Behind The Counter

Circle Of Insight Productions
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  • True Crime
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Behind the Counter explores the legitimate businesses that hid extraordinary criminal enterprises in plain sight. From pizzerias and restaurants to nightclubs, construction companies, laundromats, and import businesses, each episode uncovers what was really happening behind the storefront. Follow the money, meet the people, and discover how ordinary businesses became fronts for organized crime, smuggling, fraud, and underground empires.

Episodes

  1. 8h ago

    The Concrete Club: How the Mafia Took a Cut of New York’s Construction Boom

    In 1980s New York City, pouring concrete for a major building could mean dealing with more than contractors, unions, and developers. Federal prosecutors alleged that organized-crime families manipulated parts of the construction industry through a system that became known as the Concrete Club. Contractors could face restricted competition, inflated costs, and payments designed to keep lucrative projects moving. The scheme demonstrated how organized crime could make money without operating an obviously illegal storefront. Behind the cranes, contracts, and concrete trucks was a hidden economy built on influence, intimidation, and control.

  2. Sep 27

    Murder, Inc. and the Candy Store: When a Neighborhood Shop Became Mob Headquarters

    1930s Brooklyn, an ordinary candy store became associated with one of the most notorious groups in American organized-crime history. Midnight Rose’s looked like a neighborhood business, but investigators and later accounts connected it with figures involved in what became known as Murder, Inc. This episode explores why an unremarkable storefront could provide the perfect meeting place for an extraordinary criminal network.

  3. Sep 25

    Behind the Counter: The Pizza Connection: The Pizzerias That Helped Hide a Heroin Empire

    For years, ordinary American pizzerias provided an unlikely backdrop to an international heroin-trafficking investigation. The Pizza Connection case linked organized crime in Sicily and the United States to drug distribution and money laundering. This episode explores how legitimate businesses can provide criminal organizations with something extraordinarily valuable: normality.

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About

Behind the Counter explores the legitimate businesses that hid extraordinary criminal enterprises in plain sight. From pizzerias and restaurants to nightclubs, construction companies, laundromats, and import businesses, each episode uncovers what was really happening behind the storefront. Follow the money, meet the people, and discover how ordinary businesses became fronts for organized crime, smuggling, fraud, and underground empires.

Information

  • Creator
    Circle Of Insight Productions
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright Circle Of Insight Productions
  • Show Website
    Behind The Counter