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The Lee Elci Show | 9.22.26 · The Lee Elci Show

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  Speaker 1: It's 94.9 News and Stimulating Talk. My name is Tony D'Angelo.
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  Speaker 1: good morning. It's Tony D'Angelo in for Lee Elsie. And
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  Speaker 1: I believe Mr. Nixon gave you a good idea of
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  Speaker 1: the program happening. We've got Bob Lazeri at his usual
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  Speaker 1: time of 6.50. We've got the power hour, Swick and D'Angelo,
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  Speaker 1: 7 to 8. And the Honorable Judge Nazaro, who he's
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  Speaker 1: just warming up in the bullpen. I have no idea
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  Speaker 1: where we're going to go, but I think I have
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good idea. The last half hour is just
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  Speaker 1: you and me. We haven't had a lot of time
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  Speaker 1: to talk, and I really do apologize for that. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't even really been really good at like getting on
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  Speaker 1: the phone or sending messages or things like that. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: to get into the story of the day, what has
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  Speaker 1: captured my limited imagination is this Costa Diamantis thing. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: it's all over the place. You know, you no doubt
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  Speaker 1: know the story. This was a man who held very
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  Speaker 1: high office in the state of Connecticut, was about to
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  Speaker 1: be sentenced. for his crimes of 21 counts, and he
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  Speaker 1: went to Greece. There's some question as to how he
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  Speaker 1: got there and as far as how he was able
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  Speaker 1: to do it and evade every single thing that would
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  Speaker 1: have prevented him from doing that. You can let your
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  Speaker 1: mind run wild on that. I'm not going to speculate
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  Speaker 1: on that. I'm not going to speculate on whether he
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  Speaker 1: is guilty or innocent. You know, as Captain Braddock would
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  Speaker 1: say on Racquet Squad, I'll let the courts decide that,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll let, if Mr. Diamantis has an appeal, the
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  Speaker 1: evidence that he says he will bring, perhaps he will
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  Speaker 1: have an opportunity, or at least a fairer opportunity in
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  Speaker 1: his mind to bring that out. But I, me, myself,
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  Speaker 1: and I, you know, you've been around me long enough,
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  Speaker 1: I've been around you long enough, if you're not tired
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  Speaker 1: of me yet, I always like to look at nuances.
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  Speaker 1: And I always like to see what the– is reporting
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  Speaker 1: because more than likely not, it's some press release they
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  Speaker 1: were handed, and it ain't necessarily so. For example, you
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  Speaker 1: may have read, you may have seen, you may have–
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  Speaker 1: if you're listening from out of state and you're watching
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  Speaker 1: from out of state, good morning as well. This is
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  Speaker 1: a good story, even though it is a Connecticut story,
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  Speaker 1: but it is in fact a national one. The– There
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  Speaker 1: was a— when Mr. Diamantis left town, so to speak, he
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  Speaker 1: wrote an email of nine pages. And it was presented
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  Speaker 1: by the— as just a rambling wreck. The guy's making no sense.
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  Speaker 1: He's crazy. He's split. You know, he's awful. He's terrible.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to judge him one way or the other,
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  Speaker 1: but I— Did some wrestling early on, and I got
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  Speaker 1: a copy of the email, and I read it and
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  Speaker 1: gave it to some of my trusted colleagues on Twitter
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  Speaker 1: who have sliced it and diced it and looked at it.
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  Speaker 1: And let me tell you something. This is a highly
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  Speaker 1: intelligent man, and this nine-page email is anything but rambling
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  Speaker 1: and incoherent. It is very well thought out, very well
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  Speaker 1: said as far as the veracity of things. I'll leave
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  Speaker 1: that for you to decide and me to decide. But
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  Speaker 1: he opens up the email with this statement, and I've
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  Speaker 1: got to read this. This is what your state-run media
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  Speaker 1: will tell you is, ah, don't look at it, ah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, trust us kind of thing. In the words
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  Speaker 1: of Costa Diamandis, Governor Lamont created familial ties using the
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  Speaker 1: power of his office and his powerful friendship with President
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  Speaker 1: Biden to create an insular system of justice. The Lamont
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  Speaker 1: DOJ of Connecticut used the governor's political and legal apparatus
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  Speaker 1: to insulate Governor Lamont, Annie Lamont, and the mountain of
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  Speaker 1: business dealings within a singular network of business colleagues, former
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  Speaker 1: business partners, and family members. The financial relationships between leaders
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  Speaker 1: of the two offices created familial ties and interdependence, creating
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  Speaker 1: partiality and a weaponized effort to ensure a predetermined outcome,
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  Speaker 1: my loss of standing and trust in the community, ensure
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  Speaker 1: my silence, and ensure my arrest and conviction, all in
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  Speaker 1: an effort to protect the governor and his family from
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  Speaker 1: federal investigation. I'm going to read that line again. all
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  Speaker 1: in the effort to protect the governor and his family
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  Speaker 1: from federal investigation. The corruption is the governor's office, its
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  Speaker 1: employment of past high ranking DOJ officials married to current
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  Speaker 1: high ranking DOJ officials pursuing selective investigation of members of
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  Speaker 1: the governor's staff. Governor Lamont's inner circle was entirely intertwined
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  Speaker 1: with the federal apparatus of the Connecticut DOJ meant to
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  Speaker 1: police it. That is what you're state-run media will tell
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  Speaker 1: you is rambling and incoherent. Now, you can doubt the
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  Speaker 1: veracity of it. You could say this guy is right,
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  Speaker 1: as Rain is doing it. But, man, oh, man, this
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  Speaker 1: is not rambling. This guy is very purposed in what
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  Speaker 1: he's saying. So when I look at things like this,
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  Speaker 1: I say, okay, where's the truth? As I've told you
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  Speaker 1: over and over, as I tell myself, my job here
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  Speaker 1: and my privilege of being here is not to be partisan.
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  Speaker 1: is not to say this is good and this is bad,
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  Speaker 1: even though you have a very good idea, and I
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  Speaker 1: have a very good idea of what I think is
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  Speaker 1: good and bad, but to call the balls and strikes.
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  Speaker 1: And that, okay, is there any milk in that coconut?
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  Speaker 1: Let's move on. In this e-mail, the rambling e-mail that
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  Speaker 1: you weren't supposed to read that was made very difficult
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  Speaker 1: for you to get, as he starts off in the e-mail,
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  Speaker 1: Use as you please. Disperse as you please.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Diamantis says Ned Lamont did not like his bravado. Bravado
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  Speaker 1: is a personality. Some people are brash. Other people are meek.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you've been around planet Earth long enough. But
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  Speaker 1: the one thing that really gripped me was this. When 2020,
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  Speaker 1: he told people at the Office and Policy and Management
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  Speaker 1: that a certain equity known as Semaphore was getting state work,
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  Speaker 1: some of it no bid. while Annie Lamont's firm, Oak H.C.F.T.,
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  Speaker 1: was invested in Semaphore. Now, you know the millions. I've
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  Speaker 1: been through the millions with you before. There was more
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  Speaker 1: testing money. It got into the genomic sequencing and the
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  Speaker 1: DNA of children. We don't know where that went. The
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  Speaker 1: legitimate media never did a thing with that. We did
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  Speaker 1: on this show. We showed you the contracts. So Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Diamantis said he raised that, and he said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: something doesn't look right. His words, not mine. But this
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  Speaker 1: is right around the time that I was raising it here.
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  Speaker 1: And he claims at that point, at that juncture, the
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  Speaker 1: wrath of God, so to speak, was upon him. And
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  Speaker 1: this was one of those things that started, it stopped,
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  Speaker 1: it started, it stopped. When Bob Stefanowski ran for governor,
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  Speaker 1: he mentioned it. And then it was like everybody was
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  Speaker 1: off the ball. And I'm like, Where is everybody on
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  Speaker 1: this thing? Don't they see that this is really happening?
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  Speaker 1: But listen, everybody in the world dropped the ball on this.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently Costa had mentioned to the people there, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this doesn't exactly look right. Now, what happened
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  Speaker 1: was at that point he claimed, again, the world had
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  Speaker 1: fallen upon him. And he points to one person here
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  Speaker 1: in his email, the so-called rambling email, which is anything but,
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  Speaker 1: Attorney Deirdre Daley. And he points out very specifically in
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  Speaker 1: his email that Attorney Daley was very closely involved with
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  Speaker 1: Annie Lamont, represented her in some of her business dealings,
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  Speaker 1: also was involved with the governor, Ned Lamont, in constructing
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  Speaker 1: the ethics agreement. Now, let me stop right there. Whenever
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  Speaker 1: the state-run, paid, driven media clowns come to you and
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  Speaker 1: they say, oh, the ethics plan, stop this, net is ethical,
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  Speaker 1: and they throw around this word blind trust, this thing
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  Speaker 1: is not, repeat, not a blind trust. This is a
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  Speaker 1: voluntary agreement, what they call in the trade aspirational. We
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  Speaker 1: will do this to the best of our ability. but
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  Speaker 1: don't hold us to it if we don't get it right.
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  Speaker 1: A blind trust is here's every i don't see it
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  Speaker 1: until i come out of office i ran blind trust
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  Speaker 1: okay i ran blind trust at rogers and wells i
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  Speaker 1: had nick brady's he was secretary of the treasury under
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  Speaker 1: george bush the first and i mean it's like mr
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  Speaker 1: brady came in and signed those papers said gee i
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  Speaker 1: did well he had no idea what had happened This
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  Speaker 1: agreement is not that. So if you see that in
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  Speaker 1: the media, let me know. I want to total the
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  Speaker 1: person that's writing that. But anyway, a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: an aside. So when Costa raises this, so he says,
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  Speaker 1: there's so much in this thing. He says that particularly Ms.
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  Speaker 1: Daly got very weird towards him and then everybody started
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  Speaker 1: to turn against him. And then you've got this thing of, well,
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  Speaker 1: all of these people who are tied to the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Attorney's Office. There's marriages. There's—Ned Lamont goes out and gets
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  Speaker 1: Stanley Twardy to do an investigation. Funny thing. Stanley's from Stanford.
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  Speaker 1: I'm from Stanford. Stanley was in my scout troop, believe
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  Speaker 1: it or not. He was my senior scout, and he
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  Speaker 1: was great. His dad was a wonderful guy, believe me.
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  Speaker 1: Very comforting to a 10-year-old kid in his first camp out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to comment on the veracity of that
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  Speaker 1: or not. But Costa's saying he was rigged, he was jobbed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to judge that. But two things here
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  Speaker 1: do make me very curious. The first thing is he
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  Speaker 1: claims of this weaponization from the Bidens on down through
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. Attorney's Office under Biden protecting the Lamonts. He
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  Speaker 1: also claims that once he raised the magic word semaphore,
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  Speaker 1: the world fell upon him. So there's a lot here.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's going to be even more. But the
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  Speaker 1: fact of the matter is I've only got like a
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  Speaker 1: minute or so left in this opening. What I want
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  Speaker 1: to encourage you to do is don't ever in this
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  Speaker 1: state take anything that anybody is reporting to you, even me,
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  Speaker 1: without checking it out for yourself. You know, we went
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  Speaker 1: through that whole thing last week about the excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: the the hospital funding. And Ned Lamont got $ 500 million
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  Speaker 1: for rural. It's one big, beautiful bill. He didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to do anything other than to show up with a
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  Speaker 32: Join the 94.9 Sports Team, Mike McLaughlin and Keith.
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  Speaker 33: Every Friday night as they do the live play-by-play of
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  Speaker 32: Listen to all the action on 94.9 FM or on
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  Speaker 20: Recovery Room Restaurant. Austin and Massione. Good morning, I'm Sean Murphy.
• 22:04
  Speaker 17: Cloudy skies today with a high around 66. Waterford police
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  Speaker 17: are investigating a Monday night armed robbery at Best Way
• 22:11
  Speaker 17: Mobile on Boston Post Road. Police said a masked man
• 22:16
  Speaker 17: displayed a knife before fleeing on foot toward New London.
• 22:20
  Speaker 17: Firefighters responded to a kitchen fire inside a home at
• 22:23
  Speaker 17: Outback Stables in Ledger Monday evening. All residents and animals
• 22:28
  Speaker 17: were safe and the Red Cross was called. New London
• 22:33
  Speaker 17: hired a $ 10, 000 consultant to help relocate its municipal fuel
• 22:37
  Speaker 17: station from beneath the Gold Star Memorial Bridge.
• 22:41
  Speaker 36: To Fort Trumbull. The state requires the.
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  Speaker 17: Move before reviewing the city's lease with relocation costs estimated
• 22:49
  Speaker 17: between $ 250, 000 to $ 500, 000. The Coast Guard Academy will open
• 22:55
  Speaker 17: a new AI center this fall to rapidly develop technology
• 22:58
  Speaker 17: for maritime security and operations. The center aims to produce
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• 23:08
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• 23:13
  Speaker 17: $ 15 million in federal aid to farmers who suffered at
• 23:18
  Speaker 17: least $ 2, 500 in weather-related losses during 2023 or 2024. Applications
• 23:20
  Speaker 17: are expected to open in early October. I'm Sean Murphy.
• 23:29
  Speaker 17: When news breaks, we break in.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Well, you know that theme. It's one of my favorites
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: for the nonprofit and community ads. Funny the messages you
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: get on break. I cannot be like our Peter Familias.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I'm not really clear if I can mention his name
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: during the broadcast, so I'll say Peter Familias. You know
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: who I mean.
• 23:55
  Speaker 28: And I.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think I can do nine things at once,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: but people said, well, that last clip that you played
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: of the sound, what was that? That was from the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Dirty Dozen in 1967. That's where Franco refuses to shave
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: in cold water. And if you watch that scene, that
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: is an excellent, excellent example of team building under the
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: worst of circumstances.
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: The team.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Gelled upon the worst possible thing they could and became
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: a fighting unit. But whenever I get discouraged, I like
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: to turn that scene on. Anyway, on to the nonprofit
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: and community announcements. I've got a bunch of them. Food
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Friends and Futures, a food truck festival to benefit Thames
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: River Community Service. This looks really good. This is Dodd Stadium,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: 14 Stott Avenue in Norwich, Connecticut. Saturday, September 26th, 11 a.m.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: to 7 p.m. If you time it right, you can
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: get breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Here we go. The Freedom Stride,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Easter Seals, the capital region of eastern Connecticut, October 24th, 2026.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Walk at Duncan Park, 1214 Main, Hartford, Connecticut. And there
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: is early registration, $ 25 to $ 40. And if you are interested...
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: And sponsorship, and I'm sure the event, contact Wendy Archer
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: at warcher, that's one word, warcher at esrec.org, E-S-C-R-E-C.org. That
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: is the Freedom Stride. The Veterans Equine Therapeutic Services, these
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: guys do marvelous work. They're having the Golf Classic September 28th,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: 2026 at the Lake of Isles Country Club private course.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Great prizes here. We talk about it every week. $ 10, 000
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: for a hole-in-one, a Rolex Submariner for a hole-in-one, and
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: two hole-in-one competitions. And that is, if you're interested, contact
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the Vets Veterans Equine Therapeutic Services. Say that five times fast, D'Angelo.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: The 49th Annual Jack O'Keefe Memorial Strides Road Race, Sunday,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: October 4, 2026. Camp Harkness, 301 Great Neck Road, Waterford, Connecticut.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: And if you have questions, contact Denise Tift, Director of
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Community Outreach. D-Tift, T-I-F-T, that's one word, at TheArcCT. That
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: would be T-H-E-A-R-C-E-C-T dot org. Make sure I got that right.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: The Connecticut House Republican Campaign Committee, you are invited to
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: join us for a conversation with Connecticut House Republicans hosted
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: by Melissa Ziobron, if I'm pronouncing that correctly, Thaler Heffel, again,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: same courtesy. Doc Foley, Ann Santoro, Isabel Rudy, if I'm
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: pronouncing that correctly, and John Russell. With House Minority Leader
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Vincent Candelora, Wednesday, September 23rd, 6 to 8 at Salem
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Herb Farm in Salem, Connecticut, 320 Hartford Road. If you're interested,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: info at cthrcc.com. Sixth annual 2026 fall fundraiser hosted by
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the Sprague and Norwich Republicans at the Vineyard at Hillyland,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: 75 Murphy Hill Road in Scotland, Connecticut. Sunday, September 26,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: 6 to 9. And just having a little bit of
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: difficulty reading here, but I'm sure you can contact them
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: if you know where they are. That's a really intelligent
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: thing I said. Build the team, fund the fight, win
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the majority. The Republicans, Southeastern Connecticut State Republican PAC Fundraiser, Monday,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: October 5th, 2026, 5 to 630 at the Flanders Fish Market,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: 22 Chesterfield Road, East Lyme, Connecticut. And most people will
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: know where that is. If you need information, contact the station.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: This one I came across on X last night. Joined
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: for an evening with Ryan Fazio, candidate for governor. This
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: is an affordability town hall for New London County, and
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: that is at 102 Newtown Road in Groton, and that
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: would be Thursday, September 24th. So a lot happening, and,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: you know, this is the time of the year to
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: actually go through those kinds of things because, believe me,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the weather gets incredibly rotten as time goes on. Anyway,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: the— well— What can I say to... Interesting ride over here, actually.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I don't understand. Somebody has to help me with this.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: When you're heading down a dark road, I mean, really, again,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: there is no world in Pomfort, Connecticut before 5 in
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the morning, maybe before 6 in the morning as things
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: go on, but when you're heading down a dark road
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: in a 45 speed limit, and I'm going like 48, 49,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: and People are doing two-car passes on double lines. Listen,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: you must have angels that the rest of us do
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: not have. It's absolutely unbelievable. So, you know, you're getting
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: up early. You know, my poor spouse is up early.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: The animals are roaming around. They want some food. And
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: this is, you know, all kind of whatever it is.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: But we, you know, thank God we're here.
• 29:29
  Speaker 37: And I.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I hope I've piqued some curiosity, if you will, as
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: far as the beginning. with Mr. Diamantis' email. I think
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: it's widely circulated right now what, in fact, he wrote.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: If you go to X, my pal Christy Talmadge has
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: dissected it and put it up in nine separate posts.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: And It is a lot of information to consider, and
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: it really gives you a window of what was happening
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: at that time. Again, it's not my place to say,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: to exonerate anybody or to put blame, but I am
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: going to point at things that do look, shall we say, odd,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: and point them out to you. And that's, this whole
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: thing appeared odd. Now, I do understand that Mr. Diamandis
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: is freely giving interviews, which is kind of interesting to
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: me because usually when someone has escaped the clutches of something,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: they're normally nowhere to be found, at least in my experience.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Like I know yesterday on an interview with another radio station,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: he said, and I think this was referred to in
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: the Connecticut Mirror, you know, watch The Fugitive with Harrison Ford. Actually,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I go back to The Fugitive with David Jansen for
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: crying out loud. But the thing is.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: That character, Dr. Richard Kimball, was not giving radio interviews
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: from anywhere, so I don't know what the connection was
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: that there, but it's kind of interesting as to where
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: this is. Now, one of the things he has made
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: reference to, which I did not get to in the opening,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: he claims there is a voluminous document. This is his
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: claim that he has given to the Department of Justice,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: and he has been asked.
• 31:19
  Speaker 20: As far as.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: do you feel there's some milk in that coconut, so
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: to speak? Do you think that there's things incriminating? And
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: he said, I believe that there is. So where that goes,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: how that goes, it's I think if you observe what's
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: happening and observe the actions of people that are running
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: around here or there, you will kind of get an
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: idea of what's happening. But it's and I know we'll
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: get into this in the power hour with Bob Swick.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: It's like When are we going to have just plain old, clean, transparent, decent,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: you can see what's happening, government? I can't think of
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: any time, at least that I have been an adult
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: or a young adult, that something wasn't taking place that
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: they didn't want you to see or you have to
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: sit there and jigsaw puzzle it out, which is a
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: lot of what I do here, frankly. You know, I'll
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: do things, I'll run timelines, I'll... Say, well, like, for example,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: when Mr. Diamandis was complaining about Semaphore and asking those
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: questions at that same time frame, at that same juncture,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I was doing that here. I was doing that. That's
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: when my time was expanded from 10 minutes to 20 minutes,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I believe, give or take. And there were so many
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: unanswered questions, and I'm sure we'll get into that with
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Bob Swick. There was the, for example, we just got
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: done with Semaphore. We start with the digital currency group.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: We never, you know, this wonderful company was coming to
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Stanford and do great things. And that night we figured
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: out that it had a very strong Lamont connection. It
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: was a former Oakgate CFT entity. And, of course, the
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: patent line was, oh, you know, we were out of that.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: We had nothing to do with it. Well, you know,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: you do have a.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: An obligation to your investors, especially in something closely held
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: when these people are plunking down good money for you
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: to do something. It's like, well, you know, I can't
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: do this anymore, guys. Sorry, you're on your own. That
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: does not wash in reality like so many things don't
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: wash in reality. And it's just like, when do we
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: get to a point where we see things clearly? Anyway,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: I think we're coming up on the break. It's Tony D'Angelo, 94.9
• 33:39
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  Speaker 30: In East Lyme, the.
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  Speaker 28: He's forgotten more about sports than you will ever know.
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  Speaker 35: Here he is, Bob Blazari.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm very happy that Bob has forgotten more than
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: I know because he stays in sports. I really don't
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  Speaker 1: know that much, but We are joined at this time
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, pal?
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  Speaker 45: I'm good, Tony.
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  Speaker 35: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I am okay. A little raspy in the throat for
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: some reason, but that's okay. We soldier on. We got
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  Speaker 45: Yeah, Tony, let's go back in history, and these are
• 37:41
  Speaker 45: names you will recognize for sure. On this day in 1911, Tony,
• 37:47
  Speaker 45: and Tony and I were not.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: At this game, folks.
• 37:50
  Speaker 45: Boston Rustlers. That's what the name of the team in
• 37:52
  Speaker 45: Boston was, Tony. Cy Young of the Boston Rustlers won
• 37:56
  Speaker 45: his final game, Tony, number 511. He was 44 years
• 38:01
  Speaker 45: old at the time, Tony. Tony totally shot, but he
• 38:04
  Speaker 45: actually shut out the Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field that day.
• 38:08
  Speaker 45: So that was his final victory. and we know the
• 38:11
  Speaker 45: award in his name now tells you how good of
• 38:14
  Speaker 45: a pitcher he really was. Let's fast forward to the 60s, Tony, 1968.
• 38:19
  Speaker 45: You remember Cesar Tovar, right, Tony?
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, very, very well.
• 38:23
  Speaker 45: He played all nine positions against the A's at Metropolitan Stadium.
• 38:28
  Speaker 45: He actually even pitched a hitless inning that day. A
• 38:32
  Speaker 45: la Bert Campanaris, who's another one who did that, but
• 38:34
  Speaker 45: that was Cesar Tovar. And the year after that, Tony,
• 38:38
  Speaker 45: Willie Mays in 1969, he was 38 years old, I think,
• 38:44
  Speaker 45: at the time. He was the second player to reach
• 38:46
  Speaker 45: 600 home runs. People don't realize that Ruth, and then
• 38:51
  Speaker 45: it was.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Mays, right, Tony, to hit And May spent two years
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: in the Army.
• 38:55
  Speaker 35: Yeah, there you go, right?
• 38:57
  Speaker 45: So you've got to always think about that. 1973, Tony,
• 39:00
  Speaker 45: speaking of the Army, Al Bumbry of the Orioles, he
• 39:03
  Speaker 45: had three triples in one game against the Milwaukee Brewers.
• 39:06
  Speaker 25: Wow.
• 39:06
  Speaker 45: A guy I always respected.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Vietnam veteran, yeah.
• 39:10
  Speaker 35: Right?
• 39:10
  Speaker 45: So that happened in 1973 on this day. And 1977, Tony,
• 39:15
  Speaker 45: Bert Bly Levin, who we've talked to before, he no-hit
• 39:19
  Speaker 45: the California Angels as the Twins won 9-0 that day.
• 39:23
  Speaker 45: As far as birthdays, Tony, a couple NFL birthdays. Alejandro Villanueva, Tony.
• 39:30
  Speaker 45: a former tackle for the Steelers who was much maligned
• 39:34
  Speaker 45: because he used to actually stand for the National Anthem
• 39:37
  Speaker 45: a few years ago when some of his teammates weren't.
• 39:40
  Speaker 45: He was a proud graduate of Army, and he took
• 39:45
  Speaker 45: a lot of heat for that. But he was a
• 39:46
  Speaker 45: two-time Pro Bowler. for the Steelers. He celebrates a birthday today.
• 39:50
  Speaker 45: And another name you'll recognize, Tony, Harold Carmichael. Used to
• 39:55
  Speaker 45: play for the Philadelphia Eagles.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles, yeah.
• 39:59
  Speaker 45: And he is a Hall of Famer now. I mean,
• 40:03
  Speaker 45: almost 9,000 yards receiving in his career. But Harold Carmichael
• 40:07
  Speaker 45: celebrates today. Baseball, Tony, a couple born on this day, 1920,
• 40:13
  Speaker 45: Bob Lemon. Tony, you remember him as a manager?
• 40:16
  Speaker 25: Oh, yeah.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: He's a very good manager.
• 40:18
  Speaker 45: But people don't forget. People will forget how good of
• 40:22
  Speaker 45: a pitcher he was, Tony, I guess because he pitched
• 40:24
  Speaker 45: with Feller and Mike Garcia and those guys. But he
• 40:28
  Speaker 45: had six 20-game win seasons, Tony. He was a great pitcher.
• 40:32
  Speaker 45: But he was born on this day in 1920. In 1927, Tony,
• 40:34
  Speaker 45: you're going to laugh. Tommy Lasorda was born on this day.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, God bless him.
• 40:39
  Speaker 45: Tony and I had a chance to talk to Tommy, oh,
• 40:42
  Speaker 45: I don't know, 12 years ago, Tony. You know, at
• 40:44
  Speaker 45: the time, he was still bleeding Dodger blue. Tony was funny, right?
• 40:48
  Speaker 45: I mean, an incredible guy.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: I'm sure if you went to his grave today, you'd
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: see the Dodger schedule and the playoff schedule. And he
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: always said to Mr. O'Malley, I will work for the
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Dodgers even when I'm no longer here.
• 41:00
  Speaker 45: He was a character, and that was tremendous. And you
• 41:04
  Speaker 45: remember this name, Tony. You talked about him all the
• 41:06
  Speaker 45: time to me, Ken Aspromonte. He actually is 95 years
• 41:11
  Speaker 45: old today, Tony.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Dear, and I think Bob is still with us, too.
• 41:14
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 41:16
  Speaker 45: Lafayette High School in Brooklyn.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: That's right. That's right.
• 41:19
  Speaker 45: But Ken, you know, he didn't play too long. I
• 41:21
  Speaker 45: think a seven-year career, Tony, came up with the Red Sox.
• 41:25
  Speaker 45: But another, here's another name, Tony, Larry Durker. 80 years
• 41:30
  Speaker 45: old today.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Fine pitcher. Fine pitcher.
• 41:32
  Speaker 45: People don't realize how good he was, too. I mean,
• 41:34
  Speaker 45: people remember him as a manager, but an incredible pitcher.
• 41:38
  Speaker 45: 20-game winner back in the day with Houston. Pitching in
• 41:41
  Speaker 45: the Astrodome, right, Tony?
• 41:43
  Speaker 9: Which probably helped him.
• 41:45
  Speaker 45: Tony, the flapper. Jeffrey Leonard.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: I know you like this guy.
• 41:51
  Speaker 45: 71 years old, the flapper when he hit a home run, right?
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Penitentiary face. Yes, I do remember.
• 41:56
  Speaker 45: That's what they called him, and maybe the flapper was
• 41:59
  Speaker 45: a better nickname. Wally Backman, Tony, the scrappy second baseman
• 42:04
  Speaker 45: for the Mets. So he's 67 today. And Vince Coleman, Tony,
• 42:09
  Speaker 45: 65 years old. You know Vince Coleman, Tony, his first
• 42:12
  Speaker 45: three years with the Cardinals, he stole 100 bases each year.
• 42:16
  Speaker 25: Yeah.
• 42:17
  Speaker 45: Amazing you know total singles hitter like backman he had
• 42:20
  Speaker 45: 28 home runs in 13 years these guys did not
• 42:22
  Speaker 45: hit home runs he had some triples but it was
• 42:24
  Speaker 45: all singles but he could steal bases and uh that's
• 42:28
  Speaker 45: vince coleman born on this day in 1961.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Tony well the fans have spoken and they've given me
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: a trivia question for you in in between all the
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: uh the hate mail and everything else i get um
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: And I'm not supposed to give you the answer. Now,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: what professional sports team drafted two football Hall of Famers
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: in one year? The year is 1979. Can you name
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: the team, and can you name the players?
• 42:54
  Speaker 9: Oh, 79.
• 42:55
  Speaker 45: Two NFL players.
• 43:00
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 43:01
  Speaker 45: Oh, my goodness.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Yes, they both played the same position, too. They were quarterbacks.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: Quarterback.
• 43:06
  Speaker 45: I was going to say quarterback. Was it the Yankees? And, oh,
• 43:14
  Speaker 45: I'm thinking John Elway. I'm thinking a few other guys
• 43:18
  Speaker 45: the Yankees had that didn't pan out, Tony. I am
• 43:21
  Speaker 45: stumped at this time.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Okay, this is the Kansas City Royals, and they drafted
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Dan Marino and John Elway in the same draft class.
• 43:28
  Speaker 45: Oh, see, I knew Elway was a great athlete, Tony. Marino,
• 43:33
  Speaker 45: obviously another great athlete, but a Pittsburgh guy, right? I mean,
• 43:37
  Speaker 45: so that is a good question. That's interesting.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Now, you know, this got me thinking, and I started
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: to do some reading. Remember the Royals Baseball Academy? You know, Mr.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: Kaufman had a thought. He was the owner. He said,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: if I could get athletes of different sports, people that
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: do different things, that have athletic ability, I can train
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: them to be Major League Ball players. And this was,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you want to call it successful,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you want to call it a failure,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: but He took 14 people, or 14 people reached the
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: major leagues. Most notably was Frank White, who apparently was
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: a tennis player.
• 44:19
  Speaker 45: Well, Frank White, you're right, Tony. And this, again, that
• 44:21
  Speaker 45: was in the early 70s, if I recall. And Frank White,
• 44:25
  Speaker 45: I think he played 18 years with the Royals.
• 44:28
  Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah.
• 44:28
  Speaker 45: I mean, that's incredible.
• 44:29
  Speaker 20: Fine player.
• 44:30
  Speaker 45: He won a ton of gold gloves, Tony. So whatever
• 44:33
  Speaker 45: they were doing was working at the time, obviously. You know,
• 44:36
  Speaker 45: you remember, and that... paired with the Charlie Lau hitting style, right?
• 44:41
  Speaker 45: Tony Brett and a bunch of others. I mean, obviously
• 44:44
  Speaker 45: they were doing good things in the early 70s, man.
• 44:47
  Speaker 45: Those were the great days to watch the Royals.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: And they were, you know, that was a team that
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: started unlike a lot of expansion teams. It's like, we're
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: going to do our best. We're going to start to build.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: It's going to take us a few years, but We're
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: going to build a winner here. We're going to build
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: a team that people want. And, you know, they did it.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, they had scrappy players. They had Lou Piniella.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: They had Freddie Patek. They had Cookie Rojas. Remember Jim
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Ricker telling us that they were great on double plays.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: It was like if there was a tough play or
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: something and everybody would run to the edge of the
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: dugout and say, okay, how are they going to do
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: it this time? I mean, those are the days of
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: baseball that I miss.
• 45:30
  Speaker 45: Yeah, Tony, they were a chemistry-built team. It was not
• 45:34
  Speaker 45: a super– you remember Amos Otis and Al Cowan? There
• 45:37
  Speaker 45: was guys like that that, you know, if you look
• 45:39
  Speaker 45: at their numbers, they're not going to bowl you over. But, man,
• 45:42
  Speaker 45: they all played well together, and they did fundamentally– they
• 45:46
  Speaker 45: definitely were fundamentally sound with all those Royal teams.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the playoff games against the Yankees, believe it
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: or not, were out of time. Where do the fans
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: reach you?
• 45:58
  Speaker 45: Go to X, Tony. They'll be able to search my name,
• 46:02
  Speaker 45: and they'll see the LaSorda interview posted this morning. So
• 46:05
  Speaker 45: if you remember Tommy, you'll get a bunch of laughs
• 46:08
  Speaker 45: if you watch that.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, watch that after 9, too.
• 46:10
  Speaker 20: Okay, Bob.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: There you go. Thanks very much. Thanks for being here.
• 46:13
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  Speaker 1: This is really something everybody's looking forward to every week,
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  Speaker 1: me especially. And this is the man I like to
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  Speaker 9: I'm good. Thanks for having me on this morning.
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  Speaker 1: My pleasure. And you may begin wherever you wish.
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  Speaker 9: We have a problem in Connecticut. It's a problem of trust.
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  Speaker 9: It's a problem of lies. It's a problem of deception.
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  Speaker 9: It's a problem of overspending. There's so many problems that
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• 54:57
  Speaker 9: a Connecticut employee, state employee, was convicted of different charges
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  Speaker 9: of bribery, so on and so forth. We pretty much
• 55:06
  Speaker 9: know the the problems that Demathis has created for himself
• 55:12
  Speaker 9: to a certain degree. But I'm listening to your opening
• 55:18
  Speaker 9: this morning, and I'm agreeing with everything you're saying, because
• 55:21
  Speaker 9: after I read his quote-unquote rambling 10-page dissertation there, I'm
• 55:29
  Speaker 9: saying to myself, a lot of this is kind of
• 55:32
  Speaker 9: too precise to make it rambling.
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  Speaker 30: That's what I thought.
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  Speaker 9: And a lot of it is stuff that you, Tony,
• 55:40
  Speaker 9: have talked about many, many times before, seen before being
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  Speaker 9: number one, that no one in the state covered. And
• 55:49
  Speaker 9: I've been covering over the years all the different subcategories
• 55:53
  Speaker 9: of all the different companies that somehow, somewhere, are tied
• 55:58
  Speaker 9: to the Lamont hedge fund. So we first have to
• 56:02
  Speaker 9: start off with saying, or first start off by looking at,
• 56:07
  Speaker 9: Who's telling the truth? And I hope he's enjoying himself
• 56:13
  Speaker 9: in Greece, because there's a lot of beautiful places in Greece,
• 56:15
  Speaker 9: and there's a lot of good Greek wine there at
• 56:18
  Speaker 9: the same time. So I also find it very, very
• 56:22
  Speaker 9: interesting that he's now doing the media tour, trying to
• 56:27
  Speaker 9: build up public sentiment against the Lamont regime and against
• 56:33
  Speaker 9: what he feels are unfounded charges against them. But I
• 56:38
  Speaker 9: find it hard to believe that if you have to
• 56:40
  Speaker 9: drop money off in somebody's bathroom for consulting fees, which
• 56:45
  Speaker 9: should have been, you know, which are, you know, technically,
• 56:48
  Speaker 9: in my opinion, taxable, so on and so forth, you
• 56:51
  Speaker 9: have to be paid cash by it. That kind of
• 56:54
  Speaker 9: raises a red flag at the same time. So not
• 56:56
  Speaker 9: to be rambling here, I want to start off by saying,
• 57:00
  Speaker 9: how much did he actually know and how much did
• 57:03
  Speaker 9: the Lamont administration shut him down to when things started
• 57:08
  Speaker 9: getting very, very hot and ended up with all the charges,
• 57:12
  Speaker 9: so on and so forth, is he truly the fall
• 57:15
  Speaker 9: guy for this whole debacle of the Lamont construction contracts,
• 57:21
  Speaker 9: the constant consulting firms, so on and so forth? So, again,
• 57:27
  Speaker 9: you really pinpointed it reading that first page of that
• 57:31
  Speaker 9: e-mail article. Because it really summarizes a lot of the
• 57:35
  Speaker 9: issues you've been talking about over the years. And I've
• 57:38
  Speaker 9: touched base on it numerous times also.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: So many things go through my head when we started
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: on this. And, you know, let's go back to COVID-19.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: Of course, in today's world, we're supposed to forget all
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: of this ever existed. And it was a question of
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: who do you trust? I mean, I think our instinct
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: at least pre-2020 was that well if our if if
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: democrats and republicans are saying the same thing it's probably
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: true and then it was and and i had my
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: doubts as this was going on and i was maybe
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: like the first i was not a covid denier i
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: had the virus three times but it was a virus
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: basically and did not get vaccinated thank god and i
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: um And believe me, my sense of smell is better
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: than ever. Ask my wife when dinner happens. But it
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: was this thing of, okay, I kind of got my
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: doubts here, Bob, about Lamont. He doesn't really look convincing.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: He looks like he's propped. He's like overly authoritarian. He
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: would do these interviews with Neil Cavuto on Fox at night,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: and he'd be either standing in front of a slide
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: or whatever and trying to rechannel Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: Creeping Socialist. And it was like, something's just not hitting
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: me here. And then we find out later that that
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: whole presentation was... was not him. It was Boston Consulting.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: It was McKenzie. He does not have that kind of.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: You know, shape.
• 59:17
  Speaker 9: And I know you remember, I mean, the early days
• 59:19
  Speaker 9: of COVID, you and I talked at once at what
• 59:22
  Speaker 9: we thought was, again, we were not COVID-19 deniers, but
• 59:26
  Speaker 9: we were deniers of the draconian idea situation that we
• 59:32
  Speaker 9: were all placed in. And because of that, I feel
• 59:35
  Speaker 9: very strongly that he saw his opening and he said, hey,
• 59:40
  Speaker 9: I'm free and clear now from now on. I can
• 59:42
  Speaker 9: do anything I want now that I've gotten and taken
• 59:45
  Speaker 9: HEMA IV by its roots. Hey, the sky's the limit.
• 59:49
  Speaker 9: And how could that be applicable to every other aspect
• 59:52
  Speaker 9: of state government, including building construction contracts by a former...
• 59:59
  Speaker 9: a Democrat state representative whose payoff is basically a state job,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 9: a high-paying state job, and at the same time giving
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 9: him that, make him the deputy budget chief at the
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 9: same time, which to me is astounding that you would
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 9: appoint someone for those two positions of that much power
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 9: and of that much complexity.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you, if you reach back, the thing
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: that got me like, okay, my suspicions here are confirmed, was, quote, unquote,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: the COVID baby. It was like the baby died of COVID.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: And as time went on, that was Hartford Hospital. We
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: found out that that was a pure embellishment on his part.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: The baby did not die of COVID. So, of course,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: anybody with a reasonable mind would sit there and say, okay,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: What else is this SOB lying to us about, considering
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: he's lying about this? And, Bob, you know, that was
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: the night, the day, the week that the legislature as
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: a whole should have thrown him out, basically. It's like,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: how can you trust this man when he's doing this crap?
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Simple as that and.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 7: Just as difficult.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 9: And how do you trust someone who basically continues the
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 9: state of emergency in the state of Connecticut? just to
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 9: get funding from the federal government, just to do what with?
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 9: Channel it to his hedge fund through various economic programs,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 9: economic development, yada, yada, yada. You know, it's very suspicious.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 9: And I think it's all coming to a head with
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 9: this situation right now. I mean, we could talk all
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 9: day long about, you know, it was wrong with what
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 9: he did, you know, going to Greece, so on and
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 9: so forth. But who dropped the ball And in my opinion,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 9: our state attorney general, our anti-Trump town regime, dropped the
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 9: ball not being aware he went to get his Greece
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 9: passport and not aware what he put up for his
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 9: house as far as collaterals concerned for his bond was
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 9: very much in debt. I don't even know how he
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 9: was able to raise the $ 50, 000 off of it, so
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 9: on and so forth. So there's a lot of So
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 9: misconnections here, to me, there was a lot of dropping
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 9: the ball for the sake of covering for the big
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 9: man and his family's hedge fund.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, and the thing which I didn't get
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: to in the open is the day when Costa walks in,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: I'm sure this didn't happen in a day, but if
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: you picture this in terms of you're watching a movie
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: somewhere in the back row with some popcorn, And he
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: starts to raise questions about Semo IV. Now, let's just assume, arguendo,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: that he is the honest man he says he is.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to stand in judgment of him. And
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: he says, you know, something's rotten in Denmark. You've got
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: to do something here. And at that point, he says
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: the wrath of God, so to speak, turns on him,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: particularly Deirdre Daly. who has a very curious role in
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: this thing, according to his email, which, and I believe
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: he's speaking in fact that she is counsel for Anne Lamont.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: She is also, she was involved in drafting the ethics agreement,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: which is that sham you can pick up on your,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: whatever computer you happen to be standing in front of.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: It's a masterwork. What it does is that It says, okay, well,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: there's only these partnerships here, and if they do this
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: recusal list, everything's fine, and they're going to submit the
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: recusal list. I think we've seen one recusal list of
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: companies that you can't deal with. Completely left out any
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: new formations after that, because that agreement was, you know,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: check it out for yourself. Go to your computer. That
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: was done in May of 2019. The first large Oak
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: HCFT Cayman Islands partnership, or shall I qualify that, tax-free
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: secret Cayman Islands partnership, was three months later. And this
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: wasn't the thing, as I've said to our paterfamilias for years.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: It's like, oh, yeah, let's put on a show. This
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: is done. Like, you just don't, I mean, you've got
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: to get the authorities there on board. You've got to
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: pass due diligence, and, and, and, and, and. And I'm like,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: So what else works behind these questions, and why did
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: all these people who he.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 9: Says— What were the promises given to him for doing it?
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 9: Was the promise the deputy budget sheet so he could
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 9: increase his pension, increase his yearly salary, so on and
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 9: so forth? Or all these cash payments that he supposedly
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 9: got were funneled to other people in government or to
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 9: the Lamont regime— as, you know, trying to keep everybody
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 9: in line and so on and so forth. I really
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 9: think this is a lot more complex than what just occurred,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 9: in my opinion. And again, I'm not a legal expert
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 9: in any way, shape, or form. I, you know, I'm
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 9: just picking up information as I see, and it's all
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 9: public information.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 35: That we're reading.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 9: It's all public information we're seeing. I agree with you,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 9: the state-run media is avoiding everything completely. Oh, don't read
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 9: the email.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: There's nothing there.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 9: There's so much there, it's not even funny. And why
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 9: wasn't this talked about? Because of what? A plea agreement
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 9: that went bad? Maybe he was going to be given
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 9: probation or whatever and it fell through? Did somebody miscommunicate
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 9: what was going on? So on and so forth. At
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 9: one point, I'd like to really make for an economics
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 9: point of view is, How much does the state of
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 9: Connecticut overpay for construction purposes, school construction purposes, consulting firms,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 9: so on and so forth? You know, from the simple
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 9: plumber and electrician working on a job, are all these
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 9: bribes that were supposedly taking place, are they included in
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 9: the final price? So can I get taxpayers to pay
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 9: two or three or four times more than they should
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 9: on these projects? Who's auditing these projects? Where are the audits?
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 9: Why aren't the audits published? And at the same time,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 9: where are Ned Lamont's income tax statements? It's an election year.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 9: It would behoove, you know, people running for office saying, hey, Ned,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 9: we got to put up our income tax statements. Where's yours?
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 9: Why is yours never published? Why is it so secret?
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 9: What's going on?
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, and how could I put it? If
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: you and this is the thing, when you see disclosures. Uh,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: typically what you see is you see when you see
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: them in his case, he's never shown anything. One year
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: he came out, I believe that was probably, let me see.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: That was the, that was four years ago. And he said, Oh,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: I made 50 something million. The tax return.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 35: Yeah.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: It was shown to a few people in the room,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: his crony people who probably knew as much about what
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: all that meant. If it was anything at all is,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: you know, I might have bet, uh, building a rocket ship.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: And it was never published. It was never disclosed. It
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: was never. And the thing is, when politicians pull this trick,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: when they give you a disclosure, they show you page
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: one and page two of the 1040. What a good
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: boy am I? What I want to see is the
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: bottom of the schedule B, because that is the place
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: where you say, do you have any foreign bank accounts? Humana, Humana, Humana. Yes,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: I do. And where are the foreign bank accounts or
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: the relationships? And all the software has a codex where
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: you can put in Denmark, Portugal. I've got one young
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: lady client who's Ecuadorian. She's got accounts there. I want
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: to see the bottom of that schedule be, because if
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: it says there, you know, Cayman Islands, I mean, Cayman
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: Islands ain't no secret. I mean, if ever I would
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: talk with Mr. Diamandis, I would ask him, you know,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: based upon this whole weirdness that you were perceiving with Ms. Daly,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: was this.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 9: And what's interesting about this whole situation, too, going back
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 9: to the income tax statements, why is this not a
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 9: campaign issue this year?
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: What is going on?
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 9: Why is the media so, you know, fearful of Ned
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 9: Lamont and what he has done and what he's doing
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 9: when something as simple as an income tax statement, which
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 9: should be published every year, he is the governor, he
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 9: does have control over basically $ 28 billion of the state's money,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 9: why is it such a secret? What is he hiding?
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 9: And again, you cannot think of anything else but this
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 9: man is hiding something somewhere that is not going to be,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 9: according to law, according to his nondisclosure agreement, so on
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 9: and so forth, There's something there that is really bad,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 9: and it really needs to be investigated rather quickly, or
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 9: you're going to have another four-year term of him and
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 9: his basically using the state.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 35: As his piggy bank.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: Well, several of my friends were asking me about– and
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: this might be a question for the judge if we
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: head down this road– Criminal limitations statutes, for example, like
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: I have enough problems with the ones in the Internal
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: Revenue Code. In general, three years, 25 percent or more
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: of income is six years, and fraud is forever, and, and, and, and, and.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: I did a little bit of reading on that, and
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: basically if— and people who deal in this have told me
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: this through the years— Um, the general criminal statutes, I
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: think I'm not an expert, please don't quote me five years,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: six years or something. These, you know, if, if there
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: were crimes, the crimes are starting to get stale. But
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: if there's a continuation of something like you started something
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: and then you came back and you did it again
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: as some form of what you were doing, that keeps
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: the thing alive. That all said, and I think to
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: your point of, you know, this better be done quickly.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: If what Mr. Diamantis is saying is true, you know, again,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: I've been here all morning. I'm saying I'm not going
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: to say who's telling the truth or not. Let that
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: be between the parties and God. But he said that
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: the Biden gang, in conjunction with Ned, circled the wagons
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: against him. They might have knocked some of these things
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: out of the box. But to your point, Bob Swick,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: it's like, don't stand there and wait for this to go.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: Damn it, do something.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 9: Exactly. I think everybody wants some conclusion to this. They
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 9: really want to find out the real story. And if
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 9: it's going to be hushed up, you know, it's going
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 9: to be hushed up. And, you know, again, I have
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 9: a very strong suspicion. He's hidden somewhere in Greece, and
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 9: he's not going anywhere. And, okay, so how did what
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 9: got resolved from this whole.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 9: Court trials, so on and so forth. What really got resolved? Nothing.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 9: So it's just another example that the Lamont administration could
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 9: do whatever they want, whenever they want, however they want,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 9: at any cost, and they get away with it. And
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 9: I think that's really unfair to the Connecticut taxpayer, who's, again,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 9: slammed every which way, and now they're slammed by what
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 9: many feel is a corrupt governor because he just... won't
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 9: talk about what's going on in all his different mazes
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 9: of financial connections in the state of Connecticut. You know,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 9: and then we start with FEMA 4, and we work
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 9: our way down the list. You know, I publish that
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 9: list in the blog literally once a month. So maybe
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 9: someone could actually say, or question them and say, well,
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 9: what's going on here? Where is this money? Why are
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 9: you doing this? Why are you doing this?
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: And this is rambling. This is hearsay, and there's nothing
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: to see here, folks. Yeah, for sure. Anyway, I think
• 1:12:31
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  Speaker 1: with Bob Swick. Bob, you got my head spinning about this.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I try to continue what we're talking about and
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  Speaker 9: try to understand what's going on. The other part I'd
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  Speaker 9: like to talk about briefly is His pension, he has
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  Speaker 9: apparently they don't. I did some research on this. And
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  Speaker 9: to me, it's every which one. And it really doesn't
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  Speaker 9: something that is, you know, set in stone that a
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  Speaker 9: person is convicted of a crime or whatever it may be,
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  Speaker 9: they do not get their pension.
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  Speaker 1: And somehow he's getting his.
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  Speaker 9: Exactly.
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  Speaker 58: Hmm.
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  Speaker 9: Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting. And I– and it's this whole– I mean, what
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  Speaker 1: you would expect from our present comptroller of rushing to
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to shut this down and isn't this a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful act of fiduciary responsibility? But to your point, it's
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  Speaker 1: like who let him continue to do that in the
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  Speaker 9: Right, exactly. And again, that's something that really needs to
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  Speaker 9: be addressed from this whole episode also. I mean, where
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  Speaker 9: is the legislature standing on this? Why are taxpayers being
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  Speaker 9: put through this for something that is illegal? If you
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  Speaker 9: must abide by them, so on and so forth. In
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  Speaker 9: his case, he's special because he's a state employee. So, okay,
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  Speaker 9: we'll turn the turned the glass being half empty now, okay,
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  Speaker 9: did he do it because he was so far in
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  Speaker 9: either overspending his money and or had too much debt
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  Speaker 9: and was trying to pay it off, so on and
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  Speaker 9: so forth. And again, if you looked at some of
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  Speaker 9: the information that was released, he apparently had three judgments
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  Speaker 9: against him for trying to pay back apparently credit cards
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  Speaker 9: or a loan, some things of that nature, but it
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  Speaker 9: was very minimal. It was about $ 40, 000, $ 50, 000. And he
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  Speaker 9: still had apparently he refinanced his mortgage on his house,
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  Speaker 9: One thing to note, if he did go to prison,
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  Speaker 9: he loses his Social Security. So that's another whatever amount
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  Speaker 9: it was, $ 2, 500 a month he would be losing. So
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  Speaker 9: he would be taking a big hit if he lost
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  Speaker 9: his pension and he lost his Social Security at the
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  Speaker 9: same time. And again, it's this great irony. He's in Greece.
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  Speaker 9: and his lawyer files a suit against the state to
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  Speaker 9: not shut off his state pension. Does anyone see any
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  Speaker 9: irony in that? I really wonder. I really wonder. Does
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  Speaker 9: anyone see anything wrong with that situation?
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  Speaker 1: Well, and how could I put it? Again, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to put a moral judgment on the man. You
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  Speaker 1: draw your own conclusions as you see them.
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  Speaker 28: But this.
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  Speaker 1: This is a thinking man for whatever purpose. He is
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  Speaker 1: you can decide what you know, what you believe there.
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  Speaker 19: But.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't like this thing of, oh, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: and carefully planned thing. And you know, all these things
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  Speaker 1: we're discussing, what happens to my pension? What happens to
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  Speaker 1: I going to make a living? Um, how am I
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  Speaker 1: going to survive? I don't want to end up on
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  Speaker 1: a street somewhere on whatever the Greek word is for street.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and not only that, but, uh, I would
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  Speaker 1: think he'd have to have that, you know, in his mind. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get this pension no matter what or
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  Speaker 1: what happens if I don't get the pension. And then
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  Speaker 1: when he gets there to be so free and talking
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  Speaker 1: about every... It's just, I mean, I think it's like
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  Speaker 1: too soon to speculate what all this means. But I
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  Speaker 1: think there's, you know, I keep saying this. It's my
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  Speaker 1: mother's expression. There's a lot more milk in this coconut,
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  Speaker 9: Exactly. And again, I think You know, in a way,
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  Speaker 9: out what would cause him to do something like this
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  Speaker 9: to his lawyer, too, listen, I'm out of here. I'm
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  Speaker 9: a Greek citizen. I can be protected in Greece. I'm
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  Speaker 9: going there. I still want to try to get my
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  Speaker 9: state pension. You know, I know that might not be possible.
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  Speaker 9: If I get my Social Security, I can get by.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know, you know, things of that nature. I'm
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  Speaker 9: going to go bankrupt in the United States one way
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  Speaker 9: or the other because I can't afford to pay everything. And,
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  Speaker 9: you know, this is my last way out. I can
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  Speaker 9: live out, you know, the remaining years of my life,
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  Speaker 9: you know, in peace and quiet type of thing. But again,
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 9: let's go back to the email. The email to me
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 9: is very troubling because, as you stated this morning, and
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  Speaker 9: anybody who's read through the entire email, a lot of
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  Speaker 9: the stuff makes some sense. And it's written in an
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  Speaker 9: articulate fashion, not a rambling fashion. So I don't know
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  Speaker 9: why there's not more attention being paid to the email itself.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 9: and try to get some responses from the Lamont administration
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 9: as to some of his questions and his things that
• 1:30:55
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  Speaker 9: out and completely denying it? Or is it they have
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  Speaker 9: to be silenced and hopefully it goes away again? It
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  Speaker 9: just doesn't make sense to me. It really does not
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  Speaker 9: make sense to me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's troubling because the only good questions you see,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't care if it's the Lamont administration, I
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  Speaker 1: casting a moral judgment on anybody. You do not see
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  Speaker 1: any of that other than, you know, save Connecticut Sentinel.
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  Speaker 1: God bless them. You don't see any sort of investigative
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: information coming from any of these things other than, quote-unquote,
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  Speaker 1: I tell people you want to find out what's happening. And, Bob,
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  Speaker 1: I say that's a tragedy because it's like when I
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  Speaker 1: questions you and I are dealing with. And this is
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  Speaker 1: such a disservice and an insult to the people of
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  Speaker 1: the state.
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  Speaker 35: Exactly.
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  Speaker 9: And, again, it takes basically two common citizens– to do
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  Speaker 9: the investigation and to see, you know, okay, this doesn't
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  Speaker 9: Why has journalism evolved into this kind of state is
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  Speaker 9: I want to touch, I want to go back to
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  Speaker 9: You look at the case in general, okay, again, how
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  Speaker 9: much did the state overpay in a lot of these contracts?
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  Speaker 9: Number two, where was all this our money coming from
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  Speaker 9: from the contractors is that included in the cost of
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  Speaker 9: the contract i would i would say yes number three
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  Speaker 9: the cost of prosecution now the cost of trying to
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  Speaker 9: get him back to the united states even if that's
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  Speaker 9: possible again taxpayers money being paid for that i mean
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  Speaker 9: it's like to me it's just such a debacle from
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  Speaker 9: top to finish it's just not even funny it's just
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  Speaker 9: really it's just really annoys me to know when i
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  Speaker 9: mean the corruption in connecticut literally has been going on
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  Speaker 9: for years. And it's just everybody just shrugs their shoulders
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  Speaker 9: and say, oh, well, you know, we'll get them next
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  Speaker 9: time type of thing, and that's it. Well, it's time.
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  Speaker 9: It's time for it to stop once and for all.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're reaching people out there. We have one of
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  Speaker 1: our devoted listeners, Old Dan, says, wondering if Bob or
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  Speaker 1: Tony has any idea how in 2021 Governor Lamont reported
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: income of $ 54 million. It was only $ 8 to $ 10
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  Speaker 1: million in 2018, 2020. How does income jump so much
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  Speaker 1: in one year? I would think, Dan, that might be
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  Speaker 1: his share of the family partnership and the SEMA IV IPO, which,
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  Speaker 1: of course, made absolutely no money and all the profits
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  Speaker 1: were to go to charity. Now, look at it this way, Bob.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking about this last night. Let's just say
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: it was an honest screw-up. We are people. There's nothing
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: great about being a human being. Trust me, I've been one.
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  Speaker 1: And if you make a mistake, it's like, well, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to fix the mistake and I'm going to fail forward.
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  Speaker 1: So where is the real-time disclosure? Where is the payback schedule?
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  Speaker 1: Where is the, you know, where is the, we never
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  Speaker 1: saw any of that. It was just like, okay, boom, bang,
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  Speaker 1: on to the next thing. So that's my one thought.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: That's probably how it got it. The $ 54 million, please
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  Speaker 1: go ahead.
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  Speaker 9: Well, to your point, If you're managing hundreds of millions
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  Speaker 9: of dollars, you really need to know what you're doing.
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  Speaker 9: And I make a mistake like that. And since that's
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 9: 2021 issued in 2022, so what's happened the past four years?
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 9: I can only imagine what his tax return is like now,
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 9: probably hundreds of millions of dollars or $ 42 million. And
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 9: how did he do it? Good question. Everybody would like
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 9: to know. But, again, we don't know, and we can't
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 9: see it. So, again, I agree with you. I think
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 9: a lot of that gain is Seema Fork. I think
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 9: a lot of the gain was from COVID-related businesses and
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 9: no-bid state contracts, so on and so forth. I really
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 9: think he's a heavy hitter as far as using state
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 9: money to his benefit with regards to all these shell companies,
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 9: the Cayman Islands debacle, so on and so forth. So
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  Speaker 9: to the question that the listener is posing, yes, it
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 9: was probably an increase from Seymour Fork. If it was
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 9: a mistake, it should have been rectified by now. It's
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 9: over five years later.
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  Speaker 1: It just amazes me. And to your point, those people
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: that are close to him, that ask him questions at
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: press conferences and things like that, I mean, somebody will
• 1:36:14
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• 1:36:19
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  Speaker 4: And meanwhile.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there are all these unanswered questions, and I've
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: got to be very honest here. I hear a lot
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: from the state Republican Party about, you know, fight corruption,
• 1:36:33
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• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: on a citizen doge, people looking at information without a
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  Speaker 1: you know, the other thing as far as that sort
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: of thing is we hear about all the sins of
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  Speaker 1: the agencies and things like that. And there are myriad
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: and there are many. I don't hear anybody talking about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, throttle will abolish the should be abolished Connecticut
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  Speaker 1: Department of Economic and Community Development. Because you know why?
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  Speaker 1: It's the money, honey. It's the glad hand. Everybody was
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: in on that sucker. And it's like, here's an organization
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: that's just, you know, you want to blame Douglas McCrory?
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: Go ahead. You want to blame Sancerre Cicero? Go ahead.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: What about the bartender that kept pouring the liquor? Somehow
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: that doesn't factor into it. Drives me crazy.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I think it drives a lot of people crazy.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 9: And also, it's basically an example of a totally non-transparent
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 9: state government where the Connecticut taxpayer must do as they're told,
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 9: never question what state government does for state government is correct,
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 9: state government is right. State government can do whatever it wants. Laws,
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 9: the Constitution of the state are basically ignored one way
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 9: or the other. It's really, it's almost like a rope burning,
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 9: and it can't, and the flames will never go out.
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 9: That's what it really comes down to. And again, it's
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 9: a golden opportunity in November to try to change this
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 9: debacle that you have, and it's all public information, with
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 9: the exception, with the exception of what Not what we
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 9: don't know about Ned Lamont and all his different shell companies,
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 9: all the different no-bid contracts, so on and so forth.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 9: And it all stems from the fact of at the
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 9: time of COVID. he basically ruled the state with an
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 9: iron fist, and we're going to have a real tough
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 9: time finding out what really happened, really, really happened, and
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  Speaker 9: where the money went from that point on.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and that brings me to something that is never
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: discussed except by me and except by you, and it's
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: on your litany of all the Lamont questions, if you will,
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: as far as the thing, advanced CT. Now, part of
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: this whole thing of starting from the COVID baby, every
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: week I was coming here and we were talking about
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: something else we're finding and something else we're finding. There
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: was a non-profit. the Connecticut Economic Resource Council.
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  Speaker 52: And.
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: After maybe the first two months of 2020, pre-COVID, it was, oh,
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: we're rebranding that to something known as Advanced CT. And
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: what we found out was that there was, quote, unquote,
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: there was no rebranding. There was a renaming of the
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: first charitable organization, Cough, Spit, Barf. And there was, quote, unquote,
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: a new clandestine foundation of which all of the COVID
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: dealings were held in that exempt from freedom of information.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: Everything that goes on in these nonprofits, they all sit
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: there and cry and wring their hands, and this is terrible. Well,
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: why don't we have, you know, you take a public dollar,
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: you agree to put your business in the street. After all,
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: to me, that's fair. And it's like, you know, if
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: anybody says that or agrees with it, they're saying it
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  Speaker 1: into their elbow, frankly. And it's like, well, what happens
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: if they find my crony? You know, and Bob, it's
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  Speaker 1: like I am so damned tired of it. And it's
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: like and the thing is, advanced CT is that whenever
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  Speaker 1: you read something in state run news like, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we got 50 jobs. The D.C.D. gave them 50 million
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: in credit to advanced CT.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what happened?
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: How many you know, how many two percent loans are
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: in there? And when you study the people in Advanced CT,
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: they're really kind of a rogues gallery of all the
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: people in Connecticut who you have questions with. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is not acceptable practice. Sorry, I'm being very polite.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: We're on radio. I'm not on my show.
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  Speaker 9: Well, it's not acceptable. And, again, let's parallel. What's the
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  Speaker 9: state unemployment rate? Higher than the nation's average. Where's the
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  Speaker 9: state in business development and business friendliness? Bottom five states.
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  Speaker 9: Where's the state in taxation? Bottom, you know, highest five
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 9: states in the country. So you're spending all this money
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 9: and getting no result. Would anyone want to question that?
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  Speaker 9: Would anyone want to say, okay, this is not working.
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 9: Let's try doing something else. Or can we not do
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 9: something else because Lamont and his family control advanced CP
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  Speaker 9: to a large degree, and you don't want to cut
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  Speaker 9: off their cash supply. And again, it may be an
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  Speaker 9: accusation I'm making, but you know what? If all I
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  Speaker 9: hear is something different from either the governor or advanced
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  Speaker 9: CP or somebody in the state of Connecticut, I'm assuming
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  Speaker 9: that this is not a functional and or legal and
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  Speaker 9: or ethical situation that the state has engaged upon. to
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 9: try to create economic development that it just seems not
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 9: to be able to do in any way, shape, or form.
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  Speaker 1: If it were ethical and transparent and everything else, there'd
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  Speaker 1: be no problem in showing it and disclosing it. But, man, oh, man,
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  Speaker 28: I'm well, you know, and I woke up a little
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  Speaker 28: into it. You know, Bob Swick and you were talking
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 28: about Connecticut. And I wonder, does Connecticut care? You know,
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 28: that's the problem. Tony, if I can be so bold
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 28: to say, is this the year that there's enough people
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 28: that are tired of the headline after headline of perceived corruption?
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 28: We've got this Costa Diamantes thing. So taking a dive,
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 28: let's go back memory lane. We're broadcasting from the Ledger Studios.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 28: People might remember back in 1985, P. Takas Veliotis, who
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 28: had a huge purge. He was the head of electric
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 28: boat And then he was indicted on bribery and he
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 28: skipped to Greece. OK, he skipped to Greece in his sentencing.
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 28: Other defections from the United States. And we're talking about
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 28: Costa Diamantes for those just tuning in. He was convicted
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 28: of 21 felony counts of bribery. Interesting, because when I
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 28: tried my first case, it was a government corruption case.
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 28: Twenty one counts. It was the same number. This is weird.
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 28: But he was convicted. He was looking at a long
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 28: stretch in federal court. A lot of finger pointing to
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 28: the federal judge. Stephan Underhill, the U.S. Attorney's Office, everybody
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 28: was asleep. Why didn't they confiscate his passport? It's not
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 28: like Costas didn't telegraph that he wanted to go to Greece.
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 28: He asked the judge several times, I've got a passport.
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 28: He obtained it in March of 25, and he said
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 28: there was some kind of land transaction. So he drives
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 28: to Florida, takes a boat to the Bahamas, and then
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 28: ends up in London, and then he goes to Greece. Well,
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 28: he may never come back, and this is the problem.
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 28: This is what happened with Veliotis. There were millions that
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 28: were sought. I think in 1994, the U.S. government made
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 28: a deal with Veliotis and paid some money back. Other
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 28: high-profile defections, now people are not going to like me.
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 28: Don't get mad, Mayor Mike. The city of New London
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 28: was a cesspool 40 years ago.
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 7: I was a.
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 28: Prosecutor doing undercover narcotics work with the task force, and
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 28: then I was a defense lawyer, okay, defending people that
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 28: I formerly prosecuted. And there was a guy, his name
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 28: was Alberto Howe. And he was head of the Ocean
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 28: Beach Park Board. And unfortunately, he was indicted on drug charges.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 28: And he skipped. And another one. Actually, it was Lou Atherton.
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 28: Let me correct that. Lou Atherton was head of the
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 28: Ocean Beach Park Board. And he was cousins with Alberto Howe.
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 28: And Alberto was a big-time drug dealer. And he ended
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 28: up in Panama. And locally, there was another city official,
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 28: Luz Gonzalez. She was head of Centro de la Comunidad.
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 28: The drug trafficking was so bad at a telephone stanchion
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 28: at Truman Street that SNET had to remove the telephone.
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 28: It's on the corner of Truman and down near Blackhall Street.
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 28: And these were bad days. And people defected. They left.
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 28: And they never caught up. I don't think they ever
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 28: caught up with how I think it might have died
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 28: in Panama. I don't know. Maybe a caller knows. But
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 28: a lot of bad stuff. People skipping bond. Beth Carpenter,
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 28: she's in the news. Beth Carpenter was arrested, convicted, conspiracy
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 28: to commit murder. I have to be careful because I
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 28: actually represented a co-accused, one of the individuals involved. But
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 28: now Beth Carpenter is seeking a new trial. She ended
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 28: up in London or Ireland. And my good late friend,
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 28: Hugh Keefe, wonderful criminal lawyer, passed away a few years ago.
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 28: He represented her. along with Tara Knight, who's now a judge,
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 28: and Tara Keefe. And she went overseas, and arguably people theorized,
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 28: and I never discussed it with you, did she go
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 28: there because there was no extradition. And state's attorney Peter McShane,
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 28: who's now a judge, and the chief state's attorney, Kevin Kane,
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 28: took a plane ride overseas to Ireland. And people said
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 28: it was a junket. No, they were trying to retrieve
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 28: the fleeing felon. And for those that know, Carpenter is
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 28: serving an extended sentence. So we have some history here.
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 28: It's ugly, and we can point fingers all we want,
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 28: but the reality is this is what people do. It's
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 28: not a foolproof system. People are going to skip.
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  Speaker 1: I relate to you what some people have asked me,
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: your opinion.
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 11: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: Right now we're just dealing, at least me, myself, and
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: I are just dealing in this world of what's up
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: and what's down. Do you— Costa Diamantis yesterday and other
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: times he made a statement and he said, I've handed
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: a manifesto of sorts to the justice department. Um, and
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: he says, I believe this has quote unquote, the goods,
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: whatever the goods are. Um, do you believe that there's
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: any sort of, uh, I, I realize witness protection is
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: a term of art that doesn't apply here, but is
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: there some sort of, uh, is he operating to do
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: something with the government against the state?
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  Speaker 28: Well, let me say this. My personal opinion is I
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 28: doubt it, but is it common for individuals whose neck
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 28: is in the noose and they've got to go to
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 28: prison for a long time to try to make a deal?
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 28: It's very common. Do I think this is going on?
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 28: I don't think so. I don't think so. And we
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 28: had a press conference with his attorney, Norm Pattis, a
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 28: well-known criminal lawyer in Connecticut. and he made a press conference,
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 28: I think it was last Friday, and he said, you know,
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 28: he was disappointed, he didn't know about this, et cetera.
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 28: Is this all a ruse, right? I don't think so,
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 28: and I just, you know, this is another problem. The
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 28: federal government gets involved in very serious financial crimes. They
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 28: want to get involved in counterterrorism. When have you seen
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 28: the federal government, well, not too often with local state
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 28: of Connecticut corruption, there's this relationship going on between the
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 28: United States government, U.S. Attorney's Office, New Haven, Hartford, Bridgeport,
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 28: And the state of Connecticut, it's kind of a hands off.
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 28: It's kind of a hands off thing. You know, the
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 28: attorney general in Connecticut isn't going to touch it. It's
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 28: all too much politics. So it's business as usual. But
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 28: is this the year? This is where politics right dovetails
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 28: into law. And then you have a lawsuit filed by Mr.
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 25: Pettis.
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 28: I believe it. He filed it to get Diamantis's pension back.
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 28: You know, I'm sorry, but heads up for Sean Scanlon,
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 28: the comptroller. who stepped up apparently to revoke the pension.
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 28: Whether it's lawful, we'll see. It's going to be tested
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 28: in the courts. But no one did anything as far
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 28: as I know. The attorney general, not the governor. Now,
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 28: the governor must have known about this. You know, the
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 28: comptroller is part of the cabinet, so to speak, but
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 28: it's an independently elected office that we know about. And
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 28: in all fair disclosure, I am a state retiree. Sean
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 28: signs my checks. Thank you very much, taxpayers, for my
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 28: time as a judge. I have a pension. And state benefits.
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 28: So to cut off the— wow, you know, that's kind of— I
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 28: was going to use that term. I shouldn't use that radio.
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 28: Kind of a tough move. And we'll see if it
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 28: passes muster. But now we had a lawsuit. And the
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 28: hubris— I' m going to say this— the hubris of a guy sitting
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 28: in probably palatial circumstances who's fled the country— And is
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 28: an alleged fugitive from justice, alleged, to say, I want
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 28: my pension.
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 28: You know, do people, is this the tipping point? Is
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 28: this the tipping point where the voters will come out
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 28: and say, hey, no more. We're done with this. Corrupt-a-kit.
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 28: That's what they call Connecticut. Corrupt-a-kit. All the slams under
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 28: the John Rowland administration. Two times in prison. We've talked
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 28: about this. You know, and it's been a long time
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 28: since the Republicans have been in power. But two times.
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: Does it strike you unusual as Tony D'Angelo and for
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: Lee LCM speaking, have the privilege of speaking with Judge
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: John Nazero. Does it strike you odd, Judge, that this
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: man who is a fugitive from justice is all of
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: a sudden from Greece has become this media star? He's
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: talking to anybody. He's doing videos. He's pretty much, shall
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: he sing, what I put down in the email is true,
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: what I've said is true. I'm right, they're wrong. But that,
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, don't fugitives like run and hide?
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 28: Normally, normally, one might suggest it's a pretty strong ego there.
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 28: You know, pretty strong. I was involved in a matter,
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 28: and I know the person might be listening. I actually
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 28: was involved in an investigation involving one of the– involved
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 28: with contract bidding, et cetera. It's really sad because there
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 28: are a lot of people that have been caught in
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 28: a jet wash who have been wrongfully maligned. But I
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 28: have to say something, and this is kind of important
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 28: for those listening statewide. You know, we've got the Office
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 28: of the Chief State's Attorney, and this is public news.
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 28: A state's attorney sued the state of Connecticut. It's public
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 28: news because of corruption in the public integrity unit of
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 28: the Office of the Chief State's Attorney. And there was
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 28: a settlement, and there's no nondisclosure agreement. So a prosecutor
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 28: sued the state, made a settlement, lawsuit, substantial money, six figures.
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 28: And unfortunately, the state's attorney is forever barred from holding
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 28: any state office and found corruption in their own means.
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 28: I can tell you, as a former chief civil judge
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 28: in New London, there was an individual walked out for
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 28: falsifying timesheets, shaving the corners, doing bad stuff. Did you
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 28: hear about it? Of course you didn't, right? Because it's
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 28: all buried. Don't send an email. Don't publicize anything. A
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 28: lot of stuff goes on in this state, ladies and gentlemen.
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 28: You've got state representatives like Vinny Candeloria down at Brantford
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 28: who want a doge, who want an accountability. And is
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 28: it falling on deaf ears? We've been a blue state
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 28: for so long. Maybe this is the year. I really wonder,
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 28: you know, because I've been kind of a naysayer saying
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 28: people don't care. Just about every state trooper I know,
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 28: and let's get a call from Todd Lynch, every trooper
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 28: that retires goes to Florida. They go to the West Coast.
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 28: I can name a gazillion names. of friends and coworkers
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 28: who are down on the West Coast. They want to
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 28: get the heck out into Connecticut as fast as they can. Yes,
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 28: they don't tax government pensions down in the state of Florida,
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 28: but it's bad. $ 28, 000 a year we're losing, you know,
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 28: in terms of population. They're just fleeing. They're fleeing Connecticut
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 28: in droves with their hair on fire, and they look
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 28: like Lee and I. You know, no hair. So this
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 28: is what's going on. Do people care? I don't know.
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, and I think to your point, if
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: you look at the I like to say that. They're
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: never covering these things that you're discussing, I'm discussing. You know,
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: and the thing is, like you say, people have different
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: perspectives on the issue, but they see the issue, which
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: is glaring. And the only place you're going to get
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: a discussion of the issues is like here, X, a
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 1: video show, a Reddit.
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 7: It's, I mean, I.
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 1: Maybe they have had them.
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 28: I've got to give credit to the reporter from Ed Mahoney,
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 28: Ed Mahoney from the Hartford Courant. So Ed, I've known
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 28: for many years. He's an investigative reporter. He's the last
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 28: of the breed. When the Chicago Tribune bought the Hartford Courant,
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 28: they gutted their investigative resources. And, you know, dovetailing on
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 28: a point you made, why isn't this being looked at
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 28: in the media? Let's be honest. What's going on with
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 28: the New London Day newspaper? A lot of these reporters
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 28: are stringers. They're being paid $ 40 a story, okay? They
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 28: don't even— they' re not even reporters. There's a gal that was
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 28: covering local politics in a town, and she was like
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 28: a former English teacher. And I was an English major
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  Speaker 28: with Bob Swick. We were part of the journalism program,
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 28: and we became reporters when we graduated from Southern Connecticut.
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  Speaker 28: So the quality of the reporting is really lacking. And
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 28: you've got stringers, you know, people doing per— Per story
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 28: getting paid, that's not quality reporting, and no one wants
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 28: to dive. Was it the Connecticut Examiner that recently announced
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 28: a commitment? They hired a bunch of reporters. Connecticut Examiner
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 28: or Connecticut Insider, they hired a bunch of investigative reporters,
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 28: and they are committed to exposing the corruption, and they're
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 28: trying to do a deep dive. We'll see where it goes.
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 28: Online presence, you know.
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  Speaker 1: It's certainly necessary because I think to your point, have
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 1: we had enough? Yeah, I think we have. And the
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: only way we're having enough is just because this chasm
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: between reality and what the official take is, is so
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: great with so many questions. And it's like, how do
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: you look at that and say, hey, there's something terribly
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: wrong here?
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 28: Six weeks from today, six weeks, people will be in
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 28: the polls and they have the opportunity to try to
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 28: make a change.
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  Speaker 19: Right.
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  Speaker 28: Everybody's vote counts. Don't think it doesn't count. So vote
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 28: your conscience. Number one, vote. That's important, right? Don't be
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 28: one of these people that says, oh, it doesn't matter. No,
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 28: it does matter. If enough people mobilize, you can make change.
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 28: I wanted to mention another topic.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 28: Just pivoting a little bit. You know, the latest Trump
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 28: action and now the lawsuit against the DOJ. I've mentioned
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 28: her many times. You know, my daughter is a reporter
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 28: down in the Beltway and not a good look for
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 28: the Trump administration. Dubar, CNN, MSNBC, Politico and others. And
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 28: now we got a lawsuit. And how did the last
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 28: one turn out? I bumped into Jim Costa down in Washington, D.C.
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 28: of CNN. I was down visiting the White House with
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 28: my family and we were just chatting. across the street.
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 28: It wasn't in any kind of official capacity. And he
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 28: would later be barred and CNN won, you know? So
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 28: why tee up a, why do that? It's a loss. It's,
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 28: it's foolish. I'm going to say it.
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  Speaker 4: It's stupid.
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  Speaker 28: It looks stupid. And you know what?
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 28: Lee Elsie would say that.
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  Speaker 10: He would say it's stupid.
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  Speaker 28: Why are you doing this? It's the art of the
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 28: self-inflicted wound.
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  Speaker 35: You know?
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  Speaker 4: You do good things, but.
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 28: Then you do a stupid thing, like barring media. Gee,
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 28: we have something in the Constitution. We've got a number
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 28: of amendments. Does anybody remember what the El Primo Amendment is?
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: The First Amendment.
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 11: Speech.
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  Speaker 28: It's the number one for a reason.
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 7: You know?
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 28: And it detracts from good stuff going on. And now
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 28: the media is going to focus on that. You know,
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 28: you're going to have Caitlin Collins and CNN, Anderson Cooper.
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 28: They're going to be talking about the lawsuits. Even though
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 28: they're a party. It's just not a good look. It
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 28: doesn't work.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I mean, you know, I... New York Times
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: versus Sullivan. My favorite case in the world. It's all
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 1: fair game. It's like over.
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  Speaker 46: Done.
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: And everybody wants to come back on whatever side. And
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: I'm with you. It's like, let the people come. But
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: let everybody have a voice. And then make up your
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: mind as to what... You know, they want to keep
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: the information from us... Whatever side that drives me crazy.
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 28: I was watching. I was watching News Nation. And the
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 28: reason why my wife watches News Nation is because my
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 28: daughter appears on that. And I'm watching Bill O'Reilly in
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 28: this tortured discussion. And I'm not a fan of Bill O'Reilly.
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: He's got to go.
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 28: He's he's way beyond his expiration date.
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: You mean both.
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 28: And I'm not a fan of Chris Cuomo. And I
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 28: said News Nation is the land where fired hosts end up.
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 28: You know, Cuomo got O'Reilly and O'Reilly's talking about the
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 28: one sided media. Well, Fox is one sided and he's
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 28: criticizing CNN, you know. And Fox fired him. So it's like,
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 28: come on. They're guilty on both sides. You've got extremists
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 28: on both sides. Not a good thing. Are we going
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 28: to come to the center? I don't know. Are cooler
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 28: heads going to prevail? Because two things can be true
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 28: at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: We're finding that out, especially we're talking this morning about
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 1: the Diamantis thing. And I think there are a couple
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 1: of other things you'd like to discuss in our remaining minutes.
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  Speaker 25: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 28: Well, we had the shooting. We had another ICE shooting.
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 28: And I didn't go deep into this.
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 36: Me neither.
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 28: Not a good look. You know, a guy, you know,
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 28: driving while brown. What was the purpose of pulling him over?
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 28: It's not clear. But I'll say this, okay? And I
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 28: said this in a joke to Lee Elsie off the
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 28: air and to Tony. I'm going to disqualify myself from
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 28: Inspector General because the Inspector General for the state of
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 28: Connecticut investigates every police-involved shooting. And, folks, even law enforcement,
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 28: you cannot use deadly force unless you have a reasonable
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 28: belief that deadly force is facing you. That's an objectively reasonable.
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 28: That's a subjectively. You got a guy in a car
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 28: shot in the back. And I'm sure the officer will say,
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 28: the ICE officer will say, well, I thought he was
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 28: reaching for a weapon. There was a case in New London.
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 28: I was talking to my wife about this, where an
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 28: officer shot a guy who admittedly stole an ICE truck
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 28: and it fell on its side. And you got a
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 28: picture of the New London officer shooting the guy because
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 28: he thinks he's going for a weapon. He was going
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 28: for a cell phone. I arraigned the victim in a wheelchair. Wheelchair.
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 28: He sued the city of New London, collected millions. You
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 28: got to have a reasonable belief. At the end of
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 28: the day, the guy with the ice truck that's tipped
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 28: on its side, well, he ain't going anywhere. He might
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 28: be a fleeing felon because he committed larceny to the
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 28: first degree. You shoot him? Really? That's why the city
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 28: paid out millions of dollars. And this is why it's
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 28: a tough job. This is why, as Greg Howard says
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 28: and Todd Lynch, you can't get good candidates coming to
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 28: the academy. It's so hard to field a competent class
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 28: at the State Police Academy, local police departments. They're scrambling.
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  Speaker 1: Tough job.
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  Speaker 28: Hey, maybe you shouldn't go there. If you don't want
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 28: to take the decisions, it's a hard decision. Life and death.
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 28: We can't have people shot in the back because they're brown. Again,
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 28: it's a bad look for the administration.
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: It's a high bar, you know, like I always say.
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  Speaker 1: And believe me, I've been very remiss about studying the
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 1: flock camera debate.
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  Speaker 28: Oh, I have my views on that.
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 36: Yeah.
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: But that whole thing. And to me, it's like, well,
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 1: our First Amendment right, our Second Amendment right, our ability
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 1: to go where we want to go without the state
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 1: like the governor of Massachusetts who wants to send somebody
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 1: to knock on the door if you have a baby,
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 1: make sure everything's okay.
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  Speaker 28: Yeah, I have a different view, Tony, and maybe it's
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 28: a minority view. And there was a meeting, and it
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 28: was Alyssa Bass, okay? She's a frequent commentator. I think
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 28: she runs a number of publications. And she talked about
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 28: this meeting at Stonehenge and Borough about cameras into the viaduct.
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 28: Here's my view. Is it a weird view? I'm okay
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 28: with cameras. I got no problem with cameras. Now, you're
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 28: talking to a guy that's undergone several in-depth background checks.
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  Speaker 28: Governor Malloy nominated me to the— Judicial Review Council. I
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 28: got nothing to fear. I don't care if there's cameras
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 28: help law enforcement. Anybody ever watch an episode of CSI
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 28: or FBI or CIA? They're using cameras all the time. Yes,
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 28: it's Big Brother looking out. But they're very valuable investigative tools.
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 28: And I don't care if it gets my license plate
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 28: going somewhere. What are you worried about? If you're not
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 28: doing anything wrong, you got nothing to worry about.
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  Speaker 1: Well, actually, I was going to approach that.
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  Speaker 28: Put up more cameras. We put up cameras in downtown
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  Speaker 28: Pawketuck because we had open drug dealing. And for the
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 28: longest time, the administration fought cameras in downtown. And as
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 28: a presiding judge, there was open heroin dealing downtown. And
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 28: the first selectman didn't want to admit it. The police
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 28: chief didn't want to admit it. They stopped keeping statistics
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 28: on drug arrests because they said, we got no problem.
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 28: We're a great community, great values. Don't tell the real
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 28: estate people you're going to hurt values. Cameras are good.
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 28: They help law enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: Well, whatever way you come down, basically, and the way
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  Speaker 1: you look at it, I think a policeman's job is
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 1: supposed to be hard. By definition, because it's to protect
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: the rights of citizens. To your point, just don't go
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 1: shooting people. Just don't go stupid. Just don't go stupid.
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 1: But the whole idea is, yeah, information in the right
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 1: context is wonderful. Information that's used is horrible.
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  Speaker 28: Someone I know very informed on the subject handed me
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  Speaker 28: a question that says, do we still have the assumption
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 28: of an expectation of privacy when we're in public? You know,
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 28: the answer is no. The answer is no. You get
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 28: these people, you know, doxing people coming up in their faces.
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 28: The state trooper in Mystic, the guy that comes to
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 28: his house with the cameras in his face. When you're
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 28: out in public and you're on the road, you know,
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 28: and the guy comes up to you with a camera,
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 28: there's no expectation of privacy. And the framers didn't anticipate this, but,
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 28: you know, so there we are. I think we're coming
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 28: up on a hard stop. That's right.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 28: I'll buy you a coffee. Thank you, Tony, and thank you, Mr.
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  Speaker 28: Lee Elsie, for giving me the opportunity. My pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: It's 94.9 News and Stimulating Talk. Tony D'Angelo in for
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 1: Lee Elsie. Our final half hour. We are listening to
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 1: the voice of the fan. I believe our first caller
• 2:25:17
  Speaker 1: is Jan from East Lyme. Hello, Jan.
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 2: Good morning.
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 12: What a great show you have, Tony.
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 1: Thank you. It's all because of folks like you.
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 9: Well, you know what?
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 12: I have a newspaper in front of me, and it's Thursday,
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 12: March 11, 2021. And Pandemic Profits Spin Through Le Mans
• 2:25:40
  Speaker 12: Orbit by Lee Elsey. And I know that you were
• 2:25:42
  Speaker 12: the consultant on that. And also there was an article
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 12: in the Hartford Courant about Semaphore. Both of them are
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 12: about Semaphore.
• 2:25:52
  Speaker 1: Around the same time.
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 6: What?
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 1: Around the same time.
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 12: Yeah, around the same time, right. And Diamante said that
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 12: he was tipped off by some articles in the media
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 12: about Semaphore. I thought that your and your partner's role
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 12: in this should be noted.
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 36: It was.
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 1: Actually, if you go back to where that happened, many
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 1: people have bellied up to the bar to say, I'm
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 1: the person that did it.
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 7: Actually.
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 1: June, and I, you know, what was last night's dinner?
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 1: Only thing I could tell you, Jan, it was good.
• 2:26:30
  Speaker 1: I don't remember it. But June 14th, 2020, I was
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: only on Facebook then. I wasn't on Twitter. And Ned
• 2:26:40
  Speaker 1: coming out saying he was going to save the world,
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: he said, I've got COVID tests and the company doing
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 1: a December 4, and I'm like, where have I heard that?
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 1: And it wasn't a tough connection to make. And I thought,
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 1: my Lord, I mean, did you really do that? Not thinking,
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 1: are you that clueless? Are you that inept? Are you,
• 2:27:01
  Speaker 1: and it's like, and then the whole thing started and
• 2:27:05
  Speaker 1: then there was the firestorm. Other radio stations picked it
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 1: up and it was, oh, we're going to give the
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 1: profits to charity. And the thing is, did Semaphore ever
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 1: have an operating profit? Probably not because there was all
• 2:27:21
  Speaker 1: sorts of difficulties. We don't know What sort of efficacy
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 1: the covid tests had, they reorganized. There was a number
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 1: of lawsuits that I believe are still pending also against
• 2:27:32
  Speaker 1: the digital currency group. You know, same thing. These were
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 1: major economic drivers in the state of Connecticut. And it's
• 2:27:40
  Speaker 1: the whole thing of how can I put it? It's
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 1: put it aside. Let's move on. And I think to
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 1: Judge Nazaro's point, it's like, is this the point where
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 1: it's like where we're finally coming full circle and saying
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 1: this can't go on anymore? This is just so ridiculous.
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 1: And so, you know, So many unanswered questions that always
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 1: come back to the same place, which is June of 2020, Semaphore,
• 2:28:07
  Speaker 1: the admitted self-dealing. Costa Diamandis in his email said the
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 1: company was worth billions at IPO. Maybe he was right.
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's a stupid man. But I focus
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 1: on that $ 66 million, shall we say, sell. from the
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 1: Lamont family interests. And it's like, you know, enough is
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 1: enough is enough. And then if you want to say
• 2:28:31
  Speaker 1: to me, Jan, this is old business, it's like, hey,
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 1: wait a minute. If it's old business, tell me that
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 1: these people who are still doing new business aren't going
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 1: to do the old business in a new time frame.
• 2:28:44
  Speaker 12: Exactly. And what I wanted to do was that article
• 2:28:48
  Speaker 12: came out in March of 2021, but I know that
• 2:28:51
  Speaker 12: you and your partner... have been working on that semaphore
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 12: subject for much longer than that. And, you know, Diamantis
• 2:29:03
  Speaker 12: kind of gave you a shout-out for bringing it to
• 2:29:06
  Speaker 12: his attention, and I wanted to do the same. And
• 2:29:08
  Speaker 12: I also wanted to say yesterday I was glad the
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 12: judge brought up Valiotis because you and I were discussing
• 2:29:16
  Speaker 12: him yesterday.
• 2:29:17
  Speaker 11: And....
• 2:29:19
  Speaker 12: You know, my father, although he worked on the Hill,
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 12: as they say, was still very much a Union supporter.
• 2:29:26
  Speaker 12: And Valiotis had people, you know, because of his management,
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 12: they were out on strike constantly. But my question is,
• 2:29:38
  Speaker 12: Valiotis and Diamantis were both Greek citizens. What are they
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 12: doing with these huge jobs, especially ones that require, like
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 12: in Euboea, Security clearance. I know you can't answer that,
• 2:29:52
  Speaker 12: but I think that's a legitimate question. Why non-white citizens
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 12: of other countries have jobs that probably belong to an American?
• 2:30:03
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, and I could hear my eighth grade
• 2:30:06
  Speaker 1: English teacher in Turner River Junior High School, Miss Barusi,
• 2:30:09
  Speaker 1: yelling at me, D'Angelo, you're dealing in glittering generalities again.
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 1: But the When I had a, and this is not,
• 2:30:18
  Speaker 1: believe me, I have tons and tons of Greek friends
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 1: going back to Stanford days, but they'd probably snicker at
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 1: this story. But way, way, way back, I had a
• 2:30:28
  Speaker 1: Greek estate in New York City. And this was a
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 1: man whose sister had passed on. And he came in,
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 1: he said, I'm going to go to Greece and start
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 1: collecting her properties. And she was a single lady. She
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 1: worked for Levanus was the second shipping magnate to Onassis.
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 1: He was Avis to Onassis being Hertz. So he gets
• 2:30:52
  Speaker 1: over there. Jan, he can't find any property. Everything's been retitled.
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 1: He's in and out of the courthouse. The judges won't
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 1: hear his case. And it's like, does he hire Greek counsel?
• 2:31:04
  Speaker 1: He hires Greek counsel. The Greek counsel goes, look, pal,
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 1: there ain't no record. Everything's wiped clean. So it's like, again... D'Angelo,
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 1: do not deal in glittering generalities. True in 1969, true
• 2:31:17
  Speaker 1: in 2026. But this all said, it does have me
• 2:31:20
  Speaker 1: somewhat quizzical. Again, all the Greek people out there, don't
• 2:31:24
  Speaker 1: kill me, please. I love your pizza.
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it has nothing to do with being Greek.
• 2:31:27
  Speaker 12: It has to do with the fact that it's non-citizen,
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 12: is my point. You could have been from anywhere.
• 2:31:35
  Speaker 1: Well, exactly. And our standing joke was, what is Greek probate?
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 1: Whoever gets there first. Anyway.
• 2:31:42
  Speaker 28: I don't know.
• 2:31:42
  Speaker 12: Anything about that, but I think that I do, you know,
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 12: I criticize the media all the time, but I do
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 12: give kudos to the day for publishing that article on
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 12: March 11, 2021, and the Hartford Courant with a follow-up
• 2:32:01
  Speaker 12: a bit later, and acknowledgement of your work and Lee's work.
• 2:32:08
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, and I really do appreciate the calm.
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 1: Believe it or not, we're starting to wind up as
• 2:32:15
  Speaker 1: far as time. I think Coach Leo's going to take
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 1: us to the top. Hey, Leo, how are you, pal?
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 9: Good morning, Tony.
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 46: You know, in keeping with— I' ve got myriad subjects I could discuss,
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 46: but in keeping with corruption and people getting their palms
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 46: greased and stuff, I see the city of New London—
• 2:32:35
  Speaker 46: hire a consultant to move some fuel tanks.
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 2: You know, maybe, I guess.
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 46: I don't know.
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 2: But I would think, you know, that's not something you'd
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 2: have to call NASA in about. You know, you find
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 2: a suitable place, move them, and we could forego the consultant.
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 2: But I guess not.
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 46: Maybe I'm wrong on this one. I don't know.
• 2:32:55
  Speaker 2: But that seems to be the way of the world now, Tony.
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 46: You know, we need a.
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 2: Consultant for this, a consultant for that.
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 46: Miguel Cardona.
• 2:33:05
  Speaker 2: Hired by Lamont, right, as a special consultant. What he's consulting,
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but, you know, in terms of education.
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 2: But it's, you know, it seems to be never-ending. And
• 2:33:20
  Speaker 2: it was refreshing to hear the judge, you know, reliving some.
• 2:33:23
  Speaker 46: Of those stories of yesteryear, you know, about some of
• 2:33:26
  Speaker 46: the antics that used to go on in New London
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 46: even back then.
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 1: You know what's funny? In the Costa Diamantis e-mail, He
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 1: talks about a meeting. I did not focus on this
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 1: particular part of his discussion, but he talks about a
• 2:33:42
  Speaker 1: meeting with Miguel Cardona as far as COVID-19. And he
• 2:33:50
  Speaker 1: says that the— I had a meeting with him, and we
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 1: were talking about to close or reopen, and the sense
• 2:33:57
  Speaker 1: you had from Costa walking away from Miguel It was
• 2:34:01
  Speaker 1: almost like he was shaking his head without shaking his head. Like,
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 1: we reached no conclusion other than to throw our arms
• 2:34:08
  Speaker 1: up and say, let the school districts decide. So I
• 2:34:12
  Speaker 1: just thought his— he didn't get this thing of, well, here's
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 1: a guy on top of it, and this is what
• 2:34:16
  Speaker 1: we're going to do. It was— he basically came asking for
• 2:34:20
  Speaker 1: information and left without it. I thought that was curious.
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 46: Well, Cardona, his background was he was the superintendent in Wilkerson. Connecticut,
• 2:34:32
  Speaker 46: before it became the Commission of Education in the state. Now,
• 2:34:36
  Speaker 46: you know, not to disparage anybody.
• 2:34:39
  Speaker 2: From Wilkert, but, you know, I don't know if that's
• 2:34:41
  Speaker 2: one of.
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 46: The top media centers of the world.
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't think they have the.
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 46: Daily Planet there or, you know, what their top information
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 46: is there.
• 2:34:52
  Speaker 2: But it's, you know, just another one of those things.
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 46: And I have to point out, Tony, Greenwich, your neighbor.
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 2: Next door to Stanford, During the whole COVID thing, they
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 2: kept their schools open, and they.
• 2:35:04
  Speaker 46: Didn't report any greater increase in, you know, adolescent illnesses
• 2:35:11
  Speaker 46: than a typical, you know, bad winter when kids would
• 2:35:16
  Speaker 46: be out with the flu and not feeling well.
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 1: It's an amazing thing. I mean, I think, you know,
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 1: I go back to our friend who is the usual
• 2:35:28
  Speaker 1: host of this show where he said, okay, in the
• 2:35:31
  Speaker 1: beginning we were all wondering, we were all scared, but
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 1: we came to a point where it's like, okay, the
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 1: world's not coming to an end, people are not dropping
• 2:35:39
  Speaker 1: dead in the streets, enough is enough, damage is being done,
• 2:35:42
  Speaker 1: let's get back to work. And some states did that,
• 2:35:46
  Speaker 1: other states and other jurisdictions did not, and the ones
• 2:35:50
  Speaker 1: that did not to this day, Leo, are still paying
• 2:35:54
  Speaker 1: a terrible price.
• 2:35:56
  Speaker 2: They are, and you know, Tony, the other thing, and
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 2: I'm I really am getting, well, it doesn't.
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 46: Affect me now because I retired, but when people in
• 2:36:06
  Speaker 46: the profession would start saying, well, you know, this group
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 46: of kids has not recovered from COVID. You know what?
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, you can play that song ad nauseum, and
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 2: you know something?
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 46: It's up to us, the teachers. I say this all
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 46: the time. They're always looking for a scapegoat, the enemy. We,
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 46: the teachers, have.
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 2: Seen the enemy, and it's us. You know, it's time
• 2:36:32
  Speaker 2: to take back control of the classroom, back control of.
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 46: The schools, and these lily-livered administrators that are from a
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 46: cookie-cutter mold.
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 2: That are looking up, you know, what should I do
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 2: in this situation?
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 46: Well, we'll go to the book. What's the book say?
• 2:36:47
  Speaker 19: You know what?
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 46: Those people shouldn't be in those roles.
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 2: Life experience has got to teach.
• 2:36:52
  Speaker 46: You how to be a leader, and some of these
• 2:36:54
  Speaker 46: people are fine.
• 2:36:57
  Speaker 1: Well, Leo, thanks. I'm going to jump to Dan from
• 2:37:00
  Speaker 1: East Hampton at the top. Thank you very much for calling.
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 1: And we've got Dan from East Hampton. Sorry we don't
• 2:37:04
  Speaker 1: have a lot of time, pal.
• 2:37:06
  Speaker 35: That's all right. I'll do my best. I wanted to
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 35: say the largest block of voters in Connecticut is unaffiliated.
• 2:37:13
  Speaker 35: Am I right about that?
• 2:37:14
  Speaker 1: You are certainly correct.
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 30: Or nearly the largest.
• 2:37:16
  Speaker 35: I mean, it's like a lopsidedly not Republican or Democrat.
• 2:37:21
  Speaker 28: It is.
• 2:37:22
  Speaker 35: It's a mistake.
• 2:37:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah, right.
• 2:37:24
  Speaker 35: The mistake that people make is to think that the
• 2:37:28
  Speaker 35: voter that is unaffiliated... lies between the Connecticut Republicans and
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 35: the Connecticut Democrats. And that is a terrible mistake. And
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 35: I'll give you a reason why I have that perspective.
• 2:37:42
  Speaker 35: I am an unaffiliated, right? I'm an independent conservative. I
• 2:37:46
  Speaker 35: don't lie between the Democrats and the Republicans. I'm so
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 35: far to the right of the right and so far
• 2:37:53
  Speaker 35: to the left of the left that I don't fit
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 35: anywhere anymore.
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 1: I understand completely.
• 2:37:58
  Speaker 32: Yeah.
• 2:37:58
  Speaker 35: Most of people that are, I mean, a fair number
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 35: of people listening to this radio station fit that mold.
• 2:38:05
  Speaker 35: For instance, the judge just on now, the reason why
• 2:38:09
  Speaker 35: I can't be a Republican is because of just about
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 35: every single thing that he said from the moment that
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 35: he opened his mouth. Number one, brown people are not
• 2:38:19
  Speaker 35: getting shot because they're brown. They're getting shot because they're
• 2:38:23
  Speaker 35: here illegally in the country, they have deportation orders, and
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  Speaker 35: is demonizing the law enforcement. They're not getting shot because
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  Speaker 35: they're brown. That's a ridiculous thing to say. And this
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  Speaker 9: The other thing is the cameras.
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  Speaker 35: I don't care if it helps law enforcement, man. You
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  Speaker 1: Well, the sounds of relief. Tony D'Angelo, privileged to be
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  Speaker 28: Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting story. Christian girl came home from her date looking
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