# The Man Who Filled Oil Tanks With Water — And Fooled Wall Street

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Podcast: [The Unlit Room](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-unlit-room-7777253)
Published: 2026-07-30T14:00:00+00:00
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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...

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