World on Drugs with Steve Furey

It seems like every day a new skeleton falls out of the closets of Hollywood, but rarely does news break of something as high profile as that of Charles Voyde Harrelson, father of Woody and Brett Harrelson. Charles Harrelson was a hitman, a card shark, a womanizer, and maybe just maybe associated with the murder of JFK. He was convicted of two murders, Texas Rangers believe he killed dozens more, but one of those happened to be Federal Judge Joe Wood. The investigation that followed ranks second all time in total expenditure, only behind the JFK assassination, but in retrospect the case had more holes than swiss cheese. This is the story of a Texas outlaw, of the rise of gambling, of the mob, hypnosis, the Cubans, and one of the biggest stories never told. This is the story of Charles Voyde Harrelson. 

Guest Liza was seen most recently in the Judd Apatow movie The King Of Staten Island and is currently the host of That’s Messed Up: An SVU Podcast on Exactly Right Media. She has a half hour Special and album Glittercheese with Comedy Central and a half hour special on Netflix as past of The Degenerates. Liza is super proud of being featured on the prestigious Variety’s 2017 TOP 10 COMICS TO WATCH list. She’s also appeared Late Night with Seth Meyers, Chelsea Lately, This Is Not Happening, Horace and Pete, Lights out with David Spade, Adam Devine’s House Party, and lots of panel and game shows!

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Buried within the many stories that exist about Pablo Escobar, there exist two men that took what he started and ran with it in the worst way imaginable. Carlos “Macaco” Jiminez and Guillermo Giraldo aka “Memo Fantasma” aka “Will the Ghost” were some of the highest ranking officials in the right-wing paramilitary organization known as United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC for short). Imagine the worst stories you’ve heard about crimes committed by any cartel anywhere, and the AUC has done it or something worse. They terrorized Colombia for nearly a decade, fighting both the left-wing guerrillas and anyone who they considered remotely connected to them, and in their wake there rose the largest and most successful drug trafficking empire in the world. The AUC is the best example of what a  “narco-state” looks like, and sitting at the top are Macaco and Memo Fantasma.

GUEST Nicole Aimee Shreiber @Nicoleaimee

Sources:

https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/former-warlord-back-colombia-will-drug-empire-follow/

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/07/colombia.extradition/

https://insightcrime.org/news/accused-drug-trafficker-guillermo-acevedo-memo-fantasma-captured-in-bogota/

https://insightcrime.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Invisible-Drug-Lord-Hunting-The-Ghost-InSight-Crime-March-2020.pdf

https://www.hrw.org/report/2005/07/31/smoke-and-mirrors/colombias-demobilization-paramilitary-groups#

https://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/reports98/colombia/Colom989-04.htm

https://insightcrime.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Invisible-Drug-Lord-Hunting-The-Ghost-InSight-Crime-March-2020.pdf

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-flsd-1_10-cv-21951/pdf/USCOURTS-flsd-1_10-cv-21951-1.pdf

https://web-archive-org.translate.goog/web/20080510113938/http://www.elcolombiano.com/ElColombiano/BancoConocimiento/O/olac_perfil_de_macaco_colprensa_lcg_24082007/olac_perfil_de_macaco_colprensa_lcg_24082007.asp?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=nui

https://cja.org/what-we-do/litigation/cabrera-v-jimenez-naranjo/press/press-release-on-suit-filing/?id=872

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Guest Nicole Aimee Schreiber

Producer Gray Livingston

: Buried within the many stories that exist about Pablo Escobar, there exist two men that took what he started and ran with it in the worst way imaginable. Carlos “Macaco” Jiminez and Guillermo Giraldo aka “Memo Fantasma” aka “Will the Ghost” were some of the highest ranking officials in the right-wing paramilitary organization known as United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC for short). Imagine the worst stories you’ve heard about crimes committed by any cartel anywhere, and the AUC has done it or something worse. They terrorized Colombia for nearly a decade, fighting both the left-wing guerrillas and anyone who they considered remotely connected to them, and in their wake there rose the largest and most successful drug trafficking empire in the world. The AUC is the best example of what a “narco-state” looks like, and sitting at the top are Macaco and Memo Fantasma.

Sources:

https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/former-warlord-back-colombia-will-drug-empire-follow/

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/07/colombia.extradition/

https://insightcrime.org/news/accused-drug-trafficker-guillermo-acevedo-memo-fantasma-captured-in-bogota/

https://insightcrime.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Invisible-Drug-Lord-Hunting-The-Ghost-InSight-Crime-March-2020.pdf

https://www.hrw.org/report/2005/07/31/smoke-and-mirrors/colombias-demobilization-paramilitary-groups#

https://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/reports98/colombia/Colom989-04.htm

https://insightcrime.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Invisible-Drug-Lord-Hunting-The-Ghost-InSight-Crime-March-2020.pdf

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-flsd-1_10-cv-21951/pdf/USCOURTS-flsd-1_10-cv-21951-1.pdf

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PART 2 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 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

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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

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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

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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

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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/