Hot Money: Agent of Chaos

Deep Cover: The Family Man | The Raid

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:01:00 +0000

Deep Cover's new season, The Family Man, tells a story about how families can deceive each other and the lengths we’ll go to to protect our loved ones Elise and Marissa grew up in a seemingly normal house in the suburbs of St. Louis, but it was a house built on secrets. There were things their father never told them—like how he really made his money. One night, the police showed up, raided their house, and seized boxes of evidence. Hours later, the sisters turned on the TV and saw something surreal: their father in the middle of a police chase. The local news identified him as “The Boonie Hat Bandit”. The girls were stunned. They struggled to accept the truth: Dad had been living a double life. How long had he been lying to them? What had he done? And who, exactly, was their father?

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From The Financial Times: The Broker

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:25:00 +0000

In this special bonus episode from The Financial Times, "The Broker" tells the story of how a failed baseball hopeful and disgraced stockbroker reinvented himself as one of America’s most consequential modern arms dealers.

From a family-run warehouse in Virginia Beach, Will Somerindyke built his company into a crucial conduit in the Pentagon’s covert supply chains — sourcing Soviet-era weapons for wars in Syria and Yemen before emerging as a central player in Ukraine’s fight against Russia.

As artillery shells became the most sought-after commodity of the war, he placed a multimillion-dollar bet on reviving crumbling Cold War factories in the Balkans, transforming himself from middleman to manufacturer.

Based on months of reporting, The Broker traces Somerindyke’s rise through the shadow world of privatized warfare — where geopolitics, profit and personal ambition collide — and reveals how modern conflicts are sustained not only by soldiers on the front lines, but by entrepreneurs who move the weapons behind the scenes.

This piece, written by the FT’s Miles Johnson, host of Hot Money Season 2: The New Narcos, was originally printed in FT Weekend.

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Episode 8: Matryoshka

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 04:01:00 +0000

In our season finale, Sam discovers a different narrative about Marsalek’s life in Russia. And a tip from long ago resurfaces.

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Episode 7: From Russia With Love

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 04:01:00 +0000

A Marsalek-backed ring of operatives goes on trial in the UK for espionage. A treasure trove of text messages reveals their inner workings.

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Episode 6: Maestro

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 04:01:00 +0000

Back in Vienna, Sam investigates another Marsalek plot. One that nearly toppled Austria’s intelligence agency.

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Episode 5: A Different Set of Rules

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 04:01:00 +0000

How does one become a spy? Sam speaks with a former Russian intelligence officer about how Marsalek might have been recruited. And to what ends.

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Episode 4: Backbearings

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 04:01:00 +0000

On the ground in Austria and Germany, Sam digs deep into Marsalek’s past. His odd habits. His strange house. The hypnotic effect he had on former colleagues. And how he is remembered by childhood friends.

CORRECTION: In this episode, we reported Marsalek left home just before taking his final school exams at age 17. We’ve since learned he was 18 when he left home.

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Episode 3: Thrill Seeking

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:01:00 +0000

Sam tracks down an old contact in Tunisia. A former UN official living off grid. He reveals how he ended up involved in one of Jan Marsalek’s wildest schemes.

CORRECTION: In this episode, we reported that Marsalek told Killian Kleinschmidt that he arrived in Syria in a Mig 8. That was an error. Killian only recalls Marsalek saying that he arrived in Syria in a helicopter, not specifically a Mig 8.

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Episode 2: The Friendship Society

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:15:00 +0000

As Sam arrives in Vienna, a political bomb explodes. A secretly recorded video exposes ties between the far right and Russia, plunging the Austrian government into crisis and revealing a world where people like Jan Marsalek can thrive.

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Episode 1: The Bribe

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:01:00 +0000

A series of clandestine lunch meetings leads Sam’s editor to send him off to Vienna, in search of one man.

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Introducing Hot Money Season 3: Agent of Chaos

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:30:00 +0000

When reporter Sam Jones asks questions about disgraced financial executive Jan Marsalek, he discovers a world of warlords, espionage, and disinformation.

Coming June 10 from Pushkin Industries and The Financial Times

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Episode 8 - The Red Notebook

Tue, 26 Dec 2023 05:01:00 +0000

Law enforcement cuts off the Kinahan cartel, and a little red notebook in the back of a car might finally reveal who killed the electrician in Almere.