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Whitey Bulger was one of America’s most notorious mob bosses. He was a violent, sociopath but he accomplished the almost-unimaginable: he got FBI agents to let him kill whomever he wanted. 

This week, the incredible, mind-blowing story of Bulger and his Winter Hill Gang and how they basically ran the organized crime squad of the FBI and key officers of the Boston Police Force for over a decade.

Our guest is the award-winning author and professor of journalism at Boston University—Dick Lehr. A former member of the Spotlight team for the Boston Globe and Pulitzer Prize Finalist in investigative reporting.  Lehr spent over two-decades researching this story with his colleague Gerard O'Neil.   

Their  books - 'Whitey: the Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss' and 'Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil’s Deal' - were made into a major Hollywood movie staring Johnny Depp. And Lehr explains just how Whitey Bulger got -  a license to kill. 

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They are most powerful organized crime group in Western Europe.  
They use a sophisticated drug trafficking network that is underpinned by corruption, racketeering and murder to make billions of dollars every year. 
They laundered their money through the Vatican Bank with the help of a corrupt Vatican Cardinal, they are the 'Ndrangheta. 

Antonio Nicaso is an expert on  the 'Ndrangheta. He is an investigator who risked his life to reveal  how the 'Ndrangheta built their giant criminal empire and how key Vatican  officials helped them...

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$2 Trillion is stolen, there is a well-covered-up network of sexual abuse and tens-of-thousands of people are killed - if those are not crimes, what are? 

Welcome to NATO's mission in Afghanistan. 

It was an appalling, cluster-problem.  For those of you who don't know what happened in Afghanistan and why millions of Afghans choose scumbags like the Taliban over our lot - listen to this podcast.  

It is deeply shocking.   

Our troops were, at times, little better than bodyguards for drug lords. 
Our officials, at times, helped cover up monumental corruption and the sexual exploitation of hundreds of children.
Worst, our politicians and generals knew about it - but received so many political contributions and jobs from defense contractors that nothing was done.

Few people have wanted to speak about this issue.   As Westerners, this is our Berlin Wall moment.  Either we reflect and figure out what went wrong or our societies are in real danger. 

Note - I am neither a Donald Trump or Joe Biden supporter - but an independent journalist and professor.  The scandal in Afghanistan was far bigger than any political party in any country.  It was a monument to deep-rooted corruption and criminal incompetency in America and all of NATO. 

The presentation was at conference of the International Association of Financial Crime Investigators (IAFCI) in Chicago, September 2021.  I was to speak about sports corruption and gambling but chose to speak about Afghanistan.    It seemed to touch a nerve among the audience.

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Michael Franzese was a high-ranking mobster in the Colombo Crime Family, one of the big five families of the New York Mafia. His father was a hit man with dozens of kills.
Michael was making millions of dollars a week for the mob in a complicated gas tax fraud scheme across four different states. 
At 26, the family made him a Capo with dozens of mobsters underneath him and an illegal sports gambling network worth tens-of-millions of dollars that had players, coaches and league officials all betting with the mob. 
Michael Franzese joined us on CrimeWaves Podcast for the University of New Haven 2nd Annual Sports Integrity Presentation. 

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Donnie Brasco is the most successful undercover agent in U.S. law enforcement.   For years, he infiltrated the Colombo and Bonanno Mafia families, resulting in hundreds of arrests, convictions and murders.   In this episode - a special international lecture for the University of New Haven Sports Integrity Center - Brasco explains the rules of the Mob.  How to dress, speak and comport yourself so you don't get killed.  

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On a Tuesday morning in September of 2009, Annie Le walked into a building on Yale University Campus and she disappeared. Her mobile phone and her wallet were still in the office, yet there was no trace of Annie anywhere.  Three days later,  police Lieutenant Lisa Dadio was given the job of discovering what had happened.  It was a literal 'closed room mystery'.  There was intense international media attention, three different police agencies  and no clues... 

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It’s 2:00 in the morning and you get a call from your partner telling you a body has been found, what do you do? Our guest, the brilliant policeman turned professor, Peter Valentin, joins us this week to discuss crime scene analysis. From surveying the land, collecting evidence to dealing with non-homicide police departments, not everything is chalked up to be what it seems. What does it really take to investigate these often brutal cases? Find out this week on Crime Waves…

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For over a decade a killer stalked the women of Northern California. He raped and murdered dozens of people. And no one was able to catch him. 
Until a new technology of investigative forensics was invented and - finally - the police had him in their sights….

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TO CATCH A KILLER.  

ITS THE SUBJECT OF COUNTLESS MOVIES, TV SERIES AND BOOKS… BUT HOW DO INVESTIGATORS ACTUALLY DO IT? 

WHAT ARE THEIR TECHNIQUES, THEIR TOOLS, THEIR TRICKS?

ON THE NEXT MINI-SEASON OF CRIMEWAVES PODCAST WE HAVE A FASCINATING SERIES  OF INTERVIEWS WITH RANGE OF INVESTIGATORS.  

MOST OF THEM ARE MY COLLEAGUES FROM THE CRIMINAL FORENSICS DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN.  BUT THEY ARE NOT YOUR STANDARD ACADEMICS RATHER THEY ALMOST ALL HAVE A BACKGROUND AS POLICE DETECTIVES… LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS WHO HAVE ACTUALLY STOOD IN THE MIDDLE OF A CRIME SCENE AND STARTED TO PUT TOGETHER A CASE.

YOU WILL HEAR ABOUT THE NEW, INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES OF DETECTION THAT ENDED A REIGN OF TERROR FOR MILLIONS OF WOMEN ACROSS CALIFORNIA.  
 THE CHILLING MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT SHOOTING OF POLICE OFFICER’S HOME.  
THE REAL LIFE TECHNIQUES OF ONE OF AMERICA’S TOP CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATORS. 
THE DIFFICULTIES OF PUTTING TOGETHER A HIGH-PROFILE MURDER INVESTIGATION WITH MULTIPLE DIFFERENT AGENCIES AND JURISDICTIONS.  
AND WHAT HAPPENS TO A MURDER CASE WHEN RAIN WIPES THE CRIME SCENE COMPLETELY CLEAN OF ALL THE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. 

JOIN US CRIME WAVES PODCAST AS WE INVESTIGATE - HOW TO CATCH A KILLER… 

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A dead man is found on a beach.   The detectives arrive.  They begin their investigation - when suddenly a massive storm cloud pours down rain.  It destroys all the evidence. The story of the painstaking two-year investigation and how the police solved the case...

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