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  • Blood Ballots and Bans: The Unknown Podcast Blows Up Episode 63

    Blood Ballots and Bans: The Unknown Podcast Blows Up Episode 63

    Episode 63 of The Unknown Podcast detonates like political dynamite. Co-hosts Michael Volpe and Richard Luthmann tear through election chaos, neo-Nazi spectacle, Big Tech censorship, and a 400-page legal meltdown by Ulster County’s “Black Widow” attorney Elizabeth Faulkner. From Virginia to New York, the duo exposes hypocrisy in politics, law, and media—naming names and torching…

  • And So It Begins: Blue States Go Commie in Radical Leftist Sweep

    And So It Begins: Blue States Go Commie in Radical Leftist Sweep

    Democrats won where they were supposed to — in deep-blue strongholds — but the results reveal a party sprinting leftward into socialism and cultural extremism. With Zohran Mamdani’s “communist” victory over Andrew Cuomo in New York City, and progressives dominating coastal bastions, the Democratic Party has shed its moderate skin. President Trump saw it coming,…

  • The Unknown Podcast Episode 62

    The Unknown Podcast Episode 62

    Episode 62 of The Unknown Podcast explodes with global stakes and domestic drama. Richard Luthmann and Michael Volpe unpack Donald Trump’s Asian trade blitz, looming Venezuela conflict, and New York City’s chaotic early-voting surge. From YouTube’s censorship war—where influencer Jeremy Hales targets journalists—to Danesh Noshirvan’s courtroom implosion and Francesca Amato’s bogus “Family Justice” bill, the…

  • The Man Who Mined Paper: Inside Radovan Vitek’s Empire of Mirrors

    The Man Who Mined Paper: Inside Radovan Vitek’s Empire of Mirrors

    Radovan Vitek built his empire not from stone or steel but from signatures and paper. The Czech-born magnate turned Luxembourg’s corporate landscape into a maze of shell companies, hidden trusts, and circular loans that transformed debt into wealth and victims into statistics. From pension funds to public markets, Vitek mastered the art of making everything…

  • McMahon’s Puppets Caught Acting!

    McMahon’s Puppets Caught Acting!

    In Staten Island’s latest act of political theater, Democratic Judge Raymond Rodriguez and Republican boss Michael Tannousis are pretending to feud — a carefully staged brawl orchestrated by District Attorney Michael McMahon and his wife, Judge Judith McMahon. As early voting shatters records, insiders say the McMahons are hedging their bets: Rodriguez wins, they win;…

  • The FEDS’ Perfect Victim: Why a Man Who Never Lost a Dime Cried Fraud to the FBI

    The FEDS’ Perfect Victim: Why a Man Who Never Lost a Dime Cried Fraud to the FBI

    Bernhard Fritsch built a company that could have changed social media. Danny Guy made sure it didn’t. The German inventor’s platform, StarClub, was poised to revolutionize influencer monetization when Guy — a hedge fund shark with a $3 billion trail of losses — whispered “fraud” to the FBI. Prosecutors bit. Judge Dale S. Fischer sentenced…

  • Escape from New York Socialism on Daufuskie Island

    Escape from New York Socialism on Daufuskie Island

    New Yorkers fed up with soaring crime, socialist pipe dreams, and ideological chaos might consider an island escape—literally. Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, offers a quiet refuge far removed from Zohran Mamdani’s Marxist makeover of NYC. While the “People’s Republic of New York” prepares for its next experiment in equity and anarchy, Daufuskie remains a place…

  • Trump’s War on Radicals: President Fights Paid Agitators, Courts, and Crime

    Trump’s War on Radicals: President Fights Paid Agitators, Courts, and Crime

    In The Unknown Podcast Episode 61, Richard Luthmann and Michael Volpe unleashed a verbal blitz on America’s chaos—tearing into leftist agitators, corrupt prosecutors, and foreign threats with bare-knuckle analysis. From the “No Kings” protests to James Comey’s indictment, from Chinese land grabs to fentanyl wars, the hosts framed Trump’s America as a new revolution: order…

  • A Modern Day Lufthansa Heist

    A Modern Day Lufthansa Heist

    Bernhard Fritsch, once hailed as a visionary who beat Apple to digital music, has pulled off what some call the “modern Lufthansa Heist.” On Monday, Judge Dale S. Fischer handed him 15 years in federal prison — but Fritsch wasn’t there. The German tech mogul vanished, slipping back to Munich, where U.S. extradition laws can’t…

  • GERMAN GENIUS GHOSTS THE FEDS

    GERMAN GENIUS GHOSTS THE FEDS

    Bernhard Fritsch, the German-born tech entrepreneur once hailed as a digital visionary, has done what few defendants ever do—vanished beyond the reach of the U.S. justice system. Convicted of wire fraud in Los Angeles federal court, Fritsch fled to Germany just before his remand hearing. Investigative journalist Frank Parlato reveals how Fritsch, now in Bavaria,…

Richard Luthmann

Thinker, investigative journalist, and consultant with degrees from Columbia University (B.A., Philosophy), NY Law School (J.D.), and the University of Miami (LL.M).

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“What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.”

– President Donald J. Trump

Modern Thomas Nast

Boss Tweed was just the beginning. Operating in the shadows to expose the shady.

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Rick LaRivière

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”

—David Foster Wallace

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Frankie Pressman

Frankie Pressman has many interests. None are WOKE.

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Dick LaFontaine

Veteran journalist Dick LaFontaine chases gripping, thorny, and precarious stories as a contributor to various publications.

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Greg Maresca

Maresca is a longtime columnist and satirist who is a New York City native and a Marine Corps veteran living in Flyover, Pennsylvania.

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