October 24, 2025 • 16 mins
In Today's Top Stories, we cover Governor DeSantis blasting the Republican House plan on property taxes, Boca Raton's mayor predicting a business exodus from New York City if Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor, a Florida judge tossing a lawsuit against Shakira, the arrest of Miami Heat Guard Terry Rozier in an FBI gambling probe, Miami being ranked the number one housing market bubble in the world – again, and a Florida Man accused of stabbing a co-worker over a parking space.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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my friends over at on Koshore. For a simple, accurate,
non invasive test that detects all cancers, call eight seven
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Good morning, Natalie, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
While lawmakers are sitting the stage for the next session
a kickoff in January, but in the meantime, all eyes
are on the property tax to be something that we
have repeatedly talked about here on your show. So far,
house members released eight possible routes. Governor Desanta's pretty quiet
up until this week, where he took to social media
(00:34):
about a post on x about the recent proposals unleashed
by the House, and he said, quote, placing more than
one property tax measure on the ballot represents an attempt
to kill anything on property taxes. It's a political game,
not a serious attempt to get it done for the people.
And he's talked about possibly bringing lawmakers back after session
(00:56):
wraps up in March to go ahead and land the plane.
All of this while prop reinsurance reforms seem to be
working bringing down rates. According to our next Senate president
here in the state, Jim Boyd, that'll become official after
the elections, he says insurance changes he sponsored over the
past few years are working.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
We paid a lot for our homeowners insurance. Those rates
are going down. I believe we're going to see even
more downward movement on those rates, and I'm excited about
that because that's the reform that we tried to put
into place that would accomplish that.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I have yet to meet one homeowner who agrees with that.
I was going to say the same thing.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I know it's anecdotal, but I just I have not
heard that from anybody no way yet, and I think
there's more they can do on that issue. But going
back to the property tax issue, so the governor comes out,
he blasts House Republicans for their proposal of multiple different
property tax measures to get put on the twenty twenty
(01:53):
six ballot. Then you have Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez
responding to the governor for not laying out a specific
plan to eliminate property taxes. So we criticized governor for,
you know, not having his own plan ready to go. Look,
something's gonna get done on property taxes during this upcoming
legislative session. But you could see how contentious the session
(02:16):
is going to be. You have a lot of bad
blood between the governor and state lawmakers as it is,
and you have the governor as a lame duck this
time around, and I think it's going to be pretty nasty.
And this is just setting the stage. And look, I
don't think the House was going to move forward with
(02:36):
all of these different proposals. I think some of this
will get sorted out during the legislative session. You can't
put eight different things on the ballot. I mean, we
can't handle that. Can we just have one that works right? Right,
You're gonna have to whittle that down a little bit,
so that's gonna be needed. So I get what the
governor's saying there. If the governor has a plan that
(02:56):
he prefers, he should put that out there and then
they can figure it out from there. But yeah, I
think the big takeaway here from this back and forth
between the governor and the House Speaker is that things
are going to get prettyheated in Tallahassee in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And not just Tallahassee, but also in New York.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Speaking of the governor, he is saying that the New
York mayoral race to have an impact on Florida real estate,
no doubt if Zorn's Mamdanni wins next month's election. He
specifically said that prices in Palm Beach are likely to
go up the latest poll showing mom Donnie with an
eleven point lead.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
And he's not the only one.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Fox News Digital actually spoke to Boca Ratona Mayor Scott
Singer about the expected influx of New Yorkers to.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Cities like his.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
If quote unquote, the socialist Mom Donnie is elected as
its next mayor, let me see if I can get
that audio to play.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
A lot of people leading high tax, high crime jurisdictions
like New York and other places is real. It's been
happening for years, and Boca Ratona has been the beneficiary
of a lot of businesses, their corporate headquarters and high
paying jobs here. I think the threat is even more real.
People are already preparing to leave before a Mom Donnie election,
and if the polls hold as they expect in the
(04:11):
next few weeks, we're going to see a lot more
people looking to bring their businesses here and create jobs.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
In book of retone, and.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
It's not the first time that we've heard that, you know,
the influx of New Yorkers down here to Florida.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
So yeah, I don't know if mo'm Donnie were to
get elected, I don't know if we would see an
influx like we saw during and after the pandemic, but
we're probably talking about something pretty close now. If Andrew
Cuomo wins, I could see a lot of people taking
those they have in nursing homes and bringing them down
to Florida.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
But maybe they don't move themselves, but like the good
old days.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, yeah, but I definitely think if mo'm Donnie wins,
you're going to see more and more people leave in
New York and perhaps a lot of them coming to
the Free State of Florida.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
All right, let's get to one more quick story this week.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, Well, we've had stories about people getting duped. I
think it was what Brad Pitt or I need data
for that one, but I can't remember who the star was.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
But in this case, was it Brad Pitt? I think? So?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
There was one recently a Bradenton man post is Elon
Musk and managed to swindle two hundred fifty thousand dollars
out of a woman who thought that he really was
Elon Musk and he was promising her fifty five million
dollar return on her investment. Hey, you put up two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars and you promised fifty five
million back. I mean that kind of gotten all the
(05:31):
nice that's it's a good return on investment.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Well, in this case, it's a it's an eighty year
old California man.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Bless his heart.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
He sued Shakira for breach of contract, defamation, intentional infliction
of emotional distress, and more, but a Miami judge has
squashed that lawsuit. His name is David krush Rashitian Akahammed Rashitian.
He sued Shakira earlier this year for all of that,
saying that you know he was he was duped. The complain,
(06:00):
filed in the eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, states that
he started communicating with who he thought was Shakira, but
it was a purported impersonator on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
A couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
He gave Shakira quote unquote more than one hundred and
forty thousand dollars for her participation in his book project
and to perform one hundred concerts around the world. He
claims that those payments covered Shakira's hotel stays, her airfare,
hospital expenses for her mom, and other personal matters.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
But again, wasn't Shakira.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, if you're thinking the year going back and forth,
someone's hips lies right right right with Shakira or Elon Musk,
You're probably not. Now, Shakira does follow me on X.
I could send her a direct message if I wanted to.
And that's true story. I don't know why she follows
me on X.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Is it her?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I swear to you it is her. She doesn't follow
them and it files like two hundred people and for some.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Reason I want I saw her click like and she's
following it.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I swear to you, she is following me and she
likes my hot takes. Maybe I don't know, but if
I wanted to reach out to Shakira, I could and
it would be well, it would be her team.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
But answering her messages? Close enough? Yeah, close? All right.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Natalie Rodriguez with today's Stop Stories. Natalie, thanks so much,
you got it. We start with today's Stop Stories and
Natalie Rodriguez, good morning, Natalie.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Good morning. Will we start off with.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
This, Your winning streak has ended your luck has run out.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
That were the words from FBI Director Cash Bettel on
Miami heat guard Terry Rosier among six arrested tied to
an illegal sport betting scheme. He was attorney for the
Eastern District of New York, Joseph Ncella, calling it one
of the most rasen sports corruption cases since online sports
betting was actually legalized.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
The defendants relied on a network of straw betters to
place the maximum amount of bets to increase.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Their potential profits.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Most of these bets succeeded and the intended losses.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Were in the millions of dollars. And this didn't just happen.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
This investigation goes back years in fact two, when Rosier
was with the Charlotte Hornets in twenty twenty three, he
was accused of telling insiders that he was going to
leave a game with an injury, leading to bets being
placed on him and then hours after his arrest, Rosier
did appear in federal court in Orlando yesterday. He was
wearing a Charlotte Hornets sweatshirt, handcuffs and shackles, and Chauncey
(08:27):
Billups appeared before judge in Portland, Oregon. Both men were
order to release from custody on certain conditions, and we're
waiting to hear an actual statement from the Heat. The NBA, though,
has placed Rosier on immediate leave. Yeah, so there are
two parts to this. You've got the one case, Operation
Nothing but Net. That's the one that involved Terry Rosier
(08:52):
and five others using insider NBA information for sports betting.
And so essentially you've got this one example where Rosier
told a friend before a Charlotte Hornets game that he
planned to leave early due to a supposed injury.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
That friend shares the tip with others. They placed more
than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in prop bets
on that information and Rosier he only scores a couple points,
only plays about ten minutes, then he sits out, and
the under bets ended up winning big and you had
big payouts for those who knew in advance. So that's
(09:32):
the case that involves Heat guard Terry Rosier. And you
do wonder the NBA never found anything on him that
would have led them to take action against him. But
you do wonder why the Miami Heat, knowing that the
NBA had investigated him, why exactly they wanted him on
their team because now they've got to answer some questions.
(09:55):
And then you got the other case. This is the
one that looks sports betting. Know, we've seen those kinds
of incidents happen. They're not common, but they've happened in
the past involving players. This one, though, this illegal poker
ring where you've got players, pro athletes, coaches like Chauncey Billups,
Hall of Famer. He was used to lure high rollers
(10:19):
into rig games. So it's like, you get a chance
to play with Chauncey Billups, you know high roll.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Hey, NBA Hall of Famer, why not? That sounds great?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And then during the games they're using this high tech
equipment to rig them. They got like these X ray
poker tables, they got shuffling machines that are modified to cheat,
hidden cameras, contact lenses that could read marked cards, but
like you know, if you were just looking at it,
you wouldn't be able to see it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I mean, it's great.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And then you've got you know, four of the five
Mafia families who are helping organize and enforce the games.
That crazy, just crazy, And and Chauncey Billup again, Hall
of famer. Dude made like one hundred million dollars during
his playing career. He's a coach now for the Portland
Trailblazers involved in all of that.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
That was the one that I was like, WHOA.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
So there's a lot more on this we're going to
get to throughout the morning, including Lebron James, not that
he was involved, but an injury of his was used
for a sports betting rigging deal.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I mean, there's just a lot to unpack from all
of this. I'm going to place my bets right now.
There are going to be more shoes to drop, Oh
for sure. I can't wait to see the movie. I
can't wait to see the movie.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
But it involves all these mafias are being dropped.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Well, Miami apparently the number one housing market bubble in
the world, at least that's what a new study says,
but analysts, academics, and economists are arguing that the findings
are not telling the whole story. UBS Global Real Estate
Bubble Index ranked the Magic City number one, followed by
Tokyo and Zerich, based in part on the dispair between
the price for sale homes and rents in these markets.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
The report says that Miami's current quote price to rent
ratio surpassed.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Even the extremes of.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
The two thousand and six property bubble, signaling a high
bubble risk. However, Realtor dot Com shows that the report
is not necessarily accurate. Not telling the whole story is
not telling the story basically. Anna Bosovik, a Miami based
real estate agent and founder of Analytics Miami, tells Realtor
dot Com that the Swiss bank is using Miami as
(12:33):
clickbait and spreading sensationalist misinformation, saying that the cities are
ranked based on their bubble risk scores, which are the
weighted averages of five metrics, which is like way too
mathy to math this morning. But Miami did earn a
score of one point seventy three, which boosts the Sunshine
State metro to the top of the ranking. Tokyo in
(12:55):
second place with a bubble risk of one point five
point nine, just ahead of zero with one point five
point five rating, La coming in fourth with a rating
of one point one one.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Well, what I thought was interesting about the UBS study
was that it noted the area's median household income is
around seventy six thousand dollars, which would generally support a
home that would cost around three hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Good luck and good.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Luck finding one of those homes condomt Yeah, and not
just in the South Florida market, in the Tampa Bay
area market too. That's what I've noticed when I've just
kind of gone on Zio to take a look and.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
See what's out there shop.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I mean, some of these, you know, they're asking for
like six hundred thousand dollars and it's got those cabinets,
you know, the white ones would like that, that little.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Line of nidy.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah, it's got these all appliances. I'm like, are you
kidding me? But that's where the market's at right now.
And that's why it's it's kind of quiet out there,
because who wants to pay that much for that kind
of home?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You know? And it was interest rate right exactly. That's
a big problem.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
What else is going on, Natalie, Well, we have a
story so Florida.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
It has to do with a machete. I know you
love these stories.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Always a machete. A machete. Forty seven year old Honduran
Meldon Lopez. He's accused of attacking a co worker with
the machete during a fight over a parking space. This
happened at a Coral Gables construction site. Everybody got involved.
A third worker actually was able to snatch that machete
away before he did any harm more harm, and he
(14:37):
hid the machete in a pile of sand while police
got to the scene. The victim did suffer injuries to
his shoulder. No word if he was slashed or stabbed
or just you know, banged up. Lopez was booked in
jail on one count evaccorated battery with weapon causing great
bodily harm and as of yesterday morning, he was still
being held in Turner Guildford Knight Correctional Center. No word
(15:00):
on what his immigration status is at how that might
impact this case.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
I'm not going to obviously condone anything quite like this,
but I will say that I have experienced something that
that almost led me to take a machete to a
coworker over a parking spot.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I used to have a prime spot in the lot.
It was it was right at the end, so there
was nobody that could park to the left of me,
and I could easily back in and are very on
James Berland or all of a sudden just started parking
in that same spot, and he arrives before I do,
so he took he stole it from me, so like
(15:39):
now I got to park his car. No, No, I
didn't do anything like that, and I did not take
a machete to him or anything like that. But yeah,
it was definitely one of those things, Hey, that that
was my spot, but no longer.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Hey to carry a construction code and use that to
just save your space, Not that I would.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
They do, say, yeah, what is it that the early
bird gets the worm? So yeah, he gets here before me.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
All right. Natalie Rodriguez with today's top stories. Natalie, thanks
so much. You got it. It was The Ryan Gorman
Show five to nine, every weekday morning on news radio
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Good morning, Natalie, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
While lawmakers are sitting the stage for the next session
a kickoff in January, but in the meantime, all eyes
are on the property tax to be something that we
have repeatedly talked about here on your show. So far,
house members released eight possible routes. Governor Desanta's pretty quiet
up until this week, where he took to social media
(00:34):
about a post on x about the recent proposals unleashed
by the House, and he said, quote, placing more than
one property tax measure on the ballot represents an attempt
to kill anything on property taxes. It's a political game,
not a serious attempt to get it done for the people.
And he's talked about possibly bringing lawmakers back after session
(00:56):
wraps up in March to go ahead and land the plane.
All of this while prop reinsurance reforms seem to be
working bringing down rates. According to our next Senate president
here in the state, Jim Boyd, that'll become official after
the elections, he says insurance changes he sponsored over the
past few years are working.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
We paid a lot for our homeowners insurance. Those rates
are going down. I believe we're going to see even
more downward movement on those rates, and I'm excited about
that because that's the reform that we tried to put
into place that would accomplish that.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I have yet to meet one homeowner who agrees with that.
I was going to say the same thing.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I know it's anecdotal, but I just I have not
heard that from anybody no way yet, and I think
there's more they can do on that issue. But going
back to the property tax issue, so the governor comes out,
he blasts House Republicans for their proposal of multiple different
property tax measures to get put on the twenty twenty
(01:53):
six ballot. Then you have Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez
responding to the governor for not laying out a specific
plan to eliminate property taxes. So we criticized governor for,
you know, not having his own plan ready to go. Look,
something's gonna get done on property taxes during this upcoming
legislative session. But you could see how contentious the session
(02:16):
is going to be. You have a lot of bad
blood between the governor and state lawmakers as it is,
and you have the governor as a lame duck this
time around, and I think it's going to be pretty nasty.
And this is just setting the stage. And look, I
don't think the House was going to move forward with
(02:36):
all of these different proposals. I think some of this
will get sorted out during the legislative session. You can't
put eight different things on the ballot. I mean, we
can't handle that. Can we just have one that works right? Right,
You're gonna have to whittle that down a little bit,
so that's gonna be needed. So I get what the
governor's saying there. If the governor has a plan that
(02:56):
he prefers, he should put that out there and then
they can figure it out from there. But yeah, I
think the big takeaway here from this back and forth
between the governor and the House Speaker is that things
are going to get prettyheated in Tallahassee in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And not just Tallahassee, but also in New York.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Speaking of the governor, he is saying that the New
York mayoral race to have an impact on Florida real estate,
no doubt if Zorn's Mamdanni wins next month's election. He
specifically said that prices in Palm Beach are likely to
go up the latest poll showing mom Donnie with an
eleven point lead.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
And he's not the only one.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Fox News Digital actually spoke to Boca Ratona Mayor Scott
Singer about the expected influx of New Yorkers to.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Cities like his.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
If quote unquote, the socialist Mom Donnie is elected as
its next mayor, let me see if I can get
that audio to play.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
A lot of people leading high tax, high crime jurisdictions
like New York and other places is real. It's been
happening for years, and Boca Ratona has been the beneficiary
of a lot of businesses, their corporate headquarters and high
paying jobs here. I think the threat is even more real.
People are already preparing to leave before a Mom Donnie election,
and if the polls hold as they expect in the
(04:11):
next few weeks, we're going to see a lot more
people looking to bring their businesses here and create jobs.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
In book of retone, and.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
It's not the first time that we've heard that, you know,
the influx of New Yorkers down here to Florida.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
So yeah, I don't know if mo'm Donnie were to
get elected, I don't know if we would see an
influx like we saw during and after the pandemic, but
we're probably talking about something pretty close now. If Andrew
Cuomo wins, I could see a lot of people taking
those they have in nursing homes and bringing them down
to Florida.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
But maybe they don't move themselves, but like the good
old days.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, yeah, but I definitely think if mo'm Donnie wins,
you're going to see more and more people leave in
New York and perhaps a lot of them coming to
the Free State of Florida.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
All right, let's get to one more quick story this week.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, Well, we've had stories about people getting duped. I
think it was what Brad Pitt or I need data
for that one, but I can't remember who the star was.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
But in this case, was it Brad Pitt? I think? So?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
There was one recently a Bradenton man post is Elon
Musk and managed to swindle two hundred fifty thousand dollars
out of a woman who thought that he really was
Elon Musk and he was promising her fifty five million
dollar return on her investment. Hey, you put up two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars and you promised fifty five
million back. I mean that kind of gotten all the
(05:31):
nice that's it's a good return on investment.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Well, in this case, it's a it's an eighty year
old California man.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Bless his heart.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
He sued Shakira for breach of contract, defamation, intentional infliction
of emotional distress, and more, but a Miami judge has
squashed that lawsuit. His name is David krush Rashitian Akahammed Rashitian.
He sued Shakira earlier this year for all of that,
saying that you know he was he was duped. The complain,
(06:00):
filed in the eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, states that
he started communicating with who he thought was Shakira, but
it was a purported impersonator on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
A couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
He gave Shakira quote unquote more than one hundred and
forty thousand dollars for her participation in his book project
and to perform one hundred concerts around the world. He
claims that those payments covered Shakira's hotel stays, her airfare,
hospital expenses for her mom, and other personal matters.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
But again, wasn't Shakira.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, if you're thinking the year going back and forth,
someone's hips lies right right right with Shakira or Elon Musk,
You're probably not. Now, Shakira does follow me on X.
I could send her a direct message if I wanted to.
And that's true story. I don't know why she follows
me on X.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Is it her?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I swear to you it is her. She doesn't follow
them and it files like two hundred people and for some.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Reason I want I saw her click like and she's
following it.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I swear to you, she is following me and she
likes my hot takes. Maybe I don't know, but if
I wanted to reach out to Shakira, I could and
it would be well, it would be her team.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
But answering her messages? Close enough? Yeah, close? All right.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Natalie Rodriguez with today's Stop Stories. Natalie, thanks so much,
you got it. We start with today's Stop Stories and
Natalie Rodriguez, good morning, Natalie.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Good morning. Will we start off with.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
This, Your winning streak has ended your luck has run out.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
That were the words from FBI Director Cash Bettel on
Miami heat guard Terry Rosier among six arrested tied to
an illegal sport betting scheme. He was attorney for the
Eastern District of New York, Joseph Ncella, calling it one
of the most rasen sports corruption cases since online sports
betting was actually legalized.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
The defendants relied on a network of straw betters to
place the maximum amount of bets to increase.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Their potential profits.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Most of these bets succeeded and the intended losses.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Were in the millions of dollars. And this didn't just happen.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
This investigation goes back years in fact two, when Rosier
was with the Charlotte Hornets in twenty twenty three, he
was accused of telling insiders that he was going to
leave a game with an injury, leading to bets being
placed on him and then hours after his arrest, Rosier
did appear in federal court in Orlando yesterday. He was
wearing a Charlotte Hornets sweatshirt, handcuffs and shackles, and Chauncey
(08:27):
Billups appeared before judge in Portland, Oregon. Both men were
order to release from custody on certain conditions, and we're
waiting to hear an actual statement from the Heat. The NBA, though,
has placed Rosier on immediate leave. Yeah, so there are
two parts to this. You've got the one case, Operation
Nothing but Net. That's the one that involved Terry Rosier
(08:52):
and five others using insider NBA information for sports betting.
And so essentially you've got this one example where Rosier
told a friend before a Charlotte Hornets game that he
planned to leave early due to a supposed injury.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
That friend shares the tip with others. They placed more
than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in prop bets
on that information and Rosier he only scores a couple points,
only plays about ten minutes, then he sits out, and
the under bets ended up winning big and you had
big payouts for those who knew in advance. So that's
(09:32):
the case that involves Heat guard Terry Rosier. And you
do wonder the NBA never found anything on him that
would have led them to take action against him. But
you do wonder why the Miami Heat, knowing that the
NBA had investigated him, why exactly they wanted him on
their team because now they've got to answer some questions.
(09:55):
And then you got the other case. This is the
one that looks sports betting. Know, we've seen those kinds
of incidents happen. They're not common, but they've happened in
the past involving players. This one, though, this illegal poker
ring where you've got players, pro athletes, coaches like Chauncey Billups,
Hall of Famer. He was used to lure high rollers
(10:19):
into rig games. So it's like, you get a chance
to play with Chauncey Billups, you know high roll.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Hey, NBA Hall of Famer, why not? That sounds great?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And then during the games they're using this high tech
equipment to rig them. They got like these X ray
poker tables, they got shuffling machines that are modified to cheat,
hidden cameras, contact lenses that could read marked cards, but
like you know, if you were just looking at it,
you wouldn't be able to see it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I mean, it's great.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And then you've got you know, four of the five
Mafia families who are helping organize and enforce the games.
That crazy, just crazy, And and Chauncey Billup again, Hall
of famer. Dude made like one hundred million dollars during
his playing career. He's a coach now for the Portland
Trailblazers involved in all of that.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
That was the one that I was like, WHOA.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
So there's a lot more on this we're going to
get to throughout the morning, including Lebron James, not that
he was involved, but an injury of his was used
for a sports betting rigging deal.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I mean, there's just a lot to unpack from all
of this. I'm going to place my bets right now.
There are going to be more shoes to drop, Oh
for sure. I can't wait to see the movie. I
can't wait to see the movie.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
But it involves all these mafias are being dropped.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Well, Miami apparently the number one housing market bubble in
the world, at least that's what a new study says,
but analysts, academics, and economists are arguing that the findings
are not telling the whole story. UBS Global Real Estate
Bubble Index ranked the Magic City number one, followed by
Tokyo and Zerich, based in part on the dispair between
the price for sale homes and rents in these markets.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
The report says that Miami's current quote price to rent
ratio surpassed.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Even the extremes of.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
The two thousand and six property bubble, signaling a high
bubble risk. However, Realtor dot Com shows that the report
is not necessarily accurate. Not telling the whole story is
not telling the story basically. Anna Bosovik, a Miami based
real estate agent and founder of Analytics Miami, tells Realtor
dot Com that the Swiss bank is using Miami as
(12:33):
clickbait and spreading sensationalist misinformation, saying that the cities are
ranked based on their bubble risk scores, which are the
weighted averages of five metrics, which is like way too
mathy to math this morning. But Miami did earn a
score of one point seventy three, which boosts the Sunshine
State metro to the top of the ranking. Tokyo in
(12:55):
second place with a bubble risk of one point five
point nine, just ahead of zero with one point five
point five rating, La coming in fourth with a rating
of one point one one.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Well, what I thought was interesting about the UBS study
was that it noted the area's median household income is
around seventy six thousand dollars, which would generally support a
home that would cost around three hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Good luck and good.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Luck finding one of those homes condomt Yeah, and not
just in the South Florida market, in the Tampa Bay
area market too. That's what I've noticed when I've just
kind of gone on Zio to take a look and.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
See what's out there shop.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I mean, some of these, you know, they're asking for
like six hundred thousand dollars and it's got those cabinets,
you know, the white ones would like that, that little.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Line of nidy.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah, it's got these all appliances. I'm like, are you
kidding me? But that's where the market's at right now.
And that's why it's it's kind of quiet out there,
because who wants to pay that much for that kind
of home?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You know? And it was interest rate right exactly. That's
a big problem.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
What else is going on, Natalie, Well, we have a
story so Florida.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
It has to do with a machete. I know you
love these stories.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Always a machete. A machete. Forty seven year old Honduran
Meldon Lopez. He's accused of attacking a co worker with
the machete during a fight over a parking space. This
happened at a Coral Gables construction site. Everybody got involved.
A third worker actually was able to snatch that machete
away before he did any harm more harm, and he
(14:37):
hid the machete in a pile of sand while police
got to the scene. The victim did suffer injuries to
his shoulder. No word if he was slashed or stabbed
or just you know, banged up. Lopez was booked in
jail on one count evaccorated battery with weapon causing great
bodily harm and as of yesterday morning, he was still
being held in Turner Guildford Knight Correctional Center. No word
(15:00):
on what his immigration status is at how that might
impact this case.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
I'm not going to obviously condone anything quite like this,
but I will say that I have experienced something that
that almost led me to take a machete to a
coworker over a parking spot.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I used to have a prime spot in the lot.
It was it was right at the end, so there
was nobody that could park to the left of me,
and I could easily back in and are very on
James Berland or all of a sudden just started parking
in that same spot, and he arrives before I do,
so he took he stole it from me, so like
(15:39):
now I got to park his car. No, No, I
didn't do anything like that, and I did not take
a machete to him or anything like that. But yeah,
it was definitely one of those things, Hey, that that
was my spot, but no longer.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Hey to carry a construction code and use that to
just save your space, Not that I would.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
They do, say, yeah, what is it that the early
bird gets the worm? So yeah, he gets here before me.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
All right. Natalie Rodriguez with today's top stories. Natalie, thanks
so much. You got it. It was The Ryan Gorman
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