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True Cover Ups

True Cover Ups

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True cover ups are rarely about the original crime. The spill, the defect, the accident: those are survivable. It is the meeting afterward, where powerful people decide the public must never know, that turns a mistake into a conspiracy. This show tells the true stories of cover ups.

Each episode reconstructs one cover up in full, cinematic detail: the event that should have been headline news, the machinery that buried it, the whistleblowers ignored, threatened, or worse, and the crack through which the truth finally escaped. No host chatting between clips, no panel trading theories. Just one complete story, narrated start to finish, built from declassified files, court records, and the testimony of people who refused to stay quiet.

You will uncover cover ups where corporations shipped products they knew would kill, agencies rewrote reports while families begged for answers, and entire disasters were reclassified into footnotes. Some episodes follow the cover up in real time; others follow the decades-long fight to force the documents into daylight. All of them treat cover ups as what they really are: a second crime, committed in meeting rooms.

If you are drawn to true cover ups told with documents instead of speculation, this is built for you. New episodes drop regularly, each one a self-contained case. Subscribe now so the next of these cover ups lands the moment it goes live.Copyright OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT
Episodes
  • The income disclosure that showed members earned 38 cents a month

    The income disclosure that showed members earned 38 cents a month
    11 Oct 2026
    A company's own income disclosure showed its typical U.S. member earned just $0.38 a month-did the executives know what their numbers really meant?

    The income disclosure that showed members earned 38 cents a month

    In this episode, we trace how a global shopping community presented itself, what its internal documents reveal, and which official warnings appeared as it expanded. How did a company that touted cashback end up publishing earnings figures that raised deeper questions about its business model?

    Company registered: 2003
    CEO appointment: Hubert Freidl, 2004
    Members claimed: five million by 2016
    Income disclosure: median U.S. commission $0.38/month
    Internal accounting: 99.7% revenue from member advance payments

    - Lyoness branded itself as a borderless shopping community with merchants, cashback and growth across six continents.
    - Members bought "shopping positions"-advance payments tied to future purchase volume that were supposed to unlock higher rewards.
    - Early flags: Austria's Kriminalpolizei mentioned Lyoness with Ponzi and pyramid structures in 2004, and parliamentary questions followed in 2005.
    - Official warnings accumulated: Chamber of Labour cited misleading advertising and negligible member benefits in 2008; Swiss consumer and gambling regulators warned consumers in 2010.
    - Internal documents leaked in 2012 showed nearly all business volume came from new members' down-payments rather than retail transactions.

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    15 min
  • The four minutes that erased self-defense claims

    The four minutes that erased self-defense claims
    11 Oct 2026
    British soldiers fire 108 rounds into a crowd of unarmed civilians in Derry, Northern Ireland, claiming self-defense. This Bloody Sunday incident sparks a decades-long cover-up.

    The four minutes that erased self-defense claims

    This episode explores the events of Bloody Sunday in Derry, Northern Ireland, on January 30, 1972, when British soldiers shot 14 unarmed civilians. It delves into the immediate aftermath and the subsequent official explanations, which were challenged for nearly four decades.

    Date: January 30, 1972
    Location: Derry, Northern Ireland
    Event: Bloody Sunday
    Casualties: 14 killed, 108 rounds fired
    Regiment: First Battalion Parachute Regiment (One Para)

    - On January 30, 1972, 14 unarmed civilians were shot dead by British Army soldiers in Derry, Northern Ireland, during a civil rights march.
    - The British government's initial explanation for the shootings was that soldiers fired in self-defense, a claim they maintained for 38 years.
    - The Widgery Tribunal, convened days after the incident, concluded that some soldiers fired "recklessly" but also suggested some victims handled weapons.
    - The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) organized the banned march to protest internment without trial, a policy introduced in August 1971.
    - The First Battalion Parachute Regiment, involved in Bloody Sunday, had previously killed 11 civilians in Ballymurphy in August 1971, with no soldiers prosecuted.

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    22 min
  • The bank records left in Malacañang that forced the money hunt to begin

    The bank records left in Malacañang that forced the money hunt to begin
    10 Oct 2026
    Soldiers found filing cabinets of bank records in Malacañang - could tracing stolen state assets cross borders and legal walls?

    The bank records left in Malacañang that forced the money hunt to begin

    In this episode, we follow how abandoned bank records in Malacañang Palace opened a trail into the architecture of offshore finance and the four-stage struggle to recover stolen state assets. The episode asks why tracing, freezing, confiscating and repatriating illicit wealth so often stalls long before the money returns.

    Person: Ferdinand Marcos
    Location: Malacañang Palace
    Event: discovery of filing cabinets with bank records (February 1986)
    Topic: offshore financial secrecy and asset recovery
    Period: postcolonial era through early 2000s reforms

    - Soldiers searching Malacañang in February 1986 found filing cabinets stuffed with bank records and transaction histories.
    - Marcos-directed funds moved through shell companies, nominee accounts, and foreign deposits across Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, and other jurisdictions.
    - Tracing stolen assets required reconstructing secret decisions across jurisdictions legally protected from scrutiny.
    - The four stages-trace, freeze, confiscate, repatriate-each demand distinct legal tools, treaties, and political will.
    - Countries like the United States adopted non-conviction based forfeiture after 2000 to convert freezes into recoveries, a tactic slow to spread elsewhere.

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    20 min
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