Jamison Firestone

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299 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci · Russia Expert: Putin Destroyed Democracy And Trump's Doing It Too - Jamison Firestone · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

My dad had a six-floor brownstone.

We kept a yacht with a crew past Montauk on the island.

And all this came crashing to an end one day when I was 15 years old and the police showed up at the door to arrest my father and take him to his indictment.

And it turned out that he was a con artist, that he had been defrauding investors in the IRS of tens of millions of dollars.

And so while awaiting trial, my dad sent me to a five-day boarding school and started to go a little nuts.

And he became a drug addict.

He started doing coke, switched to crack.

And he bought Manhattan's most expensive brothel.

And he filled our house with prostitutes.

And then he started hanging around with loan sharks and contract killers.

So every weekend, I was coming home to this mixture of risky business and pulp fiction.

And it was really hanging around with the contract killers and their kids that turned out to be good prep for Russia.

Because a lot of these people saw me as a kid who was going to go to college.

And they had plans for me.

They were telling me they were going to open a dry cleaning business.

And a few of my boys, they're going to be working at your dry cleaning business.

I mean, they're not really going to be working there, but you're going to be paying them, see?

And I, of course, didn't want to do these things.

I didn't want to be the front for a mafia operation.

And so I learned how to say no to contract killers.

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