiler room.

He has installed 10 security cameras in the office to ensure that his employees comply with the script. It was like Oz was pulling the strings. Joe's idea was that no matter where I am, I can check it. About them and see what they are doing at any time in these videos The sellers are relentless repeat customers with a lot of money They are called whales Arnold's job is to get those whales to keep spending money He does this by offering deals on increasingly expensive currencies that you want to sell them as much as possible, he went from Ben Franklin to extremely rare sets of coins that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each, under the watchful eye of his boss, Arnold continues to close sales and if his brands claim they have run out of money . he always has a helpful solution: he would encourage them to get a capital loan or any kind of way to get the money for the coins.

Big sales mean big payouts in five years. Arnold says those 25 percent commissions add up quickly over the course of time. I think I made more than three million dollars at that time, but the problem with Romano's boiler rooms is that no matter how soft the promises are, how No matter how polished the lies, sooner or later customers realize they aren't getting what they paid for, criminals have a way of knowing when the house of cards is about to fall and Michael and Joe knew when it was time to move on. Go ahead for the Romans, that's part of the business plan between 2001 and 2008, both Joseph and Michael Roman will each own three coin fraud companies on Long Island and they are all the same nondescript window dressing designed to hide the past.

Is there anyone? that tells you uh, in the new company, well, aren't you part of that old company? They may say, uh, well, no, that company is gone, this is a new company next. about

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, no matter who the romans have to destroy to keep the good times going, he was just devastated and later when his back was against the wall, joseph Romano plans a gruesome

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, joseph warns judge bianco and the prosecutor yeah, murdered in the summer. 2008 tina morton is making a heartbreaking discovery in san diego her uncle ray gibbons has been caught in the roman coin fraud trap fray mortgaged his house sold anything of value emptied his bank accounts he had nothing when it was over gibbons has been giving him secretly to the Romans almost 370,000, practically ruining themselves in the process these co-men are experts, they know what to say, how to take advantage of them and they simply have no scruples born in 1923, Ray Gibbons has survived the great depression and the Second World War. where he served in the navy aboard the uss warhawk after the war gibbs became a design engineer settled in texas and eventually retired from lockheed aircraft in 1991. he worked his entire life lived very frugally and hoped to live a nice life when he retired, but when the Roman salesman attacked him in 2007, Ray Gibbons is not a war hero, he is just a source of easy money, they are very smart, he is a sports fan, so they talked about baseball, football , basketball with him, they earned his trust, so he called them his most trusted people. friend 2600 miles away in virginia john is a recently retired federal probation officer who spent 30 years dealing with bad guys, but that experience won't protect him either when the romans come calling in 2004. i feel like he should have been cautious in terms of how This went wrong, but these guys had a low point because their family and friends don't know the full story.

He was asked to keep his identity a secret when Joe Romano's top salesman, Tom Arnold, calls with a deal on rolls of Ben Franklin coins for $390 jumps on it, so I thought, well, this must be a good one. investment and then he would make some money and needless to say that point didn't work out for John to continue buying more coins. Tom Arnold sweetens the deal he says he found. a rich and mysterious outside investor who wants to buy all of John's coins for a huge profit, they would explain to him that the big investor was a billionairevery rich and didn't want to go to the trouble of buying individual roles. gibbons is also hearing the same promise his supposed benefactor is a japanese businessman named mr ahita mr ajita represented his payday he never met him but talked about him as if he knew him i mean he would say oh he has a private plane . has all these things but to complete the sale john and ray gibbons are told they must buy more ten thousand dollar coins twelve thousand dollar thirty thousand dollar coins even a roll of forty four thousand dollar coins the idea was again to move the line of meta the investor who was going to buy his coins not only wanted rolls now that investor wanted gold coins that investor wanted silver coins but every time roman investors are scheduled to buy john and ray gibbons sets the deals fall apart, well, the investor decided he wanted to buy a couple of additional roles it was always one or two additional roles or whatever and needless to say we never got to the point where the investor ever bought them there is a good reason why these deals they never happened admit the salesman tom arnold they were imaginary there were no real investors but John and Ray Gibbons don't know they both borrow money from friends and family who sink deeper and deeper.

I cashed in on the life insurance policy I had. I basically cleaned out a good portion of my savings accounts. It was almost endless. scheme because once they got involved they felt they couldn't get out until they got their money and they were never going to get their money while john ray gibbons and thousands of other Roman clients are filing for bankruptcy michael and joseph enjoy the fruits of their loot they lived in a middle class and residential area. They didn't do anything extravagant, but their bank accounts still work on their own. Michael invests much of this seven million that he is raising directly into savings.

He put his money in a checking account like the average person because he's convinced himself over the years that he didn't do anything wrong, but he likes to splurge, says former employee artie, the range rover, a nice bmw, a nice boat and a nice house, he throws parties at his West Islip bachelor pad and when he gets to town the money is flowing freely, he was definitely a bachelor. a guy who tries to attract all the different women every night and, you know, move the nice cars and the nice watches and the next closest older brother, Joseph Romano, still lives down the street from the Levittown house he grew up in, but the suburban facade he created. for himself on Long Island doesn't tell the whole story over a period of five or six years joseph Roman made over $13 and a half million Joe Roman spends his money on real estate in Florida invests over a million dollars in a mansion of palm beach was built in this gated community his children were in a private school his wife did not work he was able to use the currency to make the profits live a very pleasant lifestyle one of Joe's passions is collecting vintage cars he spends tens of thousands of dollars rebuilding his prizes from scratch he came to New York regularly he took people out he liked to be in the big man at the bar so to speak he was really a very flashy and extravagant person and it's all based on the profits of a coin fraud that left thousands of victims dry for so long.

Since they don't fight back next on American, Greed is about to take on his 78-year-old rival. I called him a lot. I called it what it was. I should have caught him in the hole like a horse in the fall of 2008. 78 years old. Old Walt Shepherd is furious with Romano's salesman who constantly harasses him, particularly the best closer, Tom Arnold Shepard, spent 141 thousand dollars on coins that he bought over the phone and now he is out of money. At first he was paying approximately 300 for the first roll of coins. but when I got to the end, it was something like 30,000.

Shepard began secretly recording the conversations he has with Tom Arnold. He knew someone should do something about it. The tapes gave me proof and you know, and it was perfectly obvious. Well, it just so happens that Shepard lives deep in the oak-covered hills of North Carolina and has never been afraid to fight for what he believes in. In 1944, a fourteen-year-old shepherd lies about his age and enlists in the US Air Force. army, where he sees action in the pacific a year later he is already a sergeant on iwo jima when his captain discovers his age and threatens to send him back home I told him no, I'm not going anywhere I'll stay here after the war Shepard spends his He lives selling life insurance, designing mobile homes, and patenting four inventions, but none of that matters once Tom Arnold gets his number.

Arnold always has good news. He says Shepard's coins are worth ten times what he paid for them. okay, let me show your portfolio on the screen here, even Arnold. I found an investor to buy Shepard's coins, but the deal never works out. It was always an excuse that something happened or that they couldn't reach an agreement and they would spend a few more days and stretch it well and then. After that I had some time to calm down and then they would hit you back for another roll of coins. The problem is that I have a deadline of 15 minutes from now.

They never left you alone. They called and called and called. Now every Shepard has to do it. what's shown for 141,000 is a bunch of unopened coins that he can't sell on tape. He eventually loses patience with Tom Arnold thanks to Arnold's lies. Shepard expects his coins to be worth seven figures, but a local appraiser is less optimistic and tells him that they are worth 1.4 million and are really worth 20,000. That's how egregious the lies were here. He just confirmed, he just confirmed what he probably already knew in 2008. Shepard turns over the recordings of him to state investigators.

He's not the only one making complaints about the Romano brothers. The Coin Ring says Assistant U.S. Attorney Larry Gatz, if it were one or two complaints, wouldn't have called for a full federal investigation, but there were dozens and dozens and dozens of complaints. Gatz and postal inspector Bill Hessel begin to monitor the Romano brothers' operations. He interviews victims and examines thousands of bank transactions. Hessel even works undercover using a hidden camera to capture Tom Arnold hard at work. The evidence they collect is astonishing. 3,000 victims nationwide lost more than $60 million to Roman telemarketers on November 24. Federal agents.

Jump to the boiler rooms run by Michael and Joseph Roman The sellers were arrested The coins were confiscated The people confessed It was certainly a good day for the coin fraud investigation Among those arrested are the seller Artie and Tom Arnold when he meets with the Prosecutor Artie Gatz is I was offered a sobering choice: either I'm going to get out of the business, accept our responsibility, get my life right, or I'm going to go to jail for 100 years, no babies, no buts, so I chose, uh, get my life right. Artie isn't the only one turning on his ex.

Boss Tom Arnold and several of the other salesmen will rat out the Romans to win plea deals. We had videos, we had the audios, we had the victims, but for the seller to appear and say that he was wrong and I know that he was lying, that is the icing on the cake. In the cake, both Artie and Tom Arnold plead guilty and are currently awaiting sentencing. The four Roman brothers. Michael Joseph Salvatore and Vincent will be charged with mail and wire fraud. Their cases are overseen by federal judge Joseph Bianco. Judge Bianco was a former prosecutor who is known as being a very competent judge and a tough judge, Judge Bianco allows the brothers to post bail as long as they promise no more telemarketing operations, but Joseph already made 12 million dollars and When he returns to his Florida mansion he begins a new operation with help.

From a friend named David Merkovic Merkovic was a car salesman in Florida, that's how he and Joe met as neighbors and through the Merkavik car business, a six-and-a-half-foot-tall, 240-pound ex-Marine has seen Joseph Roman living large in florida and now he wants to try it too. You remember David Merkovic was selling cars. He didn't know anything about coins either. This fraud requires nothing more than the ability to lie and manipulate. In 2009, they opened collectible coins in Palm Beach County. Murkovic will run the operation while Joe. he sits quietly in the background collecting more money turns out to be a boiler room coin company very similar to the one established in new york david merkovic was the store operator of that company roman is able to fill his bank account very well for almost a year until the feds find out what he's doing when we found out what was going on the financial records we obtained indicated that joe had made over a million dollars during that time in march 2010 joseph's bail was revoked Roman and soon after Judge Joseph Bianco sentences him to 15 years in federal prison Roman is surprised because he expected a slap on the wrist It's not a serious prison sentence Former salesman Tom Arnold says Joseph Roman made it clear that he holds the man personally responsible Judge Joseph Bianco and the prosecutor Lara Gatz Joe said that if you give me 20 years I will kill them and I thought he was joking and then the rest is history people say that I am going to kill that person I am going to break his legs I want to beat him up normally stops there Mr.

Romano didn't stop there next on American Greed an exclusive interview with the hitman Romano hires to commit a murder. He says that he has lists of people he needs taken care of. He walks into a boiler room on cnbcprime.com. American

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greedtv on twitter we will be back in spring 2012 joseph Roman is behind bars sentenced to 15 years in prison for his part in a series of 60 million telemarketing coin scans now thirsty for La revenge says that Lara Gatz, the assistant US attorney who locked up him and his three brothers, he was the one who robbed people, but in the end it came to light that he blamed me personally for his situation.

Gatz isn't allowed to talk about what happens next, but FBI Special Agent Ronald Taricci says Romano begins planning a gruesome way to reduce Gatz's sentence. He felt that if he could eliminate the judge and prosecutor in this case, somehow another prosecutor and another judge would view his sentence differently and thus reduce his prison time. Prison cameras catch him with a sympathetic ear plotting against a career criminal who has also been sentenced by Federal Judge Joseph Bianco. Joe proceeded to ask the other inmate if he knew anyone on the outside who could help take out the judge or kill the prosecutor in a case.

Gatz Romano's new friend has good news: he meets a freelance assassin named Bobby Russo who does this type of work all the time in an exclusive American Greed interview Bobby Russo says he met Joe Romano for the first time on the 21st August at the Nassau County Correctional Facility. big man, he is a mountain of a man, he must be six foot six and at that time he must have weighed around 310 pounds, he is definitely an imposing and intimidating guy. Romano and Russo get right to the point and neither seems to realize that the prison security cameras are recording their conversation.

Joe is investigating Bobby. He had never met Bobby before, so obviously Joe is being very careful in his first meeting with Bobby Romano. He starts with small talk, but Russo is not in the mood to chat and I told him: I'm here for something else. He said his eyes lit up there was a small smile on his face, he had a doubt that he knew what he was telling him and he wanted me to do it. Romano has a smaller job to test Russo first, he wants it. beat up a Long Island mechanic who has recovered two of his prized classic cars and demands seventy thousand dollars.

Romano will pay Rousseau three thousand dollars to teach the mechanic a lesson. I wanted to see if I could go ahead with that act. behavior and if he could then we would be out of racing Russo's contact abroad will be Roman David Merkovic's partner Russo will be given a down payment of 1 500 and will be asked to bring proof after he deals with the mechanic at ending Bobby's beating was to call David and tell him the party was a success and that's exactly what happened on September 25, 2012. Russo and Murkovic meet in the parking lot of a Long Island Home Depot.

He shows Murkovic evidence that the mechanic has been hit. This photo taken of the victim during the assault, I show him a photograph of what we did to the mechanic and he is excited, he loves it. I may be a little stingy, but I do a good job. A satisfied Merkavic hands Ruso the fifteen hundred dollars he is owed when Murkovic calls his boss. The good news Roman can't hide the joy of him I'm in and myself you know and I laugh out loud thinking about it Later that day Murkovic calls Russo again and asks him to sit down again to talk more about businessrusso is careful to record the meeting as it goes we met and he sat my car and told me that joseph wanted judge bianco and prosecutor gatz killed what are we talking about money wise i have to go i see forty thousand dollars and he he was fine with it, he did it.

I don't say a word about the price he wanted to charge, but for that price Markovic says his boss is not satisfied with just the murder, he is looking for revenge. David tells Bobby that Joe would like the trophies to include decapitations of the heads held in formaldehyde as well. like mutilation of the prosecutor, you have to make it disappear, he wants it in a 35 gallon drop, not a 50 but a 35 gallon cap, it was so strange that it didn't take me off balance for a second, it was definitely a denial. Plot Merkavick gives Russo 22,000 cash as a down payment, but it has to happen fast.

This must be done immediately within the next two weeks. Now the clock is ticking and two lives are at stake as this dangerous hitman approaches. I would charge. 22,000 to kill the judge and kill the prosecutor the ex's job emphasizing that I have to do it by a certain date I have a deadline I have a due date coming up on American greed as Joseph Roman's murder plot comes to light Killing stage We have a plane together We saddle ourselves Can Bobby Russo carry out his boss's orders? Everything is going great for Joe except for one thing October 2012 Joe Roman sits behind bars waiting for news that hitman Bobby Russo has killed the judge and prosecutor who put him in jail Joe believes it's a plot to kill the judge the prosecutor is making good progress he thinks his plan is working like a charm russo has been given 22,000 and a deadline now it's his turn to make a move i have a duty i have to do it i have to take care of these two people, pick up my money, but Russo has chosen not to share a key detail with Joseph Romano and his partner David Merkovic.

So far there is only one problem. I'm a smotherer and we've been to Turky Vic and Romano. Since day one and we've been recording every step of this investigation, Bobby Russo is actually 18-year veteran Suffolk County undercover narcotics detective Robert Strecker, and he's eager to take these men down. Really what Romano and Markovic were doing was striking at the foundation of the judicial system that they were trying to undermine you know what holds our society together. Strecker doesn't mind his real name being used, but he does ask that his face be hidden to protect future covert operations.

He says the entire murder-for-hire plot has been carefully monitored and supervised by FBI Special Agent Ronaldo Taricci The entire case was truly a collaborative effort by all agencies involved Suffolk County Police FBI National County Police Office of the federal prosecutor nassau county corrections federal judge joseph bianco and prosecutor larry gatz have been carefully protected by the US marshals since the plot was discovered, the fellow inmate who connected Romano to Bobby Russo had originally been using a wire to the FBI all the time, he felt that even in the world of criminals there was a line that should not be crossed and the line was being crossed by Joe Roman asking him to kill the judge and the prosecutor and the photo of the beat up mechanic from Long Island that he sold Strecker's cover was faked with the help of the mechanic, so we basically asked him to lie down as if he had been beaten. and then he took a blurry photo as if someone was running away after beating the mechanic.

It worked very well. The entire plot has been carefully documented and now Agent Taricci shuts it down. FBI agent Swarm Romano Cell after being mirandized provided a full confession and scientific warrant statement about his plot to kill the judge and prosecutor at the same time agent taricci is in florida arresting david merkovic while at his home We found eighteen thousand dollars in two packages of nine thousand dollars in a safe, as well as a shipment of pistols in that same safe caught red-handed David Merkevik pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit murder and is sentenced to 24 years in August 2013.

Five months later, in federal court, Joseph Roman claims that the entire assassination plot has been disproportionately exaggerated that he had over an hour-long speech about his view of this case, his view of the government and also made references to Moby Dick and felt attacked as Moby Dick was the target, the man who once referred to his coin scam victims as whales, now compares himself to the most famous whale of all made an analogy with himself With the whale being stuck with harpoons, the judge does not buy his whale tail and Joseph Roman is sentenced to two life sentences in addition to the 15 he is currently serving. from numbers to letters you will never want letters in the federal system because it's life, it's the end of the road for the Romano family Michael Romano is sentenced to 20 years in prison for mail and wire fraud Brother Salvatore and Vincent plead guilty to mail fraud and electronic too and they are sentenced to seven years I think their next family reunion will be paid for by the department of justice today three thousand victims across the country are fighting to recover the coins on which Walt Shepard spent 141 thousand dollars had been appraised for less than 20 thousand dollars flooded him with taxes and he struggles to survive on social security if I didn't own my house here and I had to rent a place I couldn't do it, you know, I couldn't live ray gibbons lost 370 thousand dollars today he lives in a center assisted care facility in California, where the highlight of his day is playing dominoes with his niece Tina Morton.

She says the one-time war hero suffers from dementia. If there's a benefit to that it's that he doesn't remember the coin scam because that's all he talked about for months and months and months he was just devastated by targeting the defenseless the Roman brothers built a 60 million dollar criminal empire they lived a life of lies and fraud and they finally caught up with him and when joseph Roman threw the coin greed for murder he lost everything next welcome to the mile high club you are at 32,000 feet on a Gulfstream plane with a stewardess feeding you caviar a scam 31 million dollar american greed scam explorers and suckers next on cnbc the fastest growing cable network in primetime cnbc your