The Cruise Industry Lobby Spent $70 Million To Protect Predatory Crew Members From Exposure
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
How does an industry avoid accountability for decades while carrying tens of millions of passengers a year? It spends $70 million lobbying Congress. It hires former FBI and Coast Guard officials. It registers ships abroad to dodge U.S. taxes and jurisdiction. It fights reform legislation and wins. It settles lawsuits behind NDAs. And it issues identical zero-tolerance statements every time a crew member is caught. This final episode of Cruising with Predators names the machine. The money trail, the revolving door, the CVSSA’s limitations, and the foreign-flag shield are all laid bare. Then the reforms: device screening, an international registry, prosecution before deportation, independent investigations, ending NDAs in cases involving minors, and licensing standards for youth programs. Each tied to a case from this series. The industry built this system. Families can demand it be rebuilt. A Hidden Killers investigation.
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| 1:01.8 | Hi, it's Joe and Zoe here from Digget and we're currently sponsored by QVC. If you're thinking about giving your garden a bit of a refresh, This is very good timing. My garden scape at |
| 1:12.0 | QVC is basically like having a whole garden centre, but at the touch of a button. Everything's there. |
| 1:17.5 | Furniture, plants, tools, lighting, all in one place. I rather like the look of their Studio 70 |
| 1:23.7 | collection. It's got this very lovely retro feel to it. Yeah, if you sort of think bold |
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