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From the illegal weapons to the underground sex trade, nothing is off limits and everything is for sale in illegal, underground markets. It's an industry that is brutal, exploitative, and corrupt where what you buy isn't always what it seems. Despite efforts to crack down on these illegal trades, more than $625 billion makes it's way into the US economy each year for illegal trade goods. Unprecedented inside access brings light to the inner workings of the last bastion of "free" enterprise, charting a global path to the underworld economy. Workers, suppliers, sellers, customers – and the law enforcement trying to keep it in check - share their experience of a hidden world that touches us all.
Being high-proof, low-cost, untaxed and illegal has made the black market for moonshine a big business; urban bootleggers bring in fresh competition and the law is cracking down.
Increased automobile security means that car criminals are becoming more ingenious than ever. Gangs are working together to steal cars — for them car theft can be more profitable than selling drugs.
While 14 people die each day waiting for a kidney transplant, the black market organ trade is thriving; gangsters with global reach pocket easy money in an illegal trade driven by desperation.
US authorities are closing in on cartel cash. If drug lords want their narco cheddar cleaned and moved into the banking system, they have to get it to Mexico. Working to stem the tide, the cops tail cars suspected of smuggling millions.
An oil fracking boom and subsequent bust have brought extortion, prostitution, drug dealing and theft to the remote prairie town of Williston, North Dakota.
From card cheats, to armed robbers, to 'trick' rollers, criminals across America make a beeline for the casinos of Las Vegas.
Fuelled by the huge demand for luxury goods, where customers buy with no questions asked, cargo thieves stop at nothing to get their product into the black market.
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