Listen, learn, and enjoy! Please Scroll Down for Featured Resources and Transcript! Here, we discuss how Jho Low was able to seemingly fool all of the people in his orbit for 10 years, what he did to stay under the radar of authorities, and where he is today. On this episode, we’re joined by award-winning journalist Tom Wright, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World, co-founder of journalism studio and production company Project Brazen, and host of the Fat Leonard podcast. Over the course of a decade, Wharton graduate and Malaysian businessman Jho Low was able to defraud his country of $5 billion - with the assistance of Goldman Sachs and other complicit parties - while using the money “to finance elections, purchase luxury real estate, throw champagne-drenched parties, and even to finance Hollywood films like The Wolf of Wall Street.” Like this show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter handle so we can thank you personally! How many ways are there to launder this kind of money without being detected by the authorities?.

How did Jho Low, a charisma-free, second-generation fraudster, siphon billions of dollars from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund - with the aid of Goldman Sachs - right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs?.How does an investigative journalist uncover misdeeds by the rich and powerful without winding up on someone’s hit list?.A deep dive into the shadowy world of corruption, money laundering, and embezzling by the shadiest shysters among the elite.Tom Wright ( is an award-winning journalist, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World, co-founder of journalism studio and production company Project Brazen, and host of the Fat Leonard podcast.

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