David Samson

And so, David, for people who did not watch Part 9...

Could you please open your folder and just remember for us the key paragraph relevant to our interests, to the NBA's interests?

This comes under a subsection titled Examples of Aspirations Fraud, where the two whistleblowers allege under penalty of perjury that the Clippers used a $32 million account to pay for carbon credits, pass agreements with the Clippers, and quote,

So, Lou, I want to ask about this generally.

whistleblower complaints and the importance of them as a matter of how the DOJ functions.

For people who don't understand what a document like this even is, how significant it would be, how can you help explain and decode what they are?

And this one was filed first to the Securities and Exchange Commission, then making its way to the DOJ, to the CFTC as well, according to my reporting.

And it's also worth noting, perhaps, that according to various talking heads, where certainly not me, Kawhi Leonard has also been described as both an injury case and a disaster at times.

So in general, again, a question, because you are the person who, of course, saw all of this before I did, who studied all of this, vetted all of this before I did.

Could a salary capture convention scheme by a sports owner with a fraudulent team sponsor he was also a major investor in, could that be relevant to the DOJ's investigation of the person suspected of running that fraud?

But I think what's interesting is that in the complaint, of course, it is both.

The roadmap laid out has all of this mentioned under penalty of perjury in writing years before I ever heard about any of this.

But the good news today is that we have a new letter, a different letter that I would love to decode with Lou in his unique capacity to have expertise on this subject.

And the writer of this letter via his legal representatives happens to be, I want to get this name correct here.

Yeah, happens to be one Stephen Balmer.

So I think there might be some value in the analysis.

Owner of the Clippers.

Yeah, I got it.

Okay.

So I do want to talk about the idea of Steve Ballmer as a victim through the lens of a concept that I think the average listener should understand as well, Lou, which is the victim impact statement.