Kinahan Organised Crime Group

The cartel bosses are not stupid men and anyone who thinks they are is not paying attention.

And don't even get me started on people like the Kinahans.

You know that they're in this game.

So considering we're talking about money laundering this week and Jeffrey Epstein's finances, all of this stuff goes hand in hand.

I mean, they control the flow of cocaine, heroin, really everything.

And if you know anything about drug cartels, you know anything about the Kinahans, you know anything about any criminal organization, it's likely that they're doing business with the Andrangetta, you know, the honored society, if you will.

It's just a gigantic organization, tens of thousands of members.

So, yeah, again, on the more local level, obviously Calabria, very much Andrangetta territory.

He was a very significant player in the drugs trade there and in the criminal underworld.

He would've, uh, when the feud began, he would've aligned himself with the Kinahan cartel.

I don't know if you would've, uh, described him as being a member.

I certainly don't think I would've.

But he was, he was effectively this little cell of, of gunmen.

Now, they earned the na- the nickname the new INLA solely because some of the people involved had been Linked with the INLA, but they didn't, they weren't a political or a, a paramilitary organization.

And they effectively took on a contract for the Kinahans to kill members of the Hutch family if they, if they could.

Um, McConnell was heavily linked to other people involved in the drug trade for many years in Ballymun, but, uh, certainly a, a, a dangerous criminal.

But he had become middle management in the Kinahan cartel, particularly in Ireland, and had become involved in the money laundering and the movements of money, which of course is so important to a criminal gang.

He had set up a number of businesses, was using that to launder money, was associated with some of the key figures in this country, and really had become a wholesaler and distributor for the Kinahans.

Now, by 2015, we're perched up outside their house.

The pair of them have got married.

Mm.

This sort of luxury lifestyle.

Certainly, Brian Mahoney seems to have been, uh, caught adrift by the Kinahans at some point.

He didn't stay involved with them, and he was part of a- another little cell.

And I wanna talk about this for a second because I'm guilty of it, most media are guilty of it.

We talk about major crime gangs, say the tier one would be the Kinahans, then you had, you know, other slightly lower level groups, say the family in, in West Dublin, who are still making millions of euro a year from drugs.

But there are, let's call them tier f- tier three or tier four, tier five, much lower level gangs operating in every town and every village in Ireland.

So this gang, they would be relatively well known in, in, in, in Waterford because it's low level.

He later pleaded guilty to money laundering offences, which Gardaí believed was destined for the Kinahan cartel.

He actually is believed to be a senior figure in a gang called the Monkey Gang from Finglas, which operates independently but does have links to the Kinahans.

Yeah, well, I mean, I don't know if he has another half, but to be asked to be sleeping on a bed stuffed with onions, no matter how much money was caught up in the middle of it, it doesn't sound the most pleasant thing.

It would not just put off the sniffer dogs, I think it would put off everyone.

He later pleaded guilty to money laundering offenses, which Gardai believed was destined for the Kinahan cartel.

He actually is believed to be a senior figure in a gang called the Monkey Gang from Finglas, which operates independently but does have links to the Kinahans.

Yeah, well, I mean, I don't know if he has another half, but it was, to be asked to be sleeping on a bed stuffed with onions, like, no matter how much money was caught up in the middle of it, it doesn't sound the most pleasant thing.

It would not just put off the sniffer dogs.