The Million Dollar Club -- Learn from Dentistry's Elite Embezzlers

Episode length: 1h 7m  |  Published: 2021-02-25

What does it take to steal a million dollars from a dental practice? More than you might think — and less than most dentists would believe. In this gripping episode, Prosperident hosts Amber Weber and David Harris are joined by five of Prosperident's senior investigators — Sonya Hudson, Tony Ulbrandt, Kelly Paxton, Pat Little, and Scott Clifford — each of whom shares one of the most extraordinary embezzlement cases they have personally worked on.

These are the cases that define careers: the ones that involve staggering dollar amounts, elaborate concealment schemes, and offenders whose stories defy easy explanation. From a dentist's spouse who turned theft into a lifestyle to compulsive gamblers and compulsive spenders who drained practices to fund their habits, each case illuminates a different dimension of dental embezzlement at its most extreme.

Cases and topics covered include:

• Sonya Hudson's case: the anatomy of a seven-figure embezzlement and how it stayed hidden
• Tony Ulbrandt's case: how a compulsive gambler systematically looted a practice to fund losses
• Kelly Paxton's case: a compulsive spender whose lifestyle was entirely funded by theft
• Pat Little's case: a dentist's spouse who exploited insider access to steal over an extended period
• Scott Clifford's case: an embezzler whose sophistication and longevity made for one of the most complex investigations on record
• The common threads that run through all large-scale dental embezzlement cases
• What enabled these thefts to reach the scale they did — and what could have stopped them earlier