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Introducing: The Chinatown Sting

Season 1

Tuesday, September 2, 2025 • Duration 03:05

In the late 1980s, federal authorities laid a trap. They’d gotten a tip that huge amounts of heroin were being mailed to New York City inside boxes filled with tea. The investigation would uncover a network of drug smugglers who used women recruited at mahjong parlors in Chinatown. Host Lidia Jean Kott and co-reporter Shuyu Wang interview sources who’ve never spoken on record before, including federal prosecutors, to reconstruct a years-long effort to bring down one of the most powerful gangsters in Chinatown.

The Chinatown Sting drops weekly on Tuesdays starting September 16.

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Episode 2: Onionhead

Season 1 · Episode 2

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 • Duration 40:47

Tina Wong finds herself in handcuffs in the Brooklyn office of a new federal prosecutor, Beryl Howell. Beryl’s goal is to get Tina to tell her everything she knows about the people who recruited her. But Chinatown is a dangerous place in the 1980s, and few low-level suspects want to talk. We hear from Chinatown author Henry Chang and former gang members Mike Moy and Peter Chin about the violence and impossible choices Chinatown residents faced in those days.

For more, check out:

Henry Chang’s series Detective Yu Investigations.

Mike Moy’s Chinatown Gang Stories channel on YouTube.

Peter Chin’s book, In the Ghost Shadows.

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Episode 1: Lucky Bird

Season 1 · Episode 1

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 • Duration 38:30

After a major bust in 1988, DEA agents are in a race against time to find out who’s behind a scheme to import millions of dollars worth of heroin to the US. They stumble upon some unlikely suspects: young mothers like Tina Wong, who were paid to accept packages in the mail. These women will have to make a choice between protecting or betraying their friends. Lurking behind it all: the history of American Chinatowns, which developed to protect immigrants from a hostile society.

For more, check out:

Ellen Wu’s The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority.

Michael Luo’s Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.

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Episode 3: What’s a Friend?

Season 1 · Episode 3

Tuesday, September 23, 2025 • Duration 36:02

Being only half Chinese, Tina Wong felt like an outsider growing up in Chinatown. But then she met another girl who was a natural leader and included her in the pack. After they grew up, that friend would eventually recruit her to accept and move packages of heroin. Now Tina faces a choice: betray her old friend, or condemn her baby daughter to growing up without a mom.

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Life as a Flying Dragon

Season 1

Tuesday, October 21, 2025 • Duration 28:35

Cowboy, now known as CB, was once a member of the powerful Flying Dragons gang, led by Johnny Eng, aka Onionhead. CB speaks with Lidia Jean Kott about why he joined the gang, about street-violence PTSD, and how he wound up in prison for 16 years. He also has an update on what Johnny Eng is up to today.

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Episode 6: A Sense of Order

Season 1 · Episode 6

Tuesday, October 14, 2025 • Duration 32:09

After five days of deliberation, a jury finally returns a verdict in the case of Johnny Eng. Its ultimate meaning depends on whom you ask — and the lessons it taught the justice system may already be forgotten.

For more:

Mike Moy’s memoir book Bad to Blue and his Chinatown Gang Stories channel on YouTube.

Rong Xiaoqing’s article in Documented, "Ghosts of Chinatown."

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Episode 5: The Mastermind

Season 1 · Episode 5

Tuesday, October 7, 2025 • Duration 33:51

Flying Dragons gang leader Johnny Eng faces so many separate counts of heroin smuggling that prosecutors from various jurisdictions have to join forces. But Eng’s defense lawyers ably attack the government’s cooperating witnesses in court. And Beryl faces a personal deadline that might make sticking around to the end of the trial impossible.

For more check out:

Gerald Posner’s book Warlords of Crime.

Fredric Dannen’s pieces in The New Yorker, "Revenge of the Green Dragons” and “Defending the Mafia.”

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Episode 4: A Ghost Hand

Season 1 · Episode 4

Tuesday, September 30, 2025 • Duration 32:04

Lidia Jean and Shuyu search for traces of Johnny Eng, aka “Onionhead,” the elusive leader of the Flying Dragons gang. He’s nowhere to be found in his former estate in rural Pennsylvania. Back in the late 1980s, he was nowhere to be found at all. Could prosecutor Beryl Howell ever bring him to justice? Meanwhile, Tina Wong is caught in the gamble of her life.

For more check out the documentary: Machine Gun Johnny: Johnny Eng

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Grandson of a Paper Son

Season 1

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 • Duration 29:38

Judge Denny Chin serves on the US Court of Appeals in New York and he’s an expert on Asian Americans and the law. Every year, he helps to stage reenactments of landmark cases in which Asian Americans fought for their legal and civil rights. Judge Chin speaks with Lidia Jean Kott about his family history and why he became a judge.

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Introducing Deep Cover Presents: Snowball

Season 1

Monday, November 10, 2025 • Duration 49:52

We’re sharing a preview of another podcast we think you’ll enjoy, Deep Cover Presents: Snowball. Snowball follows journalist Ollie Wards as he unravels the wild story of how his own family was taken in, and taken down, by a charming con woman from California…and tries to find out where she is now. He embarks on a question to find out how she did it, why she did it, and where she is now. Financial ruin, shattered trust, and a mystery that stretches across continents and decades—it’s got all the twists and turns you'd expect from a high-stakes crime thriller…only it's all true. Here’s a preview of Snowball by the Unravel Podcast team.

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