The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - $8.5M Payout To Beardsley If Spanberger Fires Him; Why/Why Not Spanberger Will Fire Prez Beardsley

Episode Date: January 20, 2026

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Welcome to the I Love Seville Show, guys. My name is Jerry Miller, and thank you kindly for joining us Tuesday afternoon in downtown Charlottesville. It's a pleasure to connect with you guys through the flagship show. The I Love Seville Show on a chilly afternoon. For those that are new to the program, and we have many, many new followers to the show, January has been off, has started really hot for the I Love Seville Network with some of the content we've been publishing. And as a result, a lot of new faces, a lot of new followers, a lot of new IP addresses on our heat map. We welcome you to the program.

For the new folks that are watching the program, the show is all about the water cooler of content and conversation. We focus on Charlottesville, Central Virginia, UVA, and we're spreading our wings to the Commonwealth, across the Commonwealth on this program, as we see the same news desert tendencies, not just in Charlottesville, but across Virginia. And I think we want to expand our coverage territory

to include other pockets of a dynamic state, that oftentimes is rattled or rankled or encouraged or discouraged by macro news and headlines out of D.C. at Washington and elsewhere. A lot we're going to cover today, including, frankly speaking, something that caught a lot of people off guard. If Abigail Spamberger, John Blair put this on our radar yesterday, he's number two in the family. fantastic article as well in the Daily Progress about this. In fact, it originated with the Richmond Times Dispatch. If Abigail Spamberger chooses to divorce herself and have a clean split with Scott Beardsley from the University of Virginia, the total financial exposure for a clean break totals $8,500,000 for Scott Beardsley.

It is an absolutely astronomical number. But as the Richmond Times Dispatch put it, it's a poison pill that was strategically negotiated and created and put into Beardsley's contract to discourage the newly formed Board of Visitors from firing the newly minted Beardsley. In fact, I thought this was intriguing how I wrote it yesterday. A newly minted, no, in fact, I called it. grief for this because I said crowned, but I'm going to read exactly what I said. If a newly crowned Virginia governor Abigail Spamberger and her newly minted UVA Board of Visitors decide to fire newly hired president, Scott Beardsley without cause, the total financial exposure for a clean divorce is a whiskers hair below $8,500,000.

Like him or not, Scott Beardsley was playing chess when everyone else was playing checkers. That's what I published yesterday on the I Love Seville Network, and it's gone absolutely viral. It's interesting. You throw a photo of what appears to be a wealthy white man on social media and commentary or factual analysis of him getting $8.5 million to further add to his wealth. And then you include the phrase newly crowned governor Abigail Spamberger and the fact that Beardsley was playing chess instead of checkers, that's all you need for virility in this very sensitive and very dynamic and very divisive Virginia world we live in. I want to unpack the reasons

why Abigail Spamberger will push her newly minted board of visitors to fire Scott Beardsley, and I want to unpack the reasons why Abigail Spamberger will not push her newly minted board of visitors to fire Scott Beardsley on the show today. I also want to discuss on the program, and Judah, you're going to set the stage with the Jefferson Council, what was sent to us today. All wet the appetite for the viewers and listeners. Email this morning from the Jefferson Council on my inbox, highlighting the coverage from the Cavalier Daily. Finally, the Cavalier Daily and props to the Cavalier Daily, the student newspaper. They're the third media outlet to cover the UVA health system alleged white collar racketeering scandal.

The first, actually they are the, yeah, the fourth. The first one, undoubtedly, the I Love Seville Network. The second one, a Richmond television station. The third one, NBC29. Now the fourth one, Cavalier Daily. They cover the 239 pages that the Jefferson Council uncovered via FOIA on the UVA health system investigation and alleged white collar racketeering scandal. Cavalier Daily has got an interesting tidbit that we did not know about in its publication.

And here it is. In this Cavalier Daily report, the Cavalier Daily speaks with university spokesperson Bethany Glover, who drops this key piece of information. Williams and Conley delivered an oral briefing on its findings to the board of visitors in February of 2025, and that no written report was produced by the law firm Williams and Conley hired by the university to investigate the allegations. Jefferson Council asked this question, how is it possible that former rector Robert Hardy and the Board of Visitors in February of 2025 allowed an investigation of this size, scope, and seriousness at UVA Health without producing a final written report of its findings?

The extent of the report presented to the Board of Visitors by Williams and Conley was strictly oratory. It was an oral report and never a hard copy report, print report, paper report presented to the BOV. From my standpoint, there's a clear-cut answer to that, and that clear-cut answer is to diminish exposure and risk by having a paper trail. I don't know if you viewers and listeners watch the show on Paramount Plus called Landman. Landman features a stellar cast. Billy Bob Thornton is fantastic in it. Sam Elliott is in it. What is Ali's name?

Is it Ali, I should know her. She's a beautiful lady, very talented actress. Is it, Ali Gardner? Ali Larder is her name. in this past episode Demi Moore is also in this show in this past episode and I won't let the cat out of the bag or do any

spoilers for you but there's this the main oil company M-Tex the wife of the founder of the company was played by John Hamm the wife is Demi Moore and she asks one of the secondary characters on the show who's an attorney

why did my husband never have paper documentation of all the concerning activity tied to our family business, M-Tex Oil, and the attorney responds to Demi Moore's character, well, he, no, no, it was about, why did my husband put the paper documentation online in the cloud for us to easily access? Why was all the paper documentation in boxes in our basement?

And the attorney response to Demi Moore's character, he basically says if there's ever a lawsuit, your husband was able to go to the basement in your house to go to the boxes and destroy the only track record of the exposure possible. It's kind of got me thinking of this Cavalier Daily report and what the Jefferson Council highlighted in an email to me this morning. The Cavalier Daily uncovers the fact that the third-party law firm hired by the UBA Board of Visitors to investigate the alleged white-collar racketeering only provided the B.O.V with an oral report of what happened and not a written report. It's very similar. It's so you don't have a paper trail of what's going on. We'll talk about that on the program today.

I'll also ask the question on the show, and I do this from a position of love, a position of absolutely holding people accountable. And when I say this, I want the viewers and listeners to realize that I'm doing this from a position as an individual who owns a fair amount of a building in downtown Charlottesville and has tremendous skin in the game

in downtown Charlottesville. I'm going to ask for a second straight week on the I Love Seville Network and on the I Love Seville Show. Why have the 50-year anniversary plans to celebrate the 50-year birthday of the Charlestville downtown mall? Why have they not been announced? Why have those plans not been initiated? Why are we not celebrating the 50-year anniversary of the pedestrian mall right now? Every single month there should be a different kind of celebration, a different kind of history tour, a different kind of revelry as a milestone anniversary of 50 years for one of the

only pedestrian malls remaining in all of the country, and it's here in Charlottesville, and neither City Hall nor City Council nor the men and women of influence behind the scenes have a proper plan in place to celebrate what's happening and the most important eight blocks of the region. Why is that the case? I will continue to bring that up on the I Love Seville Show until I see traction of merit, until I see something that is synonymous with the milestone significance of 50 years.

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Huge fan of Hall Spencer on this program. A lot we're going to cover on the broadcast. Jude, a studio camera, as we welcome a man that's beloved in the community for his even-keeled demeanor and commentary that is respected and backed with reason, I asked you the same question to start every show, so you should not be surprised, my friend. What is the most intriguing headline for you and why, Judah Wickrow?

I can't believe that, I find it incredibly hard to believe that the law practice that did the report for the Board of Visitors was told not to produce a written report. It seems highly suspect. and I mean on the face of it it looks like a way of covering your tracks yeah um just the story continues continues to get uh more dynamic more concerning more riddled with malpractice dysfunction and potential criminality yeah hiring a high

expensive Mercedes-Benz, heck, not even a Mercedes-Benz, a Bentley or Maserati type of law firm to investigate the alleged white-collar racketeering, fraudulent billing, profits over patients, medical chart changing to maintain performance standards. And then not having that law firm provide a written, documented report, instead only provide an oral report, a report presented to the Board of Visitors in closed session, in closed session, not open session,

yeah. Suggest to me that very sophisticated and intelligent and well-connected people, the B-O-V, were trying to do a little docee-do, a little three-card money. Almost the hustler

on the New York City street corner with the cardboard box asking you to find the little ball under the three red cups or the queen of diamonds to win $20 or $40. That's what's happening here. I'm curious of your take, viewers and listeners, deep throat. We're going to get to your comments in a matter of moments. I have print, radio, and television watching the program right now. First, we lead with Beardsley, though, Judah.

Yeah. On the I Love Seville Network yesterday, I posted a hedge of... shot of Scott Beardsley, handsome fellow, Scott Beardsley, sharp-looking guy. And President Beardsley watches this program. He's got a team member that's streaming the show daily and providing a report to President Beardsley about what we're talking about.

Make sure this is included in the report, please. Sharply dressed fellow, well-qualified for this job. Man was playing chess when everyone else was playing checkers. He legitimately, Scott Beardsley has some leverage right now, some is the word, some leverage over Abigail Spamberger, the governor. Scott Beardsley has got a way to build even more significant generation of wealth. If he were to be fired, ladies and gentlemen, and if Spamberger chooses to fire Scott Beardsley without cause,

in totality, he will walk with $8.5 million and payout. That's if he's fired without cause. I had a conversation yesterday with a professor at the University of Virginia. He was in the humanities. I asked for his first and last name. All he would do was provide me his first name. He and I got in a little bit of a, I wouldn't call it an argument, but a terse conversation back and forth.

He overheard me yesterday afternoon speaking with someone tied to that had ties to the McIntyre School of Commerce. And yours truly, and this individual, I won't utilize his name who had ties to the McIntyre School of Commerce. We were discussing Beardsley and how he was playing chess when everyone else was playing checkers. This professor who clearly had a very different viewpoint of this than us tied to the humanities, that's all he would say, would only give me his first name.

He said what Beardsley is doing is borderline blackmail and extortion. That's what he said, his words, that he is no hero, that he is no king, that he certainly was not playing chess. He was just taking advantage of a situation. Then he said the $8.5 million if Spamberger chooses to fire him now, Beardsley, who would then get 10 years of compensation at a percentage of his presidential pay while working in some kind of faculty position at Darden, he said if he's fired as president of the University of Virginia,

he will not continue for that 10-year period of time while working as a faculty member of Darden. Immediately, the gentleman tied, 60% of his final presidential salary, immediately the McIntyre individual said, are you crazy? Why in God's name would he not ride out a 10-year, $780,000 yearly compensation with the Darden School, when he could easily get a job in the private sector while teaching one course or two over that 10-year period of time per semester? And when the McIntyre School mentioned that to the gentleman that works in humanities at the University of Virginia, his face turned ghost white.

He then realized at that point the leverage that Beardsley had. And made a comment to me, this professor in humanities at the University of Virginia, that our moral compasses, mine and the McIntyre fellow, were corrupt and convoluted because we were celebrating the negotiation tactic of Beardsley, who is looking to manipulate, who is taking advantage of a nonprofit higher education university. And immediately, immediately, the McIntyre guy said, hey, if you were in that shoes and those shoes, you're telling me you wouldn't do the same. And he had no response to that. Beardsley is in an extremely tenuous situation. And to not do his due diligence and get the best deal he can

on his contract would be, I mean, it'd be like a fish deciding it wants to hang out outside of the water. Like, this is the guy that's been the three-time dean of the Darden Business School. Of course he's going to cut himself a good deal. He's not an idiot. He's not the dean because they just randomly pick some. some guy to run the school. A lot of people don't realize this. If you're hearing this first, if Beardsley is fired without cause, there's a third layer to his contract where he would earn for 10 years after he is fired salary tied to the Darden School as a faculty professor. And over that

10 years, he'd get 60% of his final presidential salary, which is akin to 780,000. $80,000 annually. Yeah, I think it was the lower of 60% of his salary or the dean of the business school salary. John Blair leaves this comment.

John Blair number two in the family. Make sure you put his photo on screen. John Blair says this. Average Dow return over the past 40 years is 9.4%. exclusive of expenses. 8 million or 8.5 million.

He says, let's just use 8 million at 9.4% over 10 years is $19.6 million. And then he says, the House always wins Judah Wickhauer. We should unpack on today's show why or why not Abigail Spanberger

will choose to fire Scott Beardsley. Do you want to start? Why she would, I mean, the obvious reason is she wants what she wants. And she made that clear with the, with her request before becoming governor. She made that clear with her requests after becoming governor that, that the, that several of the board members resign. And I see no reason why she wouldn't. continue with Beardsley? The Virginia General Assembly, Democratic to the backbone, is eager to remove Beardsley from his presidential post. Spamberger has this decision to make. If I do can Beardsley with my

newly appointed board of visitors using my influence with my newly appointed board, what is the fallout or collateral damage for me as a governor for doing that? $8.5 million on paper seems like a lot of money. Eight and a half million. What's that? But not when placed against UVA's overall spend. The yearly operating budget for the University of Virginia North of $5 billion with a B, billion with a B. I push back on anyone that says they have an endowment of $14 billion.

Of course they can afford $8.5 million to exit from Beardsley. No, that's not how the endowment works. They just can't. It's not a slush fund that can be spent nilly-willie. Stop thinking of the endowment that way, viewers and listeners. The $8.5 million would be on the backs of taxpayers. So while the $8.5 million is something the University of Virginia can afford, and in the grand scheme of things, would be peanuts.

The significant collateral damage for Spamberger, the governor, would be the media coverage of how she immediately comes out of the gates, fires a guy in Beardsley because media would cover it this way. Her henchmen and cronies in Richmond don't want him in office, and she just puts the burden on taxpayers as if it's no big deal or on students with tuition increases. That's what the narrative would be, ladies and gentlemen, on this storyline. I'm very curious of your thoughts.

Put them in the feet. I'll relay them live on air. Judah Wickcarry, you go first, my friend. What are you asking? Your thoughts on the Beardsley storyline? I mean, I think the guy's probably just holding on and waiting to see what happens. There's not really much he can do. Probably, you know, like we mentioned yesterday, I would be surprised if he's even moved into Carr's Hill.

Either way, he's, you know, he's set. Deep Throat, number one in the family, his photo on screen. Will they try to invalidate Beardsley's contract, he asked? Hey, they can try anything. but ultra virus is generally not a very effective defense against claims of breach. He also says, as for the third party, law firm report, no written report means no discoverability, whitewashed, disgusting, more Jim Ryan's sneakiness. He says, and another thing, if the claim is that the board was not properly constituted, then any contract they needed to

ratify during the period, the board was not properly constituted would also be void. Does this BOV want to open that can of worms? And he closes, I mean, she might fire him anyway. What's another $8.5 million? Just jack up out-of-state tuition a few years per student. And then he says, the glided

youth who attend UVA from out of state, their parents will happily pay for this. Yours and listeners, let us know your thoughts. Put them in the feed. We'll relay them live on air on the water cooler of content and conversation. Here's my take on this. And then, Jude, if you want to offer some

insight into this as well. And you've got to speak up a little bit. I'm having a hard time hearing you. And we're mere two feet apart. Beardsley, to fire or not to fire? First, if you're going to rip off the Band-Aid, you do it quickly and you do it swiftly. If it's going to happen, it's going to happen sooner than later. And she's going to use the B-O-V that she's now appointed and has control. She's appointed 10 new members to it. A lot of people don't even realize this. There's so much going on with the UVA. They don't even understand that Spamberger has 10 appointees waiting to be approved by the General Assembly. Ten right now. And we all know that they're just going to go down the line and say approved approved. Yes, people like B.OV members often are. No, I mean the assembly. The General Assembly is,

yeah, that came up on the, that came up on the I Love Seville Network yesterday. One of the individuals who I have a lot of respect for. I won't utilize his name because I don't want to, you know, throw any shade at him. This individual said on the I Love Seville Network yesterday, these 10 members, Jerry, still have to be approved by the General Assembly. That hasn't been done. The General Assembly is, is, is, is, they're Democrats. They paved the way for this to happen. They made this happen. No way they're going to go against this. Yeah. They, they were the ones that, uh, that stopped, uh, that stopped, uh, former governor, uh, uh, uh, The former governor's appointments to the board visitors, and not just UVA, but to other schools as well. The 10 appointees will be approved,

and when they are approved, Spamberger has total control of the board and influence of the board. Then she instructs them what to do. And one of the first decisions is going to be Beardsley. The other side of the argument is you work alongside Beardsley, but you do it in a way where he's pretty much like, under your thumb, where he is lock, stop, and barrel following you in every, what you say, edict or order in every circumstance. And if he refuses to do that, then you can fire him for

cause. That's the alternative. My take is this, that Spamberger is going to determine sooner than later of what she's going to do. And that I genuinely think this is a lose-lose situation for her because her voter base wants her to fire Beardsley. But the flip side of firing him is the collateral damage of media ripping her for overreach from day one. Judo Wickhauer. I think there's also the question of how badly she wants to she wants to bring this fight to to the White House I think if she really

really wants to bring back DEI to UVA and pull back everything that the agreement you know everything the agreement stopped the university from doing then she probably has to fire Beardsley because I don't see him going along

with that just to go along with that there was, I think, enough discussion about DEI, and the fact that the university was going against federal law in instituting some of their DEI decisions, that this is going to be a tough sell for anyone other than a Spanberger presidential appointee at UVA. John Blair's comments, number two in the family. He says, I would agree with the humanities professor, Jerry, that you had a conversation with, that Beardsley is no hero. He's shrewd.

He saw a situation that was right for negotiating a very large severance package, and he took advantage of it. Jerry, here's a good example related to real estate. Let's say that the city of Charlottesville stated that it had to close on a new building on Market Street within 30 days, just like a board of visitors had to hire a president before January. Let's say that their need included a must-have of a production studio. I suppose you might say that you can name your price at that point. I think Beardsley was in a similar position. He could name his severance within a very large ban. Again, no hero, a guy in the right place at the right time who is willing to roll the dice.

We'll see if it works out. But if it does, he's basically future-proofed his kids at grandkids for life. I get that. I'm going to rattle off a similar hypothetical. but my hypothetical and John, I appreciate your comment tremendously. I always do. What I'm going to rattle off is something that actually happened to me. Okay?

One of the commercial spaces that I purchased was a commercial space purchased from Dr. Trice Taylor. And Dr. Trice Taylor was a dentist. He has since passed away. A very established and known commodity in Charlottesville, Virginia, a member of many boards. in Charlottesville. This is OG Charlottesville, Old Guard Charlottesville, Trice Taylor. He had an office space in this building, the Macklin Building. And Dr. Trice Taylor was in the back end of his professional career. He was in his 70s while still practicing as a dentist.

And weeks before closing his practice, after being unable to sell the space tied to his dental practice, I approached Dr. Taylor and said, I'm interested in potentially buying your office space. He was surprised because he thought the office space, which was set up as a dentist office, a dental office, would be sold to a fellow dentist who wanted to have a satellite office or a branch or division or whatever you call it a satellite dental office in downtown Charlottesville. So how his real estate agent, very established real estate agent, Tim Carson of Real State 3 was marketing the property in some ways was, here's your chance to open a dental office in downtown Charlottesville's ready to go. And I went to Dr. Taylor and I said,

sir, I have no interest in buying your office space, buying your dental practice and keeping it a dental practice. Okay. I am someone who rents commercial office space and I utilize my media company to keep vacancies from staying vacant that long because I can. in position call to action messages on my media company to fill the vacancies. And he was surprised. And here, I mean, I'll be straightforward. I knew it was a gentleman in his 70s. I knew he was closing his dental practice in a couple of weeks. And I know he had struggled for an extended period of time of selling his office. And I knew he had very limited interest from the market. And I knew because of all those elements, and this was, no, 11 years ago or so, I knew because of all those

elements that I could make in a pretty aggressive offer, and I knew if I made that aggressive offer, which was a seller finance offer with a fixed interest rate over a term 12 years that was not going to be an adjustable rate, it was going to be fixed over 12 years, and it was going to be amateurized over a 20-year period, that I said, this is my offer, it's my last and final, offer. I understand if you do not want to take it, here's my phone number. And four or five days went by and I received a phone call from his listing agent from Tim Carson, who's fantastic, and a deal was brokered. I wouldn't say in that scenario that I was, you know, you know, I would say in that scenario that I understood what was going on with the real estate

market and put a deal together that was frankly fair to both parties. Because if there's no other deal on the table for Dr. Taylor, who's in his 70s and he's about to close the door, and he literally would have no earnings tied to that practice and would have a lot of overhead, then the deal he had in front of him was fair to him. Scott Beardsley, when he puts together this contract, okay, He understands the game. He understands that few people in America at that time would take the job. He understands that the Board of Visitors at that time. Then the Yonken Board was trying to fast track a hire because they wanted to do it before they had to resign or get fired, right?

Isn't that right? Yeah. Okay? He understood that. He understood that he had to incentivize his contract or do his contract. in a way and make sure we're live on LinkedIn. It looks like the screen is gone dart. He understands that he had to do his contract in a way

where the incentive for him to leave the Darden Post. Actually, we're good. To leave the Darden Post makes sense. I don't fault Scott Beardsley here. Like, I don't fault the offer I put together

for Taylor that was an offer he had to take. Isn't that playing chess? 100%. Yeah, he saw the cards on the table. He saw that the board was,

as you said, going to find someone to fill the president spot. And he knew that he was a top candidate. So why not work to secure his future in an uncertain

you know, in an uncertain milieu. Right, right. Just like what we did. What I did with that buying the dental practice, I still had to figure out a way to come up with, as part of that seller finance deal, 20% of the purchase price, I had the dry powder on hand.

Beardsley still had to come, you know, overcome the mental hurdle of leaving a posh and cake in easy darden position to go into the lion's den of politics, the UVA presidential job. He could have kept flying under the radar at Darden, where was easy breezy Sunday breezy, easy peasy Sunday

breezy. You know, I still had to figure out how to way to cover the cost associated with gutting a dental practice and creating it into executive office space. That cost a lot of money. A lot of money to do that. Beardsley still had to figure out a way to explain to his wife and his kids and his family, I'm going to take this job and we're going to be our name, our moniker, our family is going to be in the media and potentially lay embasted by lambasted by half the Commonwealth and the other half won't even care. But in less than a year, we'll probably be able to move to a small island that we own. And for me, immediately after remodeling the dental practice into executive office space

and converting them into three private offices, I had them rented out because of the media company and was cash flowing positive revenue. Had the mortgage covered, had all bills associated covered, had money on top of that, and guess what? The mortgage is now tipped and it's debt-free. It's the same thing. In life, there's people, there's men, there's women that are willing to take risk, and there's people that are willing to play it safe. And there's nothing wrong with either path. And some of the folks that take risk lose everything. Some of the folks that take risk win big. Some of the folks that take risk win small, and some of the people that take risk lose small. And if you want to do that mindset, it's part of your DNA or personality. There's other folks that do it that just want a 9 to 5 or a 9 to 6 or whatever it is now.

I say Charlottesville is more like a 9 to 630. And that's fine too. I don't fault Beardsley for what he's done. And we're going to learn a lot about Abigail Spamberger and how she handles this and how she succumbs to the pressure of the General Assembly or how she basically looks at her constituents, the General Assembly, and says, hey, I'm not going to fire him. I'm going to work with him and I'm going to control him. and if he doesn't do what the BOV says in this very, very, very structured environment, then we have a reason to fire him with cause. But firing him without cause does not make financial sense. Anything you want to add to that, Judah Wickhara. Do we know what the contract says about getting fired with cause?

I mean, you can look it up and research it. It's certainly out there. Viewers and listeners, your thoughts, put them in the feet. we'll relay them live on here. Next, next headline, Judah Wickcarat. What do you got? Will a judge deem Beardsley, the Beardsley hire, invalid? This is the one intriguing wrinkle here that I want to follow closely.

Will a judge, will some kind of court, will a court, a Virginia court, deem that Beardsley was hired, that his hire by the Yonken appointed Board of Visitors, that his hire was invalid? and if his hire is deemed and valid by a Virginia court, this is right up John Blair's alley. This is up Jim Hingley's alley. Jim Hingley's watching the program. He watches the program.

He emailed me yesterday during the show. He was watching yesterday's program, the Commonwealth's attorney. If a Virginia court says that Beardsley, his hire was not valid because there was not proper criteria of, the board was not made up of proper criteria. It wasn't properly constituted. 12 Virginians, 12 alumni, then his hire is not valid. Now, the flip side of that argument is Yonkin tried to appoint the board,

but the General Assembly kept him from making the board valid by blocking the appointees. So that's out of my pay grade right there. That's out of my pay grade. That's the one wrinkle here that I think Spamberger can pursue. if she wants to divorce herself of Beardsley, is to figure out if there's a court or a judge. And this is a, this is a Hingley, this is a Blair type of comment. If someone says you could not hire that guy because you did not have the proper makeup of the board, then the flip side to that would be, we couldn't get the proper makeup of the board

because the general assembly was blocking Yonkin's appointees to the board, Ken Cucinelli, for example. Curious to see how that plays out. very curious to see what John Blair says. And as Deep Throat reiterates again that if that happens, it would mean everything

the Board of Visitors did was invalid. Everything. And Deep Throat says, and not just Beardsley's hire, but everything that the board did at that point would be invalid. And he says, we've been involved in litigation over this very issue in Venezuela, regarding

Venezuelan bonds, and we won. He's talking his firm was involved in litigation over this very issue in regards to Venezuelan bonds and his firm won. And then he says, you should ask John Blair, but authority slash ultra-virus arguments are very hard to win. That's a John Blair, like right up Mr. Blair's alley. This is out of my pay grade, John. And I like the point that he made about if you make this choice, invalid and that invalidates everything else the board did what happens with what happens with

Beardsley if you invalidate his contract as president of UVA does that does everything revert back does he then go back to being the the dean of Darden and the Dean of and the Darden squad is an interim dean right take it a step further does it revert back to Jim Ryan being president but Jim Ryan resign yeah take it a step further. What's this do with the UVA health scandal? As that Board of Visitors was actively involved with the health scandal.

Take it a step further. What does this do with the redacted triple murder report? I think we're getting a little far off. Well, why? Because... If the board was not able to legitimately act as a

B.O.V. Because the General Assembly cock blocked Yonkin from making appointments. Yeah. Right? That's what happened. And then everything the board did when it was not legitimate is seen invalid. Democrats using this to nullify the Beardsley hire.

But the board was legitimate during the redacted... Are you sure? Pretty sure. Is that right? Wasn't that like three years ago? The report, the releasing the reporter failure to do so, we'd have to look at the timeline. But this is my point. Look at the Pandora's body.

it would open. Certainly, Ryan's the whole to do with Ryan, right? This is another point that was made yesterday. This is another point that was made yesterday to me in a signal conversation. I'm not going to say with who, but it was through the signal app with a very important person. The very important person made this comment. Is Scott Beardsley going to quickly look to hire the provost and make a provost hire immediately? before he potentially loses his job. That's the next storyline. This particular heavy hitter said to me that Beardsley could do the one-finger salute to UVA if Spamberger is looking to fire him or the General Assembly is looking to hire him or the Board of Visitors is looking at fire him by fast-tracking a provost hire,

who's running the academia side of the University of Virginia. And that's someone that is as connected, as connected making that comment to me. what would that accomplish for him or would that just be sticking the craw yes the vendetta have to fire someone else yeah it's his version of the poison pill the pre the yonkin board poison pilled Beardsley's contract by making it so expensive to terminate him or to divorce from him he could then say they're going to stick it to me I'll stick it to you by hiring a provost that was what was fast to pass along to me yesterday. Let us know your thoughts, viewers and listeners. We'll relay them live on air.

He says this deep throat, I would be more concerned about contracts signed under B-O-V authority, property trades, service contracts, etc. Anybody who has second thoughts about a contract, well, sorry, we're going to avoid them. You guys argue it yourself. Wild times. I'll tell you what, it's certainly fodder for content creators. Comments continue to come in. Let's go to Barbara Becker-Tilly. She says, exactly. It was just coming on here to say that. Ryan is super dirty, and all that they are doing is

sweeping under the health investigation report under the rug. Barbara Becker-Tilly, so essentially doing what they do best, employee administration with the handcuffs of politics. Next topic. Judah Wickard, what do you got? And set the stage here. Is the next topic, the UVA health scandal? We got so many UVA people watching the program right now. Only an oral report. All right, set the stage here.

I mean, this is fairly damning, I would think, even if just by implication, but the fact is that the report that we've been talking about, the 239 people, page report was written up by Jones Swanson Huddell, who represented the 36 physicians who also participated in the Williams and Connolly investigation and provided its own additional report, which we have seen. Their report came out concurrently with the Williams and Connolly investigation where we recently found out when they provided, was this, do you know? You're making this way too complicated. Here's pretty much what's happened here, and I don't mean to be disrespectful here.

We've got to make it very succinctly here. The UVA Board of Visitors, when the anonymous 128 doctors brought to their attention alleged white-collar racketeering, fraudulent billing, allegedly, medical charge changing to maintain national rank. Kings and Performance Standards allegedly, and the positioning of profits over patients, specifically pursuing elective surgeries over general medicine and very risky surgeries, despite not having equipment, resources, and personnel to perform those surgeries, but still being told to do them because we want the payday.

The 128 anonymous brought this to the B.O.V. and Jim Ryan had been bringing it to Jim Ryan for years. they said, Craig Kent, hostile takeover. The Board of Visitors eventually went to a third-party law firm,

Williams and Conley, and said, investigate this. Williams and Conley, the third-party high-dollar law firm presented the investigation which was damning

to the Board of Visitors. They went into closed session to hear the investigation, the report, oral only, no paper documentation of the report,

immediately after Williams and Conley presented this report, Craig Kent, the leader of the hostile takeover, resigned. And the new wrinkle to this storyline, which was reported in the Cavalier Daily, the fourth media outlet to cover this, I Love CIVO 1, Richmond TV Station 2, NBC 293, Cavalier Daily 4, the new wrinkle that no one had discussed or figured out

was the Williams and Conley law firm presented the report in close, session to the Board of Visitors strictly in conversation or an oral capacity and no paper documentation of the report. Yeah. That's it right there in a nutshell, succinctly. This is as effing, damning as anything in this alleged white collar racketeering. Mm-hmm.

Because this speaks to cover up. Oh, yeah. This speaks to, this speaks to, this speaks to premeditated. Mm-hmm. This speaks to strategic. This speaks to elements of alleged racketeering. This is like legitimate. We don't want a paper trail.

Tell us in person in closed session what happened. Think about that, folks. This is disingenuous. This is closed door. It means there's nothing to FOIA. Yeah. That's what that means. Think about the premeditated nature of this.

That was the new piece of information uncovered in props to the Cavalier Daily. The new piece of the information covered in the Cavalier Daily report that came out, when did that come out? Let me see if I can find it. Was it today? Was it last night? That bit of information came out four hours ago. Four hours ago. Four hours ago?

And they're pointing to the, they're pointing to the, five hours ago. They're pointing to the, um, 14 hours ago. I'm looking at it. Uh, article in the Cavalier Daily. I'm clicking the link. Most of what's in that is, uh, is a rehash of, of what we already knew. The allegations. If you want to read this Cavalier Daily report, the headline is, quote, report on

UVA health details alleged misconduct under Kent and Kibby's leadership. They legitimately find, you know, and I'll give the Cavalier Daily grace because the Jefferson Council's efforts 239 pages happened over Christmas break.

So the students are now just returning two grounds. So to be fourth to cover this story is actually props to the Cavalier Daily because they just got back the grounds late last week and back into the newsroom early this week. Go ahead. Yeah, five hours ago they posted this and they

make the salient point that Kent was fired after the oral report was given to the Board of Visitors that no reason was ever explained to the public. And now, almost a year later, after his resignation, we find out that there was no written record of the official investigation. All we have is the secondary report. Charlottesville City Councilor Lloyd Snook offers a comment on the poison pill with Scott Beardsley. I'm going to respond to it. I appreciate your comment.

I will mention it live on air on the I love Seville show. Lloyd Snook, Charlottesville Mayor, Charlottesville City Councilor, one-time Charlottesville mayor. attorney. Loins-Snick says this poison-pilled deal was agreed with Scott Beardsley, was agreed to with Scott Beardsley by the Yonken appointed Board of Visitors represented by Jason Mayaris. Represented by Jason Miari's appointed UVA counsel. It was not an arm's length transaction. So Snook with this comment, and I have tremendous respect for Lloyd Snook, he's literally leaving this comment, 25 feet from where I'm sitting in our building. His law firm is 25 feet from where I'm

sitting right now. This comment, if I'm unpacking this correctly, alleges that the poison pill deal went so far up the food chain that included Jason Miyari's. And my response to that should have been, of course that's the case, and went further up the food chain that Jason Miari's all the way to the governor, Glenn Yonkin. Jason Mejari's his boss. Miyari's then the Attorney General at the time. The question is this, and this is some conspiracy fodder, some conspiracy content and conversation, you know where I'm going to go with this.

Yeah, you've basically set up two teams. You've got the Yon-Miaris board of visitors that he mostly appointed Yonken, Yonkin, and they have, they essentially have set up a play knowing what was coming down the pike and now you've got the other team making their, you know, their counter move,

their counterplay. No, that's not what I was going to say. Okay. What conspiracy conversation, fodder for your charcutoring cocktail party this weekend. We know the poison pill deal was blessed popes, got the Pope's blessing from Glenn Yonkin and

Jason Biaris. Did it go further than Glenn Yonkin to the DOJ and the Trump administration. The DOJ and the Trump administration had to be concerned that Abigail Spamberger,

she was the clear-cut winner of the governor's race. Winsom Earl Sears ran probably ran one of the worst governor's campaigns in Virginia history period. Winsom Earl Sears, now with the benefit of the hindsight, kind of looks like a political buffoon. and she got eviscerated in this race.

Everyone in their mother knew that Abigail Spanberger was going to beat Winsom Earl Sears, beat the brakes off of Winsom Earl Sears, and she did. Everyone knew that, and we knew that in the middle of the summer. Trump's no dummy, the DOJ is no dummy. Trump and the DOJ have UVA and the crossfire. Did it go higher than Yonkin with DOJ and Trump because they knew they could,

could look a fool if Spamberger wins, cleans house with the BOV, new house with the BOV, cleaning house with the BOV could mean reneging on the interim president Paul Mahoney's negotiation and signed contract with the DOJ and the Trump administration, which would throw shade and potentially embarrass the DOJ and the Trump administration by the University of Virginia giving the one-finger salute to Trump. Then Trump and the DOJ would say to UVA, I'm going to pull the half a billion roughly a year in funding from your university, and then Spamberger, the B-O-V, and the University of Virginia's deep-pocketed alumni base would say, okay, we don't need that $500 million. There's only a couple more years left for Trump to be in office, and the likelihood of a Democrat

winning the next presidential race is probably better than a Republican, and it's not going to be Trump for another term. Legally, it can't happen. So we're just going to raise $500 million this year, $500 million next year, and wait it out until Trump is out of the White House and controls the DOJ. Now, there's a little conspiracy theory for you there. But we certainly know Lloyd Snook that it went higher than Jason Miari's to Glenn Yonkin. To not think that Glenn Yonkin was a part of this poison pill deal is not reading the political tea leaves correctly.

You in agreement? Yeah. Okay. Did it go higher than Glenn Yonkin with the DOJ and the Trump administration? Because they knew that Spamberger was going to win. She was going to clean house with the B.O. the BOV was going to fire Beardsley, the BOV was going to fire Beardsley, and then renege on the contract with the DOJ and the Trump administration that interim president, Paul Mahoney signed with the leverage from the Trump administration, the $500-money sign with the leverage from the $500,000, $1 million. Because they could easily raise $500 million.

If Spamberger, the B-O-V and the University of Virginia do this marketing campaign, we want to go toe-to-to-to-to with Trump. It's Trump versus UVA and a market. campaign, help us raise $500, $600,000, $600 million. They'd get every Tom, Dick, and Harry, any, any, Jennifer, Louise, and Sally to donate $25 or $50 apiece to help make that gap. So how are you suggesting that this move stops that? What's that? How are you suggesting that this move stops that? This move stops it by making the buyout so expensive that Spamberger chooses to not agree with her Democrats that put her in office,

the General Assembly and Richmond that cock blocked the Yonkant appointees because she doesn't want the PR collateral damage of overreach, especially out of the gate, is the governor of Virginia. The only reason the BOV would not fire Beardsley now is because Spamberger says to the BOV don't do it. But Creed's Katrina Coulson, what's the Portsmouth State Senator? Louise Lucas, who used the word, a nasty, nasty word.

Louise Lucas, they all would want Beardsley out. David Tuscano is writing commentary left and right about why Beardsley's hire was wrong. Left and right. The only reason this one happened is because Spamberger will be perceived, will be positioned in the media as doing the same tendencies that Democrats hate with the Trump administration overreach.

Your thoughts, viewers and listeners, Sidney Riggs, welcome to the broadcast. We were unfiltered, we're unafraid, we're unabashed, we're unaffiliated. I think that's why you watch and listen to the I Love Seville Show, wild times. All right, it's 133. Goodness gracious, we've gone in an hour and three minutes without taking a break. Other items into the notebook that we needed to, we need to get to. Next headline, what do you got you to, Wickhauer?

We have a crazy man who decided that, because he got the wrong order at Bojangles. He was, I guess, somehow entitled to, I don't know, entitled is not the right word, but he called him up and made a bomb threat. All right, this is, the whole point of this headline was a little bit of levity. There's an individual that went to the Bojangles,

the Bojangles on Pantops. Got so pissed off with his Bojangles order that he started harassing and bomb-threatting and threatened to explode the Bo-Jangles. jangles on pantoms. Guess what? The police is able to track down people who call in threats

to bow jangles. Now this man's got a munk shot of him courtesy of the Almore County Police Department and the crime he's committed is threatening the bow jangles on pantoms. Thankfully, they've also found that there were no

explosive materials in his home. Of course not. In his home. The only thing that was going to be explosive is home and his home was going to happened in the bathroom after the sandwich was eaten. Bojangles is spicy, and I'll leave it at that. Next headline is the Tony Bennett court naming. Saturday against

North Carolina, Tony Bennett will have his name honored, will have his career honored with his name position on the court at the John Paul Jones Arena. This man is my standpoint, the greatest coach of all time. And I understand

there's great coaches out there like Brian Boland, who won four tennis, national championships at UVA, like Bruce Arena, who won five soccer national championships at UVA, Brian O'Connor, Dom Stasia, the swimming coach, George Welsh. I get it. But Tony Bennett, taking a basketball program from outhouse to penthouse and winning a national championship and one of the two revenue sports, the marquee sports, that 2019 national championship is the greatest sports story and UVA history, bar none. And because you are the author

of the greatest sports story in UVA history, bar none, you get the moniker of greatest coach in University of Virginia history, period. Saturday against North Carolina, you have a matchup of two top 25 teams. North Carolina's ranked, five ACCC teams rank.

UVA is the second highest of those five. Duke is number one. Virginia's 14 in the AP poll, 15 in the coaches poll. Virginia's got a real good team. Before the game starts, Tony Bennett will be honored, and recognize, and his name will be on the court.

And I can't think of a person that's better fitted to be the first coach in Virginia athletics history to have their name on a playing field. There is no UVA coach in the history of this rich and long-lived athletic department that has had their name position for perpetuity on a court. and Tony Bennett's the first and props and salute to him.

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