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Doing Justice

CAFE

Documentary, Government, Society & Culture, True Crime

5 • 873 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this fourth episode of Doing Justice, Preet Bharara’s six-part adaptation of his bestselling book, Preet recounts the twisting tale of Hassan Nemazee. For years, Nemazee, a Democratic philanthropist, pulled off multi-million dollar bank fraud to fund his extravagant lifestyle of private jets, fancy cars and expensive art…until the house of cards he built came crashing down. For references and a transcript, visit: cafe.com/doing-justice-podcast/episode-4-urbane-cowboy Purchase the paperback of the bestselling book that inspired the podcast, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law: doingjusticebook.com Doing Justice is produced in collaboration with Transmitter Media. This episode was written by Lacy Roberts and produced by Shoshi Shmuluvitz. The editor is Sara Nics and the executive producer is Gretta Cohn. Jessica Glazer provided production help. The executive producer at CAFE Studios is Tamara Sepper and the chief business officer is Geoff Isenman. Meral Agish fact checked this episode. And Hannis Brown composed our original music and was the mix engineer for this series. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It seems like each news cycle is filled with stories of people testing the boundaries of our laws.
0:06.0	To help illuminate the complex legal issues shaping our country,
0:09.0	Cafe has assembled a team of legal experts for a new podcast called The Council.
0:15.2	You'll hear from former U.S. attorneys Joyce Vance and Barbara McQuaid, legal scholar
0:19.5	Rachel Barco, former FBI Special Agent Asher Rangapa, and of course me,
0:24.0	Elle Honegg, a former prosecutor and CNN senior legal analyst.
0:28.0	Listen to commentary from The Council twice a week by subscribing on your favorite podcast app. That's Council,
0:34.6	C-O-N-S-E-L.
0:38.6	It's a Monday night in January of 2007 and Hassan Namasi is at a party.
0:44.0	It's no ordinary party because Namasi is no ordinary guy.
0:50.0	He does not have ordinary friends. The party is in honor of Terry McAuliffe, a powerful
0:57.3	political fundraiser who will go on to become the governor of Virginia. McAuliffe is celebrating his new memoir with a big party at The Four Seasons.
1:07.6	The Four Seasons is legendary. It's where the term power lunch was invented.
1:13.0	Go there for lunch, and you'll find a handful of the Forbes top 500.
1:18.0	This particular night, the guest list is stacked.
1:22.0	Barbara Walters is at the party.
1:24.0	So is Harvey Weinstein.
1:26.0	And Al Sharpton.
1:28.0	And even Bill Clinton is there.
1:30.0	Guests nibble hors d'oeuvres.
1:32.0	They pose for pictures. In a few photos, you see Hassan Namasi with his buddy McAuliffe. Namasi is wearing a bright red tie and a self-satisfied smile. The whole thing is sure to end up in the society pages.
1:46.0	Namasi is one of them, New York High Society.
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