Danny Golds
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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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As one Brazilian prosecutor who's tracked the group for years put it to the Wall Street Journal, the PCC has become a truly transnational group.
They work heavy with the Andrangheta, who arguably are Europe's most powerful organized crime group, and if not the biggest, one of the biggest cocaine importers.
They do have certain benefits like that.
They got the pay lawyers on deck.
I think they have some sort of pension program for when they get locked up for the families.
I don't remember it in exact detail, but I did cover it in the big PCC episode.
But yeah, I mean, they are like corporate structure.
And there's some more stuff you're going to hear in this next paragraph that is
Amazing.
There's a good Wall Street Journal article from April that gets into it more.
Members pay their dues and follow the code, which is pretty standard, I think, for gangs.
But beyond that, any member with the capacity to move product to Europe can go move product to Europe, and any member who wants to launder through a gas station can do that too.
It's free enterprise under gang law.
And the corporate texture is unreal.
New recruits sometimes get sworn in by video conference.
The gang retains an army of lawyers that members call the Thai Brigade, and it even distills its own prison rum, which is named Crazy Maria.
Incredible, incredible stuff.
In the Amazon, the journal finds river villages with no doctor and no police officer that just now have several resident drug dealers, where the gang runs a parallel justice system, sponsors a soccer team to recruit teenagers, and where locals talk about hearing the screams of people being punished at night.
Authorities estimate the PCC moves several tons a month through the rainforest.
To hold that territory, it recruits renegade Colombian guerrillas, fighters who sat out the 2016 peace deal for their bomb-making skills and their military-grade weapons.
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