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Jason called Nathan Fielder’s Theranos documentary the greatest documentary he had seen, praising its layered treatment of Elizabeth Holmes, her husband Billy Evans, Silicon Valley’s fake-it-till-you-make-it culture, and responsibility for fraud. Holmes had been convicted and was filmed 30 days before incarceration; Jason said the film runs three hours.
A scammer who had stolen Bitcoin through a task scam lost the proceeds after moving them into three Ledger addresses that thieves emptied. The theft followed reports from Southeast Asian customers who lost funds after buying Ledger devices from a Malaysian reseller.
Vance said he had seen no evidence Trump enriched himself in office, despite questions about crypto, tax scrutiny, and alleged White House access-selling. The hosts point to Trump’s rising wealth, family business interests, and pardons, and argue Vance’s loyalty to Trump prevents a credible response.
Hosts said inflation helped Trump win swing voters while immigration energized Republican turnout, but the war, tariffs, and perceived self-enrichment now threaten that coalition. They also cited corruption as a concern among Republicans and questioned whether Fox News viewers hear about it.
Ledger said a criminal group implanted devices sold through Crypto Billies resellers in Southeast Asia, capturing recovery seeds and draining funds. Mark Karpeles reported similar implants in devices bought in Germany and Singapore; Ledger said it had not examined those units and confirmed thefts still traced to Crypto Billies.
A UK trader using the name Realist said attackers held him at knife point and forced him to transfer nearly $800,000 in crypto, including $720,000 from a Ledger. Max noted commenters linked the incident to a Revolut data leak, but said that link was unconfirmed.
An AI screening tool evaluated 2.65 million cancer research papers, identifying 261,000 likely fraudulent studies produced by commercial paper mills. Chinese institutional affiliations accounted for 178,000 fake papers, while Iranian affiliations produced 20 percent of the fraudulent studies.
Political campaigns spent over 35 million dollars on 160 Jeffrey Epstein related advertisements during the 2026 midterms, with Democrats funding 90 percent of the ads. Local pushback against 500 megawatt data centers also forced candidates to soften pro-AI stances.
Elizabeth Holmes built Theranos into a $10 billion company before investigative reporter John Carreyrou exposed its technology as fraudulent. In 2022, a federal court sentenced Holmes to 11 years in prison for defrauding investors.
Garrison Davis reported that ICE agents shot 28-year-old Oscar Belgal in New York while his five-year-old son was in the car. NYPD footage showed agents leaving Belgal handcuffed and bleeding until city police carried him to hospital; the child was physically unharmed but reportedly traumatized.
After the shooting, ICE moved Belgal between hospitals and federal custody; his lawyers said he was held in solitary with a bullet still in his neck. Protesters challenged both ICE and NYPD, while Mayor Mamdani called for ICE to leave the city and DSA and a newly elected congresswoman demanded accountability from police leadership.
Gross says he represented more than 20 January 6 defendants and advised nearly 100. He wanted to lead the Capitol Siege Unit, which he says pursued January 6 cases for four years, drew resources from all 50 states, and cost at least $1 billion.
Gross says prosecutors and judges punished defendants for publicly criticizing cases or demanding jury trials. He cites Tijuana Brown, who received 10 months in prison over $20,000 in alleged PPP fraud, and Michael Castellera, whose sentence increased by a year after he criticized his prosecution publicly.
Gross filed a lawsuit seeking an investigation of January 6 plea deals and the coercion he says defendants faced, rather than damages. He says the group offered to drop the case if Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with January 6 defendants for one hour; DOJ declined and moved to dismiss.
Gross describes a revolving door between federal prosecution and white-collar defense, arguing that former prosecutors have incentives to preserve the system they later profit from. He points to Todd Blanche's time at SDNY and the prosecution of Dinesh D'Souza over a $15,000 campaign contribution.
Gross and Tucker Carlson describe a market in which lawyers allegedly charge desperate families hundreds of thousands of dollars for access to officials and promise possible pardons or dropped charges. Gross says access cannot guarantee results and argues that open, systematic case reviews would undercut the market.
Gross says DOJ's weaponization working group held few meetings, produced no January 6 reports to his knowledge, and lacked visible staff or funding. He says colleagues told him to pause his internal reports and that January 6 was outside his remit, despite his appointment to the group.
Gross says DOJ prosecuted Utah doctor Kirk Moore for destroying government property after Moore allegedly gave children placebos instead of COVID vaccines, and Moore faced up to 35 years. Pam Bondi dismissed the case during trial; Gross contrasts that intervention with Nick Ciotto's conviction and prison sentence over fake vaccine-pass cards.
Gross says Return to the Land, a private association for people of European heritage, faced four open investigations despite no identified victim or finding of wrongdoing. He contrasts its treatment with a Texas Muslim development whose investigation closed after two months, and says regulators sought $40,000 for a victim fund plus a $10,000 fine.
Gross says January 6 defendants were placed on the FBI's terror watch list without notice or a clear way to appeal, affecting airport screening and interactions with police. He says the designation was removed after Trump's pardons, but could return under another administration, and he plans to challenge the practice in court.
Gross says January 6 defendants faced surveillance and aggressive arrests, including Seaka Massaqua, whom he says entered the Capitol briefly and left when told to, and Victoria White, whom he says was injured while intervening against a person smashing a window. He also says Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years despite not being at the Capitol.
Gross cites cases where he says prosecution and restitution continued to damage defendants after their convictions: Kevin Moore now receives Social Security, with money withheld monthly, while lawyer Robert Grebel remains liable for restitution after his client was acquitted of the conspiracy Grebel was convicted of.
Gross says federal authorities prosecuted Maryland lawyer Ken Ravenel after using a drug defendant serving a long sentence as a cooperating witness, while prosecutors treated routine advice to use cash and meet in person as evidence of conspiracy. Gross says Ravenel beat most charges but remains imprisoned.
Gross argues DOJ applied civil-rights law unevenly in cases involving political or cultural disputes. He cites Shana Gaviola, whom he says is imprisoned after taking her child to an out-of-state school, and former officer Kyle Meany, who faced possible life imprisonment or death over his supervisory role in a raid.
Gross says Harmeet Dhillon told him DOJ's role was to protect the department, not bring in weaponization victims, and that visitors should come only to offer a proffer. After Gross wrote reports and brought defendants to the office, he says he was sidelined and resigned in March 2026.
Gross calls for outside reviewers to audit prosecutions office by office, focusing on cases with no clear crime, no identifiable victim, and evidence of political motive. He argues that prosecutors should not control pardon reviews of their own cases and that officials who oversaw disputed prosecutions should face accountability.
Mariana van Zeller says scam compounds in Myanmar and Cambodia enslave people recruited with fake job offers, confiscate passports, and force them to defraud victims online. She described torture, sexual violence, and blood extraction, with workers held in guarded buildings behind bars and barbed wire.
Mariana van Zeller says Joaquín Guzmán’s son lured Sinaloa cartel leader El Mayo to a meeting, seized him, and delivered him to U.S. authorities to seek leniency for his family. El Mayo pleaded guilty and received a life sentence, while critics question reduced sentences for traffickers who cooperate.
Mariana van Zeller describes cartel influence over Mexican officials as coercive and pervasive, with local police sometimes cooperating under threats to their families. A peer-reviewed study cited in the discussion counted nearly 500 political assassinations in Mexico, especially targeting municipal officials and candidates.
Mariana van Zeller traced U.S. guns from Los Angeles to Sinaloa, including weapons she said came from confiscated police stock and a Marine seller. She described a woman driving the guns across the southern border, where checks were sparse, and cartel members storing weapons for fights with rivals.