Danny Golds
speaker
1,181 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Danny Golds’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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December 13th, 1995 at the Dubai International Airport.
There's a man walking down a jet bridge toward a business class seat.
He's in his late 50s, he's thin, he's got a gray beard, but he can't read the ticket in his hand.
He can't read anything in any language and never could.
That hasn't stopped him from building a massive billion dollar empire.
He also owns one of the largest private homes on the face of the earth, a 40-acre walled compound with an Olympic pool, a private zoo, and four artillery cannons on the porch, protected by an army of 5,000 armed tribesmen who have no problem coming down from the mountains and camping out if the boss man is threatened.
Flanking him in the airport are two men, a DEA special agent and a posture-speaking DEA investigator.
Nobody is dragging him.
Nobody has cuffs out, and he's walking toward that seat entirely, completely, voluntarily.
In fact, if he had just stayed at his compound, nobody could have grabbed him.
An hour ago, those same two federal agents drove this man across Dubai to a business full of his own associates and waited politely on the curb while he dropped off $70,000 in cash, money he had planned to take with him but decided not to when he was told it would be confiscated.
This is 1995, remember?
Dubai is not what it is now, and it won't have the reputation as a safe haven for mob bosses and top-tier criminals the world over for another 15 or so years.
It's just a convenient stopover on a flight to Brooklyn.
The man spent a year negotiating this flight through go-betweens, and the questions his people put to American agents during that year are preserved in the official record.
They include, how many times a day will the US Marshals beat him?
Can he stay at the Waldorf Astoria?
And can he bring a personal cook?
The DEA spent that same year doing two things.
One, confirming through phone records and passports and identity cards that the man offering to surrender was actually him and not in the agency's own written words, a stand-in willing to take the fall for him.
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