19 episodis
Lawyers, Guns, and Money Bunker Crew/MSW Media
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- True Crime
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4,7 • 47 valoracions
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It’s 1985, and John Mattes, a public defender in Miami, meets his first client, who claims to be part of a CIA operation running guns in Central America. As Mattes investigates, he is pulled deep into a dangerous world of mercenaries, drug kingpins, and what would become one of the biggest White House scandals of the 20th Century. Lawyers Guns and Money will take you on a thrilling and dangerous ride that dives deep into American covert operations, secret wars, and dirty politics.
Hosted by Jon Cryer.
Produced by Jon Cryer and Jack Bryan.
Written and edited by Jack Bryan.
A Discount Sushi/Bunker Crew Media/MSW Media production.
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1. Miami, 1985
When Jesus Garcia is arrested on gun charges, he explains to his lawyer, John Mattes, that he has been set up by members of a CIA-backed operation running guns into Central America. As Mattes investigates, he finds supporting evidence and gets the attention of a newly elected Senator.
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2. Mercenaries
As The Kerry Investigation starts, Mattes and Kerry’s staff track down a mercenary who was reportedly running operations in the field for the secret war being run by the White House, and his story will change everything Mattes thinks he knows about covert operations.
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3. CIA
Mattes’ new whistleblower starts working with a secret team of leakers within the Intelligence Community. As Mattes’ investigation takes him to Central America, he finds himself dangerously caught in the CIA’s crosshairs.
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4. Cocaine
Mattes connects with world powerboat champion and cartel drug smuggler Jorge Morales. Morales says he knows all the people Mattes has been investigating because he has been running drugs for them and paying them to squash his indictment.
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5. Cover Up
While the Kerry Investigation is targeted and spied upon by the US Government, the story of the Contra War blows up in the news, and hearings are held, but there is suspicion that the hearings themselves are a cover-up.
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6. Prosecution
Mattes quits his job as a public defender to defend Flaco, Kerry gets public hearings of his own, and Mattes defends Morales in a case, and Mattes, again, finds himself in danger.
Ressenyes del públic
Incredible and terrifying
The podcast charts the Wes’s experiences with being targeted for intelligence operations simply because he had an influential father. It brings to light the political influence of the I AM cult, which has ties to 1930s fascism. I feel like in some ways Wes’s experience is a reflection of what the country and the world is experiencing right now.
I was gonna listen until I read...
Helped by Journalist. No doubt as with countless others it's gonna be “me, me, me” The minute journalist inserts themselves, it's nonstop about them. No thanks. I wish true crime went back to the stories and not the hijackers making it about themselves. These people are failed Hollywood actors looking to fill their narcissistic attention void. I'm betting she sports the voice fry effect too.
Surrounded by Smoke and how to see.
When one is finding material to relate to, as with all of time as humans, it’s the story that brings us into the narrative, that lets our guard down to learn, to accept and identify with the characters and relate to the message. The best movies, fact or fiction, do it well, they don’t talk to us, they bring us in.
When the truth is stranger than fiction, we get the best of both worlds, entertainment and knowledge. This can be used, as a psyop, or a the next level analysis of the psyop, to bring us back from the fiction to see the fact and fiction in it. Few accounts can do this like this series holds promise to do, the deeper it goes. It grabs you and is so well written, it’s like you get in on the ground floor of something amazing.
What Is different than most is that this leads one down a rabbit hole, yet has the ability to take you there, but not leave you there.
They say we are all addicts to our own narrative. It morphs and expands as we walk its path. The trick is to not get lost in the discovery, and addicted to the unknown, but build truths to walk it better. Again, this deconstructs by helping one see another’s journey, and how they dealt with the most serious of engaging in activism at critical levels, and issues of being seen by the darkness that is more than willing to swallow you in it, or to make you Iccaras. Hold on, the ride doesn’t stop. Reflect and enjoy.
This could be a way to bring many back that are flying very close to the sun in the dark.
Thank you for the humility of sharing your journey’s being lost and finding your way back again sir.