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The World Beneath

The Laundromat | Chapter 4

The World Beneath

Imperative Entertainment

Society & Culture, History, True Crime

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Elizebeth successfully hunts and exposes a pivotal piece in The Syndicate's smuggling empire, enabling Elmer Irey and his T-Men to finally nail Public Enemy #1…and leaving Meyer Lansky shaking in his fedora. To save The Syndicate's money, Meyer runs to Switzerland to create the global laundromat... and the Second Economy is born. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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There is an entire second economy built on vice.

0:49.0

Its global architecture, a shadow world designed to remain unseen, was conceived and

0:56.6

birthed by America's bootlegers, specifically by Meyer Lansky.

1:04.0

It has never been taxed, it has never suffered a recession, it has only grown, fed by the

1:14.1

profits of human misery, nurtured through offshore tax havens, little islands of paradise

1:23.3

for a hundred years, and it fuels the underworld in ways too dark to fathom.

1:32.5

Imagine how big Meyer's baby is now.

1:38.2

Of course, bringing a monster like this into existence wasn't an easy delivery.

1:46.6

There were oceans of blood on the floor.

1:52.7

Two of the four hitmen wore police uniforms and walked with their revolvers drawn.

1:58.6

The other two were dressed like J. Eger Hoover's G-Men, in suits and trench coats, and carried

2:05.7

Tommy guns.

2:07.9

The warm breath from their mouths billowed before them on that cold February morning.

2:14.1

If witnesses had known who they really were, the breath clouds would have looked ominous,

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