WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:08.960 on the iHeartRadio app. Turns out, Josh Shapiro was an 4 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:14.320 early fan of Barack Obama when every other Democrat pretty 5 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:18.879 much was in camp Hillary. It was two thousand and seven. 6 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:21.920 He was a state representative there in Pennsylvania, and he 7 00:00:22.039 --> 00:00:25.559 broke with much of the Democratic establishment to back this 8 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:31.320 first term senator from Illinois. He lost Pennsylvania's primary and 9 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:34.520 O eight to Hillary, and he won the presidency and 10 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:39.000 never forgot the support from Josh Shapiro. They've become very close. 11 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:42.600 They say they've developed a connection that's closer than is 12 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:45.759 commonly understood, according to interviews with people who knew them both. 13 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:48.880 I don't know if I would want that description of 14 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:53.439 me and someone else. That seems a little too intimit intimate. Well, 15 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:55.799 you don't know why, but I just mean that that's 16 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:59.159 an odd way to describe a relationship between two people. 17 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:02.560 I'm sorry that you don't have friends. Okay, we should 18 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:03.119 work on that. 19 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:08.000 I'll take it. I'll take it. 20 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:10.519 Big Lots is going to be closing up to three 21 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:14.120 hundred and fifteen stores across multiple states. Because of growing 22 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:19.760 financial woes, The discount homeware chain has identified some locations 23 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:22.760 in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, Vermont which are due 24 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:25.799 to close. They haven't officially put out an entire list, 25 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:28.719 but stores that are going out of business the Big 26 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:33.319 Lots stores will be displaying a closing this location banner 27 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:36.200 on their website along with the twenty percent off promotion. 28 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:38.640 I don't think I've ever been to a Big Lots. 29 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:44.159 I have a huge Speaking of Big Lots, I have 30 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:45.640 a huge Yes. 31 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:52.159 Burning Man update. 32 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:57.159 Oh I can't wait. Your face is saying that's not true. 33 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:00.000 Your face is making it sound like you can wait. 34 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:06.359 So I'm an adult person. I don't like going to 35 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:09.479 entertain myself in dirt or those showers. 36 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:13.719 Are implementing an unprecedented move to sell tickets less than 37 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:15.759 three weeks before the start of Burning Man. 38 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:17.400 They call you a burner. 39 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:20.719 You could still buy tickets on demand through the OMG 40 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:24.680 ticket Sale, even if the EU didn't pre register. Traditionally, 41 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:27.080 tickets wouldn't be available this close to the event, which 42 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:30.280 begins August twenty fifth, But it just put a ballpark 43 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:31.159 on what you think a. 44 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:32.560 Ticket to Burning Man would. 45 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:37.800 Cost one hundred and twenty five and seventy five dollars stop. 46 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:39.280 It is where they set. 47 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:41.360 So it's rich people that go out there and play 48 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:41.919 in the dirt. 49 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:44.879 Yeah, and last year, remember how it rained and it 50 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:48.919 was muddy and it was awful. I can't imagine. 51 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:52.919 My cousin Danny would go because he's an artist and 52 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:55.759 he would put up the installations. And that's why he 53 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:58.080 would go, is because he loves that kind of stuff. 54 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:02.319 But other than that, and he's in his fifties probably no, 55 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:05.280 he's not. He's a younger. He's probably close to fifty 56 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:06.639 this year. 57 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:10.800 But I remember thinking, there's just no allure to that 58 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:13.520 for me, right, nothing about that is alluring. 59 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:17.240 Yeah, well, I was calling you at a time like this. 60 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:20.360 It could be anybody, probably my wife or my dog 61 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:21.400 or my daughter. 62 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:23.759 Well you have a leak in your home, my son, 63 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:28.039 or you don't have color I d well, I'm not going. 64 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:29.159 To tell you who it is. 65 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:34.080 Why, because because you don't have everything, you don't share why. 66 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:36.840 That's why this is case in point. 67 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:39.520 Last night's earthquake. Oh, I was going to show this 68 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:41.680 to you. I know that you puppooed the earthquake. 69 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:46.000 But look at this map of the area where the 70 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:50.080 earthquake hit. Well, yeah, I mean dozens of earthquakes and 71 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:53.479 after shocks that hit after that big five point two 72 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:54.240 from last year. 73 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:57.639 They said it was connected to the time of day. 74 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:01.400 Which which is why why it was so white. 75 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:05.599 Was able to just cover the basin with some sort 76 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:06.120 of movement. 77 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:11.560 It was also because your basin is most likely either 78 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:15.039 sitting or lying down at nine oh nine pm. That's 79 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:17.079 why that's true. That's why we felt it. At my house, 80 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:19.199 My daughter and I were both sitting there watching TV. 81 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:21.959 My wife was in doing a puzzle because she's smarter 82 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:25.160 than all of us, and we all felt it and 83 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:26.680 it was I mean, it was a good one. It 84 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:29.920 was all it lasted, and we're like, it still feels 85 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:33.560 like it's still going. And my phone went off at 86 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:36.439 the exact moment that I felt the earthquake. My phone 87 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:38.160 had gone off with an alert. A lot of people 88 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:41.720 got those alerts. I did not get an alert. Yeah, 89 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:44.120 if you're you make a good point. We all felt 90 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:46.959 it because we're all probably winding down for the day. 91 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:50.720 My mom didn't feel the Loma Prieta earthquake because she 92 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:53.639 was driving in eighty nine. Yeah, she did not feel that. 93 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:55.240 I know a couple of people. 94 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:57.959 She came home and I said, there was an earthquake, 95 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:00.560 and I'm terrified and I'm home alone, and she says, 96 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:03.439 what are you talking about. I'm going upstairs, see you later. 97 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:09.399 And the carpool lady came busting through the front door, saying, 98 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:12.639 are you okay? Oh, I guess there was an earthquake 99 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:14.240 last night. 100 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:17.240 There were actually some boulders that fell where I five 101 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:19.680 goes down the grapevine. There were some boulders that crossed 102 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:21.879 the road and they had to shut down some of 103 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:22.680 the lanes. 104 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:26.360 Last night. And then that's pretty strong. 105 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:29.279 Boulders come down that far right, I mean they're three 106 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:33.600 or four feet across. A Qt's plant in Bakersfield was 107 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:36.079 also evacuated last night after the earthquake. 108 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:38.480 We've all driven by that QTS plant, haven't we. 109 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:40.240 Yeah, the massive SI huge. 110 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:42.360 And it says QUTIES on the whole side of the building. 111 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:45.879 They said that immediately after the earth well, immediately about 112 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:51.759 five minutes after the earthquake, they had a strong smell 113 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:54.600 of ammonia in the plant, so they evacuated the plant 114 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:57.160 as a precaution. They at least as the story that 115 00:05:57.240 --> 00:05:59.079 I saw. They hadn't figured out if in fact there 116 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:01.560 was a leak, but they did it as a precaution. 117 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:04.480 And then I have a nephew who lives in Bakersfield, 118 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:09.800 and he said his entire apartment was making noises. Oh wow, 119 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:15.399 that's the weirdest. When you hear your home creaking. That's 120 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:20.160 always rather unsettling. Not that you know, earthquakes themselves are 121 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:23.120 not unsettling, it's by definition. 122 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:27.560 Well from One of the biggest falls I think from 123 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:30.480 Grace that I've ever seen was the fall of Tom Girardi, 124 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:36.240 a legal titan that was connected to all of California. 125 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:38.560 To get on the bench, you had to have his blessing. 126 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:42.759 Pretty much. He is the Aaron Brockovich attorney that that 127 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:47.360 movie was based off. And now he is eighty five, 128 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:51.920 wearing secondhand clothes and in a court room that he 129 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:59.199 once ruled, being prosecuted for stealing from clients, clients who 130 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:05.759 people in plane crashes or had injuries where they will 131 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.680 never walk again. He stole from those people. Why to 132 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:13.399 fund his Hollywood wife's entertainment career in her forties. Story 133 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:13.959 has everything. 134 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:16.959 I will come back and do that just a quick update. Gary, 135 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:19.560 I'm not sure you realize what you said. 136 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:22.959 You referred to it as. 137 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:25.000 A little speed bump. 138 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:27.720 I thought that was funny. 139 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:30.959 Have a good day, guys. Miss Patricia caught that too. 140 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:36.199 I did not you refer to yourself and your underwear 141 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:40.839 and then then yeah, a little speed bump. Hey, we 142 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:44.800 don't have to know everything, Garyan, Listen, you don't need 143 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:49.079 to explain it. I'm not I'm not. I'm not going. 144 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:54.639 To knock the bar off in the Olympics vault competition. 145 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:55.680 Gary. 146 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:58.120 I love the show, Shannon. 147 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:01.560 I want to apologize for you yesterday, telling you you 148 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:05.199 were from a little, small puntry town and didn't understand things. 149 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:09.399 I don't think you guys understand how intertwined you guys 150 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:10.439 are in my life. 151 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:13.040 I listen to you every day. Love the show. 152 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.160 Have a great day, Shannon. We all have our days. 153 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:20.879 I apologize, heyday. Once in a while, friends have to 154 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:23.600 have harsh words. Yes, I love an apology and I 155 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:27.800 but I understood your sentiment yesterday, and I do love 156 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:31.519 the apology. We're all good, and I'd like to talk 157 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:33.759 to you about your attitude. My attitude. 158 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:37.600 Oh never mind, Hey. 159 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:41.240 Guys, great show, as usual, Shannon Farren. 160 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:44.120 I know you don't have an allure to go to 161 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:47.559 Bernie Man, but imagine all the cocaine you can. 162 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:50.639 You could probably move that seventy pounds. 163 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:52.799 In a couple of days there. So be a little 164 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:55.919 bit more open minded and check it out. 165 00:08:57.000 --> 00:08:59.440 Have a good day, guys. Yeah you too, a little 166 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:02.360 open mind? Yeah, maybe a money making guys. 167 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:04.399 I ever thought of myself as closed minded. 168 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:07.519 Just get a basic ticket, the five seventy five. You 169 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:10.759 could easily make that back with seventy pounds. Don't have 170 00:09:10.879 --> 00:09:13.360 the coke. That was a hypothetical situation. 171 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:15.320 Oh that's right, I forgot. Yeah. 172 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:18.440 Don't do drugs, kids, You can't do drugs anymore. 173 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:22.759 Tom Girardi. Tom Girardi one of the most powerful lawyers 174 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:28.960 in a southern California definitely all of California, likely for 175 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:30.679 a certain amount of time the. 176 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:33.799 Way the La Times writes it, And maybe Girardi's checks 177 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:37.360 are still clearing over at the La Times. He was 178 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.039 really one to pepper his money across the country. But 179 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:44.559 the headline reads Tom Girardi's fraud trial begins a liar 180 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:47.840 who stole millions or the victim of a thieving CFO. 181 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:51.240 It's like, come on, La times. You know this guy's 182 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:54.240 guilty as the day is long. But the way the 183 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:58.000 article begins is this Tom Girardi was on a first 184 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:01.679 name basis with senators from CA California to North Carolina 185 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:06.440 governor on speed dry speed dial. He would have local 186 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:09.440 officials lined up for his boozy parties in Beverly Hills, 187 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:15.159 Vegas and elsewhere. Probably the most connected person that I've 188 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:18.240 ever met. I never met him, but I did interview 189 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:23.240 him a couple times on the Sunday Show. I don't 190 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:28.600 remember what they were with regard to but he's so affable. 191 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:33.879 He's just kind of an aw shuckskuy, but has such gravitas. 192 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:37.559 And there was something that rubbed me the wrong way. 193 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:39.720 But most people who are. 194 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:43.039 Rich do because you don't get to be that powerful 195 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:47.120 and rich without having some compromises that you have made 196 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:49.879 without having some bodies in the closet, right, skeletons in 197 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:54.440 the closet. So yesterday he showed up in a federal 198 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:58.080 courthouse downtown Los Angeles. The jury was seated and his 199 00:10:58.159 --> 00:10:59.360 criminal trial began. 200 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:03.000 Dan's accused of four counts of wire fraud for allegedly 201 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:07.639 looting fifteen million from clients over a decade. Clients that 202 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:12.080 had turned to him in moments of tragedy, a burn victim, 203 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:16.440 a widow whose husband died in a boating accident, a 204 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:20.120 woman injured from a medical device, a woman injured in 205 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:23.559 an auto accident, people that lost the ability to walk 206 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:28.080 ever again, he won them settlements and then stole their money. 207 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:30.519 Yeah, and this is. 208 00:11:32.759 --> 00:11:36.879 From the highest heights in terms of that notoriety and 209 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:40.039 the power that he had to the lowest of lows 210 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:41.519 in these last couple of years. 211 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:41.919 I mean. 212 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:46.320 And the thing is, had he not been married to 213 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:51.159 Erica Jane and that very public divorce that played out 214 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:55.519 in was it Season eleven of The Real Housewives of 215 00:11:55.559 --> 00:12:00.159 Beverly Hills, I don't think this gets the same noteariety 216 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:04.399 because it now has even more people who know who 217 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:05.159 this guy is. 218 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:08.399 The money belonged to those defendants and in one case, 219 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:12.600 playing crash victims and their family members. But what he 220 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:16.159 would do is he would keep it after it was awarded. 221 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:19.559 It should have been promptly paid to the victims, but 222 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:25.600 he would keep the money and use it for funding 223 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:32.600 his wife's entertainment singing career. Lip singing career. In her forties, 224 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:36.600 he had two private jets we're talking jewelry, country club 225 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:39.320 fees and mansion in Pasadena, a home in Palm Springs. 226 00:12:40.679 --> 00:12:44.879 Twenty million from the firm's bank account went into the 227 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:49.840 entertainment career of Erica Girardi. All the while, these people 228 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:54.080 are waiting for their money to get medical care, to 229 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:57.960 get wheelchairs, to bury their loved ones. All of this. 230 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:06.799 The downfall of Tom Girardi started when he started working 231 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:12.039 with Edelson PC, a Chicago law firm in Illinois, and 232 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:15.399 Jay Edelson, one of the other plaintiffs. Lawyers had previously 233 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:18.639 developed a reputation as going after Silicon Valley class action 234 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.600 lawsuits against big tech companies because of privacy, but Edison 235 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:26.399 said they became aware of unusual delays in dispersing the 236 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:30.240 sums that Boeing. Remember he was representing plane crash the 237 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:35.159 families of plane crash victims, the delays in the payments 238 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:39.679 that Boeing was making to Girardi and keys the law firm. 239 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:42.960 Over the next several days, Debbie projected to linger along 240 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:48.000 the southeast US coast and will produce significant flooding, gusty winds, 241 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:53.200 prolonged coastal inundation. Some meteorologists that ACU Weathers say there's 242 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:57.679 a growing threat of relentless rainfall and flooding impacts as 243 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:01.279 this storm slowly tracks from northern Florida to parallel with 244 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:02.960 the Georgia and Carolina coastlines. 245 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:05.879 The Harris and Trump campaigns both holding events in key 246 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:07.279 swing states this week. 247 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:08.080 JD. 248 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:12.080 Vance met with law enforcement officials in Shelby Township, Michigan, today, 249 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:16.639 slamming Kamala Harris's record on crime and immigration. Vance will 250 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:19.840 then stop in Wisconsin later in the day. Harris and 251 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:22.759 Walls are said to hold events in Wisconsin this afternoon 252 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:26.240 and another in Detroit in the evening. What a stark 253 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:29.080 contrast to what Biden was doing. 254 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:30.679 Oh yeah, could. 255 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:34.120 You imagine keeping this schedule and this enthusiasm. I mean, 256 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:38.279 it was just so flat lined. It was a flatline campaign. 257 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:40.440 And that's that was showing in the polls. That was 258 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:43.240 showing in the concern that Democrats had about that. 259 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:46.320 And where is he? Where where is he? And what's 260 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:48.639 that going to look like when he speaks at the convention. 261 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:53.879 I know they announced that. I'm you think he does 262 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:56.840 a video message? That's the Kosi. I think that's what 263 00:14:57.080 --> 00:14:59.200 they have to do. That's kind of the They might 264 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:05.039 do the old two hologram thing with Biden on Monday 265 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:06.159 night at the case. 266 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:08.440 Oh boy, all right, So we are talking about the 267 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:14.639 Tom Girardi fraud trial, and he is accused of lying 268 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:20.480 and stealing millions upon millions of settlement dollars from clients. 269 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:24.039 Officially four counts of wire fraud for allegedly looting the 270 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:26.679 fifteen million dollars from different clients over the course of 271 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:27.279 a decade. 272 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:31.480 His defense team has dismissed the prosecutor's account as a 273 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:37.320 fictional Hollywood plot line in accurately casting his client as 274 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:42.120 the villain. Samuel Cross is the deputy federal public defender. 275 00:15:42.519 --> 00:15:45.279 The fact that Tom Girardi has a public defender is 276 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:50.440 rich too. He said he to the jury, this is 277 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:54.240 my client. He is a once mighty lawyer, now his 278 00:15:54.360 --> 00:16:00.919 later years marred by progression, progressive dementia, disorganized organization in 279 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:05.200 his law firm Gariti Keyse and large scale theft by 280 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:11.240 the CFO Christopher Cayman. They said it was him Girardi 281 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:13.320 who is the victim in all of this. He was 282 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:16.919 the one who was defrauded, that his CFO pocketed more 283 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:19.919 than fifty million from his boss or a variety of schemes, 284 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:23.799 trans transactions, checks to sham companies, things like that. 285 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:31.080 Well, that's also possible, but isn't it can't both things happen? 286 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:33.960 That Tom Girardi was taking money and this guy was 287 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:36.639 taking advantage of the guy who was taking money. 288 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:38.840 He says, he will prove that Girardi had to pour 289 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:41.480 eighty million of his own money into the firm that 290 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:43.720 he tried to keep the firm afloat. Why is the 291 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:47.559 firm sinking because the CFO, Chris Cayman, is stealing the money. 292 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:50.360 So I mentioned Jay Edison. 293 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:53.240 Edison was another lawyer that came out of Chicago, and 294 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:56.519 when he was working with Tom Girardi on a different case, 295 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:02.279 he got a little suspicious because there were some weird things, 296 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:05.640 weird delays when it came to one of the one 297 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:11.559 of the defendants, Boeing in this case, paying money to 298 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:15.559 the families of victims of Boeing playing crashes, and Jay 299 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:18.200 Addilson said, I noticed that there was something weird that 300 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:22.680 was antiquated about the way these payments were being dispersed. 301 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:24.599 And he says So this is a guy who made 302 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:27.240 hundreds of millions of dollars in his career, so the 303 00:17:27.319 --> 00:17:30.039 idea that he would steal a few million million dollars 304 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:32.400 from widows and orphans didn't add up. And he said 305 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:34.559 when he met Tom Girardi for the first time, he 306 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:40.359 recalled Girardi handing out signed pictures of Erica Jane and 307 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:44.799 talking about his Morton's steakhouse expenditures, and he said, the 308 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:47.720 big aha moment was when I read in whatever stupid 309 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:51.400 gossip mag I came across that Erica Jane had filed 310 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:54.440 for divorce. And he said, at that point, I said 311 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:59.839 the money might actually be gone. He was stealing too 312 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:01.839 make up for the money that was lost. 313 00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:08.039 Apparently the prosecutor is stipulating that the CFO did steal 314 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:11.200 money from the firm, but that it's a fraction of 315 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:14.440 what Girardi stole, right, So everyone has their hands in 316 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:14.880 the pot. 317 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:17.839 Yeah, And I wonder if that guy is going to 318 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:21.799 end up testifying against Tom Girardi the CFO. I don't 319 00:18:21.839 --> 00:18:24.640 know where he is, or they say, actually, this is 320 00:18:24.680 --> 00:18:26.920 not going to take along a long time, to eight 321 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:29.720 days or something like that, that's not a very long 322 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:30.799 considering it's weird. 323 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:32.680 To all this stuff they have to lay out in 324 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:35.559 terms of the financial statements and things like that, and 325 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:39.200 you would think the victims would testify and all of that. 326 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:43.759 You're could get some some forensic economists in there. 327 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:46.680 I would sure to talk about that. But if it's 328 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:48.640 just wire fraud and. 329 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:51.200 It's it's a criminal case as opposed to a civil case, 330 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:54.480 that's truckle. Aren't you know they're not suing him for 331 00:18:54.519 --> 00:18:56.279 the money. I guess they could, but they're not at 332 00:18:56.279 --> 00:18:59.039 this point. One of the questionnaires, by the way, for 333 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:04.720 the perspective juror did ask whether prospective jurors watched The 334 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:08.000 Real Housewives of Beverly Hills or any other Bravo shows. 335 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:14.720 His defense attorneys were concerned that if jurors did see 336 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:18.920 him on those shows that it would color their perceptions 337 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:24.759 of him because he was just this I she made 338 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:27.200 it sound like she was a victim in these shows. 339 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:30.200 By the way, he's got a case in Chicago that's pending, 340 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:33.440 and that's where the CFO is going to go to 341 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:36.839 trial for what he did in terms of thievery. A 342 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:41.160 federal judge has set March third, twenty twenty five trial 343 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:46.599 date for Christopher Cayman. Another one of his attorneys will 344 00:19:46.599 --> 00:19:50.440 also go to trial, David Lera and then Girardi. Once 345 00:19:50.519 --> 00:19:53.000 this resolves, he'll have to go face trial in Chicago 346 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:53.400 as well. 347 00:19:54.519 --> 00:19:57.480 Well, we have advocated for something like this, and I 348 00:19:57.519 --> 00:20:03.400 had not heard about this program before the America Exchange Project. 349 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:04.680 I think it's pretty cool. 350 00:20:04.839 --> 00:20:07.680 It's a really great idea. Yes, we'll talk about that. 351 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:10.160 What it is? Maybe how to get your kids signed 352 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:11.279 up for that? When we come. 353 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:14.799 Back, Gary and channor or your co host, Maybe I 354 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:17.400 send you somewhere strange for a while and you come 355 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:18.799 back with a fresh set of eyes. 356 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:19.920 Where would you send me? 357 00:20:20.519 --> 00:20:25.559 I would send you many places, really anywhere. Okay, just kidding. 358 00:20:25.559 --> 00:20:27.640 That was that was just a joke, just to get 359 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:29.440 me out of here. Yeah, I was just a little joke. 360 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:32.799 Gary and channawall came by yourself. Now, I don't want 361 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:35.680 to be by myself, don't go. Does the name Kai 362 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:37.279 Sinnat mean anything to you? 363 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:38.160 Yeah? 364 00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:38.440 Why? 365 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:43.559 Kai Sinat is a popular twitch streamer. Oh yeah, and 366 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:49.759 he has waded into the Harris campaign. Apparently, the Harris 367 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:53.880 campaign is yet to respond as this popular twitch streamer, 368 00:20:54.119 --> 00:20:58.400 Kai Sinat claims he's getting calls about a possible collaboration 369 00:20:58.759 --> 00:21:02.240 with the Vice president. They call him an Internet sensation 370 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:05.240 from New York City. He claims the Secret Service has 371 00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:08.119 reached out to him several times about getting the Vice 372 00:21:08.160 --> 00:21:11.000 President on his live stream. This is a guy who 373 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:13.920 streams out of a U haul from an undisclosed location 374 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:14.799 in Manhattan. 375 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:18.480 Can I say that the Secret Service would never contact 376 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:19.319 him to do that. 377 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:24.599 He admitted to his nearly thirteen million followers that he 378 00:21:24.680 --> 00:21:28.160 knows nothing about politics and is not really interested in 379 00:21:28.200 --> 00:21:32.319 the matter. He gained notoriety last year after his giveaway 380 00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:34.920 at Union Square turned into a riot and he was 381 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:39.599 paid thousands of dollars in restitution. That entire story that 382 00:21:39.640 --> 00:21:43.079 I just read makes me want to go get China 383 00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:45.960 and bring them here myself and just say, wipe us out, 384 00:21:46.079 --> 00:21:49.359 invite them over, come over, and just take it. Just 385 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:54.400 take it. We are such a weird society. Not that 386 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:57.039 it's probably much better in China. I think we're globally 387 00:21:57.079 --> 00:21:58.400 more stupid than we used to be. 388 00:21:58.519 --> 00:22:00.519 But what. 389 00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:04.359 Well, that's how we're going to get votes. Let's not 390 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:07.759 talk about things that actually matter. I'm speaking of Harris 391 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:11.279 and Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, her running mate, spending their 392 00:22:11.319 --> 00:22:14.559 first full day as running mates in Wisconsin and Michigan. 393 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:18.480 They said yesterday, sorry, they said today the campaign that 394 00:22:18.519 --> 00:22:21.400 they'd raised thirty six million dollars in the first twenty 395 00:22:21.400 --> 00:22:24.880 four hours after the vice presidential announcement. And I'm starting 396 00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:27.880 to get to the point where the announcements of the 397 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:33.039 money that you've raised are now just self aggrandizing, like 398 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:38.079 totally self love, self love than self love. It's just 399 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:44.519 we'll call it couch time because listen you oh we won't. No, 400 00:22:45.359 --> 00:22:49.160 it's because it's just, Okay, you made millions of dollars, 401 00:22:49.240 --> 00:22:51.440