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Behind Chamber Doors

05 Jun 2025

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Chapter 1: Why did Frida Hanimov go undercover?

170.569 - 174.01 Frida Hanimov

I'll meet them about five, six blocks away from the warehouse.

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178.251 - 183.673 Detective

We'd meet her, wire her up, talk to her, prep her about what she's going to say when she goes in.

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186.462 - 190.164 Frida Hanimov

When you get off from your car, you see this big, huge warehouse.

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192.285 - 211.434 Michael Vecchione

I mean, not a place that we were very happy about sending her into, but it was necessary. She was not the type of individual who you would normally put a recording device on. She was pregnant, and to have a pregnant woman who had no experience doing this, it was harrowing on us as well.

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212.955 - 233.037 Frida Hanimov

And this big steel gate will open up My heart was really going fast. And then the boom, they close it after me. I said, oh my God, I have no way out, even if I want to run away.

238.079 - 241.08 Michael Vecchione

She could have been harmed. She could have been hurt. She could have been killed.

244.997 - 252.721 Frida Hanimov

The truth is when I went inside, I didn't care about myself. This is the last chance I have to keep my kids.

260.184 - 261.725 Nisim Elman

Chamber of Secrets.

277.644 - 280.307 Frida Hanimov

And this is a big mahogany door that I bought.

Chapter 2: What evidence did Frida gather against the judge?

Chapter 3: How did corruption affect Frida's custody battle?

Chapter 4: What role did Nisim Elman play in the case?

51.331 - 59.137 Narrator

I made a promise. I would never stop looking. In Tracker. All episodes now streaming on Paramount+. And returning CBS Fall.

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75.046 - 83.068 Prosecutor

We're talking about corruption in the court system and the pawns that are being played with here are children.

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84.788 - 103.973 Michael Vecchione

The very fabric of the legal system is at stake here. There is a question. If I walk into a courtroom, am I getting a fair shot? Am I getting a fair shake? I'm Michael Vecchione, and I am the Chief of the Rackets Division in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office.

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104.453 - 116.636 Michael Vecchione

And I was in charge of the investigation begun by Frida Hanimov, who started this by walking into our office and telling us that she was about to lose her children because a judge had been fixed.

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118.316 - 152.96 Frida Hanimov

I felt something is wrong, but I couldn't prove it. I just couldn't prove it. I said, what kind of America is this? I'm Frida Hanimov. I went undercover for the district attorney office to nail a corrupt judge. I'm not a police officer. I'm not a detective. I'm a mother and a nurse. I'll do anything, anything in the world to keep my kids. Even if I have to fight with a tiger, I'll do it.

154.204 - 164.307 Michael Vecchione

a Supreme Court judge being paid off, being bribed. You can't get much more serious than that. So he decided to put a recording device on her.

165.928 - 169.169 Detective

This is the neighborhood that we took Freda to.

Chapter 5: What was Judge Garson's involvement in the corruption?

Chapter 6: How did Frida's situation escalate with her ex-husband?

104.453 - 116.636 Michael Vecchione

And I was in charge of the investigation begun by Frida Hanimov, who started this by walking into our office and telling us that she was about to lose her children because a judge had been fixed.

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118.316 - 152.96 Frida Hanimov

I felt something is wrong, but I couldn't prove it. I just couldn't prove it. I said, what kind of America is this? I'm Frida Hanimov. I went undercover for the district attorney office to nail a corrupt judge. I'm not a police officer. I'm not a detective. I'm a mother and a nurse. I'll do anything, anything in the world to keep my kids. Even if I have to fight with a tiger, I'll do it.

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154.204 - 164.307 Michael Vecchione

a Supreme Court judge being paid off, being bribed. You can't get much more serious than that. So he decided to put a recording device on her.

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165.928 - 169.169 Detective

This is the neighborhood that we took Freda to.

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170.569 - 174.01 Frida Hanimov

I'll meet them about five, six blocks away from the warehouse.

178.251 - 183.673 Detective

We'd meet her, wire her up, talk to her, prep her about what she's going to say when she goes in.

186.462 - 190.164 Frida Hanimov

When you get off from your car, you see this big, huge warehouse.

192.285 - 211.434 Michael Vecchione

I mean, not a place that we were very happy about sending her into, but it was necessary. She was not the type of individual who you would normally put a recording device on. She was pregnant, and to have a pregnant woman who had no experience doing this, it was harrowing on us as well.

212.955 - 233.037 Frida Hanimov

And this big steel gate will open up My heart was really going fast. And then the boom, they close it after me. I said, oh my God, I have no way out, even if I want to run away.

Chapter 7: What was the outcome of Frida's undercover operation?

1138.588 - 1152.997 Frida Hanimov

Okay, guys ready? I felt like they're not talking anymore about my little kids because it's so obvious they're going to be mine. In the beginning I was so dangerous, remember? Now I'm a very good mother. Now you're a good mother? All of a sudden I get visitation from my oldest son after six months.

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1153.377 - 1157.86 Prosecutor

She saw such a difference of how people treated her from top down.

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1158.223 - 1160.765 Frida Hanimov

So she gives Elman the money and boom, everything changes.

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1160.965 - 1165.808 Michael Vecchione

Semenovsky particularly became a lot less strident in terms of his feelings towards her.

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1166.228 - 1173.693 Frida Hanimov

Semenovsky, good morning to me all of a sudden and the judge is going easy on me. I felt very good.

1180.35 - 1183.472 Prosecutor

He's pouring over a lot of the transcripts.

1183.712 - 1190.956 Frida Hanimov

It was up to the DA now to figure out how an electronic salesman could possibly be influencing custody decisions.

1191.376 - 1191.696 Nisim Elman

Okay.

1192.596 - 1194.678 Frida Hanimov

They put a tap on Elman's phone.

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