Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
The Picasso of Thieves: Secrets of an Art Heist Genius
Fri, 03 Jan 2025
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Chapter 1: What inspired Picasso to become an art thief?
And we took, this is over a span of, I believe the apartment took, this was just an apartment. I believe it took us three months to paint the apartment.
Okay.
So it was in the past three months from the planning to the execution.
That's a long time to paint an apartment.
You can paint my whole house in a day. This is Park Avenue. They charge $10,000 a room, you know. It's the best of the best.
Buried by the U.S. government and ignored by the national media, this is the story they don't want you to know. When Frank Amedeo met with President George W. Bush at the White House to discuss NATO operations in Afghanistan, no one knew that he'd already embezzled nearly $200 million from the federal government. money he intended to use to bankroll his plan to take over the world.
From Amadeo's global headquarters in the shadow of Florida's Disney World, with a nearly inexhaustible supply of the Internal Revenue Service's funds, Amadeo acquired multiple businesses, amassing a mega conglomerate. Driven by his delusions of world conquest, he negotiated the purchase of a squadron of American fighter jets and the controlling interest in a former Soviet ICBM factory.
He began working to build the largest private militia on the planet, over 1 million Africans strong. Simultaneously, Amadeo hired an international black ops force to orchestrate a coup in the Congo while plotting to take over several small Eastern European countries. The most disturbing part of it all is, had the U.S. government not thwarted his plans, he might have just pulled it off.
It's insanity. The bizarre true story of a bipolar megalomaniac's insane plan for total world domination. Available now on Amazon and Audible.
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Chapter 2: How did Picasso's upbringing influence his criminal career?
Yes. The one that I believe still is not solved.
Right. Yeah. They, you know, like those paintings, like I always think to myself, like these guys stole a ton of paintings worth $100 million or $200 million. They can't move. Like you couldn't move those paintings.
No.
You can't sell those. Right. I always just assume I always think to myself, like they're probably hanging on somebody's, you know, somebody's in someone's garage, sitting in a garage or they're hanging on somebody's wall. They have no idea what's even on on their wall or they think it's a it's it's a replica. They probably don't even realize what they have.
So did you ever come close to getting caught?
I got caught only that last time when they did the reality show. And that was the thing is, you know, if you listen, the name of the reality show is called the Brooklyn DA. And I'm featured in episode number one and three. And if you listen to the detective and you listen to the DA show, In the reality show, they pretty much tell you if he doesn't take anything, you don't have him on anything.
Right.
But remember, I was already there. And I just told you that 90% of the stuff was never reported. So, you know, everything's on video. If you, if you go out, you can YouTube it and you can see it. You can hear their comments and all that. But, um, dude, I was coming out of there with something.
But the problem was, if I would have just listened to the inside, the spider sense, if I would have listened to that, I wouldn't have got arrested that day. I still would have been out and about.
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