Trial was dominated by discussion of the gold inventor that one ship. She only actually had two passengers on the ship who were paying her fees she'd been very involved in an earlier ship with a lot of people on it and run around. Her lawyers were saying look you keep telling us about the gold inventor but really most of the blame for this is with other people like Akke, he says. The irony is really multiply he got a lesser sentence eventually he got his US citizenship and today he has kind of returned to the scene in Chinatown.
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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