The Underworld Podcast
Underworld exposes the secret world of transnational criminal networks that have flourished since there were banks to bust, drugs to smuggle, and scams to run. Journalists Danny Gold and Sean Williams bring their experience reporting on dangerous people and organizations to take listeners on a global tour of mobsters, warlords and crooks - from Brooklyn to Beijing, from the streets to the boardrooms - and everywhere in between. Underworld is a show about heroes, villains, and the barely visible mafias that affect all our lives, whether we know it or not.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 227
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
The Bamboo Union Triads, Taiwan's White Wolf Godfather, and a Murdered Reporter in SF
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 …
00:40:04 |
Tue 05 Mar 2024
The Yakuza Boss Caught Selling Burmese Nuclear Material to Iranian Generals (Sort Of)
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, …
00:44:40 |
Tue 27 Feb 2024
She Hunted Down the Zetas Cartel Members Who Killed Her Daughter
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 …
00:45:24 |
Tue 20 Feb 2024
From Helicopter Prison Breaks to Missing Millions: The French Bank Robbers Who Became Heroes
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 disguise…
00:41:41 |
Tue 13 Feb 2024
The Headhunting Burmese Tribe Running the World's Biggest Cartel: The Wa w/ Patrick Winn
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…
01:03:52 |
Tue 06 Feb 2024
Behind Ecuador's Gang TV Takeover: Prison Kings, Megabusts and Daytime Executions
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 ev…
00:45:31 |
Tue 30 Jan 2024
Griselda Blanco and Miami's Drug Wars: Netflix's New Narcos
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. A…
00:48:38 |
Tue 23 Jan 2024
A Cop-Cartel Heist and Sky High Homicide Rates: What the Hell is Going on in Tijuana
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 roilin…
00:51:53 |
Tue 16 Jan 2024
The Kingpin Behind Asia's Triad Super-Syndicate Cartel : Tse Chi Lop, with Josh Berlinger
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 C…
00:44:05 |
Tue 09 Jan 2024
New Years/Christmas Q + A!!!!!
Danny and Sean jump in on all of your questions for this Christmas New Years week specia;
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00:47:55 |
Tue 02 Jan 2024
The El Chapo of the Sahel, Africa's Desert Trafficking and the Sahara’s Most Dangerous Gangs
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 deadlies…
00:54:46 |
Tue 26 Dec 2023
Mafia-controlled Ports, Nazi Submarines, and Backroom World War 2 deals with Brendan Sullivan
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 lig…
01:02:41 |
Tue 19 Dec 2023
Air America, Corsican Mobsters and Spies Gone Native - Did the CIA Fuel the Modern Heroin Trade?
At one point in the 1960s Air America was the largest carrier on the planet. It was also a CIA front, and its ragtag pilots ferried tons of raw opium up and down Laos during Washington’s “Secret War”…
00:48:49 |
Tue 12 Dec 2023
Santo Trafficante: Havana Nights, Killing Castro and the King of Florida
The Trafficante crime family ruled Florida for decades, earning the respect and admiration of powerful mobsters like Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Sam Giancana. Santo Trafficante Sr arrived in Tamp…
00:49:20 |
Tue 05 Dec 2023
Slave Compounds, Sam Bankman-Fried and Crypto’s Crooked Heart - with Zeke Faux
Zeke Faux is an NYC-based reporter with Bloomberg Businessweek. His new book, “Number Go Up”, is a wild ride into the criminal heart of cryptocurrency - from missing billions and cartel money-launder…
01:10:16 |
Tue 28 Nov 2023
MS-13 and The 18th Street Gang's Reign of Terror
El Salvador's warring street gangs-turned-armies may have finally been broken thanks to the heavy-handed policies of Nayib Bukele dumping anyone and everyone into prison. But before MS-13 and 18th St…
00:54:40 |
Tue 21 Nov 2023
From Fantasy Islands to a Coup D’État: The Dominion of Melchizedek:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a fake country and a global scam operation, must be in want of a wife with a penny-stock mining operation who can stalk gover…
00:54:15 |
Tue 14 Nov 2023
The Dominion of Melchizedek: The "Mothership for Con Artists Worldwide"
Back in the early 1980s David and Mark Pedley were little more than a father-son real estate scam duo. Then came prison, escape, and a self-penned Bible, named for an obscure Jerusalem priest and the…
00:46:05 |
Tue 07 Nov 2023
The New Orleans Godfather and the JFK Assassination: Carlos Marcello
Carlos Marcello went from a small time produce hustler to heading up the New Orleans Mafia with a massive gambling empire and a hand in every pie in the city's notorious underworld. He even found him…
00:43:17 |
Tue 31 Oct 2023
The Chechen Mafia Goes Global: Ramzan Kadyrov, Car Bombs, Guns-for-hire and The World's Weirdest Reality Show
The final show in our Chechen trilogy focuses on the republic's current gangster-in-chief, Ramzan Kadyrov, and his rise to become one of the world's most fearsome—but also bumbling—despots.
Kadyrov h…
00:49:15 |
Tue 24 Oct 2023
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