Vladimir Putin, the KGB and the German Nazi Gangster Who Was a Communist Spy
Rainer Sonntag was just your run-of-the-mill, anti-state East German petty criminal—until a black ops team headed by then-KGB agent Vladimir Putin helped turn him into one of Europe's leading neo-Nazi...
12 Jul 202247min
Chechen Mobsters, Bombs, Bumps and Special Ops: The Criminal Tale of Caviar
Caviar has been considered a delicacy since ancient times. But when the Soviet Union collapsed, a black market flourished—and kicked off gang wars along the coasts of the Caspian Sea. Then, years late...
5 Jul 202247min
The Punjabi Indian Gangster Rapper Killed in a Gang War: Moosewala
Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, better known as Moosewala, was on the cusp of becoming a global superstar. Racking up billions of views on youtube, the Punjabi rapper heavily influenced by Tupac had blown up s...
28 Jun 202243min
The Bank of the Underworld: Kingpins, Arms Traffickers, Pablo Escobar and Saddam Hussein
The Bank of Credit and Commerce International was headed by a messianic, Karachi financier named Agha Hasan Abedi, with deep, deep connections all round the world. So deep, in fact, that nearly every ...
21 Jun 202254min
The Cartel Heroin Queenpin Who Ran Juarez for 50 Years with Benjamin Smith
Before El Mencho or El Chapo, even before Pablo Escobar, there was Ignacia Jasso, otherwise known as “La Nacha.” She was the Queen Pin of Juárez who ran the border heroin trade for 50 years from 1930 ...
14 Jun 202240min
Fentanyl's Surge from China To Mexico to St Louis
Over the last three years there's been an explosion of fentanyl on the streets of America and it's led to over 100,000 Americans dying from drug overdoses, the overwhelming majority because of fent. I...
7 Jun 202250min
Who Rules Porn? From Hot Money
We’re shaking things up today and sharing a preview from Hot Money, a new podcast from our friends at Pushkin Industries and the Financial Times. When Financial Times reporter Patricia Nilsson started...
7 Jun 202212min
Belize's Gangster Politics and Ukraine's Battle for the Donbas
In this episode, Sean gets into the details about his story for Rolling Stone on Jamal "Shyne" Barrow, the rapper turned prime minister favorite in Belize, from the narco-trafficking taking place to t...
31 Mai 202244min
