Fighting Covid Fraud

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

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips joins Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." The group discuss the topic of frauds during a pandemic. They expose those trying to prey on the scared public, the tactics used, and what kind of scams have been circulating since the coronavirus has come to light. From door-to-door fake testing kits to Trump's ridiculous cures claimed during his daily briefings.

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.0	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.3	And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.
0:09.9	And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,
0:14.1	tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.
0:20.6	As the coronavirus death toll continues to mount, so too does evidence that unscrupulous actors
0:26.7	are peddling fake cures and pitching bogus business opportunities to an anxious public.
0:33.2	One US government agency, the Federal Trade Commission, is aggressively investigating these claims,
0:38.6	sending out a blizzard of warnings to companies that are promoting them, and threatening legal action
0:43.6	to shut the firms down. We'll talk to one of the FTC commissioners at the forefront of the
0:48.9	coronavirus fraud battle, and we'll ask among other questions to what degree is the problem being
0:54.6	fueled by dubious claims being made at President Trump's White House briefings on this episode of SkullDuggery?
1:08.9	Because people have got to know whether or not they're presidents of crook.
1:12.0	Well, I'm not a crook. I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage.
1:16.3	My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me
1:21.7	it is not. I did not have sexual relations for that woman. There will be no lies. We will honor
1:30.5	the American people with the truth and nothing else.
1:40.6	I'm Michael Isigov, Chief Investigator and correspondent for Yahoo News.
1:43.9	And I'm Dan Clyde, Mediter and Chief of Yahoo News.
1:46.7	You know, I've been looking forward to doing this interview with Noah Phillips, the FTC
1:53.5	commissioner, who's been going after the fraud claims. If for no other reason that Phillips is a
2:01.7	Trump appointees, he's worked for Senator John Cornyn on Capitol Hill before becoming FTC commissioner.
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