Soap Star Defends Husband, Who’s Accused of Spying
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Three-time Daytime Emmy Award-winning actress, Martha Byrne (As The World Turns), has authored a new book, “In The Interest of Justice.” It tells the real-life story of the attack on her family by the Department of Justice. Martha tells Michele how her husband, retired NYPD sergeant Michael McMahon, was targeted by the FBI and convicted of a crime he did not commit.
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Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator. Record-setting, four-time Sports Emmy Award winner Michele Tafoya worked her final NBC Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, her fifth Super Bowl. She retired from sportscasting the following day. In total, she covered 327 games — the most national primetime TV games (regular + postseason) for an NFL sideline reporter.
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| 0:00.0 | These people lied on the stand to put my husband in federal prison. |
| 0:03.3 | They were, had committed crimes in China and in the United States. |
| 0:06.3 | He did nothing wrong and nothing. |
| 0:07.7 | He did further anything against them. |
| 0:10.2 | So he's supposed to turn himself a week for money. |
| 0:12.3 | In Michigan, we didn't even know that he was supposed to go to Michigan. |
| 0:16.1 | Nobody told us. |
| 0:17.5 | We had to find out on our own. |
| 0:18.8 | They were sending, they're sending him 600 miles away, |
| 0:22.2 | 600 miles away from our family. He did nothing wrong. So he's supposed to turn himself in a week |
| 0:29.0 | from today for 18 months. The judge gave him 18 months. And for what? Martha Byrne is a three-time Emmy-winning, daytime Emmy-winning actress. |
| 0:45.8 | You may know her from the soap operas she was in and now she's a writer with a purpose. |
| 0:51.7 | Her husband's in deep trouble. Not because he did anything illegal. This is a story |
| 0:56.6 | you need to pay attention to. Because it's a story that's not just Martha's. It's a story that goes on |
| 1:02.1 | more often than you think and more often than we like to accept or like to admit. Before we go any |
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| 1:18.0 | Also, we've got a great catalog, a great library of stuff that we've recorded over the |
| 1:21.7 | past few years that you want to delve into. But Martha Burns' new book is called In the Interest |
| 1:26.7 | of Justice. Her husband, former NYPD, |
| 1:30.1 | a 9-11 hero, suffering 9-11 disease, a guy who won many medals of honor, became a private |
| 1:40.3 | eye after being injured, and she'll detail that. And then he got arrested. And now he's |
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