“Justice Is Different for the Wealthy”

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4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Carlos Ghosn, ousted Nissan-Renault leader, speaks publicly for the first time in over 400 days about his decision to flee house arrest in Japan. CNBC’s Phil LeBeau, Yale’s Jeff Sonnenfeld, and attorney Joshua Dratel analyze Ghosn’s passionate self-defense with Joe, Becky, and Andrew. Katie Kramer and CNBC Wealth Reporter Robert Frank discuss Ghosn’s future, his finances, and the relationship between wealth and justice in a conversation exclusive to Squawk Pod.

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0:03.0	This is Squawk Pod, the daily podcast brought to you by the team behind Squawk Box.
0:08.0	NYC, this is NBC Control 2.
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0:12.0	PCR2. Every day get the best stories, debate, and analysis. see Carlos Gone speaks. I am innocent of all the charges, all of them, and I can prove it now.
0:26.6	The ousted chief of Nissan Renault, his animated self-defense at an unprecedented conference in Lebanon.
0:32.3	I was left with no other choice but to protect myself and my family.
0:36.9	It was a difficult decision and a risk one only takes if resigned to the impossibility of a fair trial.
0:44.4	Plus analysis from the NBC reporter Robert Frank
0:47.4	exclusively on this podcast.
0:49.3	Justice is different for the wealthy versus everyone else.
0:53.4	I am C. M. Cady Kramer, it's Wednesday, January 8th, 2020.
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1:06.0	Good morning everyone.
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1:08.9	We are live from the Nasdaq Market site in Times Square.
1:11.5	I'm Becky Quick, along with Joe Kernan and Andrew Ross
1:13.8	Sorkin. Carlos Gone, remember him? The ousted Nissan leader who escaped
1:19.5	house arrest in Japan and fled to Lebanon in a stereo case drilled with airholes, thought you might.
1:25.0	Today he held a press conference in Beirut emphatically defending his decision to skip out on bail, which in his view was not a flight from justice, rather it was an escape from injustice.
1:36.4	In the room, as he stood at the podium around 100 news outlets from around the world, including
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