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NO INTRO CUZ PAPA ON THE ROAD  GUEST @ZACKCHAPALONI SOURCES https://www.courthousenews.com/russia-blames-ukraine-for-moscow-car-bombing-that-killed-daughter-of-putin-ally/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11082383/Why-Russian-tycoons-died-suspiciously-war-began.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/30/ferdinand-marcos-jnr-bongbong-philippines-president-swearing-in https://www.npr.org/2022/08/19/1118508089/islamic-state-isis-beatles-life-sentence-hostage-deaths https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/jamaican-national-pleads-guilty-defrauding-elderly-americans-through-jamaica-based-lottery https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-court-orders-clinic-close-physician-and-clinic-owners-pay-600000-alleged-unlawful https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/defendant-grandparent-scam-network-sentenced-rico-conspiracy-targeting-elderly-americans https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/west-virginia-county-deputy-sheriff-charged-using-excessive-force-and-engaging-cover https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/los-angeles-street-gang-targeted-federal-racketeering-indictment-alleges-narcotics-firearms

SOURCES https://www.courthousenews.com/russia-blames-ukraine-for-moscow-car-bombing-that-killed-daughter-of-putin-ally/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11082383/Why-Russian-tycoons-died-suspiciously-war-began.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/30/ferdinand-marcos-jnr-bongbong-philippines-president-swearing-in https://www.npr.org/2022/08/19/1118508089/islamic-state-isis-beatles-life-sentence-hostage-deaths https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/jamaican-national-pleads-guilty-defrauding-elderly-americans-through-jamaica-based-lottery https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-court-orders-clinic-close-physician-and-clinic-owners-pay-600000-alleged-unlawful https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/defendant-grandparent-scam-network-sentenced-rico-conspiracy-targeting-elderly-americans https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/west-virginia-county-deputy-sheriff-charged-using-excessive-force-and-engaging-cover https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/los-angeles-street-gang-targeted-federal-racketeering-indictment-alleges-narcotics-firearms

EP STARTS AT 17 mins gangs and bank heists AUGUST 15 with guest @saulcomedy Produced by @comedystorerecords Producer Joe Hoffswell Sponsored by West Coast Gardens SOURCES https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/leader-international-drug-trafficking-organization-and-his-trusted-lieutenant-plead https://www.walb.com/2022/03/25/woman-sentenced-moultrie-meth-trafficking-4-others-plead-guilty/ https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdga/pr/moultrie-ga-meth-trafficking-ring-broken-six-co-defendants-convicted https://sacupdate.com/new-folsom-guard-expected-to-plead-guilty-in-federal-civil-rights-case/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3181458.stm

gangs and bank heists AUGUST 15 with guest @saulcomedy SOURCES https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/ms-13-member-sentenced-35-years-prison-racketeering-conspiracy-involving-murder-0 https://www.nj.com/hudson/2018/04/6_ms-13_members_indicted_in_one_murder_and_another.html https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1521496/download - https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/methuen-man-pleads-guilty-armed-bank-robbery https://www.12news.com/article/news/crime/man-allegedly-robs-six-arizona-banks-tells-police-he-was-trying-to-pay-off-mexican-cartel-debt/75-4aa1f309-d1d5-4b40-8d2f-7c5d36aac482 https://www.staradvertiser.com/2021/08/18/breaking-news/84-year-old-gets-21-years-in-prison-for-arizona-bank-robbery/

EPISODE STARTS AT 48 mins We’re covering another hitman who had a decent hit list, but you probably did not know was lurking around. Today I’ll be talking about Wayne “Silk” Perry, one of the most dangerous gangsters and hit men to walk the streets of Washington, D.C. He’s been called the Michael Jordan of the murder game and was the primary hit man for Alberto “Alpo” Martinez. This episode is an absolute BANGER! GUEST Known in Colombia as "Yamel Yohnson," Jamel Johnson is a stand-up comedian from Woodbridge, Virginia. He is best known for his recurring role as Rowdy Boudy on the hit MTV series "Undressed." He burst onto the scene while creating the television show "Roc." Years later he successfully won a lawsuit against Jay Z for the name "Roc Nation." He took his earnings and started the Lugz Racing Team and the Lugz Racing Foundation which helps in the fight against Wade Boggs' Disease. One of these sentences is true. Jamel made a name for himself on the D.C. comedy scene through a hard-to-hate mixture of non-threatening yelling, weird stories and impressively specific but not alienating sports and music references. His comedy smoothly walks audiences through everything from casual racism to Law & Order: SVU, including the consequences of gentrification and if you can eat a pastry given to you by a maybe-maybe-not drug addict who happened to witness a murder last night. Jamel lives for the laugh from the one dude in the back of the room who also watches too much SportsCenter. After making his television debut in 2016 on Kevin Hart Presents: Hart of the City, Jamel now performs regularly at several elite coastal and inland comedy establishments all across America. He also thanks you for reading this whole bio. It was very sweet of you to do so. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/nyregion/alpo-martinez-dead-harlem.html https://www.amazon.com/Street-Legends-Vol-Seth-Ferranti/dp/0980068703 https://myspace.com/wayneperrydc/mixes/classic-nkosi-shaka-zulu-el-1-557346 https://christopherzoukis.com/blog/wayne-silk-perry-part-2-html https://dondivamag.com/wayne-silk-perry-death-before-dishonor/ https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/who-brought-down-d-c-s-most-heinous-murderer/80395/

EP STARTS AT 40 mins* Want to know how to run heroin without any problems? Become a government hitman and take out political enemies across the globe! The Zindashti Cartel has been trafficking heroin across the Middle East and Europe with few consequences since the mid-1990s. Over the last 26 years Naji Sahrifi Zindashti has been heavily involved with the Middle Eastern heroin trade based on of Istanbul, Turkey. There have been 3 times where he has nearly been arrested for drug trafficking and murder charges, and each time he has gotten away by cutting a deal with Iranian authorities or bribing people in positions of power to look the other way . GUEST comedian Hormoz Rashidi @nothormones on IG

*ep starts at 14:30 mins PART 1 OF 2 I’ll be talking about the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang, and no they’re not in Hawaii, they’re from a small town just south of LA. They have a long history and played a key part in forming the Mexican Mafia prison gang. Through the 90s and 2000s they committed numerous hate crimes and have been classified as a “Hate Gang” for their deliberate targeting of African Americans. They stick to their territory and have never formed cliques outside of Hawaiian Gardens. GUEST is officer Gannon a LASD and OCSD Sheriff SOURCES Sources Corwin, M. (2008, Dec 15). Inside the mexican mafia. Los Angeles Times (1996-) Retrieved from https://login.libsrv.wku.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fhistorical-newspapers%2Finside-mexican-mafia%2Fdocview%2F2231499605%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D15150 Quinones, S. (2009, Jan 09). It's the heart of town; in hawaiian gardens, a landmark market reaches the end of a line. Los Angeles Times https://login.libsrv.wku.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fnewspapers%2Fheart-town-hawaiian-gardens-landmark-market%2Fdocview%2F422282855%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D15150 Hawaiian gardens churches join rally against gangs, drugs and violence: [home edition]. (1992, Jul 02). Los Angeles Times (Pre-1997 Fulltext) https://login.libsrv.wku.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fnewspapers%2Fhawaiian-gardens-churches-join-rally-against%2Fdocview%2F281771984%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D15150 EMILY ADAMS SPECIAL TO,THE TIMES. (1993, Mar 13). Hawaiian gardens rattled by series of hate crimes: Racism: Blacks accuse latinos of attacks. 'I used to feel safe here. now I just don't,' says a woman whose home was firebombed. Los Angeles Times (1923-1995) https://login.libsrv.wku.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fhistorical-newspapers%2Fhawaiian-gardens-rattled-series-hate-crimes%2Fdocview%2F1833010288%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D15150 Hong, P. Y. (2000, May 07). SPECIAL REPORT; many roots of hate; attacks on victims like martin hammonds, left, slain by a latino gang member in hawaiian gardens, may not fit the common image of hate crimes. but that community's deep-seated animosities are a window on the bigger picture of racially motivated violence in L.A. county.: [home edition]. Los Angeles Times https://login.libsrv.wku.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fnewspapers%2Fspecial-report-many-roots-hate-attacks-on-victims%2Fdocview%2F421656553%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D15150

*ep starts at 18 mins The Serbian mafia has its origins in the arrival of increasing numbers of Yugoslavian immigrants to Western Europe in the 1970’s and 1980s. Operating in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and France, groups of Serbian expatriates engaged in a pattern of robberies and thefts. Much of this was supported by the communist Yugoslavian intelligence service, who employed gangsters overseas as informants and assassins, and in exchange provided them with firearms and legal protection. The combination of Yugoslavian government support and the money earned from brazen heists, made Yugoslavian criminals some of the most powerful in Western Europe in the 1980s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and its allies in Eastern and Southern Europe, many Serbian criminals overseas returned to Yugoslavia, taking advantage of the chaos to embark on new criminal careers. Many served in paramilitary and militia organisations created ostensibly to protect ethnic Serbs and government property, but quickly they became known for criminal activity and their role in the ethnic cleansing of Bosnians, Croats and Slovenes from Serb territories. With the end of the Yugoslav wars, these militias became entwined with the criminal “clans” of Serbia, with both enjoying the support of the former communist intelligence and security forces. With the overthrow of Slobodon Milosovic, a period of reform was ushered in. In response, the most violent and powerful Serbian crime group - the Zemun Clan - partnered with Serbian special forces to assassinate the Prime Minister, in order to protect the status and privilege that they are garnered during the bloodshed of the 1990s Guest is Dave Williamson @davewcomedy Spaic, Igor. The Long Trial of the Balkan Cocaine King. Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. 9 February 2016. https://www.occrp.org/en/blog/4910-the-long-trial-of-the-balkan-cocaine-king Anastajevic, Dejan. “Ljubisa Buha Cumet: Great Paving.” VREME. 25 June 2009. https://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=872105 Partos, Gabriel. “Marathon Djindic Trial.” BBC News. 23 May 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6683133.stm Ciric, Milos. “The Third Bullet and the Political Background of the Assassination of Zoran Dindic.” ANTIDOT: Independent Media and Campus Network. 11 March 2017. https://www.anti.media/en/istrazivanja/files/treci-metak-i-politicka-pozadina-atentata-na-zorana-indic a/ Stonajovic, Dusan. “Group Named in Plot on Serbia Chief.” Global Policy Forum. Associated Press. 9 April 2003. https://archive.globalpolicy.org/intljustice/tribunals/yugo/2003/0409plot.htm

*ep starts at 26:30 The Serbian mafia has its origins in the arrival of increasing numbers of Yugoslavian immigrants to Western Europe in the 1970’s and 1980s. Operating in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and France, groups of Serbian expatriates engaged in a pattern of robberies and thefts. Much of this was supported by the communist Yugoslavian intelligence service, who employed gangsters overseas as informants and assassins, and in exchange provided them with firearms and legal protection. The combination of Yugoslavian government support and the money earned from brazen heists, made Yugoslavian criminals some of the most powerful in Western Europe in the 1980s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and its allies in Eastern and Southern Europe, many Serbian criminals overseas returned to Yugoslavia, taking advantage of the chaos to embark on new criminal careers. Many served in paramilitary and militia organisations created ostensibly to protect ethnic Serbs and government property, but quickly they became known for criminal activity and their role in the ethnic cleansing of Bosnians, Croats and Slovenes from Serb territories. With the end of the Yugoslav wars, these militias became entwined with the criminal “clans” of Serbia, with both enjoying the support of the former communist intelligence and security forces. With the overthrow of Slobodon Milosovic, a period of reform was ushered in. In response, the most violent and powerful Serbian crime group - the Zemun Clan - partnered with Serbian special forces to assassinate the Prime Minister, in order to protect the status and privilege that they are garnered during the bloodshed of the 1990s Guest is Dave Williamson @davewcomedy Spaic, Igor. The Long Trial of the Balkan Cocaine King. Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. 9 February 2016. https://www.occrp.org/en/blog/4910-the-long-trial-of-the-balkan-cocaine-king Anastajevic, Dejan. “Ljubisa Buha Cumet: Great Paving.” VREME. 25 June 2009. https://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=872105 Partos, Gabriel. “Marathon Djindic Trial.” BBC News. 23 May 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6683133.stm Ciric, Milos. “The Third Bullet and the Political Background of the Assassination of Zoran Dindic.” ANTIDOT: Independent Media and Campus Network. 11 March 2017. https://www.anti.media/en/istrazivanja/files/treci-metak-i-politicka-pozadina-atentata-na-zorana-indic a/ Stonajovic, Dusan. “Group Named in Plot on Serbia Chief.” Global Policy Forum. Associated Press. 9 April 2003. https://archive.globalpolicy.org/intljustice/tribunals/yugo/2003/0409plot.htm

*ep starts at 23:45 Today I’m going to talk about the Motor City Hitman-Chester Wheeler Campbell. One of the best assassins to work for the Mafia and Detroit Criminal Underground. He got a taste for murder in his mid-20s and decided to turn it into a career. He was so efficient that he was never directly tied to a murder once he became a full time hit man and enforcer. He was found with notebooks containing over 300 different names of potential targets, and 50 of those 300 were people who were missing or found dead. Today, I’ll talk about his early life, his early crime days, his prime assassin time, and how the authorities finally put him away for life. Yall know our gust fro JFL, Comedy Central, Conan, and colber my fucking guy Shane Torres @shanetorres. Research done by producer DR Joe Hoffswell References Cippolini, C. (2013). Diary of a Motor City Hitman : The Chester Wheeler Campbell Story. Strategic Media Books. https://libredd.it/r/CrimeInTheD/comments/omleop/detroit_drug_wars_murder_row_enforcer_chester/ https://gangsterreport.com/the-murder-inc-of-motown-murder-row-crew-of-yesteryear-back-in-the-news/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CrimeInTheD/comments/omleop/detroit_drug_wars_murder_row_enforcer_chester/ https://listverse.com/2019/06/28/10-stone-cold-contract-killers-who-really-existed/ https://exclaim.ca/film/article/here_are_8_real-life_assassins_who_were_nearly_as_dangerous_as_john_wick https://gangsterreport.com/the-murder-inc-of-motown-murder-row-crew-of-yesteryear-back-in-the-news/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/real-john-wick-meet-chester-campbell-king-contract-killers/

EP STARTS AT MIN 33* Fentanyl is a powerful, rapid-acting synthetic opioid first synthesized more than 50 years ago. At the time, and to this day, it has served as an invaluable resource for medicine. It is the opioid most commonly used to initialize anesthesia worldwide, and for good reason. When used correctly, it has minimal cardiovascular effects, does not stress the body, is relatively short acting, is easy and inexpensive to synthesize, and is now familiar to clinicians working in operative medicine all over the planet. In the last 20 to 30 years, the development of new and noninvasive drug delivery systems has also enabled fentanyl to become extremely effective for both around-the-clock pain management as well as treating sudden breakthrough pain. Unfortunately, if you’ve heard of fentanyl recently it was most likely related to some form of drug overdose. While the drug itself has revolutionized medicine, its abuse in conjunction with the nationwide opioid epidemic has led to a remarkable increase in drug-related overdoses and deaths. No guest this week, this shit we ride on our own folks. Sources: https://apnews.com/article/2deede497fb943cda4f6f709547243f3 https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/25/us/synthetic-heroin-seen-as-cause-in-18-deaths.html http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-07-24-fentanyl_N.htm https://www.michaelshouse.com/opiate-rehab/history-of-opiates/ https://www.cdc.gov/opioids/data/analysis-resources.html https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6533a2.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6339a1.htm https://www.michaelshouse.com/opiate-rehab/history-of-opiates/ https://www.jpain.org/article/S1526-5900(14)00905-5/pdf https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/man-receives-life-for-dealing-fentanyl-that-led-to-overdoses/ https://www.statnews.com/2019/12/03/oxycontin-history-told-through-purdue-pharma-documents/ https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2019/02/11/dangerous-fentanyl-masked-counterfeit-oxycodone-20000-pills-seized-bronx https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7exvx/fentanyl-is-wreaking-havoc-in-tijuana-is-the-rest-of-mexico-next https://www.vice.com/en/article/ev998e/americas-new-deadliest-drug-fentanyl

*ep starts around 40 mins In the world of hacking and malware, there is no entity more infamous than Evil Corp. They are almost single-handedly responsible for creating the environment surrounding cybercrime today, and this brainchild of Maxim Yakubets and Igor Turashev has collected hundreds of millions of dollars from its victims. They are untouchable, untraceable, and their malware is so impossibly hard to detect that it can infect an entire network of computers before ever being noticed. Guest J.F. Harris has been seen on The Late Late Show, Bill Burr’s The Ringers on Comedy Central and has written for big stars like Will Smith and shows like Netflix’s Magic For Humans. His first hour special People Make Mistakes drops later this year! https://www.svoboda.org/a/30315952.html https://www.rferl.org/a/in-lavish-wedding-photos-clues-to-an-alleged-russian-cyberthief-fsb-family-ties/30320440.html https://www.rferl.org/a/bellingcat-says-fsb-behind-2019-berlin-killing-of-former-chechen-separatist-commander/30439907.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/3024247/dridex-banking-malware-adds-a-new-trick.html https://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1638118020070717 https://usa.kaspersky.com/resource-center/threats/zeus-virus https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-charges-two-members-of-the-dridex-malware-gang/ https://www.csoonline.com/article/3574907/wastedlocker-explained-how-this-targeted-ransomware-extorts-millions-from-victims.html https://socprime.com/news/bitpaymer-ransomware-paralyzes-it-systems-of-the-alaskan-town/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/02/arizona-beverages-ransomware/ https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/hades-ransomware-successor-to-indrik-spiders-wastedlocker/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-evil-corp-ransomware-mimics-payloadbin-gang-to-evade-us-sanctions/ https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/big-game-hunting-the-evolution-of-indrik-spider-from-dridex-wire-fraud-to-bitpaymer-targeted-ransomware/ https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian-national-charged-decade-long-series-hacking-and-bank-fraud-offenses-resulting-tens https://www.wired.com/story/alleged-russian-hacker-evil-corp-indicted/

*ep starts around 26 mins The fall of communism in 1989 has shaken the entire Central and Eastern Europe. The transformation to a capitalist system was rapid, wild, and chaotic. Still, it created an excellent opportunity for ordinary folks who just wanted to make quick money… and criminals who needed to adjust to a new reality. Seemingly innocent car thieves banded up and within just a few years expanded their criminal portfolio. A hunger for money, power, and influence pushed them to do more sinister things like contract killings. The inexperienced, understaffed, and underfunded police force werent able to keep up the pace. And even if they somehow managed to destroy one gang, more unpredictable ones came to existence, like a hydra head. This is the story of the infamous Pruszkow gang in the 90s and Gang of Mutants in the early 00s. Bombings, cold-blooded assassinations, and big money. Not only uneducated thugs but also medical doctors and paramedics who were hunting for “skins”. Welcome to the crazy world of Polish Underworld. my guest this week is comedian and good friend Monarey Martinez @Monareym and The Shamic Podcast

*ep starts around 23 mins Poland under the communist regime was a weird place where a line between underworld and law enforcement wasn’t really existing. People were illegally “dealing dollars” like drugs on the streets. The economic situation was so dire that smuggling from the West became a new normal. Many sought opportunities in stealing foreign cars what turned groups of friends into real, organized gangs. All of it under a blind eye of the government and police. It’s not surprising, though, because Ministry of Interior was heavily involved in crime as well. Polish Intelligence Agency was funding its own operations by forcing Polish petty criminals living in the West to do robberies and heists and smuggle stolen goods to Poland. And these goods often were stolen again, and again by administration, officers and even well-known politicians. Those stories help to better understand what came next, in 90s, during one of the craziest and fastest world's economic transformations from communism to capitalism. “Wild West” of Europe, with its own Yuma. no guests this week, solo dolo yall!

*ep starst at 36 mins Among the 20,000+ gangs that operate across America, few are as silently powerful as Armenian Power. Also known as AP or AP-13, Armenian Power is based primarily out of Los Angeles and has deep ties to the Mexican Mafia as well as international ties that stretch to Russia and the post-soviet bloc. They are a ruthless, ethnically-cannibalizing organization that is willing to do anything to anyone to generate a profit, and their crimes range from simple extortion all the way to multinational identity theft and medicare fraud. comedian @mark_smalls is the guest! U know him form @countryclubadjacent and the Country Club Adjacent Podcast

* starts at min 16 this is the first ep we have a guest telling ME whats going on with the story. A nice change :) Known for running one of the largest black market grow operations in U.S. history, the Cornbread Mafia has become a mythic crew within cannabis culture and the legacy of prohibition. early homegrown pot farmers were a ragtag collection of hippies, Vietnam vets, criminals, stoners, and businessmen; they got the “mafia” moniker due to their outlaw spirit rather than Italian tradition. They were a rebel syndicate, of sorts, and referred to marijuana as “cornbread” to throw off authorities. This is their story. with guest Jim Higdon (@jimhigdon). Jim wrote the literal book on the Corn Bread Mafia (available on amazon) and now runs a cbd company called @cornbreadhemp (on IG) and cornbreadhemp.com. So if you wanna take a literally chill pill, and listen to this banger, head on over to Cornbreadhemp.com and get you some CBD BABY!

*ep starts at 30 mins This is the story of Naser Kelmendi and the Albanian Mob. Because of Yugoslavia , Albania has had more than enough opportunity to stick its toes into the field of organized crime, and the local mob has done that in more ways than one. Capitalizing on tumultuous grounds, in the last 30 years Albania and the mobs within have shifted from being grunts for larger, well-established mobs to front-manning one of the largest organized crime syndicates in Western Europe and acting as mules for around 80% of the heroin trafficked throughout the area. Naser Kelmendi epitomizes what these mobs can produce. Before his sentencing in 2018 he was the head of the largest heroin smuggling operation in Western Europe, and he and his three sons are known for buying 10 cars a year, owning more real estate than a family can manage, and loan sharking with interest rates over 10% per month. As he’s currently sitting pretty in jail, we feel safe enough saying that the Kelmendi clan is one of the most dangerous crime families in the world today. Our Guest today is Kiry Shabazz (NBC, The Tonight Show, & Comedy Central) @Kirybazz Research done by Grey Livingston https://www.ibtimes.com/tip-iceberg-french-police-arrest-albanian-heroin-traffickers-balkan-criminal-gangs-847331 https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/1539-us-blacklists-balkan-businessman-naser-kelmendi https://www.occrp.org/index.php/en/ccwatch/cc-watch-briefs/1501-naser-kelmendi-admits-illegal-construction https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/06/15/baker-to-visit-albania-yugoslavia-next-week-after-berlin-conference/9d084c82-d142-4553-9422-9a75fecd3366/ https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/kosovo-beruechtigter-mafiaboss-naser-keljmendi-festgenommen-a-898363.html https://peoplepill.com/people/naser-kelmendi https://archive.ph/20130802223351/http://hetq.am/eng/news/26483/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120723061543/http://mafiatoday.com/other-mafia-orgs/albania-pm-world-bank-panel-linked-to-mafia/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-CCB-6524 https://www.rferl.org/a/balkan-kingpin-kelmendi-arrest-kosovo/24978048.html https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/503-naser-kelmendi-from-kosovo-inmate-to-sarajevo-businessman

* episode starts at min 30 min. From war lords, to drug kingpins, Cartels, criminals, gangs, serial killers, and ever day psychos, World on Drugs with Steve Furey deep dives into subjects and people other wont. We analyze it through the lens of comedy, to try and see how and why these people/event went down the wrong road. So come join me, Steve Furey and my funny friends to learn about some of the people who stay in the shadows. From Last Comic Standing, Hbo Max, and JFL Francisco Ramos @framoscomedy and Researcher Patryk Grazewicz Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) was created in early 90s by a small group of envy-seeking prisoners who were disturbed by massacre of their friends in Canrandiru prison. One step at time, they were slowly building one of the biggest and most sophisticated prison empires in the world. Directed by a charismatic, ambitious leader and influenced by left-wing politics and ideas, they achieved corporation-level type of management with its own independent departments, laws, unions and courts. They are able to co-ordinate actions not only inside one prison, but all over the country and beyond. In the cells, and on the streets. Their business contacts stretch as far as Mozambique and Lebanon. Their power and influence grew so big that PCC had even influenced presidential election results and conducted spectacular, military-type operations abroad. And there is no end in sight, officials are feeling hopeless and desperate as PCC’s membership surges. On one hand violence, terrorism and drugs. On the other hand guaranteed social security, sophisticated heists and political activism. List of sources: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Breaking-Out.pdf?x91208 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714839.2017.1373963 http://www.cidh.oas.org/annualrep/99eng/merits/Brazil11.291.htm https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2013/04/carandiru-and-scandal-brazil-s-medieval-prison-system/ https://cco.ndu.edu/Portals/96/Documents/prism/prism8_1/190306_PRISM8_1_Coutinho.pdf?ver=2019-03-05-152801-577 https://www.france24.com/en/20131017-brazil-world-cup-terror-gang-prisons-mobile-phones-maximum-security-sao-paulo https://www.americasquarterly.org/article/reports-of-the-pccs-demise-are-greatly-exaggerated/ https://www.americasquarterly.org/fulltextarticle/can-anyone-stop-brazils-pcc/ https://www.scielo.br/j/ea/a/QmzfNj4SHMNNfNKnXW5RkGB/?lang=en&format=pdf https://cco.ndu.edu/Portals/96/Documents/prism/prism8_1/190306_PRISM8_1_Coutinho.pdf?ver=2019-03-05-152801-577 https://theconversation.com/a-bank-heist-in-paraguays-wild-wild-west-reveals-the-dark-underbelly-of-free-trade-77125

* episode starts at min 17min.  From war lords, to drug kingpins, Cartels, criminals, gangs, serial killers, and ever day psychos, World on Drugs with Steve Furey deep dives into subjects and people other wont. We analyze it through the lens of comedy, to try and see how and why these people/event went down the wrong road. So come join me, Steve Furey and my funny friends to learn about some of the people who stay in the shadows.  From Netflix, The Winner of NBC's Stand Up for Diversity Jr Deguzman (@Jrdguz) Researcher Dr. Joe Hoffswell (@drhoffswell)  I’ll be talking about Bahala Na Gang, a Filipino street gang that emerged immediately after World War 2 as hardened criminals were released back into society. They are the anything goes gang and like fighting, drinking, and killing competitors and police. I’ll talk about their early history, their expansion into America, and finish by talking about what has been going on with them the past few years as they have been strictly targeted by law enforcement and military in the Philippines. Source Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahala_Na_Gang#cite_note-1 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-03-12-mn-162-story.html https://www.asj.upd.edu.ph/mediabox/archive/ASJ-03-01-1965/Ashburn.pdf https://www.digest.ph/decisions/people-vs-narciso https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1968/may1968/gr_l-24484_1968.html https://www.pilotonline.com/news/crime/article_4b049454-4135-5dd0-9157-66054b5b33d3.html https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=haGkHhglJJoC&oi=fnd&pg=PA129&dq=bahala+na+gang&ots=uVH5GEp8DX&sig=AUekiImySOlrXrSVXEckysSKV4c#v=onepage&q=hilf&f=false https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/2011-national-gang-threat-assessment#Ethnic-Based%20Gangs https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/philippines-prison-run-ruthless-gang-7395587 https://www-jstor-org.libsrv.wku.edu/stable/pdf/2754276.pdf