The Dark Side of Epstein: Payments to Prison Guards Exposed

New Evidence in Jeffrey Epstein's Death: Suspicious Cash Payments and Missing Testimony Raise Questions Jeffrey Epstein’s prison guard was accepting payments in cash. The official who was a short distance away from his cell the night he died - received thousands of dollars in cash. The guard’s bank deemed them “suspicious” and notified the FBI.  Again, like so many other things around the Epstein death an almost unbelievable perplexing lack of investigation - the guard was never asked to explain under oath...

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What Tim Donaghy’s Scandal Reveals About America

An exclusive interview with Tim Donaghy, the NBA referee who gambled with Mafia-connected bookmakers - Sports betting, NBA tanking, US Corruption It is the $64 million dollar question.   The audience, mostly sleepy tennis executives and sales people on an early Sunday morning in the near-empty conference center, leaned forward, when I asked it to Tim Donaghy.   Tim Donaghy, the former National Basketball Association (NBA) referee who had worked with gamblers connected with organized crime, and I were on stage together this weekend. ...

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The Strange Death of Ivar Kreuger

Could the mysterious death of a billionaire have stopped Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Second World War? It is the ultimate, closed-room mystery. 94-years-ago, on March 12th of 1932, one of the richest men in the world, Ivar Kreuger, went into his Paris apartment.   He never came out again. At first, his death was declared a suicide and the authorities quickly burnt his body - despite orders to the contrary.   Then thirty-three years later Ivar Kreuger's brother, mistress, and many others,...

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Why has the Sports Integrity Industry Failed?

The FBI investigation of the NBA, and alleged Mafia involvement raises a massive question - why has the sports integrity industry failed so badly that few are surprised by this scandal? The New Yorker, asked me to contribute my quotes to their article “The Sports Betting Disaster”… here is my longer response. The Match-Fixer The match-fixer was completely at his ease. I thought he was going to be nervous. His gang travels around the world corrupting major sports events, so I...

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The NBA Match-Fixing Scandal II – The Unspoken Secret of the Gambling Integrity World

There is a secret that no one dares speak about in the sports betting integrity world. It lies at the heart of the current FBI investigation of the NBA. Well they would say that wouldn’t they? This is my response to many of the commentators who have been claiming the FBI arrests are a triumph of the legal betting market and its ability to show corruption in the bets. Some of the people making these comments are simply shills for the...

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The Ghost Army: the Inside Story of the ‘Super-Cartel’

It was a silent criminal corporation.It was worth tens of billions of dollars.They killed and tortured their opponents without giving any signals or clues to their existence.They were the Super Cartel.One of the world's largest drug traffickers and virtually no one knew anything about them.Welcome to CrimeWaves. ** It was a war.In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar, the head of the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia, began a military onslaught against the very state of Colombia. It began when...

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The Fixers War

It was the greatest case of match-fixing in sports. At the heart of the investigation was one obsessive cop. A man who would stop at nothing to bring down the fixers.  This is his story. The Fixers War This is the transcript of the podcast episode/interview with Michael Bahrs, one of Europe's top undercover cops on the fight against a ferocious match-fixing gang. If you want to listen - please...

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The Nightmare: The FightBack

Mike Ware - Innocence Project An interview transcript from www.CrimewavesPodcast.com with the deeply insightful Mike Ware, head of the Texas Innocence Project on the fight for the wrongfully convicted, the fallibility of eye-witnesses, police investigations and jailhouse informants. And how Ware and his group saved an innocent man... Declan Hill: You're in prison. The system has labeled you guilty of murder. They've convicted you. The thing is you are innocent. You didn't kill anyone, yet you are facing the death...

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The Mafia Capo, How to Catch a Killer & Red-Flagging the Leagues

MAFIO CAPO PRESENTATION    "And a lot of these basketball players would go to the same clubs...and we got our eye on one or two of the guys. And I'd say, "Listen, you are a smart guy. I'm your good friend. Let me tell you how you are going to make some money."  Michael Franzese, the former Mafia Capo for the Colombo Crime Family, is the keynote speaker for the second annual Sports Integrity presentation at the University of New...

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The Return to the Dangerous Normal

During Joe Biden’s Presidential Inauguration, we saw him join three former presidents - George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, to stand in front of the grave of the unknown soldier in the Arlington National Ceremony. It was a sombre break from the near-Hollywood blitz of the rest of the celebrations that featured stars like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Jennifer Lopez. The message of much of the day was that America had just got through a four-year bad...

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