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Karmelo Anthony Is Back in Court Today, 14 People Charged in a Penn State Fraternity Cocaine Trafficking Ring, and Jeanie Buss Fights the Lakers Sale · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony is back in court with a new defense team,
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  Speaker 1: fighting to remove a judge who oversaw his trial and
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  Speaker 1: get him a new one. Did the jury get it right? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: They did.
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  Speaker 1: Fourteen people are charged in an alleged cocaine trafficking ring
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  Speaker 1: tied to two Penn State fraternities, and.
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  Speaker 2: That packaging was done by fraternity brothers and oftentime pledges.
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  Speaker 1: And the Laker cell has turned into a Bus family fight.
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  Speaker 1: Five siblings voting to sell, Genie Buss voting no. It's Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: August nineteenth, from the Black Effects Podcast Network. I'mmi Brown.
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  Speaker 1: This is front page and here are the day's biggest stories.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with me. Carmelo Anthony is back in a Collin County,
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  Speaker 1: Texas courtroom today with a new defense team and a
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  Speaker 1: new legal fight. A visiting judge will decide whether John
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  Speaker 1: Judge Roach, who presided over Carmelo's June trial, should be
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  Speaker 1: removed from his post trial proceedings. The issue with an
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  Speaker 1: interview Roach gave after Carmelo was convicted. Could the jury
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  Speaker 1: get it right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? They did? You know what, because they were picked
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  Speaker 2: based upon the law, They listened to the facts.
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  Speaker 1: Carmelo's Dow attorneys argue those comments raised questions about whether
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  Speaker 1: Roach can fairly consider their request for a new trial,
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  Speaker 1: and that hearing is scheduled for tomorrow. One of the
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  Speaker 1: defense's arguments centers on what appelled. Attorney Russell Wilson calls
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  Speaker 1: quote a gentleman's agreement. Wilson says prosecutor said Carmelo's original
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  Speaker 1: defense team had an off the record understanding that certain
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  Speaker 1: character evidence involving Carmelo, Austin Metcalf, and Metcalf's brother would
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  Speaker 1: not be introduced at trial, but prosecutors reportedly withdrew from
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  Speaker 1: that agreement. The defense says that changed the trial strategy,
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  Speaker 1: including Carmelo's decision not to testify one potential hurdle. The
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  Speaker 1: agreement was now were put on the record, so first
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  Speaker 1: a judge decides who will hear Carmelo's post trial case,
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  Speaker 1: then the new attorneys make their case for why he
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  Speaker 1: should get another trial. Fourteen people are facing charges in
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  Speaker 1: an alleged cocaine trafficking operation tied to two Penn State fraternities.
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  Speaker 1: Thirteen are current or former Penn State students. The fourteenth
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  Speaker 1: is the father of one of those students. For the
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  Speaker 1: defendants are still enrolled at Penn State. Pennsylvania Attorney General
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  Speaker 1: Dave Sunday says the alleged operation involved members and pledges
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  Speaker 1: of two fraternities.
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  Speaker 2: What we learned during this investigation was that between twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three and twenty twenty four, large amounts of cocaine
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  Speaker 2: kilos were brought from Philadelphia and New York to State College,
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  Speaker 2: where they were cut and packaged for sale primarily to
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  Speaker 2: Penn State students. The two main dealers were senior members
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  Speaker 2: of the Delta Upsilon and Sigma Kai fraternities. Agostino Abatiello
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  Speaker 2: was at the very top of the chain. Thomas Robinson
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  Speaker 2: was a rung below that on the ladder. The evidence
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  Speaker 2: showed that cocaine was primarily packaged at the fraternity houses,
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  Speaker 2: and that packaging was done by fraternity brothers and oftentime pledges.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, we found a pattern of events that showed
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  Speaker 2: cutting and bagging cocaine was for some pledges and indoctrination
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  Speaker 2: into the Delta Upsilon and Sigma Pi fraternities.
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  Speaker 1: Both fraternities are off campus, and Sigma Kai is not
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  Speaker 1: currently recognized by the university. One of the alleged ringleaders
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  Speaker 1: turned to himself in Tuesday and has been denied bail,
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  Speaker 1: and one student's father, Paul Robinson, is charged with felony tampering.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators accused him of trying to conceal evidence, including a
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  Speaker 1: safe containing drugs and cash. Penn State has placed Delta
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  Speaker 1: Epsilon on interim suspension, and the university calls the allegations horrifying.
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  Speaker 1: And lastly, the twelve point five billion dollar sell of
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  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Lakers has hit a new roadblock inside
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  Speaker 1: the Bus family. Last week we told you former Disney
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  Speaker 1: CEO Bob Iger and Thrive Capital founder Josh Kushner agreed
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  Speaker 1: to buy the Lakers in a deal that would value
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  Speaker 1: the franchise at twelve point five billion dollars, the highest
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  Speaker 1: ever for professional sports team. Now, the Bus family has
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  Speaker 1: to decide what happens to the remaining seventeen point eight
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  Speaker 1: percent State Monday, five of the six Bus siblings voted
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  Speaker 1: to sell. Jennie Buss did not, and now her attorney
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  Speaker 1: is challenging whether her siblings can move forward without her. Johnny, Jimmy, Janey, Joey,
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  Speaker 1: and Jesse Buss release a statement saying they are united
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  Speaker 1: in their decision to sell. Genie's attorney, Adam streisand responded
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  Speaker 1: with the letter demanding the family take no action on
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  Speaker 1: the vote. His argument goes back to a twenty seventeen
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  Speaker 1: court wru. Genie's side says the family state cannot be
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  Speaker 1: sold without approval from all three co trustees Genie, Janey,
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  Speaker 1: and Joey, So even though five of the six siblings
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  Speaker 1: voted to sell, Genie argues her approval is still required.
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  Speaker 1: And there's another major issue for Genie. If the Igor
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  Speaker 1: Kushner sell closes as planned, they would own roughly eighty
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  Speaker 1: three percent of the Lakers, and Genie would lose her
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  Speaker 1: position as governor of the franchise. Genie previously had an
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  Speaker 1: agreement with Mark Walter, the billionaire Dodgers owner who bought
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  Speaker 1: controlling ownership of the Dodgers last year, that would allow
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  Speaker 1: her to remain governor through at least twenty thirty. But
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  Speaker 1: Walter is also selling his controlling stake as part of
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  Speaker 1: the new deal. So what looked like a done deal
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  Speaker 1: is now a fight over who has the legal authority
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  Speaker 1: to sell the bus's family remaining piece of the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: That's your front page. I Mimi Brown. This podcast was
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