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#195 - Russia Extradition Advisor Breaks Silence on Spy Agency Kidnappings | David Mendoza

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.4777 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 225 minutes

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David Mendoza has assisted on high profile extradition cases for Julian Assange, Konstantin Yaroshenko, John McAfee, and many more. He is currently advising the Russian government on extraditions. EPISODE LINKS https://richardmedhurst.substack.com/p/mendoza Get help w/ extraditions: [email protected] SPONSORS VERSO - Go to https://ver.so/danny to save 15% on your FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon OUTLINE: 0:00 - Successfully suing the US, Spain & United Nations 1:03 - Building a real estate empire 6:54 - Transporting tons of drugs to the US on helicopters 17:44 - People still in prison for marijuana 19:41 - The FBI moved in next door to Dave 21:52 - Transporting $6 million in cash while being chased by FBI 34:02 - Discovering FBI GPS trackers on all his cars 40:47 - Deciding to flee the United States for Mexico 59:20 - International arrest warrant & having to flee Mexico for Cuba & Spain 1:07:46 - Captured by DEA in Spain & going to Spanish prison 1:17:28 - Terms of extradition & Finding out the US had seized all Dave’s US property ($14 million) 1:30:47 - Evidence of US foul play - Diplomatic notes between US & Spain 1:38:03 - Dave’s deed of surrender 1:42:22 - The US Diplomat (CIA officer) in charge of renditions: Kimberly Wise 1:50:42 - How the US continued to extort Dave for more of his property 2:01:26 - Simultaneously suing the United States & Spain 2:13:09 - How Dave threatened the treaty between US & Spain 2:15:16 - Why dropping the suit against Obama was Dave’s biggest mistake 2:19:49 - Insane story how “Bumps” from the Hell’s Angels beat his drug case 2:30:35 - How Dave finally got back to Spain & sued the United Nations 2:44:13 - The scars left on Dave’s life and his family 2:50:03 - Russian pilot rendered by CIA: Konstantin Yaroshenko & Viktor Bout 3:00:39 - Why the United States cares so much about extradition treaties 3:04:14 - Extradition of Chinese billionaire: Meng Wanzhou 3:11:11 - How Dave is helping Julian Assange w/ extradition case 3:18:23 - The Mastros case 3:23:02 - The John Mcafee case 3:37:50 - How Dave is assisting Russia on extradition trades Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Has anyone else ever successfully sued the United States, Spain and the United Nations, and won like you have?

0:17.6

I honestly don't know, to be quite honest with you. I haven't won in the United Nations yet.

0:22.8

Oh, that one's still pending, right?

0:23.8

That's pending.

0:24.5

But we should have resolution.

0:27.2

I'm hoping by this year, it's now been four years.

0:31.5

We're counting on five.

0:33.5

One of the problems was in the United Nations, our application to the political civil court there out of the U.N.

0:43.3

It was one of the judges had passed away recently, so they had to add another judge to the panel.

0:51.1

But it's a promiscay sign that they've accepted my case.

0:57.9

They've gone through my case.

1:00.2

So I'm hoping to win that one too.

1:02.7

So for people that are listening, just to give context to this whole conversation,

1:06.3

can you give me like a 30,000 foot like overview rundown of what happened to you

1:10.7

and how you got yourself into

1:12.2

this mess and out of this mess? Okay. A real quick summary of it is basically back in the early

1:19.1

2000s, I was transporting, I was a builder in Seattle, Washington, well, in the Northwest.

1:25.8

And I got a little in over my head that I was just building too much and didn't have enough financial capability to support it.

1:34.8

So I got involved in marijuana.

1:38.5

A very good friend of mine was a marijuana distributor in Canada.

1:43.1

In the early 2000s, Canada had very lenient laws on it on growing marijuana.

1:49.3

And so we put ourselves a little coup together there and started transporting marijuana in the United States.

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