organized crime

How do globally organized criminals stay two steps ahead of the law? Chasing Shadows author Miles Johnson takes us into the underworld for answers!

What We Discuss with Miles Johnson:

• The global impact of drug trafficking and sanctions busting.
• How the DEA internationally operates more like the CIA than the FBI.
• The Syrian conflict: a tangled web of alliances and interests.
• Innovative low-tech money laundering schemes and the shadow economy.
• The evolution of criminal networks and the role technology plays in their prosperity.
• And much more...

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Our team went on the ground to find out exactly how the Chinese Communist Party is propping up the trade of illicit narcotics, human trafficking, and even murder, to destabilize the United States. What we found will send chills up your spine...

When a Dutch crime reporter makes an unbelievable discovery, a small-town murder case begins to look like an international assassination plot.

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Hot Money is back with a new season that begins with a mysterious murder in a small town and leads to a cocaine super cartel and a secret proxy war between democracies and dictatorships.

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Northern France is full of the ghosts of British history. Today it haunts our present.

The News Agents went undercover and spoke directly to a people smuggler - who traffics asylum seekers across the Channel in small boats for thousands of pounds a traveller. Lewis reports from the beaches of Dunkirk.

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The ‘Ndrangheta mafia got their start kidnapping for money but now import billions of pounds worth of cocaine into Europe every year. A pan-European raid earlier this month led to the arrest of 155 people and the seizure of 23 tons of drugs. So could this finally break a crime organisation whose roots go back hundreds of years? 

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At its beginning, prohibition was spearheaded by outspoken women. Women who saw a need for social change and then set up the scaffolding to build, what they thought, would be a better America. So maybe it won’t be a surprise to hear that the repeal of Prohibition began in pretty much the same way. By the late 1920s, it was clear to many that Prohibition was a big flop. It was especially clear to one of its initial supporters who realized it was time to change her mind.

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The fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club was not in Los Angeles, but Kentucky. Which happened to be Las Vegas before Vegas was Vegas. Confused? Listen in and all will be clear.

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Drug cartel violence has spread from border towns and large metropolitan cities into small rural towns. As more and more young people die from drug overdoses, local sheriffs are making urgent pleas for help and action. We examine the rise of cartel violence and drug use and what local law enforcement, Congress and a coalition of Governors are doing about it. Get the facts first on Morning Wire.

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If you’re even passingly interested in mobsters you’ve heard of the RICO Act, but most people don’t know how it actually works. Make your Goodfellas fandom more well-rounded with this explainer episode.

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While reporting on the coronavirus crisis in northern Italy this year, Rome correspondent Miles Johnson discovered an equally concerning story in the country’s south. Italy’s most powerful organised crime group, the ‘Ndrangheta, had infiltrated local hospitals and packaged millions of plundered euros into global investment funds and portfolios. In the first episode of Behind the Money’s fourth season, Miles follows the money trail in a cautionary tale for the era of ultra-low interest rates. 

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Joaquin "Jack" Garcia is the former undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the Gambino crime family of Cosa Nostra in New York for nearly three years, resulting in the arrest and conviction of 35 mobsters -- as revealed in his book Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family. This is part two of a two-part episode; listen to part one here!

What We Discuss with Joaquin "Jack" Garcia:

• How Jack got a mob boss to carry around a mobile phone that was bugged by the FBI.
• What Jack did to avoid violating his FBI oath without arousing suspicion while undercover.
• How much weight Jack gained during three years of hanging out with gangsters in the best Italian restaurants New York has to offer.
• What Jack misses most about being in the mafia.
• The biggest organized crime threats to the United States today.
• And much more...

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