"MANGIONE'S UNDERWEAR GUN, ANTONIO BROWN'S SELF-DEFENSE CLAIM & MICHAEL JORDAN TAKES ON NASCAR"

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media, good morning, I'm reed Carter. Wednesday, December tenth, twenty twenty five, Luigi Mangoni's pre trial hearing continues in New York. Day four brought body camera footage from his arrest at that Pennsylvania McDonald's last December. The moment police found a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair of underwear in his backpack, officer exclaimed, it's him, dude, it's him, one hundred percent. Defense is fighting to suppress the evidence. Prosecutors say the gun matches the weapon used to kill United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. We'll have the update. Antonio Brown, former NFL star facing attempted murder charges after allegedly shooting at a man outside a celebrity boxing match in Miami, is now claiming self defense. His attorneys filed a motion to dismiss, saying the alleged victim has a violent criminal history and was waiting outside to attack Brown. Brown says he fired warning shots, not at the man. Brown's out on twenty five thousand dollars bail, wearing a GPS monitor, facing up to fifteen years if convicted. Michael Jordan versus NASCAR.

1:16 Day seven of the federal antitrust trial in Charlotte. An economist testified twenty three eleven Racing is owed two hundred fifteen point eight million dollars in damages. Front Row Motorsports owed another one hundred forty eight point nine million dollars. Total damages for all thirty six chartered teams over a billion dollars. The judge is frustrated with the slow pace, told attorneys he wants the plaintiff's case wrapped up today. And Brian Walsh's murder trial continues in Massachusetts. Day six testimony, more text messages, more forensic evidence, more pieces of Anna Walsh turning up in garbage bags at a trash facility. Her body has never been found. I'm reed Carter to pre trial battles, self defense claims, sports business lawsuits, and a husband who allegedly dismembered his wife after searching best ways to dispose of a body. This is celebrity trials.

2:18 Luigi Mangone was back in court Monday for day four of his hearing in Manhattan. The accused killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson is fighting to exclude evidence from his new York murder case, specifically the gun, the magazine, and the notebook police found in his backpack after his arrest. You remember the arrest. December ninth, twenty twenty four, five days after Brian Thompson was shot dead outside a Manhattan hotel, Mongioni was spotted at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about two hundred and thirty miles west of New York City. Someone called nine to one one said a customer resembled the suspect in the CEO murder. Police responded. Christy Wasser, a nineteen veteran of the Altoona Police Department, testified Monday about what happened next. She arrived at the McDonald's to assist another officer. Manjonet had already been handcuffed on initial charges of forgery and false identification after he admitted giving police a bogus driver's license, the same fake name the alleged shooter had used to check into a Manhattan hostel.

3:22 Dazed before the murder, police informed Mangione of his right to remain silent. He invoked it when asked if there was anything in his bag officers should be concerned about. He didn't answer, Wasser began searching the backpack at the McDonald's standard protocol check for dangerous items. She said she wanted to make sure there wasn't a bomb before taking the bag out of the restaurant. But here's the thing, despite that concern, police never cleared the restaurant of customers or employees, just searched the bag right there. Body camera footage played in court showed what Wasser found. First few items were innocuous hogi, a loaf of bread, a smaller bag with a passport, cell phone, and computer chip. Then she pulled out a gray pair of underwear unwrapped them inside a loaded gun magazine. The bodycam audio captured another officer's reaction, it's him, dude, it's him one hundred percent, punctuated with expletives. That magazine convinced Altoona police they had their man, the suspected assassin of the United Healthcare CEO.

4:29 Waser testified she suspended her search after finding the magazine. Satisfied there was no bomb, she placed some items back in the bag. Some evidence, including Mangioni's laptop computer, was transported to the police station in a brown paper McDonald's takeout bag. Bodycam footage showed this. At the police station, Wasser resumed searching almost immediately found the gun and a silencer in a side pocket she hadn't checked. At the McDonald's. Bodycam footage captured her reaction and she found the silencer. She laughed and said nice. Later, during an inventory search to catalog everything in the bag, she found the notebook, the one prosecutor say contains Mangione's writings about his disdain for health insurers and his ideas about killing a CEO at an investor conference. When asked to explain her nice comment and general enthusiasm during the search, Wasser told the court she was proud of her department's work in helping capture Thompson's suspected killer. But here's the legal issue. Mangioni's defense team argues all this evidence should be thrown out.

5:34 They say police didn't have a search warrant and lacked grounds to justify a warrantless search. If the judge agrees, the gun, magazine, and notebook can't be used against Mangioni at trial. Prosecutors counter that the search was legal and that police eventually obtained a warrant. A Blair County prosecutor testified that a judge signed off on a search warrant for the bag a few hours after the searches were completed. That warrant provided the legal mechanism for Altuna police to turn the evidence over to New York City detectives. But the defense argues, you can't do an illegal search then get a warrant afterward to make it legal. That's not how the Fourth Amendment works. The hearing continues, this applies only to the state case in New York. Mangione's lawyers are making a similar push to exclude evidence from his federal case, where prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Throughout the proceedings, Mangione has appeared in good health. He pumped his fist for photographers Monday, chatted with his lawyers. He's pleaded not guilty to both state and federal murder charges.

6:35 Brian Thompson was fifty years old CEO of United Healthcare, walking to a shareholder conference at a Manhattan hotel when he was shot from behind. The words delay, deny, and depose were written on the ammunition, a phrase used to describe how insurers avoid paying claims. The pre trial hearing will determine what evidence the jury gets to see. If Mangioni's lawyers succeed in suppressing the gun, the magazine, and the notebook, prosecutors lose their most damning physical evidence. If they fail, Mangione faces trial with an arsenal of evidence tying him to the murder. Make it make sense. An officer finds a loaded magazine wrapped in underwear, says it's him, and now the defense argues the search was illegal. The legal system at work. Antonio Brown thirty seven years old.

7:39 Former NFL Star All Pro wide receiver. Twelve year career with the Steelers, Patriots, Raiders, and Buccaneers, nine hundred and twenty eight receptions over twelve thousand yards, eighty eight total touchdowns. Now he's facing attempted murder charges in Florida, and he's claiming self defense. Brown's attorney, Mark Aglarsh, filed a motion this week asking a judge to dismiss the attempted second degree murder charge. The filing tells a very different story from what prosecutors have alleged. Let's back up to May sixteenth, twenty twenty five. Miami celebrity boxing match hosted by Internet personality and streamer Aidan Ross. After the event, according to an arrest warrant, Brown allegedly grabbed a handgun and fired two shots at a man named Zulkar Naine Quam Nantambu.

8:32 Nantambu told investigators one of the bullets grazed his neck. Brown was charged with attempted second degree murder, carries a potential fifteen year prison sentence. He pleaded not guilty at a hearing last month. Was released on twenty five thousand dollars bail, required to wear a GPS ankle monitor, no passport, living at his home in Broward County while the case proceeds. But Brown's new filing paints the alleged victim as the aggressor. According to the defense, it's Nantamboo is a convicted felon with multiple fraud convictions and a violent history. The filing says Nantamboo was waiting outside the celebrity boxing event, to which he was not invited, for an opportunity to confront Brown violently. Brown allegedly suffered injuries to his eye, knee, and hands after being attacked by Nantambo before pulling out his gun. And here's the key detail. Brown was legally permitted to carry the weapon, it was lawfully concealed. While prosecutors say Brown fired at Nantambu, the defense says Brown intentionally aimed away from Nantambu as a warning shot, that he didn't try to kill anyone, he was trying to stop an attack. Then, according to the filing, Nantamboo wrestled the gun away from Brown and ran off, stealing it.

9:45 Brown stayed at the scene and cooperated with officers. The defense motion also highlights Nantamboo's criminal history beyond fraud convictions. According to the filing, Nantamboo physically attacked Brown backstage at a rap concert in twenty twenty three, and in twenty twenty two, Nantambu was allegedly jailed in Dubai for thirty days for stealing Brown's jewelry. If true, this isn't a random encounter. This is an ongoing feud, someone with a history of stealing from Brown and attacking him showing up uninvited to confront him again. Nantambu made headlines earlier this year for something completely unrelated. He disrupted the Super Bowl halftime show by running across the field waving a Sudanese flag with the message Soudan and Free Gaza face charges for that incident too. Prosecutors initially sought pre trial detention, arguing Brown as a high paid former professional athlete with the resources to flee. At the bond hearing, they noted he'd been living in Dubai for months before turning himself in.

10:49 Brown's attorney pushed back, said Brown didn't flee to Dubai. Said he always had a desire and intention to answer the case. Said Brown has business interest there, but always play to return. The judge sided with the defense on bail twenty five thousand dollars GPS monitor no passport now comes the self defense claim under Florida's stand your ground law. If Brown can demonstrate he was attacked first and reasonably feared for his safety, he may be entitled to use force to defend himself. The question becomes was firing a gun, even as a warning shot, reasonable under the circumstances. If the judge grants the motion to dismiss, the case is over, Brown walks. If denied, the case proceeds to trial. Brown's post NFL life has been chaotic. You remember him walking off the field mid game in twenty twenty two, stripping off his jersey and pads, throwing up peace signs to the crowd. That was his last NFL moment Since then, legal troubles, erratic social media posts, living abroad now attempted murder charges, but self defense is a legitimate If Nantambou has a documented history of attacking Brown and stealing from him, and if Nantambou showed up uninvited looking for a confrontation, Brown may have a case. We'll see what the judge decides.

12:12 Trial date not yet set. Brown remains free on bond, wearing that ankle monitor. We'll be right back with Michael Jordan taking on NASCAR in federal court. An economist says twenty three to eleven, racing is owed over two hundred and fifteen million dollars and the France family took four hundred million dollars in distributions while claiming they're growing the sport. Plus Brian Walsh's murder trial update. Welcome back to celebrity trials. I'm reed Carter Charlotte, North Carolina, Federal Court, Day seven of Michael Jordan versus NASCAR. The greatest basketball player of all time is suing the most powerful family and motorsports And Tuesday an economist told a jury that NASCAR owes Jordan's racing team two hundred and fifteen point eight million dollars.

13:07 Let me explain what's happening here. Michael Jordan and three time Daytona five hundred winner Denny Hamlin co owned twenty three to eleven Racing. That's the name spelled out for audio clarity, twenty three eleven. They started the team in twenty twenty, one of the few black owned teams in NASCAR history. Front Row Motorsports, owned by Bob Jenkins, is the other plaintiff. Their damages one hundred forty eight point nine million dollars. The lawsuit is about NASCAR's charter system. A charter is like a franchise in other sports. It guarantees thirty six teams, spots in the forty car field, and specific revenue. But the teams say NASCAR's charter agreement is unfair that the France family, which founded NASCAR in nineteen forty eight, enriches itself at the expense of the teams and drivers. September twenty twenty four, NASCAR presented teams with a new charter agreement, a one hundred twelve page document gave them until the end of that same day to sign it. The teams called it a take it or leave it ultimatum, said they signed it with a gun to their head. Fifteen teams signed. Jordan's twenty three eleven and Jenkins's front Row Motorsports were the only two that refused. Then they sued, alleging antitrust violations. The trial started last week in the Western District of North Carolina and its moving slowly, so slowly that US District judge has repeatedly admonished both sides to speed up. Monday, economist

14:41 Edward Snyder took almost the entire day to explain his damage's calculations. Snyder is no lightweight professor of economics, worked in the Anti Trust Division of the Department of Justice, testified in over thirty cases, including deflate Gait involving the Patriot. Snyder outlined why he found NASCAR to be a monopoly using anti competitive business practices. His complex formula determined twenty three to eleven is owed two hundred fifteen point eight million dollars, while front Row is owed one hundred forty eight point nine million dollars. Combined three hundred sixty four point seven million dollars for the two teams. But here's the bigger number. Based on Snyder's calculations, NASCAR shorted all thirty six chartered teams a total of one point zero six billion dollars from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty four, over a billion dollars. Snyder also testified about NASCAR's finances.

15:39 The organization had two point two billion dollars in assets, an equity value of five billion dollars, an investment grade credit rating, two hundred fifty million dollars in annual earnings from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty four, and the France family took four hundred million dollars in distributions during that same period, while telling teams there wasn't enough money to share. NASCAR's defense attorneys say Snyder's estimations are wrong. They say their own experts take serious issue with his findings. When defense attorney Lawrence Buderman asked Snyder his opinion on NASCAR's upcoming expert witnesses, Snyder acknowledged they were two of the best economists in the world. The judge wants the plaintiffs to wrap up their case today day seven, but lead attorney Jeffrey Kessler still has three witnesses on his list after Snyder finishes testifying, and their big names Jim Franz, NASCAR chairman, the man running the family business, Steve Phelps, NASCAR commissioner, the one who called six time championship winning owner Richard Childress a redneck in text messages said he needs to be taken out back and flogged. Phelps apologized, but Childress is considering legal action, and Richard Childress himself Hall of Fame team owner, one of the most respected figures in the sport who was apparently trash talked by NASCAR's own commissioner. The trial has been embarrassing for NASCAR.

17:09 Every twist has been a setback. They've publicly admitted they want to settle. Commissioner Phelps said so ahead of the November season finale. Jordan has previously said he's open to settlement. Several mediation sessions failed. NASCAR maintains it gave teams an improved revenue model from the original twenty sixteen charter agreement, says everything it's done is for the benefit of growing the sport on the France family dime, but here's what the teams say. Bob Jenkins claims he's never turned a profit in more than two decades of racing, losses between seventy million dollars and one hundred million dollars. Jordan and Hamlin admit twenty three eleven has been profitable in its five years, but largely because Jordan's global fame attracts high dollar sponsors that other teams can't get. NASCAR says it has sixteen witnesses on its list for the defense, including Hall of Fame team owners Rick Hendrick and Roger Penske, two of the most powerful figures in motorsports. Hendrick is a close friend of the France family. Penske owns Indianapolis Motor Speedway and IndyCar. The defense will argue that everyone in racing understands the financials and willingly enters into NASCAR's business model, that teams know what they're signing up for.

18:22 But Jordan is making this about fairness, about a family dynasty that owns almost every track on the schedule, enriching itself while the teams that provide the entertainment struggle about a take it or leave it contract presented with same day deadlines. Michael Jordan's involvement has put a spotlight on NASCAR that the France family doesn't want a global icon, trying to prove their dictators running a monopoly. The trial continues. Nine person jury, billions at stake and the most famous athlete in the world demanding accountability. Welcome to justice in Motorsports and Walsh's murder trial continues in Massachusetts. Day six testimony Tuesday. More digital forensics, more text messages, more evidence of what prosecutors say was a methodical cover up after Walsh killed his wife Anna on New Year's Day twenty twenty three. Quick background for those just joining us. Brian Walsh, fifty years old, is charged with first degree murder in the presumed death of his wife, Anna Walsh, thirty nine.

19:27 Her body has never been found. Prosecutors say Brian killed Anna on January first, twenty twenty three, then spent several days trying to conceal the crime. She was reported missing by her employer on January fourth. By then, according to the prosecution, Brian had already made trips to home depot, lows and multiple dumpsters before jury selection. Last month, Brian pleaded guilty to two charges misleading a police officer and conveyance of a human body. He'll be sentenced on those after the murder trial, but he's fi reading the murder charge his defense. Anna died suddenly in bed sudden death syndrome. He found her dead and panicked. The jury doesn't seem to be buying it, and the evidence keeps piling up.

20:13 Day six brought more testimony from Massachusetts State Police Digital forensic Examiner Trooper Connor Keith, more text messages between Brian and Anna in the days before her death, and more of Brian's Internet search history. December twenty fifth, twenty twenty two, Christmas Day, Anna's flight got canceled. She drove to their Cohasset home instead. That same day, Brian searched Christmas Day plane crash and multiple searches for Anna Walsh found dead. Make it make sense His wife's flight gets canceled and he's searching whether she died in a plane crash. December thirty first, the night before Anna's presumed death, Brian searched restaurant reservations, made a reservation at a restaurant called Nightshade for Anna and himself. On New Year's Day, search for kids playhouses? How to start a charity? How to start a church? Through five zero one C three then January first, the day prosecutors say Brian killed Anna. The search has changed.

21:18 Best ways to dispose of a body? How long before a body starts to smell? Is it possible to clean DNA off a knife? Best ways to dispose of body parts after murder? How to clean blood from a wood floor. What does bleach do to dead bodies? How to dismember a body? Hacksaw the best tool for dismembering a body? January second? Can you be charged with murder without a body? No corpse? No problem? Can you identify a body with broken teeth? Earlier testimony revealed Brian searched for Patrick Kearney on Wikipedia. Kearnie was known as the trash bag Killer, a serial murderer who disposed a victim and trash bags at dumpsters across southern California in the nineteen seventies. Brian apparently took notes. Day five and six brought additional testimony about what investigators found. A retired state police crime scene technician described items recovered from a trash compactor, snips, hacksaw, hammer, packing, tape, hatchet, craftsmen, shears, all with reddish brown stains. A forensic pathologist examined carpet pieces with blood evidence. A DNA analyst described finding Anna's green hunter boots in one garbage bag, her black jacket with red brown stains, her COVID vaccination card, her purse, a bracelet, Volkswagen keys. Other bags contained white towels with reddish brown stains, a bathrobe with stains, slippers with stains,

22:50 and hair tissues with blood, a hammer, wire snips, shears, a hacksaw, a large tarp, protective booties, safety goggles, a tivek suit, and across multiple items DNA evidence linking both Anna and Brian. But here's the defense theory. Anna had a romantic relationship with a real estate broker named William Fasteau. She'd bought a townhouse in Washington, d C. Where she worked, planned to leave Brian. Defense attorneys argue Brian didn't know about the affair, that Anna died suddenly in bed of natural causes, that Brian panicked, made terrible decisions trying to dispose of her body, but didn't kill her. The prosecution isn't buying it. Those Internet searches started at four fifty five am on January first, Best ways to dispose of a body? If Anna died of sudden death syndrome in their bed, why would Brian's first instinct be to search how to dispose of a corpse. At the time of Anna's death, Brian was on house arrest, awaiting sentencing for a separate fraud case involving fake Andy Warhol paintings. He couldn't leave Massachusetts. His wife was the family's primary breadwinner, making over three hundred thousand dollars annually, and she was about to leave him. Text messages between Brian and Anna in the days before her death were entered into evidence.

24:15 Multiple undelivered texts from Brian to Anna on January second through fourth, Hello Thomas found the phone? Hello, where are you? I'm worried, Please call texts to a dead woman whose phone was presumably already in a garbage bag somewhere. Trial continues this week. The prosecution's case is building mountains of digital evidence, physical evidence, circumstantial evidence, everything pointing to a husband who killed his wife, dismembered her body, and scattered the pieces across Massachusetts. Anna Walsh was thirty nine years old, Serbian immigrant, successful real estate executive, mother of three boys.

24:59 She should be ras raising those children, building her career, living her life. Someone has to say her name. Someone has to remember she was more than evidence in garbage bags at a trash facility. Rest in peace, Anna. That's Celebrity trials for Wednesday, December tenth, twenty twenty five. Luigi Mangoni's pre trial hearing continues. Bodycam footage showed the moment police found a loaded magazine wrapped in underwear in his backpack. Defense fighting to suppress the gun, magazine, and notebook. If they succeed, prosecutors lose their most damning physical evidence. Antonio Brown claims self defense in his attempted murder case. Says the alleged victim has a violent criminal history and attacked him first outside that celebrity boxing match, Brown fired warning shots, not at the man, according to his attorneys motion to dismiss pending. Michael Jordan versus NASCAR Enters Day seven economist testified twenty three to eleven. Racing is owned two hundred and fifteen point eight million dollars. The France family took four hundred million dollars in distributions while teams struggled. Trial continues, with Commissioner Steve Phelps and Chairman Jim Franz expected to testify, and Brian Walsh's murder trial continues. Day six brought more of those horrifying Internet searches and more evidence from garbage bags.

26:27 How to dismember a body, No corpse, no problem. Anna Walsh is still missing. Her husband says she died suddenly. The jury will decide before I go. Starting this Sunday, December fourteenth, We're counting down the top ten crime and justice stories that dominated the headlines this year. Ten days, ten cases, from Diddy to Mangione. The trials, the verdicts, the moments that shocked America. You voted. We're delivering the top ten trials of twenty twenty five starting Sunday. Don't miss it. I'm read Carter, see you tomorrow. This is Celebrity Trials.