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Worse Than Watergate as Grassley finds Garland & Wray in the Deep State Rabbit Hole · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Friday morning, So nice to have you with us
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  Speaker 3: on the forty seven Morning Update. Ben Ferguson with you,
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  Speaker 3: and we've got two major stories that you need to
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  Speaker 3: know about this morning. First up, a massive bombshell, this
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  Speaker 3: time coming from Senator Chuck Grassley saying he now has
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  Speaker 3: proof that Biden's Attorney General Mary Garland and definite Attorney
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  Speaker 3: General Lisa Monico, plus the FBI Director Christopher Ray all
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  Speaker 3: personally approved opening Arctic frost to go after Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: and conservatives that were aiding and supporting him. I'll have
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  Speaker 3: more details on that in a second. We also got
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  Speaker 3: news that there are players and coaches in the NBA
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  Speaker 3: that we're fixing the outcomes of games.
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  Speaker 4: They're now under arrest.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: It happened several years ago, but we're now finally starting
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  Speaker 3: to get to the bottom of the corruption at the
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  Speaker 3: deep state under Joe Biden's leadership. You may remember us
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  Speaker 3: talking about Arctic frost, and that was an FBI DOJ
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  Speaker 3: investigation that was open in April of twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 3: as a quote sensitive investigative matter. It focused on efforts
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  Speaker 3: they claimed at the time to overturn the twenty twenty election.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, they were saying that Donald Trump was trying
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  Speaker 3: to overthrow the will of the people. Multiple outlets and
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  Speaker 3: Senator Chuck Grassey's committee are now describing it as a
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  Speaker 3: precursor to Jack Smith's DC case against Donald Trump. Grassley's
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  Speaker 3: office says agents issued hundreds of subpoenas, conducted dozens of interviews,
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  Speaker 3: and sought call records for eight Republican Senators and one
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  Speaker 3: House member from January the fourth through the seventh of
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty one. We now know that list has expanded
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  Speaker 3: and now include Senator Ted Cruz. We also know that
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  Speaker 3: not only were they spawing on elected members of Congress
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  Speaker 3: that were Republicans only, they also targeted GOP aligned organizations.
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  Speaker 3: Notable actions linked to Arctic Frost include the FBI's August ninth,
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty two seizure of Representative Scott Perry's phone surveillance
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  Speaker 3: es to locate him and brought a request tied to
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  Speaker 3: alternate electors. Later elements fed into Special Council Jack Smith's.
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  Speaker 4: Work, which brings us to the new bombshell.
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  Speaker 3: Chuck Grassley has now released documents, he says, show proof
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  Speaker 3: that the Attorney General Merritt Garland, the Deputy Attorney General
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  Speaker 3: Lisa Monico, and FBI Director Chrisopher Ray personally approved opening
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  Speaker 3: Arctic Frost in April of twenty twenty two. Multiple write
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  Speaker 3: ups cite the memo and handwritten sign offs, and Grassley
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  Speaker 3: posted the claims publicly as well. Now, Grassley's characterization is simple.
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  Speaker 3: He framed Arctic Frost as a sweeping partisan overreach that
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  Speaker 3: weaponized law enforcement and surveilled members of Congress. He ties
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  Speaker 3: it to Smiths now dismissed DC case. And that's just
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  Speaker 3: the tip of the iceberg. So let's break this down
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more. The former Attorney General Merrick Garland
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  Speaker 3: and former FBI Director Ray decided to approve the sense
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  Speaker 3: of matter, and that led to the surveillance of virtually
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  Speaker 3: every Republican that we know of right now. It helped
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  Speaker 3: spark a Special Council probe, which was what it was
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  Speaker 3: designed to do into Donald Trump's quote efforts to overturn
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  Speaker 3: the twenty twenty election.
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  Speaker 4: That obviously was a lie.
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  Speaker 3: Grassley and Now signed the new documents he received from
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  Speaker 3: the Department of Justice and Garland's approval of the Sensitive
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  Speaker 3: Investigation matter on April the fifth of twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 3: recommended by the Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monico, and what
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  Speaker 3: it did was authorize the FBI's Washington Field office to
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  Speaker 3: launch a quote full investigation into what officials described as
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  Speaker 3: an artecutable factual basis indicating the existence of a federal
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  Speaker 3: crime quote unquote they said involved Trump and individuals closely
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  Speaker 3: associated with Donald Trump, which is exactly how they opened
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  Speaker 3: the fishing expedition to go after Trump and to try
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  Speaker 3: to lock him up. Now, the launch of Arctic Frost
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  Speaker 3: and the investigation would then lead to the appointment of
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  Speaker 3: the Special Council Jack Smith in November of twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: two quote proof that bien Attorney General Merritt Garland, deput
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  Speaker 3: Attorney General Lisa Monico, and FBI Director Ray all personally
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  Speaker 3: approved opening Arctic Frost. Grassley said in his statement, this
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  Speaker 3: investigation least unchecked government power at the highest levels. My
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  Speaker 3: oversight will continue, Grassley says. Grassey also announced earlier this
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  Speaker 3: month that at least nine Republican centers now were targeted
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  Speaker 3: by the FBI in this probe. On October sixth, Grassley
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  Speaker 3: said FBI agents conducted toll record analysis, a form of
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  Speaker 3: communications metadata review, on several GOP lawmakers, including Center Lindsay
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  Speaker 3: Graham of South Carolina, Josh Harley of Missouri, Ron Johnson Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 3: and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. The toll analysis sins the
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  Speaker 3: phones could have revealed whom each lawmaker contacted by caller
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  Speaker 3: texts in the day surrounding the January the sixth, twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty one Capitol riot. Grassley called this worse than Watergate.
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  Speaker 3: In addition, ninety two Republican or conservative aligned groups and individuals,
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  Speaker 3: including Turning Point USA, co founded by slain Conservative leader
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  Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk, were also targeted, suggesting that Arctich Frost was
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  Speaker 3: quote much broader than just an electoral matter, Grassley said
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  Speaker 3: during the briefing. He said this shows now that they
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  Speaker 3: were targeting their political adversaries. Arctich Frost wasn't just a
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  Speaker 3: case to politically investigate Trump. It was the vehicle by
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  Speaker 3: which partisan GOP agents and DOJ prosecutors could achieve their
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  Speaker 3: partisan ends and improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus.
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  Speaker 3: Grassley added, FBI director Caspittel also coming out vowing transparency
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  Speaker 3: and accountability following the revelations. After Grassley's announcement, we terminate employees,
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  Speaker 3: we abolished the weaponized CRDASH fifteen squad, and we initiated
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  Speaker 3: an ongoing investigation with more accountability measures ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Patel said.
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  Speaker 3: CR fifteen was the FBI's at Washington Field office squad
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  Speaker 3: focused on investigating federal public corruption. In reality, it was
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  Speaker 3: just going after conservatives. In May, the FBI quietly disbanded
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  Speaker 3: cr DASH fifteen and reassigned its agents as part of
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  Speaker 3: a broader reorganization and shift in priorities. So here we
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  Speaker 3: are with even more evidence that the Biden administration did
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  Speaker 3: everything they could, not only to go after Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 3: but to go after anyone that supported Donald Trump politically,
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  Speaker 3: and any up and coming conservative that they found a
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  Speaker 3: threat was then put on their lists to be investigated.
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  Speaker 3: Thank goodness, President Trump is now in the Oval office
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  Speaker 3: and the people around him are making sure that this
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  Speaker 3: never happens again.
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  Speaker 4: Now, story number two, President Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: Promised law and order if he was elected president United
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  Speaker 3: States of America, and clearly that was going far beyond
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  Speaker 3: the wide open southern border.
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  Speaker 4: When we now are seeing.
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  Speaker 3: Major moves by the FBI, this time when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to illegal gambling and fixing of games at the highest levels.
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  Speaker 3: Here's what we know from Director Cashpttel. He called the
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  Speaker 3: operation quote a historic arrests across a wide, sweeping criminal
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  Speaker 3: enterprise that involved both the NBA and La Cosa Nostra.
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  Speaker 3: He described the scale of fraud as mind boggling, involving
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  Speaker 3: tens of millions of dollars in fraud and theft and
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  Speaker 3: robbery across a multi year investigation, saying, quote, this is
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  Speaker 3: an illegal gambling operation in sports rigging operation that spanned
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  Speaker 3: the course of years. In a TV interview, Patel said
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  Speaker 3: it has nothing to do with legal gambling and has
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  Speaker 3: everything to do with those in positions of power in
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  Speaker 3: places like the NBA getting in bed with La Casa
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  Speaker 3: Nostra and committing acts of extortion, fraud, money laundering, wirefraud,
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  Speaker 3: and so many other crimes. He warned, this is just
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  Speaker 3: the start of a broader crackdown. So in short, the
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  Speaker 3: FBI views this as far more than just a betting scandal.
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  Speaker 3: It combines sports integrity, organized crime, infiltration, and high tech
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  Speaker 3: cheating as well as money laundering. There's key elements the
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  Speaker 3: case that you also need to know about. Number One,
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  Speaker 3: insider sports betting scheme tied NBA players and coaches who
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  Speaker 3: allegedly leaked information and manipulated outcomes of games for one
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  Speaker 3: reason to benefit betters. Number Two, a massive underground poker
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  Speaker 3: and gambling ring was backed by major mafia families, using
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  Speaker 3: rigged equipment, altered shuffling machines, X ray tables to see
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  Speaker 3: the cards as they were faced down, hidden cameras, and
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  Speaker 3: cheating players and laundering the money afterwards. The ring allegedly
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  Speaker 3: spanned many states. Eleven states were mentioned at the press conference,
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  Speaker 3: and then you have major famous NBA figures that were named, coaches,
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  Speaker 3: former players like Chauncey Billups, current player Terry Roser, and
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  Speaker 3: former assistant coach and player Damon Jones. Here's more of
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  Speaker 3: what the FBI had to say at their press conference.
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  Speaker 5: To be clear, we're announcing today indictments in two major cases,
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  Speaker 5: both involving fraud. One involves sports betting and the other
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  Speaker 5: involves illegal gambling, very specifically rigged poker games. The first
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  Speaker 5: indictment involves six defendants who are alleged to have participated
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  Speaker 5: one of the most brazen sports corruption schemes since online
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  Speaker 5: sports betting became widely legalized in the United States. This
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  Speaker 5: scheme is an insider sports betting conspiracy that exploited confidential
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  Speaker 5: information about National Basketball Association athletes and teams. The second
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  Speaker 5: indictment involves thirty one defendants alleged to have participated in
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  Speaker 5: a nationwide scheme to rig illegal poker games. These defendants,
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  Speaker 5: which include former professional athletes, used high tech cheating technology
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  Speaker 5: to steal millions of dollars from victims in underground poker
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  Speaker 5: games that were secretly fixed. The games in the New
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  Speaker 5: York area were backed by the Banano, Gambino and Genovesei
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  Speaker 5: crime families of Lukasinostra Will.
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  Speaker 4: The cases are separate.
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  Speaker 5: There are three overlapping defendants charged in both cases, Damon Jones,
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  Speaker 5: Eric Ernest and Shane Hennen. The indictments in these cases
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  Speaker 5: contain only allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent until
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  Speaker 5: they are proven guilty in a court of law. But
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  Speaker 5: my message to the defendants who've been rounded up today
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  Speaker 5: is this, your winning streak has ended. Your luck has
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  Speaker 5: run out. Violating the law is a losing proposition, and
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  Speaker 5: you can bet on that there.
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  Speaker 3: Is no doubt that this is just the beginning of
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  Speaker 3: a major investigation. As Caspertel put it, organized crime. You're
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  Speaker 3: on notice, high tech cheeters, you're on notice. Legal sports
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  Speaker 3: betting is going to be fair and honest, and it
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  Speaker 3: signals that the law enforcement agency, the FBI, is staring
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  Speaker 3: them straight down and going after all of them, just
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  Speaker 3: as Donald Trump promised to restore law and order.
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