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Tue, 08 Jul 2025
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Episode 5: A Different Set of Rules
Tue, 01 Jul 2025
How does one become a spy? Sam speaks with a former Russian intelligence officer about how Marsalek ...
Episode 4: Backbearings
Tue, 24 Jun 2025
On the ground in Austria and Germany, Sam digs deep into Marsalek’s past. His odd habits. His ...
Episode 3: Thrill Seeking
Tue, 17 Jun 2025
Sam tracks down an old contact in Tunisia. A former UN official living off grid. He reveals ho...
Episode 2: The Friendship Society
Tue, 10 Jun 2025
As Sam arrives in Vienna, a political bomb explodes. A secretly recorded video exposes ties between ...
Episode 1: The Bribe
Tue, 10 Jun 2025
A series of clandestine lunch meetings leads Sam’s editor to send him off to Vienna, in search...
Introducing Hot Money Season 3: Agent of Chaos
Tue, 03 Jun 2025
When reporter Sam Jones asks questions about disgraced financial executive Jan Marsalek, he discover...
Episode 8 - The Red Notebook
Tue, 26 Dec 2023
Law enforcement cuts off the Kinahan cartel, and a little red notebook in the back of a car might fi...
Episode 7 - Against the Ropes
Thu, 21 Dec 2023
Daniel Kinahan is more influential than ever, but law enforcement may finally be catching up. For ...
Episode 6 - Ties with Tehran
Tue, 19 Dec 2023
An undercover operation in New York reveals a connection with Tehran. For more from the FT, sign up ...
Episode 5 - Nerds vs Narcos
Thu, 14 Dec 2023
Back in the Netherlands, the high-tech unit of the Dutch police works to crack the murder case. For ...
Episode 4 - Gangster's Paradise
Tue, 12 Dec 2023
No longer safe in Europe, the cartel bosses move to a city that is attracting criminals from around ...
Episode 3 - Sun, Guns & Sangria
Thu, 07 Dec 2023
International law enforcement is after the Kinahan cartel, revealing just how big the operation has ...
Episode 2 - Cocaine CEO
Tue, 05 Dec 2023
An enterprising Dublin drug dealer makes the most of a revolution sweeping across Europe’s crimina...
Episode 1 - Murder Brokers
Tue, 05 Dec 2023
When a Dutch crime reporter makes an unbelievable discovery, a small-town murder case begins to look...
Introducing Hot Money: The New Narcos
Tue, 21 Nov 2023
Hot Money is back with a new season that begins with a mysterious murder in a small town and leads t...
Episode 8: Inside Porn's Star Chamber
Tue, 19 Jul 2022
In the season finale, Alex and Patricia discover how Visa and MasterCard became the reluctant rulers...
Episode 7: Porn Meets OnlyFans
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
Alex and Patricia track down the family behind OnlyFans, the site that has transformed online porn b...
Episode 6: Knocking on the Door of a Porn Empire
Tue, 05 Jul 2022
One of the biggest porn companies in the world was forced to radically change its practices. But ano...
Episode 5: The Billionaire Who Took Down Porn
Tue, 28 Jun 2022
A billionaire hedge fund manager reads a scathing column about a popular porn site. He sends an angr...
Episode 4: Playboy vs. Rusty and Edie
Tue, 21 Jun 2022
How is it legal for porn sites to host millions of videos uploaded by users? The answer is in the st...
Episode 3: Mr. Goldman, Mr. Sex
Tue, 14 Jun 2022
When Fabian Thylmann ran into trouble with the law, a former Goldman Sachs banker swooped in to buy ...
Episode 2: The Darth Vader of Porn
Tue, 07 Jun 2022
A decade ago, a computer programmer named Fabian Thylmann began to build one of the biggest porn emp...
Episode 1: Porn Meets the Internet
Mon, 06 Jun 2022
Stoya is a porn star who saw first-hand how a firehose of free porn online transformed the adult ind...
Hot Money: Who Rules Porn?
Wed, 25 May 2022
When Financial Times reporter Patricia Nilsson started digging into the porn industry, she made a sh...