{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/657cccfdd39db4001633e51b/673246c19e7b27e0acf5b862?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"S5 | Powder Keg | Ep 5: A Flop And A Skip","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/657cccfdd39db4001633e51b/1731347826622-4b45a977-0324-4c9b-96c2-0a74f6fd9fb2.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>A leaked recording reveals the Kiwi founder of billion-dollar supplements firm AG1 misrepresented his criminal history in public statements and in a meeting with the company’s president and staff, just this year. Chris Ashenden’s high-powered American lawyer claimed he had never been charged with a crime, or convicted of a crime, or been the subject of an arrest warrant – but none of those things was correct.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We listen to the recording alongside Anita Mika, who lost her home in Chris’s property scheme. Her sister also lost her home – but she died without seeing justice done. ‘We can forgive, but we never forget,’ Anita says.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Each episode is available first to subscribers to DELVE+. To listen early and ad-free to this show, to our bonus episodes, and to award-winning podcast The Boy in the Water and Melanie Reid’s latest investigation, Fractured, sign up to DELVE+.</p>","author_name":"newsroom.co.nz"}