Introducing: The Ponzi Playbook
Welcome to The Ponzi Playbook, the podcast that exposes the dark underbelly of the financial world. Join hosts Neal McTighe and Javier Leiva as they take you on a journey through the seedy world of fi...
17 Juli 20251min
Ep 7 - Cocaine Air
Executive producer Evan Goldsten and I fuss and discuss some of the wild and crazy T.J. stories that ended up on the cutting room floor. What was Pablo Escobar like? How can you offset the weight of 5...
16 Juli 202533min
Ep 6 - Cocaine Air
In April of 1988 dozens of Federal Agents armed to the teeth raid TJ's South Florida mansion and arrest him. He is charged and convicted of smuggling tons and tons of cocaine into the U.S. and sentenc...
9 Juli 202543min
Ep 5 - Cocaine Air
In 1986 T.J. Dominguez is making $5 million a week - the equivalent of nearly $15 million in today's money - smuggling cocaine for Pablo Escobar. But the Ft Lauderdale safehouse where TJ is hiding ton...
2 Juli 202538min
Ep 4 - Cocaine Air
"I Need a Million Dollars like I Need Air" TJ has 24 hours to get his hands on $800,000 cash or those Colombians who kidnapped him are going to kill him. And then kill his entire family. It's interest...
25 Juni 202535min
Ep 3 - Cocaine Air
"Let me show you how a man dies" TJ buys an old airplane and crash lands learning how to fly it. He eventually gets it to Colombia and starts making mad money smuggling South American weed. But all he...
18 Juni 202547min
Ep 2 - Cocaine Air
"Not my day to die" TJ is alone on his speed boat in the middle of the ocean buying hundreds of pounds of marijuana from professional drug dealers. And he's $5000 short. "There's no credit in this bus...
11 Juni 202538min
Ep 1 - Cocaine Air
"So I conned him back" In this episode we meet the inimitable T.J. Dominquez, fresh out of Federal Prison. He sits down with Johnathan at a secret location, somewhere in Florida, and begins to unpack ...
4 Juni 202542min
