LAist Studios presents Imperfect Paradise: Nury & The Secret Tapes: Part 1

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🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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We take you behind the scenes of the L.A. City Council tape scandal, a year later. The secret recordings of the conversation among four of the city’s most powerful Latino leaders making racist, derogatory insults – exposed thorny, unresolved issues of race and politics. Host Antonia Cereijido explores those issues and speaks with the people who were most affected by the tapes, including former councilman Mike Bonin. And for the first time since resigning, former L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez breaks her silence.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Imperfect Paradise from L.A.S. Studios.
0:03.8	I'm Antonio Cerejido, your host.
0:06.4	It's been a year since secret recordings of four powerful Latino leaders
0:10.9	were leaked to the public, leading to a massive outcry
0:13.9	and a demand for their resignation.
0:18.4	Racism is racism, whether it's coming from a guy in a red magahat
0:22.1	or from the president of the L.A.C.D. Council, it is unacceptable.
0:25.6	Since then, the woman at the center of the scandal,
0:28.5	former L.A.C.D. Council President Nuri Martinez,
0:31.6	has not done an interview.
0:33.7	Until now.
0:35.1	Have you thought about why you said what you said?
0:37.9	I've thought about that particular day
0:40.7	kind of a thousand times, not more.
0:43.0	We're going to talk candidly to the people
0:45.0	who are most affected by the secret tapes
0:47.4	in a way that no one has really heard before.
0:50.7	I got a call from a friend of mine who said,
0:54.8	hey, I need to talk to you.
0:56.4	There's a secret recording of Nuri and Gil and Kevin.
1:02.2	You can't figure out what's happening,
1:03.7	like did someone in the room make this recording?
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