David Samson

Clippers employees only became familiar with Sandberg and sustainability in 2021, that same year.

But what they don't mention is that the Balmer Group, the aforementioned charity, in January of 2018, this would be three years before Balmer says he was introduced to Sandberg in 2021, the Balmer Group donated to the charity Joe Sandberg had personally founded and served as a chairman of, Golden State Opportunity.

And his face was all over the website.

But that's not the only thing that happened back in 2018, the year before Kawhi Leonard signed with the Clippers in 2019 as a free agent, by the way.

Because while the Ballmer letter says that 2021 is when, quote, Clippers employees and through them Mr. Ballmer became familiar with what appeared to be Sandberg's shared interest in sustainability, end quote, avid PTFO listeners slash Celtics fans like Lou Manzo may recall this tweet from Aspiration's old Twitter account, which someone, maybe, forgot to delete.

This is August 23rd, 2018.

And David, who do you see in this photo?

It is Doc Rivers, the then head coach of the Clippers, who was at the time, by the way, reporting directly to owner Steve Ballmer and talking to a bunch of employees with the big word you can see on the blue wall that says what?

Aspiration.

Aspiration's offices were less than 10 minutes away from the Clippers facility.

At the time, this was Marina Del Rey, and multiple Aspiration employees who were in those offices tell me that Doc Rivers was not the only Clippers employee who visited back then.

In fact, according to Aspiration Financials we obtained, both Doc Rivers and his then wife became Aspiration investors in February of 2018.

The month after, Ballmer donated to Sandberg's charity, Golden State Opportunity, which the Ballmer Group called a well-respected organization just last September.

Well, and if nothing else, it just simply complicates the timeline, which is meant to be very simple.

And Lou, this is sent to the judge.

Correct.

Like and subscribe, Judge Wilson.

That's what I would say to him.

But I am also glad to have talked to multiple other sources who are directly familiar with the federal investigation of aspiration.

This is beyond Lou Manzo, incidentally, over the last several months.