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Hot Money: Agent of Chaos

Introducing Deep Cover Presents: Snowball

Hot Money: Agent of Chaos

Pushkin Industries & Financial Times

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Technology, Sexuality, Business

4.6619 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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