Akke had this specialty which was offloading ships the really crazy part of the story is that she had history with him because years earlier when he was a newly arrived teenager who'd been smuggled into the United States. He robbed her apartment at she wasn't there but um at gunpoint held her children at gunpoint and stole a bunch of money from her. She didn't end up taking revenge or even you know blacklisting him and thinking this is somebody I'll never work with instead it was almost as if this sort of establishes bona fides in her mind.
Investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe joins us on the podcast to tell the story of an unlikely criminal mastermind, Sister Ping - a middle-aged, hardworking woman who is highly respected among her community. Originally from Fujian province, China, for years she runs an incredibly lucrative people smuggling business from New York's Chinatown until she comes into trouble with violent gangsters and then later the FBI. In conversation with our host Poppy Damon, they discuss immigration, the dark underbelly of the American Dream, and the questions of who gets to stay. They also speak about Patrick's involvement in the Oscar-nominated documentary starring Nan Goldin and directed by Laura Poitras, All The Beauty And The Bloodshed.
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