The Stone Zone ｜ 10-23-25
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Acting U.S. Attorney Alana Haba and the FBI announce a crackdown and arrest in an illegal gambling ring involving the NBA, one of the most woke of the professional sports leagues. They uncovered a conspiracy that they insist includes organized crime.
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Zone. Well, in breaking news today, acting U.S. Attorney Alina Haba of New Jersey and the FBI
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announced a crackdown and arrest in an illegal gambling ring involving the NBA, one of the most
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woke of the professional sports leagues. They uncovered a conspiracy that they insist includes
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organized crime. Turns out that at least one NBA player and one current NBA coach were allegedly
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involved in this illegal gambling ring, including the rigging of games and the rigging of an online
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poker scheme that used technology and AI to defraud millions of people. Let's listen to
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acting U.S. Attorney Alina Haba. Over the past seven months, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the
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District of New Jersey has delivered real results for the citizens of this state, and we're not
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slowing down. Our mission is clear, to protect our communities, drive down violent crime, and hold
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accountable those who defraud, exploit, or abuse the public trust. Camden experienced its first
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murder-free summer in 50 years. In Newark, violent crime has dropped dramatically compared to the same
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period last year. Our office has charged nearly 100 gang members for drug trafficking and firearm
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offenses in the last six months alone. We have charged 18 defendants in child exploitation cases
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in charges ranging from sex trafficking to the production of child pornography. This includes a 14-year
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sentence for a former Boy Scout camp worker who secretly recorded children in camp bathrooms.
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This office has effectively rooted out fraud, waste, and abuse. Our health care fraud and opioid
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enforcement unit recovered over half a billion dollars of taxpayer funds through criminal forfeiture,
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restitution, and civil settlements. We have also charged doctors and nurses for diverting nearly
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one million opioid pills, fueling the deadly drug crisis, poisoning our communities. As alleged,
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one physician was even trading oxycodone for sexual favors. When white-collar offenders try to hide behind
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spreadsheets and lies, we call it what it is, fraud, plain and simple. This month, we charged the former CEO
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of an asset management company in a $294 million securities fraud conspiracy, a scheme that we
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allege was built on forged documents and false promises to investors. This same goes for cyber criminals,
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who try to hide behind keyboards as they extort and target victims. Last month, our office, along with the
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U.K. partners, charged an alleged member of the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime group for his role in a
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series of cyberattacks against airlines, a critical infrastructure provider, and the U.S. court's system.
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The U.S. Attorney's Office will coordinate with our partners at the FBI to respond to complaints
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Now, there's a certain irony here. The reason that Alina Haba is the acting U.S. Attorney is because
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the two Democrat U.S. Senators from New Jersey have refused to acquiesce in her appointment,
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which is traditionally not an issue. When Joe Biden was elected president, states that had two
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Republican Senators approved his nominees for U.S. Attorneys, but Democrats in the U.S. Senate have
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refused to confirm the appointment of Alina Haba. Therefore, Alina Haba, who was originally
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appointed in March of 2025, is serving in the post in an interim basis based on the Federal Vacancies
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Reform Act, which allows her to serve an additional 210 days before a Senate-confirmed nominee must step in.
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If the seat is vacated, the federal judges in this district, all overwhelmingly Democrats,
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do have the authority to name a U.S. Attorney, but the president has the authority to fire that U.S.
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Attorney, which is exactly what happened here. The point, of course, is that Alina Haba,
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the president's appointee, is delivering for the citizens of New Jersey, is racking up quite a record
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as a crime fighter. Today's announcement by Kash Patel, the FBI director, spoke to this overall
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bust today, a dismantling of a multi-million dollar gambling ring tied to both organized crime,
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including current and former NBA players and coaches, as well as this inside scheme to rig sports
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betting outcomes for profit. Cheating, corruption, and laundering have consequences.
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Kash Patel says, we followed the money and the law caught up. Now, the NBIA has lectured the
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American people about wokeness and Black Lives Matter for a number of years. They have been the
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most aggressive in propagandizing against American values, as well as selling out to China with low IQ
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LeBron James as the poster child for the league's revolting, profit-driven hypocrisy. Now, it turns
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out that some of their players and coaches were allegedly involved in an organized crime operation
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that may have resulted in rigged games. It's time for Americans to turn off the mind-numbing,
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ghettoized slop the NBA provides and start tuning in to some better choices for sports and entertainment.
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I personally like the UFC, which honors President Trump. I'm also a big fan of bare knuckle boxing,
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which is the next big thing. In the meantime, once again, the U.S. Senate should confirm President
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Donald Trump's nominees to be U.S. Attorney, which has always been the custom. You see, they have what's
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called the blue slip process. It's not a law. It's not even a rule in the Senate. It's just a general
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agreement within the U.S. Senate that the two U.S. Senators of any given state acquiesce in the
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appointment by the president of the U.S. Attorney or U.S. Attorneys for that state, depending on the
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size. It's the first time in U.S. history that virtually every state has vacancies or has interim
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U.S. Attorneys because the Democrats have refused to confirm the president's nominees. The president has
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spoken about suing over this, but I'm not sure who you would sue, and there is not really a law
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involved. In the meantime, there are some claims that this breakup today of the gambling ring involves
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the casa nostra. In all honesty, as someone who is an Italian-American, I think we are long since
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past the point that organized crime is dominated by Italian-Americans, and I find that reference to be
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a perfect example of anti-Italian-American bias. On the other hand, it is true that because Alina
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Habba is the acting U.S. Attorney, they no doubt anyone charged by her office is going to attempt to
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challenge their indictment on the basis of her acting authority. On the other hand, the evidence remains
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the same, and I don't think that particular legal strategy will work. In the New York City mayor's race,
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disgraced former, pardon me, disgraced current mayor, Eric Adams, a man who dropped out of the race
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because after his own criminal investigations were dismissed by the Justice Department, many in his
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inner circle, many on his staff were either arrested and charged, others are currently under investigation.
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Anyway, the disgraced mayor of New York City has now endorsed the disgraced former governor for mayor. He
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endorsed Andrew Cuomo today. Andrew Cuomo, you'll remember, was forced to resign as governor of the
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Empire State, two steps ahead of impeachment by the Democrats who control both houses of the New York
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State legislature. Specifically, the issue that brought Andrew Cuomo down was the question of whether
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he had sexually harassed or assaulted women. He was never charged. Many people believe that he should
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have been charged in the broader issue of putting COVID patients into nursing homes, which caused a
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substantial number of deaths. Just to remind you, it was Andrew Cuomo who once said that if you supported
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the right to bear arms, if you were anti-abortion, that there was no place for you in New York State,
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that you needed to leave New York State. So I have to ask, when it comes to philosophy, well, what is the
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great difference between Andrew Cuomo and the Democrat nominee who beat him fairly handily in the Democrat
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primary, Zoran Mamdami? This other thing I can tell you, and that is endorsements are nice for press
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coverage, but votes are not necessarily transferable. So those, for example, who said Curtis
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Sliwa should drop out of the race and endorse Cuomo, make a mistake in believing that all of Sliwa's
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votes, including virtually every Republican in the city, would switch to Cuomo. They wouldn't. They
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have an institutional opposition to Cuomo. It goes back many, many years. Also true that if Andrew Cuomo
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theoretically dropped out, not all of his votes would transfer to Sliwa. Actually, although I've seen
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polling that shows Curtis Sliwa dropped out, which he very definitely is not going to do, I think he's
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made that pretty clear, the race would still be neck and neck, although polling this close to the
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election is exceedingly volatile. Meanwhile, I thought Sliwa handled himself well in the second
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debate. I don't think he has any intention of dropping out of the race, as long as this continues
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to be a three-way race. And even if it is not a three-way race, even if it ends up being a two-way
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race, which I think is highly unlikely, I still have to give the edge to the radical socialist
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jihadi Mamdami, who I think is unfortunately likely to be your next mayor. Coming up a little later in the
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show, we're going to focus on the case of Michael McMahon. Michael McMahon is a retired New York City
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police officer who has been badly screwed over by the U.S. government when he got too close to a rogue
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Chinese government operation going on here in the United States. Rather than charging the Chinese
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communists, they charged Michael McMahon. This story is going to curl your ears. It is disgraceful,
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but Michael McMahon's wife, Martha Byrne, who you'll recognize her. She was a major,
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major actress for a number of years. She was in As the World Turns. She was an Emmy winner. She's
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also starred in General Hospital, Crisis, a number of other soap operas and other big picture performances.
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She's an actress, but today she's not going to be joining us in her role as an actress. She's going
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to be joining us in her role as a wife and mother to tell the incredible story of the abuse of her
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husband, Michael McMahon, a New York City police officer who's been badly abused by the Department
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of Justice back in October. I called for President Trump to pardon Michael McMahon. I'm still hopeful
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that he will do that. Michael McMahon's crime is that he got too close to a sinister Chinese
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communist operation called Operation Foxhunt. We're going to break that all down for you a little
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later right here in the Stone Zone. In the meantime, you're listening to the Stone Zone. I'm Roger Stone
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reintroduced nationwide to punish criminals, the nation will continue to disintegrate in my opinion.
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I'm Roger Stone, you're listening to The Stone Zone, and we'll be right back with actress Martha
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Michael McMahon is a distinguished and decorated New York City police sergeant, now retired, who
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served New Yorkers with honor during some of the most dangerous years of crime in America's largest
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city. After retiring from the department, he continued to serve through honest work as a
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private investigator in New Jersey. He was subsequently charged with a crime. His alleged crime was
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nothing more than accepting an assignment that involved surveillance for clients he had no reason
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to believe were connected to a sinister operation by the Chinese Communist Party known as Operation Fox Hunt.
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So what did Michael McMahon do? He took photographs. He observed movements. He performed perfectly lawful
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investigative work that private investigators across America perform every single day.
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Yet the U.S. Department of Justice under Joe Biden twisted these routine tasks into a theatrical
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display of espionage and conspiracy. They smeared him as if he was the one who was an enemy of the state,
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and they railroaded him into a false conviction. They sent Michael McMahon, a good and decent man,
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to prison while the true traitors of our republic walked free. Now, at the center of this fight for
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an innocent man's rights stands his wife, actress, and author Martha Byrne. She has shown courage that
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can only be described as incandescent. She has written, spoken, and now documented this horrific
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story in a book, An Interest of Justice, which exposes the corruption and cruelty of the system.
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And Martha Byrne joins us now in the Stone Zone. Martha, welcome.
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Thank you, Roger, for that introduction. I greatly appreciate you having me on. It's an honor to talk to you,
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sir. It truly is. Now, if you saw Martha Byrne, you would definitely recognize her. She is an
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actress, well-known for her role in the soap opera As the World Turns, where she played the role of
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Lily, then twin sister Rose, for which she won the lead actress Emmy. After leaving As the World Turns,
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Martha starred on General Hospital, Crisis, wrote for the soap opera Bold and Beautiful, and she
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executive produced several award-winning and Emmy-nominated digital productions. But she joins
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us today not as an actress or a professional, but she joins us as a wife and a mother. She is married
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for over 30 years, 42 years, I believe, to retired New York Police Department Sergeant Michael McMahon. They
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have three children, Michael, Max, and Anne-Marie. And Michael, Max, and Anne-Marie need their father
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home with them. So, Martha, tell us this story.
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That's such a beautiful setup. Thank you. I'm honored to talk to you.
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I met Mike when we were kids, and I was on As the World Turns, and he was this hero cop. He
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was an NYPD detective during the 90s, you know, with the street crime unit. He was one of the elite
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chosen. Remember when Rudy Giuliani cleaned up in New York City? Well, guess what? My husband was
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right there at the front lines doing it, plain clothes, and earned 78 medals while he was on
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the NYPD. He became a school safety sergeant. He was incredible, had an incredible career. And then
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he actually got the combat cross, which is for a gang-related shooting in the Bronx from Rudy Giuliani.
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He actually put it on his neck at one police plaza and had an incredible career and had a severe car
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accident during a police chase in the Bronx and hit a telephone pole at 50 miles an hour, which ended
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his career. And he was devastated. I mean, he loved the job. He really did. He was a cop's cop. And when
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he left and he retired from the NYPD, I was working full-time and he was with the children, but I could see
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that he really missed the job. And he started working part-time as a private investigator,
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and he really enjoyed it. And his business took off and he was having, you know, doing some great
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jobs. And then in 2016, he got a routine phone call from a New York-based company in the fall of 16.
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The client wanted to find someone who had apparently stolen money, millions of dollars, from a family
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construction business. The construction business was in China, but the man had fled to the United States
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apparently and stolen all this money. And the client wanted to, you know, where's the money?
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And so my husband hired two NYPD retired detectives to work with him on this case and did basic work,
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you know, public records, found out the man had millions of dollars in real estate, LLCs, cars.
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There was the money, right? And he did some surveillance, notified the local police every
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single day of surveillance with the other two NYPD officers, retired, documented everything.
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He made a few thousand dollars on the case and then moved on with his life. All he knew about the
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subject that he was following was that the man was alleged to have stolen some money in China,
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but it was a financial thing. No big deal. And he moved on with his life. And then on October 28,
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2020, you know this, Roger, the pre-dawn pounding at the door and my children were younger. Obviously,
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this has been five years now. And, you know, the first thing you think when you hear that
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knock is someone, your children, like, is everybody alive? It's the mother's worst nightmare to go to the
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door and hear Michael McMahon because it's my son's name, too. And for that minute, you think,
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this is it. Prepare yourself. Something's happened. No, they were there to see my husband. And they
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just walked in, Roger. It was so casual. They were talking to my husband in the hallway and my husband
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said, are you here about some other case he had worked on? They said, no, no, we know you from that
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case, which was weird. They let him walk to his bedroom, get dressed. They were petting my dog.
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They didn't go to his office. They didn't take his guns. They didn't take his computers. He didn't,
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he wasn't handcuffed. The whole thing was strange. And then he gets to
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get taken away. And I'm panicking on what the hell just happened, you know, and
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I'm in this daze. And I don't hear from him for hours and hours. Apparently, when he went to be
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interrogated, he spoke freely. He didn't know why he was there. They never told him why he was there.
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But he's a cop. You know, he thinks like a cop. If something was wrong or something was,
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he wanted to be a part of the discussion, like, what happened? And as they're speaking to him,
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they're asking him strange questions. And he remembers a lot of the case.
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And very forthcoming, happy to talk and help. And then turns out he's being arrested for the Foreign
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Agents Registration Act, FARAH, which was bizarre. He only worked for a New York company. He had
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no evidence that he found that he had in his possession that had anything. There was nothing.
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And interstate stalking, Roger, interstate stalking. He's a private investigator. He was
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parked on a public street. The subjects never saw him. So we're thinking, how could this must be a
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mistake? Must be a mistake. So he comes home. The press are outside our house. There's a big article
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in the New York Post that he's China's muscle and he's intimidating people and harassing people.
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We're like, what is going on? So immediately, Roger, we went to his office and we started
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looking at all his emails. He had saved everything, every invoice, every text message. He had
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everything. And we're trying to look and go, there's nothing here. It's a few days of work,
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a few hours of work from 2016 and 17. What are they talking about? This is bizarre, right?
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So, of course, we're going to fight this. Of course. And Roger, as you know, as soon as you
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take that position, you're done. I think it is abundantly clear in the case of retired New York
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police detective Michael McMahon. This is an upside down crafted narrative that was developed where
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Michael McMahon became the villain while the U.S. government protected a rogue Chinese government
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official and his wife who lied to obtain residency in the U.S. while laundering tens of millions of
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dollars of embezzled dollars. Let me say two things abundantly clear. There is no evidence
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whatsoever that Michael McMahon was ever paid by any foreign entity. And he's a fully licensed,
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fully licensed private investigator. So the media here has glossed over the failure to provide due
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process and a willful January 6th style behavior by the U.S. government to deny key exculpatory
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information to defense counsel for Michael McMahon and to possible manipulation of the U.S. government
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by the victims who happened to be connected to the Chinese Communist Party who made false statements to
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enter the country. This is an upside down world. If I hadn't experienced this myself in the District
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of Columbia, I would find it hard to believe. I know. And, you know, I think, you know, there's
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some things about this case which are truly shocking. So if back in 2017, the FBI knew Mike was, they had
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enough evidence that Mike was innocent. And yet they were, they obtained illegal search warrants for years
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and lied and lied in the search warrants. And we've heard this before, haven't we? Doesn't this sound
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familiar? It does. Now, the four years that this investigation went on between the FBI in New
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Jersey, the New Jersey FBI Red Bank office and the EDNY, the FBI never spoke to the three NYPD detectives,
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my husband or the two other NYPD detectives retired who were intelligence officers. They never called
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them. They never. And yet the FBI was speaking to the Chinese agents all the time, interviewing
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them, allowing them to flee to China and return. They were protecting the alleged victim. There's
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communications between Robert Riley, who was an FBI agent retired in New Jersey, and the alleged victim
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regarding their immigration, a civil lawsuit against them. There was so much collusion going on between
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the actual criminals in this case, while my family was left vulnerable. Roger, if these people were as
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dangerous as they're claiming they were, my family was left vulnerable. We were sitting ducks and they left,
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they did not protect us. And they had an obligation. There's a law called the duty to warn. When you have
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been targeted by any foreign entity, you must alert the person that they have been targeted. And instead,
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they protected the enemy in this case. So, so here we go. We're like, we're going to go to trial.
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Here we are going to trial. And of course, exculpatory evidence is buried. We can't put in evidence.
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We're not allowed to talk about Mike's career on the NYPD. Can you imagine, Roger? We can't tell the,
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we cannot tell the jury why this man would never, ever hurt anybody. He's the opposite of that. No
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good deeds. You know that. They do that in trial. They did it all the time.
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Yeah. No, I'm very, very, very familiar with it. In my case, I was specifically prohibited from the
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judge from arguing that I had either been selectively prosecuted or that there were
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political motivations behind my prosecution. I was also prohibited from saying that the
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prosecutors in my case offered me a deal where they would have recommended no jail time if I had
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just agreed to testify falsely against President Donald Trump, which of course I refused to do.
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The essence of the U.S. government's case against Mike McMahon is that he didn't file under the
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Foreign Agents Registration Act. But to be guilty of failing to file under that law,
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one must factually know that their clients are members of foreign government.
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The FBI and the DOJ failed to demonstrate in this case, based on what I read in your book,
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that Mike McMahon factually knew that his co-defendants were part of the Chinese Operation Foxhunt
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program. There's no legal requirement in fire for someone to obtain a signed deposition
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from a client stating under penalty perjury that they're not an over or class nine member of the
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foreign government. Mike McMahon had no idea what was going on. He was doing legal work and the
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government never proved that he was acting on behalf of a foreign government. On the other hand,
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he was he was persecuted by a politicized justice department. When we come back, I'm going to ask
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Martha Byrne about where Mike McMahon is now and what the next step is in terms of getting
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true justice in his case. You're listening to the Stone Zone here on the Red Apple Audio Networks,
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talking to mother and wife of Martha Byrne, who is married to the former New York Police Department
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Sergeant Michael McMahon. They have three kids. They've been married for 32 years. This is a
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shocking story of injustice, folks. When we come back, we're going to ask Martha Byrne where the
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case stands now and what you can do to help Martha Byrne and her husband, Michael McMahon, and their
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children get justice and move on with their lives. So listen to the Stone Zone wherever you do. Please
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don't touch that dial. The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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Welcome back in to the Stone Zone. We're joined today with Martha Byrne. She's a three-time
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Emmy award-winning actress, writer and producer with a career spanning over 30 years in the entertainment
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industry. At the age of 10, Martha starred on Broadway in the hit show Annie and she's had
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a successful career. But she joins us today, not as an actress, not as a professional, but as a wife
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and mother to tell the horrific story of persecution of her husband, former New York City police detective
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Michael McMahon. She has memorialized this incredible story in a book entitled In the Interest of Justice
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by Martha Byrne. You can find it online. It has gotten rave reviews. It is a book that every American
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should read should read because it is shocking. It details the attacks on her family by the Obama
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Biden Justice Department and the unrelenting fight by Mytha Byrne to clear her husband's name. Martha,
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we've got about five minutes. First of all, how is your husband doing today? Well, he was in a federal
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prison in Michigan, a low security prison. They sent him 600 miles away. Even at the sentencing,
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by the way, Roger, at the trial, nobody testified against my husband. The case agent didn't testify.
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The victims couldn't identify my husband in court and the victims asked for no jail time and no
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restitution. And the judge gave him 18 months in federal prison because he had no remorse for the
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victims. Roger, we've just explained who these victims are. These people perjured themselves to put my
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husband in federal prison and they sent him 600 miles away as a retired cop into general population.
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He was there for almost four months. He is now in a halfway house in New Jersey. He is
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a warrior, Roger. He went to federal prison for the truth. He refused. He's done nothing wrong. He
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committed no crime, Roger. So we're desperately trying. And I listen, you know, if Donald Trump,
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when he hears this story, he is going, first of all, talk about back the blue, NYPD
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persecuted, same tactics, making up a case. This was legal PI work, Roger. They took it and they
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made it look nefarious for the jury. And they lied to the jury every single day.
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I think it's abundantly clear. His real crime here is that he stumbled much too close to the
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nefarious illegal operations of the Chinese Communist Party right here inside the United
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States, where they have set up their own police stations and where Chinese special operators
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are monitoring their own citizens here in the U.S. As a private investigator and a decorated police
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officer, Mike McMahon stumbled into that operation. And that had to be covered up because it made those
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in power look very, very bad. This is a shocking story, should be shocking to every American. I urge
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you to get to Martha Byrne's terrific book, In the Interest of Justice. But beyond that, I urge everyone out
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there to pray for justice in this matter. I learned in my own trial, in my own horrific
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fight for justice in which I was targeted with the Justice Department, I could have walked away free,
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no problem at all. All I had to do was agree to lie under oath and incriminate Donald Trump. I would
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have had to make it up, by the way, because I'm not aware of anything the president did wrong,
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and I did nothing wrong. In fact, Robert Mueller's final report, which the judge refused to give my
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attorneys, my defense attorneys at trial, on page 178, we later learned, becomes very clear that they
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found no evidence of Russian collusion, WikiLeaks collaboration, or any other crime on my part.
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Yet a jury and a judge who essentially prohibited me from having any defense whatsoever, a judge who
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withheld exculpatory evidence, very much like the judge in Mike McMahon's case, was ready to send me to
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prison. Prosecutors recommended seven to nine years. So I have lived this, and this story should be shocking
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for every American. Martha, other than buying and reading a great book, which I strongly recommend,
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what can people do today to help you and your family?
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Like you said, prayer, prayer, prayer. I mean, I know you read the book. I was visited by the Blessed
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Mother right before my husband was arrested, and she came into my heart and strengthened me,
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and the prayer has gotten us through this. The Blessed Mother has gotten us through this of prayers.
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I would also encourage everyone to, if you don't mind, I know Eddie Gallagher, the Navy SEAL
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captain who was also falsely arrested for murder, who started the Pipe Hitter Foundation, which is
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hpipehitterfoundation.org. They have been supporting us. They support first responders who are falsely
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accused and arrested and lives are destroyed. They've been with us for years. I'm so grateful to them.
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They've been a supporter there. So pipehitterfoundation.org. There's a page direct just for Mike,
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and we're so grateful. We're so grateful, our entire family.
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All right. We have to wrap it up there. Please join us in praying for Michael McMahon,
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his wife of 32 years, Martha Byrne, and their children, Michael, Max, and Ann Marie. God bless you,
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Martha. Never give up the fight. Folks, thanks for joining us today on The Stone Zone. Until tomorrow,
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