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S1 Ep2: The Horse Queen (Rita Crundwell)

Swindled

Swindled

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.610.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A municipal employee embezzles over $50 million from the city of Dixon, Illinois, to support her extravagant lifestyle and expensive hobby. 

Prelude: History of Ronald Reagan's oft-repeated maxim, "Trust but verify", and its relevance in modern society.

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0:00.0

From Marvel Studios, an invasion is here.

0:03.5

And we can't even tell who the invaders are.

0:07.0

This is a ticking time bomb. Fury, do you feel responsible?

0:11.0

How do you think I came back?

0:12.0

On Disney Plus.

0:15.0

You're the most wanted man on the planet.

0:19.0

I will change the game, rest the game.

0:21.0

Well, my mom always said I was special.

0:24.0

Marvel Studios' secret invasion, now streaming exclusively on Disney Plus,

0:27.0

18 Plus subscription required, and a season C's apply.

0:30.0

The importance of this treaty transcends numbers.

0:34.0

We have listened to the wisdom of an old Russian Maxim,

0:38.0

though my pronunciation may give you difficulty.

0:42.0

The Maxim is Doveye, No Proveye. Trust but verify.

0:50.0

That was the voice of former President Ronald Reagan,

0:53.0

using one of his signature phrases during the Cold War Treaty negotiations with Russia,

0:58.0

that took place in Reykjavik, Iceland on October 11th and 12th of 1986.

1:04.0

Trust but verify.

1:07.0

In fact, he used this phrase so often that the Russian General Secretary at the time,

1:12.0

a KELK Gorbachev, famously good-tired of hearing it,

1:16.0

playfully accusing Reagan of repeating this maximum during every meeting.

1:20.0

But in the context of the Cold War, it made a lot of sense.

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