Cancel your plans for Wednesday, February 18th (9:00 pm EST), or at least get your TiVo ready to go. That evening, CNBC's "American Greed" series is airing an episode entitled "A Scam Exposed: Strippers and Insider Trading" about the astonishing SEC insider trading case against Eugene Plotkin (pictured), David Pajcin, and a host of others.

This case had everything you can possibly imagine, and more:

flunkies paid to steal advance copies of Business Week magazine to trade on the market-moving "Inside Wall Street" column;

inside tips from investment bankers working on mergers;

a person serving on a federal grand jury who disclosed confidential information about the targeted company;

strippers whose role was to try to pry inside information from their Wall Street clientele;

a retired Croatian seamstress living on a tiny pension who suddenly and inexplicably purchased $130,000 worth of speculative, out-of-the-money call options (and who turned out to be Pajcin's aunt);

criminal sentences for nearly everyone involved, all capped off by the recent disappearance of Pajcin in violation of his probation. Prosecutors asked the court in November 2008 for a warrant for his arrest, and his lawyer said he believes Pajcin is no longer in the country.

We'll see if the "American Greed" episode can do the case justice (by the way, the "strippers" piece of this puzzle is quite small, so don't get fooled by the name of the episode). As far as I'm concerned, the Pajcin/Plotkin case is The Greatest Insider Trading Story Ever Told, and this pair of frausters have a firm seat on Securities Docket's Mount Rushmore of Securities Fraud.