{"podcast":{"title":"The Opportunist","slug":"the-opportunist-1382518","podcast_index_feed_id":1382518,"rss_url":"https://rss.pdrl.fm/79e854/podcastone.com/podcast?categoryID2=2345","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/the-opportunist","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/32/5c/b4/9e/325cb49e-e040-4960-a623-50f819cbe938/9b81947a94ef170b4ae43bd7856a5f18792429d303eb6bbf53da1a081ed1b539c8016b742b003c0e21bc5617bf5b5302c4a2073f4e7a498b9acab0768a4c3b48.jpeg","author":"PodcastOne","episode_count":87,"summary":"The Opportunist tells true stories of regular people who turn sinister by embracing opportunity. How does an everyday person turn into a thief, a scammer or a cult leader? Perhaps the most dangerous person is the one who appears the most normal. Perhaps there is a dark potential lurking inside all of us that is just waiting for the right opportunity to emerge. The Opportunist is an original podcast hosted by Sarah James McLaughlin.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-opportunist-1382518"},"episode":{"title":"Aimee Bock & Salim Said: Defrauding Our Future","slug":"aimee-bock-salim-said-defrauding-our-future","published_at":"2025-07-14T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-opportunist-1382518/aimee-bock-salim-said-defrauding-our-future","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-opportunist-1382518","url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/arttrk.com/p/PDPN1/claritaspod.com/measure/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/rss.art19.com/episodes/1a1987c6-165e-49c5-9b23-520604451785.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/arttrk.com/p/PDPN1/claritaspod.com/measure/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/rss.art19.com/episodes/1a1987c6-165e-49c5-9b23-520604451785.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"Aimee Bock and Salim Said positioned themselves as champions of hungry children—until investigators uncovered a massive fraud scheme siphoning millions from a federal food aid program.  “Aimee Bock & Salim Said: Defrauding Our Future”  exposes how ambition, deception, and weak oversight collided in one of the largest pandemic-era scams in U.S. history. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .","meta_description":"Aimee Bock and Salim Said positioned themselves as champions of hungry children—until investigators uncovered a massive fraud scheme siphoning millions fr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2495,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-opportunist-1382518/episodes/aimee-bock-salim-said-defrauding-our-future/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-opportunist-1382518/aimee-bock-salim-said-defrauding-our-future.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}