S17 Ep10: TCT: KGB Banker w/ John Christmas

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🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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True Crime Tuesday presents: KGB Banker with John Christmas!

John Christmas was a US banker from Chicago who was looking to get back to his family's homeland to work for a bank that he thought had a stellar international reputation. What he found was a den of corruption that started with bad loans to Russian Mafia members for drugs and guns and went all the way to international money laundering and that was just the beginning of his problems! He would soon be trying to figure out how to get out with his life!

John and his co-author, William Burton McCormick have written a fictional crime thriller based on his true life experience titled, "KGB Banker". We sit down with John and talk about his real story, and the new book, and find out how the two stories are similar!

Get KGB Banker here: https://amzn.to/3u1jJF8

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0:58.8	Hello everybody and welcome in to another True Crime Tuesday, the best in True Crime talk,
1:18.6	radio, I'm Tim Dennis.
1:20.6	You know we've gotten such great guests lately.
1:24.4	You know, when we talk about the Mafia, you automatically assume it's someone in Italy.
1:37.0	I mean at least I do, I love the Godfather, I love good fellows, I love all those movies.
1:43.7	One of the most dangerous Mafias out there, and one of the Mafias that absolutely chills
1:48.9	me to the bone are stories of the Russian Mafia.
1:54.8	There's a story out there that intrigued me, that I wanted to get down to the business
1:58.6	of, and the guest that I'm going to bring on today has a name that you may think is a
2:04.0	pseudonym.
2:05.0	It's not.
2:06.0	Our guest today is John Christmas.
2:08.4	John Christmas was working in a Latvia bank, and we're going to find out more about that,
2:12.6	and he discovered corruption at its deepest levels in this Latvia bank, and I'm not going
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