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Kurupt

Kurupt

Written by: Grep News | Charlie Cruz
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Kurupt looks at the greatest heist stories. How did they actually do it? Every week, Charlie Cruz takes one clever true crime apart and shows you exactly how it worked. Whether a heist, con, fraud, art theft, espionage case, or famous escape, the show walks you through specific operational trick that the culprits used to run the scheme. Kurupt is for people who watch Ocean's Eleven, The Gentlemen, and Catch Me If You Can. Cleverness over violence. Substance over sensation. A new case every week. Subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. https://grep.news/podcast/kurupt© 2026 Tamez Labs. All rights reserved. Social Sciences True Crime
Episodes
  • Cassie Chadwick borrowed a million dollars without Carnegie ever knowing her name

    Cassie Chadwick borrowed a million dollars without Carnegie ever knowing her name
    May 29 2026
    Cassie Chadwick borrowed over a million dollars from Ohio banks by convincing them she was Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter without Carnegie ever knowing her name. The mechanism was a single staged performance: she had a Cleveland attorney watch her walk out of Carnegie's mansion carrying papers, then let him spread the secret himself while social shame kept every banker from asking Carnegie directly. Charlie Cruz walks through the whole thing.
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    7 mins
  • 300 gold bars requisitioned as work expenses over six months straight

    300 gold bars requisitioned as work expenses over six months straight
    May 28 2026
    David Rush, a senior CIA officer, allegedly requisitioned more than 300 gold bars through the agency's own operational expense system and took them home. Gold is a legitimate intelligence tool, which meant Rush's requests fit an established category of CIA expenditure rather than flagging as anomalous, and he repeated the process over several months until federal agents found more than forty million dollars' worth at his residence. Charlie Cruz walks through the mechanism, and what investigators are still working out.
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    7 mins
  • The Stopwatch Gang ran 90 seconds flat on every job

    The Stopwatch Gang ran 90 seconds flat on every job
    May 27 2026
    The Stopwatch Gang pulled off over one hundred bank robberies across two countries and walked away with more than fifteen million dollars without killing a single person. The crew ran a hard ninety second clock on every job and left the moment time expired, whether the bag was full or not. The discipline turned police response time into a structural weakness they could exploit on repeat. Charlie Cruz walks through the mechanism and the investigative pressure that finally ended the run.
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    7 mins
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