WEBVTT - The Billion Dollar 1MDB Heist: Jho Low Meets Leo and Marty 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.680 Ridiculous crime. It's a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:05.440 Elizabeth Dutton, Sarah Burnette. 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:06.200 What are you doing girl? 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:09.399 Just sitting here waiting for me, sitting in my own filth? 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:11.799 Nice? Do you like my filth? 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:12.840 I love your filth? 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.560 Heay, right back at you, girl, Thank you. I got 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.960 a question, not about your filth. The question is simple, straightforward, 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:20.800 right to the point. Do you know it's ridiculous. 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:21.959 I do know it's ridiculous. 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:23.040 Is it about your filth? 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.400 It is about my filth. It's about the filth that 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:31.080 I spread in the world. Oh, so, mashup's ridiculous. It's 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:35.920 ridiculous when rude dudes dip into the mashup pool, not 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:40.520 in suggestions, but in participation. We got an email from 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:46.280 rude dude Tom and it reads Terry ps. As an aside, 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.760 Terry the assistant actually forwarding emails around. 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:51.400 They're good. 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.160 Not to tell you, Terry. Oh ya, anyways, let me 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:54.520 read it. 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.960 Hi, Guys love the show. It's always entertaining. I'm a 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.920 native wiscons tonight and a lifelong PBR drinker. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.360 Do with that what you will. Thanks to you. 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.840 I heard about the Grillos PBR and found some at 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.720 my local quick trip. What I have to say, it's 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.800 actually pretty good. I attached a picture of a nearly 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.080 finished can feel free to use this if you'd like. 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.520 Thanks for the mashup. And there's a picture of a 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:23.480 nearly finished can Wow. 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.920 Look at that. Tom a mash up team. And I 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.479 didn't even grimace once you took one for this because 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:30.880 you took one for the team. 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:33.040 Well, and I think it's interesting. He's like, he says, 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:34.160 it's actually pretty good. 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.320 Okay, So I trust him for Tom. Yeah, I was 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:38.679 like that, that sounds good for Tom. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:40.160 I think that's awesome. 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.479 Thank you, Tom, honestly, thank you. That is good. 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:44.440 It's not only awesome, but you know what else it is? 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:48.160 What ridiculous? Oh yeah, there it is over to you, Zarin. 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.360 Okay, Well, Elizabeth, I want to talk to you about 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.440 something that near and dear to my heart. Marlon Brando 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.640 got an Oscar statuette for the Best Actor for his 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.880 starring roleing on the Waterfront, right okay and leaving the 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:05.240 whole like you know, Elia Cason, non American activities out 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.880 of it. I still love that movie, right, great film. 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:12.080 Leonardo DiCaprio used to own that Oscar really before he 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:13.679 had an oscar of his own before he won I 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.400 think for The Revenant or whatever. He had that oscar, 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:17.960 but sadly he no longer owns it. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:19.240 Did he get it a yard sale? 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.679 No, and he didn't resell it. Instead, he was seized 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:27.000 by the Department of Justice, which means the US government 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.000 now owns Brando's oscar for on the waterfront. 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:30.359 What. 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.640 Yes, Elizabeth, this is all part of the story I 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:37.440 want to tell you today, the behind the scenes, real 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:41.280 life story, crime story no less of the Wolf of 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.799 Wall Street the movie. Oh there's a whole crime story 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:48.440 bigger than that one behind that movie, and it features 0:02:48.480 --> 0:03:14.440 a man named Jolo Jolo. Yes, this is Ridiculous Crime, 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:19.760 a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists, and cons. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:25.400 It's always ninety nine percent murder free and one hundred 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:31.800 percent ridiculous. Elizabeth. Yes, Now, I've flirted be telling you 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.520 this one for a long time, you know, and well 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.480 today is finally that day we get into the rampant 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:41.840 international embezzling scheme that financed the Wolf of Wall Street. 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:43.760 Oh so you're not going to tell the story of 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.080 the dude who was Wolf of Jordan Belford. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.320 Yeah, he shows up in this story. So he is 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:48.920 in this story. 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.080 He is not the focus, not at all. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.800 Yeah, talk about irony. Right, you can make a movie 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:57.520 about financial crimes by paying for it with wait for it, 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.280 financial crimes. No, no, quick question. Have you seen The 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.200 Wolf of Wall Street? Yes, okay, you know. It's about 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.440 a real life crimer named Jordan Belford and he is 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.920 the wolf of the Wolf of All Street. The movie 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.760 basically covers his rise and fall and him being a 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.919 financial crimes mastermind. Right, and he wrote a memoir and 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.160 then Marty Scorsese he turned it into a story that 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.280 became an OSCAR nominated film. 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:25.000 Yeah, Marty, Marty your friend on that kind of basis. 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.839 We're in a film watching group, Elizabeth and a kickball group. 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:33.000 Marty's really good in senders. Yeah. So this whole you know, 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.279 Wolf of Wall Street is intended to be a cautionary 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.840 tale about greed another irony. Now, the film has one 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.839 of my favorite Matthew McConaughey scenes where he and Leonardo 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.839 DiCaprio is sitting there there in some skyscraper having like 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.440 a business launch. In Matthew McConaughey, he's doing blow at 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.120 the table and then he makes Leo do that tribal 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.760 beat on his chest. I love that scene. That seems 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.719 not in the script. By the way, Leonardo DiCaprio saw 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.279 Matthew McConaughey doing that for his warm up exercises, and 0:04:58.320 --> 0:04:59.800 he's like, put to put that on camera. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:00.359 Warm up. 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.080 Yeah, because Leo, say, was a producer for the film, 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:05.320 so he could make those kind of calls. Sure, yeah, 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.000 that's his warm up. A lot of people like the 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.800 Denzel talks about that beating on his body a little 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.120 bit to get loose, you know, like, yeah, you really 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:13.679 want to be in your body as an actor. 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:15.279 Did he also hunt? Doesn't he hunt? 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:17.600 Yeah, he's hitting his chest and humming. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.200 Oh my god. Anyway, I was like embarrassed for him 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:21.320 in that. 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:25.160 I vote him and everything he does. So anyway, the 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:29.000 summer of twenty thirteen, Leonardo DiCaprio had just finished shooting 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.840 The Wolf of Wall Street. Right early talk was this 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.560 film's a lot for the Oscars. They've done it again, 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:39.280 better than the aviator. Blah blah blah. Now that's this 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.440 helps explain Leo's excitement and his like, you know, self 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:46.000 serious tone and his confidence when he spoke with Deadline 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.960 later on that same year, in December twenty thirteen, right 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.040 Leo was telling Deadline about his latest film, a dream 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.240 project that he'd been trying to make for a while, 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.000 and he's both the star and the producer, and he 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:00.719 tells Deadline and I quote everything Jordan and this book 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.120 was so raw. The crash of two thousand and eight 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.960 was a huge motivator for me as well, to want 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.320 to really see what's going on in our culture that 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:12.360 creates people like this. Greed is a timeless virtue. I've 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.719 been talking about greed a lot in interviews, and you 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:18.240 can't pinpoint it to any specific time period, or any civilization, 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:23.160 or even just human beings. It's a fundamental characteristic of survival. 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.559 As we are progressing into the future, things are moving 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.760 faster and we are way more destructive than we've ever been. 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.240 We have not evolved at all, Well, said Leo. Well 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:38.000 said an, So greed is bad. We're still subject to 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.200 its seductive siren call. Gotcha. 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.320 Because he lives a monastic lifestyle. 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.560 He's an environmentalist, wall he cares about things bigger than him. 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.599 Just not paid for any So, Elizabeth, there's. 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.360 A great cosmic irony that Leo partners in this film 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.880 were the masterminds of international fraud, of palooza and an 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.200 orgy of embezzlement and other financial crimes. And as they said, 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.560 far far bigger than what Jordan Belford had ever done. Really, Yes, 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.480 and when he gave that interview, Leo was knee deep 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.799 in the greed, like just surrounded by it, sinking deeper 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.120 and deeper into it. It was all around him, but somehow 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:15.040 he missed it, just didn't see it. Wow, somehow this 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.840 highly intelligent, very sensitive actor never recognized the look of 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.520 real life greed when it was the one buying him 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:22.600 champagne at a casino. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.480 But zaren he was talking about it a lot in 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:25.160 the interviews. 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:25.520 Yeah. 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.080 Well, also, as he pointed out, totally. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.120 He wanted you know, he's thinking about greed. But he 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.120 still missed it when that same greed gave him a 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:37.240 Jean Michel basciat painting worth nine point two million dollars. Yes, 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.720 it's just as a gift. He missed it when it 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.560 bought him Marlon Brando's oscar. Right, but we're getting ahead 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.400 of ourselves. It's time to meet our man of the hour. 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.640 Jolo Jolo like Jello, but Jolo. 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:53.360 Jolo j h o Oh Joe l Ow jo Lo Oh. 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.840 So two words, two words yes, mister Low Yes now 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:03.080 Low Comma Joe h Ok. I'm doing the math yes 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:04.239 in my face. 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.400 To give you a sense of his character. Back in 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.280 April of twenty thirteen, just after The Wolf of Wall 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.920 Street was filming done filming, it had wrapped, Jo Loo 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.480 was partying in New York and he nearly lost his 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:15.600 life to buster rhymes. 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.520 Yeah, I mean who among the By. 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:20.680 The way, this story is going to keep doing that 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:21.920 where I'm going to say something and all of a 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.000 sudden a celebrity pops up. You do not expect I 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.800 like that. So the story goes this socially awkward thirty 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:31.320 year old financier Low Tayke Joe aka Jo Lo because 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:36.679 he's Malaysian of Chinese ethnicity reverse exactly. So. He was 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.840 at Jungle City Studios in the Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan. 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:41.680 He was there in the studio. He was there to 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.560 record a vanity track called Void of a Legend. To 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:46.400 do with that what you. 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.880 Will, He's in the recording studio. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:51.280 What's the genre rap? 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:55.360 Of course, Elizabeth Yes, financial guys love rap. It's all 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.560 about the Benjamins. That's as far as they're concerned. So 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.360 Jo Lo had paid the rapper and producer Swizz Beats 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:07.080 to help him record his Vanity project or mister Yes himself. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:11.600 And also there that night was Pharrell Williams and Buster. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.840 Rhymes No Yes, So this is horrible. 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:17.319 So they're all together in this studio in Chelsea in Manhattan, 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:21.199 twenty thirteen, indulging Jolo, indulging Iman. At one point, quite 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:25.520 visibly drunk, Jolo looks at Buster Rhymes across the studio 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.600 and he yells out at him, yo, I own you. 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:33.520 You're my bitch? WHOA yes. Well, by the way, it's 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.320 never good to tell black man in America that you 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.560 own him. I don't think I need to explain. 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:38.960 That anything further. I don't want yes. 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.760 But then, but also because I don't know if you 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.720 you don't play fantasy sports, but I see this often 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:46.760 in fantasy sports, because people will talk about how they 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.319 own a player, and then they forget how they talk 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.400 about that amongst their friends, and then there they're at 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.440 a game or some social function and they see a 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.360 player that they have on their fantasy team and they 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.959 yell at this real life person, I own you man, 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.080 I need more points this weekend. Once again, do not 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.160 yell at a black man that you own him. I'm 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.120 just saying it's never going to be a good one. 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.079 Let's just avoid that completely, right, So, or just avoid 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.800 fantasy sports. Okay, Well that's my thing about That's my 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.840 complaint about football is the plantation mentality. 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.520 There is that, yes, anyway, so off of that. 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.080 In this case, Joe Lo, as I said, was drunk 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:22.840 and he was all hyped up on the fact that 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.880 he had just purchased Emi Music Publishing. Wait what yes, 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:28.920 he bought it for one hundred million dollars. 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:30.200 How does this guy? 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.680 And he wanted Buster Rhymes to know he owned his 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.560 publishing and thus in his mind he owned Buster Rhymes. 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:37.360 Right, But then also you're my bitch. 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.839 Yeah, he was drunk and he was like a financi bro. 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:41.680 So he's like, let me put you in your place. 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:46.080 I own you, right, So Jolo's uh, we'll call it joke. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.800 Taunt did not land. He was about to result in 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:53.360 an epic beatdown when Pharrell Williams had to like step in. 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.360 He had to calm down Buster Rhymes and tell him 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:56.679 like being. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.920 Happy, he gotta be happy, and then they punched him. 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.600 They So there you go a glimpse at the character 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:04.439 of Jolo. 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:05.920 Right, that is incredible. 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.120 But I've got more for you because I also have 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.920 an eyewitness account, not from the gossip press or from like, 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.679 you know, some hip hop outlet. It's like, oh, we 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.080 got the latest news that nobody will tell you, right right, 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.120 This friend of mine, he works as a DJ. He 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.520 did work as a DJ in Las Vegas, right, and 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.120 he was working there back when Joel was a regular 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.000 at the daytime rooftop pool parties that they have at 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:27.520 the casino. 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:28.120 Dear. 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.199 Yeah, yeah, so back then. 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.640 He was called a super vip. Jolo not my friend, 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.000 my friend Jeff, he was a DJs. I said, So, 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:37.920 he tells me the story about working a private party 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:39.080 for this super vip. 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.160 So he did, he go and he gambled along. He 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:41.680 was a whale. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:42.320 There's a whal. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:43.040 Yeah. 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.720 So according to my friend Jeff, and I quote, I 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.959 see this very heavy set Asian guy wearing one of 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.080 those a whole yacht caps and he's sitting in this cabana. 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.960 They had bottles and all the bottle service girls were 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.160 huddled around this area to party. There was a special 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.400 DJ that had come in, so I continue to do 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.559 my job. At one point, Joe Lo grabbed a microphone. 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:04.640 There was like a wireless handheld that was sent to 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.160 his cabana for him to say what he wanted or whatever. 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.960 He says. Everybody in the pool. Everybody, I mean everybody 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.480 in the pool, and I thought, I'm not getting in 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.160 the pool, but I'll film this. So I grabbed my 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.440 cell phone. I started filming everybody doing what this VIP wanted. 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:21.840 And I mean eighty percent of the people in the 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.679 pool were staff. Everybody did what this guy told him 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.480 to do, and they all got in the pool fully dressed, 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.320 and I'm filming it. So what did he catch on camera? 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.280 Great question, Elizabeth, We may never know. Well again, according 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.800 to my friend Jeff and I quote, this Asian guy 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.240 came up to me and said, the you doing. I 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.600 stared at him blankly. I didn't know what the problem was. 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.840 People had cell phones out filming stuff at the club 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:46.920 all the time and no one ever had an issue 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.440 with it. But this was like a major deal. I 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:53.199 started getting emails on my phone immediately from different management 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.400 people in the casino and the club. The Asian dude 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.800 got really abraced with me, so I apologized and he 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.720 made me erase the phone. I learned later that it 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.120 was what's called a blackout event. That's when there's a 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.040 high security and no one's allowed to film or photograph 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:11.040 or record anything. This guy low was throwing away so 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.720 much money that he was just hemorrhaging money. It was 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:17.240 beyond trying to burn money. Brewsters millions is the only 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.880 thing that comes to mind. Why would one literally burn 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.920 piles of money for what reason? If you had that much, 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:24.520 you just wanted to get rid of it as much 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.200 as you can before you die. That's one thing that 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:32.520 was not this. This story is another thing, Elizabeth. Yes, 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.160 so that's an eyewitness account. 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.760 Was just the money to say this is a blackout event? 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.840 Did he did? He rent the hole basically. 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.320 The club yea yeah, and the rooftop pool club, I mean, 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.559 and then he had the staff, didn't have people had 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.960 the staff getting the pool like pretend to be having fun. 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:57.200 That sounds like hell on for I would just start 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:01.240 throwing people off the roof. If I could throw myself. 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:01.840 I throw everybody. 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:03.160 Someone's coming off that roof. 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:04.439 Someone's out of here. 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.160 So now we're back to the essential question, Who the 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.640 hell is jo Lo? I'm happy to tell you I 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:13.400 have answers, lots of answers. So low Taik Joe was 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:16.079 born in Malaysia in nineteen eighty one. He was born 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.840 a son of privilege. He's gobad numbers, sharp minded, you know. 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.680 So his family sent him to Harrow. It's a private 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:26.200 school in London, so old that it was founded by 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.640 a charter from Queen Elizabeth the first way back in 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:30.880 fifteen seventy two. 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:31.360 Yeah. 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.880 So his classmates were the sons of kings and the 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.440 nephews of prime ministers from around the world. Right, It's 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.960 where everybody sends their you know, special boys. Elizabeth. You 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:41.880 might say that the British private schools are a lot 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.440 like prison. Yeah, They're a great place to learn to 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:45.240 be a better criminal. 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:45.640 True. 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.400 I mean I wouldn't say that, but you might. 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.200 Say I'll say anything there. 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.520 So anyway, jo Lo, he said of his private school days, 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.440 they absolutely shaped his future. In an interview with The 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.680 Toronto Star, he said, and I quote, there were a 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.840 few key relationships which I started to develop there. Harrow 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.840 had lots of children of prominent European, Asian and Middle 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.240 Eastern families. That's when I met the former King of 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:08.720 Jordan's son, among others. 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.040 Yeah right, So those. 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.440 Early heady days at Harrow, they were the key that 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.720 unlocked the man and criminal he would become. Or, as 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.240 Joel put it in his interview with The Toronto Star, 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.280 that's when I felt that I built the core foundation 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.480 of contacts for the future. That's quite important because that's 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.360 when you know them as friends and you build the 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.800 trust level for the future, as opposed to meeting someone 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.600 during the course of your business life. He's like, get 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:33.520 them WHI they're susceptive. 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.320 You see some of the terrible things they do as youth. Yeah, right, 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:39.280 and hold it over. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.120 This is really why you want your kids to go 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.960 to an elite school. Not the education, it's for the connections. Comply. 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.920 So Adri attends Harrow. Joel transfers to Wharton School of 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.000 Business here in the US, which coincidentally is also the 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:56.360 president's alma motern Apropos of Nothing but Cress. At Wharton, 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.200 Jolo made a name for himself on campus. His nickname 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.040 was the a Great Gatsby. 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.560 He made his own nickname, did he did he. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.000 I don't know about that, but she'd give you some 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:07.520 idea of how he was perceived by. 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.400 A question that's not a nickname. 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:10.680 No. 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.040 In short, it was known that, just like Jay Gatsby, 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.680 jo Loo was a schemer, a striver, an operator, and 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:16.440 a social. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.760 Media like the lamest nickname everyone. 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:24.160 No now Jolo for instance, to give you an example 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.600 of his Jay gatsbying around, he once invited his Wharton 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:31.240 classmate Avanka Trump to go on a gambling trip with 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.280 him and some of his friends too where Atlantic City. 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:35.000 Oh. 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.520 You see, Jolo had a big time crush on Avanka, 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.040 and he thought she might go for a guy like him. 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.880 Oh, I'm having like a sliding doors moment of like 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:44.040 an alternative reality. 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:44.720 Go ahead. 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:48.480 Evanka politely declined the invite, but the way Jolo later 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.920 told the story, he explained her rejection was far less 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.760 about him and more about her father. You see, Jolo 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:57.560 told his friends that Ivanka said quote she'd never set 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:02.520 foot in one of her father's skeevy casinos. So that's 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.440 from Jolo. I didn't say that. So at this point 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:07.679 in his story, Joo moves on to his next crush, 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:11.080 someone who was also a rich, mildly attractive blonde daughter 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:15.159 of a famous American family. He started angling for Paris Hilton. 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:16.760 Oh dear, clearly the. 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.520 Man had a type. Now. Yeah, his roommates at Wharton 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.959 later recalled that Jolo loved to watch House of Wax. 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.080 Now if that name doesn't sound familiar, it was Paris 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:31.199 Hilton's debut movie. Yeah, now, he watched it over and 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.440 over again, apparently just all the time. So now, Joo 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.080 didn't know it back then, but one day, a drunken 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.480 Paris Hilton would be photographed at a casino with his sweaty, 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.320 alcohol flushed face pressed against her shoulder. That was all 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.800 become Elizabeth. That's the future we have to look forward to. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.919 So back to his college days. After Wharton, Lowe returned 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.520 to Malaysia. There he tried his hand in a few businesses. 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.119 None of them were successful, but he did orchestrate the 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.480 sale of a skyscraper, so that had to make his 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:00.400 parents proud, right, I mean, oh, you. 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.640 Sold that long, daddy. 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.400 So after that, he then partnered with a man named 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.760 Reza Aziz. He was a friend of his he had 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.280 met back when they're both attending private school in London. 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.399 So we're now working together in Malaysia, jo Loo and 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:18.119 Aziz won the backing of Aziza's stepfather, this man named 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.320 Najib Razak. Now you see, at the time he was 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:23.720 the Defense Minister of Malaysia, and then in a very 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.240 short time he was elected Prime Minister of Malaysia. 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:26.760 Oh wow. 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.080 Yes. And then working together, the three men conspired to 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:34.080 create a Sovereign Wealth Fund for Malaysia. It's basically a 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:37.879 state owned development investment program, right, and this was just 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:40.400 after the financial meltdown of two thousand. 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:41.160 And eight, perfect timing. 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:43.640 But these men, they saw opportunity Elizabeth where the rest 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.399 of us saw ruined. They saw the saints for the future. 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.280 So they used, you know what, there's big deals to 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:52.639 be made, there's steals to be lifted, fraud to be purchased. 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:52.960