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Andrew Pritchard was arrested for smuggling $130 million dollars worth of cocaine through the Caribbean to Europe using shipping containers in the 1990s and 2000s.

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Billy Queen was an undercover agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He spent almost three years embedded in the Mongols Motorcycle Club.

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Mike Dowd is a former New York City Police Department officer who became involved in drug dealing while on the force. He was arrested in 1992 and later convicted of racketeering and conspiracy to distribute narcotics, serving 12 years in federal prison.

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Frank D'Alesio is a retired special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who spent nearly two decades embedded in investigations targeting outlaw motorcycle clubs.

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Eric Immesberger posed as a hit man in undercover operations to gather evidence against people attempting to hire one.

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Eric King served almost two years at the federal super-maximum security prison ADX Florence in Colorado.

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Nick Leeson is an English former derivatives trader who caused the collapse of Barings, London's oldest merchant bank, which had operated for 233 years. Working in the bank's Singapore office, he made a series of unauthorized speculative trades that ultimately lost $1.2 billion.

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Brett Johnson is a reformed internet fraudster who stole more than $1 million through stolen credit cards, counterfeit documents, and phishing schemes.

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Owen Hanson is a former college athlete who ran an illegal sports betting company and later expanded into international cartel-backed money laundering and drug trafficking.

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Richard Marcus was a casino cheat in Las Vegas for 25 years. He says he used a mixture of chip scams and social engineering to con casinos such as Caesars Palace, the MGM Grand, and the Riviera out of millions of dollars. Though he was tailed by private investigators, he was never caught.