Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast - Criminal Accountant Stumbles Upon Unlimited Cash Hack

Episode Date: December 22, 2024

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See, I did people that didn't have a job. I mean, I was doing drug dealers, escorts. I put people down as a dog walk or a house cleaner. The escorts, home and personal care services. Whatever your hustle was, if you're stealing copper, you know, I put you down for recycling, aluminum cans. You know, I had a title for everything, you know. If you're breaking in houses, you're doing house cleaning.

You know what I mean? If you're just sitting home at sitting at a crack house, babysitting. then the manager of the bank got in on a deal he started referring me to people and so all the people at that Wells Fargo Bank got fired like five or 60s Hey this is Matt Cox

and I'm here with Sean Cowgill got out a few years ago started a prison channel he was locked up for wire fraud and he's got an interesting story which we're about to hear so check it out. Yeah I got off probation December 23rd so that was my

early Christmas present three years probation three years so you've been out three years yeah well sick I got you know if you count halfway house time three and a half and then December was like five months ago almost so close to four years now I mean out of the prison you know right I went to the camp of

Florence in Colorado and then my day job was at the Supermax and you come back to the camp at night all right so so what I mean where were you were you raised in florida no no no i was florence colorado but no i've been born and raised in san francisco so you were born in san francisco yeah and um just normal childhood uh no

not at all uh mean old father drunk wife beater child beater uh you know um pretty pretty bad uh raising mom was a drunk dad was a drunk uh they got divorced when i was about 10 by my My mom, we spent years running from my dad and he'd find us here and there. And it wasn't the best childhood, lived in a pretty bad neighborhoods. And mom really was a housewife for a long time. And then she decided to got the courage to run for my dad. And I lived in these really, really bad neighborhoods. And, you know, the VFW of San Francisco, that stands for very few whites.

Right. So, so what? So, I mean, your mom, you're saying your mom was also an alcoholic, though. She was an alcoholic and, you know, and a battered wife. But that's one thing I kind of try now is to, I'm kind of, I don't know, I've had women on my show that are battered, but trying to, you know, I guess put all that trauma behind them and it's tough. It's real tough thing.

It still goes on today, but I lived it, so I know what it's like. My father, he died while I was in prison and I didn't really cry. Right. I did a little, I did a little because I, you know, I made, I made some amends with him before I went in, but he never made amends with me, so. So, I mean, you went to high school, were you in trouble, troubled, were you in trouble? Yeah, kind of, well, I didn't start getting in trouble until after high, well, I didn't start getting caught until after high school, but I started getting into drugs pretty early. uh smoking pot in summer of sixth grade i remember smoked my first joint i didn't really like it but i used to get beat up a lot when you're when you're living in these neighborhoods and uh

like i said very few white kids you get beat up a lot but when i started smoking the pot they all left me alone i was like one of them they took everything changed like overnight so in my mind i thought well if i hang out with these guys who do drugs i won't get beat up no more you know And I don't know if that's true or not or maybe it was all in my head, but, uh, you know, are you trying to fit in trying to fit in, trying to fit in. And I eventually did. I eventually did. Were you selling drugs or just buying them?

I mean, I'm just buying them. I'm just buying them. I just, not even then. I was just people who just give me, give me drugs. You know, when you're 12 or 13, you don't got no money for that. But I think I went to like 11 different schools, um, elementary, junior high schools, because we were always running for my dad. He finally, he finally caught us in, you know,

he bought a he sold the house and bought a bar and my mom went right back to him because of that bar she's an alcoholic that's like showing up with a big bag of crack hey look what i got you know right so and that lasted a few years till they drank the bar away and they lost everything again but yeah i don't know why i don't know why people do that i knew a guy that was a recovering alcoholic who bought a bar you know within six months he's he's drinking again and you know six months later the bar It's like, why would you have put yourself in that situation to begin with? Yeah, why not back a crack house in a meth lab, too, if you're, if long as you, you know. Um, so, so you go through high school.

Did you ever get in trouble in high school? No, no trouble. Uh, just got more, you got, you know, more drugs, a little cocaine, LSD, a lot of LSD was my way of escaping, uh, you know, going to Grateful Dead concerts at like 16 and, you know, tripping on acid. I did that kind of stuff, but not, not like daily, but, yeah, I, you know, I finally finished high school, but I did, I worked at a hotel. My first job out was a Marriott Hotel and kind of been in a restaurant and hotels

for, I don't know, good 20-something years, but, you know, I started getting really bad in the crack cocaine in like the late 90s, late 80s, I mean, so bad that I ended up homeless a couple times and being homeless is what got me to prison. That's another story. But I, you know, I'd work a couple years at different hotels and I've worked my way up to like food and beverage manager and, you know, I was a headshot. How do you go from smoking pot to smoking crack? Gateway drug, is it true? I went from smoking pot to LSD and magic mushrooms and masculine and that kind of stuff. And then in high school, all the kids, would bring these different pills from their older brothers.

There was stuff like yellow jackets and Christmas trees and reds and beans and cross tops and all these different pills we would pop in black beauties and they were kind of like uppers. And I remember I always liked those and it was kind of like the poor man's cocaine. So one day I found out I found somebody who had cocaine and a couple years later somebody told me you could take that cocaine and you can cook it up and it's called Freebase and that was really expensive I only tried it a couple times and crack came out on the market and a friend of my said hey you got to come down to this neighborhood you just pull up any time of the night they'll I don't care if you got $5 $20 you don't got to call the guy first you could set

nothing up you just pull drive in your car walk over there they'll sell you this that freebase it's already made up and everything you just put it right in your pipe and he's smoking I was like wow really you know I was sold because it was hard to get that stuff before before crack came out And then it took me a year or two before you end up homeless and losing everything and, you know, selling your, I mean, I see people literally selling their mother out on the streets and get another hit. It's pretty bad. Um, okay. So how, so how long did that go on for you? Oh, probably 10 years. I went in and out of drug rehabs and homeless three or four times. I didn't stay homeless long. I'd get a job at McDonald's or Jack in the Box, kind of worked my way out. I'd be homeless maybe a month and I'd either go to a shelter or a residential drug and alcohol program

I kind of use those as shelters. So my thing was to lose everything, get desperate so I could get strong again to get everything back so I could get high again and sabotage it all and go back and just an endless cycle. Yeah. And that went on for 10 years. I mean, so how old were you

that point oh 30s um i haven't touched crack now probably god almost 20 years well there's a cure for crack cocaine all the rehabs and stuff it's called crystal meth that got me off the crack so then 10 years of that so now i haven't done anything like that in nine nine 10 years now more than that you're not you weren't selling it never sold it never So I tried once, and I was my own best customer. So how does that lead into your, I mean, were you ever arrested for it? Yeah, 11 times. I didn't know how many times I've been to jail, but when they were, when I was getting indicted, they asked me how many times I've been to jail.

I said, I don't know, five or six. They said, well, it says you're 11. We just wanted to check. For just little quarter grams, half grams, nothing more than $50 worth of, where there was always a traffic stop, always in a car, going to get something for somebody else, and they're going to give me a little piece of it or something, or giving somebody a ride to get something, whoop, getting pulled over. Because the neighborhoods I would go to, when a white guy's driving in a black neighborhood,

they just swoop up on you. I wasn't driving the best cars or anything else. And I lived in the neighborhood, but the cops didn't care. I got pulled over a lot, a lot. And usually you had something on me. So it wouldn't matter if I refused for them to search the car. And in those neighborhoods, they'll just bring the dogs on the car. And if the dog waves, waves his, waves his, let's just left paw or wags his tail.

They say, there's a sign. And what are you going to take it to court and throw it against the trained canine officer? And they did find crack. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They'd be different if they didn't find anything. Yeah, I wouldn't be going to court then. I wouldn't have to you.

All right. So what happened? So, I mean, you're running out of money. You're getting, you're losing jobs. You're getting jobs again. You're getting, you know, periodically getting yourself back on your feet. Yeah, I've had really good jobs, you know, managers and, you know, I said head chefs, all that. But I worked my way up and I don't think it's go good and I want to celebrate.

I don't know. It's been an endless cycle. I think I kind of broke that cycle because prison, I'm going to say probably saved my life. because I got off the crack and I got on the crystal meth and with the stuff I was doing as I haven't got into yet I had plenty of money and I was just always had a bag of crystal meth and every single day I was using that stuff and so bad that I went to the hospital once because my heart and they said they kept me there and they said your blood person is like 240 and I said excuse me yeah they said you what are you doing walking you know and I had never been in a hospital

in five, 10 years. So if I didn't stop, I was probably going to die. So I kind of thank the feds for that one. All right. So what were you doing to support your habit toward that got you in trouble at some point? I mean, well, I've just always worked at restaurants and blown my whole paychecks on drugs.

But, you know, I buy some things in a car here and there. But what brought me to prison was doing taxes for all those drug addicts and homeless guys that are out on the streets. yeah i was kind of smart on computers and stuff so uh you know um uh a lot of the crimes that you guys talk about on your show i've done all that that credit cards stuff and check you know i did i i i want to say dabbled in a few things you know uh mailbox fishing you know what that is yeah with the rat paper and a fishing line so how how how how did you Like, what was the first, like, fraud that you were committing?

Bad checks, making phony checks with magnetic ink on a computer and just getting some account number and, you know, recopying the check. And I had other people going into banks to cash it. But one time a guy was taking a little bit too long and I thought I should, I was outside and I waited too long. And he had already went to that bank like five times he didn't tell me. So red flag went up. And they came, I don't know if he pointed to me or whatever, but they swooped on me and they found like checks that had Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck made out to him. Those were my practice checks. And that's all they needed.

So I got six months on that one in jail. That's the only, that's the only fraud I ever got caught for. I did a lot of credit card fraud and stuff. When you say credit card fraud, what do you mean? Like how did that? Well, there was a drug dealers that needed a, they would take a, they had credit card numbers, but they didn't do. and they would put them on a different card, right? You know, cloning, not really cloned a card,

but I remember they'd give me a lady's, a credit card with a lady's picture on it, and they had like, it would say American Express on the card, but it was a visa card. These guys, I mean, they were thinking stuff through, and they thought a white guy could go into the malls and the stores and stuff,

but buy stuff with this card, you know, once you just swipe and you put it back in your pocket. So they were using me for that, and they would give me crack, or they would give me, you know, some kind of drugs for it. They didn't give me much money at all, but they were supporting my drug habit. And I was kind of being used like a pawn.

That's kind of, so, you know, I started, the people that they were making those cards for was supposedly the Japanese mafia in San Francisco was such a thing. But I started to get to know those guys, and one of the guys kind of taught me what he was doing. And so then I learned that I could do what he's doing. And so I started making my own little credit cards. And, you know, I did a little bit, nothing big. I mean, I get enough to, you know, maybe make three or four hundred bucks in one week, just little stores trying to sell stuff, just enough to support my habit. Using forgeries and bogus identities, Matthew B. Cox, one of the most ingenious con men in history, built America's biggest banks out of millions.

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I was charging them 20% of their refunds and they weren't paying me they promised you so you get them you get them you know whatever $8,000 and they're supposed to go bring you back whatever 1600 or whatever that comes to back then you get your refund in about

7 to 10 days at least for the current year you can go back three years on they get refunds if you have it filed see i did people that didn't have a job i mean i was doing drug dealers escorts uh i put people down as a dog walk or a house cleaner uh the escorts uh home and personal care services uh whatever your hustle was if you're stealing copper you know i put you down for recycling uh aluminum cans you know i had a title for everything you know if you're breaking in houses you're doing house cleaning you know what i mean uh if you're just uh sitting sitting at it's sitting at a crack house babysitting you know but these are guys these are this is their

real social security number their real ideas it's really them it's not like they were they going out and getting people and bringing them to you yeah so my deal is so i'm at homeless children and a guy comes comes through one day he comes in and he says hey i'm working for this guy this lawyer and he can get you stimulus money the obama stimulus money did you get your and i go uh no i mean i never got it oh i i did it i filed my taxes and it came on there and he goes oh you know how to do that i go yeah i kind of and he goes because i'm i'm gathering people for this guy and he goes i got all these he had like eight or nine up people's tax forms and i he said if you could do it because this guy ain't paying me shit and i go well let me see those and they're they're all the same it all

I had $6,500 for income, and I looked at this, and I go, these are all the same. He just makes copies. I mean, anybody could do this. And I go, I can get more money than this guy's even getting. So next he goes, well, here, I want you to take a couple of these, and I'll tell the guys, let me ask if it's okay, because we didn't do anything without somebody's permission. I even had them signed affidavits giving their permission to have their Social Security, their driver's license, all that stuff, for the purposes of taxes, because they tried

to get me for identity theft and what i kept every every per every client well want to call them client but every person i ever did i had i had a file so they had to drop a lot of the charges they got me really because i had had their refunds going through a wells fargo bank and they told me uh we're not really here to get you on the taxes you found all these loopholes and i remember when they were raiding my house they said uh now uh everybody that you've got he got like 800 people and they all made exactly $6,500 that year. I don't know how you found them or how they found you. And half of them live at your post office box.

That's another thing. And he says, you know, and why do you have to put $6,500? Why don't you put $6.40, $6.38? Oh, you wanted every dollar. You couldn't even even even $8 you had to have that, right? I remember them telling you all this why they're, why they're shirts in the house. But so I had a deal. If you tell anybody that if find somebody that needs their taxes done that never had a job

and have some filed their taxes. I'll give you $100. Right. Also, I'm going to call it $800 number to see if they owe money for child supporter or their student loans. And if that clears, and I do a little check to see if they file before, because you get accepted in 10 minutes after I filed. So I gave everybody $100.

The phones were bringing off the hook, Matt. I ended up having three or four girls answering phones just writing down people's social and date of birth and address. I gave them $50 for just to answer. the phone write that stuff down it got off the hook i had to teach people how to do this so i had nine co-defendants at a that many people i mean we did thousands of them i mean it started off with two people that i did and they told two friends and i said i'll give them a hundred bucks told you got two more friends i'll give me another hundred and i made sure everybody got that hundred bucks uh and it just

you know that that refer a friend program it works when you're dealing with homeless people on the street and drug addicts you know because i'm getting them five six thousand dollars they're going to get two or three two or three grand like in 10 days so men are calling me left the right i got the whole neighborhoods of san francisco all there they're getting this they're getting this on a card right yeah well see back then it was this was 2010 2009 not most of them didn't even have ID right uh they uh didn't there was green dot net spend cards back then but people didn't even have addresses the people i'm dealing with right some did a few might have had a bank account or a card Most of them did not.

So I would, at first, I would say, well, you better pay me when this comes, right? And that stupid me in the beginning, I did all three years for them. So then they wouldn't pay me for any of them. So I just do one year at a time. And give me the money off the first year, and then I'll do the other two. And they still were burning me. So I opened up a business bank account. I went and got a paid tax preparer number.

I got legit. I got a business license, and it wasn't hard to do. and I went to Wells Fargo because that one guy who I copied his little idea from he was at this Wells Fargo and they told me that yeah we won't have a problem

with your other people's tax returns coming through here as long if there's ever a problem you know then we'll have to talk about that and I got to know the guy and he said so you're taking 20% and they get 80 why don't you just let me do the work for you

so every week I would give this guy Jose and this guy Edward here's the names I got 27 people this week he'd do the math for me He'd cut in cashier's checks. And in return, I told them to open up a bank account with Wells Fargo. He had a second chance program. So they'd go down in Wells Fargo.

I mean, there'd be, I don't know, sometimes 80 people all lined up at the bank. And they got mad at me because they go, we can't cast all these checks. These people want their checks cast. We don't have that much money in the bank. So that got to be a problem. So then the manager of the bank got in on a deal. He started referring me to people. And when I kind of died, I didn't know something was wrong.

here's the thing I didn't know that they so they told me you got to go through a um I when they were raiding my house and stuff and I got you know indicted I said if I don't have the money I go to HR buck I don't have the money for my refund they'll take it out of my refund will Spargo's doing that for me they go oh no no no see what you're doing is like laundering money you got to go through a government bank it's called Santa Barbara tax group and I said well I'll do that and the guys go we're kind of raiding your house right now a little too late I didn't know about this place I don't even know if they were to let me do it they don't I only let the big companies do it.

But so all the people at that Wells Fargo Bank got fired, like, you know, five or six years. Well, plus I bought them laptops for Christmas. And I remember they go, we've got to do this in the parking lot. We've got cameras. We're not allowed to take gifts. But at first, the two guys that were the business banker guys that were working with they, they got promoted to like assistant manager. One guy was manager and the manager got promoted to a general manager.

And because all those people they did opened up banking. accounts. So, you know, they're looking good. Yeah, I mean, they had that program where they were getting people to open up bank accounts because they were getting fees and they were, and the more bank counts you had, the more fees they could charge. And sure, sure. Um, okay, uh, I mean, did you have any idea? Like, how long did this go on? About a year before they raided the house. Um, you know, I told you I was in a homeless shelter. I started doing this, man, Within two weeks, I'm renting a motel with this other guy, Joel, when we each got her own room. And then I started coming in before I knew.

I bought a car within three weeks. My little 20% was, you know, I don't know. I get people about $8,000, so, you know, $1,500 a person. But I mean, I mean, I've done thousands. I mean, I don't want to say too much, but I'm off probation. I think they've got me. But a lot of them I did before I opened up. bank account but i even paid rent on a house a year in advance uh the pgne that's the power

company i gave i gave them a check for 5 000 i wanted to cover my ass so in case anything happened at least i got a place for a for a year when they did raid my house like 30 cars up and down the block and black SUVs i think they were was the treasury department you familiar with those guys no no no no mine was fbi secret service oh okay well that's treasury came to my house they had been watching me and you know watching my internet and tapping my phone all my little i thought i was uh just paranoid from too much drugs but no there was a silver owl in the tree and the head used to spin i thought i know somebody's watching me they told me yeah that was us too all you all the little things that you were paranoid about they were true they were listening

on my phone they were watching me through the computer um yeah they'd been watching me for about three months. And then they, I thought I was so legal that I kept all the money in the bank and they froze everything. Yeah, but okay. So, but you know what you're doing is illegal. Yeah, but I got the Wells Fargo Bank. I'm walking in the bank and, you know, they're telling me, oh, Mr. Calgill are coming up to me here. What can we do? They're kissing my ass. And I'm thinking, but they work for the IRS. I know. And, you know, I didn't research it. He had a business permit, paid you know i even went took a little test at at the county uh for for paid tax preparer for like next year and i thought it was legal i knew it i knew it was like too easy you know these little

loopholes i found but you know these guys really didn't have jobs but um you know in my mind you know well they came up with money that year i mean it was selling drugs or you know escorting or you know whatever robin houses was stealing copper and you know Cadillac converters or whatever but i mean Still, you didn't want to pay their taxes for that. I'm just helping the government. My head was, I thought it was Robin Hood, Steele from the rich, which is the government, and give to the poor, which is the drug addicts, right? That's all.

So when they come in, they raid you. Did they arrest you? I got a, no. I got a call from, I told you I had nine other people. One guy called me and they said, hey, they're here right in my house, and I think they're going to hit you next. They've already went to Mike's and Joe's and Davids and Sarah's. I was the last house. They did nine houses in one day.

They had different parties doing this. They didn't get to my house to about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. I already knew they were coming. And here I still held my ground. I thought, you know, they got nothing on me. I even had a sign. IRS, start right here. Here's the pile.

Here's all my files. Number two, start here. This is what you guys are going to need here for evidence. And still, you know, I thought it was missed. I was kind of turned into a pompous little asshole. I thought they had nothing on me. So I was wrong. I'm saying, did they arrest you?

No, they made me stay in the garage. They said, we're going to be in your house for a while. We need your keys. They had me turn over the keys. They said, you can go. You're not taking your car. And we need your wallet and your phone. But you can go and maybe eight hours will be done.

Or you can stay here. So I stayed there. and they kept me in my garage, and they just kept coming out with evidence. There two agents would watch me, and they'd come out with evidence from the office. What's this? What's this, Mr. Cowell? What's this here? What's this here?

And they just kept coming out like, I don't know, play with my mind. Maybe I should have walked. But David told me we're not here to arrest you. We're just here to seize evidence. Did they take your car? They wanted to, but I bought it before I started doing this crime because they found the pink slip. And he owned this for three years already. So I bought it before.

It's a $500 car. They didn't know about another one that was in my girlfriend's name, so they didn't get that one. We had moved that that day. And my girlfriend was at a Safeway store sitting in her car doing a scratch-off and undercover came and got her. I had a friend that was staying in one of the rooms. They found him at a, where was it?

He's at a bowling alley or something outside. car they've been following all these people uh they made uh they didn't rest anybody out of all the nine people they just grabbed all i mean they took my tv they took uh it was almost christmas time and i remember they took all the christmas presents that were under the tree my girlfriend i just bought her her son like an xbox they took everything my widescreen tv off the wall all the computers they basically left uh the furniture you know they took everything um So what happened? Do you get a lawyer? Did you just kick back away? They froze on my bank accounts, but I had maybe $15,000 and loose money kind of.

So I did go to a lawyer to cost $5,000 just to answer some questions, really. They said the lawyer, it was a lady. She said, well, I know, you know what the lawyers, I guess they learn us in law school. Oh, I know the DA. I know the district attorney. I know the prosecutor. I mean, they're all, they all know them. My brother-in-law is married to the sister of the judge. don't worry I know everybody well that's so great what does that do for me so they she used that spill on me you know oh I know everybody well of course they do they all drinking a bar together and all that but um uh I gave her 5,000 bucks and basically all she did was call the treasury and tell them hey I'm representing mr cowgill if we need to talk to him you're

going to go through me now and she said I they're gonna probably indict you uh it could be a year could be six months and that's really all she did and by the time my year it was a year And by the time the year came by, she called me. She went to answer my calls the whole time. I could call it like maybe every three months. She said I could call her two months to check in and see if anything happened. She'd always say no news is good news. So the day I get died and she called me, says, you got to show up at court.

They're going to sign you out on a bond and I'm not going to represent you anymore unless you have $75,000. I had nothing. And that year I paid for the house. I remember I said I paid a year ahead on the rent that year went buying and I paid another rent right before they came so I had two years paid in advance on the house otherwise said I had to have been out homeless which I ended up being homeless after I got indicted because the landlord evicted me as soon as the little deal was up and he knew about the the raid on the house and everything they got rid of me soon they sent me on a victim notice and I tried to sell some of the furniture I had in there and I had all these things these friends when I had the money and the drugs, they're gone. Next to you know, man, I'm sitting in a, I go get a guided and they told me I got a court in two weeks. I'm sitting in a park homeless again. I just got a little backpack with some pictures of my family members that aren't even alive anymore, some clothes, some underwear, nothing, man. I got a cell phone that's got

like 5% power left on it. I remember because I got a text about going to, I had to be to court in the morning and they, uh, they said there was an emergency pre-trial wanted to see me in court. Anyways, I didn't go. Um, I had no money to get there. And if I did, I, at that point, I just wasn't going to go. I was going to go on the run with what? I don't know. I just, uh, so I had warrants out for me now. And, uh, hadn't even started really the indictment process. But, uh, they, I ended up turning myself in a couple weeks later. And, uh, they let me do a get out of jail to do a drug program, a six-week program, and then I had to stay in sober living houses the whole time until I got sentenced, which was four years.

Four years before you got sentenced? Yeah. And before that, it was a year when they raided my house. That's five years, their life on hold. But, you know, I needed a, I slipped one time on the drugs, and they maybe do another program, a 90-day program. And, but then after that, I haven't done it. I've been good.

I've been a good boy as far as that. So what happened? Like ultimately you get like a letter or they called you or they just come pick you up? When I was out on bond. You said it was four years before you got what, sentenced? Four years on pretrial. Right. Five years would be counting when you first before you get indicted.

And I mean pre-trial had me pissing in a cup three, four times a week sometimes. I've pissed in that cup for us. So that was back in 2011. It's, no, I got raided in 2011. 2012, I started pretrial. It's 2003 now. I'm standing there 12 years and I only did really three months, three years in the prison.

So for 12 years, they've owned me though, you know. Right. Well, I'm saying like when you, they send you a letter or something saying, hey, can you know, you know, you knew, hey, I got to show up at this time. I'm going to plead guilty. Oh, as far as that was. lawyer saying like what happened they kept putting it off because they wanted to make sure i went last so i had nine co-defendants uh by the way five went to prison uh the other four you know you figure it

out you know they made their deals one was my uh fiance at the time and uh she wore a wire she told me she called me like i don't know a couple days after she wore a wire on me after i'd already take the uh responsibility you know where you sit at the table and you basically tell on yourself Did you do that? Yeah. To get the two points off. So I told her, hey, they've already got everything on me. You know, I told her, I was kind of mad, but it wasn't mad.

I said, you know, you do what you got to do. And they got everything on me. If you didn't meet me, you wouldn't be looking at prison time right now. Right. That's all I felt about it. A friend of mine said, well, she was on drugs, too. She was going to go to prison. I don't know if she was going to go to prison.

So I can't say that, but I felt it was my kind of fault that I brought her along with it i i got her uh started doing her own tax business and she it was called she file her and her girlfriend and they started their own business and she kept doing the business um after she got indicted she didn't care she ended up getting 29 months right and that's after she whatever deal she made uh i think whatever ever did when she wore the wire and stuff they already had everything on me i don't know what else they were looking for i know they were looking for money that I had hidden. I wish I would have known in advance. I would have took it all out. But you know as well as I do. You can't just go to the bank and say, give me a hundred

grand. Right. Well, so, so when, so you, they gave you a lawyer. A court appointed one. Now I went through four of those because there was always a conflict of interest with the nine co-defendants. Right. One knows this guy and this guy's that day. And when, you know, when there was the public defender's office, I started with them and then they gave me a quarter appointed lawyer and then they apparently one of my co-defendants got assigned to that that lawyer as well but it was a different it wasn't on the same ticket you know there was three of us on one ticket and then the other remaining six had their own little court tickets and I'm ticket's not the right word but a case number and stuff right and then they separate all three of us and then we went on our

own it was going to be some joint thing but they decided I had a leadership role Which they dropped at the very end And they just charged me with wire fraud I don't know why they dropped the leadership role But I'm glad they did Probably was looking at more time But so I knew when I was going to get sentenced You know

And that's where our debt Dan came in And Walt Pablo do you know him Walt Pablo? Yeah Yeah you do Because he's been on the show Of course you do So those guys helped me out I had no money to pay him and they helped me out

You know Walt put 100 bucks on my books Every single month Never missed a month nice yeah and but he really helped me he wrote me letters he'd take my phone calls from prison you know we still talk and uh i mean those guys inspired me to start the channel and to help other people you know um because i i for years i just took phone calls and i help write letters to the courts and stuff for guys and i you know i wasn't charging money or anything i just wanted to you know pay it all forward you know so so how much time did you end up uh getting 52 month sentence i got it

I got it reduced. I was category, my criminal charge, like, I was category four, you know, on the one through six criminal, criminal history. Yes. So I was, I was category four, because I've been arrested 11 times for, you know, just a little, little, like I said, $20 worth of drugs. But that gave me a category four. But the judge switched from four to one, because I did a lot while I was on pretrial,

you know, I, I wanted two residential drug programs. I live in sober, living houses. I was feeding homeless on Friday nights. We go in a van with this church group and we handed out blankets and food and everything. And I volunteered at Alcoholics Anonymous at their main central office. I was cleaning their toilets and bathrooms and answering their phones and stuff like that. I did a whole lot of other stuff. I was cooking for a residential drug program for free, well, for room and board.

They gave me a little bed to stay in. But I, you know, I worked like 40 hours a week with no-for-no paycheck. So I did a whole lot of stuff to impress the judge that I was, you know, trying to change my ways. And that's what she told me. And she went from category four to category one. And I went from 96 months to 52. So it was the low end. It was 51 to 70 when you got to category one on my points were 24 on the, you know, the numbers.

So I still didn't know if I was going to a camp. When I got my paperwork, I got sentenced. They told me I have 60 days to turn myself into self-surrender. And R-DAP Dan and Walt Pablo Helvey get the R-Dap out of the way, you know, on my PSR, so I knew I was going to do R-DAP. But I didn't know where it was going. My paperwork said, FCI Florence. And I found out now that all the camps are connected to a bigger prison.

That's kind of the headquarters. That's like the hotel that you check into. and then they'll skip escort you over to the camp so anybody that's going to camp if it says fcii someone you're not going to the up so yeah you're going to the camp but that's the headquarters so even my lawyer didn't know that you know that i called him he didn't know the lawyer i had at the end the fourth lawyer he was a prick uh i remember i called him up and said uh this paperwork tells me i can go straight to the camp uh but i don't know about the fc i he's it doesn't matter you got to turn yourself into the marshals i said no i'm supposed to self surrender

of the camp and uh i think our dad dan called up my lawyer and he got pissed he called me back and he says who's this guy telling me tell me my business right you call me one more time if anything back he said you're going to turn yourself into the marshals and you're going goddamn fcii and leave me alone everything you said was wrong that's lawyers for you no well um yeah you get pricks in you know every profession but a lot of lawyers can definitely be assholes um So, all right. So you went to the, what, went to the camp and, you know, what happened? You got there the first day.

Yeah. That was surreal, man. You know, you can prepare all you want for four years. You know, were you locked up during your pre-trial or were you out? You were probably locked up, right? I was locked up. Yeah, of course. It's different on the outside.

You know, got four different lawyers. They're telling you probation one week. Then they're telling you 12 years the next week. and you know a year goes by two years goes three years goes by nobody's believing that you're going in prison anymore oh you just you're on your probation man no i'm on pretrial yeah whatever pretrial probate they don't they don't know and they think since you've been going to court for three years why would they lock you up now you've been doing good you don't get it guys one day i'm going in prison and nobody you said nobody believe me i called people up from the

prison are you happy now i'm in prison you were wrong but uh you know you guys to be like that. But that first day, I remember I had a friend in Colorado, Colorado Springs. He lived nearby. And I stayed with him a couple nights. I took a Greyhound bus up there. And he drove me to prison in the morning. We got there about 8.30, 9 in the morning. I was supposed to turn myself in at noon. But I was told if you get there a little early, they'll process you in and out. And Walt Pavlov told me that. And he says, the day you leave, you're going to leave at 6 a.m. So you'll get the hours back. But if you show up at noon, like it says they're doing a guard change it's lunch hour you may be thrown in the shoe

across the street or something until you know they're ready to take you into the camp but if you go early you'll be in and out and he was right about 30 minutes i was processed change dressed out but i remember he dropped me off there's a there's a there's a gate i really like a little booth with a thing that goes up and down and we drive up to the gate and uh and i tell the the officer in the gate. I'm here to turn myself in. I have to self-srender. He says, well, you can get out of the car, just wait by the side of the road, and we'll call somebody. And they wouldn't let us in anywhere part of the prison. So I said my goodbye to my friend, he took off, and I'm standing there at the gate, and a little white pickup truck pulled up. And I said, that can't be for me.

A lady grows down the window. She can't get on in. You're here self-srendered, right? Mr. Calgill, I go, yeah, she goes out, get in. And I get in. I remember the first thing, do I have to put my seat on? No, we're just going to camp. Don't worry, but. about she's really nice and uh we go up there and she goes yeah just get out of the car we're coming to the side door here you know we'll get you checked in and said um am i going to the camp she goes yeah what'd you think i said what my paperwork says fci she's no you go to the camp man she goes and i go you're not like i don't have handcuffs and she was man this is the camp relax she says it's gonna be fine this is my first impression i'm i'm tripping so she opens up the door

she goes there's some chairs there just have a seat somebody be with you. An inmate comes up. I remember it was a black guy and he's talking. He said in prison I didn't know politics. I just been watching, you know, Shawshake Redemption and, you know, escape from Alcatraz and Oz and all this stuff all my life. And even though I knew camps were like cupcakes, I was scared shitless man. Yeah. A black guy comes up to me and goes, she gives me a clipboard and he goes, hey, whatever is my name's litter. How are you doing? I go, I'm doing all right. I can talk to you? And he goes, what do you mean you could talk to me? I go, you know, I'm white. He goes, this is a camp. Again, it's a camp.

So I had to fill out some information, and he says, you hungry? And I go, sure, he brings me at lunch. And it's like salami and turkey, like on a hoagie roll. And I'm all, no ballooning sandwich. And he goes, man, we've got it good here. And then a guard comes down, and he says, hey, man, I got to dress you out and get you in. So he says, you take out your clothes. He goes, you know, you got to bend over her cough.

He was really nice. And he goes, now, what do you want me do with these clothes? Send him home. or I don't know I don't really have a home he says okay we'll just donate him and he says their shoes look okay though I think you wear those he grabs them and he goes hey yeah put them on I mean I'm gonna shove drugs and who knows uh he was too nice everybody was too damn nice uh and I'm going something's wrong here man they can't be like this and and it pretty much was except for the COs that like to do shakedowns or remind you that you're in prison but when you're dealing with the staff at a camp

the administration, the doctors, and, you know, the educators and stuff like that, the chaplains, we treat you just like a person. It was kind of like that the whole time at camp. If you treat them, you know, with respect and dignity, you get it back. Because at a camp, we don't have a fence. There's just an out-of-bound sign. So any contraband that comes in there, we don't use the staff. We don't use the guards or the COs.

They know they're going home that night. They're not, their family's not going to get threatened. you know, they're not going to get manipulated. The inmates do all that. So, you know, they treat you back. They treat you like that. And plus it's kind of nonviolent people. I'm sure some of them had share of violence.

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I know at a low, it's a little different. You were at the medium. The politics, a little different, right? yeah but i mean i was nothing that had like that stuff the nice thing is is you know you're either participating in it you're not and i just don't participate in anything um i just you know i had a job and you know you when i went to the medium really the medium and the low like you're i'm a white collar guy a white white white collar guy yeah yeah who's college educated who speaks well and so you know you become kind of an authority where they don't want to mess with you because they might need you to

hey can you read over my paperwork can you help me write something can you help me figure out how to do this can you teach a teach a course can you can i ask you a question so you know you're you're like a non-enemy combatant in a war zone like there's people shooting each other and or stabbing each other and getting into fights and but that's nothing to do with me you're just i'm just walking through the the middle of it and they all kind of just move around me and you know they're not interested in having a problem with with me because that guy's got nothing to do with what we got going on so you know that was three years at the medium and and then when I went to the camp it was pretty much the same thing at the camp except it's a better it's a less violent crowd although when I went to the low

when I went to the low when I went from the medium to the low like the low is a less violent crowd but it's funny because people got they were still stab at each other there they were it just wasn't as frequent or as i want to say as brutal but be honest i saw some really bloody stuff at the at the low but it just didn't happen as much yeah we had to do these stuff in the camp too but usually gambling debts or drug debts or something yeah it's stuff that you brought on yourself like it's not like random fights well that's not true at the um at the low one time this guy attacked another guy. It was actually comical. So this, I mean, the way it worked out like this guy had snitched. So there was, these two guys were in the same case and this guy snitched on this

guy. So this guy goes away for like 15 years. This guy gets like three years. Goes to get out, catches another charge, gets himself like whatever, seven, eight, nine, 10 years, goes back to prison. But when he gets there, they ask, have you cooperated against any of? he said no because on that case he hadn't so he wasn't understanding that they're saying look is there somebody in this prison that might want to hurt you yeah and so he was what but they'd say what they said have you do you have our separatise on anybody have you cooperated against anybody he was like oh no I didn't cooperate against anybody on that case so they put him on the yard well this guy who's still doing time for the first sentence first crime sees him

And goes and like gets a, gets like a lock, you know, gets a lock and a sock and ties it around his arm, his wrist and comes up and then finds him in the wreckyard and just, braw, braw, bra, just beats the hell out of him, beats him bloody. And the guy, you know, of course, he's sitting there like, you know, he had no clue that, hey, yeah, that guy from seven, eight years ago that you cooperated against is still doing that time. So, you know, to him, that was like, oh, that's long gone. no not for him and it's not so anyway um yeah so you saw stuff like that that would happen people would i did you know the pices kind of run the camp you know the pice is right i don't know if they have them in florida yeah they they have them but you know it's like you know run like i don't know even you know at a low like it's basically like these guys are associated with this gang these guys are associated with that but i just didn't pay attention to any of that has nothing

to do with me um and so i never went to a camp. I'm sure there's even less of that at the camp. Oh, yeah, there's less of that. When I say they run the camp, I mean, they're like, you want something from outside. You go talk to a pilot. He'll have it here in two days, you know what I mean? They're running the, it's a business. They're not really, they have their meetings that I've never, you can't go in. They'll take over a TV room and they'll have some two guys at the door, you know, and I've been told by some of my friends now that we're out, you know, they're beating the fuck out of somebody in there for whatever reason, whatever they did you know but they handle their own um you they keep it out of the eyes of anybody

so you don't really know what's going on and that and that's about as deep as it goes all everybody else is just freelancers i mean probably 20 percent is white collar most of it's drug mules or uh you know uh higher ups that got there you know they're there for conspiracy or rico act because they were three cars two mercedes and no job so they can't get them on anything to stick so they use that conspiracy that the feds were famous for you know so you did so you did like what three years uh yeah it was 52 months actually uh with like i did the art app that took a year off uh and then they give you six months halfway house and uh the first app act was just starting then so i didn't get any credit for that plus you had good time i got my good time i did 26 months

at the camp and then six months halfway house and then you start your probation uh A lot of people don't know when you're in a half-house, you're still an in-me. You're just there. That's why whenever people, that's why I always say 13 years, because I was in the halfway house for seven months. And to be honest with you, I'd rather been in prison. A lot of people feel that way. I, you know, I had no money or anything other than what, Walt Pavlo gave me 100 bucks a month. And they started taking that for my restitution.

I kind of needed the job. And I got a job washing dishes, 19 bucks an hour in San Francisco. I had at St. Anthony's dining room. And it was just like working the chow hall, you know, washing the dishes there with the same machine, same kind of trees. Nothing changes, but I'm getting 19 bucks an hour, you know. Yeah, I mean, it's the same way. Like, I'm glad I went to the halfway house. Like, I would have rather stayed in prison, but I'm glad I went because I needed to get a job and save some money.

Yeah. So it, but it was worse being at the halfway house than it was being in. Oh, yeah. Ours was horrible. It was three stories, about 400 people lived there. i don't know how many choma registered child molesters were in about 40 because we looked up on the phone one day and uh some girl me and some girls were talking and they and they said oh i didn't know they're here and they went to go talk to the management of the halfway house and they uh said if you bring

that up one more time you're going back to prison yeah and they're so we don't we don't feel safe here you know well don't come back to prison you know i was going to say but i mean plus not just that like their child they're their their child molesters so you're an adult woman you're fine yeah at your age you're okay um so so you did that you got out where'd you go when you left halfway house uh i was in san francisco so uh my probation office came to visit me and uh that sober living kind of a place that i was on during pretrial i've been writing them letters and stuff So they had a place for me. So I went to stay with them.

And it was in Oakland, which wasn't bad for me because I already knew everybody there. And I continued that job dishwashing. They had a drug program down the street, and they actually gave me a job cooking for $24 an hour. Then the pandemic hit. And, you know, they closed that place down. And for about a year and a half, I was just collecting $600 a month unemployment, like a lot of people were doing. And, you know, I was kind of happy. to see the whole world on lockdown because I've been on lockdown and now it's your turn man

you know so all right well what happened then I mean you now what are you doing like you started a YouTube channel yeah I started that at the sober living house and uh I so I just wanted to do a couple videos about my first day in prison uh you know and I started getting comments and I put my phone number up there anybody needed help and it's just been going ever since I just been doing one after another And one day I get a call from a lady here in New Mexico. And a friend of mine was doing community service there that I did time with. Apparently in New Mexico, the feds make everybody do at least 100 hours of community service when you get out of prison, regardless if it's state prison or federal prison. I didn't have to do that, but they do it here at their halfway house.

So he told this lady to watch my show. And she started watching it. and I get a call from her one day, and she said, I've been watching the show, and Tom says he knows you, he has the time together, and she says, would you like to come on my Facebook thing? She does a Facebook show and talk about, you know, what your, you know, your experiences. I did that. Then I had her on my show. A couple months ago by, I'm talking to her back and forth, then she offers me a job in New Mexico.

I said, well, I'm still on probation. She said, I think you can make a difference out here. She said, I know probation here. I'll call your probation. She worked it all out. And probation gave me a transfer. And when she, she actually, they actually helped pay for the, I'm in the apartment now. I pay 800 bucks a month.

Where I was living, I was paid $950 a month to share a room with three other guys in a house, you know, in Oakland. One refrigerator. We had eight guys in a two-bedroom place. You know, it's so expensive out there in a bear. You're never going to get ahead. unless you're uh you know working as a in the tech industry or something and i do have a college education man i forgot to mention that all those jobs i was going to college part-time so uh i got an a a degree in uh in advertising and marketing and then i took i got another one in

broadcasting uh and i went to columbia school of broadcasting but none of that ever i never pursued it so this youtube channel is probably the closest thing i got me i don't know i've been watching listening to talk radio since I was about 12 years old you know all the right wing stuff even some of the left wing and Art Bell and all that and always wanted to be a talk show host and

took I guess he took going to prison and I guess I'm kind of like that but you know I don't know so that's where I don't know where I'm going with that but I've lost now I'm stuck

the YouTube channel you thought hey it might be a good fit for you and you've been putting up videos yeah and uh you know i've interviewed people before they go in in prison now i've probably 10 guys have come out of prison and i interviewed you know and uh i'm making i'm making i'm making people call me and they just said you i've been watching your videos and i kind of thank you i get two or three a day match sometimes five nothing more than five nothing more than i can't handle but they're every day i mean I know this phone's been ringing here, and I see it's a, there's a text that says something about watching YouTube video.

And I get them all the time, Matt, and they just say that they can get through this pretrial now. Or people that got out of prison, they said, you know, my wife always want to know it's like a prison. We watch your channel. You know, I just get them all, and it gives me a purpose in life. Now I feel like, hey, I help somebody else out. I made a difference in somebody else's life. So I'm 59 years old, Matt. you know i'm feel i used to think i'm all washed up been to prison jail 11 times right uh eviction uh you know

car repossessed all this bad credit i mean who would want you know what good am i to the world well i think i'm finding that out now when i get these calls every day if i have a bad day or a bad week man i just talk to these people and it just makes a difference you know right and you know i've been writing character reference letters for them and helping them get into programs Anything I could do, kind of the stuff Ardap Dan does and been doing that for a couple years. And Ardap Dan told me, you know, you just start charging for this stuff. And I said, man, I'm not going to charge what you guys charge, but I've been hearing it. So I started doing that a few, oh, four months ago.

I've had nine clients now. So I'm helping guys out at a fraction of the cost. But it's a lot of work. But so I was, I switched from full time to part time at Wings for Live. The CEO and founder has been asked to step aside. Of what? uh from her organization that she founded since now she's a 501c so is that correct that so she used to be a ministry she switched to the 501c to get government money and stuff so what

we're hearing i had to go in front of the board uh two weeks ago and everybody kind of told their story because i actually quit about a month ago because she was yelling and screaming at me and belittling me and it been going on every day and there was at least 14 people that felt the same way everybody kind of quit on her and uh she's become like a hitler it's her way or the highway and then we found out she tells everyone she's poor so now we're finding out she owns hotels apartments there's three million dollars missing that the government gave the organization you work for yeah so the board has asked her to step aside if she doesn't they're going to bring up criminal charges so now i'm going i'm going back so i haven't been with them for probably a month and a half

now uh it's a long story that day uh i had it up to hear with her and i just she yelled and screamed at me for not putting a comma after the word albert i mean yelled the screen at me in front of everybody like like i burned down her house and i'm not the first person she's done it to and you know that was she was making us work weekends and doing these events and charity things uh for free and if we didn't show up then we were going to get fired so it got it got pretty bad so And when 14 other people showed up at this board meeting, I said, wow, I didn't know they were all feeling the same way. So there's a big changes. A friend of mine who I did time with, I got him a job there, he's going to be the new director.

And he's from Florence. So I'm happy for him. He's a real smart guy. He's been to MIT and all that. But he made his mistakes that got him into prison. But now he's, you know, so we're going to reboot this Wings for Life and give it a new brand. And now we finally get to use our ideas. this lady wouldn't take anybody else's ideas so anyways i hope she doesn't watch this and i don't want her to

retaliate i got a whole neighborhood uh the tenderland of san francisco and most of east oakland all money back uh you know so i think probably did oh 2,000 tax returns for people and each one of those was going back three years so that's 2,000 homeless drug addict that had money that year they were they were living a lot you know most of them spent it all in three days i mean you're doing god's work you help you're just helping poor people yeah i'm a lot help most of them i mean drug dealers are bringing their customers to me because they know they're going to spend the money back with them yeah it's just about people helping people yeah i mean some of them actually you know used that money to come up you bought a car got got you know first last month's ran on

a place um you know some of them some of them did do they used the money wisely but most of them nah they just blew it had a good time you know bought new rims for their car or something gold chains whatever a lot of them they told me i did help them out but um now i'm really trying to help people legally legally uh i mean they broke in the law they're going to prison but the legal end all right i feel like we're at the end of our rope here hey if you like the video do me a favor and hit the subscribe button hit the bell so you get notified of videos like this leave me a message in the comment section and i will return them if you want to email me my email addresses in the description box. Colby will leave the link to Sean's YouTube channel in the

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