00:00News got worse for a certain NBA basketball player named Chauncey Billups.
00:06Five million dollar bond or bail, which means you got to come up with half a million bucks for that or you just put your house up.
00:12I'm assuming this house is worth more than half a million dollars, which is really a message that the feds are sending because nonviolent crime, to my knowledge, first time offender of any type of crime and no gun was involved.
00:25So when they come out and it's an arbitrary number that they invent, they pull out of thin air, but they're trying to make a statement.
00:31Because when you tell someone you got to post five million dollar bond so you can remain a free man or woman prior to your trial, they're telling you, we got so much dirt on you, boy, your head's going to spin.
00:45And you're such a bad guy. You're a danger to the community.
00:48Now, I don't know that any of that's accurate or true, but that's the feds kind of, you know, lumping on the case that has already been presented publicly.
00:56But, you know, that tells me whatever they think they have on him, they got him.
01:02Now, they may not, obviously. And the federal government at that level is extraordinarily arrogant and cocky.
01:10You're right. They're like the Shadur Sanders of government.
01:14All right. Very cocky, very arrogant. All right.
01:17But it doesn't bode well for whatever the defense Chauncey Billups thinks he has for himself.
01:23When they come out five million dollars as the number for you to stay in your house, they're telling you we got you.
01:30Now, again, they might not. There's a lot of hubris amongst those people because Chauncey Billups made more money than any of them could ever make in a lifetime.
01:38And that's real. That jealousy is real. They're also a bunch of Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.
01:43And they think they got him. And they wanted him to know by putting out a five million dollar bond.
01:49So I want to ask you, if you're him in that point, and obviously you don't know all the particulars of this case, but you've been through, you know, more than me and most people.
01:57I know what we've all read and I know my own personal experience, so I can speak to it. Yeah.
02:01Do you think at this point they're going to ask him to start maybe naming names? Is this the time where they start?
02:07It's funny, like I, my lips are sealed and I was never offered a plea deal, which is rare.
02:13But I guess my lawyer told him I got nothing to offer him, so they just never offered me one.
02:18At some point, if they really think that there are really bad people and a collection of really bad people.
02:25And not to cut you off, the reason I say that is if you're going to throw that kind of bail.
02:28Yeah.
02:29And you're saying it's that big of a case, well then he, there's no way he's the top of this case.
02:34No way.
02:34No, he's, he, someone invited him to that game, someone made him an offer.
02:38Exactly.
02:39To be included.
02:39So if they're going over after, for example, organized crime or a cartel or things of that nature, which is far bigger than Chauncey Billups, what they're doing now is they're trying to scare him.
02:50And you scare him by saying, we're not messing around, dude, five million bucks.
02:54And he has the access to it and a home or, you know, someone will put something up, which is why he's not sitting in a prison cell right now.
03:00But they're trying to scare him.
03:02And the scare tactic comes first and then the follow it up with, is there anything you'd like to tell us to help yourself out?
03:10And that's the rub on this.
03:11Now, it's easy for a lot of people to play the game of, man, snitches get stitches.
03:16That's a movie thing.
03:18I know that was a Carmelo thing way back in the day when he was, you know, with the Denver Nuggets and that became a big thing around Carmelo Anthony and all that.
03:26But a lot of people like to talk tough.
03:28A lot of people like to say, man, I would never say nothing about nobody.
03:33You know, take your plea bargain and shove it up, you know, that kind of thing.
03:35Right, right.
03:36Until you're the guy sitting in that chair.
03:38Because if Chauncey Billups goes to trial and loses, he will be in a federal prison for years.
03:46Not a day.
03:48And this is a man with a family and a lot to live for.
03:51Now, I can't tell you what level of prison he'll be at.
03:54My guess is it'll be at a federal prison camp, the lowest level of security.
03:59Because I do think this is a federal case, not a state case, right?
04:02So he's going to go to prison.
04:05And he's going to be in prison for more than a year, maybe a couple years, depending on, you know, what the ultimate charges are.
04:11And how a judge decides things, right?
04:14And when you have gotten accustomed to living a certain lifestyle of luxury, and you're now, you know, given the opportunity, you're now kind of offered the two options of,
04:25you could go to trial, lose, and you're behind bars for a number of years with really bad people.
04:31Or you help us out, and you never spend a day behind bars or in a federal prison camp, and you just have to live life being a rat.
04:41Right.
04:42You've seen a lot of mobsters become rats.
04:44A lot.
04:45They're all tough guys, right?
04:46They all do interviews now on the internet.
04:47A lot of them have podcasts talking about, you know, murders and RICO violations and, like, bad stuff, right?
04:54Doing a lot of telling now.
04:55A lot of telling.
04:56So, look, this is not going to get settled in the near future.
04:58This has at least a year, year and a half, two years to go.
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