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00:01The chant for peace, which they had us teachers sing at the end of every yoga class, it's written in Sanskrit.
00:09So it goes, loka, samastha, suki no, bhavantu.
00:15I actually have it tattooed on me as well.
00:19And in essence, what it means is you bring peace and you give out peace.
00:24It's very much fitting into the spiritual, loving yoga community.
00:31But I knew in my heart something was wrong.
00:35It's nice to feel like, wow, someone gets me.
00:38But it's all a lie.
00:42This fast friendship of my doctor and these two yoga gurus is one of the weirdest and most fascinating stories I've ever worked on.
00:50Things were just getting crazier and crazier.
00:55I just didn't know that it would come to somebody dying.
00:59I just didn't know what it is.
01:29I first heard of this story late one evening.
01:35I received a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles
01:39announcing an arrest in a case that felt like the quintessential California story in a way.
01:45It had aspects of wellness culture, dabbling in experimental drug therapies,
01:52and it had a fabulous lifestyle as the backdrop to everything.
01:56How these people came together and how this unfolded just grabbed me right away, it was a big mystery.
02:09I met Anton for the very first time in downtown Fresno when I was a brand new yoga teacher.
02:18I remember being so excited to meet Anton.
02:20He had long hair, beard, his clothes were linen, very yogic-esque.
02:29I go up to hug him and he stops me and he's like, wait, okay?
02:35And he goes, we don't hug like that.
02:39He says, we can only hug from the left side.
02:43Normally people hug from the right side, but our hearts touch at the left side.
02:48So when I hug you, our hearts are hugging too.
02:52Of course, this amazing person that I'm going to meet is going to, you know, want to hug that way.
02:58It was beautiful in that moment.
03:05Back in 2010, I was part of like a commune type community with Anna.
03:13Anna was fun and outgoing and social.
03:18She was always showing up at events and she was always participating.
03:21And at the time, a lot of people were really into the raw food movement.
03:26And so it became a little bit like a hippie cult, vegan superiority kind of community.
03:34And we wanted to change the world.
03:37Anna was this angelic mermaid yogi.
03:43When she moved, it was like she floated on water.
03:46Anton and Anna meet through a shared love of wellness.
03:52They actually are introduced at a vegan potluck dinner and fall in love.
03:56And end up back in Fresno where they together form this yoga collective.
04:01Welcome back to my conversation with Feather the Wise today.
04:05And our next guest, if you could, please put your hands together for Anna Moore from Fulton Yoga Collective.
04:12Did I get another one?
04:13You did. We got it correct.
04:14How you doing? How you doing today?
04:15Doing very well. Thank you so much for asking.
04:17Now, you are from, I'm assuming, the yoga studio?
04:23Yes, it is a yoga studio in downtown Fresno.
04:26The best memories I have of Anna and Anton was at the yoga studio in downtown Fresno.
04:35We had very, very famous yogis and gurus come and do workshops.
04:41And we did community events and we did community events and things that really felt like we were opening up Fresno to something so amazing.
04:50I've since left organized religion, but it almost felt like talking to Anton was like getting on the phone with one of God's angels because he was a deeply spiritual person.
05:18The pivotal moment comes in June 2017 when Dr. Mark Sawish walks into Kippy's vegan ice cream parlor in Venice Beach and standing in line behind him were Anton and Anna.
05:38By all accounts, this is a chance encounter.
05:40The doctor is kind of a successful but plain spoken and simplistic guy.
05:46He was an ophthalmologist.
05:48And these two people were substantially younger than him and very different in the way that they lived their life.
05:53They were yoga gurus.
05:55They were burning man people.
05:57Dr. Sawish is really taken by these people.
05:59He decides that he wants to talk to them more.
06:02They kind of connect over sort of a sense of spirituality.
06:06They decide to go walk on the beach when they spend quite a few hours down there talking about business, philosophy, spirituality and what they want from life.
06:19These are people he's just met and he decides almost immediately to lend Anton and Anna his Tesla so they can take a road trip up to Northern California.
06:28Immediately after they finish their road trip, Anna and Anton send Mark a text.
06:37Mark responds to this.
06:41This is a very fast friendship.
06:44But within a week of meeting each other, Anton and Anna moved into his Malibu beach house.
06:49Normally people don't fall in love with each other this quickly or invite someone to come live in their house on the first day that you've met them.
06:58So this is pretty unusual.
07:00These three people met randomly in a Venice Beach ice cream parlor.
07:04But in the end, one is dead, another is in prison, and the third may have masterminded the whole thing.
07:10Mark Solish was really a rather accomplished ophthalmologist.
07:19He had gone to the University of Chicago where he studied and did his residency at John Hopkins.
07:25He had created patents for corneal implants.
07:28He had settled in California and had built a very successful practice in the Pacific Palisades and had bought this beautiful house on the beach in Malibu.
07:39The house is what most people would kill for.
07:42It's literally between the Pacific Coast Highway and the beach.
07:48On the surface, Dr. Solish is living the dream.
07:53But not everything is going great for him.
07:56He had ended a sort of lengthy relationship with a girlfriend.
08:00He had been married twice, both short-lived marriages that did not survive.
08:05He is estranged from his family who live in Florida, and he's very alone.
08:12He's seeking structure and friendship and companionship.
08:16And in-pop Anna and Anton, who offered to give that to him.
08:21Anton told me that it just seemed that it was like a really good, positive environment.
08:27And we're all just like focused on enjoying life.
08:30They have parties at the house.
08:32And Dr. Solish now suddenly feels he's part of something cool.
08:39I just heard in that community, people were always coming and going and doing stuff.
08:44And it was like a clubhouse party vibe.
08:46I wasn't surprised that they moved that quick because who wouldn't want to live in a beach house in Malibu?
08:50I think Dr. Mark was enjoying it, you know, just being an older person to feel younger.
08:56They're re-experiencing life again.
09:01Dr. Solish struggles with bipolar disorder, which is getting worse as he gets older.
09:07And so, very quickly, Anna and Anton become indispensable to him and have essentially become Mark's family.
09:13They take him to his doctor's appointments.
09:17They drive him everywhere.
09:19They structure his life.
09:20They structure his dietary habits.
09:24They bring in massage therapists who provide massages to Dr. Solish.
09:33I met Mark when I was working for a mobile massage company.
09:37And I just happened to get called out a couple of times to his place.
09:42I love being a massage therapist.
09:45Massage therapists solve problems that you don't even know you have.
09:51During the massage, Mark would always tell me his stories and I just really enjoyed that.
09:57Anton did all the scheduling.
10:00And then I became one of the therapists who had a lot of shifts with Mark.
10:07Anna and Anton and Mark were all best friends.
10:12They all just got along really well.
10:16And Anton, right off the bat, comes off as the wonderful caretaker.
10:22Anton was always very encouraging, very nice person, just always very generous.
10:28Whatever you needed, he was always there to help.
10:31If somebody was cold, he'd give you his jacket.
10:33And if you want to give it back, they're like, no, just keep it.
10:36When I first met Anton, right away he just rolled up a joint, started passing it around.
10:41And we're all just like, sure, why not?
10:44Anton's a very charismatic person.
10:47That's one of the things that everybody liked when he would show up.
10:50It just seemed like he just brought the party with him.
10:54Our personas meshed very well.
10:55We saw each other, like, basically seven days a week.
10:59He enjoyed being around me because we had a lot of similar interests.
11:01Like, we both surf, you know, we're both very artistic.
11:05And then all of a sudden, through mutual friends, I did hear about Anna.
11:09After Anna meets Anton, he gets also deeply into the wellness space.
11:13He started going to his yoga classes, and he would always dress like a yoga guy.
11:19That became his life.
11:35Anna Moore is an interesting woman.
11:36She's got a great ability to connect with people and kind of make people kind of feel that she's there to help them.
11:45She's a pixie-like blonde who would try to make her way in Hollywood.
11:50You know who really inspired me to be an actor is Robert De Niro.
11:53I grew up watching some of his, like, classic films, like Deer Hunter, and he is so honest.
11:59And had not had great success with it.
12:02So how long have you been doing this?
12:04Not long.
12:06Do you like it?
12:09I really can't tell you.
12:12Is it a full-time thing, or...?
12:14Part-time.
12:15Anna was a social charmer.
12:17She wanted to be popular.
12:19She wanted to be the cool girl.
12:21Anna made herself known.
12:24She reinvents herself as a yoga instructor and a figure in the sort of wellness scene in Southern California.
12:31People have been telling me to eat meat and eat eggs and eat whey protein,
12:34and I really don't feel comfortable doing that.
12:36It just doesn't feel right to my heart.
12:40The House of Malibu is no longer just a home.
12:43It has become a wellness retreat.
12:46There's zen sundaes.
12:49Sound baths.
12:53Anna would host vegan cooking nights, and they would have chefs come over.
12:58Somebody to come and make smoothies for all the guests while they were doing yoga.
13:08They had the meditations.
13:10They just did a lot of inner healing.
13:12Doing whatever they can to have Mark be one spirit, one mind.
13:21I became like a wellness center, and I think Dr. Mark was enjoying it.
13:27Anna taught yoga, and she would sing during yoga classes, and she had this very beautiful voice.
13:33When you eat raw food, you're like climbing the walls, and you know, it was like a monkey circus.
13:40It was crazy.
13:41People being loud and crazy, and drums.
13:44Everyone was just free.
13:46It was pretty wild.
13:48Because of how I seen Anton party before I knew it, it was like a drug fast.
13:52It was like a drug fast.
14:13Anton calls us family.
14:16So the family would be the teachers.
14:19And he would say, we have this house in Malibu that we invite all of our teachers to come to.
14:26You can stay as long as you want.
14:28We will take care of you.
14:30We'll take you to the temples and take you to good food and have you meet all of these influential people.
14:37They would mention how we're very connected with big brands,
14:41and we can get you to teaching 100 people classes in LA or New York.
14:49It was such a big deal.
14:51I had not talked to them for a long time.
14:53So I had called Anna, and when she answered the phone, she was like,
14:57oh my gosh, I'm so glad to hear from you.
14:59I was just thinking about you.
15:01How's teaching?
15:02I'm hoping you're loving it.
15:03We love you so much.
15:05She kept saying that.
15:06They wanted to tell it to you.
15:07They wanted you to feel it.
15:08Like, so internal, so deeply.
15:10It made me feel like, okay, like I'm doing something great for them,
15:15and they must be so proud of me.
15:17It was everything that I wanted to offer and experience as a teacher.
15:22At this point, Dr. Sawish has retired from his practice.
15:29He had burned his hands in an accident that had ended his ability to perform surgeries.
15:35Mark has grown terribly bored and becomes very paranoid,
15:40and he orders Anton and Anna to leave the house for a while.
15:44In the house, cameras are installed for security.
15:47But it raised the question of who was really watching who?
15:57On July 4th, Mark's alone, and there's an unfortunate incident where he gets into an altercation on the Santa Monica Pier and punches a jogger in the face.
16:09He's arrested.
16:11He gets arrested again for running out at a bar tab in Malibu.
16:14He then gets arrested for throwing stones at passing cars on the Pacific Coast Highway.
16:21He ends up in jail, and he's held on $40,000 bond.
16:26His family does not want to pay the bail.
16:29They think he's safer inside than out on the streets again.
16:33I asked Mark about it. Mark was like, I don't talk to them.
16:38There's no family. My family is Anna and Anton.
16:41He's stuck. He can't get out.
16:44So he decides to call Anton and ask him for help.
16:48Anton comes in and makes a suggestion.
16:51He says, I can get you this bail money, but you need to give me power of attorney so I can have access to your accounts.
16:57Power of attorney is usually a tool that's granted in a situation where someone is unable to make decisions for themselves or unable to take care of themselves.
17:04And it takes great pressure off him to make some decisions in his life and gives Anton full ability to make all these financial decisions for the doctor.
17:14Anna and Anton bring in a staff of people to help them.
17:25They hire up to 20 people, assistants, massage therapists, you know, anything you can think of there at the house to help deal with Dr. Solish and his needs.
17:34There was the chef, there was the mate, and then like the five or six massage therapists, and Anton's business partner.
17:43Despite everything that's going on at the house, Dr. Solish's mental health is really not getting any better.
17:53It's actually maybe getting worse.
17:55With the support of both Anna and Anton, he begins undergoing ketamine treatments for his depression and goes quite frequently.
18:04They ramp up the number of massages he's getting every day, which kind of keep him calm, but it's literally six to eight hours a day he's on the table.
18:21I never encountered that before.
18:23Everybody gets like an hour, hour and a half, sometimes every day, but never six hours in a day.
18:31That's unusual.
18:35Separately, Anton and Anna begin doing experiments with LSD and heavy use of marijuana.
18:42I knew a little bit about the LSD drugs only because I came in one day and Mark was really relaxed.
18:52And I was like, what's going on?
18:54And then Anton told me we're doing a new treatment on him.
18:57It's to help relieve Mark's pain. Mark feels like the LSD would help him. He read it somewhere.
19:07So whatever Mark wanted, Anton did his best to get it for him.
19:13Everyone in the house sort of notes that the doctor is undergoing all these treatments, that he's becoming less and less engaged with people around him.
19:21Mark begins to fall into a period of great decline.
19:32As this is all going on, Anna and Anton are posting lovely pictures on Instagram, you know, showing them living a great life.
19:39But they were also, at the same time, making great efforts to hide all the cracks underneath the surface.
19:47I would ask Anton, what's going on with Mark? He wasn't chatty today. He was tired. Even the other therapists noticed, is everything alright? And Anton's like, yes, because of his condition. Some days he's tired.
20:02Sometimes he would forget who I was. And I'm like, oh, Mark, it's me, Val. I'm the massage therapist. And he's like, oh, well, I don't know you. And then he would just walk away.
20:17Dr. Solish starts to distrust Anton and Anna and has asked them to leave the house again.
20:32They move into a $1,200 a night hotel room in Santa Monica, where they are staying on Dr. Solish's dime.
20:41The last day that I was there, I was like, I don't see Mark in the house. They're like, he sometimes goes halfway under the bed. So when I went and checked, Mark, are you okay? And he didn't really respond. And then I could see his chest breathing. I was like, okay, he's breathing. He's okay.
21:01Memorial Day weekend 2018. Mark has grown increasingly paranoid and starts entering into a deeply manic point in his life. Without Anna and Anton there, Mark quickly spirals. He's becoming increasingly incoherent. He's walking around the house ranting and raving.
21:25He begins having conversations with seagulls that pass by his house. He's very much alone and fully in a state of psychosis.
21:44Mark sits down on the couch and eventually slumps forward and falls forward onto the coffee table.
21:51The massage therapists come in and find him there and they see that he's turning a bit gray in color. One of them calls Anton and says, I think we have a problem here.
22:06LA County Fire Operator 79.
22:08Hi, I believe that my friend has died in our house. I'm not there at the location.
22:15What city?
22:16Malibu, California.
22:17All right. And do you know the crossfit at the corner?
22:19That's where it's Canadian.
22:20And Big Rock. Yes, sir.
22:21And you'll probably be there before me.
22:23The front door is unlocked.
22:24Okay.
22:25I got units on the way there now, okay?
22:27Hello?
22:289-4-3-7-9-4-3-7.
22:30Back in Fresno, I wonder all the time where they were. And I was assuming the Malibu mansion.
22:45But I started noticing little things that were changing at the studio.
22:49They told us, you know, you can't come in and out of the front door anymore.
22:54And you'd have to call one of their assistants and then they would tell you the code.
23:00Code after code after code just to get into the studio, which I thought was really weird.
23:04They had hired an in-house assistant to be at the studio.
23:09And I felt like I was constantly always being looked at and looked after, not in a good way.
23:18At this point in time, yoga is my entire life.
23:20It's saved my life. It's made me a better person.
23:23I could not fathom losing that.
23:26And I was always so scared to get an email of being like, you know what?
23:31Your class sucks. We'll just get rid of you.
23:34So I called Anton directly.
23:37And I said, I've been here for a long time and I've helped build this place.
23:42And I'm feeling a little bit disrespected because no one told me what was going on.
23:46No one talked to me.
23:47Anton's response was, you're nothing. You're just a yoga teacher.
23:52I am infinitely smarter and better than you.
23:56And you are showing yourself as a terrible teacher and a terrible person.
24:03I just couldn't believe it.
24:04And it scarred me. Just like a tattoo across my heart.
24:08I'll never forget it. I'll never forget it.
24:10Eight years on. It still affects me.
24:21Mark is found dead by a massage therapist who happens to be in the house at that time.
24:25Anna and Anton are not there when Mark dies.
24:28They are ensconced in a hotel in Santa Monica about 12 miles away.
24:35When police arrive, they don't know if his death is accidental or if there is some foul play.
24:42When I found out he died, my heart just sank.
24:47No one told me that his condition might be fatal.
24:51I was a little shocked because, like, you don't just pass away from early stages of dementia.
24:58So I'm just like, okay, something's up.
25:00Soon after Dr. Sawash passed away, Anna and Anton moved back into the house.
25:05And at first they held a memorial service there for him.
25:09The memorial was really sweet.
25:12Anton and a few of his friends spoke.
25:16And we had roses, and then we just tossed the roses out on the sand.
25:22I asked Anton if any of Mark's family was there.
25:25He said, no, they don't want anything to do with Mark.
25:29So I just said, oh, okay.
25:30I'm Andrew Roach, and I'm a federal prosecutor with the United States Attorney's Office.
25:42How I became involved in this case is that we actually received a referral about this case from the victim's family.
25:49Following the events after the victim's death, they uncovered a series of suspicious financial transactions.
25:57Soon after Mark's death, his family comes in, and they begin the task of unwinding his affairs.
26:05They don't think he has any money.
26:07They think he's actually close to bankruptcy.
26:09To their surprise, they discover that he has accounts worth $60 million.
26:14The victim had a will, and the beneficiary's will was his family members.
26:17And, in fact, Johns Hopkins University.
26:20Now that Mark's mother and sister are bringing his affairs through the probate court,
26:24suddenly appeared two creditors' claims from Anna and Anton.
26:29They claim that they're his late-life caregivers and that they were entitled to a third of his fortune,
26:36which would be $20 million, and his beach house.
26:40Immediately upon seeing these claims, Mark's family cry foul and file a civil suit against Anna and Anton claiming abuse.
26:49So Mark's family hires an army of lawyers to very quickly discover not only that money had been missing,
26:56but that Mark had been kept under this regime of drug use and massage therapy to the point where he really wasn't in control of his life.
27:08Anton never did anything money-wise without the approval of Mark.
27:13Anna and Anton, through their lawyers, make an argument that Mark really wasn't as mentally ill as his family was arguing.
27:22They say that it really was when he drank that he would start to lose control,
27:28but that he really was able to make his own choices and that everything that they did was, you know, at his behest.
27:34Meanwhile, Anna and Anton begin a careful effort to try and maneuver the money that they think they were entitled to into their own possession.
27:45Banks are freezing accounts.
27:47They start opening up new accounts and going from branch to branch to try and wire money out of the hands of the investigators.
27:55Along the surface, many of the people who worked in the house were there to help Mark,
28:08but Anna and Anton really were using them to help with their own businesses and further their own careers.
28:13Then, after he dies, they continue using the money that they've taken to keep their lifestyle going.
28:20They bought high-end clothing, ate at the finest restaurants.
28:25They're attending the most luxurious events.
28:28Meanwhile, Anna's posting pictures of herself on her social media accounts.
28:35The outcome of the civil case was both defendants, Anna and Anton, they settled.
28:41Anton realized quickly that the victim died, they had consumed a large amount of drugs,
28:48which raises a lot of questions that he never had any good answers to.
28:53So they voluntarily agreed to move out of the doctor's house in Malibu,
28:58and ultimately to relinquish all their claims.
29:01Once the civil case was closed, our actual investigation really began.
29:06We were able to uncover things that attorneys in the private case were not.
29:13And many of those things were extremely troubling.
29:22Anton facilitated taking the victim and getting a ketamine injection.
29:26When you have a ketamine injection, it tells you not to make any business decisions for a full day afterwards,
29:33because it could impair your judgment.
29:36And then, I believe that day, the victim signed a document to cash in a life insurance policy.
29:44Of course, Anton facilitated that whole thing, and that $400,000 or so was spent in a matter of months.
29:52In the aftermath of the civil suit, Anna and Anton relocate.
29:56They decided to move to Mexico, to Tulum.
29:59There's no doubt in my mind that Anna and Anton continued to live off the money that they had taken from the victim in this case.
30:08But in the end, they finally end their relationship.
30:10They'd been together for nearly a decade, but they decided to part ways.
30:14Anton returns to the US.
30:15He goes back to Fresno to run his window-washing business.
30:18But Anna remains in Mexico, where she continues to live it up and starts to rebrand herself as Bunny Marley, a Spanish-speaking assassin.
30:29She produces a rap video.
30:31Trapped like a butterfly, caught up in the lies.
30:38I'll just win a mothicizer from under your disguise.
30:43And she's doing weird fucking shit.
30:46Like, she's posting these videos, doing these weird little skits, just acting like a teenager almost.
30:56Like, I thought, she's on drugs.
31:01During the course of the investigation, we also discovered one of the most troubling aspects of the victim's death.
31:09All along, Anna and Anton had been watching through the security cameras from their hotel room in Santa Monica.
31:16They had set up the cameras themselves months earlier.
31:20In the preceding weeks, Anton had supplied the doctor with LSD on multiple occasions.
31:25It's akin to sort of shaking up a powder keg and then placing it down.
31:31And then, obviously, you know it could explode.
31:34At this final moment for Dr. Sawish, they were able to watch everything from 12 miles away.
31:40I was shocked.
31:41I kind of got a little sick to my stomach, just the thought that somebody's capable of just watching another person just die.
31:49They didn't do a thing.
31:52And they waited to hear from one of the massage therapists in the house that he'd actually died before they decided to call 911 at all.
31:59In all, $2.7 million was siphoned out of Mark's accounts.
32:09Once they were indicted, and they were indicted on a variety of charges, including conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, and then money laundering accounts.
32:20Then arrest warrants were issued for their arrest.
32:24Anton was arrested in Fresno, in his hometown.
32:27Anna was picked up at the airport in Houston, where she was flying back from Mexico, where she now lived.
32:37Wild story out of Malibu.
32:38A hairstylist and a yoga instructor are being accused of drugging an ailing eye surgeon with the goal of taking his beachfront home and stealing millions.
32:48This sounds like it's out of a movie, Treasle.
32:51Who is this surgeon?
32:52Okay, first of all, I am so upset that I am just learning about this case.
32:56It is one of the wildest we've ever covered.
32:59I have an affinity for true crime, and I saw a video, and it had Anna's face on it.
33:06And I was like, wait, what? I know her.
33:09I was just blown away when they told me that he was arrested and that he's in jail.
33:15My initial thought was, dang, could Anna have really gone through such trouble to be famous at any price?
33:26I started to connect the dots a lot, particularly the Malibu mansion that they had mentioned that is our big perk.
33:33It wasn't theirs.
33:35All this money that they were willing to spend on us to show us what really living a yogi's life is in Malibu was stolen money.
33:46I didn't realize at the time how much control they had over me.
33:51But towards the end, it definitely started to feel like I was just a prop in whatever game they were playing.
34:02So now Anna and Anton are facing criminal charges.
34:05This is not just allegations from Dr. Sosh's family anymore.
34:08This is from U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, who are accusing them of committing bank fraud and identity theft.
34:15Anna was the first to cooperate with the feds.
34:18Within months of their arrest, she decided to plead guilty to the charges against her in return for providing testimony against Anton.
34:27Anton, on his Instagram page, wrote,
34:29I'm innocent. Don't believe what the media is saying about me.
34:33And I remember seeing the GoFundMe for his attorney fees.
34:38I'm like, are you kidding me? I'm like, dude, it's like, who's going to contribute to that?
34:42Wow. You know, like, he's still trying to pretend like just living a lie.
34:49Now faced with having Anna testify against him, Anton, within a month, agreed to plead guilty as well
34:56because he didn't really have much leg to stand on anymore.
35:01And so he admitted to doing many of the things that we allege that he had done.
35:06So he admitted that he had transferred that money before the victim's death.
35:09He admitted that he was lying when he came up with the idea that he was promised that.
35:14One of the most troubling aspects of this entire fraud was once Anton and Anna got involved in the victim's life,
35:24it really sort of drove a wedge between the victim and everyone else he knew his entire life.
35:34So there were rumors that Dr. Solish was having a sexual relationship with both Anna and Anton.
35:41They all seem like best buddies, and I was like, is this a polyamorous thing?
35:47And then I was like, no, it's not.
35:50Knowing Anton, it doesn't seem unlikely that it could have been maybe like a threesome,
35:56or maybe just, you know, between Anna and Dr. Bill.
35:59A part of me thinks that there was.
36:02There was some people that were saying that the three of them actually had also an intimate relationship as well.
36:09I can't speak to that.
36:13Sometimes there's rumors going around about all sorts of things,
36:18and I look at the facts and the evidence, and that's where it goes.
36:26Ironically, as soon as we heard that she was arrested,
36:30like, we knew it's like, okay, she's going to get a shorter sentence for one,
36:34because everything is under his name,
36:37and number two is that she's probably going to testify against him
36:42and put everything on him.
36:44I'm like, I guess she should have got an Oscar for that.
36:47So now it's almost two years after their arrest,
37:04and Anton appears in court in Los Angeles to face sentencing.
37:09He comes in, he's still got his long hair, his long beard,
37:12but he's dressed in a prison jumpsuit.
37:15I was there, and Anton had a lot of supporters in the courtroom,
37:21his family members, a lot of old friends came from Fresno.
37:24But on the other side of the room were all the lawyers
37:27that Mark Saush's family had hired to work on this case,
37:31and they were pretty angry about this.
37:34A defendant has a constitutional right to do what's called an allocution,
37:39which is where they personally address the judge,
37:43the judge who will then impose the sentence.
37:45You know, it is sort of the last opportunity,
37:47and maybe the only opportunity a criminal defendant has
37:50to look a judge in the eyes and say,
37:52here's my side of the story.
37:54And he read a letter that said, we were like brothers.
38:00Feel so ashamed to be standing here and admitting that I wronged you, brother,
38:05for even a second losing sight of the true nature of what we had.
38:09I will always have peace knowing that I saw light and fire in your eyes.
38:14I am sorry for my crimes.
38:16My sincerest apologies to the Saush family.
38:19I love you, Mark.
38:21I will never forget you.
38:23I wish we could have had more time together.
38:25Despite his seeming earnestness,
38:28the whole presentation just seemed entirely self-serving.
38:32When I heard about his apology letter, I was just like, are you kidding me?
38:39I thought it was the most ridiculous and genuine thing ever.
38:43I mean, it was just like, it was like a soap opera.
38:48The judge was really not amused at what Anton had to say
38:52and delivered a sentence that was far harsher
38:54than what even prosecutors were asking for.
38:57It was a sentence of 188 months, which is nearly 16 years in prison.
39:01It found what Anton did extremely troubling,
39:06that these crimes will be caught and they will be punished severely.
39:10For her part, Anna was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.
39:14So Anna was given credit because she cooperated with authorities
39:18and helped them, you know, seal the case.
39:21She was also kind of believed to be a lesser actor
39:26in the financial fraud that Anton had led the way.
39:35One question that comes to mind is really who was the mastermind here.
39:39I mean, the court case played out that it was Anton,
39:42that he was the one who helped orchestrate the financial fraud.
39:47But there's some people who might argue that maybe it was Anna
39:51who was pulling the strings behind the scenes all along,
39:54and that she had Anton set it up in such a way
39:57that made him more culpable legally.
40:00A huge part of me feels like that Anna was manipulating, coercing Anton
40:06into doing things.
40:07And Anton, with his charisma, people just gravitated towards him.
40:10And so she was, you know, like the puppet master.
40:14She had this way of convincing people and coercing them to do whatever she wanted.
40:21She had expected her boyfriends in the past to, like, pay for everything
40:24and pay her bills, pay her rent, pay this, pay that.
40:27You know, it was very smart of her because everything was put under Anton's name,
40:31and that way, if anything went wrong, she could just wipe her hands clean.
40:35There was a lot of, like, emotional manipulation.
40:39She could discard someone so easily and quickly and then move on like nothing.
40:46Anna was the perfect chameleon.
40:50She molded to whoever she needed to be.
40:56With all the things that I've learned about Anna,
40:58I think she does possess a lot of mental illness traits like sociopathy and narcissism.
41:05She really wanted to be famous, and now she is known now for this.
41:10Giving somebody drugs to incapacitate them,
41:15you do that because you've thought of it.
41:17Like, it's premeditated 100%.
41:19And that sort of behavior is comparable to behavior that I saw personally
41:27at the yoga studio.
41:28It feels nice to be told you're amazing every day,
41:31that you're my best friend, that I really care about you.
41:34And, you know, it feels good to receive these things,
41:37but it's all a lie.
41:39It's all a manipulative tactic.
41:42When they met this man, they 100% saw their opportunity
41:48to take advantage in every way possible.
41:54Yes, it was a crime of entitlement.
41:57I've got bad habits. Yes, I do.
42:14We're being told we need more money.
42:18That's when everything hit the fan.
42:21Dun, dun, dun!
42:23It's hard to believe this trusted leader could be stealing.
42:26How did she cover it up?
42:27Only God knows.
42:30The fact that she's a nun shouldn't excuse what she did.
42:33We all got duped.
42:35You're not duped.
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