Best Danny Gold and Sean Williams Podcasts (2024)

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The Most Corrupt NYPD Detective & His Mafia Uncle w/Steve Fishman 45:58

8m ago45:58

45:58

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 slick dressing, tough talking cigar smoker who could bench 400 pounds, he got such a good reputation that he was invited on the Dr. Phil show. But while he was waging a war on the streets, his uncle, N…

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The Gangster Warlords of Haiti's Collapse with Jason Motlagh 44:08

35m ago44:08

44:08

Haiti's gangs have effectively taken over the country, plunging into chaos and violence as warring gangster warlords like the infamous Barbeque fight for territorial control. In February gangs stormed police stations, shot up the airport and freed thousands of prisoners after storming the country's biggest prisons, causing a humanitarian crisis. Th…

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El Mayo: The Undisputed King of Mexico & the Betrayal of El Chapo 42:46

2h ago42:46

42:46

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 imprisoned or dead, and still sitting stop the Mexican cartel world: El Mayo. Nearing 80, he's never so much as been arrested despite co-founding and then co-leading the Sinaloa cartel for decades. L…

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El Chapo's Boss & The Most Powerful Kingpin in Mexico: El Mayo 49:16

37m ago49:16

49:16

Everyone knows El Chapo, the infamous leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, one time most powerful kingpin that Mexico has ever seen. The man who revolutionized the Mexican cartels' drug trade. But...what if he never actually was at the top of the food chain? Some have long suspected that the head of the Sinaloa cartel has always been Ismael Zambada Garcia…

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Andrew Tate & the Romanian Mob: A Match Made in Criminal Heaven 52:07

15d ago52:07

52:07

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 their casino empire—and how the Tates pivoted from MMA to a gang that has terrorized the European nation for years. We also go deep on the history of Romanian organized crime, from Ponzi schemes to ATM sk…

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The Most Dangerous Russian Mobster America Has Ever Known: Boris Nayfeld 57:53

13d ago57:53

57:53

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 establishing himself as a top tier street criminal before escaping for America. No stranger to violence, he got involved in the burgeoning Russian mafia factions rising up in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach during the…

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The Rise and Fall of Golden Triangle Dope: From a Jailed Kingpin to a Casino Shootout 43:08

20d ago43:08

43:08

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 the Golden Triangle’s heroin industry on a helter-skelter path toward a bloody, 2023 shootout with Chinese cops—at a lawless casino town on the edge of nowhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m…

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Skinny Joey Merlino and The Philly Mob Wars: 46:28

27d ago46:28

46:28

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 one that lasted decades and saw Skinny Joey Merlino come out on top. He's not just America's next top crime podcaster and patreon star, he's also the one-time boss of the Philadelphia mafia and (alleg…

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The Zombie Drug Robbery Gangs of Medellin Preying on Dating Apps w/ Toby Muse 58:34

1M ago58:34

58:34

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 control the city's drug trade. Over the last decade, though, the city has grown quite safe, becoming a tourism hotspot and hub for digital nomads attracted to it's people, parties and culture. But a recent …

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Kokang Cowboys: Burma’s Transgender Narco Royalty, a Secret Army, and a “Special Belt” 43:03

2M ago43:03

43:03

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 royal yolk to become one of the Golden Triangle’s biggest narco traffickers. With DC’s backing she built an empire all over Asia, and did some pretty impressive spycraft on the side. Part one of this crazy…

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Digital Hucksters, Crypto Scams and the Internet’s “Enshittification” with Cory Doctorow 57:16

2M ago57:16

57:16

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 way? Cory Doctorow’s latest novel “The Bezzle” dives into some of these recesses, and America’s prison-industrial complex—all part of something he’s dubbed the “enshittification” of the World Wide Web Ge…

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The Most Successful American Mobster EVER: Tony Accardo 54:06

2M ago54:06

54:06

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 Chicago Outfit for 40 years. From being an errand boy turned hitman for none other than Al Capone to taking the Outfit from a local prohibition gang to a national powerhouse with multiple Vegas casin…

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Listen Now: Varnamtown Episode 1 4:08

3M ago4:08

4:08

Two years ago, Kyle MacLachlan, the star of Twin Peaks, called investigative journalist Joshua Davis with a strange story. Kyle had heard a rumor that Pablo Escobar did a deal in the early 1980s with a remote, coastal Southern town of 300 people. In exchange for vast wealth and limitless cocaine, Escobar would be allowed to land planes and ships in…

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The Bamboo Union Triads, Taiwan's White Wolf Godfather, and a Murdered Reporter in SF 40:04

2M ago40:04

40:04

When Chinese-American reporter Henry Liu was gunned down in his Daly City garage in 1984, it brought the Bamboo Union, Taiwan’s most powerful Triad, to global attention. But while the killing frayed ties between the island and DC, authorities skipped over a guy in California pulling the strings all along—a silver-tongued philosophy grad who’d gone …

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The Yakuza Boss Caught Selling Burmese Nuclear Material to Iranian Generals (Sort Of) 44:40

3M ago44:40

44:40

You may have seen the news last week, about a Yakuza boss caught in Bangkok trying to sell nuclear material to a fake Iranian general. Takeshi Ebisawa and a group of co-conspirators are behind bars, awaiting extradition to the US, the dopes in a sting operation that could’ve been lifted straight from Hollywood. But how legit is the bust? And who is…

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She Hunted Down the Zetas Cartel Members Who Killed Her Daughter 45:24

3M ago45:24

45:24

When members of the fearsome and brutal Zetas cartel kidnapped her daughter, Miriam Rodriguez did what they asked and paid the ransom. But it wasn't enough, and she never saw her daughter again. Fed up with a lack of help from the police, she went on a one-woman crusade for justice, tracking down the men responsible for killing her daughter by any …

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From Helicopter Prison Breaks to Missing Millions: The French Bank Robbers Who Became Heroes 41:41

4M ago41:41

41:41

On the face of it, Toni Musulin and Redoine Faïd couldn’t be more different: one a quiet, skinflint armored vehicle driver, the other a flamboyant gang leader who went on the lam in Tel Aviv disguised as religious. But the crimes of both men captured French hearts and minds, catapulting them to infamy and prompting some, in the wake of the global f…

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The Headhunting Burmese Tribe Running the World's Biggest Cartel: The Wa w/ Patrick Winn 1:03:52

4M ago1:03:52

1:03:52

The Wa tribe, an indigenous tribe residing in the mountainous Burma China borderlands, has long had a reputation as a people not to be trifled with. And yes, they were actually headhunters, well into the 20th century. Known as powerful warriors who weren't keen on outsiders telling them what to do, they were able to carve out their own autonomous s…

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Behind Ecuador's Gang TV Takeover: Prison Kings, Megabusts and Daytime Executions 45:31

4M ago45:31

45:31

This month armed men stormed an Ecuadorean TV station, shocking the world and plunging the nation into gang hell. Prosecutors have been assassinated and gangs are looting offices, universities and even hospitals, as martial law takes hold. It might seem like Ecuador has gone from Latin American idyll to narco-state overnight. The truth, though, is …

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Griselda Blanco and Miami's Drug Wars: Netflix's New Narcos 48:38

4M ago48:38

48:38

Dubbed the Cocaine Godmother and the Black Widow, Griselda Blanco rose to power when the cocaine boom was taking off and Colombian cartels started pumping product into the US, mainly through Miami. As the floodgates opened and tens of millions of dollars were being made on the streets, everyone wanted to be on top of pyramid, including Griselda...a…

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A Cop-Cartel Heist and Sky High Homicide Rates: What the Hell is Going on in Tijuana 51:53

4M ago51:53

51:53

When a team of cops drove a truck laden with Sinaloa Cartel product out of a Tijuana warehouse in November, experts predicted violence even worse than the city had suffered in recent years, as roiling fentanyl and meth industries had made it Mexico’s most dangerous city by far. The reprisals began just hours later—and they still haven’t stopped. No…

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The Kingpin Behind Asia's Triad Super-Syndicate Cartel : Tse Chi Lop, with Josh Berlinger 44:05

5M ago44:05

44:05

The mysterious Chinese-born criminal mastermind Tse Chi Lop didn't raise too many eyebrows when he was arrested in Canada in the 1990's for running heroin with the Hong Kong Triads known as the Big Circle Gang in a partnership with the Rizzuto family, a Canadian-Italian mafia clan. But after serving nearly a decade in prison, the laid back, soft-sp…

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New Years/Christmas Q + A!!!!! 47:55

5M ago47:55

47:55

Danny and Sean jump in on all of your questions for this Christmas New Years week specia; Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy The Underworld Podcast

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The El Chapo of the Sahel, Africa's Desert Trafficking and the Sahara’s Most Dangerous Gangs 54:46

5M ago54:46

54:46

We do Christmas shows different. Using ancient desert trade routes made famous by megarich kings, narcos, terrorists and arms traffickers have turned the Sahel region into one of the world’s deadliest drug caravans. In recent years cigarette traders, Tuareg separatists and religious rebels have coalesced into a giant, lucrative underworld. Among it…

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Mafia-controlled Ports, Nazi Submarines, and Backroom World War 2 deals with Brendan Sullivan 1:02:41

5M ago1:02:41

1:02:41

Long before Pearl Harbor the US had already lost 243 mariners at sea. German UBoats came close enough to NY harbor to sink US merchant ships just by looking for their dark silhouettes against the lights of the city. American bodies washed back to American shores as if they had just gotten stuck in the riptide. The lucky ones were dead on impact. Bu…

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The Most Corrupt NYPD Detective & His Mafia Uncle w/Steve Fishman 45:58

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The Gangster Warlords of Haiti's Collapse with Jason Motlagh 44:08

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El Mayo: The Undisputed King of Mexico & the Betrayal of El Chapo 42:46

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El Chapo's Boss & The Most Powerful Kingpin in Mexico: El Mayo 49:16

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Andrew Tate & the Romanian Mob: A Match Made in Criminal Heaven 52:07

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The Most Dangerous Russian Mobster America Has Ever Known: Boris Nayfeld 57:53

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The Rise and Fall of Golden Triangle Dope: From a Jailed Kingpin to a Casino Shootout 43:08

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Skinny Joey Merlino and The Philly Mob Wars: 46:28

1
The Zombie Drug Robbery Gangs of Medellin Preying on Dating Apps w/ Toby Muse 58:34

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Kokang Cowboys: Burma’s Transgender Narco Royalty, a Secret Army, and a “Special Belt” 43:03

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Digital Hucksters, Crypto Scams and the Internet’s “Enshittification” with Cory Doctorow 57:16

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The Most Successful American Mobster EVER: Tony Accardo 54:06

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Listen Now: Varnamtown Episode 1 4:08

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The Bamboo Union Triads, Taiwan's White Wolf Godfather, and a Murdered Reporter in SF 40:04

1
The Yakuza Boss Caught Selling Burmese Nuclear Material to Iranian Generals (Sort Of) 44:40

1
She Hunted Down the Zetas Cartel Members Who Killed Her Daughter 45:24

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From Helicopter Prison Breaks to Missing Millions: The French Bank Robbers Who Became Heroes 41:41

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The Headhunting Burmese Tribe Running the World's Biggest Cartel: The Wa w/ Patrick Winn 1:03:52

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Behind Ecuador's Gang TV Takeover: Prison Kings, Megabusts and Daytime Executions 45:31

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Griselda Blanco and Miami's Drug Wars: Netflix's New Narcos 48:38

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A Cop-Cartel Heist and Sky High Homicide Rates: What the Hell is Going on in Tijuana 51:53

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The Kingpin Behind Asia's Triad Super-Syndicate Cartel : Tse Chi Lop, with Josh Berlinger 44:05

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New Years/Christmas Q + A!!!!! 47:55

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The El Chapo of the Sahel, Africa's Desert Trafficking and the Sahara’s Most Dangerous Gangs 54:46

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Mafia-controlled Ports, Nazi Submarines, and Backroom World War 2 deals with Brendan Sullivan 1:02:41

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