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Jul 2023
45m 21s

A Romanian Mob Illicit Arms Deal With a ...

The Underworld Podcast
About this episode
Trevor Aaronson is a contributing writer at The Intercept. The second season of his show Alphabet Boys digs into the strange story of Flaviu Georgescu, a Romanian-American “fixer” who got tangled up in Eastern European crime in Vegas, before falling prey to a DEA arms trafficking sting in Montenegro. The catch? He claims he was working for the CIA all along. ... Show More
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