Chapter 1: What does comfort mean to the speaker?
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I'm playing chess with this older cat. He's like 60. And we get to talking with him. I'm like, what you locked up for? He's like, embezzlement. I'm like, what you was doing? So he's telling me about everything he was doing. He was like, man, I was opening up these accounts and putting these fake checks in them and getting the money out before the bank knew about it.
He was walking me through every step of what he did. He was showing me his paperwork on like what all kind of little scams that he was doing. But he ended up getting caught because he stole 600 grand from his job. He was a bad man, but he told me, he was like, man, if you do this and you do this, he was telling me like little things to do.
He's like, man, when you get out, try this, try this, and work alone because... It's really easy and it's really undetected if you work alone. Don't go out there and deal with a lot of people with this. He said the only people you want to deal with is, like, the heads. That's what they call, like, the people that want to, like, sign up for banks and basically, like, homeless people.
Like, so basically I get out of jail. Let me get straight to the punch. I get out of jail, out of prison. I'm broke. Thinking about this for the last years. It's been right through my mind the whole time I've been in prison. During my time, I'm like, I'm going to do fraud when I get out. Cause I had a rule.
I'm like, if I get caught doing a crime, I'm never going to do it again because they know that it'd be my MO. So I'm going to try something different. So I'm like, I'm going to do fraud. So I come home from prison. My grandma had passed away and everything. So like my mom stopped working. to like take care of my aunt.
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Chapter 2: What criminal activities does the speaker discuss in jail?
She had a surgery or whatever. So like my whole family is basically living at my grandma's house. Everybody. And everybody is kind of like messed up at the time. Nobody really got no money. So I get out of prison. My mom helped me. She bought me a couple outfits, man. And she was trying to help me, but it was just hard because she didn't have a job, you know?
So my mom ended up getting her job at the garbage place. So... after I got out, I want to say. And what happened was she got me on. So now I got my first job from being home from the state. It didn't last for two months. Cause I'm going out on a week. I got to work. So I got to work. I got to be there like five in the morning. So I'm leaving the club at three drunk.
So like, I'm not even getting no sleep. So like I'm throwing up, I'm no helper. So I gotta, I'm the dude that like when the, when the little thing don't connect to the trash can, I got to get out and put it on there. I'm the helper. So I'm hopping on and off the truck, the garbage truck. So about two months into the job, right.
this guy that I was working with named Luis, he called back to the plant and was like, look, man, he's drunk, he's throwing up, he's not been doing no work today, man. So I get back, they call me to the office, they fire me. I'm like, man, I wasn't drunk. I'm like, I was sick, man. But I really wasn't drunk. I was really hungover, but I was still doing the work. He basically told on me.
I'm like, man, I can't win for losing. So I leave and get in the car. My mom, she get off. She like, yeah, you just can't do right. Older people, they always lecture you of anything. I'm never right. Anytime something go wrong, She like, no, you know, your head just hard as a brick. Like, you done got you a job. You got me looking bad. You done got fired. You drunk.
Like, you just, I'm like, man, working just ain't for me. Like, it just ain't for me. Like, I tried. I can't do it. So I'm like, what can I do? So I ended up, one day I was on the phone with this girl I was talking to, and somebody stopped the toilet up on the other side of the house. So my mom was expecting me to plunge somebody else's doo-doo
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Chapter 3: What advice did the older inmate give about committing fraud?
That's done stopped up the toilet. I'm like, man, I'm like, I'm on the phone. I'm on the house phone at this time. I don't even think I got a cell phone. I'm on the house phone. And I'm like, mom, I'm like, so I'm talking to my girl and I'm arguing with her about something. I think we supposed to be going to get something to eat or something. We arguing about something.
Then my mom is like standing there. over me, because I'm, like, sitting down in the chair. She's like, you need to go and plunge that toilet. I say, Ma, it wasn't me. Like, I didn't do it. Like, I'm not finna plunge somebody else's doo-doo. Like, that's crazy. That's insane. She said, you can either plunge it or you can leave. I'm like, well, shit, I'm finna leave then. Oh, excuse my language.
I'm like, I'm finna leave. So she hangs up. She hit the thing. So she hangs up the phone. So I slam the phone down or whatever.
Chapter 4: How does the speaker's family situation affect his decisions after prison?
I leave. I strike out walking because, like I told you, I was driving her car, so I can't take her car now. So now I don't got no car. Yeah, so I walked to my aunt's house. Pride. My mama a gangster, though. So my mama followed me with a broom. She was finna hit me. Now I'm 21 years old. My mom really finna, like, jump on me for real. I'm like, go ahead. Or what? What you going to do, fight me?
I'm like, go ahead. So I kind of, like, just got away from her or whatever, walked to my aunt's house. So my uncle, he's a real estate agent at the time. But he was a multimillionaire. Like he was, man, this man was rich. He had went to Marines. He was living in San Diego, man. He had like all this money, mansions and stuff.
So all his buddy, all his friends, like this is a big real estate bus, like had happened. So like all these dudes went to jail. They got a whole bunch of time. But my uncle was kind of like, he was like one of the legitimate people out of the whole group of people. Like lawyers went to jail. Appraisers went to jail. Everybody went to jail. My uncle, he didn't go to jail.
But he went broke because everybody who he was dealing with went to jail. So he couldn't really close no deals. Like it was bad at the time, but he was like, he was sleeping on my aunt's couch. And he was like, when I got up there, I'm like, man, I just fell out with the whole house. They was wanting me. I'm telling him the story.
He like, look, man, I'm going to put together some deals and I can probably put about 20,000 in your pocket. I'm like, for real? I'm like, hell yeah, let's What I got to do? He like, I'm going to run your credit and stuff. I'm going to put some housing in there. I'm going to put together, you know, shape your profile up and everything. I say, man, let's do it. I'll do anything right now.
I'm ready to rob a bank at this point. So me and him, we thugging it out on the couch together. So he ended up standing on business. So he like, okay. So he got the, he put these houses and he put like four houses in my name. He closed it. He sold all four houses. So the first check comes, it's like 90,000. So I'm with State Employees Credit Union, so everything's in my name.
So he give me the check. We pull up to the bank. He like, yeah, you keep $20,000. Put that in your savings account. And tell them to give you $10,000 cash. Put the rest in your checking account. And then give me one to get a card made for me. So he's using basically my bank account because, you know, He got all this.
I don't really know the magnitude of it, but I know he can't really put nothing in his name. Yeah, yeah. That's why he worked the deals through my name. Yeah. So everything was in my name. So me and him, we go get this big-ass house. It's in Oakdale. So back then, you live over there. You had money. So we got this four or five-bedroom crib, man. He went and bought a Porsche.
He had a Porsche Carrera with the two tops. Brand new. Showroom floor. And he had a BMW 750, because mind you, I told you, My sister got my car. I was driving my mama's car, so I'm on foot. He gives me the BMW, the 750 that he had. He's like, you can just have that car. That's your car. So I'm pushing that. So now I'm in the same situation. Listen, this is all fraud. Something's fraud.
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Chapter 5: What happens when Matt meets Kiki and others in prison?
And I got Kiki and another gay guy sitting down with me. And, you know, and they're waving to their friends. Hey. And I'm, you know, they're like, oh, that's, oh, hey, man, that's so-and-so. I'm like, hey, what's up? You know, it's not good, bro. And you have no idea. It wasn't until the second day I was there, or about the third day I was there wearing my pants.
And I hate to say this because I know people in the comment are going to say, why do you guys say it's a black guy? Because it was.
Chapter 6: What does Matt reveal about his interactions with inmates?
Yeah, but why did you have to say it? A big black guy comes up to me and says, hey, man, can I talk to you for a second? And I went, yeah, let me talk to you over here. And I thought, where there's no camera? And I was like, okay. I kind of stepped a little bit. And he goes, no, no, over here. I said, bro, I'm good. What's up? And he goes, you need anything?
Chapter 7: How does Matt describe the prison environment and its dynamics?
And I went. No, I don't need it. What do you mean? He goes, you need anything? Like, you need some shoes? I'll get you some shoes. What size are you? I'm going to get you some shoes. And I went, no, I don't need any shoes, bro. Yeah, you're wearing a boots, man.
Chapter 8: What lessons does Matt share about identity theft and scams?
You need some tennis shoes, man. And I went, no, I'm okay. He said, look, I'm just saying, I'm looking for me a friend. And I went, a friend? Listen, if this wasn't the sixth time I heard it, I'd have cracked up every time. Listen, and I mean, I went. I didn't have to go through this. No, I... You didn't know Kiki? No.
When you come in covered in tattoos, people don't think he's – they think he's making – in a trailer somewhere. So they're not thinking. And I'm sitting there, no tattoos, wide-eyed. And Kiki. Yeah. Kiki-friendly. Friended Kiki. Wearing – with a camel toe. And I'm like, what – Seems like a friendly place. I mean, I don't... You'll find a friend.
I don't... What are you... I'm just saying, like... Use a... You's a punk. I mean, you's gay, right? I said, no, no, no, not at all. Threw some bass. Suddenly the bass shot. I didn't even mean to do it. The bass shot my voice. No, no, absolutely not. No, I'm saying, you know, you could be on the down low. I said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I said, I don't know what you're thinking, bro.
I'm good. I don't know nothing about that. I said, I got nothing to say to you. I don't need nothing. Do not get me anything. Turn around and bolted. So then I'm walking like to Chow and some guy, another black guy walks up to me. Once again, not a racial thing. What? Just happened to be. Whatever. You want y'all to believe that. But go ahead. Happened to be.
Listen, 60% of the compound was black. So guy walks up to me. Hey, man, can I talk to you for a second? I went, you know, I'm walking to like. No, I was walking from chow hall to walk the track. And I was walking back, just walked by the guard shack. Guy walked, hey man, can I do something? Oh, can I talk to you? I was like, yeah, what's up? He's like, I work in the chow hall.
You know what I'm saying? I was like, okay. He's like, I'm just saying like, you need any food? You need anything? You let me know. And I went, no, I don't need anything. He's like, and you needed something from commissary? I said, no, I don't need anything from commissary. Man, let me get you some shoes, bro. I said, bro, what are you doing? I said, I don't need any, any. So I said, no, no, no.
So then I meet... I meet, no, no, I meet Reese, which is my cousin. And I say, Reese, man, listen, what's going on, bro? This is what's happening. The first time, was that the first time you met Reese? Yeah, probably within, you know, we talked for an hour or two, right? Right. Because I met him at commissary. And then later that night. I went to his unit and met Jason Weeks and him.
And you know what? I don't even – it may have been Jason Weeks because this is the kind of – because I can't remember who said it exactly. But I know Jason Weeks was there. Reese was there. And Reese had made pickled eggs, which are amazing. The best pickled eggs I've ever had in my life in prison. Guy. So – And I said, listen, bro. He goes, how's it going? Do you need anything?
You need a coffee? Whoa, whoa, whoa. For some reason, it came off different when Reese said it. When a white guy said it. But go ahead, go ahead. And I'm like, no, I don't. He's like, you want coffee? I can get you a coffee or something. And I said, no. I said, you want to hear something funny? And he said, what? I said, you're not the only person to offer me anything since I got here.
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