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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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Andrew Tate & the Romanian Mob: A Match Made in Criminal Heaven
With influencer and living meme Andrew Tate about to face trial in Romania, we dive into his connections to a powerful pair of Mafia brothers and their casino empire—and how the Tates pivoted from MMA to a gang that has terrorized the European nation for years.
We also go deep on the history of Romanian organized crime, from Ponzi schemes to ATM skimming gangs and Europe’s biggest human trafficking syndicate—and show how Romania and the Tates had been on a criminal collision course for decades
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BONUS: The Most Corrupt Cop in NYC History with Steve Fishman
Steve Fishman joins us to discuss his new podcast The Burden, which tells the story of Louis Scarcella. Scarcella was one of the NYPD's top cops in the crazy violent days of the 1990's, so much so that he appeared on talk shows like Dr. Phil as a master at getting confessions. But his sterling record began to unravel as reporters and a team of jailhouse lawyers started looking closer. Fishman was able to get rare access to Scarcella in the making of the podcast. Listen now:
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The Most Dangerous Russian Mobster America Has Ever Known: Boris Nayfeld
Boris Nayfeld's life is like something out of a movie; orphaned in the former Soviet Union, he served time in a brutal penal colony before establishing himself as a top tier street criminal before escaping for America. No stranger to violence, he got involved in the burgeoning Russian mafia factions rising up in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach during the 1980's.
But he’s way more than just a two bit gangster. He’s been involved in organized crime from Odessa to Thailand to Antwerp, survived 5 assassination attempts, done prison in the US and the former soviet union, and been involved in diamond heists, heroin trafficking, extortion, shootouts, tangled with Russian Thieves in Law…the guy’s name carries weight. And somehow, through it all, he survived when nearly everyone else he came up with didn't.
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BONUS: Stash House Episode 7: LA's Good Heist, Ecuador's Bad Vice President, and an Ugly Bust in Fiji
Stash House Episode 7: LA's Good Heist, Ecuador's Bad Vice President, and an Ugly Bust in Fiji
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The Rise and Fall of Golden Triangle Dope: From a Jailed Kingpin to a Casino Shootout
Lo Hsing Han was a Burmese narco so powerful that Richard Nixon called him a Godfather. But the Kokang king tried one too many shady deals, sending the Golden Triangle’s heroin industry on a helter-skelter path toward a bloody, 2023 shootout with Chinese cops—at a lawless casino town on the edge of nowhere.
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Skinny Joey Merlino and The Philly Mob Wars:
Well, they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night. And they blew up his house too. And the racket boys, they really did have a fight...a brutal one that lasted decades and saw Skinny Joey Merlino come out on top. He's not just America's next top crime podcaster and patreon star, he's also the one-time boss of the Philadelphia mafia and (allegedly!) still the don of Philly, if you believe the feds.
Merlino, though, is no joke. Surviving by the skin of his teeth and dodging multiple assassinations in the 80's and 90's, he went from the son of shunned one-time underboss Chuckie Merlino to the top position when him and his crew of young gunners took on all comers.
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I really enjoy the podcast and find it super entertaining. I like the casual format but at times it can be a bit hard to follow and get into it when it jumps back and forth a lot.