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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Playing Dirty Sports Scandals with me. Jay Harris,

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Speaker 1: You're a man with the plan when it comes to

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Speaker 1: unraveling the most salacious sports scandals in history. Over the

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Speaker 1: past twenty years of my career as a journalist in Sportscaster,

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Speaker 1: I've hosted a variety of ESPN shows from SportsCenter to

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Speaker 1: Outside the Lines, but on Playing Dirty, I crossed the line,

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Speaker 1: taking you behind the scenes of your favorite sports to

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Speaker 1: quench your thirst for scandal. Today's tale is anything but cleansing,

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Speaker 1: because we're pouring the plot of Robert Craft and the

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Speaker 1: Day spa scandal. Let's start with Robert Kraft for those

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Speaker 1: of you who aren't already familiar with his legacy. Robert

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Speaker 1: Kraft was born in nineteen forty one, the same year

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Speaker 1: the United States joined in World War Two. After the

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Speaker 1: attack on Pearl Harbor. He lived in Brookline, Massachusetts, with

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Speaker 1: his parents, Sarah and Harry Craft. The Craft family weren't

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Speaker 1: All through high school, Robert couldn't participate in most sports

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Speaker 1: observance of the Sabbath. Fast forward to the early nineteen

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Speaker 1: sixties and Robert Craft was attending Columbia University in New

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Speaker 1: into athletics, he played tennis and football and decided that

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Speaker 1: his father's dream for him and take the Rabbi route,

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Speaker 1: Robert Craft went all the way in on capitalism by

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty five. But as fate would have it wasn't

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Speaker 1: Craft's prestigious MBA degree from Harvard that set his career

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Speaker 1: He bumped into a girl named Myra Hyatt, whose father,

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Speaker 1: Jacob Hyatt, managed the multi billion dollar packaging corporation Rand Whitney,

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Speaker 1: and the rest is history. Robert Kraft married Myra Hyatt, and,

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Speaker 1: Robert gained control of the company in nineteen sixty eight

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Speaker 1: On January twenty first, nineteen ninety four, Robert Kraft became

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Speaker 1: believes he overpaid for the franchise, but nonetheless, the team

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Speaker 1: so now that we've tackled the billionaire backstory, it is

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Speaker 1: time to fast forward to twenty eighteen. In Jupiter, Florida,

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Speaker 1: Lulu and Mandy had even more humble beginnings in life

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Speaker 1: than Robert Kraft. Lulu lived past the South Dixie Highway,

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Speaker 1: Karen Hertzog. Karen Herzog is a Florida massage parlor inspector

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Speaker 1: Karen also noted in her report that suitcases, clothes, a

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Speaker 1: Herzog detectives Mike Fenton and Anthony Sharp, who would become

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Speaker 1: world and sure enough found Orchids of Asia listed in

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Speaker 1: that is indeed slang for a massage parlor that offers

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Speaker 1: For example, on February twenty second, twenty fifteen, one Yelp

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Speaker 1: Sharp said illicit massage business. Let's be clear, what he

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Speaker 1: is illegal. Less, Surprisingly, human trafficking is illegal everywhere in

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Speaker 1: every level. So what exactly is human trafficking? How do

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Speaker 1: Trafficking Victims Protection Act, human trafficking is classified as one

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Speaker 1: which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud,

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Speaker 1: it can refer to the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or

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Speaker 1: to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt, bondage, or slavery. Human trafficking

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Speaker 1: is an abhorrent practice, and yet despite most people's appalled

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Speaker 1: Polaris Project, an organization whose experts analyzed data from the

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Speaker 1: then promptly investigated by detectives Mike Fenton and Anthony Sharp. Well,

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Speaker 1: After all, it's not always easy to prove misbehavior by

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Speaker 1: These criminals are using nonviolent forms of coercion. The victims

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Speaker 1: But while Mandy was indeed a mother, that certainly didn't

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Speaker 1: make her less culpable. Additional charges against her came quickly,

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Speaker 1: including soliciting others to engage in prostitution. She faced years

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Speaker 1: difficult to prosecute. More often than not, the young women

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Speaker 1: who have been trafficked are reluctant or even completely unwilling

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Speaker 1: massive problem when victims don't speak English, don't trust law

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Speaker 1: enforcement because of historic issues in their own countries, and

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Speaker 1: rarely cooperate in prosecuting the pimps and madams exploiting them.

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Speaker 1: What ends up happening are investigations that make arrests, but

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Speaker 1: that's how this scandal shook out a totally distasteful outcome.

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Speaker 1: In November twenty twenty four women from orchards of Asia

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Speaker 1: took plea deals. Court records showed that Mandy pleaded guilty

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Speaker 1: I believe that resolves all of the cases in this situation.

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Speaker 1: Like Mandy, Lulu sentence included one year of probation, of

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Speaker 1: five thousand dollar fine, and one hundred hours of community service.

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Speaker 1: The other charges against Lu, including a serious felony charge

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Speaker 1: so basically having profited from others suffering, Mandy and Lulu

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Speaker 1: walked away with a tisc tisk punishment and warning not

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Speaker 1: to play dirty again. Shocking and in an equally shocking

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Speaker 1: turn of events, Florida prosecutors dropped all charges of soliciting

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Speaker 1: prostitution against Robert Kraft. This decision came after a key

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Speaker 1: court ruling that effectively dismantled the foundation of the prosecution's case.

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Speaker 1: The court ruled that Jupiter police had violated the rules,

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Speaker 1: You see, the constitution protects us all from what are

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Speaker 1: the courts decide that and often after the fact, and

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Speaker 1: turns out that there isn't any particular authorization for those

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Speaker 1: So the bottom line was that detectives Mike Fenton and

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Speaker 1: came time to try their case in court, that gamble

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Speaker 1: did not pay off. The court declared that there are

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Speaker 1: five main rules that should be followed in the provision

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Speaker 1: of sneak and peak warrants, and that one of those

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Speaker 1: rules is a plan to ensure innocent people doing legal

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Speaker 1: things aren't caught up in the surveillance. On this rule,

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Speaker 1: the court found at least one female client receiving perfectly

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Speaker 1: the sneak and peak warrant usage, and the court determined

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Speaker 1: the entire scheme had to be tossed. The video evidence

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Speaker 1: dents of Robert Kraft allegedly engaging in illicit activity would

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Speaker 1: not be admitted into this or any other court case. Ever,

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Speaker 1: the case against Robert Kraft and at least twenty four

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Speaker 1: other men arrested in the sprawling investigation collapsed overnight as

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Speaker 1: all charges were dropped. Palm Beach State Attorney David Ehrenberg,

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Speaker 1: The Orchids of Asia Dayspa, he said, was a notorious

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Speaker 1: brothel and a family shopping center, but the economic inequalities

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Speaker 1: in the justice system, Arenberg lamented, allowed wealthy defendants like

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Speaker 1: the loopholes and pushing on the legality of the sneak

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Speaker 1: Robert Kraft walked away without legal repercussions, his public persona

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Speaker 1: had certainly taken a hit, and he did express public

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Speaker 1: remorse for his actions, stating I am truly sorry. I

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Speaker 1: know I have hurt and disappointed my family, my close friends,

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Speaker 1: my co workers, our fans, and many others who rightfully

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Speaker 1: hold me to a higher standard. Throughout my life, I

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Speaker 1: have always tried to do the right thing. The last

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Speaker 1: thing I would ever want to do is disrespect another

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Speaker 1: human being. I have extraordinary respect for women. My morals

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Speaker 1: and my soul were shaped by the most wonderful woman,

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Speaker 1: the love of my life, who I was blessed to

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Speaker 1: have as my partner for fifty years. As I move forward,

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Speaker 1: I hope to continue to use the platform with which

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Speaker 1: I have been blessed to help others and to try

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Speaker 1: to make a difference. I expect to be judged not

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Speaker 1: by my words, but by my actions, and through those actions,

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Speaker 1: I hope to regain your confidence and respect. I hope

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Speaker 1: all the dirty players in this scandal, from Robert Kraft

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Speaker 1: to Lulu Wong and Mandy Jong, walked away more empathetic

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Speaker 1: and a whole lot wiser. It's important to remember that

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Speaker 1: the scandals I share on this podcast run deeper than

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Speaker 1: sensational story. After all, these are people's messy lives, human beings,

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Speaker 1: often grappling with tremendous injustice and stacked societal imbalances. These

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Speaker 1: are important conversations we're having. Stay thirsty and join me

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Speaker 1: for next week's episode of Playing Dirty Sports Scandals to

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Speaker 1: continue our salacious sampling as we challenge perceptions of crime, punishment,

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Speaker 1: and privilege together. Playing Dirty Sports Scandals is a production

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Speaker 1: of Dan Patrick Productions, Never Ever Productions, and Workhouse Media

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Speaker 1: from executive producers Dan Patrick, Paul Anderson, Nick Panela, Maya Glickman,

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Speaker 1: and Jennifer Clary. Hosted by Jay Harris, Written and produced

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Speaker 1: by Jen Brown, Franci Haiks, Maya Glickman, and Jennifer Clary,