Episode 8: Matryoshka
29 Jul 2025
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In our season finale, Sam discovers a different narrative about Marsalek’s life in Russia. And...
Episode 7: From Russia With Love
22 Jul 2025
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A Marsalek-backed ring of operatives go on trial in the UK for espionage. A treasure trove of text m...
Episode 6: Maestro
15 Jul 2025
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Back in Vienna, Sam investigates another Marsalek plot. One that nearly toppled Austria’s inte...
Stay Tuned
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 04:01:00 +0000
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Episode 5: A Different Set of Rules
Tue, 01 Jul 2025 04:01:00 +0000
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How does one become a spy? Sam speaks with a former Russian intelligence officer about how Marsalek ...
Episode 4: Backbearings
Tue, 24 Jun 2025 04:01:00 +0000
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On the ground in Austria and Germany, Sam digs deep into Marsalek’s past. His odd habits. His ...
Episode 3: Thrill Seeking
Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:01:00 +0000
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Sam tracks down an old contact in Tunisia. A former UN official living off grid. He reveals ho...
Episode 2: The Friendship Society
Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:15:00 +0000
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As Sam arrives in Vienna, a political bomb explodes. A secretly recorded video exposes ties between ...
Episode 1: The Bribe
Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:01:00 +0000
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A series of clandestine lunch meetings leads Sam’s editor to send him off to Vienna, in search...
Introducing Hot Money Season 3: Agent of Chaos
Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:30:00 +0000
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When reporter Sam Jones asks questions about disgraced financial executive Jan Marsalek, he discover...
Episode 8 - The Red Notebook
Tue, 26 Dec 2023 05:01:00 +0000
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Law enforcement cuts off the Kinahan cartel, and a little red notebook in the back of a car might fi...
Episode 7 - Against the Ropes
Thu, 21 Dec 2023 05:01:00 +0000
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Daniel Kinahan is more influential than ever, but law enforcement may finally be catching up. For ...
Episode 6 - Ties with Tehran
Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:30:00 +0000
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An undercover operation in New York reveals a connection with Tehran. For more from the FT, sign up ...
Episode 5 - Nerds vs Narcos
Thu, 14 Dec 2023 05:01:00 +0000
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Back in the Netherlands, the high-tech unit of the Dutch police works to crack the murder case. For ...
Episode 4 - Gangster's Paradise
Tue, 12 Dec 2023 03:30:00 +0000
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No longer safe in Europe, the cartel bosses move to a city that is attracting criminals from around ...
Episode 3 - Sun, Guns & Sangria
Thu, 07 Dec 2023 05:01:00 +0000
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International law enforcement is after the Kinahan cartel, revealing just how big the operation has ...
Episode 2 - Cocaine CEO
Tue, 05 Dec 2023 05:10:00 +0000
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An enterprising Dublin drug dealer makes the most of a revolution sweeping across Europe’s crimina...
Episode 1 - Murder Brokers
Tue, 05 Dec 2023 05:05:00 +0000
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When a Dutch crime reporter makes an unbelievable discovery, a small-town murder case begins to look...
Introducing Hot Money: The New Narcos
Tue, 21 Nov 2023 19:04:57 +0000
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Hot Money is back with a new season that begins with a mysterious murder in a small town and leads t...
Episode 8: Inside Porn's Star Chamber
Tue, 19 Jul 2022 04:01:00 +0000
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In the season finale, Alex and Patricia discover how Visa and MasterCard became the reluctant rulers...
Episode 7: Porn Meets OnlyFans
Tue, 12 Jul 2022 04:01:00 +0000
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Alex and Patricia track down the family behind OnlyFans, the site that has transformed online porn b...
Episode 6: Knocking on the Door of a Porn Empire
Tue, 05 Jul 2022 04:01:00 +0000
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One of the biggest porn companies in the world was forced to radically change its practices. But ano...
Episode 5: The Billionaire Who Took Down Porn
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 04:01:00 +0000
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A billionaire hedge fund manager reads a scathing column about a popular porn site. He sends an angr...
Episode 4: Playboy vs. Rusty and Edie
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 04:01:00 +0000
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How is it legal for porn sites to host millions of videos uploaded by users? The answer is in the st...
Episode 3: Mr. Goldman, Mr. Sex
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 04:01:00 +0000
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When Fabian Thylmann ran into trouble with the law, a former Goldman Sachs banker swooped in to buy ...
Episode 2: The Darth Vader of Porn
Tue, 07 Jun 2022 04:01:00 +0000
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A decade ago, a computer programmer named Fabian Thylmann began to build one of the biggest porn emp...
Episode 1: Porn Meets the Internet
Mon, 06 Jun
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Stoya is a porn star who saw first-hand how a firehose of free porn online transformed the adult ind...
Hot Money: Who Rules Porn?
Wed, 25 May
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When Financial Times reporter Patricia Nilsson started digging into the porn industry, she made a sh...