Ben Port (Ben Skull)
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He has a little ankle bracelet on.
And he put a blanket over it.
And he's like, I'm thinking about running.
I'm going to go to Ukraine.
So he tells our... What year is this?
This was like 2008.
12 2013 somewhere around there okay um so he tells that russian guy that he you know that i didn't trust he said you know i need a ukraine passport so he tells this that guy i call him uh igor in my book he tells him like to get him a passport and of course this guy's working for the fbi too so the fbi knows he's trying to flee right
Um, so a buddy of mine was actually at his house that day, like, you know, painting it, getting it ready to sell.
Cause he knew he was going to jail.
Um, and I guess FBI agents popped up from like the bushes, like all over the place to take him down.
Um, so he goes to jail.
And my other buddy that was also, he owned a brokerage firm, never did anything wrong.
He just owned an offshore brokerage firm.
It was probably worth like close to a billion dollars in assets.
He also goes to jail.
He had like three airplanes.
They all got seized.
He just got out of jail recently too.
So I kind of dodged a lot of bullets in the market.
When all my friends were getting arrested, I was freaking out, obviously.