Sam Koppelman

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

It helps explain how Magic Johnson got caught up in a news cycle about potential insurance fraud.

It helps explain what happens to your everyday investments.

What happens when you buy a life insurance policy?

What happens with every single one of those dollars between when you pay and when you get that money back?

And the truth is in the background, billionaires are doing all kinds of creative things with your money that we will explain in this episode if you stick with us.

That none were handled improperly and all had know your customer due diligence.

And Mark Walter definitely was walking around with Magic Johnson a lot.

We spoke to a former Guggenheim employee who said sometimes Magic would just show up in the office.

Which essentially means that the MLB allowed the Dodgers to keep more of the money it was making from its TV rights deal in exchange for Walter buying the team at

Yes, and right away in December of twenty twelve, shortly after being approved as the new owner of the Dodgers, voted in by the likes of the Marlins, Mark Walter starts a new limited liability company called American Media Productions LLC, which has precisely one publicly known asset to this day.

And it's a regional television channel.

the exclusive home of Dodgers games in the Los Angeles market, with Vin Scully doing play by play, and it's named Sportsnet LA, which debuted in twenty fourteen.

Walter agreed to pay Walter eight point three five billion dollars over twenty-five years.

Of this historic deal.

Yes, because in addition to the deal between Mark Walter and Mark Walter, there was a third party involved here, and that's Time Warner Cable, which guaranteed the entire 8.35 billion dollar 25-year contract in the event that Sportsnet LA, also known as Time Warner Sportsnet LA, couldn't make their payment to the Dodgers.

Time Warner essentially agreed to backstop.

The deal.

Derek Jeter against the Ace.

A Dodgers blue suit and tie.

They were able to use that guaranteed $8.35 billion deal with Time Warner to offset the $2.15 billion Guggenheim paid for the Dodgers in the first place, as in the actual baseball team.

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