October 7, 2025 • 18 mins
Reid Carter covers Mark Sanchez's Indianapolis disaster where the FOX analyst got stabbed fighting a 69-year-old oil collector over a parking space. Surveillance shows drunk Sanchez doing wind sprints in an alley before attacking, getting pepper sprayed, then stabbed in self-defense. Charges upgraded to felony battery carrying five years in prison. Ghislaine Maxwell's Supreme Court appeal denied, leaving her to serve twenty years for recruiting teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein. The Trump DOJ defended her conviction after interviewing her about Trump's Epstein connections. Tuesday proves celebrity stupidity and sex trafficking both lead to the same place: prison.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Reed Carter. Tuesday, October seventh,
twenty twenty five. Today on Celebrity Trials, Mark Sanchez, former
NFL quarterback and current Fox Sports analyst, got drunk in
(00:23):
Indianapolis and decided to fight a sixty nine year old
man collecting used cooking oil for a living over a
parking space. Surveillance video shows Sanchez doing wind sprints in
an alley before the attack. Wind sprints, then he threw
a senior citizen toward a dumpster, ignored pepper spray, and
got stabbed multiple times. He's facing five years in prison
(00:46):
for being the dumbest person in Indianapolis. On Saturday night,
Anne Galaine Maxwell tried one last time to escape her
twenty year sentence for recruiting teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein.
The Supreme Court said no, She'll die in federal prison
and nobody feels sorry for her. Welcome to Tuesday, where
a celebrity throws away his career over a parking dispute
(01:09):
and a sex trafficker's final appeal dies without comment from
the highest court in America. This is Celebrity Trials. Let's
start with the celebrity story that proves money, fame, and
a Super Bowl ring don't make you smart. Mark Sanchez,
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thirty eight years old, former USC star, former New York
Jets quarterback, current Fox Sports analyst got into a fight
with a sixty nine year old man over a parking
space in downtown Indianapolis early Saturday morning, and by the
time it was over, Sanchez was in the hospital with
multiple stab wounds, facing felony charges, and probably wondering how
(01:50):
his life went from calling football games to fighting senior
citizens and alleys. Saturday, October fourth, twelve thirty am, Sanchez
is in Indianapolis to work the Colts Raiders game on Sunday.
He's staying near Lucas Oil Stadium, and instead of being
in bed preparing for game day, he's drunk in an
alley behind lof Miller's Pub and eatery, confronting a man
(02:12):
whose job is collecting used cooking oil from hotels. The
victim is sixty nine years old. He works for a
company that collects grease and cooking oil from restaurants and hotels.
He was parked in an alley between the Western Hotel
and the Indianapolis Marriott downtown doing his job at twelve
thirty a m. On a Saturday, not bothering anyone, just
(02:33):
collecting oil. Then Mark Sanchez shows up. Surveillance footage from
the Marriotte shows what happened next, and it's both absurd
and horrifying. Sanchez jogs into the alley, not walks, jogs
like he's warming up for a game. He approaches the
man's box truck and starts talking to him. According to
the probable cause affidavit, Sanchez appeared intoxicated, smelled of alcohol,
(02:58):
and told the worker he'd spoken to the hotel manager,
who said the truck wasn't supposed to be there. The
sixty nine year old tried to explain he was just
doing his job, tried to call his supervisor. Sanchez allegedly
blocked him from making the call. Then Sanchez opened the
driver's door of the truck and climbed inside. The worker
told him to leave. Sanchez didn't leave. He was drunk, aggressive,
(03:20):
and apparently convinced this parking situation required his personal intervention.
The surveillance video shows the two men circling the truck.
Then a witness in a nearby car reported something that
makes this story even stranger. The two men were recording
each other with cell phones before the fight began, recording
each other like this was some kind of social media
(03:42):
confrontation instead of a drunk celebrity harassing a working man.
But here's where it gets completely insane. Multiple sources told
Fox fifty nine that Sanchez started doing wind sprints in
the alley before the stabbing wind sprints. The former NFL
quarterback was running back and forth in an alley, drunk
in the middle of the night, preparing to fight a
(04:04):
sixty nine year old oil collector like it was the
fourth quarter of a playoff game. The fight moved to
a large dumpster. Video shows Sanchez throwing the sixty nine
year old toward the dumpster. The two fought between the
truck and the wall. This is a professional athlete in
his thirties throwing a senior citizen around because of a
parking dispute. The worker pulled out pepper spray and sprayed
(04:27):
Sanchez directly in the face. Sanchez kept advancing, didn't even
slow down. The worker told detectives he thought this guy
is trying to kill me, so he pulled a knife
from his truck and stabbed Sanchez multiple times in the
upper Torso. Police arrived to find Sanchez with multiple stab
wounds to his chest bleeding in the alley. The sixty
(04:48):
nine year old had a laceration on his face from
where Sanchez had struck him. There was a trail of
blood running through the alley past Pronte Pizza, where employees
would later tell reporters they couldn't believe what happened. Sanchez
was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. He needed surgery.
The stab wounds to his chest were serious enough that
(05:09):
he could have died, all because he decided a drunk
argument over a parking space was worth fighting a senior citizen.
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department arrested Sanchez at the hospital,
initially charged with three misdemeanors, battery with injury, unlawful entry
of a motor vehicle, and public intoxication, but on Monday,
the Marion County Prosecutor's Office upgraded the charges. Sanchez now
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faces a felony charge of battery resulting in serious bodily injury.
The charge was upgraded as the severity of the victim's
injuries became clearer. The sixty nine year old wasn't just bruised.
He was seriously injured by a professional athlete who threw
him around like a rag doll. Marion County Prosecutor Ryan
Mears held a press conference Monday morning. His statement was devastating.
(05:57):
This was a situation that did not need to occur.
We are literally talking about people fighting over a parking space.
A parking space. Mark Sanchez, who earned millions of dollars
playing in the NFL, who now earns a comfortable living
calling football games, got drunk and nearly got himself killed
fighting a sixty nine year old working man over a
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parking space. Meares continued, this incident should never have happened.
What began as a disagreement between a thirty eight year
old former professional athlete and a sixty nine year old
man should not have escalated into violence or left anyone
seriously injured. Should not have escalated, But it did escalate
because Mark Sanchez was drunk, aggressive, and apparently thought climbing
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into someone else's truck and throwing them toward a dumpster
was an appropriate response to a parking disagreement. Sources told
Fox fifty nine that Sanchez was not cooperative with responding
police officers, even after being stabbed multiple times, even while
bleeding in an alley, he was still being difficult with cops.
That's how drunk and how stupid. This entire situation was.
(07:03):
The surveillance video that detectives reviewed closely matches the victim's
account of self defense. The sixty nine year old tried
to de escalate, used pepper spray first, only pulled the
knife when Sanchez kept coming, and he genuinely feared for
his life. This wasn't mutual combat. This wasn't a bar
fight between two drunk guys. This was a professional athlete
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attacking a senior citizen doing his job, and the senior
citizen defending himself with whatever weapons he had available. Sanchez
faces up to five years in prison if convicted of
the felony battery charge, five years for fighting over a
parking space for doing wind sprints in an alley before
attacking a man old enough to be his father. He
had an initial hearing scheduled for Tuesday morning today. We
(07:49):
don't know yet what his plea will be. His lawyers
haven't commented publicly beyond asking for privacy. Fox Sports released
a statement Saturday saying they're still trying to wrap our
heads around what happened. We're all trying to wrap our
heads around how a successful NFL analyst threw away his
career and his freedom fighting a sixty nine year old
oil collector. At twelve thirty in the morning, Brady Quinn
(08:11):
replaced Sanchez for Sunday's Colts Raiders broadcast. Quinn probably didn't
expect to get the call because his colleague was hospitalized
with stab wounds from a parking dispute. That's not how
broadcast careers usually advance. Mark Sanchez married his wife, Perry
in twenty twenty three. During his playing days, he dated
some of the most famous women in Hollywood, Eva Longoria,
(08:33):
Jamie Lynn Sigler, Kate Upton. He was one of the
biggest stars in football, on and off the field. Now
he's a cautionary tale about what happens when alcohol, ego,
and terrible judgment collide in a downtown Indianapolis alley. The victim,
the sixty nine year old man whose name hasn't been
publicly released, was just doing his job collecting used cooking oil,
(08:56):
working the overnight shift, not bothering anyone, and he ended
up having to stab a drunk celebrity in self defense
because Mark Sanchez decided his parking space was worth dying for.
That man is seriously injured. He has facial lacerations. He
probably has nightmares about being thrown toward a dumpster by
a professional athlete. He had to use a knife to
(09:16):
save his own life because pepper spray didn't stop a
drunk NFL quarterback who wouldn't take no for an answer.
Mark Sanchez could have been in bed Saturday morning, preparing
to call a football game. Instead, he was drunk in
an alley doing wind sprints, recording videos on his phone,
fighting a senior citizen, getting stabbed, and throwing away everything
he'd built since retiring from football, all over a parking space,
(09:39):
all because he was too drunk and too stupid to
walk away, All because he thought climbing into someone else's
truck and throwing them around was an appropriate response to
a minor disagreement. The prosecutor is right, this didn't need
to happen. But it did happen because Mark Sanchez made
every wrong decision possible in a three minute span, and
now he's facing five years in prison for being the
(10:02):
aggressor in a fight he should never have started. Smart
enough to play quarterback at USC and in the NFL,
too stupid to walk away from a parking dispute that's
Mark Sanchez's legacy now more. In a moment, the Supreme
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Court denied Gallaine Maxwell's appeal Monday, meaning she'll spend the
next eighteen years of her life in federal prison for
recruiting teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse. Maxwell is
sixty three years old. She was sentenced to twenty years
in federal prison in twenty twenty two for carrying out
a year's long scheme with Epstein to groom and sexually
(10:49):
abuse underage girls. She's been fighting that conviction ever since,
and Monday was her last chance. Her argument was creative.
I'll give her that claim. She should have been protected
by a non prosecution agreement that Jeffrey Epstein signed with
federal prosecutors in Florida. Epstein pleaded guilty to state prostitution
charges in Florida in two thousand and eight as part
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of a sweetheart deal that let him avoid serious federal charges.
Maxwell argued that agreement covered her too, that because she
was Epstein's girlfriend and partner in crime when he made
that deal, she couldn't be prosecuted later in New York
for the same conduct. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals
rejected this argument. They ruled that the Florida agreement with
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prosecutors didn't bind authorities in New York. That seems obvious
a deal with one US Attorney's office doesn't immunize you
from prosecution by every other US Attorney's office in the country.
But Maxwell's lawyer, David Oscar Marcus, tried to argue that
non prosecution agreements with the United States should be nationally binding,
(11:52):
that once any federal prosecutor promises not to prosecute you,
every federal prosecutor has to honor that promise. The Supreme
Court wasn't interested. They declined to hear the appeal without comment,
no explanation, no dissent, just a denial, which means the
Second Circuit's ruling stands, which means Maxwell's conviction stands, which
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means she's staying in federal prison. We are, of course,
deeply disappointed that the Supreme Court declined to hear Galaine
Maxwell's case, Marcus said after the denial. But this fight
isn't over. Serious legal and factual issues remain and we
will continue to pursue every avenue available to ensure that
justice is done. Justice is done. That's what Marcus is
(12:38):
calling Maxwell's continued imprisonment, as if the woman who recruited
teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein deserves justice, as if spending
twenty years in prison for facilitating the sexual abuse of
miners is somehow unfair. The Trump Justice Department defended Maxwell's
conviction at the Supreme Court. They told the court in
a brief filed over the summer, Max Hiwell was not
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a party to the relevant agreement. Only Epstein and the
Florida USAO were parties. That's the obvious answer. Maxwell wasn't
part of Epstein's Florida deal. She wasn't even charged. Then,
she couldn't have been covered by an agreement she wasn't
party to for conduct prosecutors hadn't yet investigated in a
jurisdiction that didn't even know she existed. But here's the
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interesting part. The Trump administration interviewed Maxwell this summer. The
Justice Department met with her while she was in federal custody.
She told them she never witnessed anything untoward in Donald
Trump's friendship with Epstein and never heard of any allegations
that Trump acted inappropriately. Convenient timing. Maxwell gives DOJ an
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interview clearing Trump of any Epstein connection, then gets transferred
to a minimum security prison camp shortly after she went
from a regular federal prison to a camp, the cushiest
form of federal custody, right after telling prosecutors what they
wanted to hear about Trump. Correlation isn't causation, but it's
an interesting sequence of events. Maxwell protects Trump, then gets
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better prison accommodations. Maybe unrelated, maybe not. The House Oversight
Committee released tens of thousands of pages of Epstein documents
last month, including a note bearing Trump's name that was
part of a collection of letters gifted to Epstein for
his fiftieth birthday. Trump has repeatedly denied writing that letter.
The connection between Trump and Epstein remains murky, documented but disputed,
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but none of that matters for Maxwell's conviction. Whatever Trump's
relationship with Epstein was or wasn't, Glaine still recruited teenage girls.
Glane still facilitated their abuse. Glaine still deserves every year
of that twenty year sentence. Epstein died by suicide in
federal custody in August twenty nineteen, a month after being
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indicted on federal sex trafficking charges. He escaped justice by
hanging himself. Glaine doesn't get that option. She's alive, convicted,
and spending the next eighteen years watching life pass by
from inside a federal prison camp. She's sixty three. She'll
be eighty three when she's released. Assuming she lives that long,
most of her remaining life will be spent behind bars.
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That's what happens when you spend decades facilitating the sexual
abuse of children for a billionaire pedophile. The Supreme Court
denial means no more appeals on this issue. Glaine can
still try other legal arguments, and her lawyer promises to
pursue every avenue available, but the big one, the argument
that Epstein's Florida deal protected her, is dead. Glaine Maxwell
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will die in federal prison. Not officially, her sentence has
an end date, but realistically she's sixty three with eighteen
years to serve. The odds of her surviving to freedom
are not good, and honestly, that's fine. The girls she
recruited for Epstein carry their trauma forever. Glaine can carry
her imprisonment for however long she has left. That's not injustice,
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that's consequences that celebrity trials for Tuesday, October seventh, twenty
twenty five, Mark Sanchez fought a sixty nine year old
oil collector over a parking space, did wind sprints in
an alley like he was warming up for the NFL
through a senior citizen toward a dumpster, ignored pepper spray,
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and got stabbed multiple times. Now he's facing five years
in prison for being too drunk and too stupid to
walk away. Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Meres called it exactly
what it was, a fight over a parking space that
should never have happened, but it did happen because Mark
Sanchez had money, fame, success, and apparently zero common sense.
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Gallaine Maxwell's Supreme Court appeal was denied without comment. She
argued that Jeffrey Epstein's Florida Sweetheart deal should protect her
from prosecution in New York. The Second Circuit said no.
The Supreme Court agreed without even explaining why. She'll spend
the next eighteen years in federal prison for recruiting teenage girls.
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Her lawyer promises to keep fighting nobody cares. She facilitated
child abuse for decades. She can die in prison. I'm
read Carter. Tuesday proved that celebrity stupidity leads to the
same place as sex trafficking. Prison. Sanchez threw away everything
fighting over a parking space. Maxwell threw away her freedom
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facilitating Epstein's abuse. Both made choices. Both face consequences. The
difference Sanchez might get out in five years if convicted,
Maxwell has eighteen years minimum. One fought a senior citizen.
One trafficked children. The law treats them appropriately differently. Tomorrow
will cover two cases of mentally unstable defendants who murdered children.
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Today with celebrities and sex traffickers, this week is covering
the full spectrum of American criminal justice, from stupid to evil.
See you tomorrow. Lock your doors, don't fight over parking spaces,
and definitely don't recruit teenage girls for billionaire pedophiles.
Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Reed Carter. Tuesday, October seventh,
twenty twenty five. Today on Celebrity Trials, Mark Sanchez, former
NFL quarterback and current Fox Sports analyst, got drunk in
(00:23):
Indianapolis and decided to fight a sixty nine year old
man collecting used cooking oil for a living over a
parking space. Surveillance video shows Sanchez doing wind sprints in
an alley before the attack. Wind sprints, then he threw
a senior citizen toward a dumpster, ignored pepper spray, and
got stabbed multiple times. He's facing five years in prison
(00:46):
for being the dumbest person in Indianapolis. On Saturday night,
Anne Galaine Maxwell tried one last time to escape her
twenty year sentence for recruiting teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein.
The Supreme Court said no, She'll die in federal prison
and nobody feels sorry for her. Welcome to Tuesday, where
a celebrity throws away his career over a parking dispute
(01:09):
and a sex trafficker's final appeal dies without comment from
the highest court in America. This is Celebrity Trials. Let's
start with the celebrity story that proves money, fame, and
a Super Bowl ring don't make you smart. Mark Sanchez,
(01:29):
thirty eight years old, former USC star, former New York
Jets quarterback, current Fox Sports analyst got into a fight
with a sixty nine year old man over a parking
space in downtown Indianapolis early Saturday morning, and by the
time it was over, Sanchez was in the hospital with
multiple stab wounds, facing felony charges, and probably wondering how
(01:50):
his life went from calling football games to fighting senior
citizens and alleys. Saturday, October fourth, twelve thirty am, Sanchez
is in Indianapolis to work the Colts Raiders game on Sunday.
He's staying near Lucas Oil Stadium, and instead of being
in bed preparing for game day, he's drunk in an
alley behind lof Miller's Pub and eatery, confronting a man
(02:12):
whose job is collecting used cooking oil from hotels. The
victim is sixty nine years old. He works for a
company that collects grease and cooking oil from restaurants and hotels.
He was parked in an alley between the Western Hotel
and the Indianapolis Marriott downtown doing his job at twelve
thirty a m. On a Saturday, not bothering anyone, just
(02:33):
collecting oil. Then Mark Sanchez shows up. Surveillance footage from
the Marriotte shows what happened next, and it's both absurd
and horrifying. Sanchez jogs into the alley, not walks, jogs
like he's warming up for a game. He approaches the
man's box truck and starts talking to him. According to
the probable cause affidavit, Sanchez appeared intoxicated, smelled of alcohol,
(02:58):
and told the worker he'd spoken to the hotel manager,
who said the truck wasn't supposed to be there. The
sixty nine year old tried to explain he was just
doing his job, tried to call his supervisor. Sanchez allegedly
blocked him from making the call. Then Sanchez opened the
driver's door of the truck and climbed inside. The worker
told him to leave. Sanchez didn't leave. He was drunk, aggressive,
(03:20):
and apparently convinced this parking situation required his personal intervention.
The surveillance video shows the two men circling the truck.
Then a witness in a nearby car reported something that
makes this story even stranger. The two men were recording
each other with cell phones before the fight began, recording
each other like this was some kind of social media
(03:42):
confrontation instead of a drunk celebrity harassing a working man.
But here's where it gets completely insane. Multiple sources told
Fox fifty nine that Sanchez started doing wind sprints in
the alley before the stabbing wind sprints. The former NFL
quarterback was running back and forth in an alley, drunk
in the middle of the night, preparing to fight a
(04:04):
sixty nine year old oil collector like it was the
fourth quarter of a playoff game. The fight moved to
a large dumpster. Video shows Sanchez throwing the sixty nine
year old toward the dumpster. The two fought between the
truck and the wall. This is a professional athlete in
his thirties throwing a senior citizen around because of a
parking dispute. The worker pulled out pepper spray and sprayed
(04:27):
Sanchez directly in the face. Sanchez kept advancing, didn't even
slow down. The worker told detectives he thought this guy
is trying to kill me, so he pulled a knife
from his truck and stabbed Sanchez multiple times in the
upper Torso. Police arrived to find Sanchez with multiple stab
wounds to his chest bleeding in the alley. The sixty
(04:48):
nine year old had a laceration on his face from
where Sanchez had struck him. There was a trail of
blood running through the alley past Pronte Pizza, where employees
would later tell reporters they couldn't believe what happened. Sanchez
was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. He needed surgery.
The stab wounds to his chest were serious enough that
(05:09):
he could have died, all because he decided a drunk
argument over a parking space was worth fighting a senior citizen.
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department arrested Sanchez at the hospital,
initially charged with three misdemeanors, battery with injury, unlawful entry
of a motor vehicle, and public intoxication, but on Monday,
the Marion County Prosecutor's Office upgraded the charges. Sanchez now
(05:33):
faces a felony charge of battery resulting in serious bodily injury.
The charge was upgraded as the severity of the victim's
injuries became clearer. The sixty nine year old wasn't just bruised.
He was seriously injured by a professional athlete who threw
him around like a rag doll. Marion County Prosecutor Ryan
Mears held a press conference Monday morning. His statement was devastating.
(05:57):
This was a situation that did not need to occur.
We are literally talking about people fighting over a parking space.
A parking space. Mark Sanchez, who earned millions of dollars
playing in the NFL, who now earns a comfortable living
calling football games, got drunk and nearly got himself killed
fighting a sixty nine year old working man over a
(06:17):
parking space. Meares continued, this incident should never have happened.
What began as a disagreement between a thirty eight year
old former professional athlete and a sixty nine year old
man should not have escalated into violence or left anyone
seriously injured. Should not have escalated, But it did escalate
because Mark Sanchez was drunk, aggressive, and apparently thought climbing
(06:41):
into someone else's truck and throwing them toward a dumpster
was an appropriate response to a parking disagreement. Sources told
Fox fifty nine that Sanchez was not cooperative with responding
police officers, even after being stabbed multiple times, even while
bleeding in an alley, he was still being difficult with cops.
That's how drunk and how stupid. This entire situation was.
(07:03):
The surveillance video that detectives reviewed closely matches the victim's
account of self defense. The sixty nine year old tried
to de escalate, used pepper spray first, only pulled the
knife when Sanchez kept coming, and he genuinely feared for
his life. This wasn't mutual combat. This wasn't a bar
fight between two drunk guys. This was a professional athlete
(07:25):
attacking a senior citizen doing his job, and the senior
citizen defending himself with whatever weapons he had available. Sanchez
faces up to five years in prison if convicted of
the felony battery charge, five years for fighting over a
parking space for doing wind sprints in an alley before
attacking a man old enough to be his father. He
had an initial hearing scheduled for Tuesday morning today. We
(07:49):
don't know yet what his plea will be. His lawyers
haven't commented publicly beyond asking for privacy. Fox Sports released
a statement Saturday saying they're still trying to wrap our
heads around what happened. We're all trying to wrap our
heads around how a successful NFL analyst threw away his
career and his freedom fighting a sixty nine year old
oil collector. At twelve thirty in the morning, Brady Quinn
(08:11):
replaced Sanchez for Sunday's Colts Raiders broadcast. Quinn probably didn't
expect to get the call because his colleague was hospitalized
with stab wounds from a parking dispute. That's not how
broadcast careers usually advance. Mark Sanchez married his wife, Perry
in twenty twenty three. During his playing days, he dated
some of the most famous women in Hollywood, Eva Longoria,
(08:33):
Jamie Lynn Sigler, Kate Upton. He was one of the
biggest stars in football, on and off the field. Now
he's a cautionary tale about what happens when alcohol, ego,
and terrible judgment collide in a downtown Indianapolis alley. The victim,
the sixty nine year old man whose name hasn't been
publicly released, was just doing his job collecting used cooking oil,
(08:56):
working the overnight shift, not bothering anyone, and he ended
up having to stab a drunk celebrity in self defense
because Mark Sanchez decided his parking space was worth dying for.
That man is seriously injured. He has facial lacerations. He
probably has nightmares about being thrown toward a dumpster by
a professional athlete. He had to use a knife to
(09:16):
save his own life because pepper spray didn't stop a
drunk NFL quarterback who wouldn't take no for an answer.
Mark Sanchez could have been in bed Saturday morning, preparing
to call a football game. Instead, he was drunk in
an alley doing wind sprints, recording videos on his phone,
fighting a senior citizen, getting stabbed, and throwing away everything
he'd built since retiring from football, all over a parking space,
(09:39):
all because he was too drunk and too stupid to
walk away, All because he thought climbing into someone else's
truck and throwing them around was an appropriate response to
a minor disagreement. The prosecutor is right, this didn't need
to happen. But it did happen because Mark Sanchez made
every wrong decision possible in a three minute span, and
now he's facing five years in prison for being the
(10:02):
aggressor in a fight he should never have started. Smart
enough to play quarterback at USC and in the NFL,
too stupid to walk away from a parking dispute that's
Mark Sanchez's legacy now more. In a moment, the Supreme
(10:29):
Court denied Gallaine Maxwell's appeal Monday, meaning she'll spend the
next eighteen years of her life in federal prison for
recruiting teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse. Maxwell is
sixty three years old. She was sentenced to twenty years
in federal prison in twenty twenty two for carrying out
a year's long scheme with Epstein to groom and sexually
(10:49):
abuse underage girls. She's been fighting that conviction ever since,
and Monday was her last chance. Her argument was creative.
I'll give her that claim. She should have been protected
by a non prosecution agreement that Jeffrey Epstein signed with
federal prosecutors in Florida. Epstein pleaded guilty to state prostitution
charges in Florida in two thousand and eight as part
(11:12):
of a sweetheart deal that let him avoid serious federal charges.
Maxwell argued that agreement covered her too, that because she
was Epstein's girlfriend and partner in crime when he made
that deal, she couldn't be prosecuted later in New York
for the same conduct. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals
rejected this argument. They ruled that the Florida agreement with
(11:32):
prosecutors didn't bind authorities in New York. That seems obvious
a deal with one US Attorney's office doesn't immunize you
from prosecution by every other US Attorney's office in the country.
But Maxwell's lawyer, David Oscar Marcus, tried to argue that
non prosecution agreements with the United States should be nationally binding,
(11:52):
that once any federal prosecutor promises not to prosecute you,
every federal prosecutor has to honor that promise. The Supreme
Court wasn't interested. They declined to hear the appeal without comment,
no explanation, no dissent, just a denial, which means the
Second Circuit's ruling stands, which means Maxwell's conviction stands, which
(12:14):
means she's staying in federal prison. We are, of course,
deeply disappointed that the Supreme Court declined to hear Galaine
Maxwell's case, Marcus said after the denial. But this fight
isn't over. Serious legal and factual issues remain and we
will continue to pursue every avenue available to ensure that
justice is done. Justice is done. That's what Marcus is
(12:38):
calling Maxwell's continued imprisonment, as if the woman who recruited
teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein deserves justice, as if spending
twenty years in prison for facilitating the sexual abuse of
miners is somehow unfair. The Trump Justice Department defended Maxwell's
conviction at the Supreme Court. They told the court in
a brief filed over the summer, Max Hiwell was not
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a party to the relevant agreement. Only Epstein and the
Florida USAO were parties. That's the obvious answer. Maxwell wasn't
part of Epstein's Florida deal. She wasn't even charged. Then,
she couldn't have been covered by an agreement she wasn't
party to for conduct prosecutors hadn't yet investigated in a
jurisdiction that didn't even know she existed. But here's the
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interesting part. The Trump administration interviewed Maxwell this summer. The
Justice Department met with her while she was in federal custody.
She told them she never witnessed anything untoward in Donald
Trump's friendship with Epstein and never heard of any allegations
that Trump acted inappropriately. Convenient timing. Maxwell gives DOJ an
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interview clearing Trump of any Epstein connection, then gets transferred
to a minimum security prison camp shortly after she went
from a regular federal prison to a camp, the cushiest
form of federal custody, right after telling prosecutors what they
wanted to hear about Trump. Correlation isn't causation, but it's
an interesting sequence of events. Maxwell protects Trump, then gets
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better prison accommodations. Maybe unrelated, maybe not. The House Oversight
Committee released tens of thousands of pages of Epstein documents
last month, including a note bearing Trump's name that was
part of a collection of letters gifted to Epstein for
his fiftieth birthday. Trump has repeatedly denied writing that letter.
The connection between Trump and Epstein remains murky, documented but disputed,
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but none of that matters for Maxwell's conviction. Whatever Trump's
relationship with Epstein was or wasn't, Glaine still recruited teenage girls.
Glane still facilitated their abuse. Glaine still deserves every year
of that twenty year sentence. Epstein died by suicide in
federal custody in August twenty nineteen, a month after being
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indicted on federal sex trafficking charges. He escaped justice by
hanging himself. Glaine doesn't get that option. She's alive, convicted,
and spending the next eighteen years watching life pass by
from inside a federal prison camp. She's sixty three. She'll
be eighty three when she's released. Assuming she lives that long,
most of her remaining life will be spent behind bars.
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That's what happens when you spend decades facilitating the sexual
abuse of children for a billionaire pedophile. The Supreme Court
denial means no more appeals on this issue. Glaine can
still try other legal arguments, and her lawyer promises to
pursue every avenue available, but the big one, the argument
that Epstein's Florida deal protected her, is dead. Glaine Maxwell
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will die in federal prison. Not officially, her sentence has
an end date, but realistically she's sixty three with eighteen
years to serve. The odds of her surviving to freedom
are not good, and honestly, that's fine. The girls she
recruited for Epstein carry their trauma forever. Glaine can carry
her imprisonment for however long she has left. That's not injustice,
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that's consequences that celebrity trials for Tuesday, October seventh, twenty
twenty five, Mark Sanchez fought a sixty nine year old
oil collector over a parking space, did wind sprints in
an alley like he was warming up for the NFL
through a senior citizen toward a dumpster, ignored pepper spray,
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and got stabbed multiple times. Now he's facing five years
in prison for being too drunk and too stupid to
walk away. Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Meres called it exactly
what it was, a fight over a parking space that
should never have happened, but it did happen because Mark
Sanchez had money, fame, success, and apparently zero common sense.
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Gallaine Maxwell's Supreme Court appeal was denied without comment. She
argued that Jeffrey Epstein's Florida Sweetheart deal should protect her
from prosecution in New York. The Second Circuit said no.
The Supreme Court agreed without even explaining why. She'll spend
the next eighteen years in federal prison for recruiting teenage girls.
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Her lawyer promises to keep fighting nobody cares. She facilitated
child abuse for decades. She can die in prison. I'm
read Carter. Tuesday proved that celebrity stupidity leads to the
same place as sex trafficking. Prison. Sanchez threw away everything
fighting over a parking space. Maxwell threw away her freedom
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facilitating Epstein's abuse. Both made choices. Both face consequences. The
difference Sanchez might get out in five years if convicted,
Maxwell has eighteen years minimum. One fought a senior citizen.
One trafficked children. The law treats them appropriately differently. Tomorrow
will cover two cases of mentally unstable defendants who murdered children.
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Today with celebrities and sex traffickers, this week is covering
the full spectrum of American criminal justice, from stupid to evil.
See you tomorrow. Lock your doors, don't fight over parking spaces,
and definitely don't recruit teenage girls for billionaire pedophiles.
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