Valuetainment - December 20, 2025


“Green Light From MS-13” - How Ex-President SURVIVED Prison Assassination w⧸ Diddy, SBF & 6ix9ine

Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Sam Bankman Freed Trump Whitey Bulger Juan Orlando Takashi James Alex Fields Jr. Frank Cadillac Frank Anthony Tonacosta Nasri Asfura Mario Nafal Freddy Gis Toscaniro Hazleton Tekashi Salami Diddy MS-13
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Episode Stats


Length

10 minutes

Words per minute

152.65

Word count

1,669

Sentence count

162


Summary

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In this episode, I sit down with a man who has been in prison for almost 20 years. He talks about his time in prison, his relationship with Sam Bankman-Fried and Diddy, and how they helped him get out.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 By the way, this jail, if some people are wondering who stayed here, Whitey Bulger stayed at this jail, okay?
00:00:09.620 Anthony Tonacosta, mob-related inmates after Bulger.
00:00:13.820 Okay, you got some very MS-13 and Latin King cartel killers stay at this place.
00:00:19.180 These are the names you got.
00:00:20.720 Fotios Freddy Gis, Frank Cadillac Frank, Salami, James Alec Fields Jr.
00:00:26.680 You got some interesting people that stayed here.
00:00:28.480 So they're sending you to a place as if you're a full-on killer is what you are.
00:00:33.340 That's who they put you with.
00:00:35.360 And you said you got three, four, so this is January 16th, January 15th.
00:00:40.040 Is that around the day of 2025 when they put you in jail?
00:00:43.800 No, it was 21.
00:00:46.920 Oh, this is first time, when Trump lost.
00:00:50.180 This is after—
00:00:51.420 No, when President Trump wins, this is the last time, five days before they gave the order to move me.
00:00:58.960 To move you to Hazleton.
00:01:00.080 Yeah.
00:01:00.340 That's what I'm saying.
00:01:00.920 So January 15th, because Trump—oh, Trump won, but he got elected.
00:01:05.780 He was inaugurated January 20th.
00:01:07.760 So is this in October or is this in January?
00:01:10.220 In January.
00:01:10.860 In January.
00:01:11.360 Got it.
00:01:12.060 And when you were there, is this where you met Sam Bankman-Fried?
00:01:14.860 Where did you meet Sam Bankman-Fried from—
00:01:17.080 It was in Brooklyn.
00:01:18.920 In Brooklyn, I was in a special unit.
00:01:22.540 And, of course, I met Sam there.
00:01:25.200 This other guy who is a singer.
00:01:30.060 You call him mogul, music mogul.
00:01:32.460 Diddy?
00:01:33.300 Yeah, yeah.
00:01:34.260 You were in prison with Diddy and Sam Bankman-Fried?
00:01:36.440 Yeah.
00:01:37.000 Did you speak with them?
00:01:38.540 Yes.
00:01:38.980 Well, at the beginning, you know, I didn't know them as the figures as they were.
00:01:45.820 I mean, but also, I was just by myself, you know, reviewing my case and my things.
00:01:53.620 There was another guy, a rapper.
00:01:56.140 He's very famous.
00:01:57.600 They call it 69, I think.
00:01:59.860 And, but I didn't know until the other inmates told me—
00:02:06.000 Tekashi 69?
00:02:07.280 Yeah.
00:02:08.120 They call me—
00:02:08.600 Those guys are really big in music and things like that.
00:02:12.100 But with Sam, we developed a close relationship.
00:02:15.600 He was—we were talking about my case, things like that.
00:02:20.800 I met my—his father and mother, and because he—at one point, I was really preoccupied about my family when they—when I know that they had that green light from the MS-13 over my daughters.
00:02:40.400 And I said, you know, I cannot sleep.
00:02:43.480 I don't know what can I do.
00:02:45.820 And he said, listen, you have to move your family from Honduras.
00:02:51.340 But I said, I don't have any means to do it.
00:02:54.040 And we were, you know, talking about how can we do it.
00:02:56.680 And at the end, I told my lawyer, you have to call my wife, and you have to tell her and do whatever you want you have to do in order to protect them.
00:03:06.820 But at the end, I have to be in my home for almost three months without going out at all.
00:03:14.640 And, you know, it's—at one point, I said to God, I made my peace with God, and I said, my Lord, you can do whatever you want with me.
00:03:27.240 It is—you're right, but please protect my family.
00:03:32.160 That's just what I'm asking.
00:03:33.180 Did Sam Bankman-Fried help you financially with the family, or no?
00:03:36.320 No, no, no.
00:03:37.100 Okay.
00:03:37.400 What was he like to you?
00:03:39.440 Was it a—did you enjoy the conversation?
00:03:42.180 He was a very quiet guy, but he was—he had new ideas about the world.
00:03:51.920 And when he was reviewing my case, he said, listen, this is clearly a setup.
00:04:02.900 And I said, but how can I explain it?
00:04:04.840 You already passed for a trial, and you know what it is.
00:04:08.520 And it is hard, you know, when the prosecutors and the judge agreed that you cannot, for example,
00:04:15.500 they didn't allow me to bring the experts from Honduras to explain the jurors how I passed those laws.
00:04:23.480 To pass the extradition law, the ceasing of assets law, the anti-money laundry law, the reform of the police.
00:04:33.940 It's easy to say it, but to do it is a huge risk.
00:04:40.020 And they were going to come to explain to that.
00:04:43.360 And, you know, the judge agreed with the prosecutors, and they didn't allow them to come to do it.
00:04:51.240 Do you know what Sam Bankman-Fried said about you?
00:04:53.260 Have you read what he said about you, or no?
00:04:55.240 My daughter was explaining it to me.
00:04:57.440 Sam Bankman-Fried told Mario Nafal, Rob, I think you have it somewhere, and he explains to him that, he says,
00:05:09.780 I spent a year and a half in the same unit as Juan Orlando.
00:05:13.400 I got to know him fairly well.
00:05:15.200 I'd like to think we became friends.
00:05:17.320 And I can't think of a single inmate more deserving of a pardon.
00:05:20.960 He was framed, and SPF spent extensive time helping yourself with trial prep and reviewed evidence.
00:05:28.920 And his account, you were convicted in 2024 for decades-long cocaine conspiracy involving hundreds of murders.
00:05:34.980 But the actual evidence, a ceremonial machine gun, a selfie with a cartel-connected soccer fan,
00:05:40.900 and testimony from the exact cartel leaders, you were arrested and extradited.
00:05:46.020 Those cartel leaders were offered early release if they could implicate a bigger fish.
00:05:51.140 They chose to testify against a man who put them in prison.
00:05:54.180 The result?
00:05:55.420 Your presidency, murder dropped 50%.
00:05:57.500 Drug trafficking dropped 90%.
00:05:59.380 Every major cartel leadership extradited to the U.S.
00:06:02.760 SPF, he wasn't just a narco-trafficer.
00:06:05.080 He wasn't just not a narco-trafficer.
00:06:08.000 He was probably the most effective anti-cartel leader in the world.
00:06:11.800 Juan Orlando is the most innocent prisoner I've met, including myself.
00:06:15.940 The pardon came days before Honduras' November 30th election,
00:06:19.540 where Trump endorsed Nasri Asfura of your national party.
00:06:25.080 The race is now a technical tie.
00:06:26.840 The Trump warning, there will be hell to pay if the electoral body changes the result.
00:06:31.740 That's what Sam Ackman-Fried said about you.
00:06:34.460 Interesting.
00:06:35.460 Did you ever speak to Diddy?
00:06:37.220 Was Diddy would...
00:06:39.400 A couple of words.
00:06:41.360 You know, we were getting into the elevator coming from the legal...
00:06:47.500 He doesn't like elevators.
00:06:48.980 It's bad news to be around elevators with him.
00:06:51.020 But I didn't know him at all.
00:06:53.260 And he said, so you are going to Fort North?
00:06:55.420 Was the same floor?
00:06:56.680 I said, yes.
00:06:57.280 So you are the new guy.
00:07:00.840 And he said, yes.
00:07:02.760 And he said, why do you advise me?
00:07:05.160 And I said, look, you have to keep your mind busy.
00:07:08.920 You told him.
00:07:09.820 Yeah.
00:07:10.080 If you are going...
00:07:10.940 You have to do exercise every day.
00:07:13.560 If you like music, you have to...
00:07:17.000 He likes other people's music.
00:07:18.380 But also, if you are going to fight your case, get into that with your lawyers.
00:07:25.000 Be busy because this thing could make you crazy.
00:07:29.440 But if you focus on that, and then he continued to do that.
00:07:32.660 There were some discussion between another guy,
00:07:35.940 between if they were going to see some channel from the news or the other.
00:07:40.660 And I said, listen, take your time.
00:07:44.380 Don't fight about that.
00:07:46.020 Oh, he was fighting with another guy for what he wanted?
00:07:47.660 No, they were discussing.
00:07:49.120 But I was trying to stop a fight.
00:07:51.200 He was trying to watch a documentary by the guy in the 50s.
00:07:54.600 Yeah.
00:07:54.940 He wanted to watch it on...
00:07:56.580 But that's interesting.
00:07:58.060 So...
00:07:58.420 But was he cordial with you?
00:07:59.540 Was he respectful with you?
00:08:00.900 Yeah.
00:08:01.780 Very respectful.
00:08:03.020 At one point, I was watching a dish, and there was another dish there.
00:08:08.820 It was dirty.
00:08:09.660 I said, I don't know which dish, who it belonged to.
00:08:14.380 And I watched it.
00:08:15.520 And so he came.
00:08:17.240 And I said, thank you for watching my dish.
00:08:19.740 Well, I didn't know that was yours.
00:08:22.080 And I said, a president watching?
00:08:25.220 And I said, listen, I mean, I can clean the floor here.
00:08:30.140 It was raised like that.
00:08:31.460 I don't care about those things.
00:08:34.080 They think that because you are a president, you are like a...
00:08:38.140 No, I mean, it's the way that you are raised.
00:08:44.500 And I think that that's helped me with a lot of respect from so many people in jail, too.
00:08:50.360 How long were you with all of them?
00:08:51.540 With SPF, with Diddy, with Takashi?
00:08:54.680 With this guy, Takashi, I think it was about a couple of months.
00:09:01.460 Oh, really?
00:09:02.600 With Diddy, it could be a little bit longer than that.
00:09:05.900 And with Sam, I think it could be a year and a half.
00:09:10.300 Oh, so you guys spend real time together with Sam.
00:09:13.620 Yeah.
00:09:14.160 Well, with Sam, we prepare a lot of questions for my trial.
00:09:20.300 And unfortunately, my lawyer, we lost confidence and trust with him, but we lost communication.
00:09:26.920 And at the end, when I finally came and said, listen, I know that you don't have any questions for the witnesses.
00:09:36.160 I already worked on that.
00:09:37.740 And then when he was looking at that, he said, this is amazing.
00:09:42.360 Well, I did your work.
00:09:43.660 Now, please do it.
00:09:45.760 But he couldn't do it.
00:09:46.920 Is this a guy that was sick?
00:09:48.060 The guy?
00:09:48.640 Yeah.
00:09:48.940 Yeah.
00:09:49.240 He was really sick.
00:09:50.920 But also, he was taking care of his mother.
00:09:55.140 She was also sick.
00:09:57.600 And I bet that he also was afraid of some things.
00:10:01.620 Of course.
00:10:02.200 I mean, if you're his lawyer, his life's probably also on the line.
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