May 11, 2026

Episode Two | Sneakers to Shackles: The Takedown of Ricky Foster

Episode Two | Sneakers to Shackles: The Takedown of Ricky Foster

Part 2 of a 2 Part Series From the hype-filled streets of sneaker culture comes one of the most bizarre true stories of the year: the rise and explosive fall of Ricky Foster, the man at the center of the viral documentary series The Devil Wears Dunks....

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Season 1
Part 2 of a 2 Part Series
From the hype-filled streets of sneaker culture comes one of the most bizarre true stories of the year: the rise and explosive fall of Ricky Foster, the man at the center of the viral documentary series The Devil Wears Dunks. Ricky Foster, a Denham Springs, Louisiana local, burst onto the scene as a supposed high-rolling investor and rare Nike collector.

He dazzled sneaker stores, collectors, and enthusiasts with tales of private jets, luxury homes, multi-million-dollar deals, and insider access to ultra-rare Dunks and Nike samples. It all sounded too good to be true… because it was. What started as a routine sneaker transaction quickly unraveled into a web of lies, manipulation, broken families, and shattered trust.

In this episode, Jim Chapman dives into the "Dads of Denham" group Ricky co-founded as well as a botched deal to buy a local restaurant and investigations into charity funds that never made it to their destination.

Timestamps
12:23 The Rise of “Dads of Denham”
14:44 Ricky's Restaurant Ambitions Go South
17:50 Charity Scandals Uncovered
35:56 Arrests and Allegations

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Vials of

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the Elite. I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and today I

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am bringing you part two of the series, Sneakers to Shackles.

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Now.

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Throughout part one of this series, I covered the investigation

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done by the Boys of Echo as it relates to

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Ricky Foster, and I wanted to be sure with that

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episode that I gave them their flowers, if you will,

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for the hard work that they put in bringing this

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story to the public and following through to the point

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that a rest were made and people were being held accountable.

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So going forward, I'm going to touch on some things

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that they uncovered, because you can't tell the full story

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without that information. But it was also my goal with

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this series to answer some of the questions the viewers

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of the Devilwares Dunks series had when they watched the show.

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For example, in episode one, I spent a good bit

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of time on that episode trying to give you an

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idea of who Jeremy Green was down here.

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In the Bayou.

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Most people had no idea who he was. Moreover, most

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people who watched the documentary from here in Louisiana really

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didn't have any idea what sneaker culture was. If you're

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not in that sneaker culture, you're not gonna understand it

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unless someone explains it to you. So I tried to

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do just that, just fill in some of the gaps

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for people who were not familiar with Echo, Jeremy Green

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or sneaker culture and explain how they crossed paths with

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Ricky Foster. So from here on out, you're gonna hear

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my personal perspective on this case. So let's get into it,

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and I'm going to start out by covering where Ricky

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Foster's name surfaced right here in Denham Springs, and that

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is by being one of the founders of a group

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called Dads of Denim. Now, if there's one thing that

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we know how to do here in South Louisiana, it's tailgate.

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Go to Tiger Stadium on any.

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Given Saturday when the Tigers are playing at home, and

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you will totally get what I'm saying here. It's an atmosphere,

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in my opinion, like no other food, music, and one

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hundred thousand of your best friends in that atmosphere transfers

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to baseball as well. And if you have ever been

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to Omaha, when LSU was in the College World Series.

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You get it.

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No one can tailgate like the LSU Tiger fans. Now,

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some high schools they have a similar atmosphere, and Denham

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Springs High School probably lack that. And that's no slot.

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I'm a Yellowjacket through and through. My wife graduated from

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Denim Springs High School. All three of my kids graduated

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from Denham Springs High School. It just is what it is.

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It's something that maybe kind of lacked there. So it

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was in twenty twenty one that personally I took notice

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of something, and that was a group of guys with

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a heck of a setup at Denham Springs High School.

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During these games, they had a really nice trailer, blairing music,

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some really good pastilia, and they were just giving that

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stuff away for free. All were wearing t shirts that,

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in one way or another said Dad's of Denim, and

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I was honestly intrigued.

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They seemed to.

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Be having a good time. All of them appeared to

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be about my age. I walked up to one of them,

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not named Ricky Foster, and me and this guy started

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talking about what it was they were doing, and it

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all sounded good to me. They were just kind of

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drumming up awareness for dad's supporwarding their sons and their

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daughters and just being family oriented atmosphere right there at

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the football game. Now, there were eight guys in the

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Dads of Dedham group, at least to the point that

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I became familiar with them, and Ricky was right where

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he wanted to be.

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He was the face of that.

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Group, so much so that the logo was Ricky complete

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with a backwards hat. But the group itself, they had

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a really good mission. They wanted to encourage support between

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fathers and sons and fathers and daughters and all that

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sort of thing, and they wanted to make it a

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fun atmosphere at Yellowjacket Stadium. And it is important that

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people do not conflate any of these guys from this

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group with Ricky Foster and what he has done or alleged.

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To have done.

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These were good guys. Ricky just ended up being the

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bad apple that spoiled the bunch. So initially my interaction

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with Ricky was pretty limited. You ever get a vibe

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off someone, just something that you can't explain, you can't

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really put your thumb on it, but a feeling is

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there that something's not right. That was kind of the

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vibe that I got off Ricky. First of all, anyone

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passed forty that wears their hat backwards. I mean, honestly,

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the word toolbag comes to mind instantly for me. That's

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something you know kids do, And that's just my opinion. Hey,

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if you're over forty and you wear your hat backwards,

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all good, bro. I'm just saying I think it's weird.

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But aside from all that, it was the things he

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would say or do when we would interact that kind

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of caught my attention. For example, at one point I

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found out Ricky worked for a very well known car

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dealer in the Baton Rouge area as a finance manager. Well,

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I had some experience with that way back in the day.

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As a matter of fact, this is way back in

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the late nineties, before I started what would become my

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career of twenty three years. Prior to getting into podcasting,

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I had also been a finance manager for a large dealership.

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So I asked Ricky about it because at one point

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I had actually worked at the same dealership though twenty

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five years prior. Well, Ricky quickly changed the subject unless

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as sin as I brought it up. I didn't push it,

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but I noticed it, and it made me think instantly

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something was definitely going on with his job.

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Now.

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I would hear later and it would be put out

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later that he was actually renting cars to people, allegedly

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renting cars to people while he was at that job

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for cash, and he was using what we called the

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learner vehicles or the vehicles that the salespeople would get

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his demos. He was actually running those and keeping the cash.

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That was the allegations. I have no direct knowledge one

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way or the other. On another occasion, I asked Ricky

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about the Dads of Denim and if they allowed anyone

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to join, if there was a cost to join the tailgate.

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Et cetera.

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And he said, well, we just keep this a tight

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knit group.

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We don't really.

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Open it up to other people. And that was something

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I found really strange. The group was actively promoting that

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they were helping the community, etc. And yet they were

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not opening this up to having extra help, more hands

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on deck, maybe even a little more money to use

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to help, you know, all these charities and things that

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they were doing. In hindsight, I can see now that

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it's likely Ricky new, the less people involved, the less

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chance he would have a people discovering he was completely

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fullish and that he was scamming his own friends, scamming

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the public, and was a total fraud allegibly. Now, Ricky

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would work hard to maintain a persona of a person.

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Of wealth, if you will.

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His setup from the cooking pots he used, to the generators,

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to the sound system, to the cars he drove, and

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of course his shoes were all top notch.

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He would walk.

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Around with kind of an entourage of sort, and he

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would even flaunt some friends that I had heard he

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would later scam. I distinctly remember one game in particular

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where such a friend was with him. It was a

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guy very well known in the Baton Rouge area as

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Tebow the Firecracker now Tbo, in my opinion, is no joke.

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Y'all would not know this, but if you search through

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my playlist on Spotify, you'll see a lot of every

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type of music you can imagine. One of my first

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loves was rip music. I've been a fan of it

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my entire life. I can still remember when I first

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heard easy E way back in nineteen eighty seven at

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a track meet. I remember it distinctly. That's how far

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back I go in that genre. And I've actually been

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a fan of t Bows since way back in the

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day when he signed with Master P and No Limit Records.

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So he shows up at a football game and Tbo's

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with him, and I thought, Man, this guy he must

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be legit. He knows some big players in the area,

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and he's parading t bow around like it was his

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trophy during this game. I mean it was obvious for

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Ricky was like, hey, look at me, y'all. I got

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those connects if you will. But there was no denying,

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at least from appearances, Old Ricky was covering all his bases.

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Dad's a dentim. They kind of started appearing everywhere in

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the newspaper, at charity events, and even on podcast, including

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my own local leaders. I wanted to promote groups like

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Dads of Denim through the podcast who from all appearances,

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they were doing great things for the community, and truth

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be told, I personally didn't care for Ricky all that much.

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I still got that vibe out of him. But there

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was another member of that group I'm not gonna mention

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the name of, and I liked that guy a lot,

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and I had a lot in common with that guy,

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So honestly, we spent pretty much the entire episode poking

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fun at Ricky mainly. But I'll tell you this, when

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all this came out with Ricky Foster, I was so

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embarrassed that he was actually on my show that I

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deleted on a whim. I deleted that podcast, and now

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I almost wish I didn't, because it would be interesting

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for y'all to be able to see how much he

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could change and be this completely different individual behind a

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camera than what he's alleged to be.

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So eventually, the Dads of Denim they disbanded, and I

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still somewhat recall the final posts that they put out

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on Facebook, where it read something like, and I'm paraphrasing here,

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but basically, after much thought, we have decided to disband

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the group. Thanks for the memories some shit like that,

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and then boom they were gone. And I knew upon

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reading that almost instantly, Oh, there is much more to

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that story.

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Jim. Did you see what happened in Texas today?

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Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you

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what happened in New York.

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It cannot be as crazy as the case I told

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you about. Yesterday in Louisiana.

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Now.

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Later members who would choose to remain anonymous, would tell

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several stories on how they discovered Ricky was a fraud

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and that he was bringing all of their names down.

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One story that was told was the dads of Denim. Look,

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they would cook enough pastali to feed say three hundred

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people or more, and each game they had a deal

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with each other. From what I understand, that a member

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would pay for the ingredients to make all this food.

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So I'm just gonna make it easy math here. If

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there were eight home games and there's eight members of

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that group, one person.

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Would pay for each game.

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This person would give Ricky the money and he would

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buy the ingredients and they would get to cook it.

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The problem was, allegedly Rericky was running a scam on

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his own people. He would get the money, and then

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he would go to the grocery store and he would

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convince a local grocery store to donate all the ingredients,

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and then he would just pocket the money as if

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he paid for all of this food, stealing from his

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own friends and never batting a freaking eye. That ought

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to tell you a lot right there. In another instance,

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according to a member, Ricky had told everyone there was

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a wealthy older lady she wanted to donate twenty five

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thousand dollars to buy a new sound system for Denim

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Springs High School's football stadium. And he tells the guys, look,

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start calling around getting quotes and all those sorts of

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things so we can get this lined up. He reaches

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out to the media and he tells him, Hey, we're

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going to donate through this wealthy lady, twenty five thousand

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dollars for this new sound system. It was a big deal.

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They had like a giant check ready to go, and

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they did photo ops and the media was there, and

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these guys go through all this, meaning the other guys

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that the dad's had Denim to get quotes, et cetera.

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And in the end all a big lie. There was

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no twenty five thousand dollars, there was no wealthy older lady,

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and there was no sound system.

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And that's what.

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Made Ricky really dangerous. He would lie just for the

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sake of line. So these guys eventually they figure it

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out and they're like, we gotta get out of here.

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We got to get away from this guy. We want

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nothing to do with this guy in the group disbands

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and Ricky goes dark for a little while, but it's

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not long before he's back and he's got a brand

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new Facebook post, and on that post he announces the

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formation of a nonprofit group called Dads of Denham two

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point zero, where he's gonna hold course shows and other

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events to serve as a charity donation arm if you will. Now,

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in between all this, at some point, Ricky decides he's

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gonna get into the restaurant business, and he sets his

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sight on a restaurant in Denham Springs called James Grill. Now,

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if you're not from here, I got listeners from all

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over the world. James Grill is a staple of this community.

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It's been around forever. I don't know exactly how long,

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but I would say at least fifty years. And the

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owner of this grill is a very popular local city

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marshal by the name of Joe Shoemate. And we all

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called Joe Shoemate Joe Mack, great guy, but no nonsense,

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and has been in law enforcement forever, and that's important

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to this story. This restaurant all and so has been

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in his family forever. And Ricky approaches Joe Mack at

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some point and he basically says, hey, look, I want

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to buy this restaurant, and I want to know how

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much you would sell it to me for. And Joe

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Mack basically says, here's my price if you want it,

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and not a penny less, no negotiation here. If you

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want to buy it, this is what it's going to

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cost you. Ricky says, no problem, because you know Ricky's rich, right,

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He says, I'll take that deal. And this thing goes

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all the way to the closing, and Ricky's got just

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one problem.

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He ain't got the money.

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He took things all the way to the closing and

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had no freaking money and knew he didn't have the money.

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And of course Ricky, he's full of excuses. He gives

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Joe Mack a ton of them. He tries to buy time, basically,

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and Joe says, look, I'm gonna give you one more

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shot at this thing, but you better not be screwing

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me around on this deal. But in the end, that's

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exactly what Ricky was doing. He was just screwing Joe

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Mack around for all intents and purposes. And there was

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no money and the restaurant obviously never changed hands. Now

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this says a lot about Ricky in this point in

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his life because he's taking a lot of risk. It's

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one thing to screw over the dad's a denim and

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other guys who are regular guys.

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In the community.

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It's another thing to screw over a longtime law enforcement

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individual who is currently the city Marshall named Joe Matt

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and Joe Mack don't forget, and he didn't, and it

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was just a matter of time before Ricky would screw

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up enough that he would land on Joe Mack's radar

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once again. So let's go to December of twenty twenty

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three and Marshall Joe Mack. He contacts the Louisiana AG's

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office after allegations are brought to his attention regarding charity

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event a car show held by Ricky Foster's nonprofit Dads

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of Denim two point zero, and it was supposedly going

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to contribute the car show proceeds to the mega charity,

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Saint Jude, and Joe Mack was made aware that no

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money was ever sent to Saint Jude allegedly, and he

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reports the information as he should, to the proper investigative channels. Now,

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the AG's office has an investigative arm, and this investigative

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arm is known as LBI, which stands for the Louisiana

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Bureau of Investigation. And two investigators they're assigned to review

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these allegations, and they are agents. Timothy Moe's an agent,

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Danny McAllister. So, so talk about a freaking small world.

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One of those agents, Tim Moey's, we go way back.

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We go back to high school together. We have known

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each other for like thirty five years. Tim Mowies was

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actually one of the guys that stood in my wedding. Now,

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I had no idea or knowledge he was involved in

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any case involving Ricky Foster until I came across this

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investigative report.

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But I was shocked.

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I was like wow, what a small world. That's my boy, Tim.

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So moving on the two investigators that interview several people.

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They speak with Brandon Browning from episode one, I told

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you about his story, and Brandon tells them the same

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story I told you in episode one regarding Ricky offering

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this three hundred thousand dollars job to Brandon that never existed.

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And they also speak with his ex wife, who advised

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she knew about the car show vaguely, but she had

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no idea of the proceeds. They were already divorced during

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this time. So I'm going to cover the rest of

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this verbatim because it's really important that you hear the us. So,

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going through the report, they talked to William Foster Senior.

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On October twenty third, at approximately nine to fifteen, Agents

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Moise and McAllister contacted William Foster Senior by phone. Agent's

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advice William the reason for the call and further explained

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to William they received information that he planned and coordinated

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with the Saint Jude car show. William denied that he

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had coordinated the aforementioned car show and referred agents to

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Wesley LeBlanc. William said that Wesley oversaw the car show event,

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and incidentally, y'all, Wesley was Ricky's business partner when he

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bought that trucking dealership in Florida, so it goes on

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to say. William also stated he and Wesley were both

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currently attending the Cruising on the Coast car show in Biloxi.

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When agents asked about Ricky's involvement with the Saint Jude

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Carr show, William became non cooperative and belligerent, accusing agents

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of harassment. William further stated agents could speak with his

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attorney over the matter, at which time he abruptly ended

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the phone call. On October twenty seventh, twenty twenty three,

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agent Moise and McAllister contacted William by phone and scheduled

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an in person with William for Monday, October thirtieth, twenty

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twenty three at the office. William stated he was using

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Wesley LeBlanc's attorney, Tommy, who practices law out of North Carolina,

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so to get that statement, and they reach out to

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Wesley LeBlanc. On October ninth of twenty twenty three, at

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approximately nine o'clock, Moise and McAllister contacted LeBlanc by telephone

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and provided him with the agent's contact information. LeBlanc provided

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agents with his current address in Florida, and agents further

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explained to LeBlanc they received information that he had planned

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and coordinated the car show in Denim Springs. Leblac provided

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the following information.

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Listen to this.

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LeBlanc denied he coordinated the car show and had no

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knowledge of the event taking place. Leblah further advised he

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was never at cruising on the coast with William Foster

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Senior or anyone else in October of twenty twenty three,

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despite William's claim to agents in the phone interview that

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they were together. Leblac also stated he never met William

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in person or spoke with him on the phone. During

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the conversation with LeBlanc, he advised that he met Ricky

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through his first cousin, and I'm not going to say

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her name because that's his ex wife and she doesn't

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need to be mentioned here. Agents later verified information provided

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by William was not correct. According to William, LeBlanc and

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Wesley stated he doesn't know anyone by the name of Tommy,

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nor has he referred an attorney. So you got William

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Foster Senior saying one thing and Wesley LeBlanc saying something

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completely different. And here's a good investigation tip for you.

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The truth never changes. Someone's lying here. The agents do

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get an in person interview with William Foster Senior and

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that occurred on October thirty first of twenty twenty three.

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They interview him at the LBI Baton Ridge office and

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Agent Moise explained the purpose of the interview and he

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provided the agent's contact information. William provided the agents with

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his current address and the following information. He said that

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he and Ricky Foster Junior hosted a car show on

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June third of twenty twenty three. William said their investor,

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Wesley LeBlanc, was supposed to give money to the Saint

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Jude Hospital for tax purposes.

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Now remember they've already.

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Spoke to Wesley and he said I didn't know anything

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about this. William stated that he and Ricky were assisted

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by family members during the car show. William said the

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car show included free emission with free giveaways. These items

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included t shirts, bottled water, free food, free trophies. There

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were donation buckets set up throughout the event, and William

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said they only had thirty five cars at the show

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and earned around three thousand dollars in donations, which paid

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for their expenses.

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As a matter of.

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Fact, he said that he and Ricky had to pay

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one hundred and fifty dollars out of pocket for expenses

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to make an undisclosed donation to Saint Jude by the

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end of the year. When asked again, William did have

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met Leslee Leblone did not have any affiliation with the

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car show, in contradiction of what he first reported to

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the agents in a previous interview. So he just got

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caught lion right there period. It's in the paperwork. And

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then we get to Ricky Foster Junior, who they finally

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got to speak to on the same day, and Ricky

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stated that he and William Foster Senior hosted a car show.

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Ricky stated he and William were assisted by family members.

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He went through that the car show was free admission

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and everything at the car show was free, basically coroborating

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everything that William Foster said. However, Ricky said they only

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had thirty five five cars of the show. It earned

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approximately two thousand dollars in donations, so there are one

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thousand dollars off of each other on how much money

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was taken in that's very weird. He said that that

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paid for expenses, and he did say that they had

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to come out of pocket one hundred and fifty dollars

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themselves for expenses. He denied, ever, stating that he made

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sixty thousand dollars from the car show. Now, apparently there

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had been some rumor or he had told somebody he

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made sixty thousand dollars from that show. Now he's saying

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he made two thousand dollars from that show. Ricky said

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he was part owner of TSI Trucking Service with Wesley LeBlanc,

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located in Florida. He said he and Wesley filed bankruptcy

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on that trucking company. Ricky said he lost his job

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with the company in his marriage of eighteen years. He

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said his intentions, where do you use the car show

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for tax purposes? And for a loss of fifty five

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thousand dollars that he sustained from the trucking com company

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while closing the business, he said he had never donated

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to Saint Jude Hospital. Then it gets into the conclusion.

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It says agents Moise and Mcalliser were assigned to review

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the case. Referred from Denim Springs Marshall Joe Shuemate Agents

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reviewed the case for possible criminal wrong doing and misappropriation

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of funds. The investigation revealed Ricky Foster Junior and William

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Foster Senior planned and coordinated the fundraiser. According to Ricky,

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he claims the car show earned approximately two thousand dollars. However,

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William claims the car show earnings were proximately three thousand dollars.

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Truth never changes. Both Ricky and Williams stated they had

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to pay approximately one hundred and fifty dollars out of

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pocket in addition to help pay the expenses. Both Ricky

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and William advised the car show was held for tax

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deduttion purposes. Agents believe it's not possible to prove Ricky

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or William defrauded Saint Jude of any money collected that

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day held at the Saint Jude Car Show. From interviews

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with Ricky Junior and Williams Senior, it was learned that

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two to three thousand dollars was collected. Both men reported

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the cost of the event exceeded the donations collected and

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agents could not verify or discredit the claims made by

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them Therefore, the allegations reporting the complaint by Shoemate were

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unsubstantiated through investigation and failed to provide proof of a

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violation of Louisiana law. So to kind of break that

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down for you, two issues affected the case. First, when

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you're a charity like Saint Jude, you don't want this

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stuff getting out in public because it makes people really

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apprehensive to donate because they're not one hundred percent sure

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of the money's gonna go where they want it to go.

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It makes people question whether that money is actually going

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where it's supposed to go. And second, there was no

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evidence one way or the other that the car show

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did in fact turn a profit. Now, remember in a

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Few Good Men when Tom Cruise says the quote, it

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doesn't matter what I know, It only matters what I

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can prove. Unquote, there was no evidence of the money

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that the car show made, and Ricky telling someone who

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made sixty grand he could have for sure made that.

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But then again, this guy's track record for telling the

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truth is pretty much zero. So there just was not

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anything there doesn't mean just means they didn't have the

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evidence to pursue it.

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Now that being.

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Said, if he were guilty of all this, And I

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have no direct knowledge one way or the other. But man,

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if you're guilty of this defrauding a charity like Saint

481
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Jude where the money goes to kids, children, babies with cancer,

482
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to me, that is about the lowest you can possibly go.

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In life, bar none.

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You are a disgusting human being if that is in

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fact true. And in this guy's case, knowing what I

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00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:07.240
know now, one thing I can say is that shear

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in the hell would not surprise me period. So shortly

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after this, the Dads of Denham two point zero also

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ceases to exist, and the last I heard of Ricky

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00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:21.240
was that he left and went to Florida and bought

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an eighteen wheeler dealership. That is until the Devilwar's Dunks

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documentary came out, and that documentary uncovered a lot of allegations,

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not only a fraud involving so many people you can't imagine.

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Among the allegations that were brought in this documentary, Ricky's

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00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:44.319
ex girlfriend, who was only twenty one years old, would

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make claims Ricky defrauded her of sixty thousand dollars, would

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00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:51.480
lock her in a house in an effort to control her,

498
00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:53.640
and to give you an idea of how sick this

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00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:57.400
guy is. He would want her to role play with him,

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allegedly during sex that he was her dad, fully knowing

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00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:09.480
this young lady's dad had died years earlier. He also

502
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asked this ex girlfriend if she had ever had any

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fantasies of hold on to your hats here sleeping with

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00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:21.000
his son. And that is the second time he had

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00:30:21.079 --> 00:30:24.839
brought that up to someone he was dating, allegedly that

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we are aware of now, years prior to even his marriage.

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Way back in two thousand and five, an ex girlfriend,

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she claimed he not only stole checks from his own

509
00:30:36.599 --> 00:30:40.279
parents and would cash them and forge their names, but

510
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he would also steal credit card checks from her, forge

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her name, and then give this he would deposit the

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checks back into her account to make it look like

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he was helping her with her bills. So he'd write

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a thousand dollars check, forge her name to it, and

515
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deposit in her account and say, hey, I took care.

516
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Of you today.

517
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I put one thousand dollars in your account to take

518
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care of your shit. What kind of twisted individual does that, y'all?

519
00:31:10.920 --> 00:31:13.799
But what may be worse than even all of that

520
00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:18.440
were that there were allegations Ricky and his now wife,

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00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:23.039
who he just married, y'all, within the time this documentary

522
00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:28.319
came out, Which that's important because in Louisiana law, there's

523
00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:32.480
a law that states a wife cannot be compelled or

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00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:37.039
forced to testify against a husband, and vice versa. There

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00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:41.920
were allegations that is now wife himself, and his now stepdaughter,

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who at this point is barely an adult. They're in

527
00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:50.559
a three way relationship. Now, keep in mind, both his

528
00:31:50.799 --> 00:31:55.359
now wife and stepdaughter are defending Ricky. They're going to

529
00:31:55.480 --> 00:32:00.640
bat for this dude, denying this shit, but both and

530
00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:03.000
I can say her name now because she's been arrested.

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She's the wife and her daughter. During a phone call

532
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:10.400
with the boys at Echo, they go nuclear on the

533
00:32:10.400 --> 00:32:14.480
insinuation that Ricky was even around Melissa's daughter before the

534
00:32:14.519 --> 00:32:18.720
age of seventeen. And they keep bringing up before the

535
00:32:18.759 --> 00:32:22.240
age of seventeen so many times as a matter of fact,

536
00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:27.279
you can kind of ascertain it was intentional. Never during

537
00:32:27.319 --> 00:32:31.480
the conversation that I heard, did the daughter deny sleeping

538
00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:35.359
with Ricky. She just denied being around him prior to

539
00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:38.920
the age of seventeen. And what's the consent age in

540
00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:44.880
Louisiana seventeen. At this point she's nineteen. Of course, all

541
00:32:44.920 --> 00:32:49.279
of this attention on this documentary, especially in Livingston Parish,

542
00:32:49.480 --> 00:32:53.359
that leads to Ricky Foster gaining the attention of the

543
00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:58.359
Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office and a detective with a knack

544
00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:02.720
for solving just these kinds of crimes. And his name

545
00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:07.440
is Calvin Bowden, who I not only know very well,

546
00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:10.279
but I just refer to as Captain Calvin. Now, let

547
00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:12.759
me tell you a little bit about Captain Calvin. This

548
00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:15.640
is not the type of guy you want on your

549
00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:19.880
ass if you're messing with young girls. Captain Calvin has

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00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:23.359
been with the Sheriff's Office for twenty eight years. He

551
00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:27.759
is the head of the Sheriff's Office IKAC division that's

552
00:33:27.880 --> 00:33:31.920
Internet Crimes against Children. So he is a bonafide expert

553
00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:36.359
in crimes against children. He knows exactly how to spot grooming,

554
00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:40.039
he knows exactly how these sick minds think, and he

555
00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:44.960
knows exactly how to investigate these crimes. Now, as far

556
00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:49.720
as the daughter being potentially seventeen and not sixteen when

557
00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:56.839
the relationship took place, Louisiana, surprisingly to some maybe has

558
00:33:56.880 --> 00:34:01.799
a recent law to aid in the grooming aspect of

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00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:06.640
these crimes. It's known as Louisiana's grooming law and it's

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Louisiana Revised Statue fourteen eighty one seven, and it reads,

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00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:16.880
a person commits the crime of child grooming by taking

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00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:21.599
any action to persuade, induce, entice, seduce, or coerce a

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00:34:21.719 --> 00:34:24.960
child under the age of seventeen years old when there's

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00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:28.920
an age difference greater than two years between the offender

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00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:32.440
and the child, to engage in any conduct intended to

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00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:37.480
facilitate the offender committing a lewde and lascivious act upon

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00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:40.719
that child in the child's presence or in the presence

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00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:43.920
of another child under the age of seventeen. It also

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goes on to say, a person who commits the crime

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00:34:46.199 --> 00:34:48.920
of child grooming shall be in prison with or without

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00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:52.400
hard labor, not more than five years. A person over

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00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:55.360
the age of seventeen who commits the crime of child

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00:34:55.400 --> 00:34:59.199
grooming with the juvenile who is less than thirteen shall

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00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:02.159
be in prison for not less than two years nor

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00:35:02.280 --> 00:35:07.079
more than twenty five years. So it doesn't matter if

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00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:10.400
you were actually having sex with that child. If you

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00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:14.920
were trying to persuade coerce them by them gifts in

578
00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:18.960
the hopes that it would lead to a sexual relationship

579
00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:21.800
when they turn seventeen. You're in a lot of trouble

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00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:25.559
in the state of Louisiana. You'd do five years just

581
00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:28.559
for that. So at this point, just because you may

582
00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:30.840
not have had sex with a sixteen year old, if

583
00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:33.480
it can be proved that you were grooming them for

584
00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:37.480
that reason, you can be prosecuted criminally in the state

585
00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:41.480
of Louisiana. And make no mistake about it. This young lady,

586
00:35:41.840 --> 00:35:46.400
she's a victim, plain and simple, a victim. And one

587
00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:51.199
thing about LPSO Sheriff Jason or Captain Calvin Bowden, They're

588
00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:55.039
gonna get justice for a lot of people in this

589
00:35:55.239 --> 00:35:58.920
case in the end. So on April first of twenty

590
00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:02.440
twenty six, Ricky Foster, who is forty six years old

591
00:36:02.519 --> 00:36:06.159
at this point, he gets arrested on ten counts of

592
00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:10.519
third degree rape, ten counts of extortion, and four counts

593
00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:15.000
of sexual battery. The victim in these charges reported Ricky

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00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:20.199
took out loans in her name totaling some seventy thousand dollars,

595
00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:23.239
and would force her to have sex with him. Under

596
00:36:23.239 --> 00:36:26.880
the threat that he would not pay back these loans.

597
00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:31.320
These allegations took place in twenty twenty three, so we

598
00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:34.920
know the victim is not related with the whole mother

599
00:36:35.079 --> 00:36:39.480
daughter thruple situation. It's definitely a different victim.

600
00:36:39.559 --> 00:36:39.840
Now.

601
00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:42.760
His bond in this case was set at eight hundred

602
00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:46.280
and fifty thousand dollars, which he could not pay, and

603
00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:51.239
he remains in jail. Then, twenty nine days later, April

604
00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:57.960
twenty ninth, boom More investigation leads to more charges when

605
00:36:58.079 --> 00:37:02.719
Ricky gets charged with in trafficking and crimes against nature,

606
00:37:03.159 --> 00:37:08.400
which I believe is directly related to his wife and stepdaughter.

607
00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:11.400
How could I come to that conclusion. Well, the same

608
00:37:11.480 --> 00:37:16.400
day his now wife, Melissa Luke was also arrested for

609
00:37:16.599 --> 00:37:21.480
crimes against nature, which, for those unaware, in addition to

610
00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:28.119
some other things, is an incest charge. Freaking disgusting. That's

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00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:30.039
all I have to say, and that is where we

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stand as of today. Of course, any public developments I'll

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keep you posted. Shout out again to the boys at

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Echo for the hard work they did in seeing this

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arrest through. Shout out to all of you for listening,

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next time for exposed scandalous files of the elite. I'm

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your host, Jim Chapman, much love. In The Winner of

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nineteen fifty three, in a quiet, working class apartment across

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from a synagogue in Seagate, Brooklyn, a boy named Jeffrey

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00:38:43.039 --> 00:38:54.800
Epstein took his first breath. He was the son of

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a city parks gardener and a homemaker, a freckled piano

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playing math part who skip grades, tutored classmates for pocket change,

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and dreamed of wealth while riding his bike along the

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00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:11.440
Coney Island boardwalk. But that boy would grow into one

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of the most powerful, most connected, and most controversial figures

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00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:19.960
of the modern age. This is not a story that

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ends where most people think it begins. This is the

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complete journey, every chapter, every detail, every unanswered question, from

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00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:32.880
the tree lined streets of a gated Brooklyn enclave to

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the glittering boardrooms of Wall Street, from elite private schools

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to private islands, from handwritten black books filled with the

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world's most influential names, to federal courtrooms in a Manhattan

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00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:53.480
jail cell that still fuels debate today. Come with me

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as I walk you through Jeffrey Epstein's childhood summers on

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00:39:57.559 --> 00:40:01.400
the private beach, through his accelerated high school years, through

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00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:05.079
his early days at Cooper Union in NYU. I will

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00:40:05.119 --> 00:40:09.039
trace the mysterious financial empire he built with almost no

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formal credentials. You will listen to the voices of survivors

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00:40:14.119 --> 00:40:18.760
as I examined the investigations, the sweetheart deals, the enablers,

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the protectors, and the power structures that allowed all of.

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It to happen.

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No speculation without evidence, no conspiracy without documentation, just the facts,

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the records, the testimonies, and the context that history demands.

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Over the course of this series, I will release meticulously

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researched episodes that take you deeper than any headline ever could.

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Each one built on court documents, financial filings, class mate recollections,

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investigative reporting, in the first hand accounts that have emerged

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over decades. This is the story of how ordinary ambition

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can twist into something extraordinary, and how power, once accumulated,

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can shield even the darkest secrets. So, if you're here

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because you want the full picture, the boy, the man,

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the empire, the fall, and everything left in the ruins,

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you're in the right place. Welcome to Exposed Investigates. Jeffrey

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Epstein