Matthew Cox
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Luckily, at this point, I'm kind of done.
Periodically, I get a phone call with like, hey, who is this person?
Hey, these two people are not willing to participate.
Who else could cover this portion of the story?
And you're like, oh, so-and-so.
Talk to so-and-so's brother.
Right, right.
know um sometimes there's just nobody and you're like okay well then they're like well then you'll have to come in and fill in that piece and you know i don't have a problem with that like if we get to that stage and that'd be great like i i don't they don't i don't plan they don't what's the legality of you making money on a prior crime aren't there laws against that so on
OK, so you're talking about the son of Sam law.
All right.
So there's about 13 or 14 states that have son of Sam laws, which would say and there is a federal son of Sam law.
So let's say New York, for instance, Berkowitz, right?
You know, he had sold his his life rights for like a million dollars.
It's like, OK, so you're this psycho that kills, you know, whatever it was, seven people or nine people or whatever.
And now you make a million dollars.
So, of course, they came up with the son of Sam law.
And it's pretty strict in in New York where and most some of these states where they where they say, look, if.
You sell your life rights.
You cannot profit on your crime.
So some states, like I want to say Indiana, says you have to give 80%.