Episode 2: Onionhead | The Chinatown Sting podcast

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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.  Get early, ad-free access to the entire season of The Chinatown Sting by subscribing to Pushkin+. Subscribers also get bonus episodes, exclusive binges, full audiobooks, and early ad-free listening for all Pushkin shows.  Subscribe on Apple: apple.co/pushkin Subscribe on Pushkin: pushkin.fm/plus #podcast #truecrime #hotmoney #financialtimes #investigativejournalism #investigativereporting #chinatown ABOUT THE CHINATOWN STING In the late 1980s, a group of women connected through the mahjong parlors in Manhattan’s Chinatown were caught in a massive undercover drug bust. But this bust was just the beginning of an even bigger case. Host Lidia Jean Kott and co-reporter Shuyu Wang interview sources who’ve never spoken on record before, including witnesses, defendants, and federal prosecutors, to reconstruct a case that still has repercussions today. ABOUT LIDIA JEAN KOTT Lidia Jean Kott, host of The Chinatown Sting, is a Senior Producer and Editor at Pushkin Industries. Previously, she’s reported and produced for NPR, the BBC World Service, The World, and WNYC. ABOUT PUSHKIN INDUSTRIES Pushkin Industries is an audio production company dedicated to creating premium content in a collaborative environment. Co-founded by Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg in 2018, Pushkin has launched seven new shows into the top 10 on Apple Podcasts (Against the Rules, The Happiness Lab, Solvable, Caution