Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Selling The Cure For Aids | Insane Story of Sex, Drugs, and Penny Stocks
Mon, 10 Feb 2025
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Chapter 1: What is the insane story behind the AIDS cure scam?
And the worst day of my life. My oldest son was stillborn. And he was huge. He was like 12'6". We got to hold him and all. But it was a tough day. And... it turned out the only reason that he didn't live was she had excessive sugar spilling over and the doctors didn't pick it up. She was diabetic. If they had picked it up ahead of time, you know, he'd still be here.
You know, so... And what year was this? That was like 1980. Okay. And so then she got pregnant again. Not sure how that happened but... We don't know anyways. And I ended up with another company called Millbrook, not the bread company. Guy's name was Lee Isaacson. And he's like, anybody that can go out and knock on doors and sell vacuum cleaners, I want to hire you.
And they did help them beauty aids, candy and stationery to Ames department stores, which was like Kmart today or Walmart, whatever. I guess Kmart's not even around anymore. And so I did that for a year and a half and I had a problem with, well, I did real well. They promoted me and they called it store design.
What that meant when they opened a new store or did a remodel, I would go there for a month, whatever, and set our section up. So they gave me a crew of young girls. And so, you know, at night I'd be... Things happen. Exactly. And... I get it. The dumb thing that happened is... Are you still married? Oh, no.
Oh.
Oh, no. Yeah, at that time, yes, I was still married. Right, right. So, here's the dumb thing I did. The vice president in charge of security for the Ames department stores, her...
assistant slash girlfriend now the vice president is complete 100% lesbian Lisa her assistant is bisexual so she's at the store with me and you know the girls talk and so she decides that taking me home to her room is a good idea well we're in bed
and the vice president comes to surprise her girlfriend lisa and comes bouncing through the door that was the last day i worked for that company she called my company and said hey he's not allowed in any of our stores anymore you know he's fucking my girlfriend that's it gotta go so at that point i went into the car business and uh did well with that and uh
I moved from... Can I ask you a question? How did that scene go down? Like you're saying, you're jumping right through that. Like she bangs on the door.
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Chapter 2: How did Jim Stergas transition from law enforcement to drugs?
That was a... That job didn't last?
Well, that's the same job. Yeah, that's the one I got caught.
Yeah.
With Lisa. You're a problem. It was about 18 months I was there.
You're a problem. A problem employee.
Well, no. My biggest issue is I like vagina.
And billing the company for it in some way.
Exactly. What's wrong with that?
No. I hear you. As an employee, I'm with you.
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Chapter 3: What led to the creation of Uniprime Capital Acceptance Corporation?
Well, in Marrero's case, he would actually say that the gray aliens, the aliens were behind it. But I hear what you're saying. The aliens are running. I'll have to send you one of Chris's videos and you'll have a better understanding of what you're.
Only time I've ever heard about aliens before, there was usually some kind of narcotics involved.
Does this individual believe it? These are extraterrestrial aliens that are really running the government. So, but I'll send you the video. You'll get a kick out of it.
Thank you. Now, so you... He believes everything.
Sorry. It sounds like... Joe Biden could be an alien. I mean... Sounds like the Rodney Dangerfield guy. Right. He's... Gary's on that... He's on that believing pretty much... For you to believe that... You got to be kind of gold.
And like I said, in my heart of hearts, we were friends a long time. And I mean, you know, a little history with him too. When we got going in Vegas and of course, these fucking dummies, you know, just because people are buying stock and putting money, it doesn't mean you can blow it. Right. That money is not meant...
Oh, so they're co-mingling funds or they're just misappropriating.
Matt, he must have went someplace and did research ahead of time. We had the biggest boat yacht on Lake Mead. This fucking thing had, I forget, five or six bedrooms, you know, three bathrooms, three floors. The top was a jacuzzi for like 50 people that they had taken off just to make it into a party deck. It was two foot longer than the biggest boat previous to when they bought it.
And he was in the process of ordering a fucking helicopter, you know. So yeah, and that's why I assumed, you know, when they came in, you know, they came in there. I mean, I wasn't there but they came in with, I saw pictures, hand trucks and stuff.
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Chapter 4: How did the penny stock scheme unfold?
And so they become friends. And... Leah... I felt like she was kind of like flirtatious. And I'm thinking... Fuck, I'm, you know, 30 years older than Savannah. I'm probably about 28 years older than Leah. You know, I mean, the fact that I'm hitting the young one is, I'm not, you know, this girl's out of my league. You know, I mean, she, you know, I'm old enough to be her father. She's dropped it.
You know, she could have anybody she wants. Why the fuck would she want? Well, turns out that, you know, she found out that I get pain pills.
you know, but I mean, legit, not, you know, not off the street, I mean, I get the prescription, and I got fucking ran over on my Harley, that was the, like, four years ago, I'll tell you that story, too, but anyway, so it was about dope with her, too, and it got to the point, Savannah would move out, that afternoon, Leah would move in, Then Leah would move out and Savannah would move back in.
Same day. I mean, one would move out in the morning by afternoon. And without me making a phone call or anything, it was like, I don't know, it was almost like a sick game they played or whatever. But Savannah is up there and she wants to go to New York City to visit her friend from Daytona. I said, okay, this is how this started. So I go to
new york city so we go visit her friend lynn and lynn is an mma fighter just just one tough chick but she likes heroin too so here's my number one experience with savannah and lynn in new york lynn goes and gets her two bags of heroin And told her, don't do both. Just, you know, do half of one. Or, you know, if you really, you can do one.
But really, this fucking girl dumps two bags of heroin in her thing and does her thing. And next thing I know, she's fucking blue, Matt.
Right.
essentially dead picking her up putting her in a shower and you know her friend's freaking out i'm freaking out finally call 9-1-1 they take her to the hospital you know i don't know if they in our candor or whatever but she finally came out she's herself you know yeah you fucking cunt to the nurse and uh yeah she had a mouth you know mouth to my own concealer so anyways
So Lynn over time, well, so while we're there, Savannah says, well, instead of paying, you know, 20, 25 a bag for that shit up there, that's not as good. Why don't you buy a couple hundred dollars worth for me while we're in New York and look at the money you're saving.
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Chapter 5: What challenges did Jim face during the stock surge?
Oh okay a thousand dollar car.
Cash yeah deposit on a car oh my dad was so mad and the little bastard went right to the office into the detail shop grabbed two of my big screen TVs and went running out the door with him threw him in a car and took off you know this was after I parted ways with him and even when we parted I was trying to be nice I said listen I know you're a fucking rat.
I know, you know, I said, let's, and I told him, I said, you know, you don't even realize, but you had a gun to the back of your fucking head. You didn't even know it. I saved your life, you little prick. And I said, I'm still going to give you dope every day. but you need not testify against me and you need to keep my name out of your mouth. Oh, I promise, I promise.
None of that was going to happen. No, and I knew better. You're delusional. Exactly. At that point, I'm thinking, well, what can I do?
Right.
So I hire his buddy, Roger, to take his place. And we're coming back from New York City and I told Roger, I said, don't you ever tell him where we are. Don't you ever sell him dope. Nothing. Turns out, Roger's on his phone, texting him. Oh, well, we were here, we were there, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. And that's when we got popped. The police. I'm asleep.
I'm in the backseat of the car, laying on the backseat. And I'll never forget, this old man's got the back door open. And he's got a gun, and the fucker's shaking like this. Where's Sturgis? Where's Sturgis? Whoa. You know, I had a blanket on me. I'm trying to get my hands out. And I'm like, don't fucking shoot me, you dumbass. I said, you know, what's going on?
Now, the cool thing is, if there is a cool thing.
Who is the old man? Like a DEA agent or a cop?
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Chapter 6: What was the role of the U.S. Postal Inspector in Jim's story?
Every Friday, he would go where my mom worked and have lunch and give a report on me. Anyway, so his kids are the ones that signed the warrant, but it was so generic, they could have came here and searched this house.
Right.
So everything they found, they couldn't use. And all they found was the shit that I gave the two morons. They had, I think, 46 bags total. That was all they found.
Right.
There was 2,000 bags in that fucking Armor All bottle in the back of the car. My father wanted to kill me when he found out. Police had the car for three days. My dad picked it up. Dope was still there.
Okay.
I mean, I didn't tell him where to go for it. Dad, by the way, make sure that there's still... No. Yeah, yeah, just pick the car up for me. And so, so mistake number one was the bad ones. They had, you know, again, a New York City phone book, you know, a stack full of shit. But they didn't have one clear picture showing me giving dope to somebody or me getting, you know, collecting money.
They had nothing. All they had was pictures of, you know, different people coming and going or me meeting people or other people, mostly other people meeting people. But they did, you know, they were focused on me. So anyways... They arrest us, and they put us in a Delaware County jail. Well, if you arrest somebody in Ulster County, then you take them to Ulster County jail.
You don't take them to Delaware. So they gave me a public defender, and he comes in and he says, I'm assigned to your case, but it doesn't matter. I said, what the fuck do you mean it doesn't matter? You know, I'm in jail. I got a $100,000 bond. What do you mean? It matters to me. And he goes, no, you don't understand. They got you in the wrong county. They're going to have to let you go.
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Chapter 7: How did Jim handle the fallout from the investigation?
kind of and i said what do you mean by kind of he said well the bad part is you're here the good part is you're free and he takes the handcuffs off and i said what's up he's like and you know i figured it out in two seconds they didn't want to be responsible for the medical bill right you know they're like no he's not going to cost us money so call probation whenever you get out you know and and so i did and they made some stupid arrangement 50 a month or something i give them to pay it off which will take 100 years but um
But yeah, so Danny, Yeah, he broke in, stole all that shit, stole from my father, and I said that, you know, I shouldn't say it, but if I ever get a chance, I think that, you know, a baseball bat could fall out of my hand and hit one of his knees or something.
How long ago was this?
Six years ago. Six years ago? Six, seven years, yeah, six, seven. Yeah, I'm 63, so, yeah, about six years ago. I haven't forgotten. I haven't forgotten, you know.
You're holding resentment.
It's not good.
You got to let that go.
I can't. That's, you know, I mean, you think about it. And I guess, you know, I've heard you and a lot of other people say, you know, it's human nature, you know, self-preservation. I'm going to talk. That's not how I was brought up. You know what I mean? I just, I couldn't. And, you know, they didn't really come to me and ask.
Like I said, the DA had, I think, had the DA have known what the fuck was going on, they certainly would have wanted to gotten involved. But again, I had a rookie cop. Warrants that were absolutely no good. The search warrants were absolutely no good. Cop didn't know what he was doing. The warrants were no good. I mean, the whole thing was just a, you know, it was a fucking mess.
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