Jun 23, 2026 · 48 min · 27 segments
Jacob Kingston attempts a dramatic escape. The Feds race to get him and Levon Termendzhyan behind bars before they can disappear to Turkey. In Kingdom of Fraud’s dramatic finale, alliances will be…
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Michelle McPheeHost
Arthur EvanchikGuest
Jenny KingstonGuestOleg PoberejkoGuest
Tyler HatcherGuest
Steven WashburnGuestAndrew RobinsonGuest
[gentle music] Over half a dozen federal agents and prosecutors are huddled in what they call their war room.
We're sitting as a team and we, [laughs] we have a conversation about, like, "Do we let them go? Are they coming back?" Like, "What do we do?"
It's August 2018, and the federal investigation has been thrust into absolute chaos by Jacob Kingston.
It popped up in our systems that he had bought this plane ticket to go from Salt Lake City to Turkey.
The system is showing tickets for his wife, Sally, his sons, and their wives, too.
This one is definitely different." And my co-case agents and I are like, "If we let them go, they're never coming back."
Tyler Hatcher is certain Jacob is about to flee to Turkey, where he spent years stashing his ill-gotten gains.
Arthur Evanchik, one of the prosecutors, knows that if they wait, they could still uncover more evidence.
On the other hand, letting Jacob and his entire family fly off would be a massive gamble.
We decided, "Okay, we can't take the risk that he's gonna go to Turkey and never come back."
Part two, we knew that if we got Jacob Kingston, but not Levon Termendjian, he would probably jet off to Turkey.
And so we had to figure out a way to do an arrest of Levon Termendjian at the same time that we were arresting Jacob Kingston.
We were very concerned about going after Levon because he had security, and we didn't want to have security do anything crazy if we tried to arrest Levon.
[gentle music] Over half a dozen federal agents and prosecutors are huddled in what they call their war room.
We're sitting as a team and we, [laughs] we have a conversation about, like, "Do we let them go? Are they coming back?" Like, "What do we do?"
It's August 2018, and the federal investigation has been thrust into absolute chaos by Jacob Kingston.
It popped up in our systems that he had bought this plane ticket to go from Salt Lake City to Turkey.
The system is showing tickets for his wife, Sally, his sons, and their wives, too.
This one is definitely different." And my co-case agents and I are like, "If we let them go, they're never coming back."
Tyler Hatcher is certain Jacob is about to flee to Turkey, where he spent years stashing his ill-gotten gains.
Arthur Evanchik, one of the prosecutors, knows that if they wait, they could still uncover more evidence.
On the other hand, letting Jacob and his entire family fly off would be a massive gamble.
We decided, "Okay, we can't take the risk that he's gonna go to Turkey and never come back."
Part two, we knew that if we got Jacob Kingston, but not Levon Termendjian, he would probably jet off to Turkey.
And so we had to figure out a way to do an arrest of Levon Termendjian at the same time that we were arresting Jacob Kingston.
We were very concerned about going after Levon because he had security, and we didn't want to have security do anything crazy if we tried to arrest Levon.
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