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David Samson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

And you should know that all of them have vouched for the credibility of the two whistleblowers that led both the SEC and the DOJ to investigate aspiration.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

In part because, yeah, they provided Lou Manzo with this 11-page roadmap under penalty of perjury that resulted in the successful conviction of Joe Sandberg.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

All of which strengthens our reporting here that Steve Ballmer, one of the 15 richest people in the world, was drained for more and more money in increasingly obvious ways by the friendly founder that Ballmer's Clippers had also trusted to deceive the NBA.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

But I also think it is quite important for people who are less familiar with this 10-part saga to just get a sense of Ballmer and Sandberg together on stage at Clippers Media Day in 2021.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

But let's go back to the criminal proceedings here because in footnote one,

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

Love a footnote on this show, David.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

We return to maybe something resembling Judge Stephen Wilson's interests.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

So I should say that this harm, this unraveling, was actually brought to his attention directly by Lou, by federal investigators mid-2023, not long after he invested in March 23, that $10 million.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

It got covered by Bloomberg in national headlines in January and July 2024, was made painfully clear, by the way, by the arrest of Joe Sandberg's co-conspirator, also a focus of the DOJ investigation, Ibrahim al-Husseini.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

He was arrested and convicted on securities fraud charges, pled guilty, but the arrest happened in October, 2024,

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

And I bring this up to say that the immeasurable damage, the totality of destabilization led Steve Ballmer in November of 24 to do something notable, which was donate another $1.875 million to the charity founded and chaired by the scammer who had done all of this to his reputation, Joe Sandberg.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

And I know, Lou, you can't speak to this directly.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

I do appreciate that you're enjoying podcast court at the moment.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

And so I will just need to quote source number one from the finance department at Aspiration, who previously on this specific point had told us this.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

Well, I want to anticipate the possibility that Steve Ballmer really believed in the mission of the Golden State Opportunity Foundation, Joe Sandberg's baby, the thing that he was the head of.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

And so maybe there is an art versus the artist sort of distinction he's drawing?

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

That is honestly one of the most persuasive theories that anyone has offered at this point in the reporting.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

Yeah, Steve Ballmer's kink is being robbed.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

Yeah.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Steve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X

Rob me blind, daddy.