
In this week's Fraud Friday, Laci is joined by Mitra Jouhari (The Big Sick, Three Busy Debras) to discuss Christian Gehartsreiter aka Clark Rockefeller, who spent 30 years passing himself off as an educated, wealthy aristocrat while taking advantage of people. Plus, three political operatives are accused of defrauding $3.5 million from PAC scams. Stay Schemin’! (Originally Released 01/03/2022) CON-gregation, catch Laci's TV Show, Scam Goddess, now on Freeform and Hulu! Order “Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts and Schemes" here: Hachette Book Group Follow on Instagram: Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod Laci Mosley: @divalaci Mitra Jouhari: @mitrajouhari Research by Kaelyn Brandt SOURCES: https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/54cc01740a5930502f5f4667/master/w_1600,c_limit/image.jpg https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2008/08/08/the-little-town-and-life-rockefeller-left-for-fame/l20Zs5ZzVbgic07Sf0MB6M/story.html https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/the-fo...
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Lacey Mosley
What's Poppin, congregation? It's your girl, Lacey Mosley, aka Scam Goddess. Welcome to an episode of Fraud Fridays where we release older episodes from the Scam Goddess vault. That's right, Fraud Fridays is where we bring back your favorite episodes from behind the Paywall. ENJ this episode from behind the Paywall, and as always, stay scheming. Scams, robbery and Fraud. Scam, car robbery and Fraud. Scam Goddess. What's poppin, Congregation? It is I, Lacy Mosley, AKA Scam Goddess. Welcome to another installment of SP Scam Goddess, where we praise charlatans, criminals, flim flammers, boondogglers, all of those and above. Or maybe we don't. We'll see today. I'm very. What? Yes. Excited. I'm trying to switch up the intros for y' all. Do y' all like this? Asmr? I know y' all don't like when I chew, so I'm not gonna do that to the girls, but I don't know right in. Let me know. If I change my voice like this, would you hate me? Anyways, I'm very excited for today's guest. I truly am. I know I say that all the time and y' all be thinking I'm lying, but I'm not. Because today we Have a talented come and writer on the show. She's the co creator, co star and co writer. All the cos of three busy Debras on Adult Swim. Season one is out now on HBO Max and the second season will be out in 2022. So go ahead and binge it and get ready for it. Also she co hosts the podcast on my sister network. Sister network? I guess we're all on the same network. Look at this, it's falling apart. Urgent care. Urgent care on Earwolf, which is such a funny podcast with Joel Kim Booster, who you guys know, who's already been on the show and killed it. Congregation, please welcome Mitra Juh. Hello. I'm gonna stop talking like that now because I feel like people are gonna turn it off. Like, bitch, what the fuck? I just been trying to do something different. I should try to switch it up, keep the tricks guessing. I'm so happy to have you here today. I love when we get great podcasters, great podcast and also a writer and also comedian and a stand up and an actress like, bitch, what don't you do? Are you tired? I'm tired for you. You ever read somebody bio, you be like, damn. So you just don't be sleeping at all, huh?
Mitra Juhari
I feel that way about you. Busy, but enough time for the nails to match the walls. As I saw during the intro when the hands came up.
Lacey Mosley
No, I need to get these holes redone. Yes, I do love a claw, honey, I love a claw. But Meedra, I have to ask you up top. What is your relationship with scams? Do you like them? Do you hate them? You want to fight them?
Mitra Juhari
Okay, I really gave this a lot of cause. I was listening to the podcast to prepare and I was like, want a prepared queen? Prepared. I especially enjoyed the Naomi Paragon episode. You guys talking about Showtime dancers was like really making me laugh. I have not yet seen an LA Showtime. I mean Naomi like can do anything and make me laugh, but it was truly same.
Lacey Mosley
Also she be having me telling all my business, which I don't appreciate. She's like a therapist. You be talking to her and next thing you know you be like, so yeah, the first time I stole and I'm like, wait a minute.
Mitra Juhari
I know you guys went so deep on your massage.
Lacey Mosley
Deeper than the masseuse did chat. Way deeper than he did. But yes. What did you come up with when you were thinking about scams?
Mitra Juhari
Okay, for me it's sort of a two way street because I feel very like trusting and like very sort of open and I really believe. I believe in people. So I am right for. For scams. As in one week ago, I clicked on one of those links that's like your password or whatever, and I clicked on it and. Yeah, and that was really dumb. So I am ready to be scammed. But I do feel also like I really celebrate a scam. I love a scam. I do a scam. I think my clearest that I thought.
Lacey Mosley
Of was.
Mitra Juhari
In college. So I went to school in Ohio and I really wanted to move to New York. I really wanted to intern for late night, but I also really, really wanted to drop out of school, which I did, but I. So I.
Lacey Mosley
You did. Oh my gosh, I'm so proud of you. You left that scam of you.
Mitra Juhari
I left that scam well, in the best way possible, which is I went to school for free and then I dropped out. So there's nothing was lost in the process.
Lacey Mosley
Hell yeah. See, that's how you drop out of school. Okay? You don't gotta pay them bitches back. Cause I can imagine if I dropped outta school and them bitches was like, hey, we still need some coins for that meal plan. I don't go there no more. I don't know you. We broke up. That's how I feel about student loans. Bitch, we broke up. I left college. What you talking about? Pay you? No, I don't know you no more. You know how I'm at. But yeah, so you left in the. In the most beautiful, scammy way. You left school.
Mitra Juhari
Left school. But first. So I got the internship. You had to be enrolled in school to get the internship. Got the internship and then a day later dropped out of school so that I could Something to do when I got there. So that was my.
Lacey Mosley
You still had an edu email.
Mitra Juhari
I still had the edu. Yeah, I'm sure the edu is still out there somewhere collecting dust. But I. I did. I got the thing. So that was like the clearest scam that I could think of that worked. But I'm not like. I think I'm just like, not savvy enough. But I feel like I like, really like, relish in like, you're like Anna Delvey's or like the people who really scam, like, Richie Rich, like, like society girls. I think that's kind of my favorite and like the Housewives universe. Like, I feel like that to me is like a world full of scammers and people who are scammed. That whole community, to me is like all fraudulent and I really love them. I Give them a lot of time, right?
Lacey Mosley
It's the scam of personality with them. Because I, you know, I'm a selling sunset hoe and you are.
Mitra Juhari
I love selling sunset.
Lacey Mosley
I love selling sunset. I love watching gentrification in real time. There was an episode where they were like, at this $40 mansion and that was being built on like, new property. And they were like, this tre name is Pinto. That's just. It's not giving what we need for to sell this $40 million house. Pinto, which is a Spanish word. So they were like, we're going to change it to hummingbird lane. I said, no, they didn't. I just watched gentrification in front of my very irises. Oh, my God. They.
Mitra Juhari
And like, it is the most, like, uncanny. Like, imagine having any of those conversations, like, if you were like, with one of your best friends and you're just sitting there and you're like, how are you? I'm good. No, seriously, like, I'm good too. Like, I'm like have, like, I'm like having a like. And it's like, that's it. They're like just saying like the same phrase over. Oh, you're good. That's so good. I'm so glad you're good. I'm good too. No, you're good. That's great. I'm good too.
Lacey Mosley
Yeah, the whole scene, except for there's just been some drama. Like, I saw a beautiful white lady cry about something so inconsequential. And I was like, I love this. Like, I want to cry about dumb shit. I'm tired of crying. Crying about real pain, bitch. I want to cry because I got the whole foods and they ran out of oat milk. I want to cry about that intergenerational.
Mitra Juhari
First generation immigrant trauma. Who I am crying about coffee, right?
Lacey Mosley
Starbucks missed in my order again. And I want to have a breakdown. I want to have a minty meat.
Mitra Juhari
What a dream. What a dream. Instead of paying hundreds of dollars a week for my therapist to tell me, yeah, same. It's going to stay sa.
Lacey Mosley
And I have a black lady therapist. So we just be commiserated sometimes. Like, yeah, it's just hard out here. I'm like, damn, like, what the hell? But I also wanted to say that I would really love to start a career singing on selling sunset. Cause you know how I think they have one lady who sings all the songs and the songs are just like, I'm living my life. I am a wife. My boobs are fake. Don't give me shit. I am A queen.
Mitra Juhari
It's like, sun is shining. Have some fun.
Lacey Mosley
Literally. It's like cocktails in the afternoon. Do, do, do, do Ride my car.
Mitra Juhari
With the top down Girls in the backseat living my life Literally.
Lacey Mosley
The transition music, like, bitch, what dream job?
Mitra Juhari
And they're all like, 10 seconds long. You don't have to flesh out an idea. No chorus. It's all vibes, girl.
Lacey Mosley
That's what I'm saying. It's all vibes. Like, look, I know y' all doing the pop thing, but if y' all ever wanna mix it up and do some, like, fake doja cat or like, some, like, let me get in there. Like, wanna know what it's like selling this house tonight? You know? Like, let me get in there. Yeah. Yeah. Whoa, whoa. High heels in the dirt, walking around.
Mitra Juhari
With the shortest guys.
Lacey Mosley
With the shortest guys. And that's a scam, too. Have these two little baby sized men who, you know, look, nobody gets to choose they height, okay? I'm five' nine. I chose my height. I don't care what y' all say. I don't care what the photos say. I'm five' nine and y' all know this. But these two little men then gathered up a harem of bad bitches.
Mitra Juhari
Just hot women.
Lacey Mosley
Hot, Aggressively hot women. Like, and you can tell that, like, look, if y' all in the service industry and you doing bottles or whatever and you're aggressively hot, maybe get your real estate license. Because I just feel like there's a place in real estate for really, really bad bitches where you can start making, like, even more money than you make right now. Because all of them women have. They get. They give. Like, we used to be bottle service girls before we got into real estate. It's just the tiny tattoos, like, you know, a little star behind the ear.
Mitra Juhari
That, like, middle, like, top of spine tattoo. I'm like. I think that's also why I, like, gravitate to this show, is Cause I'm like, all these women have, like, been through something. Like, every now and then, I'll, like, forget about Chrishell's life, and then there'll just be this moment where she's like, yeah. And it, like, reminds me of, like, when my whole family was sleeping in one car. And I'm like, right. Oh, my God.
Lacey Mosley
Right, right. You have been through some shit, but it's the scam of personality. Imagine coming from a different socioeconomical position, like, arguably a lower one, at least financially, and then making it to the point where you're hobnobbing with billionaires, and you're making all this commission off of them. Like, that's a scam. That's a scam of personality. When you. I think being a housewife is such a beautiful scam because it's like you woke up and you were like, I am too sexy to pay for things. And I love that. I love it. I'm tired of buying my own things. I'm gonna go to the gym some more because I need to. I don't need to do that.
Mitra Juhari
I don't need to do that. There is someone who will do that for me, and I love it.
Lacey Mosley
I love them just being, like, the ghetto. Us buying things for ourselves, like, go off queens. We love it. But, yes, I like. Okay, so I like your relationship. You like to watch the scams. You're like, a voyeur for the scams. But I will say that you said you weren't savvy. I think it's very fucking savvy to be like, I'm gonna drop out of college, But I know that they want this, so I'm gonna give it a couple more days.
Mitra Juhari
Yes, I think I'm savvy in that way. I think none of the scams in my life are, like, cool, but they work.
Lacey Mosley
I would argue that's pretty damn cool because you are a very talented and established, successful writer and creator, and you knew college was not where you needed to be, robbing you of your time and your genius. Thank you. I think that for you. Well, let's get into our first segment here. Like, I know y' all did not just talk about selling Sunset for five minutes. Yes, we did. And what about it?
Mitra Juhari
And we got a record deal out of it, so. Laughing all the way to the bank, bitch.
Lacey Mosley
Right? Wait till you hear our voices on the fourth season. Okay. Live my life. Y' all better get ready.
Mitra Juhari
I want a full. Like, I want us to make an album that is 300 tracks, and they're all five seconds long. Just, like, four sentences, each incredibly specific.
Lacey Mosley
Having a dog birthday party.
Mitra Juhari
Ow. I'm the one with the brown hair.
Lacey Mosley
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Mitra Juhari
Okay, let's do Chrishell.
Lacey Mosley
Chrishell. Yes. Yes. Let's keep it in the family, Chrishell. Keep it in the real estate family. Living our lives, doing a podcast. Y' all gonna hate me by the end of this. I'm so sorry. Okay, so. Oh, you said some nice things. Up top, Chrishell. Yeah, I'm not gonna read it, but I do say thank you. I appreciate you. So, so, boom. First of all, I love a story that just starts with, okay, so, boom. Like, yes, you know, it's gonna be tasty. Okay. Delicious. Okay, so, boom. I decided to have a little personal reflection time, if you catch my drift. Oh, what was you doing? It had been a long day and I needed a break. I wanted a little something different. So I turned to Beyonce's Internet for inspiration. This is so vague, but I think I know what this is. Is it okay, me trying to be better in 2021? What did you say?
Mitra Juhari
Are they jerking off?
Lacey Mosley
Is that what it is?
Mitra Juhari
Yes.
Lacey Mosley
They're doing. We call it Home passion on this podcast. They're doing their home. Sometimes you gotta do your own passion. Okay.
Mitra Juhari
Oh, my God.
Lacey Mosley
Sometimes you gotta be your own lover. Sometimes you gotta look in the mirror and be like, I wanna be your lover to yourself. Like goo gum. Literally. And sometimes I do be the only one. So far I'm into it.
Mitra Juhari
Where is the merchant?
Lacey Mosley
So me trying to be better in 2021 decided to actually pay for the content that I watch. Sex workers deserve their coins. Amen. Yes, they do. I found what I thought was a free trial on a site. Now you said you was gonna give them some money. You looking at a free trial?
Mitra Juhari
Oh, no, I'm giving them some money, but only after. Only if I wait for a 30.
Lacey Mosley
Day trial in the 21 days.
Mitra Juhari
Only if I forget to send the alarm on my calendar.
Lacey Mosley
Right? Cause I love a 21 day free trial. Cause that's a. Because when you look at 21 days, it's like the 99 price mark. You look at 21 days, you're like, oh, I got a month. No, you don't have a month. You have three weeks. But by the time you get to the end of the month, you'd be like, damn, 21 days is up. That was brilliant. Whoever decided 21, very cute. It's just like, oh, yeah, you can have a free trial for nine days. How long is nine days, bitch? That's less. More than A week, but less than two week. Small business owners out there. 20. Do a nine day return policy.
Mitra Juhari
Make it an amount that no one can do the math in their head.
Lacey Mosley
You have 94 hours to return. Like, bitch. What?
Mitra Juhari
You have exactly 67 minutes to try out Peacock for free.
Lacey Mosley
Right? Like, wait, I'm trying to watch a movie that's as long as that. Nah, 67, you better get to me.
Mitra Juhari
You're welcome for 67.
Lacey Mosley
Come on. Peacock needs these subscribers. I'm into it. Paramount. Let's do that too. Let's. Let's also do that. So they. They said, you know, they were gonna get the free trial, right? So I found what I thought was a free trial site, but I had to input my credit card info. Okay. You know how that goes. I've done this before with no repercussions. It's so long as you cancel before the trial runs out. Which Kushell, you said you was gonna pay the sex workers. They don't sound like you go, you was gonna pay them. It sounded like he was gonna cancel. I did it without thinking too much. And immediately bank of America said, no. Girl, I took that as a sign. I just need to take my tired ass to bed. Damn. So you. After that, she was like, you're not gonna make love to yourself. You turned over and didn't make no love to yourself. Wow. If I was yourself, I'd be upset. I'd be like, we can't have. Okay. Just Cause of the free trial.
Mitra Juhari
All right, you're worth it, babe.
Lacey Mosley
You're worth it. Make love to you. But. But bank of America is like that because I have some homegirls who are on OnlyFans. And I remember at Christmas I was like, let me go. Just like, I wasn't gonna watch the content. Cause it was like the homies like. But I was like, let me just put a little coin in there, you know, to support. It was like mid pandemic. I was like, let me just go ahead and get on OnlyFans and do my Christian duties. But bank of America really does not play when it comes to, like, any sex sites. They be like, oh, girl, we know this isn't you. You don't have sex. Is this when you start fucking? No, you stick to the rivers and lakes. You're used to bitch. Because bank of America will not fund this.
Mitra Juhari
Mine, mine. I always get like, if I try to buy something nice, it's like, no, no, you're not. I tried to get like a nice, like, blazer and my card got shut Down. And they're like, you're buying a blazer, bitch. No, you're not to wear.
Lacey Mosley
To wear, to wear. Mitra, we know what you do for a living.
Mitra Juhari
We know what you look. Let me know how you dress, you be dressing cute.
Lacey Mosley
But they was like, you don't be wearing no business attire, bitch. What the fuck is you doing in Ann Taylor Law?
Mitra Juhari
Nice try, Slot.
Lacey Mosley
Go take your ass back to Sheen and quit playing with us. So a few days later, I saw this charge from a weird website. I looked at the website and found the owner to be some dude named Terrance in Florida.
Mitra Juhari
Florida.
Lacey Mosley
Wow. You really. Out in Terrence in Florida. You have to put his government in here. But we don't got his last name. It's cool. I thought I was a. I thought it was fraud, but I wanted to wait until the charge process so that I could file a dispute. Once it was processed, I called the number on the charge, and they were really, really sketchy. They wanted my card number, my name, and other information I would not give them. I come from a family of lawyers. In parentheses. I filled out a dispute later that day. Bank of America said, no, girl. Damn. Bank of America just say, no. No, no, no, no. We ain't giving you money. Money, money, money. Like, they not giving you your money ever. Damn. Are you sure it's the bank of America?
Mitra Juhari
I know it's.
Lacey Mosley
I mean, they do have to give you your money. Like, they can't always say no, but.
Mitra Juhari
Okay.
Lacey Mosley
So bank of America said, no, girl, to another charge from a different sketchy website. Eventually, I realized that I had been scammed and that my card info had been disseminated to dozens of adult websites that I never visited. Wow. Damn. Damn. So basically, he went to one sketchy website and then. And there are so many legitimate, like, options for porn that I'm like, what website were you on? Like, Booty Dot, vpn, that. Like, that.
Mitra Juhari
There's a lot out there.
Lacey Mosley
There's a lot of foresights. I just feel like you got to go to the main ones. I'm not going to. You're not going to catch me on something that's not pretty mainstream. You know, if Tyga hasn't rapped about it, I'm probably not going to go on that site.
Mitra Juhari
If I don't see, like, an old comedian wearing it on a shirt.
Lacey Mosley
Then I'm not going. If they don't have merch for the site, I'm not going.
Mitra Juhari
I want a dedicated merch store.
Lacey Mosley
Well, your porn site is so big that People are like, yes, I would like to wear that across my chest out on the streets. I would like a mug. Sip from it and think about it.
Mitra Juhari
Then I will be subscribing.
Lacey Mosley
Yes, absolutely. So it says at the end here, please warn the girls, the gays and the. They only provide your credit card to reputable corn. That's what the kids on TikTok call it. Don't get caught up like me. And yes, I know I was dumb for this. Lol. Sincerely, Chrishell. Okay, I'm not gonna call you dumb. You. Now, I am going to say you was scamming us, talking about you wanted to support the sex workers when you know you was going to cancel that free trial and not give the girls a single ducket.
Mitra Juhari
And I. Look, I love. We've. We've expressed that we love a free trial, but, yes, it is not in line with your mission statement.
Lacey Mosley
It's not adding up. It's not your mission statement. It's not really. The resume not adding up to that. Like, the COVID letter ain't really giving what the resume giving. Like, it's not adding up. Oh, my God. Do people still. In, like, nine to fives, like, do they still do cover letters and resumes? Yeah, that's ghetto. I'm not writing you a letter to get a job, bitch. I barely want a job. Give me the job or don't.
Mitra Juhari
Look, I would love to have a skill that would require a cover letter. I can't do anything. I don't know how to do fucking anything.
Lacey Mosley
Our skills are vibes. It's more of a feeling, you know? That's why we show up in person and get on Zoom meetings and shit. It's not an interview. It's just like, we. What do we feel like? You could create some scammy content that would make people entertain or.
Mitra Juhari
No, you want to be in a room with me, right?
Lacey Mosley
Right? You wanted to have coffee with me. Yeah. You want to sit in a room and bounce ideas off each other? Put them on a whiteboard. You like me enough for that? Cool. Like, mission statements, cover letters. Also, like, that's too much work for a job that I don't have. Like, I'm not even employed here yet. Y' all want me to get on Microsoft Word, the ghetto? No, absolutely not. But we're.
Mitra Juhari
We're. We are memorizing 15 pages worth of material for. For nothing also. Oh, we're wasting time.
Lacey Mosley
We were talking about that. I had tweeted about that and then hashtag booked. Which, if you're an Actor you want to see, like, cool, funny content, shout out to Danielle Pinnock. They have a great Instagram account. And they were talking about that, how actors are getting really fatigued with, like, casting directors. Because right now, I know the. This might be foreign to you if you're not in this business, but when you're auditioning for jobs in the before times bc before COVID you would go in person to several different auditions at several different casting locations. Hello, hey, hey. Going schmooze, you know, suck a little dick. And metaphorically sometimes not. I'm so sorry. It's a bad world we live in. But, you know, and then you do your audition and you leave. And those tended to be shorter because they could give you adjustments. They could tell you like, oh, it's actually more of a character like this, like, read it like this this time, or da, da, da. Now, because of COVID we're all taping our own auditions. And now these are sending out movies and TV shows, talking about, make the whole movie.
Mitra Juhari
Yes, shoot the whole show, and then.
Lacey Mosley
Maybe we'll give you a job. But don't worry, it's already in some bigger actress's inbox, and we just waiting to see if she gonna say yes. But you go ahead and shoot the movie, though, for free, or go pay somebody to shoot the movie for you. And then you come out of pocket, which is what I do. Oh, my God. I go to a wonderful self tape studio where they charge a lot of fucking money, and then it's trash. And then you never hear anything.
Mitra Juhari
Yeah. And then. And then the movie star says, fine, I'll do it.
Lacey Mosley
Literally, the movie star gets an offer, which is what it's called. Sometimes when you get famous enough or people have seen enough of your work, people will just reach out, like, Meryl Streep's not auditioning to get into another mini series and put in some fake teeth. Like, the girls know when to call Mel. And then they call Mel. And they're like, please, Mel, I'll suck your dick. Mel, please do this job for Universal. And Meryl's like.
Mitra Juhari
And while she's m and ah ing, you're taping. Hundreds of women are taping.
Lacey Mosley
Hundreds of women are putting on blonde wigs and doing their best Miranda Priestly. That's all you know. They sitting there doing the monologues. Meanwhile, y' all, Mel over here, three.
Mitra Juhari
Weeks of ums and ahs, right?
Lacey Mosley
And mind you, the she's uming and on. And they're also like, meryl, we will give you Millions and whatever you want. We will build a house for you on the lot. Brand new. And she's like, like, and you're working your ass off for free. So that's how it works. That's a part of the industry scam that we live in. Oh, the last thing I want to say about the this, and this is not related to acting, but I've been seeing this on Reddit and on Twitter that companies like Applebee's and Chili's and other places are putting out job application notices and saying, like, we pay 15 an hour, and then when you show up, they like, okay, so we pay $11 an hour. And it's, like, becoming a thing. I've been reading about it on Twitter, and I'll read it, like. And people are posting the actual job postings and stuff because they're pissed. So I'm like, y' all, I don't know, maybe call ahead and see if they lying about their job post because the girls are out here talking about, ye, yeah, we gonna give you a living wage. Just come on in here and fill out an application. That's wild that they're like, you got the job. It's 11 an hour. You still want it? You desperate, right? Just trying to get him in the door. I'm like, that's so shady. Like, we. Like, there's no. Like, the. People do want to work. People just don't want to be slaves no more. So the whole branding of, you know, big corporations right now, like, there's a shortage of people in the job market. It's like, no. People don't want to be abused anymore. Yes.
Mitra Juhari
People want to be able to pay rent when they work full time.
Lacey Mosley
It's like, oh, y' all want, like, adequate money. Oh, okay, okay. Y' all don't want to have to work three jobs.
Mitra Juhari
Well, that's not fair.
Lacey Mosley
Where's your American spirit?
Mitra Juhari
Companies are people.
Lacey Mosley
Oh, God. Twitter companies are people.
Mitra Juhari
Companies are people.
Lacey Mosley
I'm so tired of Twitter and Twitter companies. It was cute at first, but now I feel like they done hired every intern from TikTok, and they're just like. Like, self care Sunday. Get in, Target. What?
Mitra Juhari
I quit Twitter, and I feel randomly happier, randomly, completely uncorrelated.
Lacey Mosley
I'm like a Twitter. Like, I'll get on there in spurts, and I'll just be tweeting up a storm, and then I'll be gone for weeks.
Mitra Juhari
That's the way to do it. I was getting mad, like, 20 times a day, and I was like, what am I Doing this is. So I'm going to be 80 and think about how much time I was being mad at my phone, at strangers.
Lacey Mosley
Have you ever seen the art? There's some photographer who did photo shoots where he was taking pictures of people on their phones and then he was removing the phone from the photo and post and we all just look insane. It's just people, like staring at their hands, like, very aggressively.
Mitra Juhari
It's so creepy. So embarrassed. And I haven't even seen it.
Lacey Mosley
I just know.
Mitra Juhari
Cause I know how I look.
Lacey Mosley
I'll try to find some photos for you guys and post them with this episode of the people staring at phones being removed. Cause it is. It's kind of dystopian and creepy. I was like, damn, life is bad, huh? And it's time for me to regale Mitra with a historic caper. Criminal group of criminals. We don't know yet, but we do know it will be fun. I do have a warning content warning up top here. There will be a mention of a murder. You know, we try to keep murders off of this podcast because that's not our thing. We don't want to hear about nice white ladies being murdered to death. But we're not mean for them to come out how it sounded.
Mitra Juhari
But no, we just want to hear about them selling houses.
Lacey Mosley
Selling houses. Selling houses. Not getting murdered. It's Tuesday. Yes. That's what we want to hear. She makes it home okay. That's a bop. That's my favorite bop. She makes it home okay. I want that for all of you. All of you.
Mitra Juhari
It's what we deserve, the first single of our 900 track album.
Lacey Mosley
It's gonna be a good album, guys. So stay tuned. Stay tuned. So today we're talking about Christian Gerhard's Rider. Wow, what a last name. Won't be saying that again. So, most notoriously known as Clark Rockefeller spent 30 years passing himself off as an educated, wealthy aristocrat. But underneath his career of charming his way to social clubs, he lied a darker figure. One that would include murder and kidnapping. Ooh, not the napping. So, Christian's early life. Christian grew up in Bergen, Germany, and is an awkward, fantasy obsessed boy craving a fresh start in a new country. Who called him awkward and fantasy obsessed because somebody had to weigh in on that, right? I feel like he wouldn't call himself that. Like, who did y' all interview? And they're like, yeah. Oh, Chris. Yeah, he was very awkward and fantasy obsessed. Constantly writing fanfic, but not for fun stuff. It was like Margaret Thatcher getting Boned. And we were like, why? What is this? What does that mean? So this is a picture of him. This is Clark Rockefeller in 2008. And this is Christian Karl, so.
Mitra Juhari
Oh, wow. Huh.
Lacey Mosley
So wait, why are they giving me two different names? Because this is. Okay, so it's the same person, but they're just showing us. So in 1978, how old is this man? Cause he actually doesn't look that old in this 2008 photo.
Mitra Juhari
That's. I. I didn't want to say it, but I was like, he aged really well.
Lacey Mosley
Is he a vampire?
Mitra Juhari
I want to compliment a guy who seems like he's going to be a villain, but like. But I will say, yeah, it's giving.
Lacey Mosley
Like, he's giving grown man in 1978. And then like, he's giving like tech startup guy in 2008. And I'm confused because there's so many years in between there. That's like 30 years. Like, how does he. Maybe, maybe the photo quality just wasn't good in Germany in 1978. Because.
Mitra Juhari
Yeah, also, I mean, sometimes like, like, dorks look old when they're young. As a dork.
Lacey Mosley
Maybe. Because I think, now that I think about it, my first headshot, I straight up look like Michelle Obama. Like, I look like a grown lady.
Mitra Juhari
I found my senior pictures from when I was in high school, and I was like straightening my hair and doing my eyebrows in this insane way. Actually, I will see if I. I want to see if I can find it.
Lacey Mosley
Oh my God. If you find this, I will die.
Mitra Juhari
So bleak.
Lacey Mosley
In the 2000s. I remember the thin brow had a hold on the community because we all wanted to look older. I'm so mad at myself, for I was 8 years old. Pluck my eyebrows, they never grew back the same. Now I gotta draw these bitches on.
Mitra Juhari
I know mine are all patchy now because I fucked them up so bad. And I would burn my hair every single day. Just nasty shit.
Lacey Mosley
Anything I could do to look like an old ass lady, I was doing. Y' all know, on this podcast, I wore suits to school. I just wanted to be a old ass lady. Not even like a sexy bad bitch. Like, I was just trying to be fucking Margaret Thatcher. So I don't know why she's on my brain today, but okay. Thinking of you, Queen Psych.
Mitra Juhari
Legends only.
Lacey Mosley
Legends only, honey. All right, guys, we're gonna take a quick break for some non scam advertising robbery.
Mitra Juhari
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Lacey Mosley
Y' all know how Amazon was just previously used to, you know, go on and get something very specific, like you want some earrings that look like Michelle Obama or something like, just very specific that you can't buy in a store. Well, now, Amazon is a great place to get all your essentials. You can get your toiletries. You can have them scheduled to deliver your toiletries, which I do because I've been running out of toilet paper. And that's very embarrassing, like, to be on the toilet and you don't have no paper. Like. Like, that's. That's very sad and embarrassing. Can't believe I told y' all that. But next time you run out of coffee or realize you out of light bulbs, don't be in the dark. Amazon has you covered. Save every day with deals from Amazon and fraud. So, craving a fresh start in a new country, he showed up unannounced on the doorstep of a Connecticut family that he had met on a train trip in 1978 at age 17. If I meet anybody on the train, which is already one of the scammiest modes of transportation, and then show up at my house, how do they even know where they lived? They must have told him.
Mitra Juhari
Too trusting.
Lacey Mosley
Too trusting. This is the 70s, though. That's when everybody's leaving their door unlocked. He probably didn't have to knock. He just came in and was like, I live here now.
Mitra Juhari
They're like, great, we've got a room all made up for you.
Lacey Mosley
Sounds good. You want some 70s food? What were people eating in the 70s? I don't know. Tab. It wasn't Tab.
Mitra Juhari
That was my mom's drink of choice. And I feel like she was like the last person to buy a Tab. Like, we were having Tab, like, well into where I was in high school.
Lacey Mosley
She. She wouldn't give it up. She was. She was keeping tab open.
Mitra Juhari
Yeah, she was keeping the lights on at the tab factory.
Lacey Mosley
They're like, guys, we really need to shut down. No, we have one dedicated customer. We will serve her.
Mitra Juhari
Joy is thirsty.
Lacey Mosley
So he stayed with them for a time and eventually ended up up with the nearby Savio family. Now, American Christian modeled himself after the Gilligan's island character Thurston Howell iii, even affecting a similar mid Atlantic accent and expecting every morning for his breakfast to be prepared and his clothes to be washed. Now, how you moving in with other people, family talking about some. They gotta work for you. This is some white man behavior if I've ever seen it. I want this for me. Tired of paying bills.
Mitra Juhari
I want to show up to somebody.
Lacey Mosley
Else'S house and be like, I live here now. Remember we met on that train on the Amtrak? Yeah. So I live here now. And we all spoke once.
Mitra Juhari
So you served me.
Lacey Mosley
You served me. You work for me. I need this laundry done. And who going to poach these eggs? These are my questions. Oh, my gosh. Meet each other's photo. Oh, my goodness. Come on. With this bang and this straight hairy egg.
Mitra Juhari
She's so fucked up. Is she not a decade older?
Lacey Mosley
She is looking grown. And she's posed out, she's laid out. What were those poses they had us doing in senior pictures?
Mitra Juhari
So bleak, but so happy. I'll never. That light in the eye gone.
Lacey Mosley
That spark, that flitter before I knew the world was fucked. Oh, man, do miss that glint in my eye. I think they got an app for that now. I just put it back in on airbrush. I put hope back in my eyes on airbrush. It works the same. So he was eventually kicked out when he refused to get up from the couch to unlock the door for one of the family's young daughters. What? So they cleaning, cooking for you and you won't open the door to the house that's not yours for your employee whose house actually belongs to her. Okay. So when he left, he went on to study film at the University of Wisconsin, this time going by Chris Kenneth Gerhardt. Shortly after that, he married a woman he barely knew in order to obtain a green card to vote for Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election.
Mitra Juhari
What a sentence.
Lacey Mosley
You didn't want to be a citizen just so I don't know, you don't get deported. You wanted to vote for Reagan, the trap king and his trap queen, Nancy Reagan.
Mitra Juhari
I believe in Reagan so much.
Lacey Mosley
That I'm gonna marry a random ass woman so I can cast my vote, take.
Mitra Juhari
A test.
Lacey Mosley
Pledge my allegiance to the flag so I could vote for an actor turned president.
Mitra Juhari
And he studied film also. Massive red flag, right? As if he wasn't scary enough already.
Lacey Mosley
Any man study film, I'm gonn I'm gonna know everything about film. That way I can get on Twitter and reply to everyone correcting them. I'm gonna ruin everyone's fun. That's the major where you wanna ruin people's fun. You're like, what are y' all enjoying things? Let me tell you why you Shouldn't.
Mitra Juhari
I wrote nine paragraphs on the letterbox about this, actually, did you know this.
Lacey Mosley
Is a Dutch angle? Like, bro, we don't need this. So once he had his green card in hand, they went through a quickie divorce and he took off for Los Angeles. Angeles. Where he once again found a new identity. So they went through a quickie divorce. Did sis want to get divorced? Like, was.
Mitra Juhari
I mean, she got out and we have to celebrate that.
Lacey Mosley
We do. I wish she could have gotten annulment. I'm so sorry. Like, is there no rule? I don't watch 90 Day Fiance that much. When you get married for a green card, you don't have to stay married for any period of time.
Mitra Juhari
I have no idea. Maybe it's gotten stricter since this or something. I'm not sure. I feel like they're. I feel like they're really keeping tabs now, but maybe they were then too, right?
Lacey Mosley
I feel like with 90 Day Fiance, they must have been like, we're gonna keep up with it.
Mitra Juhari
Yeah.
Lacey Mosley
So Christopher Cheechin. Christopher Cheech Chess, named after an old high school English teacher, found his new home in the wealthy suburb of San Marino, 18 miles east of Los Angeles. So now he's going by Chris Cheech. So with his high class fashion, impeccable manners and aristocratic accent, Chris was soon escorting the town's elderly widows around, enjoying their big houses and their lavish lifestyles. So now he a gigolo.
Mitra Juhari
Did he write this? Like, it's like so complimentary to him.
Lacey Mosley
With his nice fancy accent and very sexy he was.
Mitra Juhari
With his objectively good style and perfect.
Lacey Mosley
Personality, above average penis size. Who wrote this? Rippling washboard abs. Are we being scammed? Chris, did you write this?
Mitra Juhari
Www.chris.com if you want to donate to.
Lacey Mosley
Like, yeah, it feels like I'm working for you now. I think he got me to work for him as well. He came to my podcast and said, I own this now. You work for me.
Mitra Juhari
Oh my God. SiriusXM just bought out by Chris.
Lacey Mosley
So he's out here being a gigolo for all the elderly hoes. And, you know, I'm not mad at that. You know, everybody needs to get they. They lavish. Everybody needs to have their home passion and sometimes you need someone to share it with. So he, he also started claiming that he was an English royalty. In fact, he said he was a descendant of Lord Mountbatt Batten, the British naval officer and last British Viceroy of India, and Sir Francis Chichester, who was knighted for sailing his ship around the world. You know, when People be saying they were like, sailing their ships around the world back in the day. Was they really? How you know you actually made it around the whole world?
Mitra Juhari
They don't. That's the thing.
Lacey Mosley
Are you just saying that that feels like a scam? Like, I feel like just because you shelled it and then you came back, we don't know if you just did a little loop de loop or some donuts in the ocean and then pulled back up to the coast.
Mitra Juhari
I don't know if you're on your ship for a long time. You went around the world?
Lacey Mosley
You went around the world. How long was he gone? Four months. Okay, that's not about a world's trip.
Mitra Juhari
Going around the world.
Lacey Mosley
That's not about how big the world is.
Mitra Juhari
Yeah, I'm going to go around the. I'm going to be on the ship for four months. No, he went around the world.
Lacey Mosley
Right? We just trust him. Just put the sword on him, put the knight in. What does that even mean? Anyway, give him.
Mitra Juhari
Give him the ribbon. It's fine.
Lacey Mosley
Yeah, so he became a town darling as a Rotarian and member of the City Club. What is a Rotarian? Okay, so Rotary International is an international service organization meant to draw business leaders to help people. So I guess he was just smoking cigars and getting business people to, like, give up their money.
Mitra Juhari
Rotarian is not a rotisserie chicken guy. Immediately, what I thought Rotary, the guy. The guy who makes the rotisserie chicken.
Lacey Mosley
Yeah, he Boston Market, which made him famous. No. So he even got his own public access television show inside San Marino. Chris eventually turned his ability to worm his way into anything towards the famed University of Southern California's film school. So now he's back on his film usc. That's a good place to go talk about film, my man. So Chris's story now was that he was an MFA student in film, which he used to get him in and his friends passes to a USC party attended by a number of Hollywood stars, including director Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, to celebrate the opening of Marcia Lucas post production building. So basically, the celebrities, the Spielbergs, the George Lucases, they threw their coins together and they bought a building. And then they said, hey, y' all, come over here, get drunk. Celebrate you giving us your money to the university. So he somehow finagled his way into this function. Now he's hobnobbing with Mr. Star Wars.
Mitra Juhari
This I'm fine with.
Lacey Mosley
Yeah, no issues. I would. I would do the same. So the Sohos. Here we go. While Chris was partying with Hollywood Film royalty. He was living rent free in a guest dwelling behind the main house of Ruth Dee Dee Sohouse, known to San Marino as a recluse alcoholic. Okay, okay, that's trash. Yeah, yeah. Dark turn. Yeah. Alcoholism is a disease, and you shouldn't take advantage of people who are struggling. That's trash. But obviously, this man doesn't care. He's gonna take advantage of everybody. So friction arose when Dee Dee's adopted son John moved back in with his mother, along with his wife, Linda. So we had to see a picture of John, Linda, and four cats and a horse. So in 2009. Okay, so this is John and Linda. Linda. This looks like a wedding day photo. But Linda's giving was. Linda, hi.
Mitra Juhari
We're not celebrating in this photo.
Lacey Mosley
Linda's looking like, is it over yet? Linda?
Mitra Juhari
We're not seeing elation in the photo. We're not. We're not seeing bliss.
Lacey Mosley
Right. Linda's giving, I don't want to marry my husband. No, no, no. I don't want to marry my hus. So in 2009, a 1995 episode of Unsolved Mysteries called San Marino Bones was discovered about the year of 1985, when Chris resided with them. So Unsolved Mysteries has pulled up into the chat. Now, we don't know why they pulled up into the chat. We're getting there. But apparently there is a mystery here that is unique. Unsolved. According to the episode, in early 1985, John and Linda told friends they had landed an important job with the U.S. government satellite program and had to immediately leave for New York, but they would be back soon. Eight weeks later, there was still no sign of them. So, remember, things were on the rocks with Dee Dee, who has the house and is a recluse, and, you know. But then John pulled up to the scene with his wife now, who's very enthusiastic about love, not money. And then all of a sudden, they were like, hey, y' all, actually, we're going to New York for a very secret mission. And spies. We're spies. I just got a letter from John and Linda saying that they spies now and don't contact them. And they're very much alive, no questions asked. It actually says don't ask no questions in the signature line. Sounds good. What? So eight weeks later, there's no sign of them. But they said, look, we gotta work with the US Government. Don't y' all love Ronald Reagan? Anyway, have y' all seen that new George Lucas movie? Anyways, don't contact us.
Mitra Juhari
Seriously, we're busy. We're busy being spies.
Lacey Mosley
The letter was all over the place, guys. But we'll believe them for now, I guess. So. The episode depicted Dede not giving any information when Linda's sister called looking for the couple and refusing to file a missing persons report. So. All right, we got a clip from the Unsolved Mysteries. Let's see this clip. This is Dee Dee, and she was asked questions by the popo and refused to give any information. When Linda's sister called looking for the couple, and she refused to file a missing person report because she said they working for the government. It's a secret. You can't file the report. Remember?
Mitra Juhari
Ron, Ray, you're gonna blow their cover.
Lacey Mosley
You're gonna blow their cover. They're spies who also like to fight. That's not a cartoon. I'm hanging up. So let's see. Let's see what Dee Dee's talking about.
Mitra Juhari
It was very frustrating in all my conversations with Mrs. Sohas to get the same stories slightly altered, but still the.
Lacey Mosley
Same story about Linda and John being.
Mitra Juhari
On a secret mission.
Lacey Mosley
All right, we'll stop there. There. Whoa. She. She said they're not. I just feel like when the police show up and they like, hey, do you have any information on these people? If you can't tell people where they are and all you got is they're not missing, like, we put you in cuffs immediately. What you mean they're not missing? We didn't even say if they was missing. We asked you if you knew where they were. You could just say, I don't know where they are. That's the logical response, is I don't know where they are. You're not supposed to knock on the popo. Knock on the door, hey, have you seen Linda and John? They not dead. What? They not buried in my yard. Stop asking. What? Nobody asked you that.
Mitra Juhari
Answer the question you have been asked.
Lacey Mosley
And I love that. Every time Linda's sister called the store, getting wild and wild. So listen, they got on this rocket ship. They going to. They say they gotta go to Mars. Cause they having landslides. Google it. And they told me they was gonna be back. They left the suitcase. Do you want this suitcase? It's green. Anyway, it's like, what are we talking about? That's why I asked you. So, all right, Dee Dee, you wild. I don't feel as bad for Chris scamming you. Cause Dee Dee, you a wild girl. We don't know what's going on. So it wasn't until Chris disappeared five months after John and Linda's disappearance that it was discovered that he was the secret source that had supplied the SOHAs with the information about the jobs. So 3. Oh, yes. About to be bad. Y' all, Heads up if you want to speed through this part. Three plastic bags of human remains were unearthed in May 1994 while workers were digging a hole for a swimming pool. According to a neighbor, Chris had borrowed a chainsaw from him about the time that John and Linda went to New York. End quotes. In spite of that fact, an old acquaintance says that he had never picked up a fucking tool in his life. So this is Chris's friend saying that yes, he was sexy and he had washboard abs, but I have never seen him use a chainsaw. But he was also very well dressed and endowed, but no chainsaw.
Mitra Juhari
Lord.
Lacey Mosley
According to Chris's hairdresser. You know, hairdressers be talking. You know, they be spilling the tea. So according to Chris's hairdresser, John had started to become suspicious that Chris was both stealing money from his alcoholic mother and attempting to have an affair with Linda. So we already saw that Linda was not here for the love, and we saw it in her eyes. Like she was like, let's get this wedding over with. So now John is suspicious that Linda is getting it in with washboard abs, well dressed Chris, and that Chris is stealing money from Dee Dee, the conspiracy theorist who is very good at talking to the authorities. No one suspected Chris while he was in San Marino, despite the fact that five months after the Sohos disappeared, he skipped town with the couple's truck.
Mitra Juhari
Okay, but to be fair, he's probably helping with the mission.
Lacey Mosley
So did Dee Dee believe in this mission?
Mitra Juhari
She must have. She might have. Dee Dee is the most. Well, not the most tragic figure, but a tragic figure for sure.
Lacey Mosley
Yeah, Dede, I take it all back. Maybe you're not as shady. You know, you really just thought that the mission was happening and you didn't know, and that was your story, and he was sticking to it. Sis. Got it.
Mitra Juhari
Who wouldn't trust the best dressed man in America?
Lacey Mosley
Who's the most handsome? Okay? The best talker. He had a public access show. How dare we not trust this man? So in late 1988, a man called himself Christopher Crowe got an interview with the venture capitalist Saint Phelps in Greenwich, Connecticut, who hired him at a leading brokerage firm as a computer whiz. Wow. So Chris somehow now knows how to work computers? Chris was abruptly fired when the Social Security number he used to apply for the Wall street broker's license was looked up and it was found to belong to the Son of Sam killer, David Berkowitz.
Mitra Juhari
Oh, Son of Sam.
Lacey Mosley
Yeah, Son of Sam. Sam. David Berkowitz. Okay.
Mitra Juhari
Whoa.
Lacey Mosley
So this is David Berkowitz that we looking at. Mm, wow. So despite having no college degree or practically any experience in anything, Chris was next hired to be the head in a department of a firm on Wall street with an estimated annual base salary of $150,000. Approximately $350,000 today. Talk about failing up. So he got a job and then he gave his Social Security number. They looked it up and they said, this ain't you. And he said, you are so right. All right, goodbye. And he just left and just kept getting jobs, good jobs.
Mitra Juhari
The thing that is the craziest to me is that he could remember all the names. That would be really hard.
Lacey Mosley
Well, the thing that he's doing that's smart when you're a scammer is you don't change your whole name. So he's keeping the Chris because there's so many Chris's in the world. And he's just adding a little sasa, a little tahin, a little Cholula, you know, to the last name and, you know, keeping it moving. Because if you change your first name a lot, then when people start calling you, you might not remember what name you gave them. So they're like, john, Tony. Like, who's. Oh, that's me, right, I'm Tony. Yes, me, Tony. What did you need? Sorry, sometimes I be forgetting my name. What did you need?
Mitra Juhari
Because I'm a spy.
Lacey Mosley
I'm on a mission. No, so Chris, leave it. Your first name is Chris. That's what people gonna call you anyway. So he was subsequently fired and found another job at another firm and skipped town. When Connecticut troopers with questions about the Sohas missing truck began catching up to him, Chris reappeared in New York, this time under his most audacious identity yet. Clark Rockefeller. Wow. Talk about just going to the top. He said, that tree? Yeah, that's my family tree. Yeah, that one. We the Rockefellers.
Mitra Juhari
That's so verifiable. It's so good.
Lacey Mosley
So Mark Rockefeller first started to become known in Manhattan around 1992 or 1993. So this is still when, you know, cell phones are a new thing, aren't they? In briefcases at this point. Like, don't all the computers look green? Like ghosts? Honestly, it was probably easy to be a computer whiz in the 90s. Like what you have to know control all day. Yeah.
Mitra Juhari
Turn it on the whiz.
Lacey Mosley
Oh, it's not working. Turn it off and then turn it on again.
Mitra Juhari
Whoa.
Lacey Mosley
Wow.
Mitra Juhari
Mr. Rockefeller.
Lacey Mosley
Did you try hitting it? Blowing to the back of it. Just doing all the shit you do to reset a Nintendo. A genius. So his story was that he was a Rockefeller and that his great aunt Blanchett, who had passed in 1992, willed him part of her estate, which was partially true and was was the first act that majority spread his name around New York as a Rockefeller. So Clark. So maybe he did get some coins from an aunt, but it obviously wasn't a Rockefeller. Okay. Clark also developed a friendship with his neighbor, an art dealer, whom he asked for assistance in appraising a large collection of his aunt's inherited paintings full of names like Rothko and Pollock, which. Those are like Jason Pollock. Like, come on now. Those are the coincoin paintings. Fun fact. His art dealer friend even tried to push him into purchasing a three hundred thousand dollar Adolf Goatly painting from the Knobbar Gallery. Oh, so many words in this episode. God bless me. But. But he was disgusted when he saw it, saying that he doesn't buy paintings with green in them. Wow. So in order to prove to his art dealer friend that he had coins, he was like, yeah, let me see the paint. 300 000. That ain't no thing. That a thing. Then he saw the painting, he was like, they use green. I don't want it. Yeah, I see the Monet. I see the Monet. Why the lily pads green.
Mitra Juhari
I don't want it. But seriously, if it didn't have green in it, I would pay $300,000 for a paint.
Lacey Mosley
I got the money right here. I would.
Mitra Juhari
Look, I have it. I have it. I just don't like green.
Lacey Mosley
If it wasn't green, like, I would pay more for it. I pay a million dollars if it don't. Can they get rid of the green?
Mitra Juhari
Can they get rid of.
Lacey Mosley
No. Okay, then we don't have a deal. I don't know what to tell you. It's fine. It's fine. So his parody of an eccentric rich person was so complete that he walked around with a radio device as if he had to report his location to security offices every few minutes. And his diet consisted mainly of cucumber and watercress crustless tea sandwiches and Pepperidge Farm cookies.
Mitra Juhari
Was that yummy?
Lacey Mosley
He was just. This is how he convinced people he was rich. He was like, I need a watercress sandwich and a Pepper Ridge Farm, please. And water. Water with bubbles in it. You Know us riches we can't drink that flat water pores and joy and make it room temp I'm very rich.
Mitra Juhari
And a Frappuccino, Please hold the frap.
Lacey Mosley
Extra chino for this billionaire.
Mitra Juhari
I'm gonna convinced he's a Rockefeller.
Lacey Mosley
Despite his eccentricities, Clark soon fell in love with Sandra Boss, an impressive Stanford graduate. Businesswoman. Oh, no, not the business woman. Not the businesswoman of business. Oh, look. Yeah. She's given business. This haircut says take me seriously in the boardroom.
Mitra Juhari
A cool collar, right?
Lacey Mosley
This looks like she's in court testifying. They had a Quaker wedding. Which allowed Clark to bypass many of the legalities of marriage. They only had to file PA Which Clark never did. And Sandra never checked. Much like how she never checked. Why he made no money.
Mitra Juhari
Now, sis, I know Sandra wrote this part.
Lacey Mosley
Sandra, you let this man with his gray hair and his washboard abs and his high fashion Lukes scam you. He never made no money. Y' all went to dinner and every time he said he forgot his wallet and nothing seemed odd.
Mitra Juhari
Well, he had a radio and he ate cucumbers.
Lacey Mosley
You paid for all his watercress sandwiches. And that didn't seem peculiar. He. He put out a coin for a water or a crest. And you still just fucking him and just not caring. Oh, she was a businesswoman though, you know, it's hard to be a businesswoman. She was probably very consumed with business.
Mitra Juhari
Yeah. Busy, busy girl.
Lacey Mosley
Busy. A busy Deborah. Maybe you know.
Mitra Juhari
Thank you for that. Seamless, shameless, Shameless, Seamless plug Guys watch.
Lacey Mosley
Busy Debra's HBO Max, you see do here. So he ain't making no coins. Their marriage was observed to be outwardly formal and stiff. One friend even asked Sandra, how do you know he's really Clark Rockefeller and not some axe murderer on the lamb? That was a very specific question from your homegirl who has great discernment.
Mitra Juhari
Because I. I don't think that's real. I don't think. Sandra.
Lacey Mosley
Did you add that because she seems too specific. She was like, how do you know he's Clark Rockefeller and not a man who lived in. In California and did chainsaw murders and.
Mitra Juhari
Was originally studying film in University of Wisconsin? How do you not know?
Lacey Mosley
And he was awkward and had lots of fantasies as a child in Germany. How do you not know that's who he really is? Little specific. So they moved to New Hampshire shortly before the birth of their daughter, where Clark firmly entrenched himself as the eccentric new character in town, even taking part in local plays. Now he Doing plays now. I ain't dating no man who doing local plays for fun. If you. If you have a passion and you want to be an actor, sure, fine. Even that. Not my taste. But plays for fun, that's where I draw the line. You don't.
Mitra Juhari
You don't like a man with a hobby.
Lacey Mosley
You better get into, I don't know, whittling or putting shit in a bottle. The fuck? Golfing. Oh no, not him.
Mitra Juhari
No, no, no, not the.
Lacey Mosley
This is embarrassing. Judith. No, you did not zoom in on this photo. My producer is disrespectful. That's hilarious. I know. He is not sitting over here in what is clearly spray painted gold costuming and oh no, is he Ceasar. Is this Julius Caesar? What is this? No. Can you imagine how embarrassing, how embarrassing to be a businesswoman and you gotta be like, all right guys, we gotta close the boardroom early today. I gotta go to my home husband's play. No.
Mitra Juhari
She deserves so much more.
Lacey Mosley
So much more than this. We all do. Clark continued to use Sandra's money to buy extravagant properties and act as a stay at home dad to raise thorough mills boss, whom he called Snooks. That's their child. And that's four names. That's how you know you. You raising the scammer child. Why you get a baby out of names? Too many names. Eventually, Sandra had enough and wanted a divorce from Clark. Cut off from his wife's money. The divorce was ugly and contentious. And there was a thread that began unraveling in Clark's 30 year long tapestry of lies when Sandra hired a lawyer and private investigator to investigate him. Unable to prove his past or to offer documentation for proof of any of his claims, Clark lost everything in the divorce, including the estates and his daughter. In exchange, he received $800,000, the most money he had ever had and three supervised visits a year. What? This man? This man had nothing. Nothing. $800,000 and he left with almost a million dollars of this business woman's money.
Mitra Juhari
I mean, the community theater is getting sets. The community theater is getting new costumes.
Lacey Mosley
Yo, you know, he was probably funded. That's probably how he got the lead roles. He would be like, all right, well, if y' all want some backdrops, then I need to be Caesar. I don't auditions. Clark don't audition. That's my name right now. Clark, right? It ain't Chris. Yeah, Clark. Clark don't audition. Lord Jesus. So on July 27, 2008, Clark, now going by Chip, this guy knows a white man name Clark. Chip. Chris, Chip. Okay, I'm waiting for Topher. It's gotta be next. So we're getting to the end of this. Kidnapped his 7 year old daughter during a supervised visit in Boston. Now why can't you lead a baby out of it? You gonna be a criminal on the lamb? Lead a baby out of it. The baby has her businesswoman mama like, leave the baby alone. He left such a confusing trail that it took a 20 person FBI in Boston police, police force team and a wild goose chase over five days to track him down. So I'm looking at Clark is not sexy enough for all this. Or Chip or Chris. And this daughter looks so cute. Oh, this poor baby. It's not her fault that her daddy's a scammer. That's just trash. Eventually, the FBI was able to lure him outside of his house where he was arrested right after he tried to walk away to get a turkey sandwich. So. So Chip gets turkey sandwiches, but Clark likes watercress. Okay, but you know what?
Mitra Juhari
You know what we cannot take away from him is he is doing his dramaturgy. He is creating characters.
Lacey Mosley
He is weaving a web. He's like, what is Clark's motivation today? Robbery.
Mitra Juhari
Sandwich of choice.
Lacey Mosley
Yeah. What does he eat? How does he sleep? Who does he fuck? He marries a businesswoman. Yes. So according to one journalist, Chris interviews act after like he arrested. When he got arrested, he did some interviews. So this is the journalist talking, he says, peppering his speech with verbal filg, such as quite so and rather rambled on about five or six, seven languages that he speaks the historical novel about roots of Israel statehood. He's writing and work as a researcher of anything from physics to social sciences. So he's just up here just talking and. And if y' all don't remember, guys, we, we've said this before. We're getting to the end of Clark and his shenanigans. If people talking too much, if they're giving you too many details, if they're volunteering too much information, they are a liar. It is so easy to spot guys. If somebody's telling you all their accomplishments, how much money they got, how much money they spending, what they doing. And they're not inviting fighting you, they not spending the money on you, you're not getting on the yacht, they lying. Okay. It's too easy to find that now. I'll be like, pull up your insta. Let me see.
Mitra Juhari
Show me. Oh, I'm gonna see if I review on the yacht.
Lacey Mosley
I'm. No photos of the yacht. Oh, the lap. The. Yeah, being clean right now. Hella barnacles. So, yeah. No photos of the yacht. The. I just saw you googling yachts. Don't. Don't Google yachts and then show me a screen. So. In June 2009, Christian was convicted of kidnapping his daughter and sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison. The national spotlight on him brought renewed attention to the Sohas murders. And in March 2011, Christian was charged in connection with John soas death. On April 10, 2013, a jury convicted Christian of first degree murder, and he later was sentenced to 27 years in prison. Why is he doing this side eye like you got me.
Mitra Juhari
Okay, well. And I do want to officially, on the record, retract what I said about him aging well.
Lacey Mosley
Yeah, yeah, he aging like a banana now.
Mitra Juhari
But evil doesn't do a body good, it turns out.
Lacey Mosley
I mean, I don't know. It'll keep you alive. It may not keep you cute, but it will keep you alive.
Mitra Juhari
It will keep you. You will live forever. But you will look like shit.
Lacey Mosley
Yeah, you look like Smeagol. But you will outlive us all and the roaches. So there's that for you. So I'm wondering what happened to Linda, though. Wasn't Linda also murdered as well? We don't know if they. And convict. Where did Linda go? Is Linda on the mission?
Mitra Juhari
Yeah, Linda. We don't know where Linda is.
Lacey Mosley
It's time for the end scammer of the week. This is where we highlight an honorary charlatan. Or not. Maybe they're like Clark and Chris and Chip and, you know, and maybe we hate them. So. This November, the Justice Department accused three political operatives of running a scheme to mislead donors and enrich themselves, charging the men with defrauding people of $3.5 million in 2016 and 2020 17. Wow. One year, 3.5 mil. I'm into it so far. The allegations involve two scam political action committee committees and include wire fraud, money laundering, and making false claims to the Federal Election Commission. The FEC scam packs often direct the money that they raise to back themselves as becoming, like, off. Like, basically like, they'll be like, hey, we raising this money for the Democratic Party? Or, hey, we raising this money because I'm running for something. All right, cool. So they'll raise this money and then they'll just steal it. So this became obvious with the three men. Matthew Tunstall, 34, of Los Angeles. Tunstall has led a lavish lifestyle posing as an Internet influencer under the name Matt Knox flashing Gucci rings, wearing designer accessories, and driving a black Porsche. Oh, let me see, Matt. The scam included two packs linked to Tunstall, for which he had spent heavily to recruit. Wait, no, wait, no, no. How y' all giving political action money to a man with a chest tattoo?
Mitra Juhari
No.
Lacey Mosley
And washboard abs. Everybody knows when you get into politics, you got a dad bod. Ain't nobody a politics this sexy.
Mitra Juhari
No, he is not the future.
Lacey Mosley
He's taking pictures with the front facing camera, doing this. Doing the smooths, the prune, where you purse your lips together and you say prune and you take the photo and it makes you look sexy. He's doing selfies.
Mitra Juhari
He's, like, fully naked in one of those photos, and we are giving him pack money.
Lacey Mosley
This man is not gonna get us no change, no action, no justice. He not even gonna give us peace. This Instagram profile is not giving peace. Is he at that German Beer festival?
Mitra Juhari
Yeah.
Lacey Mosley
Y' all giving y' all money to the man going to the German Beer Festival with the bad bitches and all the beers. And y' all thought that he was gonna help the community. I cannot. Honestly. He shouldn't go to jail for this. Cause y' all wrong for giving him the money. The scam included two packs linked to Tunst, for which he had spent heavily to recruit small donors under false and misleading pretenses, including through robocalls that impersonated President Donald J. Trump. Hello? It's me, Trump. Yes, I'm calling your house. I need some money for change and for racism. We gotta get the blacks out. Get the Browns out. They're coming. They're gonna kill you anyway.
Mitra Juhari
Donate and this guy is gonna make it happen.
Lacey Mosley
He's a very sexy man. He's. He's got abs. He goes to Lederhausen. Give him your money. So the indictment also includes Robert Rage, Jr. Of Hollister, California, and Kyle George Davies, 29, of Austin, Texas, who are accused of defrauding donors of approximately $3.5 million based on false, misleading representations and using those funds to enrich themselves. If they're all convicted on all counts, Mr. Tunstall, Mr. Ray's face a maximum of 125 years in prison. And Mr. Davies faces 65 years. Now, let me tell you why this is some bullshit, Clark. Murder, murderer ass got 27 years for murder and five for kidnapping. But because these people defrauded some Trump supporters, they got to go to under the jail for the rest of their life. Make it make sense. Make it make sense. Nah, Free My man Matt. Free. My man. I'm raising money for you, Matt. I'm gonna get a T shirt with your abs on it. Like.
Mitra Juhari
Actress and comedian Laci Moseley joins the legal team for Matt Tunstall.
Lacey Mosley
I'm about to get on my Kim Kardashian shit. This is a miscarriage of justice. Joe Biden. I demand the audience hitting the books. I'mma become a lawyer real quick. How can y' all say I gotta go to law school? No, I'mma just have lawyers come around me. That worked the same. That's what I heard. Lawyers come to my house, give me a law degree, because this is not right. So, oh, man, what a turn. I'm gonna say, I support these people. They were just. They're scamming on hate. Like, they're doing roller coaster. Do you hate the blacks? Donate to Matt and follow him on Instagram. Like, and subscribe on YouTube so he.
Mitra Juhari
Can buy a weird silver basketball.
Lacey Mosley
Follow him on Tick Tock. He makes the best dances. He never steals them from black people. Don't check like, I'm for this. I. I don't think anybody was hurt. Sounds like Matt's having a great life. I'm for it, Clark. Now you can go to hell because you a nasty man. But Matt, I love you guys. This is a long one. Thank you for your patience, Mitra. We're usually out of here so much quicker than this. I'm blast. So much fun. We always ask on the show, where would you like to be found? Where do you want people to find you and your things and the things they can watch you in and your brilliance?
Mitra Juhari
Watch through.
Lacey Mosley
Busy.
Mitra Juhari
Debra's new season is out sometime in 2022. We don't know yet. We'll tell do. And I'm on Instagram. Mitra Johari.
Lacey Mosley
Yes. And follow her on Instagram. Mitra does a lot of great work. She does a lot of great philanthropy. If you're in the Los Angeles area and you're looking where to give your coins and help people, Mitra's done a lot of great charity work as well as being a genius. And follow her so you can get into the next season of three Busy Debras after you've watched the first one. If you haven't watched the first one already, it's cute. HBO Max, guys, as always, snitch on your friends and your family@scamgodesspodmail.com and if you want to find me living my life, riding my bikes and selling my houses. D I V A L A C I Diva Lacey on all platforms. If you want to see the photos of all this mess Scam got his pod on all platforms. Guys, get into that merch. Maybe we'll make some Home passion merch.
Mitra Juhari
You need to I will buy that.
Lacey Mosley
And wear it when you do your home passion. Yes guys, congregation Stay scheming Scam Goddess this has been an Earwolf production in association with Team Coco. Scam got us stars and is hosted by me Lacey Moseley AKA Scam Goddess. It's produced by Judith Kargbo, engineered by Marina Paiz and researched by Kalen Brandt. Stay Scheming this has been a Team Coco production in a circle association with Earwolf sponsored by Novo Nordisk. Hi, I'm standing in quicksand. You can't see it, but it could be true. Having MASH can often be the same way. Mash, or Metabolic Dysfunction associated steatohepatitis, is a potentially life threatening liver disease you could have without knowing, especially if you have conditions like obesity, type 2 diabetes or high triglycerides. You don't know if I'm in quicksand and you won't know if you're at risk for MASH without Talking to your doctor. Learn more at speakliver.com Do Crohn's disease symptoms keep coming back Tremphya May help at 12 weeks Rapid symptom remission was achieved in most patients taking Tremphya and some experienced visible improvement of their intestinal lining at 12 weeks and one year. Individual results may vary. Tremphya is a prescription medicine used to treat adults with moderately to severely active Crohn's disease. Serious allergic reactions and increased risk of infections and liver problems may occur. Before treatment, your doctor should check you for infections and tb. Tell your doctor if you have an infection, flu like symptoms or if you need a vaccine. Explore what's possible and ask your doctor about tremphya today. Call 1-800-526-7736 to learn more or visit trempiaradio. Com.
Podcast Summary: Scam Goddess – Fraud Friday: The AristoCON w/ Mitra Jouhari
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In this episode of Scam Goddess, titled Fraud Friday: The AristoCON w/ Mitra Jouhari, host Laci Mosley teams up with the talented writer and comedian Mitra Jouhari to delve deep into the world of scams, focusing primarily on the notorious case of Christian Gerhard, infamously known as Clark Rockefeller. This episode not only uncovers the intricate web spun by Gerhard but also explores broader themes of trust, deception, and the allure of high society.
Laci warmly welcomes Mitra Jouhari, highlighting her multifaceted career as a writer, comedian, and actress. Mitra brings a fresh dynamic to the show with her witty humor and insightful perspectives on fraud and deception.
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Mitra shares her personal relationship with scams, revealing a blend of naivety and fascination. She admits to being easily scammed due to her trusting nature but simultaneously revels in the cleverness of sophisticated frauds.
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The conversation shifts to the reality TV show Selling Sunset, where Mitra and Laci humorously critique the portrayal of affluent real estate agents. They dissect how the show glamorizes certain deceptive practices within high-stakes real estate, blending humor with sharp observations.
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The heart of the episode lies in exploring the elaborate scam orchestrated by Christian Gerhard, who assumed the identity of Clark Rockefeller to infiltrate high society, ultimately leading to his criminal actions.
Christian Gerhard, originally from Bergen, Germany, sought a fresh start in the United States. Adopting the persona of Clark Rockefeller, he seamlessly integrated into affluent communities, using charm and fabricated credentials to gain trust.
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Gerhard's transformation included adopting an aristocratic accent, participating in community activities, and even hosting his own public access television show. His ability to mimic affluent behaviors and lifestyle made him a trusted figure among his peers.
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Despite his polished façade, Gerhard was involved in criminal activities, including the kidnapping of his daughter and the murders of John and Linda Soha. His arrest revealed the extent of his deception and led to his conviction and lengthy prison sentence.
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Gerhard's case underscores the dangers of superficial charm and the importance of verifying identities, regardless of outward appearances. Laci emphasizes the red flags associated with overly complex personal stories and excessive self-promotion.
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The duo shifts focus to a more recent scam involving three political operatives accused by the Justice Department of defrauding donors of $3.5 million between 2016 and 2020. The operatives misled donors through false pretenses, including robocalls impersonating President Donald J. Trump.
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Throughout the episode, Laci and Mitra engage in humorous exchanges, sharing personal anecdotes and playful jabs. They encourage listeners to stay vigilant against scams and to participate by reporting suspicious activities.
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Wrapping up the episode, Laci and Mitra reiterate the importance of awareness in preventing fraud. They remind listeners to verify information and remain skeptical of too-good-to-be-true offers. The episode concludes with light-hearted remarks and promotional segments for upcoming shows and merchandise.
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This summary captures the essence of the episode, highlighting the main discussions, key insights, and notable moments. For a more immersive experience, listening to the full episode is highly recommended.