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

But that is a term of art.

So it's interesting.

And a 5K, for those not familiar, would be?

5K is just the sentencing guidelines chapter.

Sentencing guidelines are a giant book.

You add up the enhancements and you take away points for, you know, kind of,

positive things, and you get a score.

It's the abacus of incarceration.

So when I was a prosecutor and somebody is cooperating in an investigation, that cooperation is pretty much worthless unless there's contemporaneous support.

Because you can tell, a jury can tell that if someone's just making up a story because they're going to get a reduction in sentencing, they're very highly motivated to say whatever the government wants you to say.

And so anytime somebody is going to cooperate, you really need to build a world of evidence to surround that to explain why it's trustworthy.

I thought you called him a journalist.

What happened?

As a former talking head.

You told me I couldn't give him a free pass.

Yes.

And again, I think the judge would say, what is going on here?

I have no idea.

Generally, victims can be very complicated.

You can have a victim who also might have participated in an offense.

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