The Underworld Podcast
Episodes
Ryan Wedding Arrest & China's Scam Executions: Stash house!
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What's going on with the big Ryan Wedding arrest and extradition? The Canadian city that had to declare a state of emergency because of Indo-Canadian ...
Italy's Unknown 5th Mafia, The Stidda
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 1970s, as Sicily descended into all-out mafia war, the island’s allegiances split between the ruthless Corleonesi clan, led by Toto Riin...
America’s Craziest Mob Boss (Sort of!) Vincent Gigante
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Vincent “Chin” Gigante was the most powerful mob boss in America...and he was also the mob's best performance artist. By day, he wandered Greenwic...
The Weed Kingpin who Hired Woody Harrelson’s Hitman Dad
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ever hear about how Woody Harrelson's dad was a hitman who killed a federal judge? The Chagra brothers came up along the El Paso and Juarez border whe...
A Cocaine War and the World’s Dumbest Bust
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When the son of Suriname’s president offered to ship drugs and guns for a major terror group in 2013, it was the dimwitted denouement to decades of ...
Crime! Drugs! Cartels! Gangs! Holidays!
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's stash house time! We bring you all the news on organized crime, gangs, drugs, cartels and the holidays that you could ever want. And, at the end,...
Sweden's Brutal Gang Civil War: The Kurdish Fox vs Strawberry
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the last few years, Sweden’s gang wars have erupted into a brutal battlefield of shootings, bombings, and shifting allegiances even worse than th...
The Super Cartel King: Daniel Kinahan
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the EncroChat bust, swaths of the world’s biggest narco traffickers have been swept up by European cops — from Balkan tough guys to...
Sweden's Gangland Child Soldiers
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Starting in the mid 2010's, Sweden’s gang wars transformed from neighborhood disputes into a national crisis, driven by splintered immigrant-area cr...
War in Venezuela?!?! Narcoterrorism, Maduro and Trump
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With gunboats parked in the Caribbean, fast boats blown up, and the White House threatening to invade, we unpick some of the narratives surrounding Ve...
Mafia NBA Gambling Rings & The Louvre Robbery: A Thanksgiving Special
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special Thanksgiving episode, the guys are in the studio together and do a deep dive on the insane Louvre Heist of the French Crown Jewels. Th...
Cattle Rustlers to Cocaine Kings: Los Cachiros
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When feds convicted Honduran cocaine kingpin Juan Matta Ballesteros in 1990, authorities hoped it would spell an end to the Central American nation’...
The Tijuana Cartel's Bloody Rise and Fall
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the godfather Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo got busted in '89, he divvied up his empire from a prison cell and handed the coveted Tijuana plaza t...
The Cartel Puppetmaster: Juan Matta Ballestero
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros began life as a pickpocket in his hometown of Tegucigalpa, before heading out on the perilous border roads of Latin Ameri...
The State Line Mob: Redneck Mafia
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Along the blood-soaked border between Mississippi and Tennessee, a ruthless crime empire ruled the night where whiskey flowed, dice rolled, and anyone...
The Cartel World's Donnie Brasco w/ Ian Frisch
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Starting at the tail end of the wild cowboy days of 1980's Miami, undercover FBI agent Martin Suarez didn’t just infiltrate a cartel...he nearly ros...
Warlords, Narco-Pirates, & The Gangster King of Vietnam
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Emerging from Saigon’s system of warlords and narco-pirates, Nam Cam built a criminal empire by making sure everyone — cops, politicians, media —...
The OG Mexican Narco: Pablo Acosta
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pablo Acosta ruled Mexico's drug trade from a dusty border town, turning Ojinaga into a narco-empire that funneled billions in cocaine, weed and heroi...
Cambodia’s Untouchable Gangster-in-Chief
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hun To, the nephew of Cambodia’s former PM, is also the ruler of a criminal empire stretching from illegal logging and Triad-run casinos, to corrupt...
London’s Corrupt Cops & Gangland Killers: the Epping Forest Slayings
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a London couple were found dead in a lover’s lane, in 1987, evidence pointed quickly at some of the city’s most notorious gangland figures —...
World's Most Dangerous Mobster: The Russian Mafiya Godfather
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
They say Semion Mogilevich is the most powerful gangster on the planet, the mastermind who rewrote the playbook for organized crime worldwide. Boss of...
Burmese Warlords, Gangsters & A Scam Utopia
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Buried on the border of Thailand and Myanmar, Shwe Kokko is a shimmering city of skyscrapers, casinos and fresh-laid highways. But peek a little close...
Europe's Deadliest Biker War: Hells Angels vs the Bandidos
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1980's and 1990's, America's biggest outlaw motorcycle gangs were looking to expand all over Europe. Unfortunately, they set their sites on the...
America's Nightmare Mafia Boss: Gaspipe Casso
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso was the Lucchese family’s brutal underboss, the brains behind boss Vic Amuso's reign, and architect of one of the Mafia...
Fidel Castro: Cuba’s Cocaine Trafficker-in-Chief?
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1959, when Fidel Castro’s revolutionaries toppled Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, they wasted no time booting out American business owners, cas...
The Dixie Mafia's Texas Millionaire Murders
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Bill Richardson, a troubled oilman and pro pigeon shooter, was gunned down on his Corpus Christi doorstep in 1971, everybody assumed it was an op...
Mexico's New Ultraviolent Narco-Terrorists: The CDN
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the ashes of Los Zetas rose the Cartel del Noreste or Northeast Cartel, a brutal splinter group led by the infamous Treviño Morales family and h...
Crack, Chaos, and Cartels: Rayful Edmond’s Empire
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1980's, Rayful Edmond rose to infamy as Washington D.C.’s most notorious crack kingpin, building a multimillion-dollar empire by the age of 1...
Australia's Gangster King of Sin: Abe Saffron
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Abe Saffron rose from wartime wheeler-dealing to become the king of Sydney’s underworld, a man whose appetite for sex, money and scandal was unmatch...
Africa's Pablo Escobar: Kenyan Kingpin Ibrahim Akasha
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ibrahim Akasha was the kingpin of East Africa’s heroin highway, setting up a massive tracking empire that stretched from Afghanistan, Pakistan and I...
The Shaman-Gangsters Who Built Indonesia
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries, brigands, gangsters and street toughs ruled the island of Java so thoroughly that they were woven into local myths. But in the 20th cen...
The Narco Lord of the Skies: Amado Carrillo Fuentes
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amado Carrillo Fuentes was one of the most powerful drug traffickers of the 1990s, moving hundreds of tons of cocaine and amassing billions while forg...
Cocaine, Camorra, Call Girls: Maradona's Downfall
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1987, Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona was on top of the world. He’d just handed his nation a World Cup, and his club side Napoli its first l...
Russian Mafia Superhitman: Alexander Solonik
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The 1990's in Moscow were the glory days of Russian organized crime. Emerging out of the downfall of communism, wannabe oligarchs and gangsters turned...
Scotland's Narco Blood Feud Explodes!
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When cops on the English coast busted a bid to bring in a huge shipment of cocaine in 2020, it sent shockwaves through the underworld hundreds of mile...
The Wild, Murderous Rampage of the Zizians
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When cops arrested a group of masked, black-robed protesters at a California campsite in 2019, most folks thoughts they’d caught some eccentric but ...
The Chinese Mafia Takeover of America's Weed Industry
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There''s a new king at the top of the US weed game, raking in tens of billions of dollars, so organized and prolific that they've replaced the cartels...
How Diego Maradona Fueled the Rise of Naples’ Camorra
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Argentine soccer wizard Diego Armando Maradona swapped Barcelona for lowly Napoli in 1984, it shocked the sporting world — and sent Naples’ d...
The Olympic Snowboarder Narco Kingpin
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How did a Canadian former Olympian build a one billion dollar narco empire? A few months ago, the feds added a new name to their 10 most wanted list...
The Sinaloan Train Robbers Causing Havoc in the Mojave Desert
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You may have missed it, but there’s a new gang of train robbers in the American West — and they’re suprisingly like the bandits of old. For over...
The Gunrunner Who Tried to Save China: Two Gun Cohen
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Christmas Day, 1941, as bombs tear Hong Kong apart, gunrunner Morris "Two Gun" Cohen — a street hustler from the slums of London turned Canadian ...
Los Muchachos: Miami's Cuban Cartel
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1980s Miami, amid the glitz, gunfire, and power boats, two Cuban-American friends Sal Magluta and Willy Falcon, built one of the most powerful drug...
The 'Ndrangheta's Notorious Kidnapping Gang Wars
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today the ‘Ndrangheta, Calabria’s clan-based Mafia, is one of the world’s richest and most powerful drug trafficking organizations, worth an est...
Meet The Chicago Outfit's Most Infamous Hitman
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kurt Calabrese grew up in the Chicago mafia known as The Outfit. His father, Frank Calabrese Sr, was the premier hitman, known for strangling his vict...
Jalisco’s Death Camp, El Salvador's Mega-prison and Mexico’s Cartel Extraditions
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will Grant, the BBC’s Mexico, Central America and Cuba correspondent, was recently on the ground at Jalisco’s Rancho Izaguirre, dubbed ‘Mexico’...
Mexico's Most Sociopathic Druglord: El Mencho & CJNG
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
He’s a recluse, a cockfighting high-roller, a former cop and a maniac. But will Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, aka El Mencho, do what he’s been threa...
The Most Insane Prison Gang Ever: South Africa's Numbers Gang
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
South Africa's secretive Numbers Gangs almost defy description; they're one part cult, one part religion, and all parts violent psychopaths. Emerging ...
Duterte Arrested: Was the Drug War a Cover Up?
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Williams reports from the Philippines, where former President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal drug war cost up to 30,000 lives and tore Philippine soc...
The Last Street Boss of Chinatown: Ghost Shadows Peter Chin
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Ghost Shadows are said to have been the wildest of Chinatown's gun-toting teenage gangs in the 1970's and 1980's, engaging in countless shootouts ...
The World's Biggest Arms Trafficker Goes Down Hard
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi arms dealer and self-styled world’s richest man, met with US officials to discuss the Ayatollah, it may have seemed like...
The Dixie Mafia: Gone South w/Jed Lipinski
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Dixie Mafia terrorized the southern US for decades before authorities were finally able to bring them down. Starting off as a loose collective of ...
The Richest Arms Dealer Ever: Adnan Khashoggi
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adnan Khashoggi was born in Mecca — but his life was anything but pious. The billionaire had multiple wives, girlfriends and armies of callgirls, no...
The Mobster Who Ruled Hawaii & His Brutal Revenge Quest
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Miske came from a broken home through years of petty crime to lead a gang of lost boys in Honolulu, cornering its drug scene and befriending c...
America's Most Dangerous Prison Gang: The Aryan Brotherhood
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What started as a small gang of white prisoners in a California state prison in the 1960's is now one of, if not the most powerful prison gang across ...
Hollywood's Celebrity Gangster and the Battle for Los Angeles: Mickey Cohen
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mickey once said of himself, quote, “I was a pretty fair replica of the devil.” He also killed a bunch of people, and got away with it. A street h...
The Nazi Drug Kingpin, the Biggest Narco You've Never Heard Of & The Cocaine Coup
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s January 5, 1982, and the central American state of Panama is playing host to one of the most extraordinary narco summits in history. Hosting th...
The Teenage Hitmen of Marseille's Gang Wars
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You might recognize the city of Marseille as the home of one of the biggest drug trafficking operations in history, the French Connection. These days,...
The Nazi Fugitive Who Created The Modern Cocaine Cartel & Befriended Escobar
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Klaus Barbie, the “Butcher of Lyon”, escaped Europe at the end of the war and fled to Latin America, he didn’t follow his fellow Nazis into...
STASH HOUSE: Captagon Craziness, Free Narcos, Russian Crypto Scams, and More!
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this holiday special, we get into some of the big stories of the month from Captagon updates, the Gulf Cartel leader and Zetas creator going free, ...
The Biggest American Weed Cartel Ever: The Cornbread Mafia
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When the Cornbread mafia started to unravel in the late 1980's, the feds had no idea what they had stumbled upon. Within a few years, they had seized ...
The Human Trafficking Illegal Casino Kingpin Who May Have Been a Chinese Spy
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alice Guo was a Philippine success story, a homeschooled farmhand who rose to become a millionaire business leader. But when Guo ran for mayor of the ...
The Lord High Executioner of Brooklyn: Albert Anastasia
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You don't earn a nickname like The Lord High Executioner by not killing a whole lot of people. And Albert Anastasia, one of the most psychotic gangste...
The Sinaloa Cartel Civil War Raging in Mexico: Los Chapitos vs El Mayo w/Nathan Jones
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sinaloa’s capital Culiacan is roiling with violence in the wake of El Mayo’s capture, and his alleged betrayal at the hands of the Chapitos. But t...
Peru's Shining Path Narco Terrorists: From Commie Civil War to Cartel Muscle
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peru’s Shining Path, a Marxist-Maoist guerrilla force, plunged the Andean nation into a two-decade civil war that put villagers of the VRAEM, a remo...
The Bloody Turkish Mafia War Raging Across the World
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With their leader sentenced to life in a Dutch prison, the most powerful heroin trafficking organzation in Europe, the Turkish-Kurdish Baybasin clan, ...
Europe's Pablo Escobar: The Heroin Emperor Huseyin Baybashin
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From a village in rural Turkey, Huseyin Baybasin emerged as one of the most powerful drug lords in Europe, setting up a global heroin trafficking ring...
The Billion Dollar Scam Cult King who tried to Take Over an Island
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Bougainville fought an incredible civil war over a colossal mine, and won, its military leader emerged a hero. But he would soon fall under the s...
North Korea's Meth Trafficking: The Hermit Narco-Kingdom
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When a bizarre group of international gangsters shook on a massive meth deal with a DEA agent in Bangkok, Thailand eight years ago, it kicked off a ma...
Indian Posse: The Native Teen Gang Ruling Canada's Prisons
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Danny and Richard Wolfe were barely even teenagers when they formed the Indian Posse in their mother's basement with a handful of friends, but they ha...
The Warring Prison Cartels Carving up Ecuador
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Lee Anderson is an author and staff writer at The New Yorker. Anderson recently profiled Ecuador’s young president Daniel Noboa for a piece enti...
The Cartel That Went to War w/Pablo Escobar: The Gentlemen of Cali
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As Colombia's cocaine industry exploded in the 1980's, Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel became the dominant player, capturing headlines across the worl...
How Chinese Money Launderers Took Over the Narco Underworld
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When gunmen ambushed a Mexican-Chinese businessman outside his Guatemala City casino in 2016, few outside the DEA paid much attention. But the shootou...
The Legend of Bum Farto and the Florida Keys Cocaine
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Something about Bum Farto, Key West’s fire chief, stunk. And it wasn’t just his red suits, bling and lime green company car. By the early 70s Flor...
Colombia's FARC Guerillas: From Revolution to the Golden Age of Cocaine w/Toby Muse
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia fought a guerrilla war against Colombia’s government - as well as against right wing militias and drug ca...
Venezuela’s Cop Killing Street Gang Tren de Aragua Takes America - Or Does It?
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Tren de Aragua grew out of disastrous regime policies to give gang leaders more power in prisons. Its mysterious leader, Niño Guerrero, soon cont...
The Westies, Psycho Killers of Hell's Kitchen and the Last of the NYC Irish Mob
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the chaos of 1970’s New York, it took a lot to shock the city. But the Westies managed to leave quite the impression. Dubbed the last of the Iris...
Sammy the Bull, Nazis and Mormon Killers: How the Gilbert Goons Terrorized a Phoenix Suburb
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This year, the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert has been rocked by the death of 16-year-old Preston Lord, at the hands of a group calling themselves the ‘G...
The 30 Year Old Billionaire Cartel Boss Playing Professional Soccer
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, Sebastian Marset has emerged as the first narco kingpin out of Uruguay. He rose from a mid-level weed dealer to an international cart...
The Rise and Fall of the Dark Web Fentanyl King
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Mohammed Alaa Allawi, a former US military interpreter, moved to Texas in 2012, selling weed was a side hustle. But when a company asked him to d...
EL MAYO ARRESTED! Was he betrayed by Chapo's son?!?!
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bombshell out of Mexico, El Mayo (!!!!!) is in US federal custody after arriving on a small private plan alongside El Chapo's son, Joaquin Guzman Lope...
South Africa's Rampaging Murder Rate: Gangs, Corruption and State Capture
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Nelson Mandela and the ANC delivered South Africa from Apartheid in the 90s, hopes were high that the country could become a beacon of freedom an...
The Fugitive British Gangster Instagramming His Crimes in Africa: Sam Walker
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Walker already had a huge rap sheet in his native Liverpool before 2018, when he took off across Europe and through the Sahara Desert into Sierra ...
El Chapo's Sons Built a Fentanyl Empire: Los Chapitos
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With El Chapo locked up in a supermax prison and never going home, there's been a battle to maintain the power of his feared Sinaloa cartel. Many thou...
The Deadliest Biker War in History: Hells Angels vs Rock Machine
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the mid 90's, the Quebec Hells Angels made an offer to every drug trafficking organization in Montreal: buy from us or die. The Rock Machine motorc...
The Meth SuperCartels Destroying Tropical Paradise
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For years the Pacific region, and its tiny, tropical nations, steered clear of the global meth and cocaine trade. But politics, war and wild profit ma...
How the Hells Angels Became Canada's Most Powerful Crime Family
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club first chapter emerged in the US in the 1940's but didn't reach Canada until 1977. Less than 20 years later, they woul...
El Salvador's War on MS-13: Nayib Bukele Goes Hard
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2019, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has smashed the country’s two main gangs, MS-13 and Barrio 18, throwing almost 80,000 people into mega...
India's Gangster Assassins Are Running Wild
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When hitmen shot dead Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar near Vancouver last June, Canadian cops blamed the government of India’s strongman leader N...
The Most Corrupt NYPD Detective & His Mafia Uncle w/Steve Fishman
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Louis Sarcella might be one of the most corrupt NYPD detectives ever, though he was once heralded as a master at getting confessions on homicides. A s...
The Gangster Warlords of Haiti's Collapse with Jason Motlagh
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Haiti's gangs have effectively taken over the country, plunging into chaos and violence as warring gangster warlords like the infamous Barbeque fight ...
El Mayo: The Undisputed King of Mexico & the Betrayal of El Chapo
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 2000's, the Mexico government put together a list of dozens of Narco kingpins it wanted to bring down. Only one name from that list is not...
El Chapo's Boss & The Most Powerful Kingpin in Mexico: El Mayo
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone knows El Chapo, the infamous leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, one time most powerful kingpin that Mexico has ever seen. The man who revolutioniz...
Andrew Tate & the Romanian Mob: A Match Made in Criminal Heaven
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With influencer and living meme Andrew Tate about to face trial in Romania, we dive into his connections to a powerful pair of Mafia brothers and thei...
The Most Dangerous Russian Mobster America Has Ever Known: Boris Nayfeld
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Boris Nayfeld's life is like something out of a movie; orphaned in the former Soviet Union, he served time in a brutal penal colony before establishin...
The Rise and Fall of Golden Triangle Dope: From a Jailed Kingpin to a Casino Shootout
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lo Hsing Han was a Burmese narco so powerful that Richard Nixon called him a Godfather. But the Kokang king tried one too many shady deals, sending th...
Skinny Joey Merlino and The Philly Mob Wars:
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Well, they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night. And they blew up his house too. And the racket boys, they really did have a fight...a brutal ...
The Zombie Drug Robbery Gangs of Medellin Preying on Dating Apps w/ Toby Muse
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Medellin was once the world's most violent city, torn about by Pablo Escobar's murderous cartel warfare and later, Don Berna's meteoric rise to contro...
Kokang Cowboys: Burma’s Transgender Narco Royalty, a Secret Army, and a “Special Belt”
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Olive Yang—or Miss Hairy Legs, or Two-Gun Mulan, or any number of nicknames folks gave her—was the gunslinging princess of Kokang who bucked the r...
Digital Hucksters, Crypto Scams and the Internet’s “Enshittification” with Cory Doctorow
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From Ponzi schemes to shitcoins, phishing scams and Nigerian princes, we’re living in a golden age of online crime. But hasn’t it always been this...
The Most Successful American Mobster EVER: Tony Accardo
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tony "Joe Batters" Accardo aka the Big Tuna (!) was one of the most powerful Mob Bosses that the American Mafia has ever seen, sitting atop the brutal...