It’s Your Stomach!

Barry Minkow

Personal Trainer

BARRY MINKOW started ZZZZ Best Carpet Cleaning company in his parents’ garage at age 16. By 21 he was the darling of Wall Street. He fooled three CPA firms into clean opinions, and many lenders, investment bankers, attorneys and sophisticated investors. He told Oprah “Think big. Be big. End of story.” Unbeknownst at the time, Minkow was also secretly connected to two New York Mafia Crime Families. Upon his release from prison in 1995 after serving almost 8 years in federal custody, Minkow earned 2 Masters Degrees, became a Pastor and began uncovering fraud. By 2010, Minkow had helped the FBI and SEC, uncover over 16 cases totaling 1.7 billion dollars. However, months later he pled guilty to insider trading and tax fraud and resigned his 14 year pastorate in disgrace. He was released in 2018 after serving seven and a half years and since then has helped the government proactively identify, this time as a whistleblower, 13 cases of financial fraud totaling over 1 billion in victim impact. In 2019, Barry remarried Lisa and was able by God’s grace to reconcile his family. He and Lisa live with their twins, Robert and Dylan, and daughter-in-law to be, Sarae, and granddaughter, Selena.