1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show. Follow this one under News of 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: the Crazy. A New Zealand food bank mistakenly hands out 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: candies laced with meth. An unknown person donated the candies, 4 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: and I know what you're thinking, this is what people 5 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: do it at Halloween every year. Now, don't let your 6 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:30,159 Speaker 1: kids eat the candy because remember that one guy, you know, 7 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:32,239 Speaker 1: he put razor blades in there, and they all do 8 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:37,160 Speaker 1: that because people love the fear. Fear may people get 9 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: an adrenaline hit out of the fear. Well, what we 10 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: know about these is that they were in rappers from 11 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 1: the Malaysian confectionery brand Renda Orrinda r I N d A. 12 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: But here's the thing. The contaminated sweets had a street 13 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: value of one thousand New Zealand dollars per candy, which 14 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: is six hundred eight US dollars per candy, and they 15 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:13,839 Speaker 1: handed out a lot of them. Somebody would have had 16 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 1: to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to give the 17 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 1: food bank contaminated candies and potentially be caught doing it. 18 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:30,680 Speaker 1: I don't think they would be willing to do that. 19 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 1: But here is the story from ABC Australia. Sorry, this 20 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: is not the story from ABC Australia. This is ABC 21 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 1: Australia talking to New Zealand drug official Hayden Eastman. Mine 22 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: about the laced candy. 23 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 2: How is this uncovered? 24 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, good morning. We're really concerned still about how many 25 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 3: of these lawyers might be out there. How it was 26 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 3: uncovered well through a bit of luck and through quite 27 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 3: a bit of good public policy as well. So we're 28 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 3: really fortunate in New Zealand to have a legal funded 29 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 3: drug checking service. We at the Drug Foundation are one 30 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 3: of the drug chicking providers here and so it was that, 31 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 3: along with our close relationship with the Auckland City Mission, 32 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 3: that meant that when they became aware of these really 33 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 3: foul tasting lollies, or what they thought were lollies, they 34 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 3: tried them, they felt some unusual effects and they brought 35 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 3: them along to us just to essentially rule out anything 36 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,519 Speaker 3: wrong with them. And that's when we found out was 37 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 3: anybody who consumed these lollies seriously affected after having this 38 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 3: dose of metamphetamine rushing through their system. One bit of 39 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 3: luck in the story is that a block of methan 40 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 3: feta mean tastes pretty foul, and so all the stories 41 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 3: we've heard so far where people have spat it out straightway, 42 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 3: so some people have been affected. We've heard of at 43 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 3: least three hospitalizations so far, but nothing serious so far 44 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 3: that we've heard of. We're still awaiting an update from 45 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:10,639 Speaker 3: police this morning. 46 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: A story we didn't get to earlier in the week. 47 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: You do recall that we talked about Elvis and his death. 48 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 1: On the forty seventh anniversary of the death of the King, 49 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: a Missouri woman was arrested in connection with a scheme 50 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: to defraud the Presley family out of ownership of Graceland. 51 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: She fraudulently claimed that Lisa Marie now the late Lisa Marie, 52 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: signed a deed of trust back in twenty eighteen securing 53 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: a three point eight million dollar loan using Graceland as collateral. 54 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: This was this was quite the scheme, the Department of 55 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: Justice said. After the scheme attracted global media attention, Finley 56 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: allegedly wrote to representative of representatives of Elvis Presley's family, 57 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: the Tennessee State Court, and the media to claim falsely 58 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: that the person responsible for the scheme was a Nigerian 59 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: identity thief located in Nigeria. If Donald Trump wanted to 60 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: see a ten percent boost in his popularity, I think 61 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: he would say, we're going after identity thieves and scammers 62 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 1: and we're going to stop it. We're going to catch them, 63 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: we're going to prosecute them, and they're going to spend 64 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: time in prison. We're going to treat identity thieves the 65 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 1: way the Democrats treated the January sixth protesters. We're going 66 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 1: to commit it's going to stop. The robo calls are 67 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: going to stop. The identity thieves are going to stop. 68 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 1: It's all going to stop. I'm going to put instead 69 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 1: of eighty seven thousand IRS agents, I'm going to put 70 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: Secret Service because that's where the counterfeit Division is held. 71 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: I'm going to put them on this issue and we're 72 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 1: going to nail these people. Wherever they call home, We're 73 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: gonna nail them. That would be that would win undecided voters, 74 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:34,600 Speaker 1: it would win independent voters, It would motivate people, and 75 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: it wouldn't even be that hard. It wouldn't even be 76 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: that hard. I follow several YouTube channels that that's what 77 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: they do. They scam the scammers. You can look them up. 78 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: There's a lot of them out there. I can't recall 79 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 1: them right now, but I've got subscriptions to them. If 80 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:00,799 Speaker 1: you're on YouTube, you know that you can describe to things, 81 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,160 Speaker 1: and once you choose one, one of them is called 82 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 1: I think scammer payback. But once you pick one, you 83 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: look over to the side and you see the algorithm 84 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaker 1: recommends if you like that, you'll like these. And there's 85 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 1: a lot of them out there. You could spend all 86 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: day every day watching these things. But they have different approaches. 87 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: Some of them will send somebody over there and go 88 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: up and knock on the guy's door. Others of them 89 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 1: will run the person ragged and drive them crazy. Others 90 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: of them prosecute them, they get the Nigerian authorities involved. 91 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: But all of them bring great joy to me. That 92 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: would be a popular plan from a president Tonight. 93 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 2: A Missouri woman charged with allegedly trying to steal Graceland 94 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 2: and defraud Elvis Presley's family out of millions. Federal officials 95 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 2: say Lisa Finley created a scheme falsely claiming Lisa Marie 96 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 2: Presley put the famous estate up as collateral for a 97 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:03,280 Speaker 2: loan she didn't repay before her death in twenty twenty three, 98 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 2: but that loan didn't exist. Investigator say Finley allegedly took 99 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 2: advantage of the very public and tragic occurrences in the 100 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 2: Presley family for her personal gain, using fake names to 101 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 2: make fake loan documents, and even filing a creditors claim 102 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 2: in court, hoping to cash in by threatening to foreclose 103 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 2: and auction Graceland to the highest bidder. Earlier this year, 104 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 2: just hours before the Memphis, Tennessee Mansion, one of the 105 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 2: most famous homes in the country, was to be sold. 106 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 2: A major break in this case, this notary stamp stopped 107 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 2: the sale. When you saw the signature, what about it 108 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 2: stood out to you. 109 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: That it looks absolutely nothing like my signature? 110 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 2: Kimberly Philbrick, a notary public in Daytona Beach, Florida, telling 111 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 2: us she never notarized the fake loan documents, testifying in 112 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 2: front of a grand jury earlier this week that brought 113 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 2: the charges against Finley, Findley AND's face saying out to 114 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 2: twenty years by him bars for these charges and this 115 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:06,239 Speaker 2: arrest coming on a significant date. 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