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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Michael Berry Show. Follow this one under News of
the Crazy. A New Zealand food bank mistakenly hands out
candies laced with meth. An unknown person donated the candies,
and I know what you're thinking, this is what people
(00:22):
do it at Halloween every year. Now, don't let your
kids eat the candy because remember that one guy, you know,
he put razor blades in there, and they all do
that because people love the fear. Fear may people get
an adrenaline hit out of the fear. Well, what we
know about these is that they were in rappers from
(00:46):
the Malaysian confectionery brand Renda Orrinda r I N d A.
But here's the thing. The contaminated sweets had a street
value of one thousand New Zealand dollars per candy, which
is six hundred eight US dollars per candy, and they
(01:09):
handed out a lot of them. Somebody would have had
to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to give the
food bank contaminated candies and potentially be caught doing it.
I don't think they would be willing to do that.
(01:31):
But here is the story from ABC Australia. Sorry, this
is not the story from ABC Australia. This is ABC
Australia talking to New Zealand drug official Hayden Eastman. Mine
about the laced candy.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
How is this uncovered?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, good morning. We're really concerned still about how many
of these lawyers might be out there. How it was
uncovered well through a bit of luck and through quite
a bit of good public policy as well. So we're
really fortunate in New Zealand to have a legal funded
drug checking service. We at the Drug Foundation are one
(02:12):
of the drug chicking providers here and so it was that,
along with our close relationship with the Auckland City Mission,
that meant that when they became aware of these really
foul tasting lollies, or what they thought were lollies, they
tried them, they felt some unusual effects and they brought
them along to us just to essentially rule out anything
(02:35):
wrong with them. And that's when we found out was
anybody who consumed these lollies seriously affected after having this
dose of metamphetamine rushing through their system. One bit of
luck in the story is that a block of methan
feta mean tastes pretty foul, and so all the stories
(02:56):
we've heard so far where people have spat it out straightway,
so some people have been affected. We've heard of at
least three hospitalizations so far, but nothing serious so far
that we've heard of. We're still awaiting an update from
police this morning.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
A story we didn't get to earlier in the week.
You do recall that we talked about Elvis and his death.
On the forty seventh anniversary of the death of the King,
a Missouri woman was arrested in connection with a scheme
(03:32):
to defraud the Presley family out of ownership of Graceland.
She fraudulently claimed that Lisa Marie now the late Lisa Marie,
signed a deed of trust back in twenty eighteen securing
a three point eight million dollar loan using Graceland as collateral.
(03:57):
This was this was quite the scheme, the Department of
Justice said. After the scheme attracted global media attention, Finley
allegedly wrote to representative of representatives of Elvis Presley's family,
the Tennessee State Court, and the media to claim falsely
that the person responsible for the scheme was a Nigerian
(04:19):
identity thief located in Nigeria. If Donald Trump wanted to
see a ten percent boost in his popularity, I think
he would say, we're going after identity thieves and scammers
(04:41):
and we're going to stop it. We're going to catch them,
we're going to prosecute them, and they're going to spend
time in prison. We're going to treat identity thieves the
way the Democrats treated the January sixth protesters. We're going
to commit it's going to stop. The robo calls are
going to stop. The identity thieves are going to stop.
(05:06):
It's all going to stop. I'm going to put instead
of eighty seven thousand IRS agents, I'm going to put
Secret Service because that's where the counterfeit Division is held.
I'm going to put them on this issue and we're
going to nail these people. Wherever they call home, We're
gonna nail them. That would be that would win undecided voters,
(05:30):
it would win independent voters, It would motivate people, and
it wouldn't even be that hard. It wouldn't even be
that hard. I follow several YouTube channels that that's what
they do. They scam the scammers. You can look them up.
(05:53):
There's a lot of them out there. I can't recall
them right now, but I've got subscriptions to them. If
you're on YouTube, you know that you can describe to things,
and once you choose one, one of them is called
I think scammer payback. But once you pick one, you
look over to the side and you see the algorithm
recommends if you like that, you'll like these. And there's
a lot of them out there. You could spend all
(06:15):
day every day watching these things. But they have different approaches.
Some of them will send somebody over there and go
up and knock on the guy's door. Others of them
will run the person ragged and drive them crazy. Others
of them prosecute them, they get the Nigerian authorities involved.
(06:38):
But all of them bring great joy to me. That
would be a popular plan from a president Tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
A Missouri woman charged with allegedly trying to steal Graceland
and defraud Elvis Presley's family out of millions. Federal officials
say Lisa Finley created a scheme falsely claiming Lisa Marie
Presley put the famous estate up as collateral for a
loan she didn't repay before her death in twenty twenty three,
but that loan didn't exist. Investigator say Finley allegedly took
(07:08):
advantage of the very public and tragic occurrences in the
Presley family for her personal gain, using fake names to
make fake loan documents, and even filing a creditors claim
in court, hoping to cash in by threatening to foreclose
and auction Graceland to the highest bidder. Earlier this year,
just hours before the Memphis, Tennessee Mansion, one of the
(07:29):
most famous homes in the country, was to be sold.
A major break in this case, this notary stamp stopped
the sale. When you saw the signature, what about it
stood out to you.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
That it looks absolutely nothing like my signature?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Kimberly Philbrick, a notary public in Daytona Beach, Florida, telling
us she never notarized the fake loan documents, testifying in
front of a grand jury earlier this week that brought
the charges against Finley, Findley AND's face saying out to
twenty years by him bars for these charges and this
arrest coming on a significant date. Elvis Presley died forty
(08:06):
seven years ago today at Graceland.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
If you like the Michael Berry Show and podcast, please
tell one friend, and if you're so inclined, write a
nice review of our podcast. Comments, suggestions, questions, and interest
in being a corporate sponsor and partner can be communicated
directly to the show at our email address, Michael at
(08:31):
Michael Berryshow dot com, or simply by clicking on our website,
Michael Berryshow dot com. The Michael Berry Show and Podcast
is produced by Ramon Roeblis, the King of Ding. Executive
producer is Chad Nakanishi. Jim Mudd is the creative director.
(08:56):
Voices Jingles, Tomfoolery and Shenanigans are provided by Chance McLean.
Director of Research is Sandy Peterson. Emily Bull is our
assistant listener and superfan. Contributions are appreciated and often incorporated
into our production. Where possible, we give credit, where not,
(09:18):
we take all the credit for ourselves. God bless the
memory of Rush Limbaugh. Long live Elvis, be a simple
man like Leonard Skinnard told you, and God bless America. Finally,
if you know a veteran suffering from PTSD, call Camp
Hope at eight seven seven seven one seven PTSD and
(09:44):
a combat veteran will answer the phone to provide free counseling.
The Michael Berry Show. Follow this one under News of
the Crazy. A New Zealand food bank mistakenly hands out
candies laced with meth. An unknown person donated the candies,
and I know what you're thinking, this is what people
(00:22):
do it at Halloween every year. Now, don't let your
kids eat the candy because remember that one guy, you know,
he put razor blades in there, and they all do
that because people love the fear. Fear may people get
an adrenaline hit out of the fear. Well, what we
know about these is that they were in rappers from
(00:46):
the Malaysian confectionery brand Renda Orrinda r I N d A.
But here's the thing. The contaminated sweets had a street
value of one thousand New Zealand dollars per candy, which
is six hundred eight US dollars per candy, and they
(01:09):
handed out a lot of them. Somebody would have had
to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to give the
food bank contaminated candies and potentially be caught doing it.
I don't think they would be willing to do that.
(01:31):
But here is the story from ABC Australia. Sorry, this
is not the story from ABC Australia. This is ABC
Australia talking to New Zealand drug official Hayden Eastman. Mine
about the laced candy.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
How is this uncovered?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, good morning. We're really concerned still about how many
of these lawyers might be out there. How it was
uncovered well through a bit of luck and through quite
a bit of good public policy as well. So we're
really fortunate in New Zealand to have a legal funded
drug checking service. We at the Drug Foundation are one
(02:12):
of the drug chicking providers here and so it was that,
along with our close relationship with the Auckland City Mission,
that meant that when they became aware of these really
foul tasting lollies, or what they thought were lollies, they
tried them, they felt some unusual effects and they brought
them along to us just to essentially rule out anything
(02:35):
wrong with them. And that's when we found out was
anybody who consumed these lollies seriously affected after having this
dose of metamphetamine rushing through their system. One bit of
luck in the story is that a block of methan
feta mean tastes pretty foul, and so all the stories
(02:56):
we've heard so far where people have spat it out straightway,
so some people have been affected. We've heard of at
least three hospitalizations so far, but nothing serious so far
that we've heard of. We're still awaiting an update from
police this morning.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
A story we didn't get to earlier in the week.
You do recall that we talked about Elvis and his death.
On the forty seventh anniversary of the death of the King,
a Missouri woman was arrested in connection with a scheme
(03:32):
to defraud the Presley family out of ownership of Graceland.
She fraudulently claimed that Lisa Marie now the late Lisa Marie,
signed a deed of trust back in twenty eighteen securing
a three point eight million dollar loan using Graceland as collateral.
(03:57):
This was this was quite the scheme, the Department of
Justice said. After the scheme attracted global media attention, Finley
allegedly wrote to representative of representatives of Elvis Presley's family,
the Tennessee State Court, and the media to claim falsely
that the person responsible for the scheme was a Nigerian
(04:19):
identity thief located in Nigeria. If Donald Trump wanted to
see a ten percent boost in his popularity, I think
he would say, we're going after identity thieves and scammers
(04:41):
and we're going to stop it. We're going to catch them,
we're going to prosecute them, and they're going to spend
time in prison. We're going to treat identity thieves the
way the Democrats treated the January sixth protesters. We're going
to commit it's going to stop. The robo calls are
going to stop. The identity thieves are going to stop.
(05:06):
It's all going to stop. I'm going to put instead
of eighty seven thousand IRS agents, I'm going to put
Secret Service because that's where the counterfeit Division is held.
I'm going to put them on this issue and we're
going to nail these people. Wherever they call home, We're
gonna nail them. That would be that would win undecided voters,
(05:30):
it would win independent voters, It would motivate people, and
it wouldn't even be that hard. It wouldn't even be
that hard. I follow several YouTube channels that that's what
they do. They scam the scammers. You can look them up.
(05:53):
There's a lot of them out there. I can't recall
them right now, but I've got subscriptions to them. If
you're on YouTube, you know that you can describe to things,
and once you choose one, one of them is called
I think scammer payback. But once you pick one, you
look over to the side and you see the algorithm
recommends if you like that, you'll like these. And there's
a lot of them out there. You could spend all
(06:15):
day every day watching these things. But they have different approaches.
Some of them will send somebody over there and go
up and knock on the guy's door. Others of them
will run the person ragged and drive them crazy. Others
of them prosecute them, they get the Nigerian authorities involved.
(06:38):
But all of them bring great joy to me. That
would be a popular plan from a president Tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
A Missouri woman charged with allegedly trying to steal Graceland
and defraud Elvis Presley's family out of millions. Federal officials
say Lisa Finley created a scheme falsely claiming Lisa Marie
Presley put the famous estate up as collateral for a
loan she didn't repay before her death in twenty twenty three,
but that loan didn't exist. Investigator say Finley allegedly took
(07:08):
advantage of the very public and tragic occurrences in the
Presley family for her personal gain, using fake names to
make fake loan documents, and even filing a creditors claim
in court, hoping to cash in by threatening to foreclose
and auction Graceland to the highest bidder. Earlier this year,
just hours before the Memphis, Tennessee Mansion, one of the
(07:29):
most famous homes in the country, was to be sold.
A major break in this case, this notary stamp stopped
the sale. When you saw the signature, what about it
stood out to you.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
That it looks absolutely nothing like my signature?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Kimberly Philbrick, a notary public in Daytona Beach, Florida, telling
us she never notarized the fake loan documents, testifying in
front of a grand jury earlier this week that brought
the charges against Finley, Findley AND's face saying out to
twenty years by him bars for these charges and this
arrest coming on a significant date. Elvis Presley died forty
(08:06):
seven years ago today at Graceland.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
If you like the Michael Berry Show and podcast, please
tell one friend, and if you're so inclined, write a
nice review of our podcast. Comments, suggestions, questions, and interest
in being a corporate sponsor and partner can be communicated
directly to the show at our email address, Michael at
(08:31):
Michael Berryshow dot com, or simply by clicking on our website,
Michael Berryshow dot com. The Michael Berry Show and Podcast
is produced by Ramon Roeblis, the King of Ding. Executive
producer is Chad Nakanishi. Jim Mudd is the creative director.
(08:56):
Voices Jingles, Tomfoolery and Shenanigans are provided by Chance McLean.
Director of Research is Sandy Peterson. Emily Bull is our
assistant listener and superfan. Contributions are appreciated and often incorporated
into our production. Where possible, we give credit, where not,
(09:18):
we take all the credit for ourselves. God bless the
memory of Rush Limbaugh. Long live Elvis, be a simple
man like Leonard Skinnard told you, and God bless America. Finally,
if you know a veteran suffering from PTSD, call Camp
Hope at eight seven seven seven one seven PTSD and
(09:44):
a combat veteran will answer the phone to provide free counseling.
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