David Samson

But we are talking...

with the guy at the table who launched the federal investigation into aspiration.

Thanks, Pablo.

Quite an introduction.

Yeah, it's kind of like when on ESPN you see Rex Ryan commenting on the Jets.

Yeah.

Get comfy.

Get comfy.

I do want to present the bio, though, because Lou is a couple years out of the DOJ.

And Lou started off, David, as a violent crime and sex prosecutor at the U.S.

Attorney's Office, spent about a decade at the Department of Justice becoming a trial attorney in the fraud section at Maine Justice.

And Lou, you worked on everything from opioid over-prescription cases to healthcare fraud to large-scale market manipulation cases.

And you left the DOJ to become a partner at Beverage and Diamond, focusing on white-collar investigations and criminal defense.

Needed to earn more money.

It's not like there's any chaos happening currently.

What I can say on my end is that this started in about mid-2023 when two Aspiration employees filed a confidential 11-page whistleblower complaint with the federal government under penalty of perjury.

And Lou was not my source initially.

on how I obtained and published excerpts of this in the last episode we did, Part 9.

But it is important for me to observe here at the top that this whistleblower complaint, which was filed years before I got a hold of it, is something that Lew would have seen.

And because of its filing, it helped launch the federal investigation that brings us here today.