The Content Group to Tell Life Story of Con Artist Barry Minkow

The Content Group (TCG), along with Sami Abdou, has struck up a partnership with Barry Minkow to adapt his life story as an unscripted limited series.

Minkow is a convicted con artist who used his company as a front to attract investment for a massive Ponzi scheme, costing investors and lenders over $100 million. After being released from jail, Minkow has charted a new path, becoming a pastor, launching the fraud investigation firm Fraud Discovery Institute, speaking at schools about ethics and working with the FBI and SEC.

Jodi Flynn, president of The Content Group, said: “Barry’s life is a real-life house of cards story, from boy phenom to Ponzi scheme, from redeemed pastor to insider trader—you can’t write it! We have unprecedented access to tell his point of view, not just the details of his trickery but why he committed crimes time and time again.”