EP 10 | DEBRIEF: Two Brothers, Mr. T and Pablo Escobar

In the late 1980s, the Los Angeles jewelry district was hiding a massive, dirty secret. It was the epicenter of the largest money laundering scheme in U.S. history, with the Andonian brothers washing hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit drug cash for the cartels.

In this special Debrief episode of The Slippery, we go straight to the source. We sit down with former DEA Agent Selby Smith, one of the key investigators who helped spearhead the legendary takedown known as Operation Polar Cap.

Selby takes us behind the curtain of this unprecedented covert investigation. He details what it was really like to track mountains of dirty money and navigate the complexities of building a massive task force that brought together the DEA, FBI, Customs, IRS, and LAPD.

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