When a brilliant Armenian-American woman builds a vast healthcare fraud empire to lift her community out of poverty, she becomes both their savior and their curse — until an FBI investigation led by someone from her own past threatens to bring her empire, and her legacy, crashing down.

SYNOPSIS:

The Godmother of Glendale follows Mara Vardanyan, a fiercely intelligent and magnetic entrepreneur who turns small-time hustles into a multimillion-dollar healthcare operation in Southern California. To the Armenian community of Glendale, she’s a modern-day benefactor — funding churches, sponsoring scholarships, and keeping struggling families afloat. But beneath the surface, her empire runs on falsified claims, forged signatures, and an unshakable belief that she’s doing God’s work in a rigged system.

When Ash Kirakosian, a young Armenian-American FBI agent, launches an AI-based investigation into healthcare fraud, he discovers Mara’s name buried deep in the data. Their worlds collide as loyalty, faith, and survival blur. Mara faces pressure from all sides — the feds closing in, rivals turning on her, and her own daughter questioning the morality of her empire. Refusing to be another casualty of a corrupt system, Mara fights back with charm, intelligence, and ruthlessness, determined to protect what she’s built — no matter the cost.

A story of ambition, faith, and power, The Godmother of Glendale explores how good intentions can evolve into empires of deceit — and how one woman’s determination to save her people might destroy everything she loves.