The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

Underworld exposes the secret world of transnational criminal networks that have flourished since there were banks to bust, drugs to smuggle, and scams to run. Journalists Danny Gold and Sean Williams bring their experience reporting on dangerous people and organizations to take listeners on a global tour of mobsters, warlords and crooks - from Brooklyn to Beijing, from the streets to the boardrooms - and everywhere in between. Underworld is a show about heroes, villains, and the barely visible mafias that affect all our lives, whether we know it or not.

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The Chinese Mafia Takeover of America's Weed Industry

The Chinese Mafia Takeover of America's Weed Industry

There''s a new king at the top of the US weed game, raking in tens of billions of dollars, so organized and prolific that they've replaced the cartels. A sprawling, shadowy empire of Chinese triads is...

27 Mai 202554min

How Diego Maradona Fueled the Rise of Naples’ Camorra

How Diego Maradona Fueled the Rise of Naples’ Camorra

When Argentine soccer wizard Diego Armando Maradona swapped Barcelona for lowly Napoli in 1984, it shocked the sporting world — and sent Naples’ deadly Camorra into overdrive. Corrupt from the very st...

20 Mai 202546min

The Olympic Snowboarder Narco Kingpin

The Olympic Snowboarder Narco Kingpin

How did a Canadian former Olympian build a one billion dollar narco empire? A few months ago, the feds added a new name to their 10 most wanted list: Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic athlete and middl...

13 Mai 202544min

The Sinaloan Train Robbers Causing Havoc in the Mojave Desert

The Sinaloan Train Robbers Causing Havoc in the Mojave Desert

You may have missed it, but there’s a new gang of train robbers in the American West — and they’re suprisingly like the bandits of old. For over a decade a team comprised mostly of Mexicans from the s...

6 Mai 202547min

The Gunrunner Who Tried to Save China: Two Gun Cohen

The Gunrunner Who Tried to Save China: Two Gun Cohen

On Christmas Day, 1941, as bombs tear Hong Kong apart, gunrunner Morris "Two Gun" Cohen — a street hustler from the slums of London turned Canadian frontiersman turned Chinese general — stares down de...

29 Apr 202556min

Los Muchachos: Miami's Cuban Cartel

Los Muchachos: Miami's Cuban Cartel

In 1980s Miami, amid the glitz, gunfire, and power boats, two Cuban-American friends Sal Magluta and Willy Falcon, built one of the most powerful drug empires in U.S. history. Known as Los Muchachos, ...

22 Apr 202553min

The 'Ndrangheta's Notorious Kidnapping Gang Wars

The 'Ndrangheta's Notorious Kidnapping Gang Wars

Today the ‘Ndrangheta, Calabria’s clan-based Mafia, is one of the world’s richest and most powerful drug trafficking organizations, worth an estimated $55 billion. But it wasn’t always like that. From...

15 Apr 202548min

Meet The Chicago Outfit's Most Infamous Hitman

Meet The Chicago Outfit's Most Infamous Hitman

Kurt Calabrese grew up in the Chicago mafia known as The Outfit. His father, Frank Calabrese Sr, was the premier hitman, known for strangling his victims with his bare hands. But Frank didn't just lea...

8 Apr 202542min

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