Introducing Deep Cover Presents: Snowball
Hot Money: Agent of Chaos
Pushkin Industries & Financial Times
4.6 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We’re sharing a preview of another podcast we think you’ll enjoy, Deep Cover Presents: Snowball. Snowball follows journalist Ollie Wards as he unravels the wild story of how his own family was taken in, and taken down, by a charming con woman from California…and tries to find out where she is now. He embarks on a question to find out how she did it, why she did it, and where she is now. Financial ruin, shattered trust, and a mystery that stretches across continents and decades—it’s got all the twists and turns you'd expect from a high-stakes crime thriller…only it's all true. Here’s a preview of Snowball by the Unravel Podcast team.
If you can’t wait to find out what happens, binge episodes of Deep Cover Presents: Snowball early and ad-free with a Pushkin+ subscription. Find Pushkin+ on the Deep Cover show page in Apple Podcasts or at pushkin.fm/plus.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | My name is Madison McGee. |
| 0:06.1 | From L.A. Times Studios comes its latest series, L.A. Crimes. |
| 0:09.4 | From deep dives into the Menendez brothers to conversations about why Bravo TV seems to be a hotbed of white-collar criminals. |
| 0:16.2 | We'll cover it all. |
| 0:17.4 | We'll speak with L.A. Times reporters and others in the true crime industry to put a lens |
| 0:21.2 | not just on these cases, but on our own culture's fascination with them and what that says |
| 0:26.1 | about us. Tune in every Wednesdays wherever you stream your podcast. Pushkin. |
| 0:41.8 | Hey listeners, I'm Jake Halpern, host of the Deep Cover podcast. |
| 0:47.2 | I'm dropping by to share an episode of Deep Cover presents Snowball. |
| 0:52.0 | It's the tale of a family who lost everything due to one ruthless scammer. |
| 0:58.0 | Snowball follows journalist Ali Wards as he unravels the wild story of how his own family was |
| 1:04.6 | taken in and taken down by a charming conwoman from California. And he tries to find out where she is now. |
| 1:12.7 | We're talking financial ruin, |
| 1:15.1 | shattered trust, |
| 1:16.4 | and a mystery that stretches across continents and decades. |
| 1:20.6 | It's got all the twists and turns you'd expect |
| 1:23.1 | from a high-stakes crime thriller, |
| 1:25.3 | only it's all true. |
| 1:30.1 | Here's a preview. I hope you enjoyed the story, which was meticulously investigated by Ollie Ward's and the Unravel podcast team in |
| 1:36.0 | Australia. And, if you can't wait to find out what happens, binge episodes of Deep Cover Presents |
| 1:42.4 | Snowball, early and ad-free, with a Pushkin Plus subscription. |
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