From Army Officer to Car Thief: The Story of the $40 Million Mastermind | Masterminds | Real Crime
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- Опубликовано: 1 май 2023
- A car theft ring was operational in New York City in 1999 led by Min Jin Yang, a former Chinese Army intelligence officer.
Yang's enterprise stole thousands of luxury vehicles with sophisticated security features and made millions of dollars through his tightly controlled organization.
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They weren’t smarter than him. His crew was sloppy. He’s doing 10yrs and made 40mill and they didn’t recover 1$.
If the guy didn’t crash and told they was good….
@@Bigmute501 exactly
Yup what an arrogant statement to make
You know that have to save that for their own ego. After their retirement he still came out on top if he never went back to crime.
They literally said they froze account
Smart man. Wife and side chick have the same name. You will never slip up and call them the wrong name.
Don't you mean the WONG name?
Agreed, BUT, not been able to keep your dick in your pants seems to undo empires regularly.
😅
its a j e w......
Call them all Babe.
When I was Corrections Officers I'd always ask the offenders what got them busted..90% always said GREED..
Not "just" greed bud.
Add the adrenaline and for THAT moment...you are THE man.
That combination is a hell of a drug.
On a much bigger scale,look at Escobar.👍
@@milolee1725i always had to hit opiates to help with the massive adrenaline hits when i scored big and got away. Got addicted to it just as much as the h
Her: we were smarter than he was
Him: operates for 10 years 😅
And he made 40 million dollars from stolen cars. Not a single penny recovered 😂😂🤣🤣
Also made 40 million that was never recovered hahahha how smart is she
That's a joke. What this docu failed to mention was that Kenny had ppl on the inside at the port who was helping him sercure paperwork, etc to make exportation possible. I'm sure plenty of bureaucrats were getting their palms greased. Also, as a professional who services these cars for a living, the bozos didn't even understand how the cars worked. "If you break the window the computer is disabled" 😂😂😂 yeah sure bud.
Most cars of that era didn't bring a GPS. Hell, most today don't even bring one. A GPS is a customer installed device, or it's installed by the dealership on financed vehicles if the customer is a high default risk.
Finally, his downfall wasn't the accident. His downfall was he let the Chinese cartels in on the business. He borrowed money from them, and paid them back (with interest) fairly quickly. Afterwards they approached him, and offered him a partnership. He accepted, and suddenly the pressure was one to bring in cars cars cars. That's what drove him to be desperate and make mistakes.
His story is an interesting one, google him.
@@RRR.MET27and they never found out who the buyers were on the other side 😂😂😂
@@LynxStarAuto yeaa
"We outsmarted him" but couldn't locate his millions of profit😂😂
Lol, 😂
They located it and shared it, unofficially...
Maybe .
Cause they was working with him
💯 he basically still wins he still alive has a roof over his head and eats 3 to 4 meals a day he's old done lived life now he can rest and relax and live to see another day in this unfairly world 😅
@@shannruff4466 *were
wow did you see how young judge Janine looked
I was wondering what moment in time this was going to be. Good old late 90's
11:34 am
Back in the America Online days
Tfffccxvz😊
*90s
"10 years later we outsmarted him but we never recovered any cars or money" ! I wouldn't brag about this or call myself an intelligence officer! 🤔🤔
The cars and the money went back to China. They don't cooperate with US law enforcement even with criminals.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Right
A dedicated person did his job and caught an excuse of a human being. A job well done. Recovery and other things are for others like courts and other agencies. Thank you for your hard work and dedication. Cracking a case is harder than it looks. Gob bless you and your team.
@@Hydermehdi Were you a member of this team? 🤣 If a criminal can outsmart a whole investigation team over 10 years, that team is not so smart. Sorry.
Correct there is no honor, among thieves! Truth.
Police lady said we r smarter than him. But 10 yrs and 40 mil said no u arnt. 🤣
The woman was like "We were smarter than he was" NO idi*t, took you years, and he only got sloppy, plus he only got 10yrs in prison. HAHAHAH😂
And they couldn't find his money lol
SO SMART THAT NOT 1 CAR WAS RECOVERED & NO IDEA WHO BOUGHT THEM...
She still thinks DJT was a good president to, AHAHAHAHAHAA!
@@oldmanfromoc7684 cringe
That woman is Jeanine Pirro and works for FauxNews now, of course she’s gonna spin and lie, it’s all she’s ever known!
Its the last part fr me where he ended up being arrested by the female undercover cop that left me in stitches as the guy narrates the event humorously.
Wicked funny….pats her on the ass! They were right, he just couldn’t resist.
Something must kill a man.😆
These daughters of Jezebel had to bring down a horny man😂😂😂😂#Fear Women......
Well she wasn't wearing underwear, that's a hook, line and sinker for most men.
Ability to crack them down, which only took over five years worth of $40M, none of which was recovered by the way? And Yang got only 10 years of proson time? What a sweet deal! Grear job NYPD!!
NYPD isn't in the business of prosecution. Don't blame them.
NYPD got paid by him already. LOL!!!
Sounds like everybody was a part of it wasn't cutting deals. No one loses except for us the innocent taxpayers. It's been over 10 years so everyone in this case is living it up. Our country is corrupt in every sector
Nice work if you can get it.
@@simbatortie9684 7
I used to work for prestigious car dealerships in LONDON and I was told that evertime the thieves were caught in one city they did move to other cities so fast
They’re claiming they outsmarted Ken but they really didn’t. He just got sloppy and couldn’t stay consistently smart with his activities
What do you think the word “outsmarted” means?
Yeah. When you make money illegally you don't know when to stop. The successful ones know when to stop
They outsmarted him to an extent, but at the end of the day he still ran his operation for 10 years and made 40 mil and police didn’t find a single penny lol
Bro made over 40 millions and never stopped or move back home
he relied on DOGS.. thats where they both went wrong gotta have loyalty cant trust anyone
To me, the criminals won, especially after getting ONLY ten years and moving millions. Not to mention the number of victims and the effect on insurance companies. They won.
Absolutely. I imagine he could afford a VERY good lawyer, he'll be out in no time! :D Go Kenny!
He'll probably be out early and still have most of his money. And that's 10 years or less of not having to pay any bills.
Well, the mastermind won.. I don't know about the other guys. They probably only got like 500-1000 USD per car or something down those lines. You know, to keep them coming back for more work.
Easily won, 10 years out their life but coming out to have 40 years of fun
Insurance companies absolutely milk it, even preparing for arbitary periods of high theft into their premium calculations. I promise you Kenny's theft would hardly make a dent to their profits.
The problem with thieves is they never know when to quit until it's too late
Alot of them do and never got caught so you just don't know them. LoL. You really think they caught 100% of criminals and there's not even one rebel who got away.
@@uncommonsence153 That's what you think
They always get caught. Even the smartest ones. It's always a snitch that brings anyone down
Best way to be a thief and never get caught is either be a politician or landlord preferably both.
Greed and arrogance gets them every time except so far Joe Biden.
10 mil .. 10 years ... fair deal .. you can work 40 years breaking your back and you won't have that 😂
8 years for eddie.not bad for what he did
And I feel like he had stashes waiting for him when he got out
This is justice the world we live in. The effects are massive yet justice never served. No regard for human for the country you live in no regards for nothing. Becarful when we invest dealing with business. He deserves a lot more than 8 years in prison.
Tribe membership has its privileges.
Didnt they say he pleaded guilty though? Usually u get a softer sentence relatively i would imagine for pleading guilty or plea deal..
Ken is pretty smart 10 years for 40mil is a win 🏆
Not really man.. time is the most valuable thing you have.
You forget his 40 mil was frozen
@@VG-rj8pn tell me u didn.t ginish the video with out tell me u didn.t finish the video 😂
I know he's a criminal, but what a life! Going from being an investigator for police in China to a real life Gone In 60 Seconds character! Make the movie!
He made 40 mil and they couldnt find a dime 😂😂😂😂
most of these are self promotion by cops ,,, first guy got 10 ,,,,plus the estimated 40 million that they couldn't find ,, second guy only got 8 and ,,,,,,,,,lol
Except the Swiss Bank account that was frozen.
Oh not; don't believe that; they found the money believe me ; only that it transfer hands ; their hands!
@@adrianfernandocastillo3837 they also took the money from Bin LAden and Ghadafi.....Arafat.
Yes they did!
Gone in 60 Seconds, but in real life! Makes me want to go and be a screenwriter... all the stories are already out there!
Thought the same shit
When the episode first started I was like, why not set up shop in California, but apparently Chang had that covered.
These dudes weren't playing around. They were super organized and prepared.
40 millions vs 10 years that's a good deal 😂
8 years for a $1 billion dollars worth of damages? Sign me up! Who says crime doesn't pay. Sounds like it pays extremely well.
I personally knew Dean, who I went to school with, and he lived a few blocks away from me, and Mario, who lived up the block from me.. Both in the Bronx! I always knew they were into some kind of sketchy car dealings, because of all the different cars they'd have. But not on this level until I heard in on the news in NYC back when all of this was taking place! Crazy..
i don't understand why they had to steal high end cars. Why not just buy them at retail and mark up twice to shanghai customers who are willing to pay it since luxury vehicles are in short supply in shanghai?
@@zackkazco2098 thats what i was thinking then i realized maybe he couldnt justify how he got the cash to start with
Wow! This is crazy! I think of me as teenager volunteering at Governor’s office where serial killer Ted Bundy worked!
It’s crazy when you know these ppl right?
@@zackkazco2098 I'm sure the price back then in China was so high for a reason. There were probably crazy customs duties and taxes. His business model was way more lucrative
North east bronx to be exact. Dem men dey did have a whole heap a car.
For the second sequence: The higher you soar, the harder you fall !!
Those Crazy Eddie commercials were part of every 80’s kid’s childhood in New York and New Jersey. Yeah he was a shady fu- but he sure knew how to promote his sketchy business. My family bought all kinds of stuff at Crazy Eddie’s and it was always the best deal.
Same here, his prices were insaaannnneeee!! Boy I remember..
actually the best deals were on canal st, but you had to be in the know
@@cameron6249 We weren’t going into the city just to get a cheap stereo back in the 70’s. Lower Manhattan was not safe in those days. Lol.
Greed is one hell of a drug
The Worst Drug Ever
Back when police were more concerned about actual crimes than Twitter posts
200 million in the 80s was a lot
It's alot today too.
According to a crime history no crime can flourish for so many years until or unless law enforcement agencies are not involved..!!
well thats with anything in life. nothing lasts forever
Tell that to Walmart in Chicago,....
Confusing post but many crimes can go for years without coming to the notice of police. As soon as I saw the M.O. I saw the weak point-idiots driving high end vehicles. You know one will get nabbed eventually.
Thats conspiracy nutter talk. Sure some are but the days of anything more thannlow level cops or detectives letting stuff slide is long gone. Plenty of crime crews get by without cop involvement - but noone knows when to get out ahead, greeds what brings people down.
But, i agree he probably had some chinese govt help over there. No police in the US, just chinese govt turning a blind eye over in asia ( for a fee obviously)
Back then $40 mil was a lot of money. He got 10 years. Sounds like he made out
If i'll get 8 years after so much crime, i might just take the chance.
"The whole family was a pack of thieves".....nice legacy.
Sounds pretty much like a politician family description.
S hi😅 by ft ft
It's in their Talmud
Anti Semitism
Something not right about leaving a high-dollar car with the widow broken out for two days to cool off, even in a 'nice' neighborhood.
They didn't break the windows, they had a guy who was a talented locksmith, standard and digital locks.
The cars could sell for double and he got 40%.
What a great deal.
I have had the privilege of driving both a Ferrari Testarossa & Ferrari Dino 308 GT4 back in the mid 80's, and they was old but rare cars back then.
I like how the district attorney was boasting of how much smarter they are when it took 10 years and none of the cars was recovered..
I was transporting stolen cars for a friend of mine a Libanese that went to school with me. Cars were stolen an shorty after completely disassembled. I drove the complete car in parts in a van cross Germany to the customers who sold them in eBay shops. The complete operation was shut down years later because another Libanese ratted because of yealousy. Luckily I stopped early enough because the guys only payed me 100 bucks per shipment. They were too gready to pay more an later all got caught exept me. Salute from Germany
I'm telling! 😂
@@LynxStarAuto snitch 😂😂😂😂
Oh really I'm so happy you're free. Tell me your full name and address so I can send you a congratulations gift 💫
🧐 👮♀️ 📸
Congratulations
40 mill for 10 years. Sounds like a deal to me
he got greedy. once some got arrested you walk never come back 40miil clean
@@tankthearc9875 yeah I would of bounce and settled for what I made already. That's plenty to live off
@@tankthearc9875 No it's not greed, it's an addiction. He had all the money he NEEDED, but started to enjoy the act too much, like a drug
@@209smokie9is easy to say you will just be good, but when you are making easy money is hard to leave behind
@@jackmarr1776 dude I been there before but no where near the scale they were doing. I understand when the heat is hot you get out
Amazing, quite a detailed process.
police were outsmarted , he just got too greedy , should have ditched dean after his arrest, they turn into rats fast
Also, he should have set up again in a new state.
Full story isn't in this doc. He partnered with the Chinese mafia much later and they wanted way more cars than he usually got which is why they ramped up numbers and got laxed with GPS scanning before warehouse.
@@tullochgorum6323 Bingo
Disgusting. All these cops on this video should be ashamed if they were involved in the case. it took 10 years to catch this guy. And he only got 10 years in prison. Poor all around performance.
The cops are not the judge
it's always democrat run cities
It's not the street cops at fault. Judges, DA, investigators and politicians call the shots.
During the 80's our cable system had WOR in New York on its channel lineup. I remember seeing his ads all the time. "Our prices are INSANE!"
His down fall was the snitch he had working fir him? Not that the government authorities are smarter 🤣
Thanks for the video. That Crazy Eddie story was an awesome surprise! Watched his commercials as a kid :)
If that cop didn't go in, they would wait few years more. They couldn't care less about your stolen car.😂
JAJAJA PIRRO THE DRUNK WHEN SHE WAS SANE LOL
Honestly this is genius. The organisation and cleverness involved in the process is amazing. Well done lads! :D
You’re too ignorant to know what true genius is.
😊
But they say that if you steal a 60.000 USD car in the US, it could be sold in China for 120.000 USD.
Why not just buy cars legally and export them, saves you the hazzle and risk of being imprisoned.
Yes, i know you can get more money from stealing, but he would still be making money if he just bought them.
Bcuz they're not honest or genius
@@JohnDoe-bd5sz what? they illegally exported them to china.
you cannot buy a current year car for 60k usd in America and legally sell it in China for 120k usd. If the Chinese authorities, find out they confiscate it.
What a smart bad person he was
Boy! That detective sure has a New York City intonation!
Jeanine seems so calm, normal....even professional and sane. I had to do a double take to make sure it was her.
Exactly! She’s a right wing. Wacko
Same with Giuliani. This was around his era
Lol i had to come to comments, i was like yo thats herrrr lol before the boxed wine and fox news slurred speech lmao lookin like a crazed lemur
Yeah. What the hell happened to her?
In the 90s, there was an alarm system called Clifford, and if the owners had installed this alarm/immobiliser on their cars than it would have been impossible for these cars to be stolen.
There’s nothing impossible remember that. If it was Clifford would be used in all cars til this day.
Bro you speaking about the 90s when right now in 2023 cars are still being stolen😂😂😂in Newyork, San Francisco, Canada,
Very intelligent man
The cops just got lucky on this bust. They should stop blowing their own horns.
“Debbie 2” lol!
I worked for a dealer in Queens NY there was a crew of 5 guys. They would take a test drive in car, check glove box where a tag that had key code was. Then after test drive they would walk over to parts department and ask for a new key for their car showing a registration for there car and parts department would cut them a new key for the car they just test drove.
When the cost was clear, They just walked up to car and drove away. The dealership lost like 15 cars before they figured out what was going on. The sales man saw the theft in action, he he recognized the guy. He just gave a test, drive to walk up and drove away with the
They cough the guy after crashing another car into him a few blocks away.
They took all the tags with key code from the glove box from that day on! Parts department check and found they had cut a key for every car they had need stolen. The dealer was
Koeppel Nissan!
Eddie had more floods and fires than the bible 🤣🤣
😂
Lmao
The problem with criminals like this is not stupidity it's greed they don't know when to quit..
This is the fact.
You can't quit! Because if you do the whole deck crumbles
Always takes one guy to ruin something good
Yeah that's always the way. One stupid prick can ruin something amazing just by being a stupid prick.
Yang is the man!! 10 years of work, 10 of vacation and $40,000,000 saved for retirement 😂!! But the Feds were smarter?. Not exactly.
He only got 10 years for that? That’s wild.
imagine stealing 40million and only 10 yrs....those judges must be high af 🤣😂🤣 ain't no way they way sober with that sentence
Its annoying when the NY attorney or whoever she was, is saying we're smarter, better etc etc... no you aren't? it took you 10 years and for him to make a mistake it wasn't because of your skill. Plus he only got 10 years and has 40million waiting for him when he gets out. I'd go to jail for 10 years for 40million. Be out around 35 or 30 with good behaviour, buy a farm and retire.
Your right. They take people for dummies
Even just 8 years is ALOT,
in a place like "Prison "...
Just one hour,
feels like..a whole day. 😜
That's crazy, i've never been a super rich businessman but i used to have a Julie #1 & Julie #2 so i can empathise with poor Eddie. lol
One of my favorite episodes
Re Antar going public, I can't believe that the IPO's underwriters (Wertheim, Bear Stearns and Salomon) didn't appoint their own auditing firm to check inventory. Just incredible.
And look what happened to Bear Sterns when the bubble burst 🤮🤣 Obama let them sink 😄😂😁🤣
All of them are followers of the same religion!
He wasn't flashy. That was the smartest thing he did out of anything else he did in this scheme. Speaking about Yang the car thief.
The best part is when eddy got arrested .
Cant stop laughing 😂😂😂
Kpekus
They did NOT outsmart him..
They only caught him because that rat exposed the whole operation.
“Crazy Eddie is using the 39 stores in his three state empire to line his pocket with millions”
Call me crazy, but I would assume anyone with a 39 store three state empire would be lining their pockets with millions. That’s why people have 39 store three state empires. It kind of reminds me when Number 2 was trying to convince Dr Evil that the front organizations for his evil empire were on their own making billions, legitimately. (Including the factory that made miniature replicas of factories)
Interesting video thank you for sharing
I love love love that Yang got off w the money and 10 years🔥🔥
The real Gone in 60 seconds
Where you think the movie comes from..
@@casecold1864 hollywood
@@tankthearc9875😅😅good 1
Jeanine Pierro before she lost her mind! Lol!
Car thieves, hmmn, not sure I give a ****..
Nah. That was her cousin Jeanine Pirro
now a fox news nut case
LOL I knew that was her!! hahaha what a piece of garbage.
Knew this had to be old since judge Jeannie was young then.
BTW, because she on Fox means she stands for truth and not radicalism that you see on the woke left today
His strength was his weakness. He made a deal with a Chinese gang which guaranteed him a huge client base to make money from. But that huge client base also compelled him to commit more thefts than he could handle. And he also couldn't stop the operation for his safety because the Chinese gang was not gonna let him stop.
If dude never got in that wreck and snitched Yang would still be out here doing his thang.
Did she really act like she caught him on police work? Nah boo someone sold him out lol
That DA woman is a joke and is so prideful for having done virtually nothing to actually catch him and the operation. LOL "What brought him down was that we were smarter than him." No, no you weren't. What brought him down was greed, a lack of patience, and a stool pigeon. If you were smarter than him, he wouldn't have gotten away with so much for so long. I realize most criminals are eventually caught or at least found out some time after they die, but had this man had better help, there's no telling how much longer this would've gone on.
Growing up in MA in the 80's, Crazy Eddie's voice was imprinted in my brain (to this day). I can still remember sitting in my grandma's living room and seeing him go "our prices are... INSAAAAAANE" hahaha
who knew someone can disable a car immobilizer with microsoft powerpoint
Driving around the block, cameras, fixing the thief damage, wow! If this dude just went legit in whatever he did, he probably be 3x the millionaire he could of become as a CEO of a lawful company!
So many CEO’s are crooks too
Funny thing is people who lived in the neighborhood knew. I used to drive by there. Both eddie n mario i know.
He needed the start up money
I doubt he be up 3x 40 million just off of body work because that’s basically the only legit thing he did in that entire process.
It’s harder to start a legitimate business in America
6:24 dang mr chow from the hangover
No matter what you do illegally, you ALWAYS have someone get caught for something and are willing to make a deal and sell you out. Food for thoughts
Three can keep a secret if two are dead.
I always wondered what Jeanne Pirro sounded like sober.
It's funny how the lady on this documentary says they are more intelligent etc, but he made 10m over 10 years so for 10 years they did not get him lol
I don't[ think that's what you call smart policing.
Nice Vid 👍🏼
Always watched masterminds great program
Setting up a few bait cars may have curbed theft. Then again, the technology available today to law enforcement may not have been available to them back then.
"Crazy Eddie's Prices are INSANE!!" HAHA. LOVED THAT GROWING UP. IM PRETTY SURE THAT MAY BE THE CHARACTER IDEA FOR THE JEWISH GUY IN GOODFELLAS WHO IS ALWAYS HASSLING DENIRO FOR "HIS CUT". NOT SURE ON THAT THO.
Morrie the Wig Guy, even though I think Morrie was around before Crazy Eddie! I always though "The Wiz" guy from Seinfeld was based on Crazy Eddie, "I'm the Wiz and nobody beats me, because I'm the Wiz!"
@@prophetmargin7497 I was thinking the exact same thing about the Whiz!
@prophetmargin7497 you could be right?? I was born in 78 so I'd Morrie was a real guy, I wouldn't remember him or his commercials, but they definitely reminded me of good Ole "Crazy Eddie"!
@@jay.fromthebay Seinfeld was brilliant at parodying real life events, like the episode where George runs over Bette Midler in a softball game, which everyone thought was a plot so Jerry's girlfriend at the time, (who was the understudy for Bette), could get the part. It was based on the Tanya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan incident!
@@mattlarew2100 Morrie was based on real life bookie and mob associate Martin Krugman who went missing soon after the Lufthansa Heist which took place in December/78. It was assumed Jimmy Burke had put a hit on Krugman so he wouldn't have to pay him his finder's fee for helping to set up the heist along with Henry Hill, Krugman's body was never found!
Lol Crazy Eddie I Never knew this about you! I remember loving your commercials cause they were “insane!!!”
Wow
😂😅😂😅
Yea that’s crazy I never knew either
it all came out when he was arrested but like most people i thought he was inidan
All the agencies “worked together”, still couldn’t call off an officer from accidentally intervening the investigation.
I think this guys story was the reason gone in 60 seconds was given the green light when in 1999/2000 (there is a 1974 version, but this story had it fresh in American minds).
Loved this documentary, just seems surreal & very different to try & do now, almost impossible in cars with complete wireless infostructure, companies like Tesla, change the core system codes as soon as it it reported.
The 2000 Gone in 60 seconds was epic too, the cars, "Eleanor" (GT500), the porsche scene at the start was good too. Christopher Eccleston was a magnificent part for him. Equally as good but quiet was our very own Vinny Jones, especially the multistorey showdown with the police. Then, the snake was launched.
A bonus was Angelie seducing Nicholas Cage while waiting to boost the car- as a 14 year old at time of release, was the closest I got to seduction 😂
NYPD claiming they outsmarted. Shame on you NYPD
I grew up in the 80s (as a child) and 90s (teen) in NYC. I remember Crazy Eddie commercials! I just laughed and shook my head when I saw them come on TV back then. 🤣
Lady you weren't smarter than him. You just had more resources and man power at your disposal.
Got to come to Minneapolis or to Milwaukee and make a new version of this of how these kids get these kias and Hyundai
Id say Chicago would be cool
Lol are you comparing a international luxury car theft ring to some kids stealing korean cars with bad security systems for fun
@@jack604 You mean no security system