# The Most Evil Billionaire Family is Alive & Well | Mariana Van Zeller

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Podcast: [Julian Dorey Daily](https://stenobird.com/podcast/julian-dorey-daily-7299101)
Published: 2026-09-25T16:00:00+00:00
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FULL EPISODE: https://youtu.be/B2CjtzwON3I Subscribe Here: ⁠ @JulianDoreyDaily MARIANA's LINKS - YT: @marianavanzeller - IG: https://www.instagram.com/marianavz/?hl=en Newsletter: https://juliandoreypodcast.beehiiv.com/get-julians-top-10-books CLIPPERS DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/8QmWEKJ3BT --- Mariana Van Zeller — Emmy Peabody and DuPont Award-winning investigative journalist and host of National Geographic's Trafficked — continues the most comprehensive black market journalism conversation this podcast has produced. This segment covers Portugal's drug decriminalization model and why it worked there but failed in Portland Oregon, the Florida pain clinic epidemic and why 90 of the top 100 OxyContin prescribers in the country were operating in a single state, the American Pain documentary and the DEA takedown of the George Brothers, the Insys Pharma whistleblower story and the Sackler family accountability failure, cartel presence in small town Georgia and why rural America is where CJNG operates most effectively, the predator hunting groups on YouTube and the context that mainstream coverage consistently strips out, and the CJNG scam empire that Van Zeller is now documenting for her new Nat Geo series Super Scam Me. The Portugal decriminalization and Florida pain clinics thread is the episode's most policy-specific and most institutionally revealing contribution. Portugal decriminalized all drugs in 2001 and produced documented reductions in drug-related deaths HIV infections and incarceration — the specific policy mechanisms that made it work and why those mechanisms have failed to translate to American cities like Portland are examined by Van Zeller who has covered drug policy from the inside of the systems that produce it. The Florida pain clinic story is th…

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