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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: This is seven tor Boy.
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  Speaker 2: The Mark Simoon Show starts now.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's Friday. Tomorrow, the election begins. The mayor all
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  Speaker 3: election begins tomorrow. Early voting starts tomorrow and goes for
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  Speaker 3: ten days. The election itself is a week from Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: It's almost here. Andrew Cuomo has picked up steam. He
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  Speaker 3: had a good debate performance, which is unusual. He usually
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  Speaker 3: is pretty bad in those debates. But some people think
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  Speaker 3: he got shot up with some of that Joe Biden injection.
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  Speaker 3: You'll suddenly give him some energy, some speed, and so
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  Speaker 3: he was pretty good in that debate. Curtis most just
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  Speaker 3: about everybody agrees won the debate. On content, on issues,
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  Speaker 3: Curtis the winner. But but Cuomo energetic for the first time,
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  Speaker 3: actually able to talk smoothly for the first time. Not great,
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  Speaker 3: not great. The mom Donni still a better debater, But
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  Speaker 3: since then, Clomo's picked up a little steam. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if it's enough. It may be way too late.
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  Speaker 3: Eric Adams has endorsed Cuomo. Why does Eric Adams suddenly
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  Speaker 3: endorse Cuomo? He just five minutes ago was calling him literally,
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  Speaker 3: called him a snake and a liar. Well, as you know,
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  Speaker 3: there were billionaires, zillionaires, big big, big, big money donors,
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  Speaker 3: trying to help Cuomo like crazy, trying to bribe Curtis
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  Speaker 3: out of the race, trying to bribe Eric Adams out
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  Speaker 3: of the race. A lot of money being offered to
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people to help Cuomo. And suddenly Adams
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  Speaker 3: is endorsing Cuomo. I don't know anything, you do the math,
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  Speaker 3: But there was Eric Adams yesterday endorsing Cuomo.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you criticize Andrew and you call them names, you
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  Speaker 4: know what, and he called me names. But you know what,
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  Speaker 4: now it was time to fight for the family. And
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  Speaker 4: I'm a fight for the family with Andrew Cuomo as
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  Speaker 4: the next mayor of the City of New York.
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  Speaker 3: I'm fighting for the family of New York.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I'm here today to endorse Andrew Cuomo to
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  Speaker 4: be part of this fight.
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  Speaker 3: All right, all right, yeah, I guess that's true. Cuomo
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  Speaker 3: did call him names. And the fact that Adams kept
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  Speaker 3: calling Cuomo names, called him a snake and a liar.
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  Speaker 3: That's really not that unusual in politics. It happens all
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  Speaker 3: the time. I remember George Bush calling Reagan all kinds
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  Speaker 3: of names in the primary Voodoo Economics all that stuff,
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  Speaker 3: and then when he got chosen as the running mate,
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  Speaker 3: you forget about all that. It happens all the time,
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  Speaker 3: all the time, even Trump. You know, when he was
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  Speaker 3: in the primaries, he was calling Rubio names. Rubio called
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  Speaker 3: him names. Same thing with just about everybody in the
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  Speaker 3: in the primary. So you forget all that when it
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  Speaker 3: comes time for a general election. But Cuomo, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know he thinks. I don't know how much Eric Adams
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  Speaker 3: helps him. He is voting. His numbers were single digits,
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  Speaker 3: so there's not a lot of votes there. But they
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  Speaker 3: stood there. They even hugged each other.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to thank Mayor Adams for his support,
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  Speaker 5: but more than for his support, the mayor put his
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  Speaker 5: own ambition aside because he cares more about New York City.
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  Speaker 3: I see a little shot at Curtis there.
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  Speaker 5: New Yorker's vote, I win. New Yorkers reject this socialism,
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  Speaker 5: reject the vision. If New Yorkers vote, I win.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, he's back to the slow talking a little. Did
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  Speaker 3: Curtis Curtis sliwa? We think Curtis would make the best mayor.
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  Speaker 3: Curtis Sliwa? Did he want adams endorsement?
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  Speaker 6: I know they're going to be celebrating today, But when
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  Speaker 6: I look at them today, two corrupt birds of a
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  Speaker 6: feather flock together, they deserve one another.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, he didn't want adams endorsement.
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  Speaker 7: The rough birds of a feather flock to get I'm
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  Speaker 7: not worried about that.
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  Speaker 6: Anybody who was going to vote Ferrick Adams I have
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  Speaker 6: to wonder with.
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  Speaker 7: They've been these last four years because he is the
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  Speaker 7: most corrupt man in the history of New York. So, hey,
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  Speaker 7: Andrew Cuomo, you can have whatever votes he had. I
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  Speaker 7: don't ever want Eric Adams.
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  Speaker 3: Votes now again. Early voting starts tomorrow, so it's just
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  Speaker 3: about over. But you know, there's still a week and
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  Speaker 3: a half and they're trying to push Curtis out of
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  Speaker 3: the race. Those same big money donors. They have this
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  Speaker 3: fantasy that if Curtis dropped out, the votes would go
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  Speaker 3: to Cuomo. Most people think that's ridiculous. Most of these
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  Speaker 3: SLIWA voters hate Cuomo. Jimmy Faylor put it best. It
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  Speaker 3: stead of like if the Yankees lose and the Red
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  Speaker 3: Sox win and go on to the World Series, they
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  Speaker 3: Yankee fans don't start rooting for the Red sox doesn't
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  Speaker 3: just doesn't work that way. Well, get back to the
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  Speaker 3: mayoral race. Lots to get to there. Leticia James, our sleezy,
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  Speaker 3: dirty attorney General, is in Virginia right now. She's about
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  Speaker 3: to go into court this morning. Looks like she will
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  Speaker 3: be indicted for mortgage fraud if you look at the documents.
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  Speaker 3: We assume the documents are all authentic, and if they are,
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  Speaker 3: it looks like she's pretty guilty of mortgage fraud, deceiving
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  Speaker 3: the bank. Now when you watch the reports, all you
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  Speaker 3: hear about is Trump targeting, is targeting, is political enemies. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: when Letitia James was inviting indicting here, you never heard
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  Speaker 3: one person say she's targeting her political enemies. You never
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  Speaker 3: heard the same anchors say that Governor Kathy Hogel jumps
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  Speaker 3: in to defend Letitia James. You know, there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of sleezy deals around the whocal world. That stadium deal,
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  Speaker 3: that virus testing deal, a lot of people that was
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  Speaker 3: really sleezy. She didn't need anybody looking into That might
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  Speaker 3: be one reason she's being so supportive of the attorney general.
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  Speaker 3: But here she was defending Letitia James. The whole bunch
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  Speaker 3: of slimy Jerry Nadler type democrats on stage with her.
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  Speaker 1: If they can do this to an attorney general of
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  Speaker 1: a state like New York, heaven helped the rest of us,
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  Speaker 1: because they can come after anyone.
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  Speaker 3: Well, actually they do all the time. People do get
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  Speaker 3: arrested and indicted for this exact same crime, this mortgage fraud.
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  Speaker 3: And this is not like what Trump did. You know
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  Speaker 3: what they accused Trump of doing overvaluing his apartment, which
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  Speaker 3: first of all, he didn't. If you look now at
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  Speaker 3: the comparable you know, that's what they do in real estate,
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  Speaker 3: you look at the comparable apartments and what they sold for.
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  Speaker 3: He was pretty much right with his evaluation. But if
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  Speaker 3: you look at his case, the crime, there was no crime.
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  Speaker 3: He couldn't possibly have committed a crime because he knew
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  Speaker 3: the bank knew, everybody knew that whatever evaluation he put
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  Speaker 3: would never be seen by the bank. They would never
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  Speaker 3: look at it. It says right in the documents, we're
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  Speaker 3: not to look at your numbers. We won't use your numbers.
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  Speaker 3: It says right in his document, don't use this number,
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  Speaker 3: do your own. But they all know the bank doesn't
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  Speaker 3: look at your number when they want to give you
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  Speaker 3: an eight hundred million dollar loan. They send a team
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  Speaker 3: of appraisers, they'll come decide what the number is. They
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  Speaker 3: never even look at your number. Never. Now, in the
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  Speaker 3: case of Letitia James, this is a crime that it's
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  Speaker 3: easy to commit because the bank only looks at your number.
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  Speaker 3: And in the words, if you say it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be my primary residence, they take your word for it.
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  Speaker 3: They don't follow you around for a year. They take
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  Speaker 3: your word for it. And the reason she said it
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  Speaker 3: was her prime going to be our primary residence. She'd
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  Speaker 3: get a much better mortgage rate, she'd get a much
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  Speaker 3: better tax rate. She was saving a lot of men.
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  Speaker 3: So it was clearly when you do something like this,
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  Speaker 3: it's clearly to defraud the bank, and you're on your taxes.
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  Speaker 3: So she is going to have a problem today in court.
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  Speaker 3: Now they're trying to go after the prosecutor who what
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  Speaker 3: I was I believe a Trump attorney at one point,
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  Speaker 3: But that's not unusual. Many times somebody's president and their
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  Speaker 3: attorney or their legal team people like that all get
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  Speaker 3: appointed as US attorneys. And then they attack her by saying,
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  Speaker 3: even Hockel did that, she's a US attorney who has
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  Speaker 3: no experience as a prosecutor. Well, that's pretty common. That
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  Speaker 3: happens a lot. Chris Christy's a good example. He had
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  Speaker 3: absolutely no experience as a prosecutor. I don't think he'd
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  Speaker 3: ever even been in a courtroom before. But he'd been
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  Speaker 3: a huge fundraiser for George W. Bush, so they appointed
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  Speaker 3: him US attorney. Now, there's a lot of US attorneys
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  Speaker 3: who are very experienced prosecutors, but there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: them get that appointment and they've never been a prosecutor.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not unusual at all. But this is the
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  Speaker 3: double standard the media Democrats are famous for. Another good
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  Speaker 3: example is this what they're calling BDS. BDS is the
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  Speaker 3: new disease. It's ballroom derangement syndrome. Liberals media melting down
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  Speaker 3: over the ballroom, the construction which has taken place fourteen times,
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  Speaker 3: the same exact corruption construction with the with the wrecking
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  Speaker 3: ball and the cranes at fourteen times it's been done
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  Speaker 3: at the White House. You know what's interesting the ballroom.
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  Speaker 3: Have you seen the pictures of it. It's spectacular. This
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  Speaker 3: Versailles like ballroom is absolutely enormous, spectacular, ornate, luxurious, three
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  Speaker 3: hundred million. When Obama did his construction, he tore out
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  Speaker 3: the was it the tennis courts? He tore out the
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  Speaker 3: tennis courts and built a basketball court. He spent three
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  Speaker 3: hundred and seventy six million, which is about four hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifty million in today's dollars. So the media totally corrupt.
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  Speaker 3: Not one reporter, anchor media writer New York Times, nobody
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  Speaker 3: has started to ask why would a basketball court, which
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  Speaker 3: is just a slab of concrete, why would a basketball
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  Speaker 3: court cost fifty percent more than this ballroom? It should
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  Speaker 3: cost one fiftieth of what the ballroom costs. Not only
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  Speaker 3: did it cost off more than the ballroom, Obama built
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  Speaker 3: it to the tax beyers. In this case, Trump is
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  Speaker 3: having it, he's paying for it, and some donors are
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  Speaker 3: paying for it. So total total corruption on the part
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  Speaker 3: of the media, never asking anything they should be asking, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: that NBA scandal. A lot of arrests, reputed mobsters, thirteen
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  Speaker 3: reputed mobsters busted alongside NBA stars, sweeping historic gambling bust
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  Speaker 3: and the NBA terrified of this. They're tangled up in it.
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  Speaker 3: Players throwing games, all sorts of stuff. Four teams, four
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  Speaker 3: mob families, millions and millions and millions of dollars. It's
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  Speaker 3: hard to believe anybody would fall for this, though. They
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  Speaker 3: get a couple of famous athletes to lead high rollers
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  Speaker 3: into this poker game where everything is real. The card
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  Speaker 3: shuffler is rigged, the deck is rigged, everything is rigged.
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  Speaker 3: This is like a real, uh, Henry Hill, Jimmy Burke
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  Speaker 3: kind of a card game. Now what was his name
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  Speaker 3: of the movie, Jimmy Conway, Remember Goodfellas, Henry Hill, Jimmy
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  Speaker 3: Conway with that poker game. So why would you if
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  Speaker 3: you're a big NBA star and these guys, If you
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  Speaker 3: look at these guys, they've each made like one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifty million, two hundred million, you're multi, multi, multi millionaires.
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  Speaker 3: Why would they get involved in something like this? Well,
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  Speaker 3: it's usually two reasons. One, they're in debt to the mob,
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  Speaker 3: the gambling debts, or something in debt somehow. But again,
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  Speaker 3: if you're worth one hundred and fifty million, it's hard
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  Speaker 3: to believe they're in debt to the mob. It could
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  Speaker 3: be that could be it, or it could be they
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  Speaker 3: were involved in something else, some other total sleazy, dirty,
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  Speaker 3: bad behavior. Something they were doing that the mob knew
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  Speaker 3: about or had something to do with it, and are
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  Speaker 3: blackmailing him into this. It could be that too, who knows.
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  Speaker 3: But the bust was pretty pretty big yesterday. Here's a
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  Speaker 3: cash pttel FBI director on it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not one hundreds of dollars. It's not thousands of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: It's not tens of thousands of dollars. It's not even
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  Speaker 1: millions of dollars. We're talking about tens of millions of
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  Speaker 1: dollars in fraud and theft and robbery across a multi
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  Speaker 1: year investigation.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, the sports books themselves are victims in this case.
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  Speaker 3: They at themselves did not as far as our.
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  Speaker 8: Investigation has concluded, they did not perpetrate anything unlawful.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, now you gotta wonder a big high roller players,
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  Speaker 3: what are they doing in this kind of game? You
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  Speaker 3: know you can bet anywhere now? They got legal betting,
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  Speaker 3: They got those betting sites. You can go to Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: You don't need to go see Jimmy Conway and Henry
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  Speaker 3: Hill here.
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  Speaker 8: Once the game was underway, the defendants fleeced the victims
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  Speaker 8: out of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars per game.
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  Speaker 8: The defendants used a variety of very sophisticated cheating technologies,
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  Speaker 8: some of which were provided by other defendants in exchange
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  Speaker 8: for a share of the profits from the scheme.
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  Speaker 3: It does sound pretty good. This is going to be
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  Speaker 3: one big movie one day.
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  Speaker 8: Between December twenty twenty two and March twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 8: these defendants perpetrated a scheme to defraud by betting on
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  Speaker 8: inside non public information about NBA athletes and teams. The
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  Speaker 8: non public information included when specific players would be sitting
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  Speaker 8: out future games or when they would pull themselves out
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  Speaker 8: early for purported injuries or illnesses.
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  Speaker 3: All right, but that's gone on before. We've seen that
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  Speaker 3: through the years, and in the age of Twitter and
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  Speaker 3: social media and TikTok and all that stuff, you'd think
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  Speaker 3: that information would fly around a lot more than it
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  Speaker 3: even does now.
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  Speaker 2: Cash Betel, not only did we crack into the fraud
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  Speaker 2: that these perpetrators committed on the grand stage the NBA,
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  Speaker 2: but we also entered and executed a system of justice
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  Speaker 2: against La Caasanoshra to include the Bonano, Gambino, Geneveci and
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  Speaker 2: New Chase crime families.
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  Speaker 3: La Coosa and Nostra. When is the last time you
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  Speaker 3: heard that phrase.
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  Speaker 1: This is an illegal gambling operation and sports rigging operation
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  Speaker 1: that spanned the course of years. The FBI let a
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  Speaker 1: coordinated takedown across eleven states to arrest over thirty individuals
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  Speaker 1: today responsible for this case, which is very much ongoing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty amazing. It's quite a story. The only problem
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  Speaker 3: I wish this would happen in a few weeks from now.
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  Speaker 3: The only problem with this case, it's grabbing all the headlines.
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  Speaker 3: It's covering up the Letitia James indictment. In fact, the
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  Speaker 3: James indictment last night, if you were watching the news,
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  Speaker 3: it was like fifteen minutes into the news because this
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  Speaker 3: thing took up the whole first ten minutes. But sometime
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  Speaker 3: this morning we'll hear that Tish James was indicted. But
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  Speaker 3: this NBA thing looks like over thirty people so far
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  Speaker 3: have been indicted. You'll see more names added to that.
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  Speaker 3: This will grow and mushroom and anyway, Hey, we got
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  Speaker 3: a lot to get to. Hey, we'll get to Johnny Carson.
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  Speaker 3: It's the one hundredth birthday of Johnny Carson, the greatest
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  Speaker 3: talk show host ever, the greatest late night host. We'll
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  Speaker 3: talk about him in a few minutes. Oh, we'll take
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  Speaker 3: some calls. Next eight hundred three two one zero seven
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  Speaker 3: ten is the number. Eight hundred three two one zero
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