Fruitcake Fraud

Fascinating mystery about missing millions at a family-owned Texas fruitcake company. Doesn't take long to find out 'whodunit' but watching everything unravel will keep you riveted. It's almost unbelievable how it all went down, but humans are strange creatures. The featured employees are people you'd want to know in real life - warm, charming, and ultimately - so forgiving. Watch this - I promise you won't be disappointed. And you'll probably order a fruitcake, too :)

Amazing story, amazing cast. I am in love with lesa goins, i strive to be her/hold her glamour! But they are all incredible. Could not miss a minute of this!

More victims of consumerist culture. That is all you can see in this movie.

People talking about stuff; People collecting stuff; People being outcast, because they do not have enough stuff; Clubs, where you can join if you have enough stuff; People suffering because they think they do not have enough stuff;

After watching this quite long movie, I feel sad for all victims of a system, which is very good at punishing people and tragically poor at helping them.

And wrapping a single fruitcake in three layers of paper, plastic and metal respectively, is definitely not a good business model. It is like stealing... from the environment and, ultimately, from everyone else on this planet.

I cannot believe these two people were able to pull such an elaborate scheme right under the noses of all these Corsicanans, yet here we are.

This doc puts me in the mind of McMillions in the way it was produced, edited, etc., and very comical at times.

The only tragedy is Bob- the poor guy who ultimately makes the decisions, but hadn't quite figured out to hire a comptroller or outside auditing company. Of course hindsight is 20/20, but in a company this well known and profitable should have oversight.

Semitric deserves a GIANT raise, and Sandy and Kay deserve to rot in prison the rest of their lives.

Worth noting, Lesa Goins is a horrible human being- what a boorish, brainless, ridiculously narcissistic woman. Some can be due to selective editing, of course, but her personality (or rather, lack thereof) shines through like a penny in the mud. I sincerely hope she's not as in control of the town as she likes to think she is.

Really interesting documentary about the famous Collin St Bakery. Have partaken of their fruitcakes many times in the past but I had no idea this had ever happened. The production and story is adequate. The regular people, not being actors, did a good enough job of story telling, but the film lags at times. This was a really sad tale with a tremendous ending. Once I started watching, I couldn't wait to see what happened next. If our country could learn from the sort of people that run, manage and work at Collin Street Bakery, we would be a great united nation again. Highly recommended.