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Convicted felon Eric C. Conn certainly lived up to his name. The small-town Kentucky attorney, who described himself as a "wealthy and flamboyant lawyer," defrauded the U.S. government of more than half a billion dollars in the biggest scam ever perpetrated against the Social Security Administration. His scheme funded…

Writer-directors James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte recognize a good old-fashioned scam story when they see one. Their 2020 Emmy-nominated documentary series McMillion$ revealed how a former police officer managed to rig McDonald's big-bucks Monopoly game in the 1990s. Their new docuseries for Apple TV+, The Big Con…

The Jet is coming in for a landing at Apple TV+. The streaming service has ordered The Jet, a docuseries that chronicles the true story behind the ’90s promotional campaign that advertised a Harrier jet in exchange for Pepsi points. It hails from James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte, the Emmy-nominated filmmakers…

The FBI has taken a beating under President Trump, who has regularly criticized the agency, going so far as to call some of its investigators "human scum." That hasn't done much for FBI morale, but its image gets perhaps a sorely needed boost in one of this year's most-honored true crime series, HBO's McMillion$. The…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed McMillion$ filmmakers Brian Lazarte and James Lee Hernandez as well as their company Fun Meter Productions for worldwide representation in all areas. Lazarte and Hernandez’s critically acclaimed six-part docuseries McMillion$ bowed in February. The project, which was from Unrealistic Ideas…

One of two directors behind McMillions, James Lee Hernandez came to the story for his first docuseries while scrawling casually through Reddit one night in 2012. "I saw a TIL—'Today, I learned that nobody really won the McDonald's Monopoly game.' I immediately tapped on it, because I loved that game as a kid, growing…