High-Rolling VA 'Shopaholic' Profiled On CNBC's 'American Greed'

ASHBURN, VA — Entrepreneur Keisha Williams lures investors into pouring millions of dollars into a can't miss bid to secure a money-making health-care technology. The Ashburn resident meets with investors, convincing them that she has clients lined up around the world ready to purchase the software.

"She's very charismatic and she's very warm. She's very down to earth," a California businessman named Christian D'Andrade says on a new episode of of CNBC's "American Greed" scheduled to air at 10 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time on Monday, Jan. 13.

In her meetings with investors about the health care-based software system, Williams tells them that she has already put $30 million into the software and that other big investors are beating down the door. She also drops the names of high-end customers.

On "American Greed," an FBI agent, who was working undercover at the time, recounts Williams telling him that the prime minister of Dubai was considering implementing the platform in all of Dubai. "The one big problem with that, there's no such thing as a prime minster of Dubai," Special Agent Varinder Singh tells CNBC.

Grace Hill, an assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia, says Williams' scheme included instructing a colleague to try to get people to invest their disability benefits, social security checks and retirement money in the software.

On a 2013 business trip to D.C., D'Andrade meets with 36-year-old Williams, who tells him that her consulting firm, Keisha Williams & Associates, specializes in information technology. Her resume shows work with big government contractors like Lockheed Martin in Farifax.

What D'Andrade doesn't know is that Williams is really a "high-rolling shopaholic with a taste for strip clubs and exotic travel," according to a preview of Monday's episode of "American Greed."

Watch a preview of CNBC's upcoming edition of "American Greed" below: