TRENDING - President Trump commutes George Santos’ prison sentence, sparking fresh political backlash. Former South Florida U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta tells Congress the Epstein case was a “crapshoot” as new revelations from Virginia Giuffre’s memoir rock the royal family and cost Prince Andrew his title. Plus, thieves pull off a daring multi-million-dollar heist at the Louvre in Paris.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Disgraced former New York Congressman George Santos was released from
prison on Friday. President Trump commuted his sentence after he
spent eighty four days in prison. He was sentenced to
over seven years for aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, and
other financial crimes.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
He went on Fox News to thank the president.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Thank you to President Trump for clemency and for having
such an amazing will for second chances. You know, I
feel like it's just as served in a sense of
I've made some poor choices in my life, but nothing
would warrant a insane, arbitrary sentence, but on top of that,
a sentence that no one else would have gotten.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, And he was asked why he thinks he deserved
to be released.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Charlie, I understand people want to make this into a
he's getting away with it, right, not getting.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Away with it.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I was the first person to ever go to federal
prison for this type of civil FEC violation. These are
usually solved in in penalties, and I don't want to
focus on trying to rehash the pass. I want to
take this experience and do good and move on with
the future.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And he says he's going to work on prison reform now.
He was also ordered to pay three hundred and seventy
four thousand dollars in restitution, but when CNN asked him
if he plans to pay that money to the people
he owes it to, he said only if he's required
to by law. So, if your sentence is commuted, does
it also take away your responsibility to pay the fine?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I guess the hook completely.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
He is going to be able to keep those cameo dollars.
I don't like this. I don't like this at all.
He was expelled from Congress. It was a bipartisan vote.
You've got New York Republicans blasting the decision those who
know him best, one representative calling him a convicted con artist,
another saying he stole millions to fraud it an election.
His crimes warn't more than a three month sentence. I
(01:52):
just I don't understand why President Trump felt he needed
to commute the sentence for George Santos because he was
a Republican and he voted.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
He's so supportive of President Trump. Yes, and Mike Johnson
was asked if he would have, like, you know, let
him come back to Congress, and he said, yeah, that's
what we do.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
If that's what the people want.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
It's just ridiculous. So George Santos out, he'll have a
reality show sooner rather.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah, he's going to do something. He's so flamboyant, animated. Yeah,
people love it.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Alex Acosta, the former of South Florida US attorney who
gave Jeffrey Epstein that sweetheart deal in the mid two thousands,
testified to House lawmakers last month, and we're learning some
of what he said. So he told the committee that
Epstein got that deal because a trial would have been
a quote, crapshoot. He said, some of the witnesses refused
(02:40):
to testify, some change their stories, and they just didn't
think that they were going to be able to successfully
prosecute him. He said Epstein's attorneys at the time, Alan
Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr used tactics that skirted the line
of misconduct and that he and his colleagues found them
frustrating and distasteful. He said, we put him in jail,
(03:00):
he registered as a sex offender, and the victims had
an opportunity to recover, and that was a win. He
also said that everyone on the team favored a pre
trial resolution, and that's what they decided to do.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I don't know of anyone who thinks that sweetheart deal
was win. And then the Miami Herald reported that some
new documents show that Epstein met and dined multiple times
with Matthew Minchell, the former chief criminal prosecutor in Miami's
US Attorney's office who helped craft that sweetheart deal. Now
(03:37):
this was years after Menschell had left the Justice Department.
But you work on that case, you know all of
that about Epstein, and then you go and you have
dinner with him multiple times.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
The whole thing, everything about this case from so many
different angles.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Thanks and there's so much more that we keep learning
in bits and pieces. That's why you know, there continues
to need to be a push for more transparency because
there's a lot of stuff that we still don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Prince Andrew has given up his royal title. He will
no longer be known as the Duke of York. This
has more details about his alleged abuse of Virginia Duffrey
has come to public light. She wrote a book before
she died, and it's set to be released tomorrow. Parts
of it have already been made public. In his statement,
Prince Andrews said that the continued accusations about him distract
(04:30):
from the work of his majesty in the royal family.
He also added that he continues to deny the allegations.
And we're also learning this morning that police are looking
into allegations that he was using his security team to
find information on Virginia Duffrey.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
She claims in the.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Book that he used his team and internet trolls to
hassle her. Now, on Friday, we talked about the part
of the book where she says the night he assaulted her,
she drew him a bath and he licked her feet,
and that the whole thing lasted less than thirty minutes.
She was paid fifteen thousand dollars by Epstein. Also in
the book, claims that Jeffrey Epstein and Gaalaine Maxwell wanted
(05:11):
Virginia Gufrey to have their baby and offered her a
mansion and two hundred thousand dollars a month, but that
she refused. So that was another big bombshell that was
in this book. She also said she was abused by
a prime minister, she did not name him. She said
that she was left bloodied and bruised by him. It
was an especially brutal incident and that that's when she realized,
(05:33):
you know just how awful Jeffrey Epstein was because of
his callous response when she was upset.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yeah, well known Prime minister.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I don't know who that could be.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
But still a lot of questions about what exactly happened.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
This is like something out of a movie.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
The famous Louver Museum in Paris was robbed over the weekend.
Thieves took just seven minutes to steal priceless jewels, and
in broad daylight. So the breaking happened around nine thirty
in the morning. Three men dressed as construction workers rolled
up on scooters. They used a lift to enter through
a second story window and used gas powered chainsaws to
(06:10):
break the window and get in. Then they used those
chainsaws to break the glass. They apparently threatened the guards
who tried to stop them. They managed to steal nine
of France's most valuable pieces. They left behind a whole
bunch of evidence, a construction vests, the chainsaws they fled
on scooters.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
A lot of it caught on security cameras. Those cameras everywhere.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
One of the stolen objects was an emerald set imperial
crown containing more than thirteen hundred diamonds that once belonged
to Napoleon three's wife that was found broken outside the museum,
like they must have dropped it or something. They also
stole a diamond and sapphire tiara that belonged to another
Queen of France. They stole a crown that belonged to
(06:56):
the daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte's first wife. I mean, they
got nine pieces of extremely expensive jewelry.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
And they knew what they were doing. Seven minutes broad
daylight in and out. Yeah, they knew it. Sounds like
they knew what they were going for. And it's not
the first time something's been stolen from the Loover. Back
in nineteen eleven, Mona Lisa was stolen.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It was yeah, they didn't what are you gonna do
with the moonal line? If you stole it?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Who was exactly? It took two years before that was recovered.
We'll see how long it takes for the authorities there
to catch these three thieves.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
The Ryan Gorman Show on news radio WFLA.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram at Ryan Gorman Show,
and find us online at Ryan gormanshow dot com.
Disgraced former New York Congressman George Santos was released from
prison on Friday. President Trump commuted his sentence after he
spent eighty four days in prison. He was sentenced to
over seven years for aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, and
other financial crimes.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
He went on Fox News to thank the president.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Thank you to President Trump for clemency and for having
such an amazing will for second chances. You know, I
feel like it's just as served in a sense of
I've made some poor choices in my life, but nothing
would warrant a insane, arbitrary sentence, but on top of that,
a sentence that no one else would have gotten.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, And he was asked why he thinks he deserved
to be released.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Charlie, I understand people want to make this into a
he's getting away with it, right, not getting.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Away with it.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I was the first person to ever go to federal
prison for this type of civil FEC violation. These are
usually solved in in penalties, and I don't want to
focus on trying to rehash the pass. I want to
take this experience and do good and move on with
the future.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And he says he's going to work on prison reform now.
He was also ordered to pay three hundred and seventy
four thousand dollars in restitution, but when CNN asked him
if he plans to pay that money to the people
he owes it to, he said only if he's required
to by law. So, if your sentence is commuted, does
it also take away your responsibility to pay the fine?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I guess the hook completely.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
He is going to be able to keep those cameo dollars.
I don't like this. I don't like this at all.
He was expelled from Congress. It was a bipartisan vote.
You've got New York Republicans blasting the decision those who
know him best, one representative calling him a convicted con artist,
another saying he stole millions to fraud it an election.
His crimes warn't more than a three month sentence. I
(01:52):
just I don't understand why President Trump felt he needed
to commute the sentence for George Santos because he was
a Republican and he voted.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
He's so supportive of President Trump. Yes, and Mike Johnson
was asked if he would have, like, you know, let
him come back to Congress, and he said, yeah, that's
what we do.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
If that's what the people want.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
It's just ridiculous. So George Santos out, he'll have a
reality show sooner rather.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah, he's going to do something. He's so flamboyant, animated. Yeah,
people love it.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Alex Acosta, the former of South Florida US attorney who
gave Jeffrey Epstein that sweetheart deal in the mid two thousands,
testified to House lawmakers last month, and we're learning some
of what he said. So he told the committee that
Epstein got that deal because a trial would have been
a quote, crapshoot. He said, some of the witnesses refused
(02:40):
to testify, some change their stories, and they just didn't
think that they were going to be able to successfully
prosecute him. He said Epstein's attorneys at the time, Alan
Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr used tactics that skirted the line
of misconduct and that he and his colleagues found them
frustrating and distasteful. He said, we put him in jail,
(03:00):
he registered as a sex offender, and the victims had
an opportunity to recover, and that was a win. He
also said that everyone on the team favored a pre
trial resolution, and that's what they decided to do.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I don't know of anyone who thinks that sweetheart deal
was win. And then the Miami Herald reported that some
new documents show that Epstein met and dined multiple times
with Matthew Minchell, the former chief criminal prosecutor in Miami's
US Attorney's office who helped craft that sweetheart deal. Now
(03:37):
this was years after Menschell had left the Justice Department.
But you work on that case, you know all of
that about Epstein, and then you go and you have
dinner with him multiple times.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
The whole thing, everything about this case from so many
different angles.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Thanks and there's so much more that we keep learning
in bits and pieces. That's why you know, there continues
to need to be a push for more transparency because
there's a lot of stuff that we still don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Prince Andrew has given up his royal title. He will
no longer be known as the Duke of York. This
has more details about his alleged abuse of Virginia Duffrey
has come to public light. She wrote a book before
she died, and it's set to be released tomorrow. Parts
of it have already been made public. In his statement,
Prince Andrews said that the continued accusations about him distract
(04:30):
from the work of his majesty in the royal family.
He also added that he continues to deny the allegations.
And we're also learning this morning that police are looking
into allegations that he was using his security team to
find information on Virginia Duffrey.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
She claims in the.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Book that he used his team and internet trolls to
hassle her. Now, on Friday, we talked about the part
of the book where she says the night he assaulted her,
she drew him a bath and he licked her feet,
and that the whole thing lasted less than thirty minutes.
She was paid fifteen thousand dollars by Epstein. Also in
the book, claims that Jeffrey Epstein and Gaalaine Maxwell wanted
(05:11):
Virginia Gufrey to have their baby and offered her a
mansion and two hundred thousand dollars a month, but that
she refused. So that was another big bombshell that was
in this book. She also said she was abused by
a prime minister, she did not name him. She said
that she was left bloodied and bruised by him. It
was an especially brutal incident and that that's when she realized,
(05:33):
you know just how awful Jeffrey Epstein was because of
his callous response when she was upset.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yeah, well known Prime minister.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I don't know who that could be.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
But still a lot of questions about what exactly happened.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
This is like something out of a movie.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
The famous Louver Museum in Paris was robbed over the weekend.
Thieves took just seven minutes to steal priceless jewels, and
in broad daylight. So the breaking happened around nine thirty
in the morning. Three men dressed as construction workers rolled
up on scooters. They used a lift to enter through
a second story window and used gas powered chainsaws to
(06:10):
break the window and get in. Then they used those
chainsaws to break the glass. They apparently threatened the guards
who tried to stop them. They managed to steal nine
of France's most valuable pieces. They left behind a whole
bunch of evidence, a construction vests, the chainsaws they fled
on scooters.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
A lot of it caught on security cameras. Those cameras everywhere.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
One of the stolen objects was an emerald set imperial
crown containing more than thirteen hundred diamonds that once belonged
to Napoleon three's wife that was found broken outside the museum,
like they must have dropped it or something. They also
stole a diamond and sapphire tiara that belonged to another
Queen of France. They stole a crown that belonged to
(06:56):
the daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte's first wife. I mean, they
got nine pieces of extremely expensive jewelry.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
And they knew what they were doing. Seven minutes broad
daylight in and out. Yeah, they knew it. Sounds like
they knew what they were going for. And it's not
the first time something's been stolen from the Loover. Back
in nineteen eleven, Mona Lisa was stolen.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It was yeah, they didn't what are you gonna do
with the moonal line? If you stole it?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Who was exactly? It took two years before that was recovered.
We'll see how long it takes for the authorities there
to catch these three thieves.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
The Ryan Gorman Show on news radio WFLA.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram at Ryan Gorman Show,
and find us online at Ryan gormanshow dot com.
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