comcast business built for business. so it s my last day in new orleans, and i m on my way this morning to tca to give them the checks from the fund-raiser that we had at john s house. and we raised $31,000. i mean, we raised more than a lot of people make in a year. this money will help 30 people who work at tca make $10.10 next year take care of their families a little better, have a little
though he s part of the 1%, he made his millions representing the 99% as a victims rights attorney. he has collected millions of dollars from insurance companies on behalf of victims of hurricanes katrina, ike and sandy and runs the same law firm credited with taking down big tobacco. but john is also an entrepreneur, always looking for the next big profitable opportunity. recently, he has partnered with several other 1 percenters who are investing several billion dollars in an oil and gas project in louisiana. how do you get to the point as an incredibly successful lawyer where you say, well, now i m going to do oil and gas? it happened organically. i was working with entrepreneurs in that industry as a lawyer. then after a while, i learned how they did it, and said you know what, maybe i can do it. but it s a risk. you re putting out your money. you re putting out your time in the hope it s going to work. it may not.
home in the 9th ward to find out why he thinks it s been so difficult to catch a break. what were the circumstances you think that led you from where you were in detroit to here? it was two main things. one was my house payment changed from right around $500 a month to right around $1,100 a month. and right within a few months of the time of that happening the work started to dry up for the union, you know. it just wasn t there. as a foreman for his union back in detroit, john says he was once well on his way to achieving the american dream, earning upwards of $30 an hour. but as union jobs became fewer and farther between, his wages plummeted and things started to spiral for john and his family. we were doing everything we could, you know. and it just fell apart. there was nothing anyone can do. and instead of going through the long foreclosure process, we
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world. st. charles avenue. how are you? morgan. nice to meet you. pleasure to meet you. nice to meet you as well. thank you. john tailing is a high-powered attorney and entrepreneur in new orleans who has raked in hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of his career. your house is amazing. oh, thank you. this place was built by the cotton king in new orleans. this was a wedding president to his wife. your kitchen is bigger than my apartment. oh. yeah. it s a working kitchen. what s like the monthly cost to run the snous. it s a lot. it s more than i made my first year as a lawyer. what did you think of the first time you met? as i later found out, she s from moscow and she s a big russian pop star and this is kind of normal. this is her normal life.