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The Knife: A True Crime Podcast

The Knife: Off Record – 126

The Knife: A True Crime Podcast

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This week Hannah answers a listener’s question about a man named Tommy Lee Buckley and his “Treasury Gate” scheme— a web of corruption, secret bank accounts, government conspiracy, and a billion dollar  payday that was always just around the corner.  Then, Patia dives into the dark side of sudden wealth with stories of lottery winners whose luck went sideways, including Tonda Dickerson’s unforgettable Alabama jackpot in 1999. 

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:05.9

Hi listeners, we think you'll enjoy this new true crime podcast called The Chinatown Sting.

0:11.7

In the 1980s, Tina Wong was a new mother living in Manhattan's Chinatown when her best friend asked her for help with a project.

0:19.0

All she had to do was accept a package and Tina would get paid.

0:22.6

Struggling to make ends meet, she agreed and unknowingly found herself at the center of an international drug smuggling operation.

0:29.8

When the feds were tipped off, Tina had two choices, spend decades in prison, or risk her life helping the government bring down the man at the helm, one of New York's most notorious gangsters, no matter the cost.

0:41.9

Listen to the Chinatown staying wherever you get your podcasts.

0:45.5

This story contains adult content and language. Listener discretion is advised.

0:50.1

Music Welcome to the knife off record.

1:08.9

I'm Pasha Eaton.

1:10.3

I'm Hannah Smith. And today we have two crime stories. One from you, maybe one and a half from me.

1:16.5

Okay. Interesting. One and a half. And then some wrecks. All right. Well, let's get right into it.

1:21.3

Yeah. So I'm really excited about what I have to talk about today. This started when a listener named Nick emailed me.

1:31.6

He'd actually been a listener of the opportunist years before and then a listener of the

1:36.4

knife.

1:36.7

And he reached out and said that, you know, he had this question about this scam that his

1:43.4

father was involved with. and he wanted to get more

1:48.1

information about it. I wanted to see if I could find anything out about it. And you were the

1:51.9

lady for the job. I said, I don't know, I'll try. So we ended up jumping on a video call together,

1:58.6

and I recorded a little bit of what he told me about what he knew about the situation.

2:04.6

And so I'm just going to play a clip here for you.

2:06.7

Great.

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