Buried Treasure: The story of Warren Meddoff

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.0 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

With over twenty years of reporting together, Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman have plenty of stories about old scandals lost to history and great anecdotes from their past. In this week’s premiere episode of Skullduggery’s Buried Treasure, Isikoff and Klaidman head back to the '90s and delve into the story of a man named Warren Meddoff, his role in the 1996 Clinton campaign finance scandal and the personal connection to one of the hosts.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Dan Clyde, and host of Skull Duggery, an editor in chief of Yahoo News.
0:07.0	I'm here with my co-host Mike Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent of Yahoo.
0:11.9	And we want to tell you that in addition to the episode of Skull Duggery that comes out
0:15.4	every Friday morning, we'll be releasing a shorter edition on Tuesday mornings.
0:20.3	We're calling it Skull Duggery's Barry Treasurer.
0:23.3	Get it?
0:24.3	Mike Skull Duggery?
0:26.3	Pirates, Barry Treasurer?
0:28.4	Yeah, it takes me a while, but I figured it out eventually.
0:31.5	All right.
0:32.6	Mike and I will be digging up stories about old scandals lost to history.
0:37.6	Maybe just a great anecdote or spotlighting an interesting, colorful character or a clever
0:42.3	legal tactic that Shed's light on today's scandals.
0:45.5	So this week on Barry Treasurer, we resurrect the story of Warren Medoff.
0:49.9	Medoff was a struggling businessman in South Florida.
0:53.0	He was a cheerful, extroverted guy.
0:55.4	He was looking to make connections in the world of politics.
0:58.4	Medoff managed to stumble into the 1996 Clinton campaign finance scandal.
1:03.4	And Isikoff, you broke the story.
1:05.1	I did.
1:06.1	You did leave out one little detail about Warren Medoff.
1:11.6	He was your cousin.
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