The Sellout | 8: The Downfall
The Binge Cases: U R NEXT
Sony Music
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🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of what happened actually happened in Vegas. |
| 0:13.0 | I think you popped the champagne bottle jumping there and click your heels and say, |
| 0:17.0 | now I'm over here, you know, you know how much money I'm going to get to fly to Vegas. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm going to get to have a Vegas junket. I'm going to get to get hundreds of thousands |
| 0:24.7 | and bribes. It's June 1st, 2017. A Los Angeles city councilman is in the bathroom of |
| 0:32.0 | a Las Vegas casino. He's not alone. He's in there with someone the feds called businessman A, |
| 0:38.1 | identified by the LA Times as Andrew Wong. He sells home electronics and furnishings. |
| 0:45.2 | The same night they go into the bathroom together, the councilman has gotten a bunch of free stuff |
| 0:50.0 | from Wong. About $1,000 in casino chips. $24,000 in drinks and bottle service at a nightclub. |
| 0:57.5 | Escorts came to his hotel room. By the way, this is all in court documents. And in the bathroom, |
| 1:04.5 | at the casino, the councilman gets something else. Wong gives him an envelope. It's got $10,000 |
| 1:11.5 | cash in it. The councilman is not Jose, we said. His name is Mitch Englinder. |
| 1:19.3 | And this is the story of how he became the first arrest in an FBI investigation that wasn't even |
| 1:25.1 | looking for him. I have to tell you, I have a lot more respect for weasers than I do for Mitch. |
| 1:30.0 | I mean, Jesus, if you're going to go to federal prison, you want to do it for a million dollars, |
| 1:34.3 | not $5,000 in strippers. Over the course of four years, starting in 2013, we said allegedly |
| 1:41.9 | made at least 19 different trips to Las Vegas. Sometimes, multiple times in a month, |
| 1:47.2 | he'd go there with Wei Huang, the president of that company, Xinjiang New World Group. |
| 1:51.9 | Remember, he's the one who allegedly gave we said the $600,000 loan to pay off his |
| 1:58.4 | sexual harassment lawsuit. So we said went to Vegas with that guy among others. And they would, |
| 2:03.9 | we said, in the indictment, there's a chart that lists all the gifts that we said got on these |
| 2:10.0 | trips. Flites, hotel rooms, spa services, meals, casino gambling chips, alcohol, and escort |
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