Introducing: Wolves Among Us, Season 1, The Larry Lavin Story

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🗓️ 20 September 2022

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Summary

On the surface, there was nothing remarkable about Larry Lavin. He lived in a quiet neighborhood with his wife and family, drove a Volvo, and practiced dentistry in Philadelphia. But, from 1978 to 1984, Dr. Lavin ran one of the largest cocaine enterprises on the entire eastern seaboard. Through the voices and perspectives of law enforcement, drug runners, friends, business associates and Larry Lavin himself, Wolves Among Us, Season One, The Larry Lavin Story, tells the story of Lavin’s dual life, his impact on Philadelphia culture in the late 70s and early 80s, and the stunning events that led to his capture. Wolves Among Us is a presentation and creation of Peabody-nominated C13Originals, a Cadence13 Studio. You can find Wolves Among Us now on the Audacy App or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

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0:00.0	Larry Lavon, as I know him, was a dentist who really was talented at what he did.
0:09.0	They liked him, his patients, his staff.
0:12.0	He's the kind of person that you meet and you just can't help beloved him.
0:16.0	Bright, very smart, good looking, articulate, nice guy really.
0:21.0	A regular good kid, like he could have looked at him and said,
0:24.0	what the fuck's he doing in business, you know what I mean?
0:29.0	A Philadelphia dentist today was sentenced to 22 years in prison and fined $100,000.
0:34.0	This was just unbelievable. The size and breadth of the operation was crazy.
0:40.0	Dentist Lawrence Lavon tweeted guilty to running a $5 million a month cocaine ring
0:46.0	that catered to lawyers, stock brokers and other professionals.
0:49.0	You can understand the genius in Larry, nobody was doing coke at this point.
0:53.0	He was smart enough to realize that that's where the drug industry was going.
0:57.0	Illegal cocaine is coming into our country at alarming levels.
1:01.0	From Hollywood movie stars to NFL player to Wharton School business grads.
1:06.0	Look, he's a great salesman, he could sell dirt to a dead man.
1:09.0	To businessmen, lawyers, stock brokers, people on the street.
1:13.0	As an undergratt at 10, he might have been making $10,000 a year as a full-fledged cocaine dealer.
1:18.0	He might have been making a million dollars a month.
1:21.0	Everybody wanted cocaine and I mean everybody wanted cocaine.
1:24.0	No one could believe that this highly educated young handsome man was this
1:30.0	kingpin drug dealer.
1:33.0	It's funny, even when you're running something like that, you just don't think
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