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The Bamboo Union Triads, Taiwan's White Wolf Godfather, and a Murdered Reporter in SF

The Bamboo Union Triads, Taiwan's White Wolf Godfather, and a Murdered Reporter in SF

FromThe Underworld Podcast


The Bamboo Union Triads, Taiwan's White Wolf Godfather, and a Murdered Reporter in SF

FromThe Underworld Podcast

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Length:
40 minutes
Released:
Mar 5, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

When Chinese-American reporter Henry Liu was gunned down in his Daly City garage in 1984, it brought the Bamboo Union, Taiwan’s most powerful Triad, to global attention. But while the killing frayed ties between the island and DC, authorities skipped over a guy in California pulling the strings all along—a silver-tongued philosophy grad who’d gone from Taipei street fighting to restauranteur and the Bamboo Union’s point-man in the United States.
His name was Chang An-lo, and he’d soon be behind bars for a massive narco bust in New York. But insiders knew him by another, far more fearsome name: White Wolf. And his story—one that would weave between the States, Taiwan and the Chinese mainland—was just getting started.
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Released:
Mar 5, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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Underworld exposes the secret world of transnational criminal networks that have flourished since there were banks to bust, drugs to smuggle, and scams to run. Journalists Danny Gold and Sean Williams bring their experience reporting on dangerous people and organizations to take listeners on a global tour of mobsters, warlords and crooks - from Brooklyn to Beijing, from the streets to the boardrooms - and everywhere in between. Underworld is a show about heroes, villains, and the barely visible mafias that affect all our lives, whether we know it or not. Underworld Podcast Store: shop.podcastone.com/underworld