
The Money Doctor
Neil Gallagher built a reputation in Fort Lauderdale as a trusted financial advisor, cultivating a mostly Christian clientele through radio broadcasts and seminars that leaned heavily on his faith to build credibility. The film traces how that trust became the mechanism for a fraud, as investors handed over retirement savings believing they were protected by a fellow believer who understood their values. Interviews with victims lay out how the scheme worked and what it cost them, from modest nest eggs to entire life savings, while the film follows the unraveling of Gallagher's operation and the legal reckoning that followed. It sits in the familiar territory of affinity fraud, where shared religion or community becomes the salesman's real product, and asks how congregations and radio audiences became such reliable hunting grounds. The tone stays grounded in testimony and documentation rather than dramatization, letting the numbers and the victims' accounts carry the story of how a self-styled money doctor diagnosed his clients' finances and then quietly drained them.