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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Jalisco’s Death Camp, El Salvador's Mega-prison and Mexico’s Cartel Extraditions

Jalisco’s Death Camp, El Salvador's Mega-prison and Mexico’s Cartel Extraditions

Will Grant, the BBC’s Mexico, Central America and Cuba correspondent, was recently on the ground at Jalisco’s Rancho Izaguirre, dubbed ‘Mexico’s Auschwitz’, and CECOT, Nayib Bukele’s megaprison in El ...

1 Apr 20251h 12min

Mexico's Most Sociopathic Druglord: El Mencho & CJNG

Mexico's Most Sociopathic Druglord: El Mencho & CJNG

He’s a recluse, a cockfighting high-roller, a former cop and a maniac. But will Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, aka El Mencho, do what he’s been threatening for years and become the most powerful cartel b...

25 Mar 202553min

The Most Insane Prison Gang Ever: South Africa's Numbers Gang

The Most Insane Prison Gang Ever: South Africa's Numbers Gang

South Africa's secretive Numbers Gangs almost defy description; they're one part cult, one part religion, and all parts violent psychopaths. Emerging originally as bandits preying on gold miners and p...

18 Mar 202554min

Duterte Arrested: Was the Drug War a Cover Up?

Duterte Arrested: Was the Drug War a Cover Up?

Sean Williams reports from the Philippines, where former President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal drug war cost up to 30,000 lives and tore Philippine society to shreds. But was it all cover for his family’...

11 Mar 202549min

The Last Street Boss of Chinatown: Ghost Shadows Peter Chin

The Last Street Boss of Chinatown: Ghost Shadows Peter Chin

The Ghost Shadows are said to have been the wildest of Chinatown's gun-toting teenage gangs in the 1970's and 1980's, engaging in countless shootouts with their rivals the Flying Dragons and the White...

4 Mar 202557min

The World's Biggest Arms Trafficker Goes Down Hard

The World's Biggest Arms Trafficker Goes Down Hard

When Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi arms dealer and self-styled world’s richest man, met with US officials to discuss the Ayatollah, it may have seemed like a chance to cash in corporate power for political c...

25 Feb 202548min

The Dixie Mafia: Gone South w/Jed Lipinski

The Dixie Mafia: Gone South w/Jed Lipinski

The Dixie Mafia terrorized the southern US for decades before authorities were finally able to bring them down. Starting off as a loose collective of career criminals who specialized in burglaries and...

18 Feb 202551min

The Richest Arms Dealer Ever: Adnan Khashoggi

The Richest Arms Dealer Ever: Adnan Khashoggi

Adnan Khashoggi was born in Mecca — but his life was anything but pious. The billionaire had multiple wives, girlfriends and armies of callgirls, not to mention gambling sessions and club nights whose...

11 Feb 202548min

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