# Interview: Inside ATF Undercover Ops: Guns, Cartels, and Betrayal

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Podcast: [The David Knight Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-1060966)
Published: 2026-05-01T16:58:39+00:00
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## Resource

Lou Valoze, a 26-year ATF undercover veteran, pulls back the curtain on a world most Americans never see — storefront sting operations, running fake businesses from shooting ranges to international freight forwarders to get cartel members, biker gangs, and the Gambino family to incriminate themselves. Valoze reveals how his career was derailed not by anything he did in the field but by an Obama-appointed U.S. attorney who objected to the racial demographics of his defendants — career criminals in an urban area — triggering a two-year OIG investigation that found nothing, while his star informant Ray Khan, a gas station owner turned indispensable undercover asset who helped bring in cartel members, was simultaneously being hunted by Georgia revenue officers who turned out to be on the payroll of Ray's business competition. Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code “KNIGHT” For high quality made in America products go to HomeSteadProducts.shop and use promo code “Knight” for 10% off your purchases Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation through Mail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764 Zelle: @ DavidKnightShow@protonmail.com Cash App at: $davidknightshow BTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support .

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