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From New York City,

Roberta Glass is now on the record.

Hello. In 1988, authorities in Omaha, Nebraska examined allegations of a child prostitution ring stemming from the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union.

The allegations that Larry King was prostituting children to the prominent and powerful,

private investigator Gary Caradori was hired by the state of Nebraska to investigate these claims, but he died in a plane crash with his son in July of 1990.

In May of 1994, a documentary about the scandal was set to air on the Discovery Channel but was pulled at the last minute, only adding to the scandal's lore. It's the Holy Grail of Conspiracy theories, producing two books,

the Franklin cover-up by John DeCamp and the Franklin Scandal by Nick Bryant.

A number of podcasts, it's inspired.

And it's inspired a whole host of researchers all dedicated to uncovering the truth about the Franklin scandal.

But was the Franklin scandal a carefully crafted

hoax as the grand jury determined, who sentenced alleged victim Alicia Owen to nine to 15 years in prison for perjury. That's what they

concluded. Today we are going to examine Alicia Owen's interview and her claims and you can decide for

yourself whether you think it's a hoax or in fact a cover-up. So one of the first

things that really made me start thinking about the Franklin scandal because conspiracy of

silence is certainly so incredibly powerful and convincing, right?

You're certain after you've watched that,

that you've known the truth,

but maybe I've just watched too many of these documentaries

that turn out to be not true.

But I saw this interview, Nick Bryant,

who wrote The Franklin Scandal book.

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