#BecauseMiami: Neanderthal in City Hall
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
The hippocop, the hypocrisy that I'm seeing here today, with all due respect, with all due respect, with all due respect, stop surveilling me, she told me to shut up, so you're gonna shut up.
Booga, booga, booga, booga, booga.
Owners of Neanderthal in City Hall, dragging round his knuckles, Miguel Cabela. Even with Carollo gone, Carollo gone, Miami's a f***ed up town, Lano Bella. Got marbles in his mouth, spit them out, wanna beat
Woo! Woo!
OOGA OOGA Who you up there gruntin' at? All to respect On the day is talkin' at OOGA OOGA Way too hard to comprehend A word you said Troglodyta era su hijo punta Public records can't be leaked, you dopey freak But it's funny watchin' you on live TV Embarrassin' your constituency My, oh my, yeah, yeah OOGA OOGA OOGA
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I love this town! It's good to be back here on Because Miami. You sure about that? Roy, you can't burn a bridge made out of stone, okay? You sure about that? cavemen it's all caves it's all caves these days ball bearings and caves welcome to because miami we really had hoped that the corruption and dysfunction and non-stop construction of miami was going to slow down with like the new regime and the new commissioners and the new mayor but man oh man the florida fuckery is off the charts the miami madness is out of control i've already dropped an f-bomb in the first like 10 seconds of the show roy is scribbling scribbling scribbling Good to see you, Roy. Yeah, I'm glad you feel that way.
What happened in the Fabian Basabe trial and what were the jury's findings?
Roy! Thanks, Billy. So, later on in the show, we're going to be talking about the Miami mess at the city with a friend of the show, Tomas Kennedy of the Florida Immigrant Coalition. First up, though, some breaking news about a longtime character that we haven't talked about in a long time, Fabian Basabi.
A jury in Tallahassee found that Republican State Representative Fabian Basabi... sexually harassed two of his male staffers, defamed one of those staffers, and committed battery against both of them. Basabi, who represents a district that stretches from Miami Beach to Aventura, was ordered by the jury to pay the young men $450,000. One of the stranger aspects of the trial was Basabi's decision to get rid of his attorneys and represent himself. And trust me when I say it did not go well.
I was in Tallahassee for this trial for two out of the three days. It was absolutely wild. And this guy, you might remember, he's married to like the La Perla heiress. It's like this Italian lingerie fortune. And they have a son. And yet he has this longtime boyfriend who's a Brazilian model who he lives with. Kind of a complicated double life that he lives, which wouldn't be of any interest to me. His personal life and whatever arrangement he has in his marriage is between them. But it has kind of bled into his life. this sort of like duplicitous kind of two-faced, like I'm a conservative family values Republican, but yet I'm also like living my life as an out gay man and now found liable by a jury of his peers in the state capital of Tallahassee for sexually harassing these young men who were on his staff working as his legislative aid, as intern.
And this trial, as you heard Jim DeFede from CBS in that clip mentioned, was unbelievable because Basabe, who is not a lawyer, He's a lawmaker and doesn't seem to know anything about the law, humiliated himself in front of the entire world by serving as his own attorney. Never a good idea. Never a good idea. And the testimony that came out during the trial, both directly to the allegations that he was found liable for. and additional allegations that weren't the subject of the trial but came out during the trial. Here are some of the, I don't want to call them highlights because it's pretty grotesque, but here are some of the highlights.
Mr. Basabi, he slapped me with his right hand across my face. Representative Basabi was asking me about my penis size, getting his face right close to my neck and whispering in my ear. He put his hand on my thigh and he made comments about sex with men.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–2:51
2
What happened in the Fabian Basabe trial and what were the jury's findings?
2:51–22:15
3
Which courtroom testimonies described alleged sexual assault and what did they say?
22:15–35:51
4
Why did hosts probe Basabe's 2024 video 'verbal contract' and what was the reaction?
35:51–38:50
5
Who publicly rescinded endorsements of Fabian Basabe and why did Bal Harbour's councilperson speak out?
38:50–42:13
6
How does Bal Harbour councilperson Buzzy Sklar explain his decision to pull Basabe's endorsement?
42:13–48:56
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