Speaker 1: Pushkin In New York City in nineteen eighty eight, federal
Speaker 1: authorities laid a trap. They'd gotten a tip that a
Speaker 1: vast amount of heroin was being mailed to the city
Speaker 1: inside boxes filled with tea.
Speaker 2: All you gotta do is we see in the package.
Speaker 2: Don't have to open it, just accept it, and that's it.
Speaker 3: It was a slow beep. You're listening in and you
Speaker 3: hear the beat beat beeping in. When a rapid beap
Speaker 3: goes bet BBP beat, that means it's been open.
Speaker 1: This sting was huge.
Speaker 3: We probably had about thirty agents. We had undercover postal
Speaker 3: agents in uniform attempt to deliver the package at each location.
Speaker 1: That day. The Feds caught low level drug courriers, mostly
Speaker 1: women who played Majrong together and town.
Speaker 2: I would play MJ with them, Majohn and I beat them.
Speaker 3: Read her rights, you know in Cantonese, Amandarin. I forgot
Speaker 3: exactly which one it was. She was very upset, crying.
Speaker 2: They took my daughter's picture off the refrigerator. They go,
Speaker 2: is this your daughter? I said yes, They go, oh,
Speaker 2: you may not see her for like twenty five years.
Speaker 1: My name is Lidia jen Kok. For the last few years,
Speaker 1: I've been trying to unravel what happened to a group
Speaker 1: of moms who played Majong in Chinatown. How they got
Speaker 1: pulled into a criminal underworld. To escape, they were forced
Speaker 1: to play the highest takes game of their lives.
Speaker 3: I couldn't trust her. I was not going to put
Speaker 3: her on the stand.
Speaker 4: That was the moment that she realized that she was
Speaker 4: not really being paranoid, and everything she did has a consequence.
Speaker 3: Five secs white white people, you know, push in the corn.
Speaker 3: What the hell not to take with the mafi I don't.
Speaker 5: Know they can get to any resident in Chinatown. So
Speaker 5: that's why the fear is there, because there's no place
Speaker 5: for the residents to go.
Speaker 2: Once I saw the gon I tried to take his hand,
Speaker 2: and I saw the flash of light, and that was it.
Speaker 1: This is the Chinatown Sting.
Speaker 3: When you place money about your heartbeat, that's where it goes.
Speaker 3: That's your adrenaline rush. That's the worst you want.
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