Retail Crime Exposed (RCE) is a podcast dedicated to the people on the front lines of fighting retail crime hosted by industry leader John Matas.

We provide a trusted platform where loss prevention leaders, retail security professionals, ORC experts, and law enforcement can share real-world issues, proven strategies, and valuable investigative insights with the audience that needs to hear them most.

By bringing together the voices driving change across the industry, Retail Crime Exposed shines a spotlight on the challenges, wins, solutions, and innovations shaping the future of retail crime prevention.

 

 

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Season 1, Episode 2. Part 2.

Season 1, Episode 2. Part 2.
RCE Season 1, Episode 2 Part 2.

Season 1, Episode 2. Part 2.

John Matas continues his conversation with Raul Aguilar, head of law enforcement at Auror, on how retailers and law enforcement can build stronger organized retail crime cases. They cover ORC’s spread across in-store and online channels, including gift card fraud, identity theft, and money movement, and point investigators to training resources like the HSI ACAMS report on ORC. Aguilar explains the CORCA bill’s plan for a DHS-led center of excellence, tougher money laundering charges, and expanded public-private partnerships, along with the funding, privacy, and technology hurdles it faces. The episode closes on why national intelligence sharing is key to identifying repeat offenders and connecting cases across retailers and jurisdictions.

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Season 1, Episode 2.

Season 1, Episode 2.
RCE Season 1, Episode 2.

Season 1, Episode 2.

In this episode of Retail Crime Exposed, host John Matas sits down with Raul Aguilar, Head of Law Enforcement at Auror and former Deputy Assistant Director for Transnational Crime at Homeland Security Investigations, to break down the results of the nationwide ORC blitz that took place in August, the challenges of dismantling organized retail crime networks, and the critical skills retail investigators need to build cases that actually get prosecuted.

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Season 1, Episode 1. Part 2

Season 1, Episode 1. Part 2
RCE Season 1, Episode 1 Part 2.

Season 1, Episode 1. Part 2.

In Part 2 of Retail Crime Exposed, John Matas and NRF’s David Johnston unpack the 2026 NRF Retail Crime and Violence Report, including the real trade-offs between locking product and shoppable merchandise protection. They also cover the CORCA bill, the shift of ORC into digital fraud, unified investigative tools, and where asset protection goes next.

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Season 1, Episode 1

Season 1, Episode 1
RCE Season 1, Episode 1.

Season 1, Episode 1.

Episode one of the US series hosted by retail crime expert John Matas CFE, CFCI, opens with a guest who needs no introduction, David Johnston, VP of Asset Protection & Retail Operations at the National Retail Federation. The man who has testified before Congress on organized retail crime. The person retailers across America turn to when the stakes are highest.

This first episode sets the tone for everything to come: real talk, real expertise, zero spin. An informative and hard-hitting look at theft, violence and ORC across the United States.

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