EXPOSING the Man Stealing $5 Billion from His Own Government | Ep. 602

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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What We Discuss with Tom Wright:

00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Exposing corruption without getting killed
05:44 - Jho Low, the man that stole billions
10:48 - Jho Low was a master of networking
15:46 - The most expensive birthday party ever thrown
19:31 - The Joey McFarland seed is planted
22:04 - Jordan Belfort knew Jho was a fraud
24:23 - Like father like son, Jho Low's criminal dad
28:38 - Jho probably might have the most liquid cash in history
29:36 - How Goldman Sachs helped Jho get away with it
32:00 - Jho's $80 million party budget
34:08 - Funding musicians
36:31 - Scamming his way into nightclubs
38:02 - How Jho outsmarted giant corporations
56:20 - Jho called Busta Rhymes his b*tch
58:04 - The irony of financing The Wolf Of Wall Street with stolen money
59:33 - What was the point of all this scamming?
1:00:46 - Where Jho is now
1:04:52 - Bugging Tom to find out who exposed Jho Low
1:09:21 - Is Tom scared that he's being watched constantly?

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.”

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. 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. Listen, learn, and enjoy!

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