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Part 2 of Operation Puppet Master!
Thomas, Lydia, and Matt dig into the actual discovery documents from the Minneapolis ICE-protest indictment, and what they find is something else. Undercover HSI agents spent months infiltrating boxing classes, church meetings, Zoom panels, and legal observer trainings looking for the Antifa puppet masters, and their own memos keep reaching the same conclusion. Then come the financial subpoenas against major national unions. What did three years of wire-transfer records turn up?
Plus: a grand jury agent swears under oath that every single person they investigated had a criminal predicate. The documents they just read beg to differ.
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Cases discussed:
United States v. Sant et al. (Operation Puppet Master, D. Minn.)

Defense Rule 16 / Brady-Giglio Discovery Motion

National Security Presidential Memorandum 7

Part 1!
Thomas, Lydia, and Matt dig into United States v. Sant et al., a federal indictment of Minneapolis anti-ICE protesters produced by something the government actually named Operation Puppet Master. The conspiracy map names a boxing club, a biking club, and several major unions. The overt acts include renting a U-Haul, exchanging approximately 20 Signal calls, and being nice to someone named Sam. Matt was in Minneapolis in January and has some thoughts on what these people are actually doing.
Part 2 drops the undercover HSI memos. Patrons can hear it right now and also access all of the documents that Matt paid for and downloaded for our benefit.
Cases discussed:
United States v. Sant et al. (D. Minn.), DAMN indictment

United States v. Bigazzi et al. (Broadview protest cases)

United States v. Prairieland protesters

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Thomas and Lydia are joined by MJ Morley to dig into the Andrew and Tristan Tate extradition proceedings now playing out in a Miami federal courtroom.
Britain has charged them with 59 offenses across seven complainants. Romania has its own investigation (we think?) And the Tates, freshly arrested on U.S. soil, want out on bail while they wait. The only problem: their own social media posts are the government's best evidence. So their lawyers filed briefs arguing that the passports, the supercars, the yacht, the trillionaire boasts, and even "Top G" himself were... a performance. MJ walks through the filing.
Cases discussed:
United States v. Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate (extradition/bail proceedings, S.D. Fla.)

UK charges: Crown Prosecution Service v. Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate

Romania investigation (DIICOT)

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Thomas is joined by New York defense attorney Liz Skeen to break down Luigi Mangione's federal guilty plea and what it actually means for the state case still waiting in the wings.
The death-penalty charges are already gone. The terrorism theory already got tossed. Now Mangione has pleaded guilty to what remains federally, and his New York lawyers immediately moved to dismiss the state murder charge on double jeopardy grounds. Liz, who has been inside that courthouse, explains why New York's double jeopardy statute may be much stronger protection than other outlets are letting on, and what Judge Margaret Garnett might do at sentencing.
Cases discussed:
United States v. Mangione (federal)

People v. Mangione (New York State)

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Part 4, final part of The Most Brazen and Corrupt Heist in American History!
Thomas, Lydia, and Matt finish reading Judge Kathleen Williams' scorched-earth takedown of Trump's tax-return lawsuit slush fund, and it only gets more devastating. Then, a surprise same-day epilogue: Trump's lawyers already filed to fight back.
Cases discussed:
Trump v. IRS

Littlejohn leak case

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