Introducing the true crime podcast Persona: The French Deception— the story of Gilbert Chikli, one of the greatest con artists of all time. What does it feel like to pick up the phone and scam someone out of $50 million? Host and award-winning journalist, Evan Ratliff, investigates how Chikli successfully duped some of the world’s most powerful people into handing over their fortunes. He explores how Chikli evaded the law for years and became a Robin Hood-like hero. More than just a tale of criminal genius, this is a show about the moment we’re living in right now — the golden age of scammers — and the power of seduction. But what happens when the fantasy we’ve been lured into finally crumbles away? For all that and more, follow “Persona: The French Deception” wherever you get your podcasts. Or you can listen early on Amazon Music or early and ad-free by subscribing to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery App: http://wondery.fm/V_Persona Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Throughout the series, one key question has come up frequently from listeners and colleagues. What can we do in our own lives as the ideas around white supremacy and extremism increasingly spread around the US and globally? How do we talk to each other about hate? Host Natasha Del Toro tries to answer these questions in conversation with Verified reporter Mark Greenblatt. We also meet a mother and daughter whose relationship was tested by extremism and how they found each other again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Verified: The Next Threat, we've been reporting on the rise of globally connected white nationalists. We want to tell you about another podcast that caught our attention from the CBC. It's called White Hot Hate, and in it journalist Ryan Thorpe goes undercover to infiltrate a neo-nazi group that calls itself The Base. Here's the first episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
So what can the U.S. actually do to handle The Next Threat? What are the limits? The State Department grants Verified a rare recorded interview with top counterterrorism leaders, who sit down for a candid conversation about our findings and the broader problems the U.S. faces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists are the number one terror threat in the U.S. but what does it take to move up in the ranks in the ‘REMVE’ world? We meet an extremist whose resume includes multiple neo-Nazi groups. As he’s espousing more violence, a young writer spends her life online 24/7 tracking down and outing guys like him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The network of The Last Crusade is growing in Europe, but its participants have strong U.S. connections that go back years. In an exclusive interview, we meet Matt Heimbach, an American extremist who is spreading conspiracy theories and inciting violence. But is there anyone out there willing to take him on? We meet the Nazi hunter who has spent his life working to stop Heimbach’s brand of hate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Stanislav Vorobyev is actively building a global network of white supremacists to team up for something he calls “The Last Crusade,” a new global and final holy war aimed at taking on the infidels, immigrants and Jews, or anyone who is not a white Christian. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Stanislav Vorobyev is the proud leader of the Russian Imperial Movement, the only white supremacist group the U.S. State Department has designated as terrorists. In an exclusive interview, he paints a disturbing picture of a movement seeking the return of white, Christian rule. Visit us online at: https://www.verifiedpod.com/ or for advertising inquiries visit: https://www.advertisecast.com/verified Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Among the crowds storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 are people carrying Nazi flags and those wearing shirts with anti-Semitic messages. Who are they and why were they there? A reporter, and son of a Holocaust survivor, takes on the story he has avoided and learns the answers are more alarming than he ever imagined. Visit us online at: https://www.verifiedpod.com/ or for advertising inquiries visit: https://www.advertisecast.com/verified Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Verified: The Next Threat takes the listener on a journey from Russia, to Europe to the United States - to reveal how extremists are learning from each other and recruiting every day for their global fight for white power. We speak to the people at the center of this story - the global extremists, their collaborators in the United States, the government officials trying to counter these movements and people who have decided not to wait for officials to fight back. Built on exclusive reporting and interviews, this immersive, deeply-reported six episode podcast series unpacks this growing global network of groups and individuals who are recruiting and promoting a new transnational crusade for white power. Unlike terrorists and white supremacists of the past, this global movement and its followers are continually shifting, lack formal structure and rationalize collaborations with other enemies of the U.S. So where is all this hate coming from? Why is it bubbling up now and what does it...