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What would you do to achieve the american dream? Would you change your appearance, burn down your own home? Perhaps you would enslave people, or maybe just commit a little light fraud.

Or you could lie your way into a meeting with the first lady. Some take time did all of these things, and more because for her, nothing was ever enough to satisfy her greed, money, jewels, first, property influence. SHE wanted at all.

And he was willing to do whatever I took to get IT from airship. This is american crime, a show that takes a deep dive into the dark reality of some people's american dreams, from assassins to karst forgers to gangsters. You don't know the full story until now. You're about to hear a clip from episode three of our five part series on some take times in this, snipped some tays on the run from authorities over some grand arsenic charges, unaware that she's about to be picked up for a much, much more serious offence I hope you enjoy and when you're finished, search for and follow american criminal wherever you .

listen to pon casts. After her disaster is showing in dc, somebody decides its best to lay low for a while. SHE incan senior move around vegas, switching hotels frequently, staying far away from their own home, less the authorities go looking for them there.

After a couple of weeks of that, though, they're tired of being on the run. Can seniors closing in on seventy by now? And sunday is night as Spikes tly, as he wants, was either.

So they went to kondo in laya, a neighborhood of Sandy ego, california. That's where they are when federal Marshals catch up to them on August ninety eighty five. But the Marshals aren't there about the first. They've got warns per si and can senior for too much, much bigger crime, slavery and human traffic.

Over the last dozen or so years, some days spent in the habit of smuggling Young women across the border from places like mexico, l salvor and peru to work as mates in her homes, only SHE never pays them SHE confiscates tes their passports and forbidding them from leaving her home. In more recent years, she's done the same to college students brought in to be around the clock uses for sundays. Y's Youngest ten year old Kenny, like the mades Kenny's tutors or Young women, enticed with promises of luxury accommodations, exciting travels with the family and generous pay days, none of them materialized, though.

Instead, what these women got was be burned and be little. Most eventually escape the horse on their own. Some of them managed IT with can help, and a few even want to the authority ties to report sana in kansai or but nothing was done for years, even when a fourteen year old girl showed up to the us.

Consul laden guadalupe to talk about the time someday through a part of boiling water over. The information was simply filed away for later. But now the sheer number of complaints against sunday has become impossible to ignore, and the feds have finally moved in.

When they crashed through sunday and cans rent a condo door. They even find a final, terrified Young woman who's just the latest made in employment. After the arrest, sometime can senior transported to loss vegas to answer for their crimes. Kse wife is called them to look after Kenny.

But kant is in for a treat of his zone, even from jail, something determined to keep pulling the strings on the men in her life at this stage can't graduated from flight school and is on a training exercise when he gets a call from his mother, who offers them to come back to laws vegas and helper, when can resist the summons some day, goes over his head, telling his superiors that her husband's had a heart attack and that SHE needs her son to come home to help care for him. Despite cans protest, he's ordered to return to his family sundays continued manipulations. Delay is returned for so long that can't gets an early discharge.

He'll never fly a helicopter again. Not that sunset cares about her son's life. She's staring down eighty five years in prison for seventeen charges, including involuntary severe ude and transporting people across the border cans, only slightly less complicit. So he's looking at seventy five, of course. Local news seize on the story of the millionaires open using slave labor in their merchants.

And now come the old stories about the time, something and can senior crashed government parties and dc and cans, fake ambassador title and all the rest pretty quickly IT seems like there's not a single person outside the family who wants to take some take side. In fact, people are lining up to take their shot, an attorney, hawaii assemblies, a group of some times former mates and tudes to file a civil suit against the couple, asking for thirty one million dollars in damages. So even if someone can senior somehow beat the criminal charges, they'll have to fork out millions and legal fees.

And that's even if they win the suit, it's not looking good. So it's a minor miracle when time and can seniors lawyers managed to work out a deal for their clients, he just has to plead guilty to one count of this prison of a felony, which means that he knew a felony was being committed and didn't reported. In exchange, he'll get off with probation and a felon record.

Somebody has to plead guilty to more than kent senior, but her sentence shouldn't be more than two years. There are soundings, ly, good deals. Considering the charges still, both of them have to be taught in to taking those deals both someday.

And can senior believe there's a conspiracy against them that they've been set up by crooked lawyers and a corrupt justice system can finally seized reason. When he is reminded that court cases are expensive, he could easily loses fortune fighting the charges in court sometimes, meanwhile, believes that a guilty plea will set them up for catastrophe. In the civil suit, IT will lose them everything.

But like senior, she's finally talked into taking the deal. Then comes the big day when sunday I can see european in court to actually sign the papers. Cans goes off without a hatch.

But then at some test turn and surprise, things go very differently. IT turns out there's been a type and soundness y's deal. So now IT says that the various prison term should be given have to be served consecutively instead of concurrently.

Seeing that something starts throwing a tantrum. M right there in the courtroom, instead of commonly asking that her lawyer and the prosecutors rectify the mistake, SHE starts screaming and crying and has to be physically strained. She's like an angry toddler.

Only there's nothing and no one that could get some take comes to calm down. So SHE refuses to sign her deal, which means she's going to trial after all. And in the meantime, he has to stay behind bars, at least SHE supposed to stay behind bars, but is always someone has something else in mind.

On december thirty, one thousand nine hundred and eighty five, about three months after her courtroom freak out, the news breaks that someday crimes has a escaped jail a couple of days after Christmas SHE fained a medical episode. So that should be moved to the hospital where security was much, much less there. SHE easily gave her guard the slip and just walked out the front doors.

So now all of laws, big as is on the look out for the list, tailor look a lie whose on trial for slavery? The headlines don't get much wilder than that. Well, not yet. They don't.

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