US Congressmen Doing PR Work for a Shady Foreign Billionaire
Rackets Podcast #31 India's second wealthiest person, Gautam Adani, is facing legal pressure from the U.S. government. This episode shows th...
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The Rackets Podcast focuses on news related to organized crime. The subject matter isn't limited to traditional gangsters, such as drug cartels. The show also focuses heavily on white-collar...
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Toby Muse: Author of "Kilo" on Colombia's Drug War
Rackets Podcast #30 Toby Muse is a foreign correspondent who has spent several years in Colombia. He discussed many observations from his bo...
China's Link to Organized Crime
Rackets Podcast #29 This episode explores multiple notorious crime figures in South East Asia who have connections to the Chinese government...
Are Notorious Criminals Acting as China's Spies?
Some of the most high-profile criminals in South East Asia are tied to human trafficking and appear to have links to Chinese intelligence. T...
Myanmar's Ethnic Cleansing & Human Trafficking Scam Compounds
Rackets Podcast 27 This is an add-on episode from the last one that profiled how Myanmar has become the global epicenter of illegal drug pro...
Record Drug Production Fueling a Civil War in Myanmar
Rackets Podcast #26 This episode explores the geopolitics of why Myanmar is now the top producer of opium. Myanmar's military junta launched...
Alleged Financier of Assassination of Haitian President Moise Linked to US Intelligence
Rackets Podcast 25 ***Breaking News*** Court documents show that the man who is accused of financing the assassination of Haiti's President,...
Bowe Bergdahl & the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan
This episode's guest is Michael Ames. He is an investigative reporter and book author based in Brooklyn, New York. After a decade working in...
Lindsey Graham Doesn't Understand the Constitution
(The audio for this episode isn't great. This issue will be corrected in the following episodes.) The highlights include: Censorship in Ariz...
Trump's Emoluments and the Government's Corrupt Revolving Door
This episode covers a range of topics including: Robert Kraft's lawsuit Possible Chinese espionage A Federal Lawsuit involving Trump's Emolu...
China's Illegal Organ Harvesting
Leon Lee is the Peabody Award winning director of the documentary film, Human Harvest. Lee explained that the Chinese government began perse...
UN Refugee Bribery Scandal, Foreign & Domestic Kleptocrats
The latest episode covers a bribery scandal involving the UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, corporate drug pushers, Russian election interference...
A Mob Boss Murdered, CIA Embassy Break-in, Weapons Trafficking, & International Crime
This episode covers a range of topics. That includes the murder of the leader of the Gambino crime family, a break-in at the North Korean em...
Nathan Smith's Lawsuit Against the President of the United States
Nathan Smith is a former Army Captain and intelligence officer at the command headquarters in Kuwait. Notably, he filed a federal lawsuit in...
El Chapo Trial Analysis
There were too many fascinating details from the trial of the world's most notorious criminal, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, to list. However,...
Richard Bronson - Employment for 70 Million Americans with Criminal Records
Richard Bronson is the CEO of 70 Million Jobs , which is the first for-profit recruitment company for people with criminal records. He worke...
Dame Catherine Healy - Decriminalized Prostitution in New Zealand
Dame Catherine Healy is the founder of the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective. This year, she was awarded the title of "Dame" by Queen Eliz...
Dr. Frederic Whitehurst - FBI Whistleblower
Dr. Frederic Whitehurst was a former Supervisory Agent at the FBI Crime Lab. He exposed several scandals and became the first successful FBI...
Government-Backed Hackers, Sanctions, & Geopolitics
A number of recent news events involve both crime and geopolitics. The leader of a hacking group connected with the North Korean government...
Rape Laws Are Not Properly Enforced in America
Meaghan Ybos is this episode's guest. She's a contributing writer at The Appeal, which is part of Harvard Law School's Fair Punishment Proje...