Barry Minkow, the former con artist turned pastor and fraud expositor, saw success in the carpet cleaning business (should have picked skincare😜) but later turned to fraud, including insurance fraud and a Ponzi scheme, landing him a 25-year prison sentence in 1987.
After finding religion in prison, he emerged as a reformed figure, but a decade later, he returned to his fraudulent ways (sound familiar Joran?), manipulating stocks and extortion, resulting in more charges and a further five-year prison sentence in 2011. Despite this, he continues to run a fraud exposure platform, maintaining a social media presence under the name "Fraud Minute" - real smooth.
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