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White House Bans Reporters, Detroit Family Finds Wrong Woman in Casket & 35 More Women Come Forward in Fake 49ers Scam · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The White House is facing a new First Amendment fight
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  Speaker 1: after three major news organizations were locked out.
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  Speaker 2: Because they're fake news. You get so tired of reading
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  Speaker 2: and seeing fake news.
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  Speaker 1: And a Detroit family went to the funeral home to
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  Speaker 1: say goodbye to their mother. And what happened next, has
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  Speaker 1: police investigating.
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  Speaker 3: So where's my mama? She said, oh, it's upstairs.
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  Speaker 4: She upstairs.
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  Speaker 1: You just told, and then my cousin said, Bianca, they
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  Speaker 1: just told us we didn't have her. And 35 more
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  Speaker 1: women have come forward in the fake 49ers players dating scam.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that? We have an update. It's Tuesday, September 22nd.
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  Speaker 1: From the Black Effect Podcast Network, I'm Amy Brown. This
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  Speaker 1: is Front Page, and here are the day's biggest stories.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with me. CNN, MSNOW, and Politico are taking their
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  Speaker 1: fight with the White House to court. The three news
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  Speaker 1: organizations say they have notified the Trump administration that they
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  Speaker 1: are suing after their reporters were blocked from the White
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  Speaker 1: House over the weekend. Last week, President Trump said that
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  Speaker 1: he was banning all three outlets accusing them of reporting
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  Speaker 1: what he calls fake news.
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  Speaker 2: Because they're fake news. You get so tired of reading
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  Speaker 2: and seeing fake news. And there may be others to
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  Speaker 2: join them, and maybe they can get better and would
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  Speaker 2: like to have men. But our country has to have
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  Speaker 2: honest news. You know, you don't have a country unless
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  Speaker 2: you have, as I say, borders, good voting, and you
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  Speaker 2: need fair and free voting. And you know what you need?
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  Speaker 2: You need a free press.
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  Speaker 1: Then on Saturday, the reporters showed up to work. MSNOW's
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  Speaker 1: Akayla Gardner shares what happens next.
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  Speaker 5: I attempted to scan my badge, which we have to do,
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  Speaker 5: and able to get into the White House grounds. It
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  Speaker 5: did not work. There was a red beeping light. And
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  Speaker 5: so the officer asked me to hand over my badge.
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  Speaker 5: He said that it was disabled. I asked why I
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  Speaker 5: was not able to get inside.
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  Speaker 1: And the White House Correspondents Association is also pushing back,
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  Speaker 1: saying access should not depend on whether the president likes
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  Speaker 1: a news organization's coverage. And former President Barack Obama is
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  Speaker 1: also weighing in on the ban. Let's listen to what
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  Speaker 1: he had to say.
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  Speaker 3: Some of the stuff is going on right now. I
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  Speaker 3: believe there was just an announcement that the White House decided,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, CNN, MSN, MSNOW, you just can't come
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  Speaker 3: to the White House press briefings anymore. Because you're giving
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  Speaker 3: the current president unfavorable coverage. I'm trying to think what
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  Speaker 3: would have happened if I had said, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: Fox News, get out of here. It's unimaginable.
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  Speaker 1: And we've seen a similar fight before. The Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: restricted the Associated Press from presidential events. The AP sued,
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  Speaker 1: and that legal fight has continued through the appeals process.
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  Speaker 1: So now there's another major court fight over who gets
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  Speaker 1: access to the president and whether a White House can
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  Speaker 1: restrict that access because it objects to the outlet's coverage.
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  Speaker 1: And a family in Detroit says they went to the
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  Speaker 1: funeral home to say goodbye to their mother. They opened
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  Speaker 1: the casket and the woman inside was not their mother.
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  Speaker 1: This happened at Hutchinson Funeral Home on East 7 Mile
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  Speaker 1: in Detroit. The children of 61-year-old Kimberly Moore had arrived
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  Speaker 1: for her viewing ahead of her funeral. They knew immediately
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  Speaker 1: something was wrong.
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  Speaker 6: We get here.
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  Speaker 4: It's not my mama in the casket. This woman got
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  Speaker 4: on my mama's dress, wig, everything. It's not my mother's
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  Speaker 4: in there. They didn't put the body up, so we
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  Speaker 4: came earlier. They tried to show us another lady. They
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  Speaker 4: opened the casket. It's not hers. I said, where's my mama?
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  Speaker 3: So where's my mama? He said, oh, it's upstairs. She upstairs.
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  Speaker 4: You just told, and then my cousin said, Bianca, they
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  Speaker 4: just told us we didn't have her.
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  Speaker 1: And then the family says they were told something even worse.
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  Speaker 1: Their mother had already been cremated. As more relatives found
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  Speaker 1: out what was happening, more of them started showing up
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  Speaker 1: at their funeral home upset. Police were called and officers
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  Speaker 1: were seen blocking the entrance. And there's another family involved
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  Speaker 1: in all of this. The Moores are now trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out the relatives of the woman who was actually
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  Speaker 1: in that casket. The funeral home says it has launched
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  Speaker 1: an internal review and a spokesperson acknowledged there was a
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  Speaker 1: problem and said they want to figure out what happened.
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  Speaker 3: We know that there was an issue. We know there's
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  Speaker 3: a problem and we want to make it whole.
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  Speaker 4: We want to make the family feel comfortable with their
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  Speaker 4: loved one and make sure that we have some conclusion
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  Speaker 4: with this.
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  Speaker 1: The Detroit police are also looking into it. And remember
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  Speaker 1: the man accused of being a San Francisco 49er player
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  Speaker 1: on dating apps and convincing women to give him money? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the FBI says 35 more women have now come forward.
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  Speaker 1: If investigators confirm all of these new cases, that would
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  Speaker 1: bring the total number of potential victims to 61.
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  Speaker 6: Has drawn a ton of attention from the public. And unfortunately,
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  Speaker 6: like some of that attention has included jokes, mockery and
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  Speaker 6: commentary that are unfairly targets and blames the victims in
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  Speaker 6: the case. Victim blaming is unjust and it's harmful and
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  Speaker 6: it overlooks the calculated, highly manipulated lengths these individuals went
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  Speaker 6: to in order to deceive and exploit others.
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  Speaker 1: The two men charged in the case are 35-year-old Dajon
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  Speaker 1: Love and 18-year-old Taylor Chan. Federal prosecutors say Love met
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  Speaker 1: women online and presented himself as successful and wealthy, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: claiming to be an NFL player, other times a rich investor.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators say he would build a relationship with the women,
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  Speaker 1: then start talking about investments. Chan is accused of posing
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  Speaker 1: as his financial advisor. Prosecutors say the investments weren't real.
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  Speaker 1: They accused the men of using fake account balances and
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  Speaker 1: other tricks to make women believe their money was growing.
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  Speaker 1: And once a woman ran out of money or started
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  Speaker 1: asking too many questions, investigators say love would block her.
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  Speaker 1: The original federal case identified 26 women and more than
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  Speaker 1: $ 1. 3 million allegedly taken. Now the FBI is working through
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  Speaker 1: these 35 new reports to determine whether those new women
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  Speaker 1: were targeted by the same alleged scheme. The investigators believe
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  Speaker 1: there could still be more victims out there. The FBI
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  Speaker 1: is asking anyone who believes they were targeted to come forward.
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  Speaker 1: That's your front page. I'm Mimi Brown. This podcast was
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