Ross Mandell

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106 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard Mar 2025

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Mick Unplugged · Reinventing Ross Mandell: Success, Second Chances, and Redemption · 6 Mar 2025 podcast

People get me for 10 hours. Okay? Personally. And we record the sessions, they get the tapes, and they get other benefits as well by being sort of on the inside of Ross Mandel right now. And... It started out a bunch of young kids, like 31-year-old kids, 28-year-old kids, you know, young men. I shouldn't say kids. The young men, and every one of them has business.

Every one of them makes some money, but they thought that they could maybe go to the next level. And I was able to do that with them. But now all of a sudden I'm getting men like 56, 58, 63 saying, listen, I got this, I got that, but can you help me? And I've been able to add value to every single one of their lives. Yeah. Mick, that's really what this is all about. Do you understand?

You know what? It's something that's natural for me. I love to teach, to educate, to help. I just, that's my personality. I don't know how to explain it. It's not like some great master plan or, you know, I'm a good person for that. I enjoy it. I mean, it's almost a selfish pleasure. When I was stock brokering, people were attracted to me because I have an energy, but I'm very comfortable sharing.

And I think that as a man, you have to be very secure to share. I noticed a lot of men in life, business, relationships, they're not generous, right? If you were to ask me, like people have asked me, so who is Ross Mandel? So when I was a young guy, I said, well, I'm a stockbroker. You know, I wear a Rolex. I mean, you know, it's like I drive a Mercedes.

And I was challenged by people in that sort of psychological arena. No, they said, no, no, that's what you do. That's what you own. Who are you? And I was like, man, that's like, these are tough questions for a, like you asked me earlier, how am I feeling? I don't even know how I'm feeling. My daughter got into law school today. We're looking to end my probation today.

My website went down because of some stupid billing issue. Doing a podcast, we had issues with Riverside. It doesn't matter really how I feel. I happen to really feel particularly good today. I woke up feeling very good. It's because I'm dieting and I'm going to the gym and I'm taking care of myself. And when I do these things physically, I'm okay.

I have some issues and some conditions, but everything's managed and good. But, you know, how you feel really doesn't really matter when you have purpose. I have great purpose today. Remember, I was in federal custody for 112 months. And before I went into custody, I was on this journey, podcasting, getting my truth out, sharing. It's amazing what happened in the world while I was away.

Donald Trump 77, 78 years old, a billionaire, builder, ex-president, all of a sudden is indicted on 92 counts after never being arrested in his life in all these different jurisdictions. So the scam of the Department of Justice and various district attorneys, the scam of our criminal justice system was on display for the entire world. You understand how government, how people in business utilize

They use politicians, Department of Justice officials to further again an end. I didn't do anything wrong. They came into my place, 40 FBI agents in November of 06. They said, nobody's getting arrested. Nobody, we're just here to execute a search warrant. Meanwhile, there's 40 guys with guns with stock brokerage from an investment bank.

I got a congressman in there, a senator, a member of parliament. They come with guns blazing, lockdown. But here's what they also did. They alerted every major news media organization was already in my lobby. In my lobby. So the phones are ringing. This is the New York Times. This is AP. This is UPI. I mean, the BBC.

They're in the lobby while they're executing a search warrant, effectively saying, we're putting you out of business. Judge, jury, and executioner. Just serving. In the meanwhile, we're a highly regulated business. We have been sharing. They send us requests for documents. We give them everything. What are you kidding?

I mean, this is, I'm governed by the SEC, the NASD, FINRA, New York Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, FSA, eight different regulators. But they felt the need to come in, guns heavy. And, you know, I never really understood how unjust the criminal justice system was. But I'll say this to you.

I've had a lot of friends, African-Americans, sort of, I want to get Hispanics, that have come to me over the years and told me just how freaking corrupt government is and how corrupt the system is.

How, you know, if you're a young black man, they could just pull you over just because you're a young black man, not because you're doing anything wrong, not because you're suspicious, not because they just do it. And I never really, until it affects you, you don't really pay it its mind. Right. And, you know, I'm a voice of that now, the corruption and the unjust stuff.

I didn't do anything wrong. I didn't break the law. It took them years, years to indict me, to find a crime, five-week trial, a complete scam, theater, a show. It's a scam, federal court, the whole system. Let cameras in, no. The judge would start to press the members of the media. I want to see, because the media was writing about what a scam the trial was. And the witnesses were all liars.

The jury were laughing. But it's rigged. And the system is rigged. It has been. And not until this Donald Trump thing did everybody see how corrupt. So, you know, it's not a matter of me whining about this and that, Mick. My journey is to be of service today. That's what I want. I'm a father. I was taken away from my young family. Daughters were 14 and 11.

My young wife, you know, God bless her, you know, she was barely 40 years old when I went in. and stuck with two kids, and like they say, if I had cancer or a stroke, something terrible, the whole community would rally, right? But when you're indicted by the criminal justice system, you're a villain. People would stay away.

Now all of a sudden people are starting to realize there's a lot of bullshit going on. So in 2014, I go away, and I missed a lot of valuable time being a dad. You have kids, Mick? I have three. So you know what it is to be a parent, to love unconditionally a child. And I was forced away from them. I couldn't call them on the phone. They couldn't call me when they needed dad.

They suffered greatly, okay? And then, you know, I was on American Greed. I'm the finale of season nine called The Sky's the Limit. You know, the show, I get a letter while I'm in prison that my case was deemed the most colorful case in the United States in 2011, 2012 after I was sentenced. And they did an hour show, they called The Sky's the Limit, American Greed.

And you know, people are very, a lot of the haters come out on social media because they're cowards. It's like Hamas, they wear masks. You know, if you really feel something, say it, show your face. Okay, take a position. I'm like, that's the kind of guy I am. You know what I mean? But there's a lot of people that suffer from cowardice and from hate. And so my family really had a rough time.

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