The Weed Kingpin who Hired Woody Harrelson’s Hitman Dad

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

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Mexico's New Ultraviolent Narco-Terrorists: The CDN

Mexico's New Ultraviolent Narco-Terrorists: The CDN

From the ashes of Los Zetas rose the Cartel del Noreste or Northeast Cartel, a brutal splinter group led by the infamous Treviño Morales family and headquartered in the blood-soaked border city of Nue...

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Crack, Chaos, and Cartels: Rayful Edmond’s Empire

Crack, Chaos, and Cartels: Rayful Edmond’s Empire

In the 1980's, Rayful Edmond rose to infamy as Washington D.C.’s most notorious crack kingpin, building a multimillion-dollar empire by the age of 19. At the height of his reign, D.C. became the murde...

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Australia's Gangster King of Sin: Abe Saffron

Australia's Gangster King of Sin: Abe Saffron

Abe Saffron rose from wartime wheeler-dealing to become the king of Sydney’s underworld, a man whose appetite for sex, money and scandal was unmatched by any other Aussie gangster in the swinging Sixt...

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Africa's Pablo Escobar: Kenyan Kingpin Ibrahim Akasha

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Ibrahim Akasha was the kingpin of East Africa’s heroin highway, setting up a massive tracking empire that stretched from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Kenya, South Africa and Europe. When he was...

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The Shaman-Gangsters Who Built Indonesia

The Shaman-Gangsters Who Built Indonesia

For centuries, brigands, gangsters and street toughs ruled the island of Java so thoroughly that they were woven into local myths. But in the 20th century, when the world bounded towards war, mob boss...

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The Narco Lord of the Skies: Amado Carrillo Fuentes

The Narco Lord of the Skies: Amado Carrillo Fuentes

Amado Carrillo Fuentes was one of the most powerful drug traffickers of the 1990s, moving hundreds of tons of cocaine and amassing billions while forging deep ties with Colombian cartels and corrupt M...

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Cocaine, Camorra, Call Girls: Maradona's Downfall

Cocaine, Camorra, Call Girls: Maradona's Downfall

In 1987, Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona was on top of the world. He’d just handed his nation a World Cup, and his club side Napoli its first league title in over 60 years. But Maradona’s hard-p...

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Russian Mafia Superhitman: Alexander Solonik

Russian Mafia Superhitman: Alexander Solonik

The 1990's in Moscow were the glory days of Russian organized crime. Emerging out of the downfall of communism, wannabe oligarchs and gangsters turned the country into a free-for-all as they fought fo...

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