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Published · transcript-backedMatthew Cox: belief
17 Jan 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud
“I’m just handing him seven, $8,000, $10,000 in cash. But I think most of them have legal ways to make ungodly amounts of money for influence.”
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- Speaker
- Matthew Cox
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 17 Jan 2024
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…The aforementioned gray area. Well, that’s not gray. This guy was, at one point I couldn’t find anybody to write $500 checks anymore so I just gave him cash. I’m just handing him seven, $8,000, $10,000 in cash. But I think most of them have legal ways to make ungodly amounts of money for influence. But is it legal? No, they’re politicians. They’ve made it so that it’s not illegal. If you really sat down and explained it to someone, the average person would say, “That’s not right.” Oh, no, no, that’s legal. Okay. So at the end of these few days, what was the sentencing like?…
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