December 9, 2024
EP. 272 — The Fake Texas Oil Tycoon w/ Brandon Kyle Goodman
If you got unemployed roommates, put your headphones ON as today things get a lil’ raunchy with Brandon Kyle Goodman, the host of the new “Tell Me Something Messy” podcast from iHeartMedia’s Outspoken Podcast Network. Brandon helps us discuss Alan Todd May—a career criminal who started out committing check fraud and ended up hoodwinking investors out of millions by pretending he was an oil tycoon. Stay schemin’!
This story was primarily reported by Charles Bethea in his 2024 New Yorker article “The Fake Oilman”:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-south/the-fake-oilman
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Research by Kate Doyle.
SOURCES:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-south/the-fake-oilman
https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/txn/PressRel12/may_sen_pr.html
https://www.courthousenews.com/dallas-man-gets-20-years-for-7-million-scam/
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/dallas/press-releases/2010/dl120610.htm
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100012714728976
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