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Love Canal | The Education of Lois Gibbs | 1
American Scandal - May 07, 2024 07:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsIn the spring of 1978, reporter Mike Brown begins publishing a series of articles in the Niagara Gazette about potentially harmful chemicals leaking into the soil and water in Love Canal, a neighborhood built around what had been a dumping ground for the Hooker Chemical company. The new...
FBI Agent Turned Russian Spy | Going Undercover | 5
American Scandal - April 30, 2024 07:01 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsEric O’Neill was a 27-year-old FBI surveillance operative when he first heard the name Robert Hanssen. It was the assignment of a lifetime: go undercover to bring down a mole that had been feeding secrets to the Russian government for more than two decades. O’Neill takes Lindsay behind ...
FBI Agent Turned Russian Spy | Caught in the Act | 4
American Scandal - April 23, 2024 07:01 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsIn 2001, Robert Hanssen’s spy career comes to a crashing halt after he’s arrested in the middle of a handoff to the Russians. It’s a massive win for the FBI, but not without its own fallout. FBI director Louis Freeh still needs to explain to the American public how Hanssen was able to g...
Listen Now: The Price of Paradise
American Scandal - April 21, 2024 23:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsWhen ex-Bunny girl Jayne Gaskin spots the desert island of her dreams for sale online, she decides to risk it all. Trading in their English village home, Jayne and her family relocate to their own private paradise, just off the coast of Nicaragua. And a reality TV crew follows them to f...
FBI Agent Turned Russian Spy | Playactor | 3
American Scandal - April 16, 2024 07:01 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsBy the 1990s, Robert Hanssen has been spying on and off for more than a decade. After the fall of the Soviet Union, he decides to break off contact with his Russian handlers. But his urge to spy is too great, and soon he revives his alter ego “Ramon” — unaware that a former KGB agent ha...
FBI Agent Turned Russian Spy | Call Me Ramon | 2
American Scandal - April 09, 2024 07:01 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsRealizing there’s a spy in their midst, the FBI and CIA reluctantly agree to join forces, and launch a joint investigation to ferret out the mole. But they unwittingly put Robert Hanssen in charge of a crucial aspect of the case, enabling him to throw them off the scent as he continues ...
Business Wars: The Battle for OpenAI
American Scandal - April 08, 2024 08:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsBusiness Wars is a podcast about the biggest corporate rivalries. In the newest season, host David Brown tracks the power struggles and philosophical differences within OpenAI that culminated in Sam Altman’s shocking firing, the chaos that followed, and what it means not just for OpenAI...
FBI Agent Turned Russian Spy | World of Secrets | 1
American Scandal - April 02, 2024 07:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsIn 1976, at the height of the Cold War, Robert Hanssen joins the FBI to work in their counterintelligence division. Hanssen is valued for his technical skills, and put in charge of databases containing some of the country’s most valuable secrets. But he’s socially awkward, and constantl...
Listen Now: WeCrashed
American Scandal - April 01, 2024 20:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsThe founders of WeWork thought they were on the brink of making history. The company was valued at $47 billion dollars, ready for a huge IPO, and its charismatic CEO Adam Neumann believed he was going to change the world. Adam and his wife Rebekah had a prophet-like vision—but did it ev...
Rod Blagojevich | The Whistleblowers | 5
American Scandal - March 26, 2024 07:01 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsPam Davis and Bill Kottmann worked as hospital executives in the Chicago area during Governor Rod Blagojevich’s time in office. The pair unwittingly ran into the corruption surrounding “Blago” when they tried to get a permit to build a new hospital. Instead of capitulating to extortion,...
Rod Blagojevich | The Unraveling | 4
American Scandal - March 19, 2024 07:01 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsIn 2008, with his administration mired in scandal, Governor Rod Blagojevich decides to press the only advantage he has left — his authority to name President-Elect Barack Obama's successor in the U.S. Senate. But as he and his advisers discuss how to leverage the seat to his advantage, ...
Rod Blagojevich | Board Games | 3
American Scandal - March 12, 2024 07:01 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsTipped off to some shady dealings on several Illinois state boards, the FBI launches an investigation into Governor Rod Blagojevich's administration. At first, they set their sights on a well-connected businessman named Stuart Levine, who seems to using his board seats to run kickback s...
Rod Blagojevich | Pay to Play | 2
American Scandal - March 05, 2024 08:01 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsIn 1999, U.S. Congressman Rod Blagojevich leans on his Serbian ancestry to insert himself into the war in Yugoslavia and get his name in the papers. And his gambit pays off, allowing him to set his sights on a new position: governor of Illinois. But the ruthless campaign fundraising tac...
Listen Now: The Spy Who
American Scandal - March 04, 2024 00:30 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsThese are stories you were never meant to hear. The invisible but vital work of the world’s intelligence services: secret operatives playing to very different rules. The Spy Who, hosted by Indira Varma and Raza Jaffrey, takes you deep inside that shadow world to meet spies who risked ev...
Rod Blagojevich | Making of a Congressman | 1
American Scandal - February 27, 2024 08:01 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsTwo decades before he was arrested in 2008 on corruption charges while still serving as Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich got his start in the dog-eat-dog world of Chicago politics under the tutelage of his mentor and father-in-law, Richard Mell. But after winning a seat in the Illinoi...
Police Corruption in Baltimore | "We Own This City" with Justin Fenton | 5
American Scandal - February 20, 2024 08:01 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsJournalist Justin Fenton covered the Gun Trace Task Force scandal for the Baltimore Sun. He sat through the trials and heard testimony from accused cops and their victims. He reported on the ripple effects of the scandal, in the police department and in the community. And then David Sim...
Police Corruption in Baltimore | On Trial | 4
American Scandal - February 13, 2024 08:04 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsThe FBI's investigation into the Gun Trace Task Force, codenamed Broken Boundaries, finally leads to arrests. But for federal prosecutors to prove their case against these rogue cops, they need to find witnesses willing to testify against them. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/p...
Police Corruption in Baltimore | Broken Boundaries | 3
American Scandal - February 06, 2024 08:03 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsIn the summer of 2016, Sergeant Wayne Jenkins gets his most prestigious assignment yet: heading up the Gun Trace Task Force, one of Baltimore’s best plainclothes units. It's the perfect cover for his increasingly illegal activities. But what Jenkins doesn't know is that the task force i...
Police Corruption in Baltimore | Benched | 2
American Scandal - January 30, 2024 08:02 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsFollowing a series of questionable arrests, plainclothes detective Wayne Jenkins finds himself relegated to the desk duty. But when Baltimore is roiled by protests following the death of Freddie Gray at the hands of police, Jenkins seizes an opportunity to get back in the action - and b...
Police Corruption in Baltimore | Zero Tolerance | 1
American Scandal - January 23, 2024 08:01 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsIn 2017, seven members of an elite Baltimore police unit called the Gun Trace Task Force were arrested and charged with robbery, extortion, fraud, and selling drugs seized during police operations. While some were quick to dismiss the arrests as a case of a few bad apples, a subsequent ...
Encore: The Unabomber | Hard Evidence | 4
American Scandal - January 16, 2024 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsThe FBI gets closer to the Unabomber. But a leak to the media threatens the case. And soon, agents are forced to take action. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Encore: The Unabomber | 35,000 Words | 3
American Scandal - January 09, 2024 08:03 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsA fight erupts between Ted Kaczynski and his brother, David. And when tragedy strikes, the Kaczynski family begins to break apart. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Encore: The Unabomber | Into the Woods | 2
American Scandal - January 02, 2024 08:02 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsTed Kaczynski falls in love. But soon, he's shocked by some news - and retreats into the wilderness in Montana. It's there that he pushes forward with a deadly bombing campaign. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#d...
Encore: The Unabomber | Atomic Pearl | 1
American Scandal - December 26, 2023 08:01 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsTed Kaczynski faces a painful rejection in high school. Then he endures an abusive psychology experiment at Harvard. Kaczynski may be an academic prodigy, but he feels lonely and out of place. His solution? He's going to get revenge on modern society. See Privacy Policy at https://art1...
Aaron Hernandez: A Football Tragedy | Media Circus | 5
American Scandal - December 19, 2023 08:01 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsFrom his meteoric rise to his epic fall from grace, Aaron Hernandez has become a cautionary tale for the NFL. Today, journalist Kevin Armstrong joins Lindsay to share his experience reporting Hernandez’s story as it unfolded, its impacts on the football world, and what has (and hasn’t) ...
Aaron Hernandez: A Football Tragedy | The End Zone | 4
American Scandal - December 12, 2023 08:04 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsAfter a highly publicized trial, Aaron Hernandez is found guilty for the murder of Odin Lloyd, and sentenced to life in prison. While behind bars, Hernandez makes a startling confession to his mother. But before Hernandez can appeal his conviction, a tragic turn of events leaves his fam...
Aaron Hernandez: A Football Tragedy | Defense | 3
American Scandal - December 05, 2023 08:03 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsWhen a man named Odin Lloyd is shot to death in suburban Massachusetts, police are startled to discover that all clues point to star NFL player Aaron Hernandez as the shooter. But to arrest such a high-profile suspect, investigators know that their case has to be air-tight. See Privacy...
Aaron Hernandez: A Football Tragedy | Homecoming | 2
American Scandal - November 28, 2023 08:02 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsAfter winning a national college championship with the University of Florida Gators, Aaron Hernandez realizes a lifelong dream when he's drafted into the NFL by his hometown team, the New England Patriots. Hernandez seems to have it all. But off the field, his life is taking a dark turn...
Aaron Hernandez: A Football Tragedy | The Vow | 1
American Scandal - November 21, 2023 08:01 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsThe sports world was shocked in 2013 when Aaron Hernandez, star tight end for the New England Patriots, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. But dating back to his days as a heavily recruited college athlete, there had been signs of ominous changes in his behavior: paranoi...
The Dust Bowl | The Battle in Muscatine | 4
American Scandal - November 14, 2023 08:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsAir pollution had long been a problem in Muscatine, Iowa. For decades, a corn-processing plant had been operating in the south end of town. And according to locals, the facility’s emissions were so strong, some people gagged just by breathing in the air. But a group of residents would...
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