Tom Simon

And then they were beholden to him.

And so they were available whenever he needed it.

And so we found just so much stuff going on with Benny.

And so by the time we actually were ready to take it down, there was one transaction that stood out to me.

It was bad plumbing in a building.

It was all backwards.

We had an inspector that was helping us out go and take a look at it and say, the plumbing here is all backwards.

The plumbing that's underneath the floorboards and behind the walls needs to be slanted in a certain way so you're

When you flush the toilet, it kind of, you know, it goes out to the sewage system.

This was all like backward.

They were slanted the wrong way.

The poor bastard who was going to buy this house was going to have plumbing problems forever.

There's no way this would have passed inspection, but the Romanian builder needed it to.

So the Romanian builder contacted Benny, and Benny took $7,000 and handed it off as a bribe to a plumbing inspector named Mario.

So of all the transactions we had and all the kind of buzz about, you know, envelopes being handed out in cash, this was a perfect situation for us to make the centerpiece of the criminal charges against Benny and this plumbing inspector whose name was Mario.

So we take it down.

We arrest a ton of people, all these building inspectors.

We arrest Benny.

Well, we arrested Benny the day before.

I was there when we arrested Benny.