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American Greed Podcast

Operation Crook, Line and Stinker

American Greed Podcast

CNBC

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A crooked New York City cop protects and serves himself, cashing in as a high-tech burglary crew terrorizes homes and businesses. (Original television broadcast: August 13, 2018) Want to binge watch your Greed? The latest episodes at: https://www.cnbc.com/american-greed/

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0:00.0

This is the American Greed Podcast presented by

0:02.8

CNBC. I'm Stacy Kie Kich.

0:07.3

In this episode of American Greed,

0:10.1

it was like Oceans 11 just without Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and Matt Damon.

0:15.0

A brazen band of burglars with an arsenal to match.

0:20.0

They use crowbars, they use hydraulic lifts,

0:24.0

acetylene torches.

0:26.5

I turn this on right now, your cell phones aren't going to work.

0:30.0

And the lute is piling up.

0:32.4

Everything was gone. Everything was gone.

0:33.8

Everything was gone.

0:35.2

$150,000 here.

0:38.1

1.9 million dollars there.

0:41.8

They took 45,000 pairs of high-end sunglasses valued at in excess of

0:47.4

three million dollars. And even the most seasoned detectives can't pin them down.

0:52.3

We had nothing up our sleep because this

0:55.5

crew has the law on its side. This was a conscious decision to not protect and

1:01.9

serve to do the opposite.

1:04.0

A crooked New York City cop who knows all the tricks.

1:08.3

He used what we know against us.

1:11.6

Each time investigators turn up the heat.

1:14.0

He knew right away that our everyday techniques would be ineffective against this crew.

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