The Ozy Media Scandal

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week, Sara and Danny kick off the episode with a quick update on the Murdaugh trial(updates are moving quick, make sure to follow @notanothertruecrime to stay up to date,) before diving into the main story of the week: the Ozy Media Scandal. They give an overview of the media outlet and the general gist of their operations before diving right into the details of the scanda, which included fake interviews, fasified metrics, and fabricated stories. They also zero in on the main person implicated in all of this: CEO Carlos Watson who was at the heart of all their shady dealings. They round it all out with the precitipous fall of the organization and the consequences of the widespread fraud. RESOURCES: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/ozy-media-and-its-founder-carlos-watson-indicted-years-long-multi-million-dollar-fraud https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/26/business/media/ozy-media-goldman-sachs.html https://www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2023/02/14/ozy-is-looking-for-advertisers-to-sponsor-ozy-fest-a-two-day-event-in-miami https://www.semafor.com/article/02/08/2023/media-company-ozy-is-attempting-a-comeback Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back everybody to Not Another True Crime Podcast.
0:06.4	I'm Sarah LeBee.
0:07.4	And I'm Danny Murphy, you know where your partner's wine crime and time and we are, I mean,
0:11.6	Sarah, what inspired you for this week's episode?
0:15.5	Well, for straight up, I mean, I was just reading the headlines and that was it.
0:20.9	There's a new update and you know, we love like a, this is kind of a scam.
0:25.5	It's a brewing one.
0:27.9	And that was kind of it.
0:28.6	I just saw this article in the Wall Street Journal and I was like, cool, that's it.
0:31.6	We're doing our episode on it.
0:32.8	Yeah.
0:33.1	When it was, I was just kind of like, I'm very, very into all the things like bubbling up.
0:39.0	And it's because that's the thing when there's like a story every outlet is covering,
0:42.0	you're like, oh, I need 900 updates and breakouts on it.
0:46.0	And thankfully that's what they did.
0:48.0	Yes.
0:48.4	I mean, we're going back in time to like 2013.
0:51.3	So modern for recent episode standards.
0:55.2	Yes.
0:56.0	But also, before we get to that, I feel like we just have to touch on the murder trial.
1:00.5	I mean, yeah, that's, yeah.
1:02.4	It's been wild.
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