I'm Johnny B. Good, the host of the podcast Creating A Con: The Story of Bitcoin. This podcast dives deep into the story of Ray Chepani and his company, Centratech. I'll explore how 320 somethings built a company out of lies, deceit, and greed. I've been saying since a very young age that I was going to be a millionaire. If someone's like, Oh, what's your best way of making money? I'm like, Oh, we should start some scheme. Listen to Creating a Con: The Story of Bitcoin on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

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I am so excited about this podcast, The Bright Side. You guys are giving people a chance to shine a light on their lives, shine a light on a little advice that they want to share. Listen to The Bright Side on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Open your free iHeart app and search The Side.

Imagine you're a fly on the wall at a dinner between the Mafia, the CIA, and the KGB. That's where my new podcast begins. This is Neil Strauss, host of To Live and Die in LA. I wanted to quickly tell you about an intense new series about a dangerous spy, taught to seduce men for their secrets and sometimes their lives. From Tenderfoot TV, this is To Die For. To Die For is available now. Listen for free on the iHeartRadio app on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

My whole life, I've been told this one story about my family, about how my great great grandmother was killed by the Mafia back in Sicily. I was never sure if it was true, so I decided to find out. Even though my uncle Jimmy told me I'd only be making the vendetta worse, I'm going to Sicily anyway. Come to Italy with me to solve this 100-year-old murder mystery. Listen to the Sicilian Inheritance on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Every university has a scandal every now and then. We just have the flavor of the week.

That's William Tierney, Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California. He's been at USC for almost three decades, and he's seen the place get caught up in scandal, and not just every now and then.

What is it about USC that has created a non-ending bit of scandal mania for the institution.

I've asked myself that same question many times. What is it with USC and its scandals? My colleagues and I have exposed a number of them over the years, and it's not that we go looking for them. They find us. My name is Paul Pringle. I'm an investigative reporter for the LA Times. This is Fallen Angels. This story is about power and money and how they can eat away at a place, corrupt it, and destroy people's lives in the process. It's the story of an investigation that starts in a hotel room in Pasadena, California, and reaches all the way to the top of two of the most powerful institutions in the city of Los Angeles. This is episode 2, The Trojan Wall. Devan Khan was working at the Hotel Constance in Pasadena. He'd been there when a young woman overdosed on drugs. The man she was with was questioned by the police but was allowed to just walk away. It turned out that the man was the dean of USA's Medical School. His name is Carmen Poliofido. The cops had done nothing, and USA itself had just ignored Devon's call. He had been trying to get a tip to the LA Times when he met a Times photographer named Ricardo D'Arratonia.

I'm like, Boy, do I have a tip for you? And he's like, Well, I'm just a photographer, but what's the story? So I laid it out for him, and he's like, Yeah, that's the story. He goes, Like I said, I'm a photographer, but I can get the tip to the right person.

Ricardo and the editors bring the tip to me since I have some history investigating USC. So I call Devon Khan.

I get a call from Paul. He says, Yeah, I understand that you have a tip. Would you mind explaining to me what happened.

Devon's story is detailed and thorough. He seems like a credible source, but he does have one important condition.

I'm going to just understand that I need to remain anonymous. Can't have this jeopardizing my job at all? He assured me that I would remain anonymous. He says, Okay, I'm going to start looking into this. He goes, I'm definitely going to have to give you a call back from time to time. Is that okay? I say, Sure, whatever you need.

The Times has strict guidelines for granting anonymity to sources. They need to have a compelling reason to go unnamed, like the fact that they would get fired if they were identified. Devon makes that case to me convincingly. But before I could even think When I think about building a story around an anonymous tip, I have to check out and nail down every detail of Devon's account. This is the starting point of the investigation. First, I check to see if there has been any recent news about Poliofido. And yeah, it turns out that 11 days earlier, he had, quote, stepped down as dean of the medical school. The press release gives no reason for his sudden resignation, and it's in the middle of the school term, which seems like strange timing. I scrubbed public records for more on Poliofido. I find a recent divorce petition filed by his wife. At the same time, I reach out to the coroner's office to see if there's been a death of a young woman in the past few weeks who matches the description Devon had given me. And I head over to the Pasadena Police Department to get a copy of the police report from the incident.

The Pasadena police say there is no police report, just a heavily redact a document, a log that shows the police accompanied paramedics on a call. Considering what Devon has told me about what he witnessed in the hotel room, the fact that there's no police report strikes me as very odd.

Any situation where somebody is seriously injured or likely to die or is dead, those are the cases that would be an automatic complaint report.

Joseph Joclone had a long career as an NYPD Detective with a specialty in forensic investigations. He's one of the experts I contact for law enforcement stories.

If you find lots of paraphernalia at the scene or guns and drugs or whatever you might find, those will have to have a report because there's nothing on paper, there's nothing to investigate, there's nothing to charge, and that's why documentation becomes real important. And any attorney in the world will tell you that. If it wasn't documented, it wasn't done.

And the fact that there was a camera potentially filming everything in the room, that raises all kinds of questions.

What were they filming? There's lots of evidence that could be found on that video, including the illegal use of narcotics, who was using them, and how they were being administered.

When I asked the police spokesperson about the lack of a report, I'm told the incident had been viewed as a, quote, medical emergency, not a crime. I also contact USA's executive offices several times, trying to reach USA President, Max Nakeas. To ask him why the dean of the medical school has suddenly stepped down. No response whatsoever. And then I get an email from Pulia Fido himself.

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My name is Johnny B. Good, and I'm the host of the new podcast, Creating a Con: The Story of Bitcoin. Over this nine-part series, I'll explore the life and crimes of my best friend, Ray Trapani. I always wanted to be a criminal. If someone I was like, Oh, what's your best way of making money? I'm like, Oh, we should start some scheme. You see, Ray has this unique ability to find loopholes and exploit them. They collected $30 million. There were headlines about it. His company, Centratech, was one of the hottest crypto startups in 2017. It was going to change the world until it didn't.

I came into my office, opened my email, and the subject heading was FBI Request.

It was only a matter of time before the truth came out.

You can only fake it till you make it for so long before they find out that your Harvard degree is not so crimson.

How could you sit there and do something that you know will objectively cause more harm the world?

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This is Neil Strauss, host of the Tenderfoot TV, True Crime Podcast, To Live and Die in LA. I'm here to tell you about the new podcast I've been undercover investigating for the last year and a half. It's called To Die For. Here's a clip.

All these girls were sent out into the world, and they were told, Try to meet important men. Try to attach yourself to important men.

The voice you're hearing is a Russian model agent telling me about spies sent out to seduce men with political power.

The war in Ukraine is also being fought by all these girls that are all over important cities.

For the first time, a military-trained seduction spy reveals how the Russian government turned sex and love into deadly weapon. If you want to kill your target, it's easy.

You just seduce him, take him somewhere, start having sex, and then he's very vulnerable, so you can kill him easily.

To Die For is available now. Listen for free on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

I never thought I'd take my three young kids to Sicily to solve a century-old mystery, but that's what I'm doing in my new podcast, The Sicilian Inheritance. Join us as we travel thousands of miles on the beautiful and crazy island of Sicily as I trace my roots back through a mystery for the ages and untangle clues within my family's origin story, which has morphed like a game of telephone through the generations. Was our family matriarch killed in a land deal gone wrong? Or was it by the Sicilian Mafia? A lovers' quarrel? Or was she, as my father believed, a witch? Listen to the Sicilian Inheritance on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Poliofetal writes, I understand from my colleagues here at USC that you've been inquiring about my stepping down as dean of the medical school. I wanted to reach out to you directly and let you know that my decision was entirely my own. The timing my decision was related to a unique time-limited opportunity in the biotech industry, something which I am looking forward to sharing with others soon. Usc was nice enough to grant me a sabbatical to explore this opportunity. I got that email from him on April 20th, 2016, a couple of weeks into my investigation. Naturally, I write him back saying I have questions, and I call. I tell him I'm aware of the events that occurred on March fourth at the Hotel Constance, and I intend to pursue the story. No reply. I have the same luck with Nakeas and the people close to him. Silence. I'm not surprised by the lack of response from USC's leaders. Silence had become their typical way of dealing with me. I've investigated USC more than once. A colleague and I discovered that USC's athletic director was paying himself and his family members from a scholarship fund for low-income students.

I investigated a cheating scandal involving a coach of the USA football team, the Trojans. Then there was our reporting on the deal that gave USA control of the publicly owned LA Coliseum.

The Coliseum was built to honor World War I veterans.

That's Bernard Parks. Most people call him Bernie.

It's the only place in the world that's had the major events, the first Super Bowl, multiple Olympics, the visit of the Pope. It's basically one of the most recognized facilities in the world.

Bernie Parks was chief of the LAPD from 1997 to 2002. For the next 12 years, he served as a member of the LA City Council representing the eighth district in South LA. He's also a USC alum. The Coliseum, part of his district, is very important to him and his constituents.

It's housed SC football for decades because it's right across the street. It's not a modern football facility as we see on TV, whether it's NFL or other college stadium. Sc, it always hinted at they not only wanted to have more upgrades of the facility, they also hinted strongly that if these things couldn't be done, they would like to take over the facility.

In 2011, USC launched an aggressive campaign to take control of the Coliseum through a master lease that would extend for nearly a century. The decision on whether to accept USC's proposal was up to the commission that managed the Coliseum. Parks was on that commission.

They actually sent a proposal to the Coliseum Commission, and unanimously, the commission rejected it. Members of the Coliseum Commission actually laughed at the deal because it was so preposterous. It was like, Give us the Coliseum and let us run it. And community was not even part of the equation. And so a letter was sent with unanimous signatures from every member of the College and Commission saying, No, thank you. We don't want to participate. This is not a deal for the city. But SC did what it does.

And what SC does is deploy its powerful trustees and other allies to lean on the commission.

The amount of money that they have is significant. The amount of influence they have as far as their graduates and their alumni, the amount of exposure they get from their athletic program. They don't have any problem pushing their weight around as it relates to things that they want. They went to Schwarzenegger as the state and they insisted that with his three appointments, could he make one of them a member of SC's management or their board. And so he agreed to that.

Parks believes that after Governor Schwarzenegger made those appointments to the Coliseum Commission, resistance to a USC takeover started to crumble.

For some reason, when Schwarzenegger got convinced that this was a good deal, all of a sudden, the state begin to send messages quietly that they were in support of this. And so this process continues, and the Coliseum Commission approves this deal, and it moves forward. You're basically giving away a facility that was built for military veterans, and you're giving it to a private entity with the ability for them to do with it as they please and keep all the money. There is absolutely no benefit to the city, county, and state.

Bernie says this is the Trojan playbook. Whenever it faces resistance, USC calls on its network of power brokers to neutralize the opposition.

I think what it shows, when people fall in line, they fall in line.

It's now June, three months since the overdose at the Hotel Constance, two months into my reporting. I learned from a person within USC that President Nakeas is hosting a celebration for Poliofido in honor of all he has done for the medical school. The reception will be held at the Keck School of Medicine on the lawn outside a building named for Eli and Edith Brod, the LA billionaire couple whose $30 million gift paid for it. They made the gift three years into Poliofido's tenure as dean. Perhaps a testament to his fundraising skills. My source shows me the invitation they've received for the event. It's embossed in gold on heavy stock. Very nice. I'm definitely not invited, but I show up anyway. Usa is a private school, but the campus clearly invites entry by the public. Just in case, though, I'm careful not to break any trespassing rules. I make sure to stay on the sidewalk and off the University's lawn. It's a little hard to hear from where I'm standing, but here's the gist. Nakeas is extolling Poliofito's many accomplishments as dean. Poliofito thanks his wife. I'll have to check the status of that divorce filing.

This is the first time I've seen Poliofito in person. I'm struck by his confidence. He appears as if he has nothing to worry about, my investigation included. Why would the President of USC put on such a public show of appreciation for Polya Fido, especially if he knew that the LA Times is investigating him? It might have something to do with the priorities that drove Max Nakeas. Professor William Tierney had been at Penn State before coming to USC in 1994.

When I went to SC, a lot of my friends said, Jeez, SC is not of the same caliber as Penn State. Why would you be moving to to USC? There's an association called the AAU, the Association of American Universities, and that's the elite institutions. At the time, SC was at the bottom of the AAU and trying to move up. Steve Sample came in with a great deal of energy and really wanted to transform the institution.

Steve Sample was President of USAID from 1991 to 2010. Tierney saw what he was trying to do, and he believed Sample could pull it off.

For a university diversity to be the best, it's not that we've got a winning football team. It's that you've got a faculty that are the best, and you are listening to what they say they need. And that also meant that we needed to bring in enormous amounts of money in a capital campaign.

Sample devoted himself to fundraising nonstop. And when he retired, Max Dequia seemed like the perfect choice to continue that pursuit.

Max was someone who, if you called from New York and said, I've got Joe, and he's willing to have breakfast with you tomorrow, and he might give us big money, but you need to be here for breakfast. Max would take the red eye. And if he knew that he needed to be back in Los Angeles that night for some type of dinner, he'd do it.

Nakeas's drive is understandable when you consider his background as an immigrant who came to this country intent on making something of himself.

Max came from a very poor family in Cyprus. His father was a carpenter. His father said to him at one point, You're a smart, smart boy. I might send you to high school, and if you work hard, you can graduate, then become a carpenter. For Max to graduate, go to the United States, to go to a Suni, Buffalo, to get his doctorate, comes to USA, rises through the ranks, and become a President. Amazing.

And his rise brought him into the same room with a lot of rich, powerful, famous people.

When you're having dinner with Steven Spielberg, that's a different It's undertaking. I do think that created a disconnect between the world of the faculty and the world of LA. At Max's inauguration, he said, USC, we have to work so hard that we have to run a marathon at a 10K speed. I went up to him afterwards and I said, Max, you can't do that, and you shouldn't tell people to do that. And He said, Oh, but we have to.

When he was recruited to USC to run the medical school, Polioffido understood perfectly that the mandate was to bring in money, and he delivered.

Fundraising in the United States is an odd thing. If you're at Columbia or Harvard, there's a lot of old money and foundations that will give you money. The West, especially Los Angeles, is the opposite of that. It's a lot of new money, and you need to be charismatic in a way that Max and Carmen had. They knew how to court donors successfully, and they did.

By the time he, quote, steps down as dean, Polioffido has become the public face of the medical school. If the dean were to get caught up in a scandal, it would be bad for USC. This back slapping ceremony at the Keck School of Medicine might be a face-saving gesture for Polioffido, but maybe it's one for USC as well.

Bring a little optimism into your life with The Bright Side, a new daily podcast from Hello Sunshine, hosted by me, Danielle Robé.

And me, Simone Voce. Every weekday, we're bringing you conversations about culture, the latest trends, inspiration, and so much more.

Thank you for taking the light, and you're going to shine it all over the world, and it makes me really happy.

I never imagined that I would get the chance to carry this honor and help be a part of this legacy.

Listen to The Bright Side on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Open your free iHeart app and search The Bright Side.

My name is Johnny B. Good, and I'm the host of the new podcast, Creating a Con: The Story of Bitcoin. Over this nine-part series, I'll explore the life and crimes of my best friend, Ray Trapani. I always wanted to be a criminal. If someone was like, Oh, what's your best way of making money. I'm like, Oh, we should start some scheme. You see, Ray has this unique ability to find loopholes and exploit them. They collected $30 million. There were headlines about it. His company, Centratech, was one of the hottest crypto startups in 2017. It was going to change the world until it didn't. I came into my office, opened my email, and the subject heading was FBI request. It was only a matter of time before the truth came out.

You can only fake it till you make it for so long before they find out that your Harvard degree is not so crimson.

How could you sit there and do something that you know will objectively cause more harm in the world?

Listen to Creating a Con, the story of Bitcoin on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

This is Neil Strauss, host of the Tenderfoot TV True Crime podcast, To Live and Die in LA. I'm here to tell you about the new podcast I've been undercover investigating for the last year and a half. It's called To Die For. Here's a clip.

All these girls were sent into the world, and they were told, Try to meet important men. Try to attach yourself to important men.

The voice you're hearing is a Russian model agent telling me about spies sent out to seduce men with political power.

The war in Ukraine is also being fought by all these girls that are all over important cities.

For the first time, a military-trained seduction spy reveals how the Russian government turns sex and love into a deadly weapon. If you want to kill your target, it's easy.

You just seduce him, take him somewhere, start having sex, and then he's very vulnerable, so you can kill him easily.

To Die For is available now. Listen for free on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

I never thought I'd take my three young kids to Sicily to solve a century-old mystery, but that's what I'm doing in my new podcast, The Sicilian Inheritance. Join us as we travel thousands of miles on the beautiful and crazy island of Sicily as I trace my roots back through a mystery for the ages and untangle clues within my family's origin story, which has morphed like a game of telephone through the generations. Was our family matriarch killed in a land deal gone wrong? Or was it by the Sicilian Mafia? A lovers' quarrel? Or was she, as my father believed, a witch? Listen to the Sicilian Inheritance on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

This was a story that had the potential to hold a powerful institution and a powerful person accountable for misconduct.

Matt Lake was my editor at this time. Throughout In his career, he's seen his share of corruption and cover-ups.

I was at the LA Times for about 28 years. I always tried to focus on investigative reporting, both as a reporter and an editor. I worked with reporters who uncovered corruption at City Hall, abuses in the LA County Jails. I worked on investigations about dirty doctors, and prior to the USA investigation, I was working on one about Purdue Pharma. These are tough stories to do. They can be controversial They can have an impact on the paper's reputation, the paper's finances, the paper's legal standing. They are all issues that need to be considered when taking on powerful institutions. But my feeling is that These are good stories. They should be published.

With Matt's support, I keep digging. I find Polyo Fido's home address. It's a mansion in Pasadena, of course. It sits behind a high security gate. No way to knock on his door. I leave my business card with a note on his mailbox, urging him to get in touch. He doesn't. Finally, I get a break. I've made multiple public records requests to the Pasadena police, including for the information redacted on the call log from the incident. I need a way to verify what Devon has told me, and the best way to do that is through police records. So I've been chasing them constantly with no response. But then the police chief writes that the records are requested are exempt from disclosure because they're part of a criminal investigation. Wait a minute. What investigation? How could you have an investigation without a police report? The chief set a trap for himself and walked right into it. Now, the city will have to cough up a report.

This story, like a lot of investigative reporting, to me, is like detective work. You're out knocking on doors chasing leads and gathering information and filing public records request. There's a couple of different thoughts in journalism, and the one I think Paul was favoring, and I was supportive of it, was let's go with what we know, shake the tree, and unearth other details that we didn't know.

Finally, shaking that tree actually gets me something. The passing a police department admits they made a mistake. After months of saying there's no police report because there was no need for one, because this was a medical emergency, not a crime, the department creates one retroactively. Three months after the incident, the police spokesperson tells me they dropped the ball because of a, quote, training issue. I've never seen anything like it in my career. Neither has former Detective Joseph Jackalung.

Police departments have policies and procedures and protocols for a reason. We had a saying that said, When in doubt, fill it out. So if you didn't know you had to fill out a report, just fill it out. The worst thing that could happen is the supervisor who has to sign off says, You know what? This isn't necessary, so we're just going to get rid of it.

Finally, I get access to not just the very tardy police report, but also recordings of the 911 calls made from the hotel. At first, I'm only given the recording of the call that Devon made. Are you able to transfer me to that room or unit? Yeah. But it cuts out when the dispatcher asks to be transferred to Room 304. Then the Pasadena City Manager sends me a second recording that he says the city was able to obtain, and it's a better version of the 911 call, and it continues longer than the original file. Good. It does make me wonder, why wouldn't the city release the second recording immediately? Why hold it back? I finally get to hear from myself why the second recording is, quote, better. Is she awake now?

No, she's very dry.

Do you know how much she drinks? A bunch. I came in the room and there were lots of-Did she take anything else with it or just the alcohol? I think just the alcohol. The call places Pulia Fido at the scene. We know from the report, there's meth in the room, and here he is present at the overdose of a young woman. And you can hear that he lies. He doesn't mention the drugs that, according to Devon and the police report, were found in a room. So far, everything Devon Khan has told me has checked out. I have plenty to run my story. My editor, Matt Late, agrees.

The first draft was well-documented based on police reports, 911 recordings, interviews with key people. It was a solid story.

There might be more to report in follow-up stories, but the details we have are bulletproof. The hotshot dean of USA's Medical School is caught up in an incident where a young woman has overdosed on drugs and he lies to the police. Then he mysteriously steps down. It looks bad.

At its essence, this is a story about a powerful man abusing his position in authority. Then on On top of that, you have an institution that is essentially covering up for this man.

It's Friday, the end of the day. I'm on my way out the door. I stop and talk to my friend Jack Leonard. I've been at the Los Angeles Times for more than 25 years. I started as an intern there in 1987, and I've covered many different beats: police, crime, county government. I've done a lot of investigative work. Paul is excited about every really good story that he works on. When he finds some wrongdoing, when he finds something that authorities or powerful people are trying to keep hidden, he gets very excited about it, and that's contagious. And he likes sharing that like many of us do. So he comes over to my desk and he starts telling me about the story. I tell him about Poliofido in USA, the Stonewalling from the Cops, the retroactive police report. I remember him talking about Pasadillas a police and how they were not providing him with the records that they were supposed to be providing. But Jack's reaction is not what I expect. I said something to the effect of, what makes you think they're going to publish that? And that's when I start to think, how far does USC's influence actually go?

Is it possible that it could extend all the way into my own newsroom? Next time, on Fallen Angels. As an investigative reporter, every story could be your last. Matt and I faced an uphill battle trying to get our Polya Philo story in the paper.

I was in this defiant mode and clung to the idea that Davon said he wasn't closing the door to more reporting.

So we decide to force the issue.

I remember being in the conference room and Matt had said, Look, we're going to do this thing. We're just going to keep it on the down low. We're going to make it so they have to publish Paul's story.

That's next time on Fallen Angels. Fallen Angels: The Story of California Corruption is a production of iHeart podcast in partnership with Best Case Studios. I'm Paul Pringle. This show is based on my book, Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels. Fallen Angels was written by Isabel Evans, Adam Pinkis, and Brent Katz. Isabel Evans is our producer. Brent Katz is coproducer. Associate producers are Hannah Leibowitz-Lockert and Onpahoe Lock. Executive producers are me, Paul Pringle, Joe Piccarello, and Adam Pinkis for Best Case Studios. Original music is by James Newbury. This episode was edited by Max Michael Miller, with assistance from Nisha Vencat. Additional editing, sound design, and additional music by Dean White. Harriet Ryan, Matt Hamilton, Sara Parveni, and Adam Elmarick are consulting producers. Our iHeart team is Ali Perry and Carl Kiedel. Follow and rate Fallen Angels wherever you get your podcast.

I'm Johnny B. Good, the host of the podcast, Creating a Con: The Story of Bitcoin. This podcast dives deep into the story of Ray Chepani and his company, Centratech. I'll explore how 320 somethings built a company out of lies, deceit, and greed. I've been saying since a very young age that I was going to be a millionaire. If someone's like, Oh, what's your best way of making money? I'm like, Oh, we should start some scheme. Listen to Creating a Con, the story of Bitcoin on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

Bring a little optimism into your life with The Bright Side, a new daily podcast from Hello Sunshine, hosted by me, Danielle Robé.

And me, Simone Voce. Every weekday, we're bringing you conversations about culture, the latest trends, inspiration, and so much more.

I am so excited about this podcast, The Bright Side.

You guys are giving people a chance to shine a light on their lives, shine a light on a little advice that they want to share.

Listen to The Bright Side on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Open your free iHeart app and search The Bright Side.

Imagine you're a fly on the wall at a dinner between the Mafia, the CIA, and the KGB. That's where my new podcast begins. This is Neil Strauss, host of To Live and Die in LA. And I wanted to quickly tell you about an intense new series about a dangerous spy taught to seduce men for their secrets and sometimes, their lives. From Tenderfoot TV, this is To Die For. To Die For is available now. Listen for free on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

My whole life, I've been told this one story about my family, about how my great-great-grandmother was killed by the Mafia back in Sicily. I was never sure if it was true, so I decided to find out. Even though my uncle Jimmy told me I'd only be making the vendetta worse, I me to solve this 100-year-old murder mystery. Listen to the Sicilian Inheritance on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.