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Podcast: True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer
Episode: WISED UP-- From Mobster to Cooperating Witness. Meet Charlie, his FBI pal and the journalist who told his story!
Description: Arson, loansharking, drug dealing, extortion - it was all in a day's work for Charlie Wilhelm.
In Baltimore, an organized crime syndicate of over 200 men took orders from him and his partner, strong arm enforcer Billy Isaacs. For over twenty years, Charlie lived the sweet life, making $10,000 a week in untaxed cash. ORDERED TO KILL But everything changed in 1995, when Isaacs demanded that Wilhelm take out two men he suspected of cheating him. Charlie Wilhelm didn't want to kill  but he didn't want to die, either.
Turning to FBI agent Bruce Hall who'd grown up i...