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Speaker 1: Make sure you're tell him to watch out for Florida.

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Speaker 1: The craziest people in America come from the Bronx in

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Speaker 1: all of Florida. Yes, you are a donkey. The Florida

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Speaker 1: man a tap and atm for a very strange reason.

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Speaker 1: It gave him too much money. Florida man is arrested

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Speaker 1: if to definitely say he rigged the door to his

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Speaker 1: home and an attempt to electricate his present wife. Police

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Speaker 1: arrested in Orlando man for talking a Familia to Breakfast

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Speaker 1: club Bitchy Donkey of the Day with Charlom hain't a guy.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why y'all keeping letting him get you elected.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's me, It's my fault. Okay. Donkey of Today

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Speaker 1: for Monday in November fourteenth goes to a thirty nine

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Speaker 1: year old Saint Petersburg, Florida man named Matthew Meredith. Now,

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Speaker 1: what did your uncle Charla always tell you about the

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Speaker 1: great state of Florida. The craziest people in America come

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Speaker 1: from the Bronx and all the Florida, and today's story

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Speaker 1: is no exception. Okay. Matthew was arrested last week for

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Speaker 1: making fraudulent requests, but tax refunds, something that I'm sure

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Speaker 1: a lot of people have done. Okay, don't you don't

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Speaker 1: you try? Don't you try to sync down on your seat? Now? Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, I don't know why though, y'all still think

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Speaker 1: y'all can play with the IRS. All right, y'all do

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Speaker 1: realize the IRS is undefeated, right? Okay, the High RUS

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Speaker 1: is more undefeated than the Internet, perfect record, undisputed, undefeated,

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Speaker 1: champion of the world in everyweight class, and it's not

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Speaker 1: even close. But Matthew Marriedith decided to do with so

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Speaker 1: many before him have attempted to do and failed miserably. Okay,

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Speaker 1: he tried to get over on the IRS. But I

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Speaker 1: will give Matthew some credit. Matthew decided to shoot for

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Speaker 1: the stars. You hit me. I mean, if you're gonna

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Speaker 1: do it, you might as well do it big because

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Speaker 1: when you get caught, and you're gonna get caught, you're

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Speaker 1: going to prison. So why not? Now? What did Matthew

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Speaker 1: do well? According to the indictment, he submitted five claims

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Speaker 1: for a tax refund between August twenty nineteen in February

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Speaker 1: twenty and twenty In total, those claims exceeded how much

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Speaker 1: you think they exceeded, Envy, Just take a wild guess

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Speaker 1: how much you think his his his fraudulent tax claims exceeded.

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Speaker 1: I have no clue. Just get this strowing number out there, Florida,

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Speaker 1: thirty nine years old. How much million dollars? Million dollars? Okay? Angelie? Ye, Angelie?

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Speaker 1: How much do you think of this man's fraudulent tax

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Speaker 1: claims exceeded? What you think this stroward number out there?

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Speaker 1: I'm twelve million dollars? Okay? Twelve million? Envy said a million?

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Speaker 1: Angeli yee said twelve million. Let the record show an

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Speaker 1: envious way off. Angelie's closer, but she is way off.

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Speaker 1: Matthew Meratives claims exceeded. Let me make sure I start

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Speaker 1: this number right. Let me just make sure I say

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Speaker 1: this for I repeat this? Yes, okay, Matthew Meritives claims

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Speaker 1: exceeded a hundred and seventy million dollars okay, and fraudulent

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Speaker 1: tax claims seventy okay. Authorities say Meredith falsified his income

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Speaker 1: and withholdings in each of the claims. On November twenty third,

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, the IRS issued Meredith a check for a

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Speaker 1: little over six point three million dollars for his first

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Speaker 1: submitted claim. But that wasn't enough for Meredith. No, he

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Speaker 1: couldn't leave well enough alone. The next day he filed

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Speaker 1: a second fraudulent tax claim, this time seeking four million dollars. Okay,

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Speaker 1: now listen, now, listen to this right, authorities say, Meredith,

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Speaker 1: what do you think he used the money for? What

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Speaker 1: do you think? What do you think? His first purchase was? Okay, huh,

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Speaker 1: what do you car? A jewelry? Car, jewelry? What do

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Speaker 1: you say? Ye? Um hm, I would say a car?

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Speaker 1: A car? Jury, well, a car was his second purchase.

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Speaker 1: His first purchase. He did have the wearwithal to go

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Speaker 1: buy a house. Okay, So from the initial every front

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Speaker 1: he went purchased a sixty five hundred square foot waterfront

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Speaker 1: mansion in Saint Petersburg. He's spent like two point six

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Speaker 1: million for that. Then the indictment alleges that Matthew purchased

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Speaker 1: six luxury Mercedes Benz vehicles with a total value of

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Speaker 1: eight hundred and forty three thousand. Now whole up. Wait

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Speaker 1: a minute, y'all thought he was finished? Okay, Matthews tax

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Speaker 1: fraud scheme occurred while he was under supervised release from

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Speaker 1: a two thousand and sixteen federal conviction on drug related charges. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Matthew woke up one day without an f to gift. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Now he is being charged with making false claims against

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Speaker 1: the government, theff of government property, and money laundering. If

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Speaker 1: he is convicted on all counts, which it will be,

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Speaker 1: Matthew could face up to seventy five years in federal prison.

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Speaker 1: He also would have to return the money and four

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Speaker 1: fit to house in vehicles. Let me tell you something, man,

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Speaker 1: the irs has to be doing stuff like this to

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Speaker 1: be funny. All right. You're not gonna tell me that

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Speaker 1: it's not someone reading these requests after they ass off

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Speaker 1: and saying, hey, man, just give him the money. Let's

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Speaker 1: see what he does with it. All right. They know

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Speaker 1: y'all on bs, but they just want to see what

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Speaker 1: y'all gonna do if they grant you this request. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Matthew probably had hate me now by nas playing as

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Speaker 1: soon as he purchased that mansion. I know he was

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Speaker 1: in the living room at that mansion with two bottles

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Speaker 1: of casting Megos hitting the gritty until those Alphabet boys

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Speaker 1: knocked on that door and said grand opening, Grand closing. Well,

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Speaker 1: at least you will be in Florida jail with a

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Speaker 1: story to tell. Please give Matthew Meredith the biggest he hall.

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Speaker 1: Hey man, if you're gonna do it, do it big,

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Speaker 1: because I'm telling you right now, as soon as you

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Speaker 1: decide to wasge that war with the irs, you're gonna lose.