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Like the podcast, the Scandal series will document a story Amanda Rileyhis blog recounting her battles with Stage 3 blood cancer has reached thousands of people. On the surface, Riley was an ordinary wife and mother who devoted herself to her Christian faith. But when the investigative producer Nancy Moscatiello After receiving an anonymous tip about Riley, the facade began to crack.
“Soon, Amanda’s own words may prove to be her downfall,” the official synopsis for Scandal teasing
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Yes. Y official teaser For the series it includes snippets of interviews from different people who believed Riley when she told them she had cancer. One participant calls her “a lovely young Christian woman fighting an unpleasant battle.”
The trailer then documents the same community that rallied around Riley realizing that she wasn’t sick at all, and that their kindness had taken advantage of her.
“Thousands of people threw money at her,” one person recalls, while another noted that Riley’s loved ones “raised $100,000” to help pay for her treatments.
“What surprised me is the lengths he went to to fake cancer,” said another person.
In Riley’s case, lying about having cancer wasn’t just shocking, it was criminal. After soliciting donations to cover non-existent medical expenses, Riley pleaded guilty to wire fraud in 2021. She is currently serving a five-year prison sentence.
Yes. Moscatiello, who turned an unknown tip into a five-year investigation into Riley and served as an executive producer for the “Scamanda” podcast, can be seen in a trailer for the series and has posted about it via social media.
If you listened to the “Scamanda” podcast, you know it painted a detailed picture of Riley’s lies and how she perpetuated them: shaving her head to make it look like she was having chemotherapy, staging convincing pictures of herself in the hospital and even sued and even sued Moscatiello for defamation after learning about her investigation. The series will provide more information through new interviews from Riley’s former friends, a neuropsychologist who sheds light on why some people commit scams, and law enforcement officers and an IRS investigator who handled the case.
Scandal Also includes communications between Riley and the host of the “Scamanda” podcast Charlie Webster as well as materials Moscatiello collected during her investigation of Riley.
Riley shares two sons, Carter and Connor, with her husband, Cory Riley. Amanda called her two children “miracles,” claiming she should not have been able to give birth to healthy babies while undergoing cancer treatment. Amanda and Cory are still married, and Cory has not been charged in connection with Amanda’s crimes.
The blog where Amanda fraudulently documented her cancer journey, titled “Lymphoma Can Suck It,” is no longer active and has been removed from the Internet. She wrote about her cancer experience online between 2012 and 2019 before being accused of wire fraud in 2020.
After an initial October 2024 premiere date was shelved due to scheduling conflicts involving Monday Night Football, the docuseries will now premiere on Thursday, January 30 at 9 pm ET 2025, with three additional episodes airs on Thursday. Episodes will be available to stream on Hulu.
After ABC added six Monday Night Football Simulcasts to their previously announced lineup, the Hidden Camera series What would you do? moved from Monday to Wednesday, taking ScandalSpot. A famous wheel of fortune a Press Your Luck were also pushed to 2025 due to the timetable change.