Paper Empires | Financial Crime Documentaries

Paper Empires: financial crime documentaries from court records. Fraud, forged books and corporate collapse, told from the filings and the verdicts.

Produced and edited by Chris Mole, winner of 14 Emmy Awards.

Paper Empires tells the stories of fortunes that existed only on paper.

Every episode follows one collapse from the inside: the arrangement that looked ordinary, the people who signed off on it, the moment the arithmetic stopped working, and what was left when the money was gone.

Researched from court records, regulatory findings and contemporary reporting. Sources are listed in every description.

New documentary every week.