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CORRUPT is an investigative podcast series examining systematic corruption across governments, corporations, and criminal organizations. Hosted by AI correspondent Alexandra Reeves, the series analyzes documented cases from Brazil's Petrobras scandal and its billions in kickbacks, to corporate frauds at Enron, Volkswagen, Siemens, and Wells Fargo that betrayed shareholders and customers, to the integration of organized crime into legitimate financial systems through global money laundering networks. Drawing on court records, internal documents, and investigative journalism, the series reveals ...

'Few people have shown more commitment to investigative journalism than Patrick Alley. His latest book is a vivid, compelling testament to the importance of revealing corruption and wrong-doing and shining a light into dark places, wherever in the world they are.' -Peter Geoghegan, author of...

The true story of super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the documentary Cocaine Cowboys. American Desperado is Roberts’ no-holds-barred account of being born into Mafia royalty, witnessing his first murder at the age of seven, becoming a hunter-assassin in Vietnam, returning to New York to...

Senator Bob Menendez stands alone as the most corrupt US Senator in history. After corruption charges were dropped in a 2017 mistrial, he may have considered himself invincible. But when the Feds raided his home in June 2022, they found a gifted Mercedes Benz, more than $600,000 in cash, and thirteen gold bars stuffed in envelopes, clothes, and closets. It was an outrageous haul for a man who styled himself as a fierce anti-corruption crusader, an ambitious Democrat who overthrew his mob-connected predecessor and rose through the ranks to the House of Representatives and the Senate.

The explosive true story of America's most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), which terrorized the city of Baltimore for half a decade. When Baltimore police sergeant Wayne Jenkins said he had a monster, he meant he had found a big-time drug dealer—one that he wanted to rob...

Join podcast co-hosts, Paige and Angela, as we dive into our obsession with true crime, history, and mysterious stories. We’ll explore the intricate details of the corrupt, the cruel, and the calculating.Become part of the Corrupt Crew: patreon.com/CorruptPodcast or https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/ABXKFYMSYLY5Y

A true crime podcast that reveals corruption by the people who took an oath to defend and protect the American people. We are shedding light on the wrongfully convicted, and often forgotten about. Although these men and women do not serve life sentences behind bars, they still serve life sentences. These sentences make up the majority of those who are wrongly imprisoned. Join us as we bring you along on our journey into investigating prosecutorial misconduct, corruption, and bringing light to the injustices.

The justice system is flawed and this podcast looks into cases where corruption has skewed the outcome and led to wrongful convictions or unfair trials and sentences.

The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era’s greatest political fiasco—one that resulted in a...

In 1988, Judge Joe O'Kicki was regarded by his peers as one of the most brilliant legal minds in the United States. He was newly remarried, sworn in as the president judge of a Pennsylvania county and on the fast track to a federal bench . . . Silently, however, a state police vice unit was in the midst of covert operation into O'Kicki's personal affairs. The judge would be accused of soliciting bribes, frequenting brothels, and running the county as if he were a "battleship commander." Later he'd concoct a plan to flee the country and exact revenge on his enemies.

In one of the most illuminating portraits of police work ever, Chief Charles Campisi describes the inner workings of the world’s largest police force and his unprecedented career putting bad cops behind bars. “Compelling, educational, memorable…this superb memoir can be read for its sheer...