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George Wellford and Willie Richard Short were just two best buds working at a Mitsubishi plant in Mobile, Alabama. When their 401K's got toasted after the 2008 banking crisis they devised a plan to get back what had been stolen from them. Over the course of five years they slowly snuck out 43 tonnes of high grade silicon in their lunchboxes. How does one sell silicon on the black market? And how did they get away with it for half a decade. Tune in and find out only on HEIST PODCAST.
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George Wellford and Willie Richard Short were just two best buds working at a Mitsubishi plant in Mobile, Alabama. When their 401K's got toasted after the 2008 banking crisis they devised a plan to get back what had been stolen from them. Over the course of five years they slowly snuck out 43 tonnes of high grade silicon in their lunchboxes. How does one sell silicon on the black market? And how did they get away with it for half a decade. Tune in and find out only on HEIST PODCAST.
www.heistpodcast.com

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