Sam Koppelman

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · We Investigated Magic Johnson, Mark Walter... and Your Nest Egg · 4 Sep 2026 podcast

Like, say I owned an insurance company and also a

Seschuan fish stew soup dumpling restaurant.

I couldn't use your parents and grandparents' insurance payments to invest in my dream of succulent soup dumplings filled with Sichuan fish stew, unless I disclosed that very clearly, because people would then be able to understand the kinds of things their money is being used for.

And that disclosure would be called an affiliate transaction, which is basically a deal with yourself.

fraud.

Allegedly.

That is allegedly what seemed to have happened with Mark Walter and his firm Guggenheim Partners.

You'll note that Walter's company did not deny there that it's selling the Lakers in order to raise capital for his insurance operations.

But he did say pretty clearly that the Dodgers are not for sale.

No, no, no.

We're gonna

Unlike normal options where people say up front, hey, you're gonna get a really good deal on this because I desperately need money, that's not what's happening here.

No fire sale prices, period.

Yeah, yeah.

To be clear, we have not.

Proven fraud here.

But what I can say is that our team at Hunterbrook Media, as well as the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times and Bloomberg, a lot of financial journalists have been very deep in those titillating bond documents this summer.

What it seems like happened is that Mark Walter and Guggenheim partners severely underreported just how much money was mislabeled and never disclosed as an affiliate.

immediate transaction.

And that total, the total of affiliated transactions, has gone from what his insurers had estimated to be around $3 billion to now tens of billions of dollars.

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