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CrimeWaves

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Interviews with the best investigators in the world. Cut through the spin and straight to the stories at the heart of major criminal cases with the people who solved the cases. Hosted by international journalist and academic Declan Hill, produced by his students at the University of New Haven - Ryan Decker, Aiden van Batenburg, and others. www.crimewavespodcast.com Follow us at @declan_hill 

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The Jeffrey Epstein Files 4: Dr. Michael Baden Interview

January 05, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MB

Jeffrey Epstein’s death is one of the mysteries of our time.  Since his death in a New York City Prison cell there have been countless conspiracy theories, speculation,  and conjecture.    However,  only two medical examiners looked at Jeffrey Epstein’s body to discover the cause of his death. In this episode, on CrimeWaves, we speak to one of those people.   Dr.  Michael Baden is a legend in American law enforcement.  He has decades of experience, specifically, on prison deaths, and has ...

The Jeffrey Epstein Files 3: David Schoen Interview

January 05, 2024 20:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MB

It is a mystery that obsesses our time. Jeffrey Epstein, one of the richest and most well-connected men in America, walked into prison. He was friends and a business associate of some of the most powerful people in the world - Presidents, Prime Ministers, Princes, politicians, business tycoons - the very top of the 1%er class.   He also ran a sexual trafficking network of young girls and women. Just over a month later, he was found dead in his cell. The official response?  Immediately declar...

The Jeffrey Epstein Files 1: It was Murder

January 02, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour - 44.4 MB

It is one of the most famous locked room deaths in American history.    On July 6, 2019 Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and put into a cell of a downtown Manhattan detention center.   He was the most famous prison inmate in America.  He had hung out with Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, bankers and billionaires.  He was also a serial sexual abuser.  Within thirty-five days - he was dead.   Almost all of the world wondered how such a famous prisoner could die in jail.   My students and I have spend t...

The Jeffrey Epstein Files 2: Mark Epstein Interview

January 02, 2024 21:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MB

It is one of the most famous mysteries of our times. In the summer of 2019, one of the richest men in America, Jeffrey Epstein, walked into a jail. He has been arrested for a widespread sexual trafficking network. He was connected with Presidents, politicians, billionaires and businessmen.    Thirty-five days later Epstein was dead in his cell. Immediately, the government declares that he committed suicide.   Hundreds-of-millions of people around the world did not believe them.  There have b...

The Jeffrey Epstein Files: Dr. Michael Baden Interview

December 19, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MB

Jeffrey Epstein’s death is one of the mysteries of our time.  Since his death in a New York City Prison cell there have been countless conspiracy theories, speculation,  and conjecture.    However,  only two medical examiners looked at Jeffrey Epstein’s body to discover the cause of his death. In this episode, on CrimeWaves, we speak to one of those people.   Dr.  Michael Baden is a legend in American law enforcement.  He has decades of experience, specifically, on prison deaths, and has ...

The Jeffrey Epstein Files: Michael Baden Interview

December 19, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MB

Jeffrey Epstein’s death is one the mysteries of our time.  Since his death in a New York City Prison cell there have been countless conspiracy theories, speculation,  and conjecture.    However,  only two medical examiners looked at Jeffrey Epstein’s body to discover the cause of his death. In this episode, on CrimeWaves, we speak to one of those people.   Dr.  Michael Baden is a legend in American law enforcement.  He has decades of experience, specifically, on prison deaths, and has bee...

The Jeffrey Epstein Files: David Schoen Interview

December 13, 2023 20:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MB

It is a mystery that obsesses our time. Jeffrey Epstein, one of the richest and most well-connected men in America, walked into prison. He was friends and a business associate of some of the most powerful people in the world - Presidents, Prime Ministers, Princes, politicians, business tycoons - the very top of the 1%er class.   He also ran a sexual trafficking network of young girls and women. Just over a month later, he was found dead in his cell. The official response?  Immediately declar...

The Jeffrey Epstein Files: Mark Epstein Interview

December 11, 2023 21:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MB

It is one of the most famous mysteries of our times. In the summer of 2019, one of the richest men in America, Jeffrey Epstein, walked into a jail. He has been arrested for a widespread sexual trafficking network. He was connected with Presidents, politicians, billionaires and businessmen.    Thirty-five days later Epstein was dead in his cell. Immediately, the government declares that he committed suicide.   Hundreds-of-millions of people around the world did not believe them.  There have b...

The Ghost Army: the Inside Story of the 'Super Cartel'

November 21, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MB

It was a silent, criminal corporation.   It was worth tens-of-billions of dollars. They killed and tortured their opponents, without giving any signals or clues to their existence.  They were the Super-Cartel.  One of the world’s largest drug traffickers and, virtually, no one knew anything about them.   This is the story of the investigation that brought them down.   Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students. www.crimew...

The Fixers War

November 08, 2023 14:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MB

It was the greatest case of match-fixing in international sports.   A group of criminals fixed soccer, basketball, handball, volleyball, tennis and many other sports.   They corrupted national teams, the UEFA Champions League, and games around the world.   They had top officials, referees and players on their payroll.  They threatened, extorted and murdered their way through sports. At the heart of the investigation against them was one dedicated, obsessive cop.   A man who would stop at n...

The Nightmare: The Fightback

October 12, 2023 14:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MB

You're in prison.  The system has convicted you of murder.   You're serving a lifetime in prison.  But you're innocent. You didn't kill anyone.   So who are you going to call?  It's no use phoning a lawyer. They didn't work too well at your trial. It's no use phoning a politician. Those guys campaign on locking up murderers.  Your family cannot help. Your friends?  Very few actually stayed with you.  There is one small organization without much money or resources - the Innocence Project. ...

The Nightmare

September 26, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MB

The extraordinary true story of an innocent man convicted of murder and the small group of investigators who not only prove his innocence but find the real murderer. ** You're driving in your car on a Houston highway. The police stop you and the nightmare begins...  They open up the trunk and discover a wig and a ski mask. You say, rightly, "they're part of a Halloween costume."   The police arrest you anyway and put you on trial for murder. The ensuing court trial is bizarre. Six comple...

The Nightmare: Wrongfully Convicted

September 26, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MB

The extraordinary true story of an innocent man convicted of murder and the small group of investigators who not only prove his innocence but find the real murderer. ** You're driving in your car on a Houston highway. The police stop you and the nightmare begins...  They open up the trunk and discover a wig and a ski mask. You say, rightly, "they're part of a Halloween costume."   The police arrest you anyway and put you on trial for murder. The ensuing court trial is bizarre. Six comple...

Virginia Maxwell: Criminal Psychopaths and Cruelty to Animals

September 12, 2023 14:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MB

WARNING - A very disturbing, but fascinating, episode. What kind of person tortures and kills innocent animals? The results of this investigation are shocking and they reveal a very dark side of the criminal soul: the links between criminal psychopaths and animal cruelty.  Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students. www.crimewavespodcast.com www.declanhill.com Twitter: declan_hill

The Mystery of Deadwood Gulch

August 29, 2023 14:00 - 38 minutes - 24.9 MB

In the 1870s,  thousands of people poured into the mining town of Deadwood Gulch in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Some of those people are still famous today.    "Calamity Jane" - known throughout the world as the gun-slinging, bar and brothel owner .  Wyatt Earp -  the most dangerous of all the gun-slinging US Marshals. Wild Bill Hickok, a man whose biographers claimed  killed only six people in gunfights. And there was another person...  A man whose identity was a mystery until current-...

Angie Ambers: The Mystery of Deadwood Gulch

August 29, 2023 14:00 - 38 minutes - 24.9 MB

In the 1870s,  thousands of people poured into the mining town of Deadwood Gulch in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Some of those people are still famous today.    "Calamity Jane" - known throughout the world as the gun-slinging, bar and brothel owner .  Wyatt Earp -  the most dangerous of all the gun-slinging US Marshals. Wild Bill Hickok, a man whose biographers claimed  killed only six people in gunfights. And there was another person...  A man whose identity was a mystery until current-...

The Mystery of the Two Skulls

August 15, 2023 15:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MB

This is the story of two skulls.  It's actually the mystery of two skulls and a long, incredible investigation to find the identity of those two people or those two skulls.   Buckle your seat belts!   This is a tale that features one of France's most famous explorers, pirates, shipwrecks, kidnappings, ambushes and, of course, murder.

Angie Ambers: The Mystery of the Two Skulls

August 15, 2023 15:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MB

This is the story of two skulls.  It's actually the mystery of two skulls and a long, extraordinary investigation to find the identity of two people.   It  is a tale that features one of France's most famous explorers, pirates, shipwrecks, kidnappings, ambushes and, of course, murder... Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students. www.crimewavespodcast.com www.declanhill.com Twitter: declan_hill

Claire Glynn: The Search for Black Sam - the Richest Pirate of All-Time

August 01, 2023 17:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MB

The pirates of the 1700s  were democrats.  Their ships were crammed with men, and women, of all kinds of cultures.  Many were former slaves.  Others were indigenous natives.  Others were our fore-parents escaping a lifetime of servitude as agricultural serfs. The pay level between a common sailor and a captain on a pirate ship was only twice as much. However, that pay could be massive. Edward "Black Beard" Teach was worth $12 million. Captain John Bowen, a Creole pirate was worth $40 millio...

The Search for Black Sam - the Richest Pirate of All-Time

August 01, 2023 17:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MB

The pirates of the 1700s  were democrats.  Their ships were crammed with men, and women, of all kinds of cultures.  Many were former slaves.  Others were indigenous natives.  Others were our fore-parents escaping a lifetime of servitude as agricultural serfs. The pay level between a common sailor and a captain on a pirate ship was only twice as much. However, that pay could be massive. Edward "Black Beard" Teach was worth $12 million. Captain John Bowen, a Creole pirate was worth $40 millio...

Tim Palmbach: The World's Oldest Profession and Only Fans

June 13, 2023 14:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MB

It's the world's oldest profession.   Sex workers, prostitutes, and the pimps who live off them have been around since the dawn of time. There are mentions of them in the Code of Hammurabi. The dusty case files of medieval Europe talk about them constantly.  There are references to them in Victorian literature from Charles Dickens' Nancy and Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist to the drunken orgies of the Russian military officers and gypsy girls in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. However, in ...

John Gorman: The Crime With No Name

May 30, 2023 14:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MB

How do you solve a crime when there is no evidence? How do you solve a crime in a world that doesn't even exist?  How do you solve a crime involving an NBA star, a computer hacker and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraud that touches on every internet transaction that you ever do? Welcome to the multi-billion dollar world of criminal Internet real estate.  Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students. www.crimewavespod...

Bobby McDonald: The Guardians of the Realm

May 16, 2023 14:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MB

I am the watcher on the walls. I'm the shield that guards, the realms of men. I pledged my life and honor to the night's watch for this night and all the nights to come.  How do you stop a crime that has not happened yet?  How do you figure out how some assassin will strike before they've actually done so?  This is the essential conundrum of the American Secret Service. They are the men and women who guard the US President and other important public figures in America.  To be clear, they'r...

Declan Hill: Organized Crime in Sports

May 04, 2023 14:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MB

Host Declan Hill is interviewed about his work investigating corruption and organized crime in sports.  Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students. www.crimewavespodcast.com www.declanhill.com Twitter: declan_hill

Lisa Dadio: Solving the Unsolvable

April 11, 2023 18:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MB

A serial sexual predator was on the loose across four states.    Women and girls were being stalked, assaulted, and raped.   The investigators had no idea how to solve the case until one morning they get a phone call that breaks it wide open...  Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students. www.crimewavespodcast.com www.declanhill.com Twitter: declan_hill

Michael Franzese: The Rules of the Mob

April 04, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 46.5 MB

Michael Franzese was a Mafia Capo in the Colombo Crime Family of New York.   He explains the rules, code of the mob.  How it works.  How you survive and thrive in the criminal world and how he was able to get out of the Mafia - and still live.  Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students. www.crimewavespodcast.com www.declanhill.com Twitter: declan_hill

Greg Coleman: Taking Down the Wolf

March 21, 2023 15:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MB

It was a monumental stock fraud. The "Wolf of Wall Street" ran a pump-and-dump operation that netted him and the other criminal leaders tens of millions of dollars. They stole the money of pensioners, widows, and the poor. They bought themselves luxury yachts, expensive cars, and opulent mansions. They enjoyed a lifestyle of parties, strippers, and drugs. No one stopped them. That is until Greg Coleman of the FBI got involved. He, and his team, took down the Wolf. On Crimewaves, Coleman...

Greg Coleman

March 21, 2023 15:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MB

America Runs on Corruption

March 14, 2023 21:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MB

Sarah Chayes is one courageous person.  She spent nine years running a small community business in the heart of Kandahar, Afghanistan: the center of Taliban resistance, drug lords and deep-rooted criminal corruption.    She speaks  about the parallels between the corruption she witnessed there and the corruption taking place in the United States. 

Sarah Chayes: America Runs on Corruption

March 14, 2023 21:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MB

Sarah Chayes is one courageous person.  She spent nine years running a small community business in the heart of Kandahar, Afghanistan: the center of Taliban resistance, drug lords and deep-rooted criminal corruption.    She speaks  about the parallels between the corruption she witnessed there and the corruption taking place in the United States.  Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students. www.crimewavespodcast.com www.d...

Declan Hill: Covid - The Slow Motion Chernobyl

March 07, 2023 21:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MB

It was a slow motion Chernobyl.  Here is what, the balance of probabilities tells us about the origins of this Covid epidemic that haunts us all.  It was the worst industrial accident in the history of humanity. In general, Chinese laboratory technicians are so badly trained, so ill-paid and so mis-guided that some of them used to sell infected research animals to local butchers. The specific virologists in Wuhan lab played God. They created super-virulent viruses, more powerful than anythin...

The Slow Motion Chernobyl

March 07, 2023 21:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MB

It was a slow motion Chernobyl.  Here is what, the balance of probabilities tells us about the origins of this Covid epidemic that haunts us all.  It was the worst industrial accident in the history of humanity. In general, Chinese laboratory technicians are so badly trained, so ill-paid and so mis-guided that some of them used to sell infected research animals to local butchers. The specific virologists in Wuhan lab played God. They created super-virulent viruses, more powerful than anythin...

Declan Hill: Covid - The Slow-Motion Chernobyl: Part 2 - The Big Lie

March 07, 2023 20:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MB

These are the photos of Chinese whistleblowers and citizen journalists.  All of them, and thousands more, have gone to prison camps because they wanted to bring you the truth about the appalling conditions in Wuhan during the early days of Covid.  We examine the massive Communist Chinese campaign of disinformation - The Big Lie.  It stretches from the hospitals and laboratories of Wuhan, to Chinese prison-camps, to international film festivals, western social media companies and to the World...

The Slow-Motion Chernobyl: Part 2 - The Big Lie

March 07, 2023 20:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MB

These are the photos of Chinese whistleblowers and citizen journalists.  All of them, and thousands more, have gone to prison camps because they wanted to bring you the truth about the appalling conditions in Wuhan during the early days of Covid.  We examine the massive Communist Chinese campaign of disinformation - The Big Lie.  It stretches from the hospitals and laboratories of Wuhan, to Chinese prison-camps, to international film festivals, western social media companies and to the World...

The Big Silence

March 07, 2023 16:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MB

The inside story of the most preventable, human-made disaster in history: the Covid virus that has affected countries around the world and killed somewhere between 18 and 24 million people.  In our first episode - 'The Silent Chernobyl' - we showed how laboratory leaks occur frequently across the world but in China the safety standards are so low that it is common practice for some technicians to sell lab animals to local butchers for meat.   We examined the grotesque lack of professional st...

Declan Hill: Covid - The Slow Motion Chernobyl: Part 3 - The Big Silence

March 07, 2023 16:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MB

The inside story of the most preventable, human-made disaster in history: the Covid virus that has affected countries around the world and killed somewhere between 18 and 24 million people.  In our first episode - 'The Silent Chernobyl' - we showed how laboratory leaks occur frequently across the world but in China the safety standards are so low that it is common practice for some technicians to sell lab animals to local butchers for meat.   We examined the grotesque lack of professional st...

The Price of Blood

February 28, 2023 19:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MB

You're standing over the body of a woman who's been murdered. She's been killed for loan sharking at a casino by organized crime mobsters. This is the price of blood. This is the thing that few people ever talk about when discussing money laundering, you know, the usual barking guff of expensive defense lawyers and their trained seals in the media How financial crimes are victimless, administrative misdemeanor. Today, on crime waves, we are gonna examine how the bloody trail of cash linked ...

Peter German: The Price of Blood

February 28, 2023 19:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MB

You're standing over the body of a woman who's been murdered. She's been killed for loan sharking at a casino by organized crime mobsters. This is the price of blood. This is the thing that few people ever talk about when discussing money laundering, you know, the usual barking guff of expensive defense lawyers and their trained seals in the media How financial crimes are victimless, administrative misdemeanor. Today, on crime waves, we are gonna examine how the bloody trail of cash linked ...

Intelligence was my Heroin

February 14, 2023 21:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MB

Robert Mazur is one of the greatest undercover agents in the history of American law enforcement.  He infiltrated, first, the Medellin drug cartel of Pablo Escobar; and then, the Cali Cartel.   The problem? He would not give up.  Surrounded by mobsters, drug traffickers, and corrupt officials, Mazur kept going.  On Crimewaves - the inside story of one of the biggest takedowns of drug dealers and their bankers ever. 

Robert Mazur: Intelligence was my Heroin

February 14, 2023 21:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MB

Robert Mazur is one of the greatest undercover agents in the history of American law enforcement.  He infiltrated, first, the Medellin drug cartel of Pablo Escobar; and then, the Cali Cartel.   The problem? He would not give up.  Surrounded by mobsters, drug traffickers, and corrupt officials, Mazur kept going.  On Crimewaves - the inside story of one of the biggest takedowns of drug dealers and their bankers ever.  Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by De...

A Master Class with Henry C. Lee: The Pocahontas Case

January 31, 2023 19:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MB

It was a meeting of two American legends:  Wayne Newton, one of the greatest stars in Country music, and Dr. Henry C. Lee, the man they call the Sherlock Holmes of America.   The subject of the meeting?   To find the body of America’s greatest princess, missing for over four hundred years, Pocahontas. 

Henry C. Lee: A Master Class - The Pocahontas Case

January 31, 2023 19:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MB

It was a meeting of two American legends:  Wayne Newton, one of the greatest stars in Country music, and Dr. Henry C. Lee, the man they call the Sherlock Holmes of America.   The subject of the meeting?   To find the body of America’s greatest princess, missing for over four hundred years, Pocahontas.  Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students. www.crimewavespodcast.com www.declanhill.com Twitter: declan_hill

A Master Class with Henry C. Lee: The Phil Spector Case

November 29, 2021 00:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MB

It was a killing that involved a Hollywood actress, one of the greatest musicians that America has ever produced, and a mystery that took almost 12 years two court trials and three legal appeals to resolve.  On February 2, 2003. Phil Spector, the man behind the Beatles album 'Let it Be’, John Lennon's 'Imagine', George Harrison's 'My Sweet Lord', and countless other top music hits, left his Los Angeles mansion. He came back at midnight with a gorgeous blonde actress, Lana Clarkson. They got...

Henry C. Lee: A Master Class - The Phil Spector Case

November 29, 2021 00:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MB

It was a killing that involved a Hollywood actress, one of the greatest musicians that America has ever produced, and a mystery that took almost 12 years two court trials and three legal appeals to resolve.  On February 2, 2003. Phil Spector, the man behind the Beatles album 'Let it Be’, John Lennon's 'Imagine', George Harrison's 'My Sweet Lord', and countless other top music hits, left his Los Angeles mansion. He came back at midnight with a gorgeous blonde actress, Lana Clarkson. They got...

A License to Kill

November 18, 2021 18:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MB

Whitey Bulger was one of America’s most notorious mob bosses. He was a violent, sociopath but he accomplished the almost-unimaginable: he got FBI agents to let him kill whomever he wanted.  This week, the incredible, mind-blowing story of Bulger and his Winter Hill Gang and how they basically ran the organized crime squad of the FBI and key officers of the Boston Police Force for over a decade. Our guest is the award-winning author and professor of journalism at Boston University—Dick Lehr...

Whitey Bulger: A License to Kill

November 18, 2021 18:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MB

Whitey Bulger was one of America’s most notorious mob bosses. He was a violent, sociopath but he accomplished the almost-unimaginable: he got FBI agents to let him kill whomever he wanted.  This week, the incredible, mind-blowing story of Bulger and his Winter Hill Gang and how they basically ran the organized crime squad of the FBI and key officers of the Boston Police Force for over a decade. Our guest is the award-winning author and professor of journalism at Boston University—Dick Lehr...

Antonio Nicaso: Holy Mafia - Drugs, Corruption and the Vatican

November 09, 2021 19:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MB

They are most powerful organized crime group in Western Europe.   They use a sophisticated drug trafficking network that is underpinned by corruption, racketeering and murder to make billions of dollars every year.  They laundered their money through the Vatican Bank with the help of a corrupt Vatican Cardinal, they are the 'Ndrangheta.  Antonio Nicaso is an expert on  the 'Ndrangheta. He is an investigator who risked his life to reveal  how the 'Ndrangheta built their giant criminal empire...

Holy Mafia: Drugs, Corruption and the Vatican

November 09, 2021 19:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MB

They are most powerful organized crime group in Western Europe.  They have kidnapping thousands of businessmen, politicians, journalists and their families. They command a sophisticated drug trafficking network that is underpinned by corruption, racketeering and murder to make tens-of-billions of dollars every year.  They laundered their criminal money through the Vatican Bank with the help of a compromised Cardinal. They are the 'Ndrangheta.  This week, we are joined by Antonio Nicaso a wor...

Holy Mafia: Drugs, Corruption and the Vatican

November 09, 2021 19:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MB

They are most powerful organized crime group in Western Europe.  They have kidnapping thousands of businessmen, politicians, journalists and their families. They command a sophisticated drug trafficking network that is underpinned by corruption, racketeering and murder to make tens-of-billions of dollars every year.  They laundered their criminal money through the Vatican Bank with the help of a compromised Cardinal. They are the 'Ndrangheta.  This week, we are joined by Antonio Nicaso a wor...

Afghanistan: the $2 Trillion Dollar Scam

September 22, 2021 22:00 - 25 minutes - 17.9 MB

$2 Trillion is stolen, there is a well-covered-up network of sexual abuse and tens-of-thousands of people are killed - if those are not crimes, what are?  Welcome to NATO's mission in Afghanistan.  It was an appalling, cluster-problem.  For those of you who don't know what happened in Afghanistan and why millions of Afghans choose scumbags like the Taliban over our lot - listen to this podcast.   It is deeply shocking.    Our troops were, at times, little better than bodyguards for drug ...