Martin Bell

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474 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 20 Aug

Martin Bell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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pretty vividly.

Just a a few weeks earlier, I walked into work and the chief of the forfeiture unit was sitting in my chair, a woman named Sharon Cohen Levin.

She looked up at me and smiled.

I was not expecting a visit from her, and she's somebody who by that time had already come to be known as the Babe Ruth of forfeiture.

So called because I think at that point in her career.

Her unit was responsible for something like 95% of the forfeited assets in the federal system in the United States, um, as measured by value.

Billion dollar judgments from banks, forfeiting stolen Nazi looted art worth millions and millions of dollars, and doing things.

within the sort of art and craft of forfeiture that nobody else was doing.

Sharon suggested that I give some thought to joining her unit.

She knew I was into white collar stuff.

She had already detected a little bit of whimsy in me, and she said, We've got the beginnings of something that I think you may like.

Um, and so this is how that story begins, I guess.

And that made the news the next day because it's not the sort of thing that happens all the time.

Good lord.

Look, I don't want to be gendered about this, but it's particularly true if you're a boy who grew up playing with plastic dinosaurs or who took

You know, the sort of field guide to dinosaurs out of the Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch, as I did no fewer than fifteen times as a kid.

One of the most perfect movies ever made.

That the the from the score to the practical

The effects are still the best in the series, even though we've had twenty years of Jurassic Park movies since, it is a perfect movie.

The sense of wonder that Alan Grant has as he removes his one of the greatest scenes in the history of cinema.

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