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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

So, Lou, does being a victim, right, and I want to make clear, Steve Ballmer, according to our reporting, is a victim 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

Does being a victim, according to the DOJ, say anything about whether he was hypothetically also involved in a scheme to circumvent the salary cap?

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

Two things are almost always true at the same time.

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

Meanwhile, David, look, we've done exhaustive exegesis to summon the Catholic teachings that Lou and I have had of this letter.

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

What was your favorite part?

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

This is all a buildup towards the sentencing hearing, which was scheduled for Monday of last week, April 27th.

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

Everyone had this date on their calendar circled.

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

According to notes that our reporter, Anita Bennett, took for us out in LA at that courthouse, it came into sharp focus.

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

You had Joe Sandberg seated up near the front, dressed in khakis, a dark blue sweater over a light blue shirt, sneakers.

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 seated with his four defense lawyers, one of whom is former Trump attorney, Mark Mukasey.

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

a noted lawyer in his own right.

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

And the judge, Stephen V. Wilson, was in fact asking a ton of questions.

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

And David, you have some transcribed selections that Anita, our court reporter, took down for us.

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

Was that a surprise, Lou, in your view, as somebody just observing from afar what was happening to the case that you had started and now had nothing to do with anymore?

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

So here's the scouting report, the back of the baseball card for Stephen Victor Wilson.

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 appointed by Ronald Reagan, 1985.

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

He is 85 years young.

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

And he, according to our court reporter, was kind of flustering the DOJ in terms of all of the questions he wanted to ask as somebody who did not seem to be familiar with the case on even the level that the DOJ was pursuing it.

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

And the weird thing is that we had read, of course, extensively from the victim impact letter filed by Stephen Ballmer, the one that was first leaked to ESPN and then tweeted out by Ballmer himself two days later.

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

ESPN had reported, as we mentioned, that the Ballmer letter, quote, had been filed in court, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.