The Cruise Industry Spent $70 Million Blocking Laws To Protect Kids
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
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Summary
The FBI’s former Deputy Director walked out of federal service and into Royal Caribbean within days. A former Coast Guard officer joined CLIA as their regulatory chief. The industry has spent an estimated $70 million lobbying Congress. This is how the rules stay the way they are. Foreign-flag registration shields the industry from U.S. taxes and jurisdiction simultaneously. The CVSSA created a reporting floor and nothing else. The industry fought even that. This final episode of Cruising with Predators lays out the concrete reforms: device screening, an international registry, prosecution before deportation, independent investigations, ending NDAs in cases involving minors, and licensing standards for youth programs. Each one is tied to a case from the series. Each one would have changed an outcome. The system was designed. It can be redesigned. But only if families demand it. A Hidden Killers investigation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:04.1 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.4 | All right, here we are, part five in our series about that. |
| 0:16.0 | June 2nd, 2006, the deputy director of the FBI's National Security Branch, retired from Federal |
| 0:23.2 | Service, and three days later, three days, starts working for Royal Caribbean. |
| 0:29.5 | Okay. |
| 0:30.8 | His name is Gary M. Bald. |
| 0:34.3 | And he's not the only one who walked through that door. |
| 0:37.4 | Why does that matter? |
| 0:38.7 | We're about to get into that. |
| 0:40.2 | This is our final episode in this five-part series. |
| 0:43.7 | If you want the fourth full thing, all the other episodes, just go back in our feed. |
| 0:47.8 | They're right there. |
| 0:48.7 | Over the past four episodes, I have laid out the cases, the pattern, the access, the justice gap. |
| 0:53.7 | If you have been with me from the beginning, you know the things about the cruise ship industry |
| 0:58.8 | that most passengers never learn. |
| 1:02.7 | Knowledge is power. |
| 1:04.3 | And, well, you have some more knowledge. |
| 1:07.2 | You know that according to a cruise law news, nearly 200 crew members have been accused of possessing C-Samine approximately over two years. |
| 1:14.9 | That's just two years. |
| 1:16.1 | Those are the ones that they caught. |
| 1:18.3 | You know that crew members across every major cruise line have been arrested, charged, convicted, or deported in connection with that sort of material. |
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