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- 0:54Speaker 2: eight fifty eight. Tom Payton is in studio with us
- 0:56Speaker 2: this morning, Payton Law from one line p uy t
- 0:58Speaker 2: U and Payton Law Froom dot com and Nitro West Virginia. Tom,
- 1:01Speaker 2: Good morning, how you doing this morning? Doing great?
- 1:03Speaker 3: Nice smooth ride in this morning for anybody else coming
- 1:06Speaker 3: in that was really Uh had some bad weather, but
- 1:11Speaker 3: it was a nice traveling today from hurricane to Charleston,
- 1:15Speaker 3: So that gives me a good feeling sitting here.
- 1:18Speaker 2: We'll see if we get any any additional weather as
- 1:20Speaker 2: the having looked at.
- 1:21Speaker 3: The forecast, it's it was above freezing this morning when
- 1:24Speaker 3: I came in. But they're not doing well. Doing well.
- 1:27Speaker 3: The you don't have to fight the law. If you
- 1:30Speaker 3: don't want to, you can give us a call, but
- 1:32Speaker 3: the law on your side.
- 1:35Speaker 2: I know.
- 1:35Speaker 3: Last week I was, I was out of ten and
- 1:38Speaker 3: Dad covered the show, and of course we talked about
- 1:42Speaker 3: a little bit of the high school state championship. Nitro
- 1:44Speaker 3: made it and uh just fell what it was a
- 1:49Speaker 3: heck and yeah, it was a heck of a game,
- 1:52Speaker 3: and I don't the coach for you know, Nitro came
- 1:55Speaker 3: back to in essence tie, they were down by seven,
- 1:59Speaker 3: but they had a lot of injuries and decided to
- 2:05Speaker 3: go for two and try and win the game essentially
- 2:07Speaker 3: I think a minute left or something, and unfortunately didn't
- 2:10Speaker 3: didn't make and Princeton got the win. Although Princeton has
- 2:14Speaker 3: this I think Brad Mosser, Yeah, I mean he just
- 2:17Speaker 3: won the metro times during the broadcast because he I
- 2:20Speaker 3: mean he had I think five touchdowns well over one
- 2:23Speaker 3: hundred yards receiving and rushing with I'm not sure that
- 2:26Speaker 3: he'll be a one a college level kid. He's just
- 2:29Speaker 3: one of those workhorses that seemed to me, and a
- 2:31Speaker 3: and a winner on Princeton. So congratulations to the Princeton
- 2:35Speaker 3: Tigers for one in the Triple A.
- 2:37Speaker 2: But I was out of town, so I had to watch.
- 2:39Speaker 3: I watched the game on the WV Metro News broadcast,
- 2:43Speaker 3: and I want to really compliment them because Fred was
- 2:48Speaker 3: on there. Jeff was reporting. I forget who the other
- 2:51Speaker 3: was it. Somebody else was played by play with with
- 2:56Speaker 3: with Fred, and it was It was good, of course,
- 2:58Speaker 3: but just really the the quality of the production.
- 3:01Speaker 2: The broadcast was a really job. Yeah, I was watching
- 3:04Speaker 2: it out.
- 3:05Speaker 3: Of state and it was just picture perfect, good camera work.
- 3:09Speaker 3: And I guess I juxtaposed that to I'll watch Trump
- 3:12Speaker 3: if we have any local flavor. I trying to watch
- 3:14Speaker 3: the state championships. I've watched volleyball. Buffalo High School done
- 3:18Speaker 3: and Puttm County has had a really good volleyball team
- 3:20Speaker 3: the last few years. Soccer Hurricane made it and we
- 3:23Speaker 3: won the state championship and has made it there the
- 3:24Speaker 3: last two or three years. I've watched that, and there's
- 3:28Speaker 3: a somehow I guess the ssa C has that contracted
- 3:31Speaker 3: out with some kind of national provider and if any
- 3:36Speaker 3: parents or fans watched that broadcast, h it's just not
- 3:41Speaker 3: necessarily commentators. They get some local folks to do that
- 3:44Speaker 3: who do a decent job or a good job. But
- 3:47Speaker 3: the production and broadcast is just nothing compared to w
- 3:50Speaker 3: B metrics or skips in it. You get delays, then
- 3:54Speaker 3: all of a sudden it would fast forward, you know,
- 3:57Speaker 3: jump forward and you've missed action. But whoever it was
- 4:01Speaker 3: doing the production, I mean it was crystal clear, no glitches.
- 4:04Speaker 3: I was watching on kind of a beggar screen TV
- 4:07Speaker 3: and it just really was. It was a good broadcast.
- 4:10Speaker 3: So qdos to w Metro News. Maybe I don't know
- 4:12Speaker 3: if you guys do the basketball tournament or or how
- 4:15Speaker 3: that works, but boy, if if there's a way to
- 4:18Speaker 3: get some of the other sports other than in football,
- 4:22Speaker 3: and you guys do the state championship games, that would
- 4:25Speaker 3: be really good and it's free.
- 4:28Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, and you give it on a Metro News TV.
- 4:30Speaker 2: I think that the basketball tournament will be on there
- 4:32Speaker 2: again this year, so you'll be able to watch it
- 4:34Speaker 2: sometimes the Yeah, and it depends on how the s
- 4:38Speaker 2: SA see what the broadcast the TV rights. We always
- 4:40Speaker 2: have it on the radio, and it's changed a little
- 4:42Speaker 2: bit at time to time with the TV rights for it.
- 4:44Speaker 2: But I believe this year that's they're uh, they're going
- 4:46Speaker 2: to be broadcasting. Yeah, those are those are very uh
- 4:49Speaker 2: it's nice to see our high school players in four
- 4:52Speaker 2: k hot toff. You know, professional broadcast. The Pikewood folks
- 4:56Speaker 2: that the people from Metro News that that do that
- 4:58Speaker 2: do stuff for ESPN and stuff all the time. So
- 5:00Speaker 2: I mean they're at a they're at that level where
- 5:01Speaker 2: they're contracted out to do things for these national company.
- 5:04Speaker 2: They do a good job with it.
- 5:05Speaker 3: And it's a financial deal too, because uh, you know,
- 5:07Speaker 3: I know from I see the viewership when I sponsored
- 5:10Speaker 3: some streaming of uh soccer, and you know, I can
- 5:17Speaker 3: see the viewership and I see how many watches are.
- 5:18Speaker 3: It's a good thing about streaming. You can see exactly
- 5:20Speaker 3: how many people are watching. And of course football UH
- 5:23Speaker 3: is it's a lot more viewers and probably any other sport,
- 5:27Speaker 3: but certainly you know, volleyball and soccer and uh basketball
- 5:31Speaker 3: is probably up there as well, and so just maybe
- 5:33Speaker 3: a financial thing, but if if the w V S
- 5:37Speaker 3: S a C has the ability to change that. Because
- 5:40Speaker 3: the other the national entity as well, you know, you
- 5:43Speaker 3: have to buy a subscription to to watch it. It's
- 5:45Speaker 3: a little confusing to get on there because it's national
- 5:47Speaker 3: and you got to find you know, find your team
- 5:51Speaker 3: and your state championship in order to to watch it.
- 5:54Speaker 3: But uh, anyways, a great It was a really good broadcast.
- 5:57Speaker 3: The result wasn't what I wanted in that game, but
- 5:59Speaker 3: had a good time watching it while I was out
- 6:01Speaker 3: of town, felt like I was there.
- 6:02Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it was a good It was a good game.
- 6:04Speaker 2: It was a shame. I did a pregame for Nitro
- 6:06Speaker 2: getting ready for it, got to talk to j row
- 6:08Speaker 2: House and some folks and and man, it was just
- 6:10Speaker 2: so close, you know. I mean, it's a shame with
- 6:12Speaker 2: two point conversion away. But one of the better state
- 6:14Speaker 2: championship games I can remember for quite some time.
- 6:17Speaker 3: Has a lot of talent. We'll see I think they
- 6:18Speaker 3: graduate some and see what happens next year. But yeah,
- 6:24Speaker 3: and talking about community things, I yeah, of course, I
- 6:28Speaker 3: guess I can talk about what I want here since
- 6:29Speaker 3: I pay for the time.
- 6:30Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, man, but if you have a.
- 6:32Speaker 3: Legal question or comment or anything else we're talking about,
- 6:35Speaker 3: you can certainly give us a call. We'd glad to
- 6:37Speaker 3: take take the call if we get some questions or commentary.
- 6:40Speaker 3: But one thing I've talked about, I've been on the
- 6:46Speaker 3: board of directors for the Dumont Track County YMCA, which
- 6:51Speaker 3: is down Scott deept And for probably twenty years, and
- 6:56Speaker 3: been the president here for a few years running. And
- 6:59Speaker 3: we're doing some really good things down there. And then
- 7:02Speaker 3: of course there's the Canal YMC of the Kanaal Valley
- 7:04Speaker 3: here in Charleston. I think they have a satellite location
- 7:07Speaker 3: in Cross Lanes as well, and their executive director did
- 7:11Speaker 3: a little op ed in the Gazette and I was
- 7:14Speaker 3: aware of this issue. But one of the really good
- 7:18Speaker 3: things we do with the you know, it's much more
- 7:20Speaker 3: than a gym. Of course, we have an indoor pool
- 7:22Speaker 3: and a lot of programs there for kids and families
- 7:25Speaker 3: and things like that, so you get much more than
- 7:28Speaker 3: just going to your average twenty four hour fitness center.
- 7:31Speaker 3: But one of the things we do that I'm really
- 7:32Speaker 3: proud of is in Putnam County, we offer we offer
- 7:37Speaker 3: to the extent we can staff it, which isn't always easy.
- 7:40Speaker 3: But we offer for aftercare for every elementary school. So
- 7:47Speaker 3: you know, if you have a child that that goes
- 7:49Speaker 3: to any elementary schools where we offer aftercare, you can
- 7:54Speaker 3: leave your child there and not have to worry about
- 7:56Speaker 3: how they're going to get home from school right after
- 7:57Speaker 3: on the bus and who will be there with them
- 8:00Speaker 3: or picking them up, because we offer care right there
- 8:03Speaker 3: in the school system, and the school board has been
- 8:05Speaker 3: good to work with us to keep that going.
- 8:11Speaker 2: A lot.
- 8:11Speaker 3: And so you know, you can come when you get
- 8:13Speaker 3: off work five thirty six and pick your child up
- 8:15Speaker 3: and we have a well vetted, you know, folks there
- 8:21Speaker 3: to help the kids, and they do constructive things. But
- 8:26Speaker 3: the you know, we have a lot of folks who
- 8:32Speaker 3: are just getting by maybe paycheck to paycheck or very
- 8:35Speaker 3: little income, and of course with problems we have, you
- 8:38Speaker 3: got a lot of grandparents and things like that raising kids,
- 8:41Speaker 3: especially young kids that age. And so a decent amount
- 8:45Speaker 3: of the funding for that program is through a system
- 8:47Speaker 3: called link, which is a government subsidy, and so we
- 8:51Speaker 3: get a daily payment per child that stays in the
- 8:56Speaker 3: aftercare program. Now it's a I can't remember the rate
- 9:00Speaker 3: per day per child, but it hasn't been adjusted in
- 9:03Speaker 3: twenty years, so we'll just say it hasn't kept up
- 9:05Speaker 3: with inflation, which is fine. But what's happened recently, I
- 9:12Speaker 3: think it maybe goes retroactive to the beginning of this
- 9:14Speaker 3: school year. There's been kind of a what's been termed
- 9:17Speaker 3: a clarification, maybe a reinterpretation of the manner in.
- 9:22Speaker 2: Which we get reimbursed.
- 9:24Speaker 3: And and I just think it's our legod program because
- 9:27Speaker 3: when the legislature's in session, I think consistently over the
- 9:31Speaker 3: last couple of years, there's been discussion and even bills introduced.
- 9:35Speaker 3: You know, one of the problems with workforce participation is well,
- 9:39Speaker 3: what do we do with our kids? I mean, if
- 9:41Speaker 3: you're working a job that is equal to or not
- 9:47Speaker 3: much above minimum wage, it's real hard to justify that.
- 9:53Speaker 3: When you have to pay a large amount for childcare
- 9:56Speaker 3: or can't find childcare at all, that's that's quality. You
- 10:02Speaker 3: see a lot of value in the program. But this clarification,
- 10:05Speaker 3: what it did is it will no longer reimburse for
- 10:12Speaker 3: a child unless one day a month they stay four
- 10:15Speaker 3: hours in the after school aftercare program, which you can
- 10:20Speaker 3: do the math I mean kids. I think two thirty
- 10:23Speaker 3: three o'clock is when they normally get out of school,
- 10:25Speaker 3: and of course parents need to come pick them up
- 10:27Speaker 3: after work, so you're looking at five to six o'clock
- 10:29Speaker 3: normally makes it in a lot of situations virtually impossible.
- 10:33Speaker 3: To get to the new clarification, you have to have
- 10:37Speaker 3: four consecutive hours any one day a month or you
- 10:42Speaker 3: don't get any reimbursement for that child. And that's a
- 10:45Speaker 3: new interpretation. It was as long as they were in
- 10:47Speaker 3: the aftercare program, you know, you got your per day reimbursement.
- 10:51Speaker 3: So Sarah, I think her last thing's Bolliard. She's the
- 10:55Speaker 3: CEO of the Canall Valley Wide. I did a really
- 10:57Speaker 3: good op at in the gazette, so if you have
- 10:59Speaker 3: a chance to read it and give some more details.
- 11:01Speaker 3: But this is going to be a real, real problem
- 11:05Speaker 3: at some point because we need that funding to keep
- 11:09Speaker 3: these programs going. So if anybody, I guess I'm looking
- 11:11Speaker 3: for maybe a little bit bit of help, If anybody
- 11:13Speaker 3: in the legislature is listening, or you have some connection
- 11:16Speaker 3: with a local legislator, this is.
- 11:19Speaker 2: A really valuable program.
- 11:20Speaker 3: And the fact they haven't increased the reimbursement rate for
- 11:26Speaker 3: since I can remember. I think it's been well over
- 11:28Speaker 3: a decade. I'll say twenty years. That may be a
- 11:30Speaker 3: little longer than they've adjusted it. But we need a
- 11:33Speaker 3: re re clarification to get this back to the way
- 11:36Speaker 3: it was. If anybody out there is listening and participates
- 11:40Speaker 3: or utilizes that program, or maybe you did in the
- 11:42Speaker 3: past and it helps you think about it, If you
- 11:44Speaker 3: have some connection to a local member the legislature, maybe
- 11:47Speaker 3: reaching out and see if we can put some pressure
- 11:50Speaker 3: to get this re clarify. I don't think the legislature
- 11:53Speaker 3: changed anything. I'm not really sure about the process. I
- 11:57Speaker 3: assume there's a rule that's been reinterpreted. I mean it's
- 12:00Speaker 3: administered through the Department of Human Services, so I'm not
- 12:04Speaker 3: sure whether that came from the Governor's office down or
- 12:07Speaker 3: was an internal reinterpretation somewhere administratively. But yeah, if you
- 12:13Speaker 3: got some connections there, maybe make some calls or send
- 12:16Speaker 3: some emails, see if we can get that reclarified, and
- 12:19Speaker 3: maybe going into next year or maybe next semester, we
- 12:22Speaker 3: can get that straightened out. Because you know the why
- 12:24Speaker 3: in Tays Valley that where I'm the president of the board.
- 12:28Speaker 3: I mean, we'll get by I at least I think
- 12:32Speaker 3: speaking on behalf of the board. And you know, we
- 12:33Speaker 3: value that program significantly for the community, so we'll keep
- 12:37Speaker 3: doing it as long as we can. But it's you know,
- 12:39Speaker 3: over the last ten years or so, with the increase
- 12:42Speaker 3: in caught big box store type gyms and things like that,
- 12:47Speaker 3: it's it's put a little bit of a hit on
- 12:49Speaker 3: the on the local YMCAs and I don't know, grants
- 12:53Speaker 3: and funding from the federal level doesn't look like it's
- 12:55Speaker 3: going to increase anytime real soon. So we need a
- 12:57Speaker 3: little help there. And if you're out there listening to
- 12:59Speaker 3: have some connects, maybe put some pressure on it and
- 13:01Speaker 3: see if we can get the political media moving.
- 13:05Speaker 2: Back in the right direction. That just I mean, I'm
- 13:08Speaker 2: not an expert on these things, but it seems like
- 13:10Speaker 2: this is the type of thing that feeds into when
- 13:11Speaker 2: we talk about the grandparent tax that we have here
- 13:14Speaker 2: in West Virginia, where grandparents do such a heavy lifting
- 13:18Speaker 2: when it comes to babysitting basically and watching kids and
- 13:21Speaker 2: things like that. I mean, this is one of the
- 13:22Speaker 2: reasons you can't afford daycare. There's not enough, there's not
- 13:25Speaker 2: enough programs out there for you to get into at
- 13:27Speaker 2: a relatively modest rate, and you work for you know,
- 13:31Speaker 2: fifteen or eighteen dollars an hour that when you look
- 13:33Speaker 2: at that at the cost of healthcare, you just can't
- 13:36Speaker 2: or a daycare, you can't do it. I mean you're
- 13:38Speaker 2: just paying everything that you're making to go to your care.
- 13:40Speaker 2: So you have to find I mean there's got to
- 13:42Speaker 2: be some retards.
- 13:43Speaker 3: I mean, I feel for folks in that situation. How
- 13:46Speaker 3: do you fit that balance? I mean, if you are
- 13:49Speaker 3: netting very little by working full time, I mean, it
- 13:53Speaker 3: would be enticing to come, you know, stay with your
- 13:56Speaker 3: kids when you can, versus going out into the work
- 13:59Speaker 3: for and of course we need, we need and wants
- 14:02Speaker 3: to do much higher workforce participation and qualified workers. So
- 14:06Speaker 3: this is one seems like an easy win, low hanging
- 14:08Speaker 3: fruit that we could get back on the table. And
- 14:11Speaker 3: and it's so convenient because you don't have to worry
- 14:14Speaker 3: about the transport of your child from the school anywhere else.
- 14:18Speaker 3: That's where the Board of Education comes in. They allow
- 14:20Speaker 3: us to utilize their facilities, which obviously already well equipped
- 14:24Speaker 3: to care for the children. And so it's a it's
- 14:27Speaker 3: a really great program. I think it helps a lot
- 14:29Speaker 3: of people.
- 14:30Speaker 2: It seems to make sense. Yeah, it makes sense.
- 14:32Speaker 3: So we'll see if we get the meter moving there,
- 14:34Speaker 3: maybe we can get that changed up. But I wanted
- 14:37Speaker 3: to mention that because I think it's important. So otherwise locally,
- 14:43Speaker 3: I see, But Jeff had a in the news this morning,
- 14:47Speaker 3: not to shift gears is something completely opposite. But yeah,
- 14:51Speaker 3: it was a criminal case up in I think Wood County, Parkersburg,
- 14:54Speaker 3: where somebody entered a plea to sex abuse. Unfortunately, and
- 14:57Speaker 3: and but part of Jeff's news article was not just that.
- 15:05Speaker 2: So there was a plea entered.
- 15:06Speaker 3: So the defendant has entered a plea to I think
- 15:09Speaker 3: multiple counts because I heard Jeff say, exposes him up
- 15:12Speaker 3: to twenty five years in prison. But one of the
- 15:17Speaker 3: taglines in the articles that the parent There was no
- 15:20Speaker 3: audio of it, but apparently the parents were upset during
- 15:22Speaker 3: the plea hearing because the defendant entered what it's called
- 15:25Speaker 3: a Kennedy plea. And in essence, I thought I would
- 15:29Speaker 3: explain that a little bit. So Kennedy plea. Kennedy's just
- 15:32Speaker 3: a name from a case where it kind of came
- 15:34Speaker 3: about decades ago. But it's like a no contest please,
- 15:38Speaker 3: so when you know, you'll hear oftentimes. In fact, we
- 15:41Speaker 3: heard a different one this morning. I think it was
- 15:43Speaker 3: a homicide case where the man was having to recite
- 15:48Speaker 3: the facts of what he did during his plea agreement,
- 15:51Speaker 3: in essence admitting the wrongful conduct. When you do a
- 15:55Speaker 3: Kennedy plea or a no contest plea, the defendant doesn't
- 16:00Speaker 3: have to provide what they call a factual basis for
- 16:04Speaker 3: what they did. They don't have to admit they actually
- 16:06Speaker 3: committed the alleged conduct. In essence, they're saying, well, I
- 16:11Speaker 3: think the state could prove these charges against me. I'm
- 16:15Speaker 3: not gonna admit I did it. I'm gonna go ahead
- 16:17Speaker 3: and enter a plea agreement where the judge will find
- 16:21Speaker 3: me guilty on one or more accounts, and then the
- 16:24Speaker 3: rest of the charges are dismissed. So it's a plea
- 16:27Speaker 3: deal where some charges are dismissed. So apparently there was
- 16:30Speaker 3: some dissatisfaction with the victims' families because the man didn't
- 16:37Speaker 3: you have to admit what he did during the plea hearing,
- 16:41Speaker 3: which could be frustrating if your child was a victim.
- 16:43Speaker 2: I'm sure However, the.
- 16:47Speaker 3: Couple things on the sex abuse type case just to
- 16:50Speaker 3: not that we'll make the parents feel any better. But
- 16:53Speaker 3: one a new contest plea, the judge still finds the
- 16:56Speaker 3: person guilty, so he's going to get it be exposed
- 17:01Speaker 3: to exactly the same punishment that he would be exposed
- 17:04Speaker 3: to if he admitted that he actually did something. Of course,
- 17:07Speaker 3: you can never make a defendant, I mean, go through
- 17:10Speaker 3: a trial and a jury could find a defendant guilty,
- 17:14Speaker 3: but doesn't mean they ever.
- 17:16Speaker 2: Have to say they anything wrong.
- 17:19Speaker 3: So I think probably like it is in most of
- 17:23Speaker 3: these cases, the prosecutor hast away and balance, you know,
- 17:26Speaker 3: the putting a child on the stand is subject across
- 17:29Speaker 3: examination sometimes reliving this is not always in the best
- 17:33Speaker 3: interest when you can secure a conviction otherwise. So they're
- 17:36Speaker 3: going to secure a conviction or convictions depending on the
- 17:38Speaker 3: number of charges of guilty, no matter whether it's a
- 17:41Speaker 3: Kennedy or no contests clear or not now, and it
- 17:45Speaker 3: exposes him to the same maximum time of incarceration. However,
- 17:54Speaker 3: sex based defenses are a little bit different. First of all,
- 17:57Speaker 3: when there's a no content type plea and there's a
- 18:02Speaker 3: people are the victims, you know, there's either a violent
- 18:05Speaker 3: crime or something not a crime against property. Then of
- 18:07Speaker 3: course one of the factors when the judge decides to
- 18:09Speaker 3: sentence somebody is their remorse, is their responsibility? Well, there
- 18:13Speaker 3: really can't be in a no contest, please, so he's
- 18:16Speaker 3: going to get dang there. The other thing that has
- 18:20Speaker 3: been the law for a god since I've been practicing.
- 18:24Speaker 3: Whenever there is a sex based offense and a person's
- 18:28Speaker 3: found guilty, they are generally prohibited from getting it. They
- 18:33Speaker 3: have to be incarcerated unless they have a treatment plan,
- 18:36Speaker 3: which involves going to psychologists or psychiatrists that examines them
- 18:41Speaker 3: and then you know, assesses things like risk of reoffending
- 18:47Speaker 3: and can they be really rehabilitated, are they safe in
- 18:49Speaker 3: the public, do they need to have you know, what
- 18:51Speaker 3: type of counseling? Other things need to be addressed with
- 18:54Speaker 3: this person if they're going to be able to get
- 18:56Speaker 3: an alternative sentence like probation. In my experience, and I
- 19:01Speaker 3: think it's pretty universal, if if the defendant will not
- 19:07Speaker 3: admit the underlying conduct, you can't get a rehabilitation plan.
- 19:13Speaker 3: So what this person has not not that the judge
- 19:17Speaker 3: would necessarily have done it anyway, but when he refuses
- 19:21Speaker 3: to admit the underlying conduct, he has basically foreclosed any
- 19:26Speaker 3: alternative sentence, potentially home confinement, but I don't think on
- 19:29Speaker 3: a case like this that's going to be an option.
- 19:31Speaker 3: So he'll have no chance of probation. So whatever the
- 19:34Speaker 3: prison sentence is, if there's more than one charge, it
- 19:37Speaker 3: could be the judge could make it consecutive, one sentence
- 19:40Speaker 3: after the other, or concurrent where a ser he serves
- 19:42Speaker 3: them at the same time. But he will end up
- 19:45Speaker 3: going to prison for this charge because he's not admitted.
- 19:49Speaker 2: So there's actually some.
- 19:52Speaker 3: Solace there, I guess for the victims and their families,
- 19:54Speaker 3: and that when he does a no contest play, it
- 19:56Speaker 3: basically forecloses the ability to get probation or any alternative
- 20:00Speaker 3: where he is not going to be incarcerated.
- 20:03Speaker 2: But it's a good explainer. Yeah, I didn't know the details.
- 20:05Speaker 2: It wasn't behind that.
- 20:06Speaker 3: Yeah, Kennedy, please so, but you know, and you just know,
- 20:09Speaker 3: you know, no matter what the evidence is, I mean, well,
- 20:13Speaker 3: a lot of times in these sex abuse cases it's
- 20:17Speaker 3: there's not a whole lot of objective I wouldn't say objectivestly,
- 20:22Speaker 3: but there's not hard evidence as far as DNA things
- 20:25Speaker 3: like that, I mean texting videos. I mean, if you
- 20:29Speaker 3: have something like that, it's good. But a lot of
- 20:30Speaker 3: times it's just a child saying this is what happened
- 20:33Speaker 3: to me. And then it's a credibility assessment. And so
- 20:37Speaker 3: presume you know, the defendite of course doesn't have to testify,
- 20:40Speaker 3: but can and then you know, you just never know
- 20:42Speaker 3: what a jury's going to do with those. So probably
- 20:44Speaker 3: was a sound decision by the prosecutor. And I hate
- 20:46Speaker 3: it that the victims' families are upset, but his time
- 20:51Speaker 3: will come at sentencing.
- 20:52Speaker 2: I think, yeah, yeah, let's let's go into this. Let's
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- 23:31Speaker 3: Yeah, you can get our website and it's actually I
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- 23:39Speaker 3: and listen. But a lot of general information about our firms,
- 23:42Speaker 3: some specifics about our staff and things like that, and
- 23:44Speaker 3: you can submit a question right through our website and
- 23:48Speaker 3: it's it's not going to an answering service or any
- 23:51Speaker 3: kind of there's no AI response to that when it
- 23:55Speaker 3: comes right to Dad and my emails, so we try
- 23:59Speaker 3: and respond on the same day if we can. If
- 24:03Speaker 3: you don't get a response, maybe give us a call.
- 24:05Speaker 3: I have noticed lately, and I think Copy was talking
- 24:09Speaker 3: about it and his piece this morning, but it's really
- 24:16Speaker 3: difficult to figure out fraudulent emails from real ones and
- 24:20Speaker 3: we get Actually, I replied to one and had a
- 24:23Speaker 3: little back and forth a few months ago. It was like, we, hey,
- 24:27Speaker 3: we need help with our closing. Can you review documents?
- 24:30Speaker 3: And then they emailed me some document to click in
- 24:35Speaker 3: said sure, I'll just take a look at it. You know,
- 24:37Speaker 3: I've reviewed thousands of Chase real estate closing documents. Takes
- 24:41Speaker 3: me a few minutes to make sure everything's in a chord.
- 24:43Speaker 3: Usually ninety nine percent of the time. It's fine, but
- 24:46Speaker 3: they feel comfortable. Some folks feel comfortable having their own
- 24:48Speaker 3: lawyer versus the closing lawyer doing looking over the numbers,
- 24:53Speaker 3: went to click on it, and when they emailed it
- 24:57Speaker 3: to me like a DOCU sign or something like that
- 25:00Speaker 3: wouldn't open. So the way you can copy and paste
- 25:03Speaker 3: this link, And when I did that, it wouldn't open either.
- 25:07Speaker 3: And I went back to the person in the email
- 25:08Speaker 3: and said, well, I can't get this to open, and
- 25:12Speaker 3: it was something like, well, this is the same way
- 25:15Speaker 3: we did it with the lawyer that we had who
- 25:17Speaker 3: retired or something, but it's all generic and no real names.
- 25:21Speaker 3: And then I thought, well, this then I tried to
- 25:23Speaker 3: call the person, because you're supposed to put a phone
- 25:26Speaker 3: number in your email to us, and of course it's
- 25:28Speaker 3: usually safe to call from a landline so called no
- 25:32Speaker 3: no number. I just went dead or hung up as
- 25:35Speaker 3: soon as somebody picked up, and luckily I didn't get
- 25:37Speaker 3: far enough into it to sabotage our server, any systems
- 25:42Speaker 3: that run.
- 25:43Speaker 2: What's scary to think about is there situations just like
- 25:46Speaker 2: yours out there where the the the business end of
- 25:49Speaker 2: that does use AI. You got the Peyton Law firm
- 25:52Speaker 2: is completely human, so you don't have to worry about that.
- 25:54Speaker 2: But there's places that use AI. They'll get one of
- 25:57Speaker 2: these fraudulent maybe AI Assistan a fraudulent emails in and
- 26:01Speaker 2: then they start talking to each other. Okay, you know,
- 26:04Speaker 2: I didn't think about that, and and those conversations take
- 26:07Speaker 2: place without you and I ever knowing about it. Yeah,
- 26:09Speaker 2: it's kind of frightening, it's uh.
- 26:11Speaker 3: And then but since then now I've noticed we've gotten
- 26:14Speaker 3: five or six very similar inquiries, and of course we
- 26:17Speaker 3: just delete them and and don't respond to them. But
- 26:19Speaker 3: but when doing so, in chase, you have to do that,
- 26:23Speaker 3: but in doing so, it's possible we could delete legitimate emails.
- 26:26Speaker 3: So if you if you don't get any response within
- 26:28Speaker 3: a few days, just give us a call and tell us,
- 26:32Speaker 3: you know, hey, I sent this email and then we'll
- 26:33Speaker 3: go back there that's unfortunate and read check it. But yeah,
- 26:36Speaker 3: you and and consistently now I'll get UH emails. A
- 26:42Speaker 3: lot of them are like DOCU sound I want you
- 26:44Speaker 3: to click on something. I mean they are I'm pretty
- 26:47Speaker 3: good at at UH. I think I have anyway at
- 26:49Speaker 3: vetting and figuring out real verseus fraudulent emails. And it's tough.
- 26:55Speaker 3: I mean, you just have to these days, you know,
- 26:57Speaker 3: if you're out and if you get if you're the
- 27:01Speaker 3: victim of a scam where you you know, it's very
- 27:04Speaker 3: hard to catch the people that do it because they
- 27:06Speaker 3: are so crafty technologically to you know, they can mask
- 27:10Speaker 3: where they.
- 27:11Speaker 2: Are even on emails. I mean they cannot. We get
- 27:14Speaker 2: we get emails from the president of our company sometimes.
- 27:16Speaker 2: Now luckily scammers don't always know your naming conventions and
- 27:19Speaker 2: things along those lines internally within your company, right, But
- 27:23Speaker 2: that doesn't mean it's like that for every company. So
- 27:25Speaker 2: just because they send something to us that we can
- 27:26Speaker 2: tell by looking at as like, yeah, that can't be real
- 27:28Speaker 2: because of the naming convention they're using at the email
- 27:30Speaker 2: doesn't match the way our main naming conventions does. That
- 27:33Speaker 2: doesn't mean they don't get it right. Sometimes with other companies,
- 27:35Speaker 2: you know what I mean, that's scary because it's like
- 27:36Speaker 2: they try to get you with like the W two
- 27:38Speaker 2: stuff or you're yes and tax returns and like all
- 27:41Speaker 2: these different things are trying to get you to click
- 27:42Speaker 2: through to it. And what happens when you if you
- 27:44Speaker 2: lose your data to that, I mean, that's uh, there's
- 27:47Speaker 2: a whole bringing the firm and call insurance carrier.
- 27:50Speaker 3: You know, we get calls about it when you know,
- 27:53Speaker 3: but it's just not something in our wheel. Well it's
- 27:56Speaker 3: very difficult to solve and you can't really hire a
- 27:58Speaker 3: law private lawyer to deal with it when you're scam
- 28:00Speaker 3: by somebody that might be in Nigeria or chy, you know,
- 28:04Speaker 3: you know who knows where and it's not really something
- 28:07Speaker 3: that you know, we ask people will go ahead and
- 28:09Speaker 3: forward it to the FBI and tell them or they
- 28:11Speaker 3: watch the Attorney General's office. But it's very difficult. So
- 28:14Speaker 3: what you just have to protect yourself and if you
- 28:16Speaker 3: get an email with an attachment or a shipping tracking
- 28:21Speaker 3: number that you don't absolutely recognize, then just don't click
- 28:26Speaker 3: on it. I think it's safe generally. You know, if
- 28:29Speaker 3: there's a phone number on there anywhere, if you're probably
- 28:34Speaker 3: from your cell phone, certainly from a landline or conventional phone,
- 28:38Speaker 3: you can call the phone number and check and usually
- 28:40Speaker 3: that'll weed it out real quick because you'll get somebody
- 28:43Speaker 3: on there that and some of them are I've you know,
- 28:46Speaker 3: I've I've called them back and talked to you. They'll
- 28:48Speaker 3: push but uh, they're pushy and you don't know what
- 28:51Speaker 3: you're talking about when you're saying that, no, I don't
- 28:55Speaker 3: need a Microsoft Windows update where I send you my
- 29:00Speaker 3: you know, just you don't, and so you got to
- 29:03Speaker 3: push back, but they'll they'll eventually go away. But a
- 29:07Speaker 3: phone call is usually the safest way to find out.
- 29:09Speaker 3: But you know, don't if you don't recognize a sender,
- 29:13Speaker 3: and they'll infiltrate. I mean, I've had lawyers emails come
- 29:17Speaker 3: to me that look real but just something's off about it,
- 29:22Speaker 3: and call that law firm, and of course they all
- 29:24Speaker 3: know we've had our emails infiltrated. Now it's a phishing scam,
- 29:29Speaker 3: So be careful out there because there's not a whole
- 29:31Speaker 3: lot of legal remedy for that if you get into
- 29:33Speaker 3: that situation.
- 29:34Speaker 2: Bitcoin's a big one too. Right now, will you get
- 29:36Speaker 2: an email where somebody's like, uh, we have records twenty
- 29:40Speaker 2: years old that you bought a fraction of a bitcoint
- 29:42Speaker 2: like it'll be like this nose and be like you
- 29:44Speaker 2: may have millions of dollars ready to be Just send
- 29:46Speaker 2: us your information and we'll see if we can get
- 29:48Speaker 2: your chain on the water. You know, whatever it is,
- 29:50Speaker 2: and it's just it's just to get your banking.
- 29:51Speaker 3: There's one out of dealt with two for a couple
- 29:53Speaker 3: of clients. Publisher's clearing House. Is it still around, Well,
- 30:00Speaker 3: it is, or at least it was a couple of
- 30:02Speaker 3: years ago when I dealt with a client who was
- 30:05Speaker 3: sure he had won Publisher's clearing House. And of course
- 30:10Speaker 3: if you hear that, you want to win. I mean,
- 30:11Speaker 3: you know, yeah, I want to go with it. But
- 30:15Speaker 3: they actually have a Yes, somebody had called him and
- 30:17Speaker 3: I had more than one, and somebody had called him
- 30:20Speaker 3: and said he was you know, they were going to
- 30:22Speaker 3: come this day with the big check, and uh, but
- 30:24Speaker 3: they of course needed you know, his account information or
- 30:27Speaker 3: something like that. It was starting to they were. It
- 30:30Speaker 3: was kind of a slow lead in. They didn't it
- 30:32Speaker 3: was pretty savvy, so they didn't immediately ask for account information.
- 30:35Speaker 3: But I thought, well, let me look into this. I mean,
- 30:37Speaker 3: i'll'd be great. But actually, if you look up Publisher's Clearinghouse,
- 30:42Speaker 3: they they have a whole fraud like hotline because they
- 30:46Speaker 3: get impersonated all the time.
- 30:48Speaker 2: Of course they do.
- 30:49Speaker 3: One of the things that says on there which I
- 30:50Speaker 3: found interesting, was that Publisher's Clearinghouse, if you win that,
- 30:54Speaker 3: which you know, of course this fella hadn't didn't recall
- 30:57Speaker 3: subbody anything. Generally you get like a magazine subscription.
- 31:00Speaker 2: I think you have to. I remember it from when
- 31:02Speaker 2: I was a kid. You had to subscribe to that.
- 31:03Speaker 2: A bunch of things you had to stick on them,
- 31:06Speaker 2: and you'd have to mail it back in and all day.
- 31:07Speaker 2: I tried to win it, right much to my parents,
- 31:10Speaker 2: to grin is like why we could always if you
- 31:12Speaker 2: haven't ever.
- 31:13Speaker 3: You know, participated in Publishers Clearinghouse affirmatively, then you're probably
- 31:17Speaker 3: not going to win it. But interesting thing on that one.
- 31:20Speaker 3: If you do get solicited by someone saying you want
- 31:23Speaker 3: publishers clearinghouse? Is they they put on their website. They
- 31:26Speaker 3: literally don't. They don't call you ahead of time or
- 31:30Speaker 3: tell you you won they really do surely just come
- 31:32Speaker 3: to your house. And that says that I said, that's
- 31:34Speaker 3: one way you can detect it, because we don't.
- 31:37Speaker 2: It's like the r S. The RS doesn't call you,
- 31:38Speaker 2: they least send your correspondence. Right.
- 31:41Speaker 3: Yeah, that's kind of a good rule of thumb on
- 31:42Speaker 3: on those as well as to if you get calls
- 31:47Speaker 3: threatening you with that collection or there's all kinds of
- 31:50Speaker 3: them around locally, just got to be very wary. And
- 31:53Speaker 3: I hate, you know, I've had a lot of times
- 31:55Speaker 3: senior folks that have you know, they've sent money to
- 31:58Speaker 3: somebody or driven somewhere and delivered money to somebody. It's
- 32:01Speaker 3: got to be if you're asked to provide money or
- 32:08Speaker 3: detailed account information or you're so security number in exchange
- 32:12Speaker 3: for some something you want, then do not participate in
- 32:16Speaker 3: it is not.
- 32:17Speaker 2: Is there something with my understanding was at one time
- 32:19Speaker 2: and I can't remember now where it was on the
- 32:21Speaker 2: show somewhere, but I can't remember who told me that
- 32:25Speaker 2: if you work for somewhere in like Western Union or
- 32:27Speaker 2: not work for them. But you're at like the grocery
- 32:30Speaker 2: store or the pharmacy or something. Somebody's coming in and
- 32:33Speaker 2: using a wire service to send somebody money. And the
- 32:36Speaker 2: situation that they're explaining to you, you know, as a
- 32:38Speaker 2: person that works there, that this is probably a fraud
- 32:40Speaker 2: your grand but your grandson probably isn't in a Mexican prison,
- 32:43Speaker 2: you know. But that one before My understanding is that
- 32:46Speaker 2: they're not allowed to tell them that that they can't
- 32:48Speaker 2: intercede because what if it is real? What if it
- 32:51Speaker 2: you know, what if this one time or whatever.
- 32:53Speaker 3: I'm not aware of that, okay, policy. I know that
- 32:59Speaker 3: there's a local employer, a fairly significant one. Well they're local,
- 33:03Speaker 3: but they're nationale as well, where they won't let their
- 33:08Speaker 3: employees take any action against a shoplifter as a matter
- 33:12Speaker 3: of policy, which I.
- 33:14Speaker 2: Think is inappropriate.
- 33:18Speaker 3: Really, I mean, so employees are stuck watching, just watching
- 33:21Speaker 3: somebody walk out there. Yeah, I mean, I guess you
- 33:23Speaker 3: called the police, but if they can't get there in time,
- 33:26Speaker 3: and that's it. And so there could be employer policies
- 33:30Speaker 3: that say, you know, we've balanced this and we're just
- 33:32Speaker 3: not going to interfere with private wire transactions. If they
- 33:36Speaker 3: want to do it, you're not allowed to stop them
- 33:40Speaker 3: or warn them about the situation, which defies common sense
- 33:43Speaker 3: to me.
- 33:44Speaker 2: I was trying to talk to a lady because I
- 33:45Speaker 2: don't want to stick my nose into somebody else's business.
- 33:48Speaker 2: But I heard a lady one time explaining to the
- 33:50Speaker 2: person taking their wire money, and the situation was literally
- 33:53Speaker 2: that week I had had an interview with the Attorney
- 33:55Speaker 2: General that I did on the air where they were
- 33:57Speaker 2: explaining these different scams that were happening, and this scam
- 34:00Speaker 2: that this lady was or the situation this lady was
- 34:03Speaker 2: explaining to the person getting ready to take her money
- 34:05Speaker 2: was exactly the scam. It was the Mexican grand grandson
- 34:07Speaker 2: and a Mexican prisoner or whatever. And I was trying
- 34:09Speaker 2: to be like, are you have you did you actually
- 34:11Speaker 2: talk to him? Do you know that it was him?
- 34:13Speaker 2: Have you tried calling that you know? I was like,
- 34:15Speaker 2: And then the lady that was taking was like, sir,
- 34:17Speaker 2: you need to step aside, you know, like, wouldn't let
- 34:19Speaker 2: me like try it's none of my business. But at
- 34:21Speaker 2: the same time, I just felt like that lady was getting.
- 34:23Speaker 3: Yes, I kind of like to talk about it from
- 34:24Speaker 3: time to time just because to get the word out there,
- 34:26Speaker 3: because you just can't get the word out there enough
- 34:27Speaker 3: and you think, well, everybody knows this is not real,
- 34:31Speaker 3: but then you get a call from somebody who's been
- 34:33Speaker 3: taken advantage of and these days with AI and computers,
- 34:38Speaker 3: it's just so difficult to detect what is fake and
- 34:42Speaker 3: what is real. But yeah, if you have an issue
- 34:45Speaker 3: on that, you can give us a call. But unfortunately
- 34:47Speaker 3: it's not a case we normally take, and we have
- 34:49Speaker 3: to give bad news that well, if you wired five
- 34:51Speaker 3: thousand dollars to get fifty grand back, you're not going
- 34:54Speaker 3: to get your fifty grand and you're probably not going
- 34:56Speaker 3: to be able to track your five thousand dollars. So
- 34:58Speaker 3: just be wary of that see over the holiday season.
- 35:02Speaker 3: But things we do do so if you do have
- 35:07Speaker 3: you know, we do civil litigation at Peyton Law Firm primarily,
- 35:10Speaker 3: so that's represent normally consumers meeting kind of everyday people.
- 35:13Speaker 3: We do some small business work as well, but if
- 35:15Speaker 3: you've been injured either financially or physically, and have a
- 35:19Speaker 3: dispute with maybe an automobile insurance company, homeowners insurance, things
- 35:23Speaker 3: like that. Those are the kind of cases that we
- 35:26Speaker 3: do really well on. We do a little criminal defense,
- 35:29Speaker 3: we do so security, disability, and of course basic real estate,
- 35:35Speaker 3: both deeds and litigation. A lot of a state work
- 35:39Speaker 3: as well. So any issue you have, you can reach
- 35:41Speaker 3: out to us, and of course we don't start the
- 35:43Speaker 3: meeter run and when you email us or when we
- 35:44Speaker 3: call you back, and if it's something that we can't
- 35:47Speaker 3: it's not in our wheelhouse, we'll we'll normally have a
- 35:50Speaker 3: lawyer that we can refer you to that maybe like
- 35:52Speaker 3: we don't do bankruptcy, for example, so generally when I
- 35:55Speaker 3: get bankruptcy calls, I'll rere firm to maybe Andy Nason
- 35:58Speaker 3: here in Charleston's kind of a bunch, but I feel
- 36:01Speaker 3: free to stop by, give us a car, says an email,
- 36:03Speaker 3: We'll be glad to help.
- 36:04Speaker 2: It's the Peyton Law Firm. By the way, We've got
- 36:05Speaker 2: a text just a couple of minutes ago. This was
- 36:07Speaker 2: from Mark Perdetti, Deputy director of West Virginia Small Business
- 36:10Speaker 2: Development Center. Good morning down on tom A lot of
- 36:12Speaker 2: people don't know this, but approximately forty five percent of
- 36:14Speaker 2: all cyber attacks target small businesses. Yeah, so there you go.
- 36:18Speaker 2: We are one that's exactly what you're running into. Peyton
- 36:20Speaker 2: Law Firm Online, Peyton Lawfirm dot com, p E y
- 36:22Speaker 2: T and Peyton Lawfirm dot Com. Okay to night, Sure
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