i can t stand. is that okay, tony? can i sit? [gunfire] is. jesse: no one ever wants to meet a mobster. some people would feel safer in prison than out on the street people like bernie madoff no relation to. lost $65 billion of other people s money in a ponzi scheme. it wasn t just joe schmo s money that bernie stole. a new netflix documentary says bernie madoff was taking millions of dollars in from criminals. federal reserve drug cartels tr. and when they all came knocking on bernie s door to have it back, he didn t have it. instead of paying up, the documentary says madoff pled guilty to 150 year prison sentence so he wouldn t get whacked. madoff just confessed said i did it said send me away. if madoff for years was able to get away with taking in mob money, drug money right under the nose of the feds, just imagine what s going on in crypto. the currency notorious with mobsters, sex traffickers and hackers. warren buffett s right-hand man calls it rat poison. dignity
madoff? yes. thanks for having me on jesse, first off. fundamentally they both built tremendous trust. bernie through the jewish community, and the regulators. and sbf basically paid for politicians $73 million, 92% of it went to democrats. and also he had on his payroll ftxfc commodity futures commission he was paying money to. they exploited that trust. bitcoin in general is a confidence game which is a nice word for con game. jesse: so, if you have criminals, mobsters, russian mobsters, cartels, saying bernie, you re dead. you re basically a dead man so, he goes prison, takes the wrap, pleads guilty, do you see a similar scenario with mini madoff? i mean, you are talking about arms traffickers, you re talking
it could play a part in this store. absolutely. he was one of the most sophisticated arms traffickers and even after u.s./u.n./e.u. sanctions were ready, willing, able and that s exactly what comey may need a little more time after that he s going to become preventive and block chevys in. you know what he does and you know what they think, i m better than everyone. the. thank you, earn. next, the justice department asking a federal court to hold trump in content. what that could mean for others.
how are you feeling tonight? as a human rights investigator, of course i have always tried to work towards the innocent civilians who have been used by pawns like brings ner shoot. but to know one of the arms traffickers is ready to be deployed. he is what i call a weapon of mass destruction personified. he will be ready for putin to deploy him. that is heartbreaking for me. so you do, you call him a weapon of mass destruction personified. he was convicted and sent to a
victory. reporter: oh, absolutely. one of the people that was there greeting victor bout along be with his mother and wife was a russian parliamentarian. she said this is a capitulation by the united states, an acknowledgment that so far russia doesn t leave people behind and this is an acknowledgment that was so difficult to get the united states to agree to release viktor bout for brittney griner. morally they re two different people. she was caught with traces of cannabis oil in her luggage. viktor bout one of the world s most notorious arms traffickers. even the russians are acutely aware of the massive difference in the status of these two people. nevertheless, he s back home with his family. very emotional scenes at the airport. it s reported he was a former