The Burden: Empire on Blood is set in the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.” The boss, Calvin Buari, lived large. He and a protege swore they would build an empire on blood. Then the relationship frayed and the protege accused Calvin of a double homicide which he claimed he didn’t do. But did he? 

Award-winning journalist Steve Fishman spent years trying to untangle this dark intrigue. Then one day, his phone rang. It was the protege. The Burden: Empire on Blood is one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence. But someone’s gotta pay.

The Burden: Empire on Blood is the director’s cut of the true crime classic Empire on Blood, which reached #1 on the charts when it was released half a dozen years ago.

Empire on Blood is a production of Orbit Media in association with Signal Co. No1

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In 1967, a German student named Benno Ohnesorg was shot and killed. Twenty years later, a disgraced politician named Uwe Barschel was found dead in a bathtub. They have at least one thing in common: their suspicious deaths may have been orchestrated by the German Secret Police, otherwise known as the Stasi.

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Marc sits down with Gerald Posner, author of "God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican."

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We speak with a few people close to Anthony Raimondi, who might hold the key to who he really is...

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Anthony Raimondi sits down for his final interview and is forced to confront his past.

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Marc talks to a journalist and expert on The Vatican from Rome... to check out Anthony’s story about the death of Pope John Paul I.

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After returning home, Anthony gets a phone call from The Vatican. His cousin, a Cardinal, wants help selling counterfeit stocks.

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Anthony gets in trouble with the law. Then he trades a long prison sentence to join a squad of highly trained assassins and fight in Vietnam.

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Anthony grows up with his large Italian family in 1960s Brooklyn dominated by the mafia. At 16, he joins The Colombo Crime Family.

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Marc heads to Williamsburg, Brooklyn to meet a 70-year old gangster and hear him confess to the murder of Pope John Paul I. What he learns is that there’s a lot more to Anthony Raimondi than meets the eye.

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