Episode
The Man Who Filled Oil Tanks With Water — And Fooled Wall Street
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- The Unlit Room
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- Jul 30, 2026
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- 593
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The Man Who Filled Oil Tanks With Water — And Fooled Wall Street Every story in here actually happened. New episodes Monday through Saturday. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_oil_scandal; https://nymag.com/news/features/scandals/salad-oil-2012-4/ Visual credits: - "Price of soybean oil futures from September 1963 to December 1963.svg" by Abandeali; CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Price of soybean oil futures fro...