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The Mogul

Lou Pearlman / Alan Bond

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24: The Mogul

An aviation entrepreneur creates the boyband craze of the nineties and one of the longest-running Ponzi schemes in American history.

Prelude: In Australia, Alan Bond is remembered as both a national hero and a national disgrace.

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