The Stone Zone ｜ 07-01-25
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Summary
An Iranian-linked group is claiming to be in possession of a trove of stolen emails from President Donald Trump s inner circle, now threatening to publish the material in what U.S. officials describe as a politically motivated smear campaign. This threat comes just days after Trump abruptly reversed a tentative effort to ease sanctions on Iran.
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The Stone Zone, on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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You are now entering the Stone Zone, and it's a perfect day for it.
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An Iranian-linked hacker group is claiming to be in possession of a trove of stolen emails
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from President Donald Trump's inner circle, now threatening to publish the material
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in what U.S. officials describe as a politically motivated smear campaign.
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The group operating under the alias Robert says it has over 100 gigabytes of emails from
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key Trump allies, including White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, longtime confidant Roger
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Stone, that would be me, Trump attorney Lindsey Halligan, and, well, even the adult film actress
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It was Reuters who broke the story today after direct communications with the hackers, who
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I guess initially hinted at potentially selling the material, although the group offered no
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This threat comes just days after Trump abruptly reversed a tentative effort to ease sanctions
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on Iran following Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini's downplaying of U.S. and Israeli
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A top Iranian cleric has issued a fatwa against Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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This so-called cyber attack is nothing more than digital propaganda, said Cyber Security and
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Infrastructure Social Security Agency spokesperson Marcy McCarthy.
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Some may remember that just before the 2024 elections, it was widely reported that my email was among
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many of Trump's inner circle that had been hacked.
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I was formally informed of this by both the FBI and my internet service provider.
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I could find no evidence of this alleged hack at the time, and my own IT people once again
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They would be pretty bored if they did hack my email, because I have not emailed anything
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since the election that would be remotely controversial or interesting.
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I operate on this assumption that, well, that Big Brother is reading everything.
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The Big Beautiful Bill moved closer to reality with passage by one vote in the Senate.
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There's a lot of disinformation about the Big Beautiful Bill.
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The bill actually introduces a $4,000 above-the-line deduction for individuals aged 65 and older,
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This actually reduces taxable income for Social Security recipients, lowering or eliminating
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Combined with other deductions, this ensures that the average Social Security beneficiary
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with income under $75,000, or $150,000 for couples, will pay zero taxes on their Social Security benefits.
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So, in other words, approximately 88% of seniors are going to benefit from the tax relief that is involved in the Big Beautiful Bill.
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The Democrats have a tendency every two or four years to smear Republicans, always claiming that we want to cut or do away with Social Security.
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But which party moved Social Security funds from a private trust to public funds so that Congress could spend it?
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Which party stopped tax deductions for Social Security payments?
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Which party started the taxing of Social Security benefits?
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Which party started giving our Social Security money to illegal immigrants who had not paid into the Social Security trust fund?
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Which party has not had a Social Security increase in eight years?
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Joe Biden tried to take credit for the fact that Social Security payments were adjusted based on the cost of living.
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Actually, the president responsible for that is one Richard M. Nixon.
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In 1972, Nixon signed a bill that introduced automatic cost of living adjustments for Social Security benefits starting in 1975.
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Those adjustments tie benefit increases to inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index.
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So, it is Richard Nixon who played the key role in making sure your Social Security payments are adjusted for inflation and for the cost of living.
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It must be difficult to be a Democrat these days.
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President Donald Trump is on what gamblers and stand-up comedians call a roll.
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Rogue judges' power has just been limited by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Zoran Mamdami, an out-and-out socialist, if not a communist, is the acknowledged new leader of the Democrat Party.
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The Republican National Committee has five times more cash on hand than the DNC.
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In fact, the DNC has announced that they're broke and they may have to borrow money to stay afloat.
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President Donald Trump is brokering peace deals like the one he did between Congo and Rwanda,
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or the one that he's attempting to do between Russia and Ukraine, not to mention Israel and Iran.
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States will now begin defunding Planned Parenthood.
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128 Democrats actually voted against impeaching President Donald Trump,
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but white males like David Hogg are being kicked out of leadership positions.
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The Democrats have nothing to celebrate while Donald Trump is fulfilling the mandate of the last election.
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Meanwhile, a huge focus on Zoran Mamdami, the radical Muslim socialist,
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who is now the Democrat nominee and presumptive favorite to be the next mayor of New York City.
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Interestingly, he's being criticized by former House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries
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over Mamdami's underbashed anti-Israel viewpoint.
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Jeffries expressed concerns about Mamdami's use of the pro-Hamas talking point,
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That catchphrase has been frequently linked to anti-Semitism, extremism, and violence by many Jewish organizations.
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Jeffries said that Mamdami's use of the controversial firm was, quote,
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not acceptable phrasing, and that Mamdami would have to, quote,
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clarify his position on that as he moves forward.
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During an interview with ABC News, Hakeem Jeffries said the following,
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with respect to the Jewish communities that I represent,
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I think our nominee is going to have to convince folks that he's prepared to aggressively address
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the rise of anti-Semitism in New York City, which has been unacceptable.
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It is clear through his calculated sentiments that, actually,
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I don't believe Jeffries has any real problems with Mamdami's extremist sentiments.
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Jeffries may look at the positions of his father, who is a notorious anti-Semite.
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He just wants to clean them up so that they can win the election and dupe voters.
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Jeffries wants to play lip service to Jewish voters so he can keep them in his back pocket
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while doing nothing to stop a man, Mamdami, who's against their interests.
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This is how the Democrats have treated the Jews and other ethnic groups through the decades,
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as voting blocs that can be used and manipulated and then abused after they show up periodically to vote blue.
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It's also very telling to me how few Democrats are willing to criticize Mamdami.
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That shows how terrified those few mainstream Democrats that are left are to alienate their far-left base.
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The far-left socialists have the momentum, and after Kamala Harris' defeat to President Donald Trump,
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they believe it is their time to rise to the leadership of the Democrat Party.
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Because they are more energized and oftentimes better organized, that is now possible.
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Mamdami's nomination in the recent New York primary is a case in point of this phenomena.
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The people of New York City will suffer if Mamdami wins the mayorship,
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which is a reasonable possibility at this point.
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It seems to me to be a perfect storm emerging for Mamdami's ascendancy,
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as I still predict, a crowded field that will include former Mayor Eric Adams running as an independent,
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quite possibly former Governor Andrew Cuomo running as a Democrat,
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and of course, Curtis Sliwa, the certified Republican nominee.
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With those three candidates splitting the sane vote,
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it allows Mamdami to play the role of outsider,
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which frankly he did very effectively during the primary.
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Once again, Mamdami implements his disastrous ideas,
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which include banning immigrant enforcement in New York City,
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hiking taxes on wealthier and whiter neighborhoods, as he put it,
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instituting rent controls, making it inequitable and impossible for landlords
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and of course there will be no new investment in housing,
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creating a hate crime task force to police free speech,
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and releasing everybody who's currently incarcerated for serious crimes,
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as well as essentially nationalizing grocery stores.
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It will kind of rip the veil off of socialism's true character
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and cause a boomerang effect that I think could actually help Republicans nationally.
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Unfortunately, millions of New Yorkers may have to suffer for this to occur.
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In the meantime, CNN is actually promoting an app that helps illegals evade ICE.
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Now, I don't get my news from CNN for the same reason I don't drink out of the toilet,
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for a subversive app that actually helps illegal aliens evade immigration enforcement.
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which offers an interactive map to users who can flag ICE sightings in real time.
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IceBlock hopes to be an early warning system for illegals
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so they can disperse when deportations are happening in any given area.
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that his app is not designed to obstruct law enforcement,
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to inform people about the rise of authoritarianism and fascism.
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Remember, folks, the left always accuses you of what they themselves are doing.
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The people who want to keep candidates off the ballot,
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the group who would arrest people for their religious beliefs,
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Regardless of how IceBlock's founder is trying to frame his app,
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it is clear that it is meant to undermine President Trump's goals of mass deportation.
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CNN is aiding and abetting this process through its attempts to publicize IceBlock.
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IceBlock is being offered in mainstream app stores on Apple,
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but MAGA patriots should make their voices known to Apple
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that their platforming of IceBlock is unacceptable.
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Tech corporations that are regulated by the government should not have an app
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Apple should not be let off the hook when it comes to accountability.
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So email Apple right now and tell them that offering IceBlock,
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So whatever you do, don't touch that dial because we'll be right back with more news,
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Joining me shortly, Sam Antar, the fraud investigator par excellence.
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He's the guy who detected and reported a 22-year of serial mortgage fraud
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Those charges have been referred to the Justice Department for prosecution.
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He's gotten to the bottom of Zoran Mamdami's grassroots campaign.
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we're told that she was surging in contributions and votes.
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In the meantime, the big, beautiful bill passed the U.S. Senate
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with Vice President J.D. Vance ultimately casting the tie-breaking vote.
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there's been much discussion about its contents,
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with certain provisions being altered and removed.
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is the removal of the big, beautiful bill's controversial AI provisions,
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The original version of the bill contained language
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that essentially issued a 10-year ban on any state government
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from enacting any regulation of the developments
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That was not first approved by the federal government.
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was seemingly slipped into the big, beautiful bill
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because saying she voted in favor of the first version of the bill
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without realizing this provision was in the legislation.
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As someone who has regularly been targeted by artificial intelligence,
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there are dozens of videos online of me allegedly saying things
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Senator Marsha Blackburn gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor
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arguing for her amendment to strip AI provisions
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for doing so little to protect the American public
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while the states get into the action to help the vulnerable.
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the body has proven they cannot legislate on emerging technology.
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There are all of these pieces of legislation dealing with the ad
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The states are the ones protecting our children,
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He also was a perp in one of the decade's largest security fraud schemes
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for which he was justly convicted and sent to prison.
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he redirected his expertise towards forensic accounting,
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leveraging his firsthand knowledge of fiscal and financial fraud
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He's the one who caught Letitia James in her 22-year crime spree
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And he has some shocking information regarding the astroturf nature
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of Democrat nominee Zoran Mamdami's miraculously win last week.
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He is a former certified public accountant who, as I said earlier,
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had his brush with the law and made an incredible comeback
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helping government agencies, law enforcement organizations,
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law firms and accounting firms, independent investment research firms,
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hedge funds and other companies, investigate white-collar fraud and crime.
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Sam Antar should not be confused with Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs,
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Sam is the editor and publisher of whitecollarfraud.com.
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It was Sam Antar who first uncovered the 22-year crime spree
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by New York Attorney General Letitia James who was quite definitely engaged in serial mortgage fraud.
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Those claims got referred to the U.S. Justice Department for prosecution.
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The man is brilliant and he has recently investigated the incredible rise of Zoran Mandami.
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Now, Mandami's built his entire political brand on being quote-unquote people-powered
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and claims the whole thing is grassroots-fueled.
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Pardon me, but I've seen this movie before in the Kamala Harris campaign.
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That's when they juiced her poll numbers by using an inflated number of Democrats in the poll samples
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and they used Act Blue to launder millions of dollars worth of small and medium-sized contributions
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into her campaign to try to create the impression that there was a surge in public support for her.
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Now, Sam Antar has taken his skills to examine the Mamdami campaign.
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The first part is he raised $1.7 million supposedly organically.
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That's people that saw him on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, went to his website,
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filled out a form, and the money was accounted for.
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But the reality is, add that $1.7 million that he raised, entirely, all of it, every single penny of it,
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People, professionals that bundle money for candidates, and then they turn it over to the candidates.
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There was a 27,641-row spreadsheet that I went through.
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Every single contribution was handled through bundlers.
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In other words, despite having over 4.5 million social media followers spread across many platforms,
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nobody went to his campaign site, pressed the button, and organically donated money from him.
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And that $1.7 million enabled him to get $7 million in matching funds.
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On top of that, two far-left super PACs spent $1.9 million promoting him and opposing Cuomo.
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So actually, the money that he got from super PACs was higher than the money that he got from the bundlers.
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This is like, if I may describe it, this is like a high-rated television show that has commercials,
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but nobody buys their products because all of that social media infrastructure,
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Nobody goes to his website, pushes a button, and donates money to the website.
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It's not a grassroots campaign, period, end of story.
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I saw him say that he was running against dark money, that he was opposing the special interests and the super PACs.
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You're telling me that with millions of views on social media, Instagram, Facebook, across the board,
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X, I presume, not a single person clicked on the donate button and sent him $25, not a single person.
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All I did was I went to the New York City Campaign Finance Board website.
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I downloaded the website of all of his contributors, 27,000 whatever rows.
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You can imagine trying to go through it with your eyes.
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Anyways, I downloaded the whole thing, went through it.
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Out of the 27,641, 77 lines were not attributed to bundlers.
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Those 77 lines had a net zero, because there was refunds, etc., had net zero coming from ordinary folk.
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This guy's platform is really quite extraordinary.
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He's declared that billionaires should not be allowed to exist.
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He's proposed substantial new taxes, including a 2% levy on millionaires.
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He's actually gone so far as to say that the wealthy and white people are not paying enough in taxes.
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His supporters keep saying, no, that's not what he meant.
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He keeps talking about seizing the means of production.
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That is a Marxist sentiment without any ambiguity.
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He's advocating for opening municipal grocery stores in each borough that presumably would compete with private grocers,
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although private grocers like John Katsimatidis right here on this station have said that they will either sell or close down their grocery stores under these circumstances.
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That would be freezing rents on one million stabilized apartments.
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He also wants, which of course would make it inefficient, impossible for landlords to either maintain their properties or to build new properties.
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He wants a $30 minimum wage as part of his Xeronomics agenda, which would send the New York City housing market into chaos.
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He supports permanently providing free bus service and universal child care, but that's to be funded entirely by the redistribution of wealth that he talks about.
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Most dangerously, he wants to defund the police.
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He would abolish cash bail entirely, and he would stop prison expansion.
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He also talks about violence as some kind of abstract construct, implying that he would actually open Rikers Island and let everybody out.
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He wants to implement taxes, like I say, to punish white people.
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And in his words, shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.
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As a co-founder of the Badoin Students for Justice in Palestine and a longtime supporter of the anti-Semitic BDS movement,
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Mabdami has called Israel an apartheid state, has referred to its action in Gaza as genocide,
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and he supports the phrase, globalize the Intifada.
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He actually says that he would arrest the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu if he visited New York City, as he's expected to do for an upcoming U.N. gathering.
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He backs legislation empowering the state to penalize or dissolve any New York City nonprofit that supports Israel.
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On top of that, he has child welfare reforms, limiting drug tests and reporting.
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He co-sponsored proposals making it harder to test newborns or pregnant women for drugs.
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Andrew reports suspected child abuse because of his twisted social justice philosophies.
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If this guy isn't a communist, well, then he's cheating the party out of his dues.
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Well, first of all, I say he's an anarchist first.
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He's more, he's a fascist, not just a communist.
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Communism is only a way for people to retain power.
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But all I can tell you is he's dangerous for America, he's dangerous for New York City,
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and he's dangerous for the Jewish population in this country.
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The Democrats platformed him and gave him implied credibility by allowing him into the party,
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even though he's a member of the Working Families Party.
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So what's happened now over the years is the Democratic Party, my party, I'm a Democrat, okay?
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My party has now been infiltrated by these whack jobs, these far-left whack jobs, okay?
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They had no business being in the party in the first place.
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They've hijacked the Democratic Party, and I blame the leadership.
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I blame the Charles Schumers of the world, the Hakeem Jeffries, I blame them all.
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People don't realize this, but Bernie Sanders, the socialist, was not a Democrat
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until the year that he decided to challenge Hillary Clinton.
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He and his wife skimmed millions of dollars from his two presidential campaigns in, quote-unquote,
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media placement fees, which is not illegal but never disclosed to his donors.
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Certainly sounds like free enterprise and capitalism to me.
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Maybe that's why he now only criticizes billionaires.
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He rarely criticizes billionaires and millionaires, and he's still out there pushing the same old socialist baloney.
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He attacked the Republican Party last week saying, we were a cult.
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Dude, they cheated you twice out of the Democrat Party nomination, and instead of bolting,
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you endorsed Hillary Clinton and then Joe Biden, and you signed up with the war machine.
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This guy is a blowhard, but he's very happy with the rise of Mamdami and, of course, the poll position of AOC.
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They look at Chuck Schumer, of whom I'm not particularly a fan, and they think he's a dangerous right-winger compared to them,
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when he, in fact, he's just a corporate Democrat.
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It is shocking that the party of Harry Truman, who essentially is the president who founded Israel,
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supported the founding of Israel, will not stand up against anti-Semitism.
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Mamdami will not denounce the squad, that little coterie of virulent anti-Semite, anti-Israel, pro-Hamas,
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pro-Hezbollah Democrats in the House, of which AOC is a prominent member.
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I think that the term moderate Democrat is an oxymoron at this point.
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Meanwhile, as I said earlier, President Donald Trump's on an incredible role in terms of fulfilling his agenda.
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When we come back, I want to ask Sam about some of his really groundbreaking reporting
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regarding New York Attorney General Letitia James, who says that no one is above the law except perhaps her.
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Sam Antar is the man who uncovered 22 years, I believe it is, of serial mortgage fraud,
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actually transgressions for which other people have actually gone to prison.
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And those charges have made their way to the Department of Justice when the head of the Federal Housing and Finance Administration
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reviewed them and sent them over to Attorney General Pam Bondi for prosecution.
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There are some who argue that even though she lied numerous times on sworn statements, that there is no crime.
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We're going to give Sam Antar a chance to refute that when we come back in the Stone Zone.
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In the meantime, please go over to Sam's website, whitecollarfraud.com,
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for some of the best investigative journalism out there today.
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I'm here with Sam, not Sam the Sham, but Sam Antar, and we'll be right back.
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The Stone Zone on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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We're with criminal fraud investigator Sam Antar.
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Sam has analyzed the campaign fundraising of Zoran Mondami's campaign.
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He calls it the Mondami deception because of the $1.7 million that he raised,
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that was then matched by New York taxpayers to give him a war chest of $7 million plus.
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Not a single dollar of that, according to Sam Antar, came from any small donor who utilized the donate button on the campaign website.
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In fact, most of that money came from wealthy bundlers.
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100% of the money that he raised was not organically.
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And that bundler raised $1.6 approximately of the $1.7 million.
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Now, when you go through the campaign disclosures of all candidates,
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this one bundler raised 10 times more money than bundler number two on the list for other candidates.
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In other words, second place was about $150,000 or $60,000.
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You don't have a grassroots where people are going and saying,
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wow, he's a great candidate, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Specifically, 94% of it has been through one single bundler.
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But not to the extent that if you see 30%, 20%, 5%, 2%, we get that.
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But this is 100% to bundlers, 94% one individual.
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So basically, this guy, of course, has tried to position himself in a populist as a guy challenging a corrupted system.
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And in many ways, strangely enough, until you get into the specifics of his agenda, it sounds like Donald Trump.
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He's an outsider challenging a corrupted, crony-ridden system.
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It turns out that most of his campaign money actually came from New York taxpayers who had to subsidize his campaign through the campaign matching system.
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And frankly, I still believe that there is no way Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa will withdraw his candidacy and endorse another candidate.
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Eric Adams seems every bit as determined to run as an independent.
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It's unclear whether former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who still maintains a hold on a substantial block of voters, will stay in the race as an independent, although he did qualify to run as an independent.
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And therefore, there's a reasonable probability that if the, let's call it the pool of sane voters, non-communist, non-socialist voters, is split between three candidates of different ideologies, that this fraud could actually become mayor.
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It's a chilling prospect, but I think it is a very real and genuine possibility.
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I want to go back to Attorney General Letitia James.
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She has emerged as Mamdami's number one cheerleader.
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But Sam, you undercovered a 20-plus year serial mortgage fraud.
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And her response has been that although she wasn't truthful on sworn documents, that there's no crime here.
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You have a minute and 30 seconds to explain why that's wrong.
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First of all, if you make a false statement on the mortgage, even if the bank doesn't rely upon it, even if the bank doesn't suffer damages, it's a federal crime under, I think it's statute 1014, 1041, whatever the hell it is.
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Now, she bought the property in Brooklyn in 2001, and immediately, instead of listing it five families or more, because it was a five-family unit house, okay, she listed one unit, two unit, three units.
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That saved a lot of money on the mortgages that saved a lot of money on the mortgages and also meant less down payments than normal people would have had.
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Because five or more tenants is considered a commercial building.
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And this is based upon the CFO, which is a publicly filed document, and it says five units.
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It's kind of like, okay, I'll buy an entire apartment building and take it from – you can't just do that, okay?
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She also has properties in Virginia, kind of like the same MO.
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False filings on mortgages, false declarations on mortgages, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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There's not a one-off where a person checked the wrong box or anything like that, no.
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I want to thank our guest, Sam Antar, and thank all of you for joining us in the Stone Zone today.
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