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'A wild and deeply satisfying rollercoaster ride . . . the most fun I've had . . . in quite a while' - Taylor Jenkins Reid What if you had the winning lottery ticket that would change your life forever, but you couldn't cash it in? Lucky Armstrong is tough, talented and in real trouble. Having...

How the Aussie economy got hooked on the world's dirtiest cash. Longlisted for a 2022 Walkley Award and earning the author the 2022 Financial Crime Fighter Award. In today's ruthless world of organised crime, the best criminals aren't foolish enough to steal money out of banks. They wear...

The events depicted in this podcast took place in Las Vegas, Nevada between the years 1990 and 1993. In the interest of privacy, some names have been changed. In the interest of accuracy, the rest has been told exactly as recounted in the public record. In 1990, while the city of Las Vegas is on the cusp of being transformed from a fading gambling town into the mega-resort entertainment capital of the world, a Blackjack dealer at The Riviera suddenly finds himself the target of a mysterious police sting operation. For over a year, he'd be hunted, entrapped and ultimately indicted on 19 counts ...

Gareth’s whole life has been defined by a relationship he had 35 years ago when, as a 14-year-old schoolboy, he fell in love with an attractive young teacher at his school. He spent most afternoons in her bedroom and thought he was the luckiest boy in the world. But when she walked out of his life everything started to unravel. Lucky Boy is a four-part series in which Chloe Hadjimatheou asks who gets to be a perpetrator and a victim.Gareth spent years believing he was a lucky boy. He was the 14-year-old who got the attention of the attractive young science teacher. Now, decades later, he ...

Terrible, desalmado, y sanguinario mafioso italo-estadounidense, se le consideraba el azote de los Estados Unidos, y el padre del crimen organizado tal como se conoce hoy en día. Ruin y despiadado, fue el cerebro del gran auge del tráfico de heroína en la postguerra mundial y ungido como el primer Don de la moderna familia Genovese.

A few years after the infamous Al Capone fell from grace in 1931, Italian-born gangster Charles “Lucky” Luciano rose to power as the American Mafias lord of vice. With control over gambling, horse races, drug rings, and murder for hire, he manipulated both law enforcement and politicians in St. Tammany Hall, eliminating rival crime lords through intimidation or assassination. New Yorks determined special prosecutor, Tom Dewey, was relentless in his pursuit of Luciano, ultimately convicting him in 1936 for running a lucrative prostitution ring. This compelling book, published in 1954, tells...

‘More chilling than a horror film and more thought provoking than an HBO doc …I Will Find You is at once hard to read and even harder to put down’ Cosmopolitan A compelling and hard-hitting memoir which follows one woman’s search, 20 years after the attack, for answers about her rapist...

Gangster intellectual sprinkled with sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll dipped in Westcoast subculture curated by Urban Lifestyle Legend, Steve "Lucky" Luciano, American Indian Lawyer-Poet, Chumahan and digital audio samurai, Ol' Blue Eyes.