Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Selling The Cure For Aids | Insane Story of Sex, Drugs, and Penny Stocks
10 Feb 2025
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I'm gonna come in. I'm gonna hire a manager. I'm gonna get the people in place. I'm gonna teach them how to do it. For that, you're gonna pay me $36,000. Oh, by the way, you need this software too. That's another $36,000. So I walk out the door with $72,000 in my pocket.
It turns out that if you have a little bag of white powder, there's a lot of females that will, you know... They'll do all kinds of stuff. The only thing that Charlie Sheen has on me... is AIDS and he can have that. So I had the Camaro. I get it up there. We're living in a beautiful place on a golf course. And you ever heard of Larry Bird? He used to be in my backyard all the time.
He convinces Gary that he had been in Portugal and he came up with a cure for AIDS. Doc's doing well. It's growing. It's not, you know, and all of a sudden Lenny tells me, he goes, Jerry, you see what happened? What happened?
Hey, this is Matt Cox, and I'm going to be doing an interview with Jim Sturgis. He's got a fascinating criminal story. It's actually more than it is. It actually spans quite a long time and is varied. So check out the podcast.
one i appreciate you coming um and the second thing is it's funny because like it's was it sheriff's deputy or police officer sheriff deputy sheriff i was a deputy sheriff okay so it was like law enforcement then like you go from one to another to and then uh to the the drugs no no the the drugs was the very last thing right skin mafia thing that was that was one of the the
Well, I'm saying also the stock scam thing. The stock scam thing is between... I'm just saying, in general, it just jumps from one extreme to the other. Right.
Cop, scam, drugs. Right. Yeah.
So, which is funny because typically, like, I tend to look for something, stuff that's, you know, where the person stayed in one... This is going to sound funny, but in one industry.
Right.
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