A Romanian Mob Illicit Arms Deal With a Twist - with Trevor Aaronson

A Romanian Mob Illicit Arms Deal With a Twist - with Trevor Aaronson

Trevor Aaronson is a contributing writer at The Intercept. The second season of his show Alphabet Boys digs into the strange story of Flaviu Georgescu, a Romanian-American “fixer” who got tangled up in Eastern European crime in Vegas, before falling prey to a DEA arms trafficking sting in Montenegro. The catch? He claims he was working for the CIA all along. And he may just have a point. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Triple Frontier: Triads, Hezbollah and Narco Heavies

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How a Nazi French Mobster Made Paraguay a Smugglers’ Paradise

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Boston's Irish Mob Gang War: The Winter Hill Gang

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7 Huhti 52min

The Trillion Dollar Scam King Gangster Taking Over

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When fleets of young Chinese men arrived in the tiny, Pacific nation of Palau in 2018, authorities wondered why they’d eschewed the archipelago’s pristine shores and coral reefs for a handful of tumbl...

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Daniel Kinahan's Iran Oil Games, The King of the South & Trump's War on Narcos: Stashhouse!

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24 Maalis 58min

The Iraqi-Aussie Gangster Lighting up Melbourne: Kaz Hamad

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