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Speaker 1: So they're in there, in there, I don't know, the

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Speaker 1: I'm here for it. Strip clubs, elected officials, lots of cash,

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Speaker 1: is like I'm a Vegas tourist. Whim. I'm not a gambler.

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Speaker 1: In the nineties, Vegas tried to have this like whole

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Speaker 1: So this proposed ordinance plus zoning use permits, plus liquor

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Speaker 1: So she hit him with the book basically like here,

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Speaker 1: that Lance Burton is a big magician. Lance Malone. He

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Speaker 1: for two years when Galardi reached out. They make a deal,

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Speaker 1: GALLARTI says, I'm gonna pay you five thousand dollars a

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Speaker 1: that's all corruption. Now you have two jobs. Um, that's

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Speaker 1: But it's going to take more than just one vote

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Speaker 1: Aaron Kenny, and she was a former casino waitress who

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Speaker 1: When Gallardi approached her, she was thirty nine years old.

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Speaker 1: National late nine, Lance Malone approaches Herrera about a bribe

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Speaker 1: in exchange for favorable votes for Galarty. Hey, you want

420
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 1: to join our team, he will give you five grand

421
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: a month. So he's like getting he's getting Lance Malone

422
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 1: level money because he's the Cheese of Caman and he's

423
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: just you know, he's he's going to be there for

424
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 1: a while. Yeah, And it's like he know, we can

425
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,919
Speaker 1: hitch a wagon to this star. Yeah, he's right, You're right,

426
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,439
Speaker 1: he's a rising starts and you're gonna want to get

427
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:34,120
Speaker 1: sway with him, right. Herrera accepts. He says, all right,

428
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 1: He's like I like new trucks, and he gets paid

429
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty times between late nineteen and mid two

430
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 1: thousand three from a mouse between five thousand and ten

431
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: thousand dollars each time every month. Yeah, pretty much. So

432
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: he's just GALLARTI said. Over the course of four years,

433
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 1: he paid Herrera about two hundred thousand dollars. How much

434
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 1: is this warehouse of stripping worth that he's just able

435
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: to check after month after it just to get it proved. Well,

436
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 1: he has all their money. Figure he's gotten another money,

437
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: but in his mind it's worth it so much. That

438
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: tells us how much they're making. Yeah. Yeah. So in addition,

439
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 1: Herrera and his friends quote were treated to thousands of

440
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 1: dollars and drinks and lap dances at Mr Galardi's clubs.

441
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 1: So he's getting the cash and then he and his

442
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: pals can just roll into whichever going to get like

443
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:32,880
Speaker 1: the full V I P S treatment young men. Yeah,

444
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: I've seen it. They love that. They do love that

445
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: so and none of it was ever reported by Herrera

446
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 1: on financial disclosure forms. How would you put that? You

447
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: would have just like, I mean, you've got to drinks,

448
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 1: free drinks or you know whatever, the you know, dance

449
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: like strenuous activity on my lab. And it's going to

450
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: need a receipt for that use calisthetics full contact Caalisthetics UM.

451
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 1: Spring of two thousand one, Gallardi paid for a golf

452
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: outing for Harrera, again not reported UM, during which Harrera

453
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: later admitted that he received sexual favors from a cheetah dancer.

454
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 1: Behind the bushes, It's like something out of an eighties movie, right,

455
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: it is gross? Okay, not because of three. Here's the thing,

456
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: Like why I think it's so gross. I'm not. I'm

457
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: not hung up on the like public fornication, whatever. I

458
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: don't want to look. I don't want to say that

459
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 1: is gross. But here's what's gross. When I hear about

460
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: these kind of trips, like behind the bushes, you start

461
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: picturing cartoon people don't know, Well, that's how I normally picture,

462
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 1: but in this case, no, it's the opposite. I start

463
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: thinking like like stuff about ants and small small small

464
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: sticks and like dog poop hidden and leaf piles. That's

465
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: what's behind bushes, you guys. And they want to go

466
00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: back there. Who knows spiders. They're doing public corruption, public fornication,

467
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: and you're like, have you guys, thought about the spine.

468
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: I'm saying, you're gonna go and like remove at least

469
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 1: some clothing and you're in. You could be standing in

470
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: a pilot dog poop. Not if there's just a bunch

471
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: to leave something. Are you really enjoying it? Well? Yeah,

472
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: so anyway, gross, very gross. You know it's like you

473
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: always see like even in movies where couples like are

474
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: reclining in a meadow just like kissing. They're they're on

475
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: thinking time you're watching, you're likens pokey rock sticks, you know,

476
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 1: like a centipede, a caterpillar. Would that be like fun?

477
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: Do you ever imagine the fun? How many caterpillars have

478
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: you smashed? And now we won't have now we won't have.

479
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: But over here you're like, well, you know we if

480
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: we walk, we're taking steps on the into the life form.

481
00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: That's why I float everywhere. So anyway, herreras and dog

482
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: poop and leaf piles um Herrera he wasn't brand loyal

483
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: when it came to entertainment because he also allegedly got

484
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: free services at strip clubs not owned by Gallardi, Like

485
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: he went to Crazy Horse two and Olympic Gardens, and

486
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: they were like Dario and so September two one, he

487
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: just became a college athlete and never looked back. Yeah,

488
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: completely wotly. Could you imagine if he never got caught

489
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: and like today we're like President Herrera has imposed full

490
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: contact strip clubs at all voting location. Yea, if he

491
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: didn't get caught, Yeah, okay, he'd be senator president. I'm

492
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: with you. Go. On September two one, Lance Malone gives

493
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: Dario Herrera quote thousands of dollars in cash in a

494
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: car outside Landry's Seafood restaurant on West Sahara Avenue. Please

495
00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: tell me there was like a brown paper bag and

496
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: in there. This is not glamorous stuff. Like they're not

497
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: in tailored state. They are in a strip mall parking

498
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,959
Speaker 1: lot across from Palace Station Casino, which is like a

499
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: local casino on the strip. Someone's always not a cigarettes.

500
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: They're handing each other a couple of thousand dollars. Like

501
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: when you think about the volume of money to be

502
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: made at the strip clubs, which they we've seen, like

503
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: the amount that Doti is willing to spread around, but

504
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 1: then also how much he's willing to break him off.

505
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: He's always lowballing. He's not giving them huge portions. Yeah,

506
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: and so it's kind of crazy, like he's these little

507
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: pittances really to these guys. Um and then Gallardi also

508
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: offered Herrera a Lincoln Navigator, which Herrera declined. He called

509
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: the suggestion quote a little bit too obvious. He's like,

510
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: Zaren's going to talk about trucks. Yeah, this is like,

511
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 1: you know, like number three on the list of what

512
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,479
Speaker 1: a young man on whose corruption is going to be

513
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 1: doing can navigate? The navigator? Is it black with tinted windows?

514
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: It should have been like a Ford to Yes, nobody

515
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: would look at that, No one, No one expects that,

516
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: just like the Spanish inquisition. September two one that same month,

517
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: as they sat in the parking lot of a defunct

518
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 1: now closed steakhout or seafood restaurant, Harrera voted to approve

519
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: a liquor license and they used to permit for jaguars.

520
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: Finally got in his vote. So we got Gallardi, the

521
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: strip club King, Lance Malone, the bag Man, Kenny Kinkaid,

522
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: Chancey Chauncey whatever, Herrera, Girl, Mary and Herrera lots of cash,

523
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: Ski school in delicate acts on the golf course, let's

524
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: take a break. When we come back, I'm going to

525
00:33:44,400 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: tell you how it worked out for all them, So,

526
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,919
Speaker 1: Saron Elizabeth. When we left off, Michael Michael Gallardi strip

527
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: club King was paying off four Clark County commissioners in

528
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: order to get the appropriate approvals and expand his empire

529
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: of Las Vegas gentlemen's clubs. Make the dream of Jaguars

530
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: come true. People need it's so important, so full contact, touchy,

531
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: touchy and totally nude. And the crab rangoon, I mean

532
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: like we're talking bare souls of feet. Um. So aside

533
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: from his places in Vegas, now, I just can't think

534
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: of crab ringing things of that nature. So besides the

535
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: places in Vegas, Gallardi he also owned a street club

536
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: in San Diego, which also was named Cheetah's. You know,

537
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: just worked the first word the brand. In the late nineties,

538
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 1: the FBI first began investigating Alarty after rumors emerged he

539
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: was using his San Diego club to launder money for

540
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 1: drug dealers. Oh yeah, that investigation didn't go anywhere though, However,

541
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: during its course, the FBI caught Galardi saying, quote, I

542
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 1: own every county commissioner in Vegas. Right now, I've got

543
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: them all on the payroll. That's not something you should

544
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: brag it up. Yeah, just stated right, that's something you

545
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 1: think in your head and you're like, no, you go, yeah,

546
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:35,720
Speaker 1: I'm pretty cool. Um. And they're like smiling and nodding

547
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 1: about nothing. Don't worry about it. It's none of your business.

548
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 1: I just think funny thinks sometimes. So cool um. Okay.

549
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:46,720
Speaker 1: And with that, this new this new operation, this new

550
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: FBI endeavor is born, and it's called Operation g Sting.

551
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I like it. Yeah they do. They do

552
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 1: it up right. You have to say the a lot

553
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:01,919
Speaker 1: and we have to type it a lot. So let's

554
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: make it something dumb. Guys, they just want to close

555
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: mouth chuckle, Operation g sting. Can you imagine them coming

556
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: up with like they're having a little meeting and the

557
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: guys are throwing names and like the brainstorm on the whiteboard. Yeah,

558
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: I want to know the ones that were rejected. Thunderstruck

559
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,800
Speaker 1: not thunderstruck again, but we could do like the song

560
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: don no aberation nid is. So this Operation g Sting

561
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 1: was a joint effort between the FBI, Las Vegas Metro

562
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 1: Police Department and the I r s oh. I thought

563
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna say one of your TV shows and the

564
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: b A U and they're like Las Vegas C S

565
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 1: I and Engine one eight from Los Angeles Fox TV

566
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: show nine one one. I've never show, but what I

567
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: love about it is it wherever they're located in Los Angeles.

568
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 1: They also answered calls all over l A County, anywhere

569
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,800
Speaker 1: anywhere like Elsinore. They'll be. They can go to Vegas.

570
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: Why not a lot of peoples stop at Baker and

571
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 1: they pose in front of the giant thermometer. It um,

572
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: all right, where were we? FBI? Vegas, Metro I R S.

573
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 1: So the FBI they used video surveillance and wire tapped

574
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 1: phone calls between Lance Malone, Michael Galardi and the other suspects.

575
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,280
Speaker 1: A lot of the conversations that they listened to happened

576
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: in one of the Commissioner's cars, which had what the

577
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 1: legal documents referred to as a quote on Star type

578
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: navigation system. So they keep saying an on Star type.

579
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was actually on Star or whatever.

580
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: The Star like, look, we don't want to hurt the brand,

581
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,760
Speaker 1: and so for clarification on Star, can you name another

582
00:37:55,719 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: so it's it's a subscription based communication serve some cars.

583
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen that ad where someone totals their

584
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 1: car and it's all out of it and then the

585
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: on Star operator comes on and tells them they're brave

586
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: and okay and to live their truth. No, well, we

587
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 1: don't watch TV, so we've never seen it. But apparently,

588
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: yeah it is. It's pretty funny, like the on Star

589
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 1: you're going to be okay, don't You're ones like you know,

590
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: we've seen that you've been in an accident. Yeah, I

591
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, but I didn't know we go to

592
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: like live your truth. Now they don't. I was making

593
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 1: that part of but you've believed it, I sell it

594
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 1: so good. Um alright, so uh, it's got all the

595
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: emergency stuff also hands free calling in GPS, navigation, and

596
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:45,760
Speaker 1: then remote operations to the car itself. Down was super

597
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: technologically advanced in those days. That was like it was

598
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: expensive and it was like a high end thing to

599
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: have in your car. Um. The FBI asked the quote

600
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 1: on Star type company to put the system in the

601
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:04,879
Speaker 1: commissioner's car into what's called stolen vehicle recovery mode. That yeah,

602
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 1: stolen vehicle recovery mode opens up a communication line to

603
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 1: the car so that anyone monitoring the system can hear

604
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: what's going on in the car without the occupants knowing it.

605
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,320
Speaker 1: Back in the early two thousands, now these days, stolen

606
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: they have stolen vehicles slow down where they remotely slow

607
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 1: a stolen car to stop. There's remote ignition blocks, so

608
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: if a car gets stolen, the ignition gets deactivated, so

609
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: if it's shut off, the thieves can't restart it. I'm

610
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 1: guessing that's like for carjackings. They're stolen car injection seats

611
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: right out of the top of the car, and then

612
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: there's one where as soon as they started back up again,

613
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 1: the like floor of the car is just covered an

614
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:50,879
Speaker 1: old desiccated French fries and it smells bad. And then

615
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: ants come and they're like, oh, that happened to me

616
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 1: once in the bushes, So I won't tell you what

617
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:59,760
Speaker 1: I'm differing back there. So, like, the company initially complied

618
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: with the FBI requests, but then they resisted, and then

619
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: the case went to the courts, where eventually the Court

620
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 1: of Appeals ruled that the eavesdropping was not allowed, but

621
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: not because of privacy concerns, and I guess technical commercial

622
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 1: concerns basically the copyright. No. The court said that by

623
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: both getting close. The court said that by putting the

624
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 1: quote on Star type system in recovery mode quote, it

625
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 1: would render it inoperable in an actual emergency. So it

626
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: was more consumer safety than privacy. You're no longer getting

627
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: what they paid for. Their privacy is a myth babyce

628
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:43,760
Speaker 1: the commercial issue no worries. FBI is like, guess what, guys,

629
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: We've got the Patriot Act. That means that we can

630
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: get evidence in other places. So, just to recap, the

631
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:56,879
Speaker 1: USA Patriot Act was enacted right after and the two

632
00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: thousand one Anthrax attacks. Remember those, Um, did you know

633
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 1: that USA Patriot is an acronym for uniting and strengthening

634
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 1: America by providing appropriate tools required to intercept and obstruct terrorism.

635
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: Remember it was dumb because you can see the poor

636
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 1: assistance and staffers trying to come up with Again, I

637
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 1: would like to see the rejected list yes, yes, of

638
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: acronyms for US Patriot Act. So the Patriot Act has

639
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: three main areas. First, it expanded surveillance abilities phone tapping

640
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 1: both domestic and international, to interagency communication regarding resources and

641
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 1: counter terrorist efforts, and then three increased penalties for terrorism

642
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 1: crimes and an expanded list of activities which would qualify

643
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: for terrorism charges. That's a huge one right there. So

644
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 1: like the really worrisome parts of the Patriot Act where

645
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: the authorization of indefinite detention without trial of foreign nationals

646
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: a little recent and then um, the permission that was

647
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,320
Speaker 1: given to law enforcement to search property and records without warrant,

648
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,760
Speaker 1: consent or knowledge war untless wire tapping and search because

649
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 1: like basically the FBI could issue their own subpoenas and

650
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 1: those were called National Security letters, and that would order

651
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: businesses or organizations to surrender data and documents without probably

652
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 1: cause or judicial oversight. Yeah. And the back dooring right

653
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:24,839
Speaker 1: where they just allow them to go in well yeah,

654
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 1: because like the letter contained a gag order, which meant

655
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,399
Speaker 1: that the recipient couldn't disclose that the that the letter

656
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: was ever used. In Operation g sting Um, the FBI

657
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 1: used the recently pass Patriot Act to quickly obtain financial

658
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: records of its targets. And this is the first time

659
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 1: that the Patriot Act was used against local politicians Vegas,

660
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 1: neither Vegas or Miami. They were neck and neck on that.

661
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: So like, basically, the FBI sent a letter to the bank,

662
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: no judge looked at it to approve it. The bank

663
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: had one designated person who received these letters. Since generally

664
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:04,359
Speaker 1: legal counsel um, the designated recipient had to turn over

665
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: the files to the FBI, and the bank couldn't tell

666
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 1: the customer whose files were turned over that they had

667
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: been handed off to the FEDS. All this is happening.

668
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,440
Speaker 1: They have no idea. It's a situation that's completely ripe

669
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: for fishing expeditions. And then the definition of terrorism got really,

670
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:25,959
Speaker 1: really broad, so everything's running amok um. When the use

671
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 1: of the Patriot Act in these cases was made public

672
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 1: in two thousand three, Representatives Shelley Berkeley of Nevada, she

673
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 1: was then a representative, said quote, I didn't vote for

674
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: the Patriot Act to allow the FBI to go after

675
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: strip club owners. Well, well, guess what happened. You didn't

676
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 1: read the whole thing. And so the executive director of

677
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 1: the a c LU commented, quote, no one can suggest

678
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,360
Speaker 1: that they are in any way, shape or form involved

679
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: with terrorist activity, meaning the strip clubs. And then Senator

680
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 1: Harry Reid of Nevada to old the New York Times

681
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: quote he was not aware that the money laundering provision

682
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,360
Speaker 1: was in the bill when he voted for it in

683
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: late two thousand one. He said he did not expect

684
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 1: the bill to be as widely used as it had

685
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: been in domestic investigations that had little or nothing to

686
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,439
Speaker 1: do with international terrorism. He said he thought the bill

687
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: was about thwarting terrorists, not, as he put it, quote

688
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: naked women. The FBI, however, said the patriarch was used

689
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: quote clearly within the legal parameters of the statute. Yeah,

690
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:37,959
Speaker 1: Zaren Elizabeth, I want you to close your eyes. Wait wait, yeah,

691
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:45,919
Speaker 1: I want you to picture it. Oh. Yes, It's mid

692
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: May two three. It's a weekday afternoon. You're the mop

693
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: boy at Jaguars and you've just started your shift. The

694
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:58,839
Speaker 1: new shift of dancers has also just arrived, and they're

695
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 1: getting ready in the dressing rooms. You're hanging out in

696
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: the manager's office, going over the supply list and catching

697
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 1: up with the manager himself, a guy who later identified

698
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: himself in the press as just joe Ce. Okay, uh.

699
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,799
Speaker 1: You hear a commotion out in the lounge. You hear

700
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:20,240
Speaker 1: that you guys exchange glances just like the countless times

701
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: before when you both figure a fight or of some

702
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: sort is going on, and like Joe's got to go

703
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 1: assist the bouncers and shutting it down. He opens the

704
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:31,399
Speaker 1: office door and there are two agents with their guns

705
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 1: drawn staring back at him. You slide down in your seat. Meanwhile,

706
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 1: other agents are using a battering ram to open the

707
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:46,280
Speaker 1: liquor room door. They're reckoned shop. I'm not getting paid tonight.

708
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:51,240
Speaker 1: It's a good old fashioned FBI raid baby now. Oh yeah,

709
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: I put the mob down, Grab what every booze you

710
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 1: can walk on and see what you can pawn. Gilardi.

711
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:07,319
Speaker 1: Other Vegas businesses Cheetahs and the Leopard Lounge. Uh they

712
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: were also rated, as well as Cheetas in San Diego,

713
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,879
Speaker 1: which was also being investigating. Um I love the San

714
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: Diego to Vegas pipeline. Oh it's it's strong, it is real,

715
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: it's real, it's here, it's not going anywhere. It is angry,

716
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: is so living. It's truth right now? Um So what

717
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: were the suspicions that the FBI had. According to their

718
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:34,800
Speaker 1: search warrant, they were looking for financial records, receipts, canceled checks,

719
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 1: campaign contributions, improvised explosive devices, yes, like glitter bombs, of

720
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:46,399
Speaker 1: any records about gifts to Clark County commissioners and their

721
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: spouses dating back now. It should be noted that when

722
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: they brought in Aaron Kenny for questioning, she almost immediately

723
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: admitted she'd been taking bribes and agreed to testify for

724
00:46:57,040 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 1: the prosecution. Immediately She's like, he's like digging, like, yeah,

725
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: I have a seat. I took bribes. They're like, oh,

726
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 1: oh wait, we thought you were someone else. In September

727
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 1: two thousand three, Gallardi pleading guilty to conspiracy in San Diego.

728
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 1: He testified that he gave thirty four thousand, five hundred

729
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: dollars in cash and contributions to three city councilmen there.

730
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 1: So I mean he is spending a lot of money

731
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 1: in various municipalities. In return, he wanted them to repeal

732
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 1: a two thousand law that prevented strip club patrons from

733
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 1: touching dancers. He's really into context. He wants people to hunk.

734
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: He just wants to get people together, coziness and touching

735
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: and people like you know that someone loved them. He

736
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:44,839
Speaker 1: just likes cozy things, coziness of incredible amounts of money.

737
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: He succeeded, the law was repealed. Um he gets sentenced

738
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:52,320
Speaker 1: to fifteen months in prison for bribing San Diego officials.

739
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: He told the reporters in San Diego that the bribery

740
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: was quote, just part of business. He wanted to explain,

741
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 1: I grew up in Vague and that is just part

742
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 1: of how you do business. Do you know who my

743
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:05,839
Speaker 1: dad is? I think I think people feel the same

744
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 1: way everywhere about politicians. People think they're all corrupt, and

745
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:14,800
Speaker 1: I agree with them. I can buy anybody. In October

746
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 1: of two thousand three, just a month later, he pleads

747
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 1: guilty to one count of violating the Rico Act. Always

748
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: with the Rico, always with the most powerful legal development.

749
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: It's remarkable. Um. He said that over a period around

750
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 1: the decade, he paid out over four thousand dollars to

751
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:34,719
Speaker 1: public officials. It's not that's actually yeah, it's less than

752
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 1: I would have thought, yeah, based on how much he

753
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: was thrown around. But that's what he said anyway. So

754
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 1: there was a Department of Justice press release that said, quote,

755
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: some of the matters which the defendants corruptly influenced included

756
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: the passage of a Clark County ordinance that increased the

757
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: separation between strip clubs from five hundred to one thousand feet,

758
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 1: the issuance of zoning, use permits and liquor licenses for Jaguars,

759
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: the controlling and harassing of Galartiss and his competitors, the

760
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 1: defeat of a proposed ordinance that would have prohibited all

761
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:07,760
Speaker 1: touching between dancers and patrons except hand to hand tipping.

762
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:12,840
Speaker 1: So it's like they increased the amount of space, but

763
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 1: then also you know they controlled and harassed his business competitors,

764
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:20,720
Speaker 1: and that's what are you gonna do. So the trials

765
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 1: for the Las Vegas Clark County Commissioners um all of

766
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 1: them involved, began in the spring of two thousand and

767
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:30,839
Speaker 1: six and it lasted more than seven weeks. Gilardi testified

768
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 1: that his bribery of Vegas public officials first started back

769
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 1: in when he paid then then councilman to solve a

770
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 1: licensing issue around Cheetah's right after it. I was just

771
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 1: sixteen years old. He was looking for his dad in

772
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:49,359
Speaker 1: the summer. This is a hard working kids, he said.

773
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 1: He paid another unnamed politician five thousand a month in

774
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:55,800
Speaker 1: the mid nineties in return for political influence. Uh He

775
00:49:56,000 --> 00:50:02,360
Speaker 1: claimed that many other city officials, including the mayor, various judges, cops,

776
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 1: district attorneys, had also been bribed and or bribed and

777
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:11,479
Speaker 1: or bribed you know that's a new thing, or given

778
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 1: perks like free drinks, lap dances, sexual favors whenever they've

779
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 1: visited Cheetahs, golf clubs in the area, or you know,

780
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 1: poop bags for going behind bushes. Um. He said that

781
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:28,279
Speaker 1: he had fifteen to forty attorneys on the list who

782
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: could quote get free drinks and lap dances at Friday

783
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 1: afternoon lawyer days at his club. Friday afternoon lawyer he

784
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 1: held lawyer days. You're going to lawyer days down to

785
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:42,240
Speaker 1: Cheetahs and then. But all the other officials he referred

786
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 1: to were never charged. And it should be noted that

787
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:49,240
Speaker 1: defense lawyers for all these former county commissioners, they claimed

788
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: that Glardi was prone to making wild accusations, exaggerations, and

789
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,800
Speaker 1: outright lies. Now did the commissioners get through their trials

790
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:59,280
Speaker 1: soon enough to go back and get re elected immediately?

791
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 1: Because figuring Vegas politics, there's still Lance Malone. He was

792
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 1: charged in Las Vegas with conspiracy, wire fraud, extortion under

793
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 1: color of official right. Rico Caterminal forfeiture, you know, just

794
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: a grab bag and so at first he pleads not guilty,

795
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,919
Speaker 1: but then he gets convicted in the San Diego case.

796
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: Because I guess he's dipping into the situation out there,

797
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: he changes his plea. He pleads guilty in Las Vegas

798
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 1: to violating federal racketeering laws for bribing commissioners. Okay, so

799
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 1: he he pleads guilty. In two thousand and seven, he

800
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 1: was sentenced to six years in prison and he was

801
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 1: released inn He ran a pizza shop when he got out,

802
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:47,320
Speaker 1: but it's closed now and I have no idea what

803
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: he's up to these days. Was the pizza not good

804
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 1: or did the front dry up? Who knows its front?

805
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: I hope he's living his best life. I hope he's

806
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 1: living his truth. I'm always reading for that me too,

807
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 1: U Dario Herrera. He pleaded not guilty. He said that

808
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: the only money he accepted from Gallardi was a ten

809
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 1: thousand dollar campaign contribution. Um. He did admit that he'd

810
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: get free lap dances, and he did admit to an

811
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 1: affair with one of Gallardi's employees. He was found guilty

812
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 1: of the affair of so mid two thousand and six.

813
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: He gets convicted of seventeen counts out of nineteen that

814
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 1: he's charged with of corruption, wire fraud, conspiracy, extortion. He

815
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:33,479
Speaker 1: gets sentenced to fifty months in prison, a fifty dollar fine,

816
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 1: and then he had to fourfeit sixty grand more than

817
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 1: four years. He did thirty months in prison, so just

818
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:44,720
Speaker 1: under three years. Um July, while still on supervised release,

819
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 1: he was arrested on a charge of domestic battery in California.

820
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:53,279
Speaker 1: It kind of started spiraling, but by seventeen he was

821
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 1: running a marketing company and volunteering at an organization that

822
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 1: helped people find work after being released from prison. So yeah,

823
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 1: and here's some here's some quotes from him. I accomplished

824
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: great things and then I did some terrible things, and

825
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 1: I failed miserably and spectacularly, over and over and over again,

826
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 1: like okay, I am a Fitzgerald story of America. He

827
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:17,919
Speaker 1: said I was unfaithful, I was very arrogant. I thought

828
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 1: I was above the law. And then he said, I

829
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,399
Speaker 1: wanted to repair the relationship with my kids. I wanted

830
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 1: to make amends with those I've hurt, including the community.

831
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:28,840
Speaker 1: And here I am, you know, eight years later, finally

832
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 1: being able to stand up in front of people and

833
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: admit the things I did. So here we have this

834
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:36,439
Speaker 1: guy at the time of the downfall political golden boy

835
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: could have been a national figure. You know. So he's

836
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 1: repairing things apparently you're undone bias hubs and now he's

837
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:48,879
Speaker 1: repairing his human Yeah. Yeah, so again he's another we wish.

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Speaker 1: I wish he's living his best life. Mary Kinkaid Chauncey

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Speaker 1: with Florence, my girl. She's the one she wanted to

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Speaker 1: ski school, ski school for her grandfa. She gets convicted

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Speaker 1: on thirteen of fourteen counts of corruption. Uh he gall

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Speaker 1: already testified that he paid her between seventy five and

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Speaker 1: eighty five thousand dollars. She gets busted for accepting more

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Speaker 1: than seventeen thousands. So I guess the you know fuzzy numbers.

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Speaker 1: Both her son and her daughter testified against her, against

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Speaker 1: her embarrassed, I'm guessing it's the son who you know,

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Speaker 1: your mom throws you an event in the strip club

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Speaker 1: and look at that ungrateful wretch. Then he son who

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Speaker 1: didn't get the party, not one for Trevor or not

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Speaker 1: for me. Despite despite the evidence against her, she maintained

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Speaker 1: her innocence, and she later appealed her case but lost,

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Speaker 1: so she was sentenced to thirty months in prison. She

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Speaker 1: was also fined around seventy s ordered to give back

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Speaker 1: d dollars in goods Ski's give us all the Skis.

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Speaker 1: She spent two years in prison and after her release

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Speaker 1: she worked at the Las Vegas Church. She insists to

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Speaker 1: this day that she was wrongfully convicted um, even though

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Speaker 1: there's ample proof in en she talked to the local

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Speaker 1: channel eight news. Um she's a great grandmother of twenty

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Speaker 1: five now, by the way, and she said she wants

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Speaker 1: a pardon. She said, quote, I don't think I ever will,

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Speaker 1: but that would be nice to do that, because I

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Speaker 1: don't know if there's a stigma to it. Does she

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Speaker 1: know that a pardner is ultimately an admission of guilt?

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Speaker 1: Apparently not. So then we get to Aaron Kenny, Aaron,

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Speaker 1: the one who started as a casino waitress, opened an

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Speaker 1: ad agency, connoodled with Gallarti, took bribes right and left girl.

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Speaker 1: She pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy and fraud,

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Speaker 1: and then she and Gaillarti joined forces and testified against

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Speaker 1: everybody to her. So she gets she gets sentenced to

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Speaker 1: thirty months in prison and is given a very large fine.

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Speaker 1: She spent around twenty six months in prison. She gets

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Speaker 1: released in June of two thousand nine. Um. She still

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00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 1: owed a hundred and thirty thousand dollars in fines for

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00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 1: her conviction. Um, she's another one who seems to have

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Speaker 1: dropped off the radar. I did find that she seems

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Speaker 1: to have some sort of consulting business. Now I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you the honest to God's truth. I

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00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 1: have people I could ask who would tell me exactly

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Speaker 1: where she is, but I'm not going to do that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'll ask you later. Thank you so. Michael Galardi he

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00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 1: pleaded guilty, as we know, to that one count of

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00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 1: racketeering in Vegas in two thousand and seven. He was

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Speaker 1: sentenced to thirty months in prison. Because of his cooperation

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00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,080
Speaker 1: with the FBI and the fact that he was not

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00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 1: an elected official, the judge gave him a lighter sentence

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00:56:56,160 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 1: and the key to Las Vegas. He also had to

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Speaker 1: pay five thousand dollars in fines. He's got the money. Yeah.

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00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:07,800
Speaker 1: He had to forfeit three point eight five million dollars

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00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: to the government for what just just like like you know,

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00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 1: you got the money. It's dirty given to us. We

892
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 1: threw darts at a board. This was the number we

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00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 1: came up with. He also had to give up his

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00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 1: business interest in both Cheetahs and Jaguar. I don't need

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Speaker 1: to sell it to his cousin or whatever. Pretty much,

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00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 1: he was allowed to serve both his San Diego and

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00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:34,440
Speaker 1: Las Vegas sentences concurrently, and by he said he was

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00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:38,320
Speaker 1: no longer running strip clubs. What is he doing? I

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00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 1: don't know. Now he's in a used car deal who knows?

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00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 1: Who cares? The neon sign at Cheetahs in Vegas came

901
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 1: down and the club was officially closed. It's now called

902
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 1: the Library Gentleman's Club and according to its website, it's

903
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:59,880
Speaker 1: Las Vegas is only premium full nude strip club. Okay,

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Speaker 1: truth be told. I'm pretty sure I've been there. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure you have. I have a friend who lives in Vegas,

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00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:08,280
Speaker 1: and I quote unquote friends. Yeah, he's a ski instructor.

907
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 1: But I have a friend who lives in Vegas. He actually,

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00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 1: I swear to God, a DJ, and he would take

909
00:58:14,720 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 1: me to places that DJs take you too. And that

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00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 1: was one of them, well still glitter on. Probably every

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00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:24,720
Speaker 1: time you sneeze, couldn't get it out of the dress.

912
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 1: So with the toppling of the cheetah sign, which I

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Speaker 1: don't do, you needed a moment. So ends another ridiculous

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Speaker 1: chapter in Las Vegas history. And that's my tale of

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00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 1: Operation g sting that. What's your ridiculous takeaway? Aren't you

916
00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 1: happy as I'm over here just beaming like I got

917
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 1: like rosy cheeks like that in the glitter that's the shine? Um.

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00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 1: I think my ridiculous takeaway is if I was to

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Speaker 1: open a strip club, I wouldn't name it after like cats,

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00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 1: I would, but I would pick an animal and it

921
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:04,560
Speaker 1: wouldn't be like one you would think of. It would

922
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Speaker 1: be like, I don't know, like ard Varks is exactly

923
00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 1: like the rusty armadilla. You're like, why would that? How

924
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 1: is that sexy? I'm like, exactly, I'd open slots. It

925
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 1: would just be like a bunch of gals lay it

926
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Speaker 1: around and like really comfortable like comfortable valure. Oh yeah,

927
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 1: like really soft socks and like you know, you just

928
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 1: get to recline and lay around and pay to say

929
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 1: sexy things they know, and then the clients walk through

930
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:41,000
Speaker 1: and they look at you hang down to the sexy

931
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 1: part and if they stare for too long, you go

932
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Speaker 1: get out of here. Come on, now, what do you

933
00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:47,760
Speaker 1: think I'm doing here? We're a bunch of slots and

934
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 1: it's like it's toasty and chill. There's leaves on the ground.

935
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Speaker 1: Leaves on the ground in the back of the club

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Speaker 1: for those who were so inclined. I like the Since

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Speaker 1: you asked, what's your ridiculous takeaway? I like I like

938
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Speaker 1: all the ridiculous details and things just in general in life. Um,

939
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:10,760
Speaker 1: but I and and in our stories are fun stories

940
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:14,480
Speaker 1: that we share. But like this one has really good

941
01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 1: little details. The crown royal bag, Dude, I can't I

942
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:18,920
Speaker 1: still can't believe that. Like, if you're going to give

943
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 1: a gift of love put in I want to think

944
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 1: what could hold money? And that what would be money size?

945
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 1: And you're like, what holds money? What would I use

946
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 1: to woo a lady? Yeah? What was the most decaded

947
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:33,160
Speaker 1: thing I can think of? Super fancy? Wow, they're rich.

948
01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 1: I like the guy you know fooling around in the

949
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 1: bushes you do with the ants on? The ants on

950
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 1: is crawling up that Yeah, they're brush, they're finding ants

951
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:47,960
Speaker 1: like an hour later, like coming out of their shirt. Um,

952
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:50,120
Speaker 1: and there's like what do you smell that? And they're

953
01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 1: checking their shoes like lifting. Um. I love the request

954
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:57,959
Speaker 1: for ski school, but oh my god, everything about Mary story,

955
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:02,600
Speaker 1: all of it is so mundane and cheap. It's also

956
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:05,600
Speaker 1: foolish and greedy. But it's mundane and cheap, and like,

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01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:08,360
Speaker 1: I think my takeaway is that the things that we

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01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 1: think are edgy and necessary and desired are pretty ridiculous

959
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:15,600
Speaker 1: when you see it from a distance. Yeah, it's it.

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01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:18,800
Speaker 1: So that's it for today. You can find us online

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01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 1: at Ridiculous Crime on both Twitter and Instagram. Hey you

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Speaker 1: do you have a tip for us about a ridiculous crime?

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Speaker 1: You want to hear about? Email us Ridiculous Crime at

964
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:37,320
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. They couldn't they forward me these emails? Um,

965
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:41,000
Speaker 1: God bless the person who is supposed to be running

966
01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:47,760
Speaker 1: that email anyway. Yeah, do you need advice about criming?

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01:01:48,560 --> 01:01:53,760
Speaker 1: You know, asked Saron Um. Twitter has jokes while twitters

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Speaker 1: around uh Instagram as pictures. You know, I don't know,

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01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:07,080
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm trying to get into my

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01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:10,479
Speaker 1: I have a shift at exactly I know you're about

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Speaker 1: to be yes, it starts in like ten. I can't

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Speaker 1: just you know, I'm not a robot, Szaren. I can't

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Speaker 1: just turn it on and off. I have to transition

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Speaker 1: just putting into slippers slippers and laying down. I'm an

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Speaker 1: artist and in the biz we like to to present fully.

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Speaker 1: So whatever with your social media's and your you know what,

977
01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 1: it's the whole Internet. It's going to collapse any day now, anyway,

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01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 1: who cares. I saw an avenue five that were running

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Speaker 1: out of lithium, so yeah, yeah, so you know, if

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01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:52,120
Speaker 1: everything breaks, then I'll just like record these on the real,

981
01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:54,240
Speaker 1: too real, and leave them in the bushes and people

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01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 1: can dig them out and listen, look at for the

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Speaker 1: dog poop. That's it to the next sorry. Ridiculous Crime

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Speaker 1: is hosted by Elizabeth Dutton and Zarin Burnett, produced and

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Speaker 1: on Star operator Marissa Brown. The theme songs by Thomas

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Speaker 1: Make It rain Lee and Travis Cheetah Boy. Dutton Executive

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Speaker 1: producers are Glitter Remover, Ben Bolan and Loose Slight Heeled

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