Former Inmate Reveals How She Ran A Prison Bakery To Make Money | Lonett Williams

Locked In with Ian Bick

Ian Bick

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Lonett Williams from BET's American Gangster Trap Queen Series shares how she went from successful real estate mogul to federal prison inmate for 10 years after the 2008 market crash. We get an inside look of her fraud, how she managed to survive prison for nearly a decade and what life is like for her now. Follow Ian Bick on Instagram: @ian_bick & Snapchat: ianbick Connect with Lonett Williams: IG: https://www.instagram.com/lonettwilliams/?hl=en YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCkUNaEb3evROeRVtcuCvKcA Buy Merch: https://lockedinbrand.com Use code lockedin at checkout to get 20% off your order Connect with Ian Bick: https://www.ianbick.com Chapters: 00:00:00 - From Sweet Shop to Prison Entrepreneur 00:02:10 - Childhood Memories and Generational Trauma 00:04:25 - Overcoming Adversity 00:06:34 - Forming Relationships in Prison 00:08:41 - From College to Motherhood 00:11:04 - From Entrepreneurship to Fraud 00:13:21 - Making Hard Choices as an Entrepreneur 00:15:42 - The Stress of Success 00:17:53 - From Loan Officer to Real Estate Investor 00:20:13 - The Market Crash and its Impact 00:22:33 - A Slide into Gray Area 00:24:56 - The Desperate Decision 00:27:17 - Forging Documents and the Criminal Justice System 00:29:18 - Forging Documents and the Consequences 00:31:37 - The Arrest of My Son for Mortgage Fraud 00:34:17 - The Devastating Time of My Life 00:36:50 - Devastating Legal Consequences 00:39:14 - 10 Years in Prison for Forged Documents 00:41:42 - Handcuffs and Shackles 00:44:11 - The Humanity of Incarcerated Individuals 00:46:36 - Conversations with Interesting People, Part 1 00:48:59 - Regret and Reflection 00:51:16 - Prison Life at Danbury 00:53:38 - Chicken Day in Prison 00:55:43 - Making Delicious Banana Pudding in Prison 00:58:06 - Challenges after Incarceration 01:00:25 - Overcoming Challenges After Prison 01:02:50 - Empowering Trauma-impacted Women 01:05:32 - Debt and Probation System 01:07:44 - Finding Purpose in Life 00:01:10 - Ian's Appearance on the Podcast Produced by: https://www.instagram.com/shanedanahy https://www.shanedanahy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I used to have a sweet shop in without... Wait, you ran a sweet shop in prison? Come on, want to hustle, you're always going to be able to... How did you hustle, yeah. Entrepreneur, right? Oh, banana pudding. I made the banana pudding taste exactly the way I made it at home. One of the cups was $2.50 and the other cup was $3.50. These girls would come by and just grab like two or three.
0:22.7	I used to have commissary out of the wazoo.
0:27.4	On today's episode, we have Lynette Williams from BETT's American Gangster Trap Queen series
0:33.6	to share her story of building a real estate empire, turning it into a fraud after the 2008
0:39.6	market crash and spending 10 years in federal prison. Listen up, everyone. Remember to grab your
0:45.5	official locked-in gear just in time for the holiday season. I hope you all sit back, relax,
0:51.0	and get ready to lock in with Lynette Williams.
1:05.6	Lynette Williams, welcome to Locked in.
1:07.0	Thank you, Ian.
1:08.4	It's so great to be here.
1:10.1	Yeah, it's been a great conversation already.
1:11.0	We haven't even started.
1:09.7	High energy, you're exciting, you're laughing, you've been smiling the whole time. I know. You've taken some shots at me. You called me shy. See, I'm warming up to you. Don't worry. Yeah, you got that energy. You got that great energy. But shy's not bad necessarily. People like, I'm like, you can't figure me out type of person.
1:10.2	You don't know.
1:28.9	It's like a like, you can't figure me out type of person.
1:29.4	You don't know.
1:27.8	It's like a mysterious, you know. Yeah, I got you though. Yeah, it works, but you figured me out. You called me out on my bullshit. No. Welcome the show, though. You have a nice ride in? Thank you, yes. It was very long. I thought I would not be back in this town, but here we are.
2:17.6	Yeah, and this town has a lot of history for you, which we're going to get into. Yeah. But let's start at the beginning of the story. Where are you from? What's early childhood like for you? Okay, so I am from, I always say I'm from Queens, but I'm actually from the Bronx, and I represent Queens because we move there. Yeah, I know it, right? L.O. Coo-J. I really do that sometimes, like, but I represent Queens. But anyway, so I do represent Queens because I got there when I was about nine, I think, and I've been there. You know, I grew up there. I became a woman there. I went through those formative years there.
2:18.2	So, yeah.
2:19.4	What about your parents?
2:20.6	Were they together?
2:21.5	Did you have siblings?
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