America's Worst Con Man - The Barry Minkow Story
05 November 2025

America's Worst Con Man - The Barry Minkow Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

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Barry Minkow was a teenage entrepreneur who founded the carpet-cleaning company ZZZZ Best in the 1980s and became a Wall Street sensation- until it was revealed to be one of the biggest Ponzi schemes of its time. Minkow fabricated fake restoration projects and used forged documents to trick investors, inflating his company’s value to over $200 million before it collapsed in 1987.