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 · Ballmer's Secret I.O.U., Aspiration's "Web of Lies" and the Zenith of Fraud: Kawhi-Gate, Part XI · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

Europe hotels, baby.

It is a time of day that no one should be speaking as loudly as I'm speaking in a hotel room.

Pay Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard an incentivized bonus to circumvent the NBA's salary cap disguised as an organic marketing sponsorship agreement.

It's amazing, Pablo.

You bring in a guy who starts off sort of hands up, can't talk, does a great episode, very important, and he's back.

I had it four to one that we'd never see Lou's face again.

Equally stunning and prejudicial is that a former DOJ prosecutor who was involved in this case appeared on a popular podcast on May 5th to offer commentary about sentencing in this case while it is still pending.

I was just struck by the entire sentence, Lou, because I'm trying to figure out, having gone through that episode again, because I was there, exactly how it's prejudicial, because what that would mean is that the judge was watching the show and had some sort of epiphany race sentencing because of our show.

And I'm sorry, but I found that as much as I respect all three of us, not in a particular order, but you'd be first, that I do not believe we would sway the judge in sentencing.

But maybe I'm wrong.

So beautiful, Pablo, because if you read these two quotes side by side, it is virtually impossible even for a Harvard guy to walk the tightrope where you do a show where both sides say you screwed them.

And it just is a chef's kiss to journalism that you could do a show that both sides believe put them in a position where they had to fight back.

What shocked me, Lou, is that the bid and the ask here was 17 and a half and zero.

Yeah, that's a huge delta.

That is a huge delta.

And where he came down was clearly on the side of the DOJ.

The history of this defendant is that he is charitable, wants to do good things, wants to do things that he thinks are important.

But the circumstances are among the worst that I've ever encountered in my 40 years serving here.

He started with altruistic intentions, but he became entangled in a web of lies that continued for four years.

I would put the grade of this fraud at the zenith.

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