In this episode of Becoming the King of Pot, Bruce recounts some more love stories featuring his wife, Svetlana. Find out how these two continued their relationship beyond prison and how Bruce managed to uncover more secrets of Svetlana's spy past.
Bruce Perlowin tells the story of his wife, Svetlana Ogorodnikova — the former Soviet spy he met behind bars at FCI Pleasanton, one of the only co-ed federal prisons in the country at the time.Before she met Bruce, Svetlana was at the center of one of the most sensational espionage cases in American
Steven Kalish is back to talk more about is infamous past. Most notably, how he pulled off a MILLION pound smuggle.
Bruce Perlowin moved 500,000 pounds of pot under the Golden Gate Bridge, the largest maritime smuggling operation on the West Coast. He kept books on every pound. He reported every dollar. And when it all came apart, he did his time, walked out, and built the first publicly traded cannabis company in America.
The DEA called it the biggest smuggling fleet on the West Coast. Bruce called it a navy. Now, four decades later, the pirate king tells his own story: episode by episode, document by document.
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