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Liar, Liar: Melissa Caddick and the Missing Millions

Liar, Liar: Melissa Caddick and the Missing Millions

By: The Age and Sydney Morning Herald
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Since late 2020, the case of missing Sydney woman Melissa Caddick has captivated the country. A seemingly successful businesswoman from Sydney's eastern suburbs went missing after authorities raided her Dover Heights home amid questions over an unlicensed financial planning business.
Sydney Morning Herald investigative journalist Kate McClymont would reveal key details of a massive Ponzi scheme and a $23 million fraud that ripped off investors including her family and friends as Caddick lived the high life of overseas trips, cars and high end fashion. McClymont's coverage would win her a ninth Walkley Award.
Now McClymont and 60 Minutes’ Tom Steinfort are set to present a breakthrough podcast Liar, Liar: Melissa Caddick and the Missing Millions that will follow the twists and turns of a case where everyone has a theory of their own. What happened to the money and what happened to Melissa? Liar Liar will reveal fresh details of the crime of the century through interviews with key players and takes listeners from upmarket jewellery auction rooms in Hong Kong, to the ski slopes of Aspen to private islands in the South Pacific.

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Completely riveted to this podcast for the past week! Looked forward to turning in on during my morning walk each day! Did not want it to end!

Could not stop listening to this!

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Really liked the story, the research and the people's stories in their own voices. I find corporate fraud fascinating and sickening.
This is why we need the Aust consumer, financial and business watchdogs to be well staffed, funded, and researched.
Thank you all.

Great Fraud Investigation

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Overly scripted and the hosts are too focused on making jokes and being "entertaining". A weird combination of overly animated, yet totally wooden. It's distracting because it's such a fascinating topic. What this woman has done is abhorrent. They're treating it like it's a bit of celebrity gossip. She's ruined people's lives and that is worth treating this subject with the respect the victims deserve. Tone it down a bit!

Fascinating topic; poorly delivered

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This could have been fascinating however is delivered like a tabloid, only speaking to the vanity and lifestyle of Melissa. At no point do they try to explain the mechanics of the Ponzi Scheme which is the underlying theme, hence I wouldn't call it investigative journalism.

sensationalism, not journalism

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