Best Danny Gold and Sean Williams Podcasts (2025)

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Australia's Gangster King of Sin: Abe Saffron 1:05:30

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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 unmatched by any other Aussie gangster in the swinging Sixties. Saffron paid everybody off, brought Sinatra to Sydney, and hosted Sinatra. He was, in the words of one reporter, “Mr Sin”. But as Saffron’s empir…

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Africa's Pablo Escobar: Kenyan Kingpin Ibrahim Akasha 1:03:24

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Ibrahim Akasha was the kingpin of East Africa’s heroin highway, setting up a massive tracking empire that stretched from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Kenya, South Africa and Europe. When he was gunned down in 2000, his sons stepped into the void, hungrier and even more violent...but also, more sloppy. They struck deals with Pakistani mobsters …

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The Shaman-Gangsters Who Built Indonesia 1:07:36

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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 century, when the world bounded towards war, mob bosses in Jakarta spotted a chance to turn underworld kudos into an independent nation. When the war ended, and Indonesia dove into chaos, a handful of ki…

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The Narco Lord of the Skies: Amado Carrillo Fuentes 51:27

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Amado Carrillo Fuentes was one of the most powerful drug traffickers of the 1990s, moving hundreds of tons of cocaine and amassing billions while forging deep ties with Colombian cartels and corrupt Mexican officials. At the height of his power, he controlled the Juárez Cartel and operated a fleet of private jets, outpacing rivals and law enforceme…

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Cocaine, Camorra, Call Girls: Maradona's Downfall 1:09:08

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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 league title in over 60 years. But Maradona’s hard-partying lifestyle and underworld friends would soon take their toll - and before long, the world’s greatest sportsman was in a tangled web of vice, dru…

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Russian Mafia Superhitman: Alexander Solonik 55:50

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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 the country into a free-for-all as they fought for control. And no where, is more deadly than Moscow. In 1992, there was 2,500 murders in Moscow alone. There’s a lot of action, and everyone wants a p…

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Scotland's Narco Blood Feud Explodes! 56:24

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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 miles north in Scotland, where the drugs were destined for, and reignited a bitter feud between the Lyons and Daniel crime families that had simmered for almost two decades. Today, with a third, internati…

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The Wild, Murderous Rampage of the Zizians 1:11:53

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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 harmless members of the Bay Area’s niche rationalist movement. But over the next few years the group would rally around its charismatic leader, Ziz LaSota, tearing across North America on a rampage of r…

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The Chinese Mafia Takeover of America's Weed Industry 58:14

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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. A sprawling, shadowy empire of Chinese triads is running thousands of illegal grow ops across the U.S. From California suburbs to rural Maine, these operations are powered by slave labor, stolen uti…

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How Diego Maradona Fueled the Rise of Naples’ Camorra 49:47

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When Argentine soccer wizard Diego Armando Maradona swapped Barcelona for lowly Napoli in 1984, it shocked the sporting world — and sent Naples’ deadly Camorra into overdrive. Corrupt from the very start, the move would send the world’s greatest player into a tailspin of drugs, sex and crime, even while his onfield performances won Napoli its first…

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The Olympic Snowboarder Narco Kingpin 47:22

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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: Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic athlete and middle class Canadian kid who managed to build himself into a powerful narco kingpin. But how the hell did a middle class kid from small town Canada go from …

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The Sinaloan Train Robbers Causing Havoc in the Mojave Desert 51:36

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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 a decade a team comprised mostly of Mexicans from the state of Sinaloa has been jumping aboard freight cars, sometimes at 70mph, and grabbing…Nike sneakers. Yes, these enterprising thieves have got their e…

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The Gunrunner Who Tried to Save China: Two Gun Cohen 1:00:59

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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 frontiersman turned Chinese general — stares down death from a hotel room. From underground boxing rings to arms deals, Cohen fought the Japanese and Soviets, battled communists, warlords and mercenarie…

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Los Muchachos: Miami's Cuban Cartel 57:44

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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 empires in U.S. history. Known as Los Muchachos, they moved mountains of cocaine through a city shaped by Cuban exiles, ambition, and an underworld that blurred the line between loyalty and lawlessne…

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The 'Ndrangheta's Notorious Kidnapping Gang Wars 52:23

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Today the ‘Ndrangheta, Calabria’s clan-based Mafia, is one of the world’s richest and most powerful drug trafficking organizations, worth an estimated $55 billion. But it wasn’t always like that. From the 1960s, as European politics went mad, the group glommed onto a new fad taking Italy by storm: kidnapping. And it got them the capital to get into…

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Meet The Chicago Outfit's Most Infamous Hitman 46:08

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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 victims with his bare hands. But Frank didn't just leave the violence at work. He trained his sons Kurt and Frank Jr in the mob enforcer life since they were kids, through fear, intimidation and horrific …

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Jalisco’s Death Camp, El Salvador's Mega-prison and Mexico’s Cartel Extraditions 1:18:22

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Will Grant, the BBC’s Mexico, Central America and Cuba correspondent, was recently on the ground at Jalisco’s Rancho Izaguirre, dubbed ‘Mexico’s Auschwitz’, and CECOT, Nayib Bukele’s megaprison in El Salvador. Will spoke to Sean about what he saw in both places, how politics and organized crime is coverging, what new Mexican President Claudia Schei…

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Mexico's Most Sociopathic Druglord: El Mencho & CJNG 57:52

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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 threatening for years and become the most powerful cartel boss on the planet? From avocados to abogados, weed to coke to fentanyl, Mencho is a narco so bloodthirsty his men are compared to ISIS. Can the Mexica…

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The Most Insane Prison Gang Ever: South Africa's Numbers Gang 58:56

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South Africa's secretive Numbers Gangs almost defy description; they're one part cult, one part religion, and all parts violent psychopaths. Emerging originally as bandits preying on gold miners and policemen in colonial South Africa, they took shape in the brutal prison system of apartheid, where sometimes the only way to communicate was through s…

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Duterte Arrested: Was the Drug War a Cover Up? 55:04

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Sean Williams reports from the Philippines, where former President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal drug war cost up to 30,000 lives and tore Philippine society to shreds. But was it all cover for his family’s own involvement in the drug trade? Reporting from Duterte’s stronghold of Davao, where he ran a decades-long death squad, and capital Manila, which …

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The Last Street Boss of Chinatown: Ghost Shadows Peter Chin 1:02:20

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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 with their rivals the Flying Dragons and the White Eagles. And that was before they linked up with one of the Triad-connected tongs to run the neighborhood protection and gambling rackets, earning mil…

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The World's Biggest Arms Trafficker Goes Down Hard 54:35

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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 a chance to cash in corporate power for political clout. But the affair — and an ill-advised friendship with the kleptocratic leaders of the Philippines — would send Khashoggi’s businesses into a tails…

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The Dixie Mafia: Gone South w/Jed Lipinski 57:11

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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 career criminals who specialized in burglaries and robberies, they grew more organized after starting to use the infamous Biloxi strip of undercover brothels and gambling houses as a base, eventually …

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The Richest Arms Dealer Ever: Adnan Khashoggi 54:51

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Adnan Khashoggi was born in Mecca — but his life was anything but pious. The billionaire had multiple wives, girlfriends and armies of callgirls, not to mention gambling sessions and club nights whose costs ran into the millions of dollars. Khashoggi made his first riches shipping arms from the US to Saudi Arabia. But soon his “fees,” and the ways …

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The Mobster Who Ruled Hawaii & His Brutal Revenge Quest 1:02:51

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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 cops to build an empire of pain in the Aloha State. But when Miske’s son slammed his car into a truck and died, it sent the kingpin on a spiral of misplaced rage — ending in murder, conspiracy and even…

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Australia's Gangster King of Sin: Abe Saffron 1:05:30

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Africa's Pablo Escobar: Kenyan Kingpin Ibrahim Akasha 1:03:24

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The Shaman-Gangsters Who Built Indonesia 1:07:36

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The Narco Lord of the Skies: Amado Carrillo Fuentes 51:27

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Cocaine, Camorra, Call Girls: Maradona's Downfall 1:09:08

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Russian Mafia Superhitman: Alexander Solonik 55:50

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Scotland's Narco Blood Feud Explodes! 56:24

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The Wild, Murderous Rampage of the Zizians 1:11:53

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The Chinese Mafia Takeover of America's Weed Industry 58:14

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How Diego Maradona Fueled the Rise of Naples’ Camorra 49:47

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The Olympic Snowboarder Narco Kingpin 47:22

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The Sinaloan Train Robbers Causing Havoc in the Mojave Desert 51:36

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The Gunrunner Who Tried to Save China: Two Gun Cohen 1:00:59

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Los Muchachos: Miami's Cuban Cartel 57:44

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The 'Ndrangheta's Notorious Kidnapping Gang Wars 52:23

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Meet The Chicago Outfit's Most Infamous Hitman 46:08

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Jalisco’s Death Camp, El Salvador's Mega-prison and Mexico’s Cartel Extraditions 1:18:22

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Mexico's Most Sociopathic Druglord: El Mencho & CJNG 57:52

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The Most Insane Prison Gang Ever: South Africa's Numbers Gang 58:56

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Duterte Arrested: Was the Drug War a Cover Up? 55:04

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The Last Street Boss of Chinatown: Ghost Shadows Peter Chin 1:02:20

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The World's Biggest Arms Trafficker Goes Down Hard 54:35

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The Dixie Mafia: Gone South w/Jed Lipinski 57:11

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The Richest Arms Dealer Ever: Adnan Khashoggi 54:51

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The Mobster Who Ruled Hawaii & His Brutal Revenge Quest 1:02:51