{"id":7,"date":"2023-04-14T03:01:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T03:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marksolomons.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2024-04-21T20:27:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T10:27:02","slug":"billion-dollar-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksolomons.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"BBC World Service: Billion Dollar Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Billion Dollar Scam - BBC World Service Documentaries\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w6JXZ3GzSCQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Exposing the notorious Milton Group &#8220;fraud factory&#8221; with the BBC. Mark worked alongside the production team for more than a year on this project, which spanned Ukraine, Georgia, Cyprus, Israel and the UK. He can be seen in the movie discussing how investment fraud syndicates buy credibility by sponsoring high-profile soccer teams. Reporter Simona Weinglass has been a trailblazer in exposing the complex crime networks typified by the Milton Group operation, which has defrauded tens of thousands of investors around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exposing the notorious Milton Group &#8220;fraud factory&#8221; with the BBC. Mark worked alongside the production team for more than a year on this project, which spanned Ukraine, Georgia, Cyprus, Israel and the UK. He can be seen in the movie discussing how investment fraud syndicates buy credibility by sponsoring high-profile soccer teams. Reporter Simona Weinglass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[4,5],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investigation","category-media","tag-investigation","tag-media","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksolomons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksolomons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksolomons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksolomons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksolomons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/marksolomons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/marksolomons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksolomons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksolomons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksolomons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksolomons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}