602: Tom Wright | Billion Dollar Whale
Tom Wright (@tomwrightasia) is an award-winning journalist, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World, co-founder of journalism studio and production company Project Brazen, and host of the Fat Leonard podcast.
What We Discuss with Tom Wright:
- A deep dive into the shadowy world of corruption, money laundering, and embezzling by the shadiest shysters among the elite.
- How does an investigative journalist uncover misdeeds by the rich and powerful without winding up on someone's hit list?
- How did Jho Low, a charisma-free, second-generation fraudster, siphon billions of dollars from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund -- with the aid of Goldman Sachs -- right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs?
- How many ways are there to launder this kind of money without being detected by the authorities?
- Where is Jho Low today?
- And much more...
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