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The Chinatown Sting

Pushkin Industries
Chinatown
Heroin
Mahjong
New York City
Drug Bust
Beryl Howell
Heroin Smuggling
Federal Prosecution
Ronald Reagan
Chinese Exclusion Act
Flying Dragons
Gang Culture
Drug Trade
Tina Wong
Johnny Ng

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. 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 ha... more

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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 pac... more

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, a... more

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 acce... more

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 ... more

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Recent Guests

Beryl Howell
Federal judge who previously served as a federal prosecutor
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Episode: Episode 2: Onionhead
Tina Wong
Involved in the heroin smuggling case as a lower-level participant
Episode: Episode 2: Onionhead
Henry Chang
Author and native of Chinatown familiar with the local criminal landscape
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Mike Moy
Former gang member and activist
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Kid Jai
Former gang member who became a leader of a rival gang
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