Lou Manzo

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348 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 17 Sep

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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 · 5 May 2026 podcast

Had you seen any example analogous to this?

In the fraud context, you get fewer victim impact statements because a lot of times large-scale fraud is perpetrated against venture capital.

Venture capital does not have a great interest in seeing federal prosecutions.

They want their losses just to be written off and to move on.

So they don't really have an interest in signaling that they made a mistake.

Mm-hmm.

so this is uh an unprecedented letter in my opinion uh to kind of be going down this this road to a federal judge who you know may have no information about this issue to me it makes it even more clear though that this letter was actually not intended for the federal judge no i i think the only thing you can say and again i have no information no inside information this is just me years removed from this case

You know, maybe they were concerned that there was a more fulsome letter coming from the NBA or an interested party that said, you know, that Joe Sandberg has provided very demonstrative information against Steve Ballmer or the Clippers.

The letter of support, there's no statutory term for it.

But at any sentencing, the family, friends, anyone who wants to support the defendant can submit materials.

They can speak up at sentencing.

And that's what happens in some cases, not all.

My favorite word is substantial assistance.

Because that is, you know, that's a term of art that the judge would pick up on.

Because what any defendant who's cooperating wants is a 5K.

And that is a part of the sentencing guidelines where if you provide substantial assistance in an investigation, the government and the defense can recommend a departure from the guidelines.

Mm.

And so that is a hot button word.

I've never seen a substantial assistance letter from an NBA or any third party.

That doesn't really carry any weight to the court, I would imagine.

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