Tom Simon
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Benny was a muscle man, worked out every day.
We showed up to the gym when he was getting out of it.
And Benny, you're under arrest.
He puts his hands up.
He comes in.
And the idea was this.
I was going to be handling the interrogation of Benny, me and a partner.
We arrested Benny before we arrested anyone else because we wanted to flip him and begin cooperating and start paying bribes to city building inspectors that we could do a better job of capturing on tape.
Benny had a wife and kids.
He had everything to lose.
A very successful business.
And so, and the way we did it was this.
We bring Benny into a room.
I sit him down.
I said, Benny, I want to talk to you before I, and I want you to say a word.
I have not Mirandized him yet.
I want you to listen to some things.
I hit play on the tape recorder that I had set up.
And I basically played him 30 minutes of Benny's greatest hits from our wiretap.
Taking a bribe, paying a bribe, agreeing to take a bribe.