NBA referee Tim Donaghy used inside information to bet on games. He got so good at it that the mob made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.
Dishonesty: The Truth About Lies premiered Thursday, May 28 at 10p ET/PT on CNBC. Here’s a snippet:
I had an exclusive with Tim Donaghy in 2011. It’s one of my all time favorite pieces, and certainly one of the best interviews I ever did. Therefore, I re-run it every year during the NBA Finals and plan on re-posting it again next week once we get into the heart of the series.
Go here for Tim Donaghy part one
Here for Tim Donaghy part two
And finally part four, the final installment
CNBC producer Deborah Camiel was gracious enough to stop by and talk about the film. Here’s the podcast of our conversation below. Have a listen:
Here’s a blurb about the documentary from CNBC’s publicist:
There are liars and cheaters all around us. From little white lies to extraordinary acts of criminal deceit, this fascinating new CNBC documentary examines this darker side of the human character, and our culture, through first-person accounts from five people who explain with startling candor how their lies lead to disastrous results: a Wall Street trader and a lawyer who run an insider trading scheme that lands them in prison; a disgraced NBA referee, convicted of betting illegally on games; an unhappily married woman in Florida who goes online to cheat on her husband; and a senior manager caught cooking the books at a major corporation. All of them rationalized their behavior and somehow came to believe their acts were justified.
Woven throughout these gripping stories of deceit are clever laboratory experiments conducted by the noted behavioral economist and best-selling author Dan Ariely. Along with a team of researchers, he reveals why so many of us lie in big ways or small, how we can still feel we’re essentially honest despite our duplicity, and what we can do to stem an epidemic of cheating that costs us billions in fraud and even more in the erosion of public trust.
Here’s when it airs again:
Saturday, May 30 @ 9pm ET – Dishonesty: The Truth About Lies
Sunday, May 31 @ 10pm ET/PT – Dishonesty: The Truth About Lie
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