Episode
Frontline: Cell Tower Deaths / Six Billion Dollar Bet
Overview
Learn about the hidden cost of better and faster cell phone service, and about unreliable medical evidence in several child death cases. Six Billion Dollar Bet: Jon Corzine, former head of Goldman Sachs and political power broker, took over MF Global in the spring of 2010 and lost a massive bet on European debt, with more than a billion dollars of customer funds missing. FRONTLINE investigates how Corzine’s traders went around MF Global’s risk officers and how he swayed regulators in Washington to allow risky practices to continue.
Details
- Series
- Frontline
- Season
- Season 30
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2012-05-22
Episode context
Cell Tower Deaths / Six Billion Dollar Bet is Episode 12 in Season 30 of Frontline. It aired on 2012-05-22.
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