September 16, 2025 • 15 mins
An MnM's employee was stealing millions from the company.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One O seven nine KBP I and your show time
for stupid stories.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Stop yeah, all.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Stop stupid stories brought to you by steal and Steel
Dealers dot Com.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You can't get through that daily. Today's National Sit with
a Stranger Day. Oh, very popular day among human traffickers.
I imagine weirdos. You imagine a stranger walking up to
sit by you, like at the airport. I go to
airport out of time. Man, if you sit right next
to a person, if there's like an empty row, how
creepy would that be?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I know, like, what the are you? Weirdo? Uh? Let's see.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Uh oh here's something now. This has got to be
a positive right, Reading and mascores for high school seniors
hit record?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Oh loews that can't be good.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Uh. Today is also National it Professionals Day, Oh turn out,
turn it back on. Investigation four was searching for a
man who robbed a popular Disney Springs restaurant by swimming
up in scuba gear and a wet suit and then
swimming away after he stole thousands of dollars from a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Wow. Just it's pretty elaborate, right, just scoob in, scoob out.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I would if we had one of them, you know
those underwater propeller deals.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Oh, like a little like a jet almost. I don't
know whether those would be a blast man to I
think those would be fun. I don't know if that
pond is.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
That big well, I mean punk you say pond, but
I mean I'm anxious to see how it because we went.
We've been a couple of those locations that had you know,
passed his ways to those canal properties. You know the
canals and you can just you can go over miles.
You know that'd be interesting anyway.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Uh, let's see.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
A woman in Florida punched the navigator right in the
head the saber dog.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Oh a pretty good punch.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Nearly one in three parents that discovered their child has
made an online purchase without their permission. On an average
kids and they're unapproved shopping springs caut families around one
hundred and seventy dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Wow, damn, have your kids done anything besides the subscriptions movies? Movies?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, they need to make that harder, Like, come on, Mandy.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Had that're so set up for kids, you know what
I'm saying. Have you ever seen it like it? Scrolls across.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
The kids just goes select and it says rent heer
by and you select and he just starts playing.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I'm like, it's way too easy.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I think it's a I know there's a employ to
get just to get to get kids like that. Who
maybe you know, like if you're in the kitchen, you
don't know what he's looking at it? Right? Do do?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Select?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And I'm like, what did you just get new Jurassic Park? Yeah,
they do that all the time, but punks. All right,
this kind of sounds like, I don't know, sound of
music or something. Three elderly nuns in their eighties have
defied their do you do do? Uh?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
What do you call it? The uh? What do you
call those things?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Anyway, they ran away from their nursing home and they
returned to their former convent in Salzburg, Austria. They're living
there with no there's no water, there's no electricity, or
initially they didn't have water and electricity. And these ladies
are in their eighties, but they just wanted to live
out their years there. Oh, I feel like that's uh,
(03:51):
I don't know, that's like that what was that? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
The cocoon?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, that's like the next episode of Cocoon. Uh like
elderly nuns living after life sold I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Eighteen hundred comments Speaking of that, Catholic Church apparently been
getting a big revival from gen z.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
De'sk good news.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Recent survey of a thousand parents of kids between the
ages of eighteen oh, fourteen and eighteen.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Wow, this is not good at all. All right.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Recent survey one thousand parents kids ages fourteen to eighteen
found only eight percent thinker teenagers are prepared to manage
finances in adulthood.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Ooh, that's uh, that's tragic.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
If anything, kids, I feel like kids ought to be
taught finances in school, man, right, I mean, it is
at least a basic economics class, something, something that gives
them a little bit of prep for what they're gonna
face and you know, budgeting and bills and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It's so useful, but yet it is never taught.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
A lot of kids taught a lot of kids, especially
to go through the college system, their first experience with
money is the first day when all the credit card
companies are lined up. They're like, we want to get
you a credit card. We know you're you're a gullible
person here.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It sucks, and so many of them have I have
no understanding of it. It's like, well, you gonna give
me money, I'll just bring that up. Sure, I'll pay
you back, but.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Which is an interest rate thing?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I had so many friends that got themselves ten thousand
dollars in debt, Like, oh, yeah, you know, five weeks
into school I think I did.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
This is how I paid one or two of the
first semesters. I was in one of those credit cards, right,
you know, and then you know I worked three jobs
to pay my way through college. This sucked, man, but
I've definitely on that because I can only afford the
food card that was you got one meal a day,
you got I think it was like five meals a week,
(05:59):
so on free.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Man.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I was just in there grabbing all the crackers, these
little salteam packs of two crackers.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, man, that's a peanut butter. You'd be like, ah,
this is it. So you just grab everything you could
you could take it with you and hopeful the best.
But yeah, that's how you did it.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Uh din were Summit FC. This is the female soccer
team right right.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
There's a story here about how they continue to break
records with fifteen thousand season ticket deposits.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Wow, the new stadium only seas fourteen to five. Oh yeah,
so at least five hundred those people aren't gonna get tickets.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Somehow they planned to sit everybody. I'm not sure how,
but yeah, I just thought that was great, Like, we'll
make a standing room section over here. Just hey, female
soccer could be big here. It looks like it looks
like it, yeah, Sarahsota couplecues of child neglect. Now when
you read this story, anonymous tit was landed at a
(07:00):
Sarasota couple behind Orlando Seasota couple behind bars after the investigator.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Said they neglected their child. When they arrived.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
The officials said that Crystal Kate's thirty seven and Torrent's
bowls Who's fifty were sitting under a tent in their
front yard drinking beer. All right, they're in a tent
in the front yard. That's a dead giveaway. They're not
the parents of the year, all right.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
So the child wasn't with them under the tent.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Oh now in the house, please said where's your five
year old, to which they said.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Thinks you in the house.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Okay, Uh they went in the home, said they found
the child alone in a room with the babygate black
and the bedroom door. They added the child's hair was
matted with the breeze of food. She was wearing a
heavily sold pull up diaper which close to tearing from
the weight. The child was unable to speak well. Investigator
(08:01):
said that they found dirty twin mattresses and box springs
on the floor with a partially torn in dirty sheet.
Said there were no blankets or pillows or no clothes
in the closet and the dresser in the middle of
the floor.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Was completely empty.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
These parents, yeah, they uh. Unfortunately for the kids. Well,
fortunately for the kids they never go to see their
parents again, unfortunately for them. Kate's herb bond was set
at thirty thousand, ordered random drug and alcohol testing, no contact.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
With the other guy bowls now the bulls guy.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
His bond was set at forty five. I wonder why
hers is thirty in his forty He was ordered to
undergo drug and alcohol testing twice a week and had
no contact with the victim.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Or any of the kids. So, yeah, parents of the Year,
they're not. And I'm glad.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Look that tip might have saved those That kid's life
so good. If you see some crabby like that caught
the cops on him.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Always weird setting a tent up in the front yard,
that's a backyard thing.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Even easy up in the front yard, it is kind
of questionable, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's a little sketch, easy up in the backyard down
a problem, eh attend the backyard is questionable on.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
How long it stays there.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Sure sure you know that tenth in there all summer.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Former Connecticut employee of the chocolate manufacturer Mars pleaded guilty Thursday,
this last Thursday Committee Fraud and tax rhymes while defrauding
the company out of millions of dollars. This guy named
Paul Steed, he had this crazy elaborate scheme.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Listen to this what this dude did.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
So he agreed. This is how much money this dude took.
He agreed to pay back twenty eight million, four hundred
and ten thousand FO one hundred and eighty nine dollars
in restitution to Mars.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
That makes it sound like he has that money.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And according to report, he's also got to pay back
the Internal Revenue Service ten million, three hundred and ten thousand,
six hundred and eighty dollars in back taxes.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Ooh yeah, this dude, this is crazy. I mean what
he did was.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Pretty it's pretty amazing when you think about it. This
is I mean, you see what his restitution was. This
is millions and millions and millions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
How do you do it? Well?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Court documents and statements show between twenty eleven and twenty
twenty three, this guy worked for Mars. Basically, he worked
for Mars Wrigley, which is a subsidiary of Mars. He
worked remotely, all right, this is important from his home.
He had several positions while employed at Mars. His last
(11:03):
row with the company was the global price risk Manager
for Mars Wriggly's global coco enterprise. Now that spans a
massive footprint.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Sure, and you imagine that's something to do with their
chocolate pipeline.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Largely.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Largely to do with that, all their cocoa and all
that buying power and all that money. Right, That's that's
a big junk.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Well.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Steed was responsible for managing Mars Wrigley's participations in the
United States Department of Agricultures Sugar containing Products re Export
program and around twenty sixteen, Steve figured out how to
start skiving all this money. He created his own company
to mimic an actual Mars entity, and he reportedly diverted
(11:57):
more than fifteen million in Mars at sets to a
bank account that he created in his fake company's name
by directing sugar refineries purchasing Mars re export credits acquired
through a USDA program. So he was getting money for
the USDA program, using that funding to kind of divvy
(12:20):
up where the cocoa was coming from. And he was
saying that he was buying a bunch from this company
he created all the while he's not getting any from it, right.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
So just a shell company basically.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah, and you read it.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
And he started doing this with multiple companies, like over
a period of like five years.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
And this dude was scary.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
He scored it like I think it was overall like
fifty or sixty million dollars. I mean, that's an enormous
amount of money. One report notes that in twenty twenty three,
Steve used a fraudulent letter claiming to be from the
Mars Treasurer authorizing him to trade share of the Intercontinental Exchange.
(13:03):
He directed Compey Share to sell all of Mars's Inner
Continent exchange shares, which is well, I'll just put it
to you, like this coffee share issue to check over
eleven and a half million dollars, which Steed deposited into
one of his fake company's account.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
It's just one of the examples.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So this dude was.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Milking tons of money off the top.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
He was just grabbing it wherever he could.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Look he finally got busted, but wow,
I mean through was living a good life.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
At what point are you thinking, I'm never gonna get caught.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Cut my losses and move abroad.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Dude, crazy, the money was stealing.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
A man in Florida was waiting in a drive through
line of Popeyes when a drunk woman walked up to
the window stepped between his car and the window. She
apparently arrived in an uber, but the uber driver didn't
want to wait in the line. She was housed, and
she demanded from the Popeye's employee. Well, she demanded a
baconator right then and there, And I didn't need a
(14:06):
baconator right now, which is you guys know, is a
windy sandwich not something that Popeyes? The guy filmed the
woman as she talked about how long she's waited for
a baconator, that she was from California, and how she
went back and forth between wanting a fist bump the
guy and well looking like she kind of wanted to
(14:27):
fight him because he wasn't fist bumper. So yeah, I
mentioned she was hammered anyway. Eventually the police showed up
escorted her way. It's unclear what she might have been
sighted or charged with, if anything, but I just love
the fact that she demanded her baconator right then and there,
just like she knew what she wanted and she wanted
(14:49):
it right then there.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I'm guessing you're not getting a baconator in jail.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Probably not, but you never know, man, I might give
you some sort of sandwich.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, who knows. Nowadays seems nice to some people. I
think that's awesome, all right, they have it Sevenoin thirty five.
That is super stories
One O seven nine KBP I and your show time
for stupid stories.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Stop yeah, all.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Stop stupid stories brought to you by steal and Steel
Dealers dot Com.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You can't get through that daily. Today's National Sit with
a Stranger Day. Oh, very popular day among human traffickers.
I imagine weirdos. You imagine a stranger walking up to
sit by you, like at the airport. I go to
airport out of time. Man, if you sit right next
to a person, if there's like an empty row, how
creepy would that be?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I know, like, what the are you? Weirdo? Uh? Let's see.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Uh oh here's something now. This has got to be
a positive right, Reading and mascores for high school seniors
hit record?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Oh loews that can't be good.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Uh. Today is also National it Professionals Day, Oh turn out,
turn it back on. Investigation four was searching for a
man who robbed a popular Disney Springs restaurant by swimming
up in scuba gear and a wet suit and then
swimming away after he stole thousands of dollars from a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Wow. Just it's pretty elaborate, right, just scoob in, scoob out.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I would if we had one of them, you know
those underwater propeller deals.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Oh, like a little like a jet almost. I don't
know whether those would be a blast man to I
think those would be fun. I don't know if that
pond is.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
That big well, I mean punk you say pond, but
I mean I'm anxious to see how it because we went.
We've been a couple of those locations that had you know,
passed his ways to those canal properties. You know the
canals and you can just you can go over miles.
You know that'd be interesting anyway.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Uh, let's see.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
A woman in Florida punched the navigator right in the
head the saber dog.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Oh a pretty good punch.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Nearly one in three parents that discovered their child has
made an online purchase without their permission. On an average
kids and they're unapproved shopping springs caut families around one
hundred and seventy dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Wow, damn, have your kids done anything besides the subscriptions movies? Movies?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, they need to make that harder, Like, come on, Mandy.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Had that're so set up for kids, you know what
I'm saying. Have you ever seen it like it? Scrolls across.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
The kids just goes select and it says rent heer
by and you select and he just starts playing.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I'm like, it's way too easy.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I think it's a I know there's a employ to
get just to get to get kids like that. Who
maybe you know, like if you're in the kitchen, you
don't know what he's looking at it? Right? Do do?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Select?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And I'm like, what did you just get new Jurassic Park? Yeah,
they do that all the time, but punks. All right,
this kind of sounds like, I don't know, sound of
music or something. Three elderly nuns in their eighties have
defied their do you do do? Uh?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
What do you call it? The uh? What do you
call those things?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Anyway, they ran away from their nursing home and they
returned to their former convent in Salzburg, Austria. They're living
there with no there's no water, there's no electricity, or
initially they didn't have water and electricity. And these ladies
are in their eighties, but they just wanted to live
out their years there. Oh, I feel like that's uh,
(03:51):
I don't know, that's like that what was that? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
The cocoon?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, that's like the next episode of Cocoon. Uh like
elderly nuns living after life sold I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Eighteen hundred comments Speaking of that, Catholic Church apparently been
getting a big revival from gen z.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
De'sk good news.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Recent survey of a thousand parents of kids between the
ages of eighteen oh, fourteen and eighteen.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Wow, this is not good at all. All right.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Recent survey one thousand parents kids ages fourteen to eighteen
found only eight percent thinker teenagers are prepared to manage
finances in adulthood.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Ooh, that's uh, that's tragic.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
If anything, kids, I feel like kids ought to be
taught finances in school, man, right, I mean, it is
at least a basic economics class, something, something that gives
them a little bit of prep for what they're gonna
face and you know, budgeting and bills and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It's so useful, but yet it is never taught.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
A lot of kids taught a lot of kids, especially
to go through the college system, their first experience with
money is the first day when all the credit card
companies are lined up. They're like, we want to get
you a credit card. We know you're you're a gullible
person here.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It sucks, and so many of them have I have
no understanding of it. It's like, well, you gonna give
me money, I'll just bring that up. Sure, I'll pay
you back, but.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Which is an interest rate thing?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I had so many friends that got themselves ten thousand
dollars in debt, Like, oh, yeah, you know, five weeks
into school I think I did.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
This is how I paid one or two of the
first semesters. I was in one of those credit cards, right,
you know, and then you know I worked three jobs
to pay my way through college. This sucked, man, but
I've definitely on that because I can only afford the
food card that was you got one meal a day,
you got I think it was like five meals a week,
(05:59):
so on free.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Man.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I was just in there grabbing all the crackers, these
little salteam packs of two crackers.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, man, that's a peanut butter. You'd be like, ah,
this is it. So you just grab everything you could
you could take it with you and hopeful the best.
But yeah, that's how you did it.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Uh din were Summit FC. This is the female soccer
team right right.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
There's a story here about how they continue to break
records with fifteen thousand season ticket deposits.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Wow, the new stadium only seas fourteen to five. Oh yeah,
so at least five hundred those people aren't gonna get tickets.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Somehow they planned to sit everybody. I'm not sure how,
but yeah, I just thought that was great, Like, we'll
make a standing room section over here. Just hey, female
soccer could be big here. It looks like it looks
like it, yeah, Sarahsota couplecues of child neglect. Now when
you read this story, anonymous tit was landed at a
(07:00):
Sarasota couple behind Orlando Seasota couple behind bars after the investigator.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Said they neglected their child. When they arrived.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
The officials said that Crystal Kate's thirty seven and Torrent's
bowls Who's fifty were sitting under a tent in their
front yard drinking beer. All right, they're in a tent
in the front yard. That's a dead giveaway. They're not
the parents of the year, all right.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
So the child wasn't with them under the tent.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Oh now in the house, please said where's your five
year old, to which they said.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Thinks you in the house.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Okay, Uh they went in the home, said they found
the child alone in a room with the babygate black
and the bedroom door. They added the child's hair was
matted with the breeze of food. She was wearing a
heavily sold pull up diaper which close to tearing from
the weight. The child was unable to speak well. Investigator
(08:01):
said that they found dirty twin mattresses and box springs
on the floor with a partially torn in dirty sheet.
Said there were no blankets or pillows or no clothes
in the closet and the dresser in the middle of
the floor.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Was completely empty.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
These parents, yeah, they uh. Unfortunately for the kids. Well,
fortunately for the kids they never go to see their
parents again, unfortunately for them. Kate's herb bond was set
at thirty thousand, ordered random drug and alcohol testing, no contact.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
With the other guy bowls now the bulls guy.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
His bond was set at forty five. I wonder why
hers is thirty in his forty He was ordered to
undergo drug and alcohol testing twice a week and had
no contact with the victim.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Or any of the kids. So, yeah, parents of the Year,
they're not. And I'm glad.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Look that tip might have saved those That kid's life
so good. If you see some crabby like that caught
the cops on him.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Always weird setting a tent up in the front yard,
that's a backyard thing.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Even easy up in the front yard, it is kind
of questionable, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's a little sketch, easy up in the backyard down
a problem, eh attend the backyard is questionable on.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
How long it stays there.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Sure sure you know that tenth in there all summer.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Former Connecticut employee of the chocolate manufacturer Mars pleaded guilty Thursday,
this last Thursday Committee Fraud and tax rhymes while defrauding
the company out of millions of dollars. This guy named
Paul Steed, he had this crazy elaborate scheme.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Listen to this what this dude did.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
So he agreed. This is how much money this dude took.
He agreed to pay back twenty eight million, four hundred
and ten thousand FO one hundred and eighty nine dollars
in restitution to Mars.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
That makes it sound like he has that money.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And according to report, he's also got to pay back
the Internal Revenue Service ten million, three hundred and ten thousand,
six hundred and eighty dollars in back taxes.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Ooh yeah, this dude, this is crazy. I mean what
he did was.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Pretty it's pretty amazing when you think about it. This
is I mean, you see what his restitution was. This
is millions and millions and millions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
How do you do it? Well?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Court documents and statements show between twenty eleven and twenty
twenty three, this guy worked for Mars. Basically, he worked
for Mars Wrigley, which is a subsidiary of Mars. He
worked remotely, all right, this is important from his home.
He had several positions while employed at Mars. His last
(11:03):
row with the company was the global price risk Manager
for Mars Wriggly's global coco enterprise. Now that spans a
massive footprint.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Sure, and you imagine that's something to do with their
chocolate pipeline.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Largely.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Largely to do with that, all their cocoa and all
that buying power and all that money. Right, That's that's
a big junk.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Well.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Steed was responsible for managing Mars Wrigley's participations in the
United States Department of Agricultures Sugar containing Products re Export
program and around twenty sixteen, Steve figured out how to
start skiving all this money. He created his own company
to mimic an actual Mars entity, and he reportedly diverted
(11:57):
more than fifteen million in Mars at sets to a
bank account that he created in his fake company's name
by directing sugar refineries purchasing Mars re export credits acquired
through a USDA program. So he was getting money for
the USDA program, using that funding to kind of divvy
(12:20):
up where the cocoa was coming from. And he was
saying that he was buying a bunch from this company
he created all the while he's not getting any from it, right.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
So just a shell company basically.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah, and you read it.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
And he started doing this with multiple companies, like over
a period of like five years.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
And this dude was scary.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
He scored it like I think it was overall like
fifty or sixty million dollars. I mean, that's an enormous
amount of money. One report notes that in twenty twenty three,
Steve used a fraudulent letter claiming to be from the
Mars Treasurer authorizing him to trade share of the Intercontinental Exchange.
(13:03):
He directed Compey Share to sell all of Mars's Inner
Continent exchange shares, which is well, I'll just put it
to you, like this coffee share issue to check over
eleven and a half million dollars, which Steed deposited into
one of his fake company's account.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
It's just one of the examples.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So this dude was.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Milking tons of money off the top.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
He was just grabbing it wherever he could.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Look he finally got busted, but wow,
I mean through was living a good life.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
At what point are you thinking, I'm never gonna get caught.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Cut my losses and move abroad.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Dude, crazy, the money was stealing.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
A man in Florida was waiting in a drive through
line of Popeyes when a drunk woman walked up to
the window stepped between his car and the window. She
apparently arrived in an uber, but the uber driver didn't
want to wait in the line. She was housed, and
she demanded from the Popeye's employee. Well, she demanded a
baconator right then and there, And I didn't need a
(14:06):
baconator right now, which is you guys know, is a
windy sandwich not something that Popeyes? The guy filmed the
woman as she talked about how long she's waited for
a baconator, that she was from California, and how she
went back and forth between wanting a fist bump the
guy and well looking like she kind of wanted to
(14:27):
fight him because he wasn't fist bumper. So yeah, I
mentioned she was hammered anyway. Eventually the police showed up
escorted her way. It's unclear what she might have been
sighted or charged with, if anything, but I just love
the fact that she demanded her baconator right then and there,
just like she knew what she wanted and she wanted
(14:49):
it right then there.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I'm guessing you're not getting a baconator in jail.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Probably not, but you never know, man, I might give
you some sort of sandwich.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, who knows. Nowadays seems nice to some people. I
think that's awesome, all right, they have it Sevenoin thirty five.
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