This week on the Whale Hunting podcast, Bradley Hope sits down with investigative reporter Duncan Mavin to discuss the long string of scandals that preceded Credit Suisse’s collapse. Spoiler: bankers and hedge-funders do very little actual banking. https://lnkd.in/epi9GTUg
Project Brazen
Movies, Videos, and Sound
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Truth is stranger than fiction.
About us
Truth is stranger than fiction. Founded by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope, co-authors of New York Times bestseller Billion Dollar Whale.
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- Movies, Videos, and Sound
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- 2-10 employees
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- London, England
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- Privately Held
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- 2021
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Singapore, SG
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Updates
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🧛🏻♀️In 1728, just a decade after New Orleans’ founding, the city received an eerie shipment: young women sent by King Louis XV, each with a mysterious trunk or “casket.” These ‘filles à la cassette’ arrived unnaturally pale, their skin blistering in the Louisiana sun. Housed in the Ursuline Convent, completed in 1752, they were meant to be brides for colonists. But whispers spread of their otherworldly nature.🧛🏻♀️ Follow us for more true stories that are stranger than fiction.
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WEEKENDER IS HERE! We’ve got a bonanza of offerings from our team coming up: a documentary that goes deep undercover in the European far-right, a new podcast exploring the inner machinations of political disappearances in China, and articles on everything from superyachts to secret conversations with Vladimir Putin. Let's get into it! https://lnkd.in/e_k8QJEJ
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Last month UK authorities seized a narco-sub for the first time ever. The operation retrieved two tons of cocaine from a semi-submerged vessel nearly 200 miles south of the Dominican Republic. Narco-subs are becoming an increasingly common means of smuggling. Built by South American cartels in Colombia’s jungles, they sit just below the waterline to avoid visual, radar, and sonar detection. More in our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eM6hWb3p
Mystery Narco-Subs
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This week on the Whale Hunting Pod, how do you stop Putin’s war machine? Tom Wright sits down with investigative reporter Stephanie Baker to discuss how and where sanctions are working and how unscrupulous enablers all help Russia’s war machine rumble on. https://lnkd.in/epi9GTUg
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This is the story of the heist many consider to be the holy grail of art robbery… On March 18, 1990, two policemen turn up at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in the heart of Boston, and ring the doorbell. Eighty-one minutes later, they're gone — and with them, three Rembrandts, a Vermeer, an ancient Chinese vessel, and other priceless works of art. Follow us for more true stories that are stranger than fiction.
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This is the story of the heist many consider to be the holy grail of art robbery… On March 18, 1990, two policemen turn up at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in the heart of Boston, and ring the doorbell. Eighty-one minutes later, they're gone — and with them, three Rembrandts, a Vermeer, an ancient Chinese vessel, and other priceless works of art. Follow us for more true stories that are stranger than fiction.
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Weekender: Feuds, Double Lives and Elon's Spies On this edition we have some cracking stories about a journalist accused of being a Russian sleeper agent, the inside story of Hezbollah's booby-trapped pagers, and a new podcast about Elon Musk's use of private investigators, to name a few. Let’s get into it! https://lnkd.in/ep5vJKH3
Weekender: Feuds, Double Lives and Elon's Spies
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Is Masayoshi Son the richest man you’ve never heard of? Former FT editor Lionel Barber tells us all about the Softbank founder: the man behind the billions, how he calculates his bets, and why he likes to compare himself to Napoleon. 👀 on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eRS4ms_j
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For a few days in the early 2000s, Masayoshi Son - aka Masa - was the richest man in the world. A few days later, it all came tumbling down. Bradley Hope sits down with Lionel Barber to discuss Masa: the man behind the billions, how he calculates his bets, and why he likes to compare himself to Napoleon. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/epi9GTUg