Cults & Cons: The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist

E466 - Cults & Cons: The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist

Published: August 22, 2026

Duration: 43:57

On today's first Cults & Cons episode, Sabrina Deana-Roga and Corinne Vien follow one of the strangest and stickiest white-collar crimes ever committed, a group of Quebec thieves siphoned off nearly 3,000 tons of maple syrup—worth over $18 million—from the Global Strategic Maple Reserve, an actual government-run stockpile meant to stabilize syrup prices.

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