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you're watching CNBC on demand in this episode of American Greed in a city that makes money making believe Tracy hudsona mixes well dangerously well Tracy introduces herself as an up-and-coming model actress and coming out was fun, very sexy, the good life that only she can access them they would film in big houses in fancy cars on vacation where the Ritz Carlton and Grand Cayman perform in the world, so it's a little strange when she wants a job as an assistant. Wow, I have this great person who she is so overqualified that she is not. the assistant role that Tracy wants not when she can do so much more being a stuntwoman, it was very important for her to think that we are very similar and you won't believe the stun that she achieves, she was very good at trying it.

She imitates Jumana's life a lot, choose me, this is not the first time she has been accused of identity theft. Tracy had a very long criminal record. The more we investigated, the more we learned about the victims. It is not the first time that she has deceived people's hearts. I found out that Tracy was Leading a double life, so many things that never happened, all made up, but when she zeroes in on a millionaire single mother, I found out she'd been funneling all that money from the college fund, she stumbles upon the most important part of his life.

On her way down Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, business owner and aspiring YouTube star named Tracy Hudsona leaves for a photo shoot for a glossy magazine about female entrepreneurs. We're seeing Tracy at the top of the game and the game she's in. Gambling is criminal, so this is Peter Marco in Beverly Hills, much of what we know about madness comes from his self-produced YouTube show called Homeless Millionaires, which is to say his own sense of reality. It follows Tracy and her husband, the former football pro named Daryl. hoods about her life living close to an extravagant lifestyle for all to see and admire living well as our billionaire comments the show is based on her day job running a concierge company with her husband called Elite luxlight she says her connections give access guests to a world of luxury and exclusivity, from beachfront rentals to exotic cars, sold-out concerts through this Homeless Billionaires episode that reveals Patricia's reality show is a crime show in the city of NY.

Two financial investigators are walking through every frame of homeless millionaires and were impressed with Tracy's arrogance. Life is the complete opposite. They believe it is evidence of massive bank fraud and identity theft. They have been hired by an accountant who says Tracy has taken millions from her high-profile client and that the homeless millionaires could provide proof of where the money was. He called us and said. I believe there is large-scale internal theft taking place. Can you see it? Julie Schwartz, a former assistant district attorney, is one of the investigators. Her partner Sarah Nazir is a forensic accountant.

They're not just looking at the numbers they're trying to get. In the mind of the subject, they dive deeper into Tracy's life listening to every word in homeless millionaires tracing where Tracy enjoyed and who she involved. She has a Facebook account. She has an Instagram account. She is quite active in both. It is useful information to connect. We analyzed her criminal history and knew immediately that we had a convicted felon. I mean, it wasn't just an arrest, she's been doing this for years, in fact, Tracy was released from prison just five years earlier for identity theft. tax evasion and wire fraud Tracy crosses over and I'll move to get Brander, she's really just a thief, investigators have to make their rights, we'd see charges for blowing up a restaurant in New York or a plane traveler or something, so we could connect that to Tracy. she was in Miami before going on a cruise.

I was able to see the credit card charges in Miami at the same time she spent money on everything from Amazon Prime videos to shoes, jewelry, luxury vacations for herself, her family's investigators for the company's credit cards and bank accounts. victim who madly crushed him brought her to his house treated her like family she makes her way into your life and then steals everything you have. I have come across other serial scammers and she is a turn on once you do it once. and you get away with it and you keep doing it over and over again because you can and it's worse because she does it to people that in 2015 actress and television personality Jovana Kid moves with her family from the east coast to Calabasas, a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles, my ex-husband moved out of the area.

We decided it was time to move. I asked the children. Everyone was on board. His ex-husband is NBA star Jason Kidd, who played for the New Jersey Nets during his marriage. His messy divorce would be finalized. in 2007 and then seven years later, another challenge for Jumana, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. We moved here, but I had to have radiation and some other treatments, and they were extremely exhausting, so my kids didn't have any. driver's license, you know, they were just, you know, in a completely new place, that's when a friend recommended someone she worked with before a business woman who knows the famous clients, the owner of mine was an accomplished woman who I spoke two languages, but I said you are too. qualified for what I need jamana has no reason to question the resume and it would be a few more years until a journalist makes the product he presents to the world there is no requirement that it has any basis in reality which I believe is a story like that of Tracy, it's really emblematic that Gabrielle Bluestone begins investigating Tracy's past in 2021.

She claimed that she graduated from high school, but told the judge under oath that she had only completed some college, so it seems that his claims of a title are false and then there is his acting credits, if you look at his IMDb page, he claimed that he had a recurring role on the show Weeds as well as a few other productions. How much truth is not really clear? What is clear from the bluestones reports is how dangerous Tracy is. Tracy Hudson is a personable and very glamorous serial con artist. She had such a long criminal record that she didn't want to do anything about it.

She doesn't check Tracy's background. That's because Tracy is one step ahead of her in what will become her first. jumana misstep like before we even got to the hiring process she mentioned it like it was a favor and a win this could be so easy since i have a concierge service my company for germano the setup seems ideal paying a simple rate. to Tracy's company instead of hiring her as an employee, she did not have to give her social security number or any personal information about her. My finance team managed it and no one saw any problems.

Tracy is very good at gaining people's trust. relying on fitting in and then taking all the money in American

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Tracy finds a way to get to Japan to get the other person who cared a lot about my kids to like me, that's where she really started to play a role in my life. Cumana is Tracy's birth target to strike for the price of only a couple thousand dollars a month, Jamonic Kid hires Tracy Hudson to be his assistant in October 2015, but Jumana doesn't know about Jumana's criminal past. Tracy. I thought she was winning. I thought, wow, like she has this. this person who is so worldly and then you know who is overqualified at her new job.

Tracy shines from the beginning and someone else's children start to like Tracy. In fact, in an episode of Tracy's YouTube show, Homeless Millionaires, one of Jimona's twin daughters says that Tracy is my second family. mom, she became my husband, she was like the other person who cared a lot about my kids, that's where she really started to play a role in my life. Crazy lands, the role of second mother, as Jumana's new friend, she was 100%, testing the limits of their relationship was Ting Tracy I invited Jumana to Las Vegas for her bachelorette weekend, she invited and I felt like you know what I'm going out for a day and because she had this beautiful sweet, I got Caesar's Palace. five rooms, I like it, I tried to stay out of the way and I remember I was like I'm going to sleep on the couch here for a night, don't worry about me, you know, that's Tracy dressed in white, of course, smile at this One night, Tracy and her friends light up the city.

Cocktails flow in all the colors of the rainbow. Do you have a little man? Is she paying for everything? I remember feeling a little guilty the next morning because I feel like I'm just over it. I'm going to leave so let me take you all to breakfast as the least I can do. They taste whatever, oh, they're so sweet. Tracy takes a shower tonight in this episode of the homeless movie. In fact, she stops the eighth person anyone has ever met in her life. Tracy seems to really love her job or she accepts it almost three times to understand why my financial advisor I work nearby and he is like family so he would call me and say you are spending so much money you need to relax.

I walked out and thought okay, I'm living in LA, I like the quality of picking him up at school, you stopped at Starbucks, we had dogs, they're expensive now, I couldn't seem to shave him and then a couple of months would go by. and he says, dude, what are you doing? and I'm nothing, his financial advisor, right, and a Chase credit card, they don't have a Chase card, that's so strange, and I was nothing else that day and I told him like Ron. Still in me, you know about overrespect, figure this out before she leaves, she's supposedly going home for the day.

I mean, like 30 minutes later, she was at my door, she's just falling down crying. She falls to her knees apologizing. I'm like, wait, wait. like what's going to happen to you next on American Breed, a dramatic confession from Tracy, and a surprising forgiveness from Jumana. Percy's plan seems to be working, he was trying to figure out my weaknesses and of course he pushed all the right buttons, foreign company, she did. She doesn't show any traits of a criminal, she really showed traits of someone who is very apologetic and you're hard on yourself so I said just listen you made a mistake but you're not a pet person and I also knew that at any time this kind of things. it happens you don't get your money back the person gets in trouble and then you're out of money so in my mind I was thinking technically you could return this he won't say the gifts Tracy chance in hindsight jumana sees how Tracy expected be forgiven when I look back, she felt me ​​up, you know what I mean, she knows my character.

I'm definitely empathetic to a fault, it's interesting because it worked the next day. Tracy draws up a contract to show how. committed she is to return the contract to jamana basically said that Tracy stole from me through a credit card and I am giving her the opportunity to return it she signed it I signed it I presented it Tracy is still employed with germano and as the months go by she's thinking hard about her pledge tally sheet and when I tell you she would come with like 5,000 today 3,000 I remember making a mental note like wow she, you know I didn't miss it, judge her character like she really feels bad in this. point about Tracy, if I had I would have discovered Tracy's long and deep history with the law arrested for using a bad check to buy a car in 1994 arrested for forgery while trying to cash stolen checks in 1995 then arrested for trying to obtain a credit card fraudulently in 1996 for those previous crimes Tracy had a very long criminal history and some of it was difficult to find because he has used several names over the years, he receives 40 months for all convictions and is on probation in 1999. she could have moved on from the crimes of her youth Tracy decides to live thousands of years old he has a criminal past she looks like a wealthy suburban mom juggling two kids with a high-paying job at least that's what Lorianne Hart remembers We were incredibly close, we were best friends, we were Tracy and Tracy's first husband in the upscale Pacific Palisade area of ​​Los Angeles, their kids are friends on the playground, he was really cool, funny, really sexy, which I wasn't really excited about it, but she was still like you. best friend in her relationship group even though they are not neighbors for a long time I began to notice that they moved every three months from one place to another and the next one was always better than the previous one.

I started to wonder what Larian supposed. Tracy is just moving up in her career as vice president of an employment agency, a series of search warrants were filed. He called me one afternoon and said they were charging me with white-collar crimes and confiscating our computers, and it's wrong. I thought this. It has to be a mistake, this is not the Tracy. I know we found out about the schemesfraud slowly over time in 2007. United States Attorney Jeff Mitchell uncovers Tracy's lucrative scam despite his nearly six-figure summary. Tracy hires and joins to even exist. like real employees, but Tracy takes their checks, steals about 168 thousand dollars until she leaves, she gets caught the more we investigate, the more we learn about other victims including two other staffing agencies, fake staff, first scam, windfall for a 18 for over half a million dollars for having companies, much of the money was used on vacations, high end furniture, electronics, some hot surgery, he pleaded guilty and is free awaiting sentencing and during that time we finally found out who committed new crimes, of which she is accused of fraud and identification. the victim is a divorced woman who she befriends crazy according to court documents, if this Playbook sounds familiar it certainly is and Mitchell wants Tracy Judge to know that when I tried to show a ruling it was that there was a pattern in 1995 in that she was awaiting sentencing in two different cases and one.

While free on bail, he committed a new crime in early 1996. In our 2008 case, he was committing new crimes, showing that Tracy's pattern of compulsive predation helps Mitchell get what he wants. More than six years behind bars for Tracy. Behavior. I didn't talk to her for seven years and all of a sudden she calls me next. In American Greed it doesn't take long for Tracy to find her old spirit again, even her friends have to stay alert. This woman lived in my house for 9 years. She completely betrayed me. She almost tore my family apart. Thank you. Tracy Hudsona is released from prison in 2014. serving time for wire fraud, tax evasion and identity theft shortly after she called Adam's old friend Lorianne Hart the entire time she was in prison.

I had no communication with her at all. Lorianne had ended their friendship after finding out about Tracy's crimes in 2008. But now Tracy needs a place to stay and tells Lorianne that the rehab center she lives in could be a real danger, but Lorianne says she has always been Tracy's persuasion and charm; she just enveloped me and made me feel like I was the best person in the world and that she was So lucky to have me abroad sweeps away the past and gives Tracy a second chance, allowing her to temporarily stay in a beautiful villa she owned with her then husband Vince during this time.

Tracy meets her future husband, who is all over social media as much as she is. Daryl on June 1, 2014. I know that because Daryl's birthday was Gaga, what's not on Daryl's Facebook is his own criminal record. Football star and speechwriter Reggie Bush, to which he pleaded guilty, had played high school football with Reggie Bush, which was a relationship he maintained until 2010, when he was arrested for stealing at least nine checks from Reggie Bush and collect them meanwhile, Tracy seems to be back with her. Everyone trusted her. I found out that Tracy was leading a double life here.

Durian claims to break up with her. marriage in a plan to live in the Villa permanently she was trying to get me to leave Vince by telling me she was a terrible person. I think she was really looking at La Villa and trying to betray and humiliate her and I finally asked her to leave. If she were grateful to live for free in this beautiful mansion, she would become angry and rebellious. She became a squatter in her own way and that's what she always did. Lorianne says that they were once like sisters, but she never sees Tracy again after Tracy leaves Tracy's house.

Real sister Debbie Lindstrom still hasn't spoken to her since she helped prosecutors in 2008. Her family doesn't agree with what she's doing. Lindstrom says her first VIP memories of her little sister would demonstrate Tracy's blatant disregard for the law she had no fear of. anything like two years three years stealing a bike from the neighbor two doors down or a tricycle my mom was running behind her she was a little Houdini she took someone's parents car and went to a wedding with him and she was a minor and She also alleges that Tracy has been using credit cards fraudulently since her equipment even to be her grandmother, no treasure is denied.

All the accusations from her sister in my grandmother's case, she was beside herself, you know, these people were calling her creditors. for calling her night and day one of the first things she does is steal other people's identities lindstrom drums only tracy's bravery that scares her in criminology you also hear diabolical charisma she has this gift she has this personality we just want to believe her jamona He certainly did after forgiving Tracy for stealing his credit card a year earlier. One day she mentions the incident to her therapist and describes it as no big deal. It was like no, you don't understand, I really made a deal with this person.

I gave him my word and that's big for me. She said: I don't care about your word right now. Do you mind? I finally agree, Advisor Ron. The whole story Ron is furious, he instructed Shimano for not telling him sooner, once he and I went down, he dove and I dove, he told me what to do to go under, but it's too late, he untangled, untangled like one after another. The American dream. Tracy steals from jumana again with a surprising role change, she became the main account holder and moved me to the assistant position, I am no longer the substitute, follow us on Instagram, connect on Facebook, the great American podcast wherever you are get your podcasts, we'll be right.

Back Joanna analyzes her financial records after learning that Tracy is Condor for the second time. Tracy's grand scale with a

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-time job wasn't something she did and then didn't do, it was definitely like tonight's morning thing for crazy her. I opened several accounts, all under Jumana's name, but Jumana couldn't see any of it thanks to Tracy's most amazing power move. What she did was sign a power of attorney and he became the primary account holder and moved me to the assistant. position I'm in line with Bank of America and I'm telling them I want to close this, it's not like they said what about the other things?

I say no, that's it, that's all I have and they say no, you really have. another credit card another checking other savings and you know the time I'm online I'm looking they're like you're online but you have limited access I'm like what Juliana later remembers when her rental request for her daughter's dinner like that I wonder, How can you check this credit score? I continue, I verify that it is 400. 400. or no owner would come near, usually, Chris alerts his clients of fraud. Giovanna never gets any approval, she claims it's another Tracy masterstroke she received. on my laptop and my email I put an alert for keywords to go to the trash and I'm like you, this is like an episode of American Greed, this is great, but you really gasp when you call a rep account to verify. into her kids' college savings, something she hasn't touched in years, it's like these accounts have been active for a couple of years.

I think it was the sickest I've ever felt in my life. You know, I mean, it was the hardest part for me. In all of this, I lost my kids' college funds, I can't get my daughters a college apartment. Jamana doesn't talk to Tracy this time, instead she springs into action. I'm a visual person, so I print every technology I have. i ever had for jumana take a video of his investigation he looked like a worm he definitely even thought you were at Quantico I just pasted a timeline from the day I first texted him and found out all the charges that were made like You tell him not to go to the police, we're going to hire these fixers and they're going to make this airtight and we're going to take it to the DA's desk, he was like she's falling, that's when the financial investigators of Jumana take over the case, we begin to reconstruct what really happened.

I'm told she did some work on her own case, which is great. Her first difficult task is to separate Jumana's charges from the trails, whether legitimate or fraudulent. Can Tracy stay on track? states that you know this was for jumana's benefit because she is jumana's assistant so she can use that excuse she won't need that excuse because according to investigators tracy is trying to become jumana and she is very good at trying to imitate a lot . For example, Jamana has a specific health insurance that she uses because who else uses that? Tracy uses that too. She was also using the same utility companies as Germana.

Tracy, same supermarket. Now Jamana couldn't really go back like four years and remember. I go to the supermarket or Tracy went with me or Tracy went alone and Tracy has other tricks: using these credit cards so she can use them by making the minimum payments from Jamana's account, so America was like, "Well, let's go." you paid these bills regularly and they come from her account. We have no reason to believe it's a scam that's running rampant among homeless millionaires trying to pay Max for Jamana's personal charges for Tracy's public exploits. After three months of work, they came up with their and what Tracy stole through credit card fraud is approximately a million and a half and the money she just took out of the various accounts is also approximately a million dollars three million. charges that she still shouldn't be able to get out of her head are the ones that she can taste with a straw all those nice cocktails Tracy was having a bachelor party in Las Vegas and asked Giovanna who didn't really want to go, but she left, and I've here, we discover the jamana role of the whole matter as if the room had been charged to her.

Even though everything was charged to her and here she is saying "I'll sleep on the couch" and Tracy is excusing her money to pay to subsidize the whole event, that's like irony and sadness and they continued to San Diego and I rented. Not only was Jumana paying for her lifestyle but he was also paying for her business. She opened serving brunch with a side of swearing and Sass looks good, we had no idea she was going to be so crazy. She was telling me like you know we've This project came up, this guy approached us and he wants to be an investor for a restaurant and Shimano was subsidized.

Before it came, I was probably the guy, it was my money. She is a fraud. It's like she's really funny. She is a fraud below. In American Greed Shimano just can't get rid of this feeling in her bones, he feels that nature is untouchable and he feels that she can get her way. I think he's actually done it with the help of two financial investigators. The Germanic girl makes her way through Tracy Hudson's murderous maze. bold embezzlement many tentacles the axes he had the way he set things up was also a bit you know, it was more than known the last four digits of my social account Humana still remembers the college fund I try very hard to be a responsible adult and now you know and then being in that situation that punch to the stomach teaches yomana to hit harder this is not something she has stopped doing we knew this had to get to the DA's desk Cubana flies to New York to join The investigators presented this case in October 2019 to the prosecutor, they chose the Southern District of New York because Jumana's financial accounts are centered there simple with a slide presentation here is your case, it is already done, it is serious here is Jumana, she's a lovely person and then here's Tracy and that's a little bit of you know, do it, give her a little notoriety, the prosecutors take the case, but there's a setback that no one could have predicted, but it makes them want to care. if he will ever see Justice.

We had to wait because Cove had hit, which you know also made Juman nervous because he's seeing Tracy living this lifestyle. It's like you stole millions from me, no one has paid me back. I don't know if I'm a Libra or whatever, but injustice is so hard for me not only. that Tracy is also taken cat went to his restaurant breakfast gets a bite of Jimmy Fallon anyway the owners are suing the owners of a San Diego restaurant called breakfast death Mr. says it could be the first case in which judge asks how to file The Miami restaurant called Bacon Finch opened three years ago.

Miami loves the great Hannah, but she's already a sophomore. She knew she had something that made a lot of people ask: bringing this to Atlanta. Can we bring this to New York? One day, Vizio gets a call from a Yelp employee asking if she's open to a franchise in San Diego and she's like, no, no, wait a second, wait for this and, okay, we know that happens a lot and she says: no, no, no,It is their exact menu, as is the exact word. menu Those companies accuse Tracy of trademark infringement, but a Florida judge dismisses the lawsuit on a technicality and Tracy continues to win when she and Daryl even open a second location in Phoenix, Arizona, where they now live.

Yeah, no, that's definitely my restaurant there, but one day in early 2021, more than a year after turning her case over to the Southern District, Jumana finally gets some good news, it's stupid. I'm going to get a call and we said, well, we have to wait another month, so I thought. you know, cautious but excited, I got a call and they said she was crazy, you know they knew she was there. Federal agents are in Phoenix to arrest her even though they had been told she was out of town and then they said, let's just stop by. the restaurant one more time and then it was when they saw her in the alley and then she saw that it was a Tran accused of bringing home someone else's bacon charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft bans for 20 years from reporting of the Southern District Tracy's fraud of more than $1.5 million (the amount investigators say was stolen in July) was not included in the indictment and he did not respond to our request for comment.

Tracy posts bail of fifty thousand dollars and is released from jail. The following scenario would delight anyone. At this point, if history is any indication, I hope we see her come out with a new plan in 2012. Tracy, please, I'm not guilty. If you looked at her Instagram, you'd think there was absolutely nothing going on. I have a personal chef huh? What she says in this particular post is just amazing. I'd call anyone, but more than a year later, in July 2022, Tracy unexpectedly reversed course, which was a surprise because she accepted the terms of her plea deal and why she accepted. for they don't know each other yet Tracy declined our request for an interview when she leaves court after pleading guilty.

You would look like that evil person. I hope she gets a very long sentence simply to protect people. Germano will see Tracy again when she delivers. an impact statement on her sentencing, although jumana's words may help them prosecutors get what they want the kimono says they won't help tracy get what she needs, which is a real heart, i don't know how relevant it is to talk to her about a conscience, being a narcissist, it is as if your conscience accuses you or excuses you. You and if you are the type of person that your conscience excuses you will always find a way not to feel bad, that is a serious level of person to be like that, but she is definitely in that foreign category.