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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, attorney buddy in New York City, A couple
(00:02):
of things to talk about. Ken, good morning, welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good morning, JT. Thanks for having me as always, well.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You know, I love having you. You've got great perspective,
you're smart, you know the law, and you know the
common sense of what's going on in a crazy city.
You called the big apple there in New York City.
So the mayor race right now, I guess the latest
numbers have Mundani up double digits ahead of everybody else.
That looks like he's going to be our new mayor
in New York City.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, we're going to be under a communist rule pretty
soon here in New York City. And you know the
thing that people I don't think people truly grasp is
Eric Adams are current mayor who you know who is
indicted and you know, has dropped out.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Of the race.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
He was really holding back the floodgates of our absolutely
insane city council. I mean they have gone after pizza parlors,
ice cream trucks in the name of climate change, because
ice cream trucks in Yes, this is true.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
My councilman has.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Got on after they're trying to get rid of ice
cream trucks. They're trying to impose all sorts of restrictions
on pizza parlors because of the smoke from pizza and
its relation to limate change. You can't make this stuff up.
They're absolutely insane. I mean, they want to impose all
sorts of additional taxes. They want to make it impossible
(01:20):
for regular people to drive cars in the city of
New York.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
That's out of control. New York's been operating at strol.
You come after people's pizza parlors in New York City,
you're gonna have hell to pay. I can't imagine that
this is going to go anywhere, but well, in today's.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
World, we got low voter turnout and everyone is bizarrely
cult like loyal to voting on the Democratic line. And
you know, it's going to take conditions in this city.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
To get really truly horrible before.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
People will snap out of the spell they're under and
even consider voting for someone with an rn X.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And their name.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
And when you think about it, the last time that
the city was truly in great shape, it started in
Giuliani and it expanded under Bloomberg, both Republicans.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Well, I got to ask you this. You mentioned the taxes,
and they I saw Mandanni wants to take the tax
on businesses and increase it from like four and a
half percent to eleven percent tax.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I mean, look, as part of my practice, I represent
a lot of small businesses and some medium sized businesses,
and I'm telling you I tell people on the regular
I try to talk them out of being my clients.
I say, I don't think that it's the right time
to open a business in New York City. The overhead
is insanely high, and they over regulate businesses to the
(02:41):
point of absurdity that it is so expensive to comply
with regulation after regulation that you can't really it's very
hard to make a profit in New York City. People
don't understand this, and certainly the city Council doesn't understand
it because most of a lot of these people they
went straight from you know, expensive liberal arts colleges, straight
(03:02):
into politics. That's what's happening in New York City and state.
You've got people that went straight from with no work
experience at all, from these expensive liberal arts colleges, going
straight into politics.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Like they think getting.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
A bachelor's degree means you should be running the show
and bossing everyone around economically.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Does nobody pull them over and go heypes, come here,
this is not going to work, buddy. You want to
raise the taxes from seven to eleven percent. You want
to get the minimum way to thirty dollars an hour.
You want to freeze rent right now and have government
run grocery stores. Do you have any idea what this
is going to turn into? I mean, sir, you know,
with all due respect, I have my entire career in economics.
(03:44):
This doesn't flush. Has nobody had that conversation with him?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I mean, I think they're just ideologues, and they at
their core don't believe in a free market. And if
you don't have a free market and you have government control,
you don't really have a free society.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Just insane, and people are going to be leaving in droves.
They already are leaving New York already. But JT, this is.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I could tell you a story that I witnessed this
week in court of a judge taking a couple's baby
away for no reason that would shock and appall you.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I mean, the situation in New York City, it is
very rotten right now. It really truly is all right?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Well, speaking of rotten apples in New York City, let's
talk about Sean Diddy Combs. Now he's been convicted and
he's been sentenced to four years two months, and now
his attorney says, Oh, we don't want to go to
the rough prison, send us to the nice prison. So
your thoughts on First of all, I guess the prison
board decides where they ultimately end up, but I can
take they can take a recommendation from you know.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
The judge.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
But your thoughts on that, And also how much time
do you think he'll actually serve this four year, two
month sentence?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Well, what's he been in.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
He's been in over a year now, He's probably got
like three two and a half, three years to go.
I'm looking I love this how the Diddy sentence is
kind of the upbeat story of the day while the
city is burning down around me.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
But you know, look, you're not.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Gonna like my take on this, but I think he
should have probably gotten time served.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
He was not. Can listen, JT. You got first. I
say this as a.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Criminal defense attorney, that that you know, I'm very concerned
with the rights of people accused, and that they be
treated fairly.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And I get it. There's a lot of things he
did that were.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Not good in his life, but he didn't go on
trial for every bad thing he did in his life.
He went on trial and he was convicted of, you know,
transporting a person across state lines for prostitution purposes. I
don't know that someone deserved to go to jail for
four years for that. And that's not saying he didn't
behave extremely poorly. I mean he obviously he physically abused
(05:47):
his girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I was going to say assault, charged with that, charged
with that? I got you, I got your technicalities. Technicalities.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Well, look, we want to make sure where the government
puts someone in a cage, that we hold them to
that constitutional burden that they've proven the case beyond a
reasonable doubt. And the case they proved beyond a reasonable
doubt was that he transported people across state lines.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
For prostitution purposes. I don't know that that warrants four
years in jail.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I represented a lot of people who got caught with
ross suits and transporting them.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
None of them went to jail for four years.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Why was he not charged on the assault thing with
his girlfriend? As he dragged her down the hallway and
the elevator in the hotel. I mean, guys, go you know,
you get big times salt.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
He could have been charged for that, But the reality
is is that you know, that would have been something
he should have been charged in state court for.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I think it was in Florida, right, So.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
It's a domestic violence assault that should be charged in
state court.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It's not a federal crime.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
But the problem was is that the complaint I don't
think was made in a timely fashion, and there's a
statute of limitations, and you know this happened in twenty twelve,
so yeah, it's been long since past.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
He can't be bagged for that.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Well, I'll be praying for the Merrill election up there.
It's just out of control.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Cuomo.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
He's not a I know, you know ray of sunshine either,
so you know it's he's the I'm no fan.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think I'm team Curtis all the way.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah, well, good luck with that, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I'm gonna buy Red Beret.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I'm with you, all right. Ken Belcan in New York.
Thank you, buddy, I appreciate you.
All right, attorney buddy in New York City, A couple
(00:02):
of things to talk about. Ken, good morning, welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good morning, JT. Thanks for having me as always, well.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You know, I love having you. You've got great perspective,
you're smart, you know the law, and you know the
common sense of what's going on in a crazy city.
You called the big apple there in New York City.
So the mayor race right now, I guess the latest
numbers have Mundani up double digits ahead of everybody else.
That looks like he's going to be our new mayor
in New York City.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, we're going to be under a communist rule pretty
soon here in New York City. And you know the
thing that people I don't think people truly grasp is
Eric Adams are current mayor who you know who is
indicted and you know, has dropped out.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Of the race.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
He was really holding back the floodgates of our absolutely
insane city council. I mean they have gone after pizza parlors,
ice cream trucks in the name of climate change, because
ice cream trucks in Yes, this is true.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
My councilman has.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Got on after they're trying to get rid of ice
cream trucks. They're trying to impose all sorts of restrictions
on pizza parlors because of the smoke from pizza and
its relation to limate change. You can't make this stuff up.
They're absolutely insane. I mean, they want to impose all
sorts of additional taxes. They want to make it impossible
(01:20):
for regular people to drive cars in the city of
New York.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
That's out of control. New York's been operating at strol.
You come after people's pizza parlors in New York City,
you're gonna have hell to pay. I can't imagine that
this is going to go anywhere, but well, in today's.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
World, we got low voter turnout and everyone is bizarrely
cult like loyal to voting on the Democratic line. And
you know, it's going to take conditions in this city.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
To get really truly horrible before.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
People will snap out of the spell they're under and
even consider voting for someone with an rn X.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And their name.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
And when you think about it, the last time that
the city was truly in great shape, it started in
Giuliani and it expanded under Bloomberg, both Republicans.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Well, I got to ask you this. You mentioned the taxes,
and they I saw Mandanni wants to take the tax
on businesses and increase it from like four and a
half percent to eleven percent tax.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I mean, look, as part of my practice, I represent
a lot of small businesses and some medium sized businesses,
and I'm telling you I tell people on the regular
I try to talk them out of being my clients.
I say, I don't think that it's the right time
to open a business in New York City. The overhead
is insanely high, and they over regulate businesses to the
(02:41):
point of absurdity that it is so expensive to comply
with regulation after regulation that you can't really it's very
hard to make a profit in New York City. People
don't understand this, and certainly the city Council doesn't understand
it because most of a lot of these people they
went straight from you know, expensive liberal arts colleges, straight
(03:02):
into politics. That's what's happening in New York City and state.
You've got people that went straight from with no work
experience at all, from these expensive liberal arts colleges, going
straight into politics.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Like they think getting.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
A bachelor's degree means you should be running the show
and bossing everyone around economically.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Does nobody pull them over and go heypes, come here,
this is not going to work, buddy. You want to
raise the taxes from seven to eleven percent. You want
to get the minimum way to thirty dollars an hour.
You want to freeze rent right now and have government
run grocery stores. Do you have any idea what this
is going to turn into? I mean, sir, you know,
with all due respect, I have my entire career in economics.
(03:44):
This doesn't flush. Has nobody had that conversation with him?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I mean, I think they're just ideologues, and they at
their core don't believe in a free market. And if
you don't have a free market and you have government control,
you don't really have a free society.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Just insane, and people are going to be leaving in droves.
They already are leaving New York already. But JT, this is.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I could tell you a story that I witnessed this
week in court of a judge taking a couple's baby
away for no reason that would shock and appall you.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I mean, the situation in New York City, it is
very rotten right now. It really truly is all right?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Well, speaking of rotten apples in New York City, let's
talk about Sean Diddy Combs. Now he's been convicted and
he's been sentenced to four years two months, and now
his attorney says, Oh, we don't want to go to
the rough prison, send us to the nice prison. So
your thoughts on First of all, I guess the prison
board decides where they ultimately end up, but I can
take they can take a recommendation from you know.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
The judge.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
But your thoughts on that, And also how much time
do you think he'll actually serve this four year, two
month sentence?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Well, what's he been in.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
He's been in over a year now, He's probably got
like three two and a half, three years to go.
I'm looking I love this how the Diddy sentence is
kind of the upbeat story of the day while the
city is burning down around me.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
But you know, look, you're not.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Gonna like my take on this, but I think he
should have probably gotten time served.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
He was not. Can listen, JT. You got first. I
say this as a.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Criminal defense attorney, that that you know, I'm very concerned
with the rights of people accused, and that they be
treated fairly.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And I get it. There's a lot of things he
did that were.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Not good in his life, but he didn't go on
trial for every bad thing he did in his life.
He went on trial and he was convicted of, you know,
transporting a person across state lines for prostitution purposes. I
don't know that someone deserved to go to jail for
four years for that. And that's not saying he didn't
behave extremely poorly. I mean he obviously he physically abused
(05:47):
his girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I was going to say assault, charged with that, charged
with that? I got you, I got your technicalities. Technicalities.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Well, look, we want to make sure where the government
puts someone in a cage, that we hold them to
that constitutional burden that they've proven the case beyond a
reasonable doubt. And the case they proved beyond a reasonable
doubt was that he transported people across state lines.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
For prostitution purposes. I don't know that that warrants four
years in jail.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I represented a lot of people who got caught with
ross suits and transporting them.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
None of them went to jail for four years.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Why was he not charged on the assault thing with
his girlfriend? As he dragged her down the hallway and
the elevator in the hotel. I mean, guys, go you know,
you get big times salt.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
He could have been charged for that, But the reality
is is that you know, that would have been something
he should have been charged in state court for.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I think it was in Florida, right, So.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
It's a domestic violence assault that should be charged in
state court.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It's not a federal crime.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
But the problem was is that the complaint I don't
think was made in a timely fashion, and there's a
statute of limitations, and you know this happened in twenty twelve,
so yeah, it's been long since past.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
He can't be bagged for that.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Well, I'll be praying for the Merrill election up there.
It's just out of control.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Cuomo.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
He's not a I know, you know ray of sunshine either,
so you know it's he's the I'm no fan.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think I'm team Curtis all the way.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah, well, good luck with that, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I'm gonna buy Red Beret.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I'm with you, all right. Ken Belcan in New York.
Thank you, buddy, I appreciate you.
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