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Speaker 1: So the cartel soldiers simply just flat and went back

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Speaker 4: Great to be here.

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Speaker 3: Thank you all right, Todd Benzman, Texas based senior National

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Speaker 3: How Joe Biden unleased the greatest border crisis in US history,

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Speaker 4: Hi.

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Speaker 3: Well, we were just talking to Todd Benzman from the

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Speaker 3: Your next flight on one of the major airlines fall

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Speaker 2: All right, Alex, thank you very much for that report.

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Speaker 2: I guess nobody nobody's checking this stuff. Uh well, clearly

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Speaker 2: six engines around the world were found to have unapproved

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Speaker 2: parts in them.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad I'm flying in a week or so,

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Speaker 1: I said, I'm so glad I'm flying, and.

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Speaker 2: You might have a plane full of fake parts.

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Speaker 3: I know. Oh, there's probably always something that could happen.

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Speaker 3: Deb we're not even aware of.

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Speaker 2: I'm terrified of flying to begin with. And this story

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Speaker 2: is really like making you know, and I'm gonna wear

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Speaker 2: three masks. I'm not wearing a mask. Ken, Are you

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Speaker 2: a basket case on a plane? No, but in my head,

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Speaker 2: I am. Yeah, have a drink, fall asleep.

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Speaker 3: I am an easy way to just sedate yourself. All right,

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Speaker 3: we got Moore coming up. Johnny kN k if I

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Speaker 3: AM six forty live everywhere. It's the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: And the special Brownies, Johnny Kenn.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm not going to get caught in an airport

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Speaker 1: or in a different country with edibles on me.

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Speaker 2: You'll never see me again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't get caught in the Middle East. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: you know, there's like there's like a non zero chance

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Speaker 1: that she ends up calling us from prison.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll be good for the show. It's all about

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Speaker 2: the show. Well, just as long as we're your first

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Speaker 2: call before you call your lawyer. Like, oh, okay, okay.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI

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Speaker 5: AM six forty.

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Speaker 1: Quick follow up at Alex Stone's report about this scam.

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Speaker 2: Parts fair plane parts.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, while we were talking to Alex almost at the

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Speaker 1: same moment, Daily Mail has an updated story on it

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Speaker 1: and this AOG technique supplied parts that had been used

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Speaker 1: at least one hundred and twenty six plane and these

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Speaker 1: parts were not certified. It's all forged paperwork and nobody

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Speaker 1: knows where they came from. But they have tracked down

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Speaker 1: some of the online presence of the company. For example,

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Speaker 1: on LinkedIn, they have a photo of somebody named Ray Kwang,

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Speaker 1: he's the chief commercial officer. And then on another site

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Speaker 1: there's a factory owner named Wang and it's the same guy.

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Speaker 1: It's the same photo. It's a stock photo of an

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Speaker 1: Asian businessman, so he's Ray Quaga at one site, he's

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Speaker 1: Wang in the other. And then they have a on

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Speaker 1: LinkedIn they have a woman named Martina Spencer's photo of

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Speaker 1: a blonde woman with dark rim glasses, an account manager

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Speaker 1: at aoj. Well, it turns out her same picture appears

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Speaker 1: in an Amazon listing for women's reading glasses. So they

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Speaker 1: just cut and pasted these random photos. They had an

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Speaker 1: address that was just a few blocks from Buckingham Palace

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Speaker 1: and a beautiful gleaming corner office building, but it turns

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Speaker 1: out they just bought a mailing address there for one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars a month.

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Speaker 3: Do we know how many years they were doing this?

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Speaker 3: They were in this business of selling fake or not certified?

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Speaker 1: Me a few years if they ended up one hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty six. I started in twenty fifteen in the

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Speaker 1: UK by somebody named Jose Alejandro Zamora Wairraala and they

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Speaker 1: think he's a thirty five year old from Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: He has not commented. Yeah, so with it was all

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Speaker 2: It was all fake, you know.

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Speaker 1: I guess he was scrounging maybe on the Internet and

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Speaker 1: coming up with these parts and marketed himself and the

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Speaker 1: airlines bought into it.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of fakes, the big story last week was about

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Speaker 3: a US Senator from New Jersey named Robert Menendez. They

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Speaker 3: now call him gold Bar Bob. He's accused, of course,

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Speaker 3: in a major federal indictment of taking brock of being corrupt,

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Speaker 3: which included gold bars. In fact, even googled how much

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Speaker 3: it was worth. Apparently, though, really got deep into this

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Speaker 3: because of his relationship with a woman who would become his.

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Speaker 2: Wife, Nadine Arslanian.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, they met each other after both of them were divorced,

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Speaker 3: and in twenty eighteen they were hot and heavy dating,

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Speaker 3: soon to be married. Well, the latest chapter on this

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Speaker 3: deep in the indictment, concerns this wife because she killed

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Speaker 3: a guy in November of twenty eighteen December of twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 3: She was driving very fast through the streets. John of Bogata,

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Speaker 3: New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: You know Bogata, Bagoda a bagoda, right, Yeah, it's not

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Speaker 1: far for my town.

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Speaker 2: Is it upper class, lower class or ordinary middle class?

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Speaker 3: Well, she told police she did not see a man

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Speaker 3: who had stepped in front of her to cross a

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Speaker 3: busy street. Richard Coop was dead almost instantly. His body

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Speaker 3: was thrown to the curb just steps from his home,

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Speaker 3: badly mangled. New questions are being asked because she did stay.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't a hit and run. But when police came,

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Speaker 3: they gave her rather deferential treatment. They did not drug

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Speaker 3: test her, they did not alcohol test.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure she played do you know who I am?

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Speaker 1: Do you know who I'm married to? Or who I'm

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Speaker 1: going to be married to? A US senator?

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Speaker 3: There are reports that she probably did make a few comments.

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Speaker 3: But the reason this story is getting new attention. In

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Speaker 3: addition to the family was never happy. The Kop family

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Speaker 3: with what happened here because it just quietly went away.

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Speaker 3: She needed a car so badly after she destroyed the

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Speaker 3: ones she was driving that this may have led to

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Speaker 3: one of their first bribes. There apparently was a New

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Speaker 3: Jersey businessman who provided her with a sixty thousand dollars

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Speaker 3: Mercedes convertible in return for getting some help for the

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Speaker 3: treatment of one of his buddies who was being criminally prosecuted.

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Speaker 2: So you see how it.

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Speaker 3: Works, and this may have been one of the first deals,

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Speaker 3: corrupt deals that this couple, the Menendez couple worked together.

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Speaker 3: Apparently she was very impatient to get a replacement car

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Speaker 3: right away, and so they just worked through the channels

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Speaker 3: and realized there was some associate of hers. We need

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Speaker 3: a little help for a colleague in dealing with the

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Speaker 3: critical case.

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Speaker 1: Was she complaining, It's like, look what this guy did

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Speaker 1: to my car. I mean blood go over my car.

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Speaker 1: This guy out therey you ran him over. Well, the

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Speaker 1: problem for the victim and you've pointed this out before.

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Speaker 3: This was later at night. He was drunk, actually had

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Speaker 3: drug and pot in his body. He apparently now his

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Speaker 3: life was pretty tough. He was I think between jobs

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Speaker 3: and he spent a lot of time at bars. In fact,

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Speaker 3: one bar he frequented actually dedicated a stool to him

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Speaker 3: after his death. That you that he was there a lot, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: because he may have popped out in front of her.

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Speaker 1: Very few sober people get run over by cars, right,

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Speaker 1: It's the majority are drunk and drugged up and homeless

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Speaker 1: people stumbling around.

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Speaker 2: I love the way they described this in the Times.

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Speaker 3: When Menendez began dating this woman in twenty eighteen, people

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Speaker 3: close to him encouraged him to walk away, concerned that

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Speaker 3: Miss Menendez, unemployed and fond of flashy jewelry and designer shoes,

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Speaker 3: with a mysterious circle of friends, had champagne taste on

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Speaker 3: a beer budget. So this is what happened to him.

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Speaker 3: He fell in love and then this woman ensnared him

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Speaker 3: in a number of.

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Speaker 2: These bribe plots.

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Speaker 3: She apparently had these associates, some Egyptian Americans. And again

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Speaker 3: in the indictment, it's claiming that Menendez used his power

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Speaker 3: to help the Egyptian government some deals.

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Speaker 1: He was getting great sex, she was international trash and

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Speaker 1: manipulated him into giving her a flat lifestyle. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: appears to be exactly what the look at him, He's

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Speaker 1: an old guy who looks like a troll.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, recently divorced, so he's probably very lonely. Yeah, the

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Speaker 2: perfect mark.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So she sent multiple texts to this guy named Hannah

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Speaker 3: that she didn't have a car, but two friends, mister

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Speaker 3: Menendez and another New Jersey business that was close to

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Speaker 3: mister Hannah jose A Rebate, soon agreeed to terms to

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Speaker 3: rectify that.

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Speaker 2: Mister Menendez agreed to.

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Speaker 3: Call a senior prosecutor at the New Jersey Attorney General's

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Speaker 3: office to try to pressure him to go easy on

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Speaker 3: an associate of mister Ribey. A Rebay in turn agreed

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Speaker 3: to finance the car, and the text said.

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Speaker 2: All is great. I'm so excited to get a new car.

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Speaker 1: Next week, Miss Menendez text in a sleazy people always

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Speaker 1: have a wide array of sleazy contacts and friends. I

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Speaker 1: know they all find each other. All the criminals and

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Speaker 1: grifters of the world. They connect. They don't even need

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Speaker 1: social media. They just know by looking at one another.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 3: When we return, John Mamley's coming back on the John

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Speaker 3: and Ken Show. Of course, the law firm he's a

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Speaker 3: part of has done quite a job over the years

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Speaker 3: representing people have been victims of sex abuse, including a

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Speaker 3: number of women who were sexually abused by this former

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Speaker 3: longtime USC campus gynecologist named George Tindall. The development today

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Speaker 3: is he's dead. He was found dead in his home

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Speaker 3: at age seventy six. Johnny KENKFI AM six forty Live Everywhere,

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Speaker 3: iHeartRadio App. Hey, you've been listening to the John and

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Speaker 3: Ken Show. You can always hear us live on KFI

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