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Underworld exposes the secret world of transnational criminal networks that have flourished since there were banks to bust, drugs to smuggle, and scams to run. Journalists Danny Gold and Sean Williams bring their experience reporting on dangerous people and organizations to take listeners on a global tour of mobsters, warlords and crooks - from Brooklyn to Beijing, from the streets to the boardrooms - and everywhere in between. Underworld is a show about heroes, villains, and the barely visible mafias that affect all our lives, whether we know it or not.

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    The OG Yakuza Godfather, Kazuo Taoka

    Orphaned and kicked out of work, Kazuo Taoka was an unlikely candidate to become one of postwar Japan’s most important characters. But by combining violence with a talent for legitimate business and corruption, the immaculately-suited gangster would lead the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate from a ragtag Kobe dockworkers’ gang to one of the world’s richest underworld forces, spreading from Japan into Southeast Asia and even the United States. That won Taoka plenty of enemies, which he almost always vanquished. But when a young rival yakuza saw Taoka celebrating at a Kyoto nightclub, the ensuing chaos would plunge Japan’s criminal scene into chaos — and the country’s one true Godfather would never be the same again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1 h 3 min

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    Ryan Wedding Arrest & China's Scam Executions: Stash house!

    What's going on with the big Ryan Wedding arrest and extradition? The Canadian city that had to declare a state of emergency because of Indo-Canadian gangs extorting everyone. China executes 11 scammers. All that and more in this Stash House: Sean is moving continents edition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    52 min

  3. 1 FÉVR. · BONUS • ABONNÉS UNIQUEMENT

    BONUS: How the Stidda Got Organized

    Throughout the 1990s, the Stidda played local gang roles across Sicily, as their bigger neighbor the Cosa Nostra went white-collar. But over time things changed - and despite raids that swept up the killers of a 1999 gas station massacre, and the murder of judge Rosario Livatino, Italy’s “Fifth Mafia”, too, got involved in financial frauds and scams that would see them spread all over the country.

    12 min

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    Italy's Unknown 5th Mafia, The Stidda

    In the late 1970s, as Sicily descended into all-out mafia war, the island’s allegiances split between the ruthless Corleonesi clan, led by Toto Riina, and southern gangsters fed up with Riina’s campaign of murder that was spilling innocent lives, and disgusting the Italian public. This schism would be the birth of the Stidda — Sicilian for ‘star’ — a group that fought and thrived for turf in southern Sicily, and became prominent enough that, even today, people know it as Italy’s “Fifth Mafia”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    53 min

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    America’s Craziest Mob Boss (Sort of!) Vincent Gigante

    Vincent “Chin” Gigante was the most powerful mob boss in America...and he was also the mob's best performance artist. By day, he wandered Greenwich Village in a bathrobe, muttering to himself, selling the world on the idea that he was crazy. By night, he ran the Genovese crime family with near-absolute discipline, avoiding wires, indictments, and the spotlight that destroyed flashier dons. For decades, he convinced the FBI and the courts he was too mentally ill to stand trial, all while green-lighting murders, controlling unions, and skimming millions, turning the Genovese family into the most powerful criminal group in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1 h 12 min

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    The Weed Kingpin who Hired Woody Harrelson’s Hitman Dad

    Ever hear about how Woody Harrelson's dad was a hitman who killed a federal judge? The Chagra brothers came up along the El Paso and Juarez border when smuggling weed became one of America's booming industries. With Lee a prominent criminal defense attorney and Jimmy an outlaw, they gambled millions in Vegas, lived lavishly, and made a lot of enemies, chief among them prosecutors and judges. When the feds finally closed in, Jimmy Chagra got desperate...so desperate, he put a hit out on a federal judge. This is the story of the Chagra brothers, one of America's wildest cartels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1 h 18 min

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    A Cocaine War and the World’s Dumbest Bust

    When the son of Suriname’s president offered to ship drugs and guns for a major terror group in 2013, it was the dimwitted denouement to decades of narco-fueled madness in the small, South American nation — which began when the two belligerents in its bitter civil war made so much cash ferrying product for Colombian cartels, that they buried their differences and worked together instead. The war ended. But the drugs never stopped flowing — particularly between Suriname and a new clique of criminals in its former colonial ruler, the Netherlands. A crazy episode, and one to add to the pantheon of the world’s true, out-and-out narco states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    57 min

  8. 30/12/2025

    Crime! Drugs! Cartels! Gangs! Holidays!

    It's stash house time! We bring you all the news on organized crime, gangs, drugs, cartels and the holidays that you could ever want. And, at the end, Sean shows his feet in a special holiday new years gift to our most loyal fans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    47 min
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Underworld exposes the secret world of transnational criminal networks that have flourished since there were banks to bust, drugs to smuggle, and scams to run. Journalists Danny Gold and Sean Williams bring their experience reporting on dangerous people and organizations to take listeners on a global tour of mobsters, warlords and crooks - from Brooklyn to Beijing, from the streets to the boardrooms - and everywhere in between. Underworld is a show about heroes, villains, and the barely visible mafias that affect all our lives, whether we know it or not.

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  • Création
    The Underworld Podcast
  • Années d’activité
    2020 - 2026
  • Épisodes
    331
  • Classification
    Tous publics
  • Copyright
    Copyright © 2002 Airwave Media. All rights reserved.
  • Site web de l’émission
    The Underworld Podcast
  • Fournisseur
    Daniel Gold

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