Episode 539: Mitchell Prothero

Published: June 21, 2023, 7:06 p.m.

Mitchell Prothero covers intelligence and crime for\xa0Vice News. His new podcast with Project Brazen is\xa0Gateway: Cocaine, Murder, and Dirty Money in Europe.\n\u201cI\u2019m really interested in transnational networks\u2014crime, intelligence. I\u2019m fascinated by the gray. Like, when is something legal and when is something illegal? One thing with this\xa0Gateway\xa0project [was that] nobody could ever tell me that moment where money goes from absolutely being illegal to being legal.\u201d\nShow notes:\n\n@mitchprothero\n\nProthero on Longform\n\nProthero\u2019s\xa0Vice\xa0archive\n\n01:00\xa0\u201cPaintballing with Hezbollah\u201d\xa0(Vice \u2022 March 2012)\n\n01:00\xa0\u201cInside the World of ISIS Investigations in Europe\u201d\xa0(Buzzfeed News \u2022 Aug 2016)\n\n36:00\xa0\u201cThe Wild Story of the Psychic, the Sheikh and the $90 Million Diamond Heist\u201d\xa0(Vice \u2022 June 2023)\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices