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

0:19 Hey everyone, and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Vials of the Elite. I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and today I am bringing you part two of the series, Sneakers to Shackles. Now. Throughout part one of this series, I covered the investigation done by the Boys of Echo as it relates to Ricky Foster, and I wanted to be sure with that episode that I gave them their flowers, if you will, for the hard work that they put in bringing this story to the public and following through to the point that a rest were made and people were being held accountable. So going forward, I'm going to touch on some things that they uncovered, because you can't tell the full story without that information. But it was also my goal with this series to answer some of the questions the viewers of the Devilwares Dunks series had when they watched the show.

1:16 For example, in episode one, I spent a good bit of time on that episode trying to give you an idea of who Jeremy Green was down here. In the Bayou. Most people had no idea who he was. Moreover, most people who watched the documentary from here in Louisiana really didn't have any idea what sneaker culture was. If you're not in that sneaker culture, you're not gonna understand it unless someone explains it to you. So I tried to do just that, just fill in some of the gaps for people who were not familiar with Echo, Jeremy Green or sneaker culture and explain how they crossed paths with Ricky Foster. So from here on out, you're gonna hear my personal perspective on this case. So let's get into it, and I'm going to start out by covering where Ricky Foster's name surfaced right here in Denham Springs, and that is by being one of the founders of a group called Dads of Denim. Now, if there's one thing that we know how to do here in South Louisiana, it's tailgate.

2:19 Go to Tiger Stadium on any. Given Saturday when the Tigers are playing at home, and you will totally get what I'm saying here. It's an atmosphere, in my opinion, like no other food, music, and one hundred thousand of your best friends in that atmosphere transfers to baseball as well. And if you have ever been to Omaha, when LSU was in the College World Series. You get it. No one can tailgate like the LSU Tiger fans. Now, some high schools they have a similar atmosphere, and Denham Springs High School probably lack that. And that's no slot.

3:00 I'm a Yellowjacket through and through. My wife graduated from Denim Springs High School. All three of my kids graduated from Denham Springs High School. It just is what it is. It's something that maybe kind of lacked there. So it was in twenty twenty one that personally I took notice of something, and that was a group of guys with a heck of a setup at Denham Springs High School. During these games, they had a really nice trailer, blairing music, some really good pastilia, and they were just giving that stuff away for free. All were wearing t shirts that, in one way or another said Dad's of Denim, and I was honestly intrigued.

3:41 They seemed to. Be having a good time. All of them appeared to be about my age. I walked up to one of them, not named Ricky Foster, and me and this guy started talking about what it was they were doing, and it all sounded good to me. They were just kind of drumming up awareness for dad's supporwarding their sons and their daughters and just being family oriented atmosphere right there at the football game. Now, there were eight guys in the Dads of Dedham group, at least to the point that I became familiar with them, and Ricky was right where he wanted to be. He was the face of that. Group, so much so that the logo was Ricky complete with a backwards hat. But the group itself, they had a really good mission. They wanted to encourage support between fathers and sons and fathers and daughters and all that sort of thing, and they wanted to make it a fun atmosphere at Yellowjacket Stadium. And it is important that people do not conflate any of these guys from this group with Ricky Foster and what he has done or alleged.

4:53 To have done. These were good guys. Ricky just ended up being the bad apple that spoiled the bunch. So initially my interaction with Ricky was pretty limited. You ever get a vibe off someone, just something that you can't explain, you can't really put your thumb on it, but a feeling is there that something's not right. That was kind of the vibe that I got off Ricky. First of all, anyone passed forty that wears their hat backwards. I mean, honestly, the word toolbag comes to mind instantly for me. That's something you know kids do, And that's just my opinion. Hey, if you're over forty and you wear your hat backwards, all good, bro. I'm just saying I think it's weird.

5:40 But aside from all that, it was the things he would say or do when we would interact that kind of caught my attention. For example, at one point I found out Ricky worked for a very well known car dealer in the Baton Rouge area as a finance manager. Well, I had some experience with that way back in the day. As a matter of fact, this is way back in the late nineties, before I started what would become my career of twenty three years. Prior to getting into podcasting, I had also been a finance manager for a large dealership. So I asked Ricky about it because at one point I had actually worked at the same dealership though twenty five years prior. Well, Ricky quickly changed the subject unless as sin as I brought it up. I didn't push it, but I noticed it, and it made me think instantly something was definitely going on with his job.

6:41 Now. I would hear later and it would be put out later that he was actually renting cars to people, allegedly renting cars to people while he was at that job for cash, and he was using what we called the learner vehicles or the vehicles that the salespeople would get his demos. He was actually running those and keeping the cash. That was the allegations. I have no direct knowledge one way or the other. On another occasion, I asked Ricky about the Dads of Denim and if they allowed anyone to join, if there was a cost to join the tailgate. Et cetera.

7:21 And he said, well, we just keep this a tight knit group. We don't really. Open it up to other people. And that was something I found really strange. The group was actively promoting that they were helping the community, etc. And yet they were not opening this up to having extra help, more hands on deck, maybe even a little more money to use to help, you know, all these charities and things that they were doing. In hindsight, I can see now that it's likely Ricky new, the less people involved, the less chance he would have a people discovering he was completely fullish and that he was scamming his own friends, scamming the public, and was a total fraud allegibly. Now, Ricky would work hard to maintain a persona of a person.

8:12 Of wealth, if you will. His setup from the cooking pots he used, to the generators, to the sound system, to the cars he drove, and of course his shoes were all top notch. He would walk. Around with kind of an entourage of sort, and he would even flaunt some friends that I had heard he would later scam. I distinctly remember one game in particular where such a friend was with him. It was a guy very well known in the Baton Rouge area as Tebow the Firecracker now Tbo, in my opinion, is no joke. Y'all would not know this, but if you search through my playlist on Spotify, you'll see a lot of every type of music you can imagine. One of my first loves was rip music. I've been a fan of it my entire life. I can still remember when I first heard easy E way back in nineteen eighty seven at a track meet. I remember it distinctly. That's how far back I go in that genre. And I've actually been a fan of t Bows since way back in the day when he signed with Master P and No Limit Records.

9:28 So he shows up at a football game and Tbo's with him, and I thought, Man, this guy he must be legit. He knows some big players in the area, and he's parading t bow around like it was his trophy during this game. I mean it was obvious for Ricky was like, hey, look at me, y'all. I got those connects if you will. But there was no denying, at least from appearances, Old Ricky was covering all his bases. Dad's a dentim. They kind of started appearing everywhere in the newspaper, at charity events, and even on podcast, including my own local leaders. I wanted to promote groups like Dads of Denim through the podcast who from all appearances, they were doing great things for the community, and truth be told, I personally didn't care for Ricky all that much.

10:23 I still got that vibe out of him. But there was another member of that group I'm not gonna mention the name of, and I liked that guy a lot, and I had a lot in common with that guy, So honestly, we spent pretty much the entire episode poking fun at Ricky mainly. But I'll tell you this, when all this came out with Ricky Foster, I was so embarrassed that he was actually on my show that I deleted on a whim. I deleted that podcast, and now I almost wish I didn't, because it would be interesting for y'all to be able to see how much he could change and be this completely different individual behind a camera than what he's alleged to be.

11:09 Now. So eventually, the Dads of Denim they disbanded, and I still somewhat recall the final posts that they put out on Facebook, where it read something like, and I'm paraphrasing here, but basically, after much thought, we have decided to disband the group. Thanks for the memories some shit like that, and then boom they were gone. And I knew upon reading that almost instantly, Oh, there is much more to that story. Jim. Did you see what happened in Texas today? Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you what happened in New York.

11:50 It cannot be as crazy as the case I told you about. Yesterday in Louisiana. You know what, we should do a podcast about it. And with that we did. Crime War Weekly covers the crime news headlines that have dominated the week. We cover trending crimes from all over the country and even sprinkle in a few globally. Crime War Weekly is available now wherever you listen to your podcasts. Simply by searching Crime War Weekly or clicking the link in the description of this podcast. Now. Later members who would choose to remain anonymous, would tell several stories on how they discovered Ricky was a fraud and that he was bringing all of their names down.

12:35 One story that was told was the dads of Denim. Look, they would cook enough pastali to feed say three hundred people or more, and each game they had a deal with each other. From what I understand, that a member would pay for the ingredients to make all this food. So I'm just gonna make it easy math here. If there were eight home games and there's eight members of that group, one person. Would pay for each game. This person would give Ricky the money and he would buy the ingredients and they would get to cook it. The problem was, allegedly Rericky was running a scam on his own people. He would get the money, and then he would go to the grocery store and he would convince a local grocery store to donate all the ingredients, and then he would just pocket the money as if he paid for all of this food, stealing from his own friends and never batting a freaking eye. That ought to tell you a lot right there. In another instance, according to a member, Ricky had told everyone there was a wealthy older lady she wanted to donate twenty five thousand dollars to buy a new sound system for Denim Springs High School's football stadium. And he tells the guys, look, start calling around getting quotes and all those sorts of things so we can get this lined up. He reaches out to the media and he tells him, Hey, we're going to donate through this wealthy lady, twenty five thousand

14:08 dollars for this new sound system. It was a big deal. They had like a giant check ready to go, and they did photo ops and the media was there, and these guys go through all this, meaning the other guys that the dad's had Denim to get quotes, et cetera. And in the end all a big lie. There was no twenty five thousand dollars, there was no wealthy older lady, and there was no sound system. And that's what. Made Ricky really dangerous. He would lie just for the sake of line. So these guys eventually they figure it out and they're like, we gotta get out of here. We got to get away from this guy. We want nothing to do with this guy in the group disbands and Ricky goes dark for a little while, but it's not long before he's back and he's got a brand new Facebook post, and on that post he announces the formation of a nonprofit group called Dads of Denham two point zero, where he's gonna hold course shows and other events to serve as a charity donation arm if you will. Now, in between all this, at some point, Ricky decides he's gonna get into the restaurant business, and he sets his sight on a restaurant in Denham Springs called James Grill. Now, if you're not from here, I got listeners from all over the world. James Grill is a staple of this community.

15:35 It's been around forever. I don't know exactly how long, but I would say at least fifty years. And the owner of this grill is a very popular local city marshal by the name of Joe Shoemate. And we all called Joe Shoemate Joe Mack, great guy, but no nonsense, and has been in law enforcement forever, and that's important to this story. This restaurant all and so has been in his family forever. And Ricky approaches Joe Mack at some point and he basically says, hey, look, I want to buy this restaurant, and I want to know how much you would sell it to me for. And Joe Mack basically says, here's my price if you want it, and not a penny less, no negotiation here. If you want to buy it, this is what it's going to cost you. Ricky says, no problem, because you know Ricky's rich, right, He says, I'll take that deal. And this thing goes all the way to the closing, and Ricky's got just one problem.

16:33 He ain't got the money. He took things all the way to the closing and had no freaking money and knew he didn't have the money. And of course Ricky, he's full of excuses. He gives Joe Mack a ton of them. He tries to buy time, basically, and Joe says, look, I'm gonna give you one more shot at this thing, but you better not be screwing me around on this deal. But in the end, that's exactly what Ricky was doing. He was just screwing Joe Mack around for all intents and purposes. And there was no money and the restaurant obviously never changed hands. Now this says a lot about Ricky in this point in his life because he's taking a lot of risk. It's one thing to screw over the dad's a denim and other guys who are regular guys.

17:26 In the community. It's another thing to screw over a longtime law enforcement individual who is currently the city Marshall named Joe Matt and Joe Mack don't forget, and he didn't, and it was just a matter of time before Ricky would screw up enough that he would land on Joe Mack's radar once again. So let's go to December of twenty twenty three and Marshall Joe Mack. He contacts the Louisiana AG's office after allegations are brought to his attention regarding charity event a car show held by Ricky Foster's nonprofit Dads of Denim two point zero, and it was supposedly going to contribute the car show proceeds to the mega charity, Saint Jude, and Joe Mack was made aware that no money was ever sent to Saint Jude allegedly, and he reports the information as he should, to the proper investigative channels. Now, the AG's office has an investigative arm, and this investigative arm is known as LBI, which stands for the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation. And two investigators they're assigned to review these allegations, and they are agents. Timothy Moe's an agent, Danny McAllister. So, so talk about a freaking small world.

18:53 One of those agents, Tim Moey's, we go way back. We go back to high school together. We have known each other for like thirty five years. Tim Mowies was actually one of the guys that stood in my wedding. Now, I had no idea or knowledge he was involved in any case involving Ricky Foster until I came across this investigative report. But I was shocked. I was like wow, what a small world. That's my boy, Tim. So moving on the two investigators that interview several people. They speak with Brandon Browning from episode one, I told you about his story, and Brandon tells them the same story I told you in episode one regarding Ricky offering this three hundred thousand dollars job to Brandon that never existed.

19:43 And they also speak with his ex wife, who advised she knew about the car show vaguely, but she had no idea of the proceeds. They were already divorced during this time. So I'm going to cover the rest of this verbatim because it's really important that you hear the us. So, going through the report, they talked to William Foster Senior. On October twenty third, at approximately nine to fifteen, Agents Moise and McAllister contacted William Foster Senior by phone. Agent's advice William the reason for the call and further explained to William they received information that he planned and coordinated with the Saint Jude car show. William denied that he had coordinated the aforementioned car show and referred agents to Wesley LeBlanc. William said that Wesley oversaw the car show event, and incidentally, y'all, Wesley was Ricky's business partner when he bought that trucking dealership in Florida, so it goes on to say. William also stated he and Wesley were both currently attending the Cruising on the Coast car show in Biloxi.

20:48 When agents asked about Ricky's involvement with the Saint Jude Carr show, William became non cooperative and belligerent, accusing agents of harassment. William further stated agents could speak with his attorney over the matter, at which time he abruptly ended the phone call. On October twenty seventh, twenty twenty three, agent Moise and McAllister contacted William by phone and scheduled an in person with William for Monday, October thirtieth, twenty twenty three at the office. William stated he was using Wesley LeBlanc's attorney, Tommy, who practices law out of North Carolina, so to get that statement, and they reach out to Wesley LeBlanc. On October ninth of twenty twenty three, at approximately nine o'clock, Moise and McAllister contacted LeBlanc by telephone and provided him with the agent's contact information. LeBlanc provided agents with his current address in Florida, and agents further explained to LeBlanc they received information that he had planned and coordinated the car show in Denim Springs. Leblac provided the following information.

21:56 Listen to this. LeBlanc denied he coordinated the car show and had no knowledge of the event taking place. Leblah further advised he was never at cruising on the coast with William Foster Senior or anyone else in October of twenty twenty three, despite William's claim to agents in the phone interview that they were together. Leblac also stated he never met William in person or spoke with him on the phone. During the conversation with LeBlanc, he advised that he met Ricky through his first cousin, and I'm not going to say her name because that's his ex wife and she doesn't need to be mentioned here. Agents later verified information provided by William was not correct. According to William, LeBlanc and Wesley stated he doesn't know anyone by the name of Tommy, nor has he referred an attorney. So you got William Foster Senior saying one thing and Wesley LeBlanc saying something completely different. And here's a good investigation tip for you.

22:56 The truth never changes. Someone's lying here. The agents do get an in person interview with William Foster Senior and that occurred on October thirty first of twenty twenty three. They interview him at the LBI Baton Ridge office and Agent Moise explained the purpose of the interview and he provided the agent's contact information. William provided the agents with his current address and the following information. He said that he and Ricky Foster Junior hosted a car show on June third of twenty twenty three. William said their investor, Wesley LeBlanc, was supposed to give money to the Saint Jude Hospital for tax purposes.

23:36 Now remember they've already. Spoke to Wesley and he said I didn't know anything about this. William stated that he and Ricky were assisted by family members during the car show. William said the car show included free emission with free giveaways. These items included t shirts, bottled water, free food, free trophies. There were donation buckets set up throughout the event, and William said they only had thirty five cars at the show and earned around three thousand dollars in donations, which paid for their expenses. As a matter of. Fact, he said that he and Ricky had to pay one hundred and fifty dollars out of pocket for expenses to make an undisclosed donation to Saint Jude by the end of the year. When asked again, William did have met Leslee Leblone did not have any affiliation with the car show, in contradiction of what he first reported to the agents in a previous interview. So he just got caught lion right there period. It's in the paperwork. And then we get to Ricky Foster Junior, who they finally got to speak to on the same day, and Ricky stated that he and William Foster Senior hosted a car show.

24:44 Ricky stated he and William were assisted by family members. He went through that the car show was free admission and everything at the car show was free, basically coroborating everything that William Foster said. However, Ricky said they only had thirty five five cars of the show. It earned approximately two thousand dollars in donations, so there are one thousand dollars off of each other on how much money was taken in that's very weird. He said that that paid for expenses, and he did say that they had to come out of pocket one hundred and fifty dollars themselves for expenses. He denied, ever, stating that he made sixty thousand dollars from the car show. Now, apparently there had been some rumor or he had told somebody he made sixty thousand dollars from that show. Now he's saying he made two thousand dollars from that show. Ricky said he was part owner of TSI Trucking Service with Wesley LeBlanc, located in Florida. He said he and Wesley filed bankruptcy on that trucking company. Ricky said he lost his job with the company in his marriage of eighteen years. He said his intentions, where do you use the car show for tax purposes? And for a loss of fifty five thousand dollars that he sustained from the trucking com company while closing the business, he said he had never donated to Saint Jude Hospital. Then it gets into the conclusion.

26:07 It says agents Moise and Mcalliser were assigned to review the case. Referred from Denim Springs Marshall Joe Shuemate Agents reviewed the case for possible criminal wrong doing and misappropriation of funds. The investigation revealed Ricky Foster Junior and William Foster Senior planned and coordinated the fundraiser. According to Ricky, he claims the car show earned approximately two thousand dollars. However, William claims the car show earnings were proximately three thousand dollars. Truth never changes. Both Ricky and Williams stated they had to pay approximately one hundred and fifty dollars out of pocket in addition to help pay the expenses. Both Ricky and William advised the car show was held for tax deduttion purposes. Agents believe it's not possible to prove Ricky or William defrauded Saint Jude of any money collected that day held at the Saint Jude Car Show. From interviews with Ricky Junior and Williams Senior, it was learned that two to three thousand dollars was collected. Both men reported the cost of the event exceeded the donations collected and agents could not verify or discredit the claims made by them Therefore, the allegations reporting the complaint by Shoemate were unsubstantiated through investigation and failed to provide proof of a violation of Louisiana law. So to kind of break that down for you, two issues affected the case. First, when you're a charity like Saint Jude, you don't want this stuff getting out in public because it makes people really

27:38 apprehensive to donate because they're not one hundred percent sure of the money's gonna go where they want it to go. It makes people question whether that money is actually going where it's supposed to go. And second, there was no evidence one way or the other that the car show did in fact turn a profit. Now, remember in a Few Good Men when Tom Cruise says the quote, it doesn't matter what I know, It only matters what I can prove. Unquote, there was no evidence of the money that the car show made, and Ricky telling someone who made sixty grand he could have for sure made that. But then again, this guy's track record for telling the truth is pretty much zero. So there just was not anything there doesn't mean just means they didn't have the evidence to pursue it.

28:30 Now that being. Said, if he were guilty of all this, And I have no direct knowledge one way or the other. But man, if you're guilty of this defrauding a charity like Saint Jude where the money goes to kids, children, babies with cancer, to me, that is about the lowest you can possibly go. In life, bar none. You are a disgusting human being if that is in fact true. And in this guy's case, knowing what I know now, one thing I can say is that shear in the hell would not surprise me period. So shortly after this, the Dads of Denham two point zero also ceases to exist, and the last I heard of Ricky was that he left and went to Florida and bought an eighteen wheeler dealership. That is until the Devilwar's Dunks documentary came out, and that documentary uncovered a lot of allegations, not only a fraud involving so many people you can't imagine.

29:36 Among the allegations that were brought in this documentary, Ricky's ex girlfriend, who was only twenty one years old, would make claims Ricky defrauded her of sixty thousand dollars, would lock her in a house in an effort to control her, and to give you an idea of how sick this guy is. He would want her to role play with him, allegedly during sex that he was her dad, fully knowing this young lady's dad had died years earlier. He also asked this ex girlfriend if she had ever had any fantasies of hold on to your hats here sleeping with his son. And that is the second time he had brought that up to someone he was dating, allegedly that we are aware of now, years prior to even his marriage.

30:29 Way back in two thousand and five, an ex girlfriend, she claimed he not only stole checks from his own parents and would cash them and forge their names, but he would also steal credit card checks from her, forge her name, and then give this he would deposit the checks back into her account to make it look like he was helping her with her bills. So he'd write a thousand dollars check, forge her name to it, and deposit in her account and say, hey, I took care. Of you today. I put one thousand dollars in your account to take care of your shit. What kind of twisted individual does that, y'all?

31:10 But what may be worse than even all of that were that there were allegations Ricky and his now wife, who he just married, y'all, within the time this documentary came out, Which that's important because in Louisiana law, there's a law that states a wife cannot be compelled or forced to testify against a husband, and vice versa. There were allegations that is now wife himself, and his now stepdaughter, who at this point is barely an adult. They're in a three way relationship. Now, keep in mind, both his now wife and stepdaughter are defending Ricky. They're going to bat for this dude, denying this shit, but both and I can say her name now because she's been arrested.

32:03 She's the wife and her daughter. During a phone call with the boys at Echo, they go nuclear on the insinuation that Ricky was even around Melissa's daughter before the age of seventeen. And they keep bringing up before the age of seventeen so many times as a matter of fact, you can kind of ascertain it was intentional. Never during the conversation that I heard, did the daughter deny sleeping with Ricky. She just denied being around him prior to the age of seventeen. And what's the consent age in Louisiana seventeen. At this point she's nineteen. Of course, all of this attention on this documentary, especially in Livingston Parish, that leads to Ricky Foster gaining the attention of the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office and a detective with a knack for solving just these kinds of crimes. And his name is Calvin Bowden, who I not only know very well, but I just refer to as Captain Calvin. Now, let me tell you a little bit about Captain Calvin. This is not the type of guy you want on your ass if you're messing with young girls. Captain Calvin has been with the Sheriff's Office for twenty eight years. He is the head of the Sheriff's Office IKAC division that's Internet Crimes against Children. So he is a bonafide expert in crimes against children. He knows exactly how to spot grooming,

33:36 he knows exactly how these sick minds think, and he knows exactly how to investigate these crimes. Now, as far as the daughter being potentially seventeen and not sixteen when the relationship took place, Louisiana, surprisingly to some maybe has a recent law to aid in the grooming aspect of these crimes. It's known as Louisiana's grooming law and it's Louisiana Revised Statue fourteen eighty one seven, and it reads, a person commits the crime of child grooming by taking any action to persuade, induce, entice, seduce, or coerce a child under the age of seventeen years old when there's an age difference greater than two years between the offender and the child, to engage in any conduct intended to facilitate the offender committing a lewde and lascivious act upon that child in the child's presence or in the presence of another child under the age of seventeen. It also goes on to say, a person who commits the crime of child grooming shall be in prison with or without hard labor, not more than five years. A person over the age of seventeen who commits the crime of child grooming with the juvenile who is less than thirteen shall be in prison for not less than two years nor more than twenty five years. So it doesn't matter if

35:07 you were actually having sex with that child. If you were trying to persuade coerce them by them gifts in the hopes that it would lead to a sexual relationship when they turn seventeen. You're in a lot of trouble in the state of Louisiana. You'd do five years just for that. So at this point, just because you may not have had sex with a sixteen year old, if it can be proved that you were grooming them for that reason, you can be prosecuted criminally in the state of Louisiana. And make no mistake about it. This young lady, she's a victim, plain and simple, a victim. And one thing about LPSO Sheriff Jason or Captain Calvin Bowden, They're gonna get justice for a lot of people in this case in the end. So on April first of twenty twenty six, Ricky Foster, who is forty six years old at this point, he gets arrested on ten counts of third degree rape, ten counts of extortion, and four counts of sexual battery. The victim in these charges reported Ricky took out loans in her name totaling some seventy thousand dollars, and would force her to have sex with him. Under the threat that he would not pay back these loans.

36:27 These allegations took place in twenty twenty three, so we know the victim is not related with the whole mother daughter thruple situation. It's definitely a different victim. Now. His bond in this case was set at eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which he could not pay, and he remains in jail. Then, twenty nine days later, April twenty ninth, boom More investigation leads to more charges when Ricky gets charged with in trafficking and crimes against nature, which I believe is directly related to his wife and stepdaughter.

37:08 How could I come to that conclusion. Well, the same day his now wife, Melissa Luke was also arrested for crimes against nature, which, for those unaware, in addition to some other things, is an incest charge. Freaking disgusting. That's all I have to say, and that is where we stand as of today. Of course, any public developments I'll keep you posted. Shout out again to the boys at Echo for the hard work they did in seeing this arrest through. Shout out to all of you for listening, and a tough one, but a stark reminder that all things done in darkness will eventually come to light. Check out the Patreon for commercial, free early release episodes and so much more. Incidentally, I got quarterly gifts they're mailing out this week, so look for him next week at some point. If you are a Patreon top tier subscriber.

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