Smoke Screen: Betrayal On The Bayou
For almost two decades, DEA Special Agent Chad Scott ruled the streets just North of New Orleans. He controlled a network of snitches by convincing people he arrested to work for him as informants. Chad would stop at nothing to put drug dealers behind bars. His successes won awards at the DEA, but his willingness to bend the rules earned him a terrifying reputation on the streets. Some called him the Golden Boy. Others called him the White Devil. But when one of the guys on Chad's team is caught dealing drugs, Chad’s life is overturned. His right-hand men betray him and confess everything to the FBI. Investigators go over his career with a fine-toothed comb, asking the question: is Chad Scott the greatest DEA Agent in the South, or is he a criminal?
Meet the Hosts
Jim Mustian
Jim Mustian is an investigative reporter for The Associated Press. Before joining AP in 2018, he worked as an investigative reporter for The New Orleans Advocate newspaper, where he was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories about an unusual Louisiana law that allowed non unanimous juries to convict people of felonies. A Louisiana native, Mustian also has written at newspapers in Texas and Georgia.
Faimon Roberts
Faimon Roberts is a rural affairs writer for the Times Picayune/Advocate newspapers in southeast Louisiana. In his decade at the paper, he has covered a half dozen parishes in Louisiana, writing about everything from hurricanes to corrupt public officials to NASA's plans to get to Mars. Roberts grew up in Louisiana, and has lived in Texas, Finland and the United Kingdom. A graduate of Louisiana Tech University and the University of Oxford, Roberts is an instructor of the Ancient Near East at Loyola University.
