Rackets Podcast

Rackets Podcast

Brian Saady

Episodes 31
Avg. Duration 41m
Activity Dormant
Since Apr 2018
Latest Episode Mar 2025

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Monthly
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Episodic
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About This Podcast

The Rackets Podcast focuses on news related to organized crime. The subject matter isn't limited to traditional gangsters, such as drug cartels. The show also focuses heavily on white-collar criminals, including corrupt politicians, lobbyists, corporate criminals, crony capitalists, shady government officials, etc.

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Recent Episodes

US Congressmen Doing PR Work for a Shady Foreign Billionaire

Mar 06, 2025 36m

Rackets Podcast #31India's second wealthiest person, Gautam Adani, is facing legal pressure from the U.S. government. This episode shows the legal, but unethical, means that wealthy donors can get…

Toby Muse: Author of "Kilo" on Colombia's Drug War

Jan 20, 2025 48m

Rackets Podcast #30Toby Muse is a foreign correspondent who has spent several years in Colombia. He discussed many observations from his book, "Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cartels—From the Jungles to…

China's Link to Organized Crime

Dec 24, 2024 57m

Rackets Podcast #29 This episode explores multiple notorious crime figures in South East Asia who have connections to the Chinese government. Some of them are members of China's United Front…

Are Notorious Criminals Acting as China's Spies?

Dec 06, 2024 1h 17m

Some of the most high-profile criminals in South East Asia are tied to human trafficking and appear to have links to Chinese intelligence. These gangsters can operate with impunity as long as they…

Myanmar's Ethnic Cleansing & Human Trafficking Scam Compounds

Oct 21, 2024 32m

Rackets Podcast 27 This is an add-on episode from the last one that profiled how Myanmar has become the global epicenter of illegal drug production. Horrific crimes have increased since the 2021…

Record Drug Production Fueling a Civil War in Myanmar

Oct 07, 2024 32m

Rackets Podcast #26 This episode explores the geopolitics of why Myanmar is now the top producer of opium. Myanmar's military junta launched a coup in 2021 and it profits from this black market,…

Alleged Financier of Assassination of Haitian President Moise Linked to US Intelligence

Aug 05, 2024 51m

Rackets Podcast 25 ***Breaking News*** Court documents show that the man who is accused of financing the assassination of Haiti's President, Walter Veintemilla, received the legal authorization for…

Bowe Bergdahl & the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan

Jun 10, 2019 38m

This episode's guest is Michael Ames. He is an investigative reporter and book author based in Brooklyn, New York. After a decade working in media in southern Idaho, Ames moved east and shifted to…

Lindsey Graham Doesn't Understand the Constitution

May 31, 2019 24m

(The audio for this episode isn't great. This issue will be corrected in the following episodes.) The highlights include: Censorship in Arizona's state prisons Backlash against the maker of OxyContin…

S1E22 Trump's Emoluments and the Government's Corrupt Revolving Door

May 09, 2019 24m

This episode covers a range of topics including: Robert Kraft's lawsuit Possible Chinese espionage A Federal Lawsuit involving Trump's Emolument Violations Trump's Pay to Play System A Number of…

China's Illegal Organ Harvesting

Apr 22, 2019 34m

Leon Lee is the Peabody Award winning director of the documentary film, Human Harvest. Lee explained that the Chinese government began persecuting a group known as Falun Gong in the 1990s. They can…

S1E20 UN Refugee Bribery Scandal, Foreign & Domestic Kleptocrats

Apr 12, 2019 28m

The latest episode covers a bribery scandal involving the UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, corporate drug pushers, Russian election interference in  Madagascar, corrupt foreign and domestic officials, and…

A Mob Boss Murdered, CIA Embassy Break-in, Weapons Trafficking, & International Crime

Mar 20, 2019 42m

This episode covers a range of topics. That includes the murder of the leader of the Gambino crime family, a break-in at the North Korean embassy in Spain, the international weapons racket, a hip-hop…

S1E18 Nathan Smith's Lawsuit Against the President of the United States

Mar 04, 2019 50m

Nathan Smith is a former Army Captain and intelligence officer at the command headquarters in Kuwait. Notably, he filed a federal lawsuit in 2016 against the President of the U.S. challenging the…

S1E17 El Chapo Trial Analysis

Feb 21, 2019 42m

There were too many fascinating details from the trial of the world's most notorious criminal, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, to list. However, this episode breaks down many aspects of the Sinaloa…

Richard Bronson - Employment for 70 Million Americans with Criminal Records

Feb 07, 2019 42m

Richard Bronson is the CEO of 70 Million Jobs, which is the first for-profit recruitment company for people with criminal records. He worked at the infamous brokerage, Stratton Oakmont, which was…

S1E15 Dame Catherine Healy - Decriminalized Prostitution in New Zealand

Dec 13, 2018 43m

Dame Catherine Healy is the founder of the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective. This year, she was awarded the title of "Dame" by Queen Elizabeth II due to her advocacy efforts on behalf of sex…

S1E14 Dr. Frederic Whitehurst - FBI Whistleblower

Oct 22, 2018 56m

Dr. Frederic Whitehurst was a former Supervisory Agent at the FBI Crime Lab. He exposed several scandals and became the first successful FBI whistleblower. That led to him being pushed out of the FBI…

S1E13 Government-Backed Hackers, Sanctions, & Geopolitics

Sep 24, 2018 30m

A number of recent news events involve both crime and geopolitics. The leader of a hacking group connected with the North Korean government is under indictment. A group believed to be connected with…

S1 Rape Laws Are Not Properly Enforced in America

Sep 10, 2018 36m

Meaghan Ybos is this episode's guest. She's a contributing writer at The Appeal, which is part of Harvard Law School's Fair Punishment Project. She is also the Co-Founder and Executive Director of…

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