FROM THE HILL TO THE TRENCHES
When billions disappear through shell companies and elderly Americans lose their life savings to family members, who's tracking the money? From the Hill to the Trenches: The Search for Justice takes you inside the investigations that traditional media won't touch. Host Dorothy Hill, former Goldman Sachs executive and financial crime investigator with 25 years of Wall Street experience, reveals how sophisticated fraud schemes operate and why our systems keep failing victims. Each episode uncovers real cases where dirty money flows through legitimate institutions, where compliance failures enable international crime rings, and where individual families fight back against billion-dollar theft operations. You'll hear directly from former FBI agents who dismantled money laundering networks, compliance officers who caught sanctions violations before they made headlines, and whistleblowers who exposed corruption that regulators missed. This isn't a theoretical finance discussion. These are active investigations involving cryptocurrency manipulation, elder abuse networks, and geopolitical sanctions that reshape global banking overnight. Hill connects individual fraud cases to systemic failures that threaten financial stability worldwide, giving you intelligence that impacts markets, regulations, and enforcement priorities. Whether you're managing compliance risk at a major institution, investigating economic crimes, or simply want to understand how financial criminals operate in plain sight, From the Hill to the Trenches: The Search for Justice delivers insights you can't find anywhere else. Every episode reveals another layer of the hidden economy where crime and legitimate finance intersect. Follow the money. Understand the system. Search for justice.
Episodes
A Finance professional in Hong Kong joined a routine video call with his company’s CFO and several colleagues. He recognized the faces. All the voices sounded right. He then wired roughly US$ million across fifteen transfers in a single day. However, every executive on that call was an AI-generated deepfake, built from public footage and data scraped from the internet. Which criminal(s) set up that cyberscam...
Forensic profiler and counterterrorism expert Dale Yeager joins the show to unpack the current surge in financial fraud enforcement and what really happens behind the scenes. He clarifies that many US money laundering investigations are led by the FBI. However, they are also driven by Treasury agencies (IRS-CI, Secret Service) plus U.S. Postal Inspectors, with FinCEN’s SAR database providing salient data to over 350 law enforcement...
In this episode of From The Hill To The Trenches: The Search for Justice, host Dorothy Hill speaks with Dillon Abend, founder and CEO of 3rd-i, about the nationwide campus safety crisis.
Research at University of Miami revealed 75 percent of female students feel unsafe using rideshare, and 70 percent have experienced harassment or assault. Abend’s 3rd-i app acts as a shareable body cam with dual camera recording, live location ...
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In this episode of From the Hill to the Trenches, host Dorothy Hill speaks with Ralph Dahm, a seasoned digital currency investigator who has traced cryptocurrency crimes ranging from $200 to over $1 billion in stolen Bitcoin.
Ralph Dahm exposes the dark reality of romance scams and pig butchering schemes targeting elderly Americans, revealing that victims lose between $50-150 billion annually to sophisticated criminal networks...
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Dorothy Hill launches From the Hill to the Trenches: The Search for Justice with a shocking examination of elder financial exploitation—a crime that costs elderly Americans $32 billion annually, with 65% of these financial crimes committed by family members. Joined by Chuck Harold, a retired California Peace Officer with over 40 years in law enforcement, corporate security, and private investigations, podcast host Dorothy Hill ...
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