Criminal Minds, Business Geniuses takes you inside the hidden boardrooms of America's most notorious empires—from cartel kingpins to corrupt politicians—revealing the shocking business strategies that built billion-dollar fortunes in the shadows. This isn't your typical true crime podcast.
We dissect criminal enterprises like Fortune 500 companies, uncovering the innovative logistics, ruthless market tactics, and entrepreneurial genius that law enforcement doesn't want you to understand.
NOTE: The stories you're about to hear is a dramatized reconstruction created for storytelling purposes and should not be considered factual documentation..
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Criminal Minds, Business Geniuses takes you inside the hidden boardrooms of America's most notorious empires—from cartel kingpins to corrupt politicians—revealing the shocking business strategies that built billion-dollar fortunes in the shadows. This isn't your typical true crime podcast.
We dissect criminal enterprises like Fortune 500 companies, uncovering the innovative logistics, ruthless market tactics, and entrepreneurial genius that law enforcement doesn't want you to understand.
NOTE: The stories you're about to hear is a dramatized reconstruction created for storytelling purposes and should not be considered factual documentation..
The Tollbooth Kings: Inside the Arellano Félix Empire
Criminal Minds, Business Geniuses
6 minutes
3 months ago
The Tollbooth Kings: Inside the Arellano Félix Empire
Most drug lords sell a product. The Arellano Félix brothers sold something far more valuable: access. They turned the Tijuana-San Diego border, the busiest crossing in the world, into the most profitable—and deadliest—private tollbooth in history.
In this episode of Criminal Minds, Business Geniuses, we dissect the brutal business model of the Tijuana Cartel. Discover 'el piso,' their simple but ruthless tax system that generated billions in passive income, and explore the birth of the flashy 'narco-junior' lifestyle—a world of Porsches, exclusive parties, and celebrity status built on terror.
This isn't just a crime story; it's a masterclass in market control, revealing how their binational network of corruption reached into the very U.S. agencies designed to stop them.
Stick around to the end for a chilling bonus story about 'El Comandante'—the all-American high school coach who became one of their most trusted and unsuspected assets.
Criminal Minds, Business Geniuses
Criminal Minds, Business Geniuses takes you inside the hidden boardrooms of America's most notorious empires—from cartel kingpins to corrupt politicians—revealing the shocking business strategies that built billion-dollar fortunes in the shadows. This isn't your typical true crime podcast.
We dissect criminal enterprises like Fortune 500 companies, uncovering the innovative logistics, ruthless market tactics, and entrepreneurial genius that law enforcement doesn't want you to understand.
NOTE: The stories you're about to hear is a dramatized reconstruction created for storytelling purposes and should not be considered factual documentation..
