1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: Certain portions of what you're about to hear have been 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: dramatized based on real life events, eyewitness accounts, and court records. 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:12,400 Speaker 1: For two years straight, I'm helping Mayor Smith battle her 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 1: wealthy and hateful Irish family for millions in inheritance. That's 5 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: rightfully hers. Why do you think she did have this 6 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:24,760 Speaker 1: inheritance coming? And my buddy, fellow reality TV producer Evan Goldstein, 7 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 1: witnesses my whole crusade from day one. Well, she had 8 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: a ton of evidence, or what I took for evidence. 9 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: She would show me emails from her barristers, which are 10 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: lawyers in Ireland. Oh, she had like paperwork. She'd show 11 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: you well, emails, but still like a paper trial. It's 12 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: not just her telling you exactly. By the beginning of seventeen, 13 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: I loan Mayor almost seventy thousand dollars to help clear 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 1: a legal path to claiming her share of a twenty 15 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 1: five million euro inherance, the equivalent of nearly thirty million 16 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: U S dollars At this point, I know Mayor for 17 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: almost four years. Then suddenly, one day out of the blue, 18 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: she's arrested for the second time. I know exactly what's happening. 19 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 1: She's being screwed over by her Irish family. Yeah, it 20 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: certainly looks that way, but in this town, looks are deceiving. 21 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: I'm Jonathan Walton and this is Queen of the Con 22 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: Episode three, The Real Mayor. It's February. Mayor Smith is 23 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: sitting in Los Angeles County jail again. This time though 24 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: she tells me goodbye and she meets with authorities to 25 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: turn herself in. Mayor says she's serving a thirty day 26 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:04,559 Speaker 1: jail sentence for the most bizarre reason I've ever heard, 27 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: inadvertent money laundering. And then, dude, you are not going 28 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: to believe the ship. Shortly after Mayor explains it to me, 29 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: I call of Evan and tell him what happened. So 30 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:20,399 Speaker 1: the judge in the Pacific Islands case is furious at 31 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,519 Speaker 1: Mayor because I let her charge my credit cards fifty 32 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 1: four thousand to pay the court fees and he considers 33 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:30,639 Speaker 1: that money laundering. Yeah, and he's punishing her with a 34 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: thirty day jail sentence. Her family is behind this man. 35 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 1: They're not going to make it easy for her to 36 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: get her six and a half million dollars. That's her Sure, 37 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 1: the inhereance. So Mayor tells me it's just it's a 38 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: slap on the wrist from the judge. It's not a felony, 39 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,519 Speaker 1: so she's still eligible to get the inheritance. So it's 40 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: thirty days in jail. While Mayor is sitting in jail 41 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 1: for thirty days, A couple of weeks go by, and 42 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: I do what any family member would do. I schedule 43 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,519 Speaker 1: a visit. I log on to the l A County 44 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 1: Sheriff's website, I enter her name and date of birth, 45 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: and then bem. It brings up the location of the jail, 46 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,959 Speaker 1: with a link to the jail scheduling website showing the 47 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 1: days and times I can choose to visit her. It 48 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 1: also brings up something else, something really disturbing. It brings 49 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: up the reason she's in jail, felony grand theft. There 50 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 1: it is on the Sheriff's website, plain as day. It 51 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: says she's in jail for felony grand theft. Suddenly I 52 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: couldn't Breathe Mayor told me she's serving thirty days in 53 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: jail as a slap on the rest because the judge 54 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: is mad at her for charging my credit cards to 55 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 1: pay her dollar court fee. She swears it's not a felony, 56 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: much less grand theft. Hey, dude, I gotta leave. Will 57 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: you cover for me? Yeah? What's up? I'm producing a 58 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: show called Booze Traveler for the Travel Channel in when 59 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: I find all this out, and my buddy Evan is 60 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: the show's co executive producer. I can't explain to Night, 61 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: but it's kind of emergency. I gotta go. Is everything okay? 62 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I'll call you later. 63 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 1: I get in my car and high tail it down 64 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: to the Los Angeles Courthouse where that Pacific Island's case 65 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: against mayor is being prosecuted and records are on the 66 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 1: I asked the criminal clerk to pull all the records 67 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:39,799 Speaker 1: for the people versus Mary Ann Smith case number Essay 68 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 1: zero eight zero. You know the expression lies are like rats. 69 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: When you find one, it means there are a thousand 70 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: others hiding sifting through the pages and pages of court records. 71 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 1: My hands start trembling because I'm fine being rat after 72 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: rat after rat. Mayor is lying to me about everything 73 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 1: regarding this case. Nothing she said about the Pacific Islands case, 74 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:17,040 Speaker 1: it was true. She she lied about everything. Man, everything, 75 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: No one throws her bank account. That was a lie 76 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: that the fifty four thousand that I let her charge 77 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 1: my credit cards was willing to pay at dollar restitution 78 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 1: guilty plea agreement, and I guess she just kept the 79 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 1: extra fourteen grand for herself as my scam bunny. Jesus dude, 80 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: she's a fucking criminal. Man. She played guilty to stealing 81 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: two hundred thousand dollars from Pacific. She played guilty for that. Yes, 82 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: she was taking customers vacation payments into her personal PayPal 83 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: account for like two years, and they caught her red handed. 84 00:05:55,440 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ scammed me, dude, She fucking scammed me. I 85 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: go home and collapse in my husband's arms. I'm not crying, 86 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: I'm wailing as the reality of what happened washes over 87 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 1: me like a slow moving hurricane. How could I have 88 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: let this woman scam me out of seventy dollars. It's 89 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: so unreal. I don't even feel like I'm in my 90 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: own body. The next day, still a mess, but trying 91 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,359 Speaker 1: to function, I call up the District Attorney's office and 92 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: I explained to them that Mayor scammed me to get 93 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: the money to pay her for guilty plea agreement. They say, sorry, 94 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:48,039 Speaker 1: there's nothing they can do. That case against Mayor is 95 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: already adjudicated. Welcome to the criminal justice system. She's so John, 96 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: you know, what are you gonna do? Oh? I don't know. 97 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 1: I mean, I want my fucking money back. Do you 98 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: even think her inheritance is real? You know, if it is, 99 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter because she's disqualified from getting it anyway, 100 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: because she's convicted of a felony. I gotta try to 101 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: contact her family in Ireland. Are you going to go 102 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: to the police. I don't know. I don't know. I 103 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: just want my money back. You know. She gets out 104 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 1: of jail in two weeks, so I'm gonna pick her 105 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: up and confront her about it. Maybe she'll confess. I 106 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: want to see what she says. Somehow, those two weeks 107 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 1: fly by, in what feels like two days, Mayor is 108 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: released from jail. She calls and asks if I can 109 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: pick her up and take her to where her cars parked. 110 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: So I drive down to the l A County Women's 111 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: Jail in Lynnwood and there she is standing on a 112 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: sidewalk out front. She looks gaunt and pale. It feels 113 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: weird to be free. Yeah. I had to walk outside 114 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: today to get to the bus and from downtown to Lynnwood, 115 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: and it was like my eyes were hurting. It was 116 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: so bright, and I'm like, what the hell is all about? 117 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: During the drive home, I'm playing it cool. I can't 118 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,199 Speaker 1: let her know that I know she tricked me out 119 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: of seventy grand. I'm just pretending everything's pay okay. As 120 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 1: I hit the record button in voice memos on my 121 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: iPhone four teen, Yeah, she's crazy. We're talking about our 122 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 1: neighbor Sherry. Before I hit record, Mayor tells me Sherry 123 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:55,320 Speaker 1: the strip club manager called her fourteen times while she 124 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: was in jail, and that Sherry personally knows a lot 125 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: of the inmates she was serving time with. I had 126 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: already been keeping my distance from Sherry since Mayor told 127 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: me years ago Sherry was wanted for murder in Canada 128 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 1: and she's hiding out in our Los Angeles apartment building. 129 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: And now, after serving thirty days with some of Sherry's 130 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:21,319 Speaker 1: criminal cronies, Mayor wants nothing to do with her. And 131 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 1: like I said, but I'm still playing it cool, like 132 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,439 Speaker 1: things are fine. As we head north on the one 133 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: tent freeway into downtown Los Angeles in a half mile 134 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: destination on the right. I mean, I'm fuming inside thinking 135 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: about all the money she scammed me out of, but 136 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: sitting right next to me, she has no idea. My 137 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 1: head is ready to explode. All that theater I did 138 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: in college is finally getting put to good use. As 139 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 1: we pull into the parking garage where her car is 140 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: are in there, I'll just I'll drive in just because 141 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 1: it's only They don't charge for like two minutes. Mayor 142 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:11,839 Speaker 1: doesn't want me to take a ticket and drive in 143 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: because she doesn't want me to get charged for parking. Ironic, 144 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 1: isn't it. She wants to save me twenty bucks for 145 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 1: parking after conning me at a seventy grand She's a 146 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 1: real fucking giver. So I pull in, quickly park, and 147 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 1: carry a box of Mayor's things she asked me to 148 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: keep an eye on while she was in jail to 149 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 1: her car. I unfold a piece of paper I had 150 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 1: written some stuff down on to prep for this moment. 151 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: Happy Okay, um, so unpleasant. Stop Okay, you've been line 152 00:10:53,920 --> 00:11:01,839 Speaker 1: to us the whole time about everything. Your pleas was 153 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 1: forty not fifty four at the Core record, No one 154 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,320 Speaker 1: waved your right to ordinary trial. George follow scheduled the 155 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: whole time. That was a lot. That last four grand 156 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:18,079 Speaker 1: you needed that came out of nowhere, that was a lot. 157 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: He gave three checks one three, one for three. You 158 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 1: needed a check for four. You've been scamming us out 159 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:28,320 Speaker 1: of money this whole time you have. Yeah, you're not 160 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 1: gonna You're busted, So from here on end, we're not friends. 161 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: So I only want to see you or hear from 162 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 1: you when you have a payment for us. Until this 163 00:11:39,120 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 1: money is paid off, you're busted. Good luck. As I 164 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: drive out of that parking garage, I'm so angry, I 165 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 1: can't see straight. I wanted her to admit she lied 166 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: to me to get the money, but she wouldn't. And 167 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: what's weird is she seems so believable. Her eyes filled 168 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 1: with tears. At one point, I really wasn't sure what 169 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:37,840 Speaker 1: to do next. I come home and play the recording 170 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,200 Speaker 1: of me and Mayor for my husband and for my 171 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 1: buddy Evan. I remember, like, I think I called you 172 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: obsessively because I was scared, because You're like, okay, I'm 173 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 1: going and I'm just like oh shit, like, who knows 174 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 1: it could anyway? Literally right where we're sitting now in 175 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: my barbecue area. Do you remember or do you drink 176 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 1: too much? You don't have a good memory for these things? 177 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: All that strong irish. We were sitting literally right over 178 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 1: there when I brought the recording back for you because 179 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: I was desperate to hear what happened. And well, first 180 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 1: I was glad that you came back, thank you. And 181 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 1: second I remember hearing it and thinking, like, how do 182 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:17,680 Speaker 1: you start a conversation like this? You know, you're picking 183 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 1: her up from jail, confronting her that you stole almost 184 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: a hundred grand? How do you get there? You know, 185 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: how do you start? And I remember hearing your voice. 186 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 1: You were very I don't know if hesitants the word, 187 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 1: but you had a tone of voice that was very 188 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: not your normal talking voice, not like us talking now. 189 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:40,840 Speaker 1: It was like so it almost sounded hesitant at first, 190 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 1: and you're like, I know, and this is from memory. 191 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 1: I know, I know everything you're lying And tears like 192 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: filled her eyes immediately, and yeah, oh she's a cry dude. 193 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 1: She could give to me more a run for her 194 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: fucking money. She could cry. Does she have a cry 195 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:00,719 Speaker 1: in front of you. Oh she cried it from me 196 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 1: all the time, well to get money. So at that 197 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 1: point when tears filled arises in my mind, I'm like, 198 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: those are fucking fake tears. I know that now, that's 199 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: not real. As the days pass, I play that confrontation 200 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: over and over again in my head and on my phone. 201 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 1: You've been scamming us out of money this whole time, 202 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: you have, Okay. Her complete lack of remorse every time 203 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 1: I hear it at the correct infuriates me more and more. 204 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 1: She never even apologizes. And you know why she never 205 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: apologizes because she's not sorry. She's not fucking sorry at all. 206 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: And when that suddenly dawns on me, I realize she's 207 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 1: never going to pay me back. So I go to 208 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: police the next day and explain what happened. You gave 209 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 1: him them money. It's not a crime, yep. That's what 210 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 1: I have to deal with. It's the reason most scam 211 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 1: victims never go to police in the first place. The 212 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: cop is so sure that no crime has occurred because 213 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 1: I willingly gave Mayor all that money, he doesn't want 214 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 1: to even take a police report. He fights me on it. 215 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 1: But she lied to get the money. Isn't that a crime? 216 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 1: I mean, it's no different than those scammers. You say. 217 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 1: They're calling from the I R s and tricked the 218 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 1: elderly descending the money. That's a crime. Listen, I'll take 219 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: a report, but I don't think as much we can do. 220 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: So I give the police officer a detailed timeline listing 221 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 1: all the amounts of money Mayor tricked me out of 222 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 1: over the course of our four year friendship. Hundred dollars here, 223 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: hundred there, four thousand over here. I also hand him 224 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: pages and pages of bank records, text messages, and emails 225 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: that prove she lied to me to get that money. 226 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: His demeanor suddenly changes. Now he seems impressed that I'm 227 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: so anal retentively organized. It's the TV producer in me. 228 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: The cop then leans in and offers me the most 229 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 1: profound and life changing advice I'll ever receive from anyone 230 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 1: in law enforcement. Look, you gotta call every day. What 231 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 1: do you mean every time you call about your case, 232 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 1: it's taken from the bottom of the pile of new 233 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: case and placed on top. More times you call, more 234 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: likely it'll be assigned or an investigator. Okay, that's what 235 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 1: you want. You wanted to assigned to an investigator. Okay, 236 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 1: all right, I'll call every day. Man, Thank you so much. 237 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:27,320 Speaker 1: So I go home and for the next week I 238 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: call about my case every day, every single day. You've 239 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: reached the Los Angeles Police Department's Central Division. We're sorry, 240 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 1: we can't take your call at this time. You think 241 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: your name. Big surprise, my case is not getting assigned 242 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: to an investigator. It's just sitting there in limbo, maybe forever. 243 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 1: Hi na cha, I'm trying to check the status of 244 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 1: support I filed. It's instant number one seven zero three 245 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: one name zero zero three six one seven. Uh, give 246 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:07,400 Speaker 1: me a call back. So, after three weeks of getting nowhere, 247 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: I flipped the script and I start my own investigation. 248 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,399 Speaker 1: My TV producing skills kick in, and I began treating 249 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,400 Speaker 1: this whole thing like prepping one big reality show for air. 250 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 1: I paid a sign up for a bunch of criminal databases. 251 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: Then I sneak into a local law school library and 252 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: use their Lexus Nexus system to do multiple background checks. 253 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 1: I then hire six different private detectives in the various 254 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: cities where my research shows mayor has a history, and 255 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 1: I very quickly uncover that Mayor Smith is not from 256 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 1: Ireland at all. Your purpose American. She was born in 257 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: Bangor Main in n There is no Irish family, there 258 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 1: is no inheritance. She's actually been sued by a bunch 259 00:17:55,359 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 1: of people all over Los Angeles. Hey, we're showing several 260 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 1: felony charts for fraud, grind, theft, in passing bad checks 261 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 1: through multiple states. I mean, this woman really is a 262 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:11,879 Speaker 1: piece of work. I share Mayor's criminal past with everyone 263 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:15,360 Speaker 1: I know who knows Mayor, but getting through to them 264 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 1: isn't easy. I couldn't have communication you do. I was 265 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: told specifically, if you talk to Jonathan, you cannot be 266 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 1: my friend. Remember my neighbor Sherry Cooper, who Mayor and 267 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 1: I talked about in the car, the one Mayor claimed 268 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:32,640 Speaker 1: as wanted from murder. After I confront Mayor for scamming me, 269 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 1: she tells Sherry not to talk to me. She convinces 270 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 1: Sherry to block my phone number and block me on Facebook. 271 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 1: She made you to be kind of like just not 272 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 1: quite stable. Just don't talk to him, leave him alone. 273 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 1: And remember, for the past four years, Mayor never wanted 274 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:53,440 Speaker 1: me talking to Sherry either. She told me that you 275 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 1: guys had murdered someone in Canada and you were hiding out, 276 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 1: and I'll let you were the run from police in Canada, 277 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: hiding out. I wish I was that interesting. I was 278 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:10,959 Speaker 1: legit scared of you. I quickly figure out the reason 279 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 1: Mayor doesn't want me and Sherry talking to each other, 280 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 1: because while Mayor is scamming me out of thousands of dollars, 281 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 1: she's also scamming Sherry out of thousands of dollars to 282 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 1: using a different story, she essentially scammed you by telling 283 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 1: you a lie about me. Mayor tells Sherry that she 284 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 1: desperately needs five thousand dollars to pay me back for 285 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: bailing her out of jail. She makes it seem like 286 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: I'm broke and I'm having a mental breakdown because I 287 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,400 Speaker 1: don't have my money. Sherry has no idea. The politician 288 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:46,159 Speaker 1: already paid me back the very next day. And since 289 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 1: Sherry and I aren't talking, Remember I think she's a 290 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: murderer and she thinks I'm crazy, we both avoid each 291 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,639 Speaker 1: other like the plague. So Mayor scams Sherry out of 292 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 1: five thousand dollars under the guys of paying me back, 293 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: and her husband Andre has no idea I never asked 294 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:05,919 Speaker 1: him when I lent her the money, you like, did 295 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: it in secret? No, not his secret. That's my money, 296 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 1: my accounts or my accounts his accounts. I went and 297 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 1: I took my money. Now she was crying that you 298 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 1: were winding at her because you didn't have your money. 299 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 1: I'm like, here you go. That was five thousand even, 300 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 1: and she was like, wow, thanks so much, and she goes, 301 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 1: I'll get it back to you, you know in the 302 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: next couple of days. Soon just the politician pays Johnny 303 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 1: And it never happened. No, well, it did happen, that's 304 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 1: the thing. The politician paid me back the next day. Um. 305 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: But she invented that story that I was desperate for money. 306 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,479 Speaker 1: I was desperate to be paid back and I couldn't 307 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 1: make my rent and but the politician gave me cash 308 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 1: literally the next day. And that was crucial for her 309 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:53,360 Speaker 1: to scam me, because I had confidence in loaning her 310 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,239 Speaker 1: more money because she paid me back the next night. 311 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:57,679 Speaker 1: That was the first money I loaned her, and she 312 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 1: paid me back the next day. I never when she 313 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: came for more money, I had no doubt, like sure, 314 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: like I trust you, like you're a woman of your word, 315 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 1: you know, and that is not a singular thing. In 316 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 1: every con, you always see a little bit of your 317 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,679 Speaker 1: money first back, you know, whether it's an investment, can 318 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:17,679 Speaker 1: any kind of con they let you. They call it 319 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:19,640 Speaker 1: wetting your beak. You get to wet your beak a little. 320 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 1: And looking back, I wouldn't have given her any money 321 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,679 Speaker 1: if she never paid me back that next day, like 322 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,920 Speaker 1: because I think, well, you already on what am I 323 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 1: going to get that back? But because she demonstrated she 324 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 1: could pay me back the next day, I'm like, oh, 325 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,680 Speaker 1: I feel comfortable. She said her and the politician had 326 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,439 Speaker 1: a bank account but it was all frozen, and she 327 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 1: had she had a bank account sitting there but it 328 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:48,400 Speaker 1: was frozen. And I was like, okay, yeah. I called her, 329 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 1: I emailed her, I begged her, I pounded her. Always 330 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: an excuse, always an excuse. I'm doing the best I can, 331 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 1: And Mayor really is doing the best she can. At 332 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,640 Speaker 1: that point, scamming my neighbor Sherry and me, I suddenly 333 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 1: start wondering if Mayor is possibly scamming any other neighbors 334 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: in our building. I offered her the money I did. Yep, 335 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: she sure is, Remember attorney Tina Mensch, who signs on 336 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:31,639 Speaker 1: early in the fight to get our pool back and 337 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: becomes good friends with Mayor. I got that story that 338 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,640 Speaker 1: her bank accounts were frozen, that her papal account was frozen, 339 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 1: that she was having these issues, and that it's not 340 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 1: really my job to question people's money problems. So I 341 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: did get the district attorney story and that her accounts 342 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,959 Speaker 1: were all frozen because of the Pacific Islands stuff, and 343 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:01,440 Speaker 1: that's how she tricked you. And to giveing her some money. Yes, 344 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:06,119 Speaker 1: she it said that it was gonna cost her like 345 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 1: two thousand dollars to get her papal account reactivated. I 346 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 1: offered her the money I did. She was my friend 347 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 1: and I had it, and I really didn't think anything 348 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: of I mean, it's not chump change, but it's it's 349 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: what you do for friends. It's what you do for friends, right. 350 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 1: She insisted that she would pay me back. She still 351 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:34,200 Speaker 1: has not. And remember that crazy earlier experience Tina has 352 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,639 Speaker 1: with Mayor. After they both are apparently drugged during a 353 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,680 Speaker 1: night out at a downtown Los Angeles bar. Tina wakes 354 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 1: up the next day with bruises on her forearm and 355 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 1: can't remember how or when she got home. And Mayor 356 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 1: claims not to remember anything either, but now looking back, 357 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 1: we think pretty sure she drugged me. And why would 358 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: she drug you so that we could have a bonding experience. 359 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 1: It's it's a trauma bond. You know what. You fucking 360 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,440 Speaker 1: nailed it. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. It is 361 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,879 Speaker 1: a trauma bond that would get you closer together. And 362 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,400 Speaker 1: this was before the two thousand, yes, significantly before. Yeah, 363 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 1: this just made you closer friends quicker, Like if when 364 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:17,959 Speaker 1: you go through an experience like that with someone, you're 365 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 1: both robbed, you're both almost potentially raped. You know, I 366 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: don't know what happened. I mean I had a giant 367 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 1: bruise on my forearm. It went from for the audio, 368 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:29,400 Speaker 1: I mean you can describe it, but it went from 369 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,959 Speaker 1: here to your entire fore arms entire four blue like 370 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 1: black and blue, as if I had blocked somebody. Yeah, um, wow, 371 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 1: it is a trauma bond. Yeah, I got chills. Yes, 372 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: that's what she was doing. At this point, it's becoming 373 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: so clear Mayor Smith is a master manipulator and a 374 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: bona fide con artist. I mean she scams me and 375 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 1: she scams two other neighbors in our building. I start 376 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 1: wondering how many other victims are out there, and so 377 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 1: it begins. I systematically start contacting everyone Mayor has ever 378 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 1: introduced me to or talked about. During the course of 379 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:12,119 Speaker 1: our four year friendship. I was buying my first health 380 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 1: then we closed in December of Remember Michelle Thompson DaCosta, 381 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,680 Speaker 1: one of Mayor's early psychic clients who was impressed by 382 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 1: her spot on readings. Well, Mayor figures out a clever 383 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 1: and caring way to get her hands on Michelle's Social 384 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,120 Speaker 1: Security number? Why was she helping you with your mortgage anyway? 385 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 1: So she told me, guess what. I was a realtor 386 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 1: and I owned a mortgage company in Ireland, so I 387 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,320 Speaker 1: know exactly what they're looking for. I can help you out. 388 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, perfect. I had opened new 389 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 1: bank accounts to kind of shift, you know, instead of 390 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: using a bank account I had since I was sixteen, 391 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 1: using a new bank account that would be my main 392 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 1: account that they got those records out of, and so 393 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: how her look at it before I sat the minute? 394 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 1: So I would send them to her, And I remember 395 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: thinking the first couple of passes at sending over my 396 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: bank records to make sure all my documents were together, 397 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,879 Speaker 1: because I was just like, oh my god, pulling all 398 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,919 Speaker 1: these documents is coming too much for me. I was 399 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:22,639 Speaker 1: redacting my social Security number from her eyes, yes, and 400 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 1: I was also redacting my bank account number. And then 401 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: the final time she helped me, I didn't. I said, 402 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 1: it's Mayor, it's your best friend. This is in November. 403 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 1: Michelle sends Mayor her final set of bank records, with 404 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 1: her social Security number clearly visible, and the very next month, 405 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,879 Speaker 1: a new credit card in Michelle's name gets applied for 406 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 1: and approved unbeknownst to Michelle, and to sent to Michelle's 407 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 1: new home that she hasn't even moved into yet. And 408 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 1: then someone starts charging up a storm. In February, I 409 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 1: checked my mailbox at my new house and I see 410 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 1: a credit card statement. First of all, I've never gotten 411 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 1: this credit card. So I opened the credit card statement 412 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,440 Speaker 1: and it's a PayPal credit card, which if you know her, 413 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 1: you know she loved PayPal. Okay. Bitch loves a PayPal okay. 414 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 1: So I'm like a PayPal credit card. I would never 415 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 1: I'm like American Express or nothing. So I look at it. 416 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,400 Speaker 1: It had all this information, so I decided to try 417 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 1: to log on. So I go in, and you know where, 418 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,919 Speaker 1: like if you start entering stuff and it's like you 419 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,400 Speaker 1: can ask what you're like user name is, stuff will 420 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,359 Speaker 1: pop up. So it popped up, and it started with 421 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,880 Speaker 1: an M, and then it was like at gmail dot 422 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 1: com or whatever hers ended up as. And so then 423 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,400 Speaker 1: I called them. It was like, this isn't me, blah 424 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 1: blah blah. But also looking at the charges, it was 425 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 1: notorious Mayor. It was taxis uber's food. As soon as 426 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,360 Speaker 1: Michelle tells me that, I think about all the times 427 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: Mayor wind and dyed my husband and me at fancy restaurants? 428 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 1: Was she paying for our meals with someone stolen credit card? 429 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,160 Speaker 1: So how much money total was charged to a credit 430 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:25,679 Speaker 1: card that you did not take out but was in 431 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:27,680 Speaker 1: your name? I would say it would probably be about 432 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 1: which seems pretty cheap for Mayor. You found out about it, 433 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 1: and that was I want to say, either the first 434 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 1: or second cycle on that. So as soon as I call, 435 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 1: they got rid of it. So Michelle reports Mayor to 436 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 1: police and moves on with her life, and her credit 437 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: card fraud case against Mayor gets added to the pile 438 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 1: of millions of credit card fraud cases reported every year 439 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 1: in this country and quickly disappears into oblivion. After talking 440 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 1: to Michelle, I get a really bad feeling thinking about 441 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 1: how many other potential victims are right now getting scammed 442 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 1: by Mayor Smith, and how can I stop her. The 443 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 1: police clearly aren't doing anything, So I decide I will. 444 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 1: Why did you start a blog? Why was that like 445 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 1: your first instinct to go that route. Well, you know, 446 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 1: we're living in the digital age. I wanted to warn people. 447 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 1: I wanted to warn people. That was my sole intent, 448 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: especially with Bob. Months before our confrontation in that parking garage, 449 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: Mayor texts me a picture of the guy she's dating, 450 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 1: a guy named Bob. I knew he was an engineer 451 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 1: in Newport Beach, and I knew they were dating by 452 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: the time I confronted her, and you know, she got 453 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,800 Speaker 1: out of my life, and I knew he was probably 454 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 1: if he wasn't currently getting scammed, he was about to, 455 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: because I just had a feeling she was probably gonna 456 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 1: scam him. I don't have Bob's phone number or email address. 457 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 1: I don't even have his last name, So I start 458 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 1: an online blog. To warn Bob. I post his picture, 459 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,719 Speaker 1: the one Mayor had texted me once earlier asking if 460 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 1: I thought he was boyfriend material. He's a good looking, 461 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 1: successful guy I approve wholeheartedly. So my first blog entry 462 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 1: under that picture I post reads, I know his name 463 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 1: is Bob, I know he's an engineer in Newport Beach, 464 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 1: and I know he's getting scammed by Mayor Smith. If 465 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 1: you know him, warn him. She's not that great looking, 466 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 1: she doesn't photograph that well, but in person, she's magical. 467 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 1: There's a charisma she does she has. She definitely has 468 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:39,520 Speaker 1: an aura about her. She definitely has like and I 469 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 1: think so much of it just comes down to confidence, 470 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 1: you know, Like she walks the walk. She exudes confidence, 471 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 1: and I think that's that's attracted to a lot of people. 472 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 1: My buddy Evans right, Mayor Smith is very attractive to 473 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,360 Speaker 1: a lot of people, people like Bob the engineer in 474 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 1: Newport Beach. And while I hope and pray Bob finds 475 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 1: my blog and avoids getting gammed by Mayor, I have 476 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 1: to be realistic. I mean, there are twenty three million 477 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,719 Speaker 1: people living in southern California, and the chances of Bob 478 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 1: actually finding my blog are infinitesimal. And then one day 479 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:21,520 Speaker 1: my phone rings. Hello. Yep, it's Bob calling and he's 480 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 1: got a lot to say about his new girlfriend, Mayor Smith. 481 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 1: Next time on Queen of the Con, she invited you 482 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 1: to the Golden Globes with Jennifer Aniston. Yea, Jennifer Aniston 483 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 1: invited her and she said, I want to take you 484 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 1: as my plus one. Mayor's latest con is one for 485 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 1: the record books. She was trying to get ahold of 486 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 1: his property. She was trying to get her name put 487 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 1: on both of the deeds and to do that she 488 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 1: needs to wreak havoc. They were abusing the kids like 489 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 1: this pedophile ring kind of thing. 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