Empire of Blood: The Fall of the Godfather of Crime and the Green Gang

Empire of Blood: The Fall of the Godfather of Crime and the Green Gang

When his Green Gang goons killed thousands of leftists in 1927’s Shanghai Massacre, Du Yuesheng was welcomed into the political scene of China’s nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. ‘Big Ears Du’ would then take over the country’s biggest city wholesale — running transport, water, electrical grids and even a major bank. All the while Du’s profits from narcotics and vice soared, making him one of the richest organized criminals in world history. But events in Asia were spiraling beyond Du’s control. China’s communists regrouped after the Green Gang had almost wiped them off the map. And Japan, its imperial ambitions supercharged by hypernationalist yakuza gangsters, eyed an invasion of Manchuria to fuel its war machine. Caught between a rock and a hard place, there was only one way for Du: down. And his fall would be almost as spectacular as his rise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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El Mayo Behind Bars: Cartel War, Conspiracy and Narcopolitics

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Earlier this month, Sinaloa Cartel mastermind Ismael Zambada García, aka El Mayo, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in growing one of the world’s biggest criminal empires. But while Mayo...

4 Elo 1h 7min

China’s Mob King Prepares for War

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By the mid-1920s, Green Gang Boss Du Yuesheng had conquered almost all before him — including his own underworld mentor Huang Jinrong. Shanghai’s opium scene, torn open by British gunboats, belonged t...

21 Heinä 52min

Brazil’s Pablo Escobar: The Ghost

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They call him Brazil's Pablo Escobar. Sérgio de Carvalho was an elite Brazilian police major who became one of the most wanted drug traffickers on Earth, accused of flying 45 tonnes of cocaine into Eu...

14 Heinä 48min

The Last Don: The Godfather Who Turned Rat

The Last Don: The Godfather Who Turned Rat

In 1992, the New York Mafia is falling apart. The Gambinos are in chaos, the Colombos are at war, the Genoveses are hiding behind Chin Gigante’s bathrobe act, and the Bonannos—the forgotten, disgraced...

7 Heinä 55min

The Rise of China’s Biggest Mob Boss EVER

The Rise of China’s Biggest Mob Boss EVER

Born into a peasant family on the outskirts of Shanghai, Du Yuesheng grew up an inveterate gambler and opium addict. But as he forged alliances in the growing metropolis’ underworld, members of a secr...

30 Kesä 54min

Chinatown’s Gangster Prince: Shrimp Boy

Chinatown’s Gangster Prince: Shrimp Boy

Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow possesses one of the best mob nicknames out there. The San Francisco Chinatown gangster went from teenage immigrant hooligan from the streets of Hong Kong to one of the most ...

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