TRASHFUTURE - *PREVIEW* Seven Crimes for Seven Brothers ft. Mattie Lubchansky

Episode Date: September 20, 2024

Mattie joins a recently re-Miloed gang to discuss how voters on both sides of the Atlantic only want delivery, and don’t care about scandals - whether it’s all of Eric Adams’ friends getting their phones seized by the FBI, or jillionaires playing dress up with the Labour Front Bench (and the Observer article that blithely describes all the shenanigans the party undertook in the run up to 2019 to play said game of dress up). Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/112421938 Want more Mayors with Mattie (and Nova and Riley)? Check out No Gods, No Mayors - a new podcast by us about Mayors and the Municipalities that love them. https://www.patreon.com/NoGodsNoMayors MILO ALERT Check out Milo’s UK Tour Here: https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

Last year, Eric Adams had all of his, uh, phones disease as he was phones disease. I take that again. Last year. You got phones disease? We've all kind of got phones disease in a way. Let me take that again. In a lot of ways. Last year.

If we keep making jokes about phones disease, they can't cut it. That's true. It's going to have to stay in. It's going to have to stay in. Yeah. Jesus. Last year. Fundraiser for phones disease sufferers.

Yeah. I mean, the phone banking for that was kind of a double edged sword. It was traumatic for the people doing it. Last year, federal agents seized Adam's phone. Is you happy? Are you happy? Would you like to donate to phones disease, but be fucking quick about it. We're both at risk. Riley, what were you happy? Hello sir, would you like to donate to phones disease? But be fucking quick about it. We're both at risk.

Riley what were you saying? Last year, last year the FBI seized Adams phone as he was leaving an event in Manhattan related to an allegation that he was acting as an agent of the Turkish government without registering it. After all the times that he said that New York City is the anchor of America, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Eric Adams denied that he was an agent of the Turkish government while offering the NYPD officer his phone and then taking it away again and then presenting

it to him and then dropping it behind his back and holding it under his leg. The thing about, the thing about New York City is that in many ways it is the anchor of the United States in that it involves a lot of Turkish government corruption, I guess. So the it going on with Eric Adams basically seems to be, as we've said, that his chief lawyer resigned because she was like, you've been doing every, every kind of corruption at once is why. And everyone around him is also doing every kind of corruption.

Yeah. So he says, anytime this something happens in this city, people call for me to leave, but why am I supposed to listen to them now? I was elected by the people of this city and I'm going to continue to meet my obligations to the people of this city. You were elected by accident, my man, because people didn't understand rank choice

and thought that you had to put every candidate down because this is the first time they ever did it. That's why you're the mayor. You tripped and fell from your house in New Jersey into being mayor. The homes that were raided include first Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, Deputy Mayor Philip Banks, Schools Chancellor David Banks, who investigators have also issued a subpoena to Terrence Banks, the youngest of the Banks brothers, who ran a lobbying firm that advertised, quote, Well, well, well, if it isn't the Banks brothers. He does employ a lot of brothers, like, like there was a whole show with the

police commissioner that the problem was his brother. Also, this guy loves criminal brothers. He's just always looking for them. In a very literal sense. Yeah. Yeah. He like, he like heard something about like the five families and he's like, Oh families, I need brothers. We need to run a brotherocracy. I need sets of brothers to do corruption with each other near me. Seven crimes for seven brothers. Seven crimes for seven brothers. Fucking go. Let's go. It's really good.

Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Terrence Banks, the youngest bank brother, ran a lobbying firm that advertised quote government relations and promised to help private sector clients navigate New York's integrated infrastructure and political landscape. We know what that means, right? We know what that means. Yeah, yeah, of course. Which is like, hey, I'm going to calm the other banks brothers, and I'm going to say, hey, my buddy is trying to open a restaurant, you know, help them out. But there's more. And no charges have been leveled yet, crucially, but also two former fire department chiefs were arrested. And then when asked about this, allegedly for providing preferential treatment to people and companies that needed fire safety approvals and inspections for the FDNY, if they would like sign up for their consulting,

their friend or brother who ran a consulting firm. You have subscribed to FDNY Plus, you know? Yeah. Sort of like a racket. They'll protect you if you pay into their quotes, racket. Somewhere up in Roman heaven, Crassus is smiling. Yeah. Otherwise they'll set you on fire. That's right. Brian Cordasco and Anthony Saccavino.

So yeah, Roman heaven really for sure. Yeah, really Roman heaven. And then Eric Adams defense against this was, oh no, that corruption started under a previous administration. I inherited it. Is that illegal? The funny thing is though, remember in Britain, this is just like policy. This is just allowed. Yeah. Yeah. Also the other while you mentioned

the Cabin Brothers, Caban Brothers. Yeah. Again, they also seized the Caban Brothers electronic. They're twins also more twins. They raided the Caban Brothers secret cabana at the Copacabana. And again, allegations that James Caban was exploiting his connections to the commissioner in service of a nightlife business venture. Finally, another one is Adams denied the existence of a deputy mayor for operations list outlining construction projects to be fast tracked, which apparently is like the centerpiece. Before you got to list, I thought he was like denying the existence of a whole subordinate, which I thought was a really funny bit to be like, this guy who's all the corruption's been

going through. I don't know who he is. We don't have a guy like that, you know? No, no, no. Deputy mayor? Never heard of him. The fast track construction stuff was also some of the stuff with the Turks. I think, I think, I think. I'm pretty sure. Plausible. This appears to be right, like everyone around Eric Adams is getting arrested and he did a press conference recently on his like mayoral report card. That's not a real thing, Eric Adams. You don't have those. F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F,

F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, all these education... Who wants to ask me about the jobs we've created, the educational opportunities that we've opened up? I want to ask him about the time that an FBI agent just like brushed past his security detail, got in his SUV and subpoenaed his phone. That's the thing I want to ask him about. Yeah, I mean that's creating a job in a lot of ways for an FBI agent as a project. But then the people at this like, you know, management report and this transcript were just like, hey, is there a corruption list? And he says, okay, well, let me go back to the DMO list.

I'm going to have to have this list you're talking about. I'm going to have the deputy mayor communicate. And if you looked at the wording of the indictment, these allegations, these actions started in 2021. And from what I read, it was a brief reading. They stated that that was the terminology the FDNY used. We stated again and we won't state it again. This administration did not have a list named like that and we made that clear and we stand by that. There's nothing under the title Corruption.docx. As the question was asked, why are you doing this? We want New Yorkers to know that this administration is working hard for them and producing real results. And when things happen

to administration, the real question is, do you have the ability to stay focused and provide the services the city is expecting? Yes, we do that every day. That's not true. Hey, is there a corruption list? Hey, is there a corruption list? And he's like, no. And the real question is, how are you doing such good mayoring while we're bothering you with these questions?

And not to go on a whole fucking another rant about this, but like he's also a bad mayor, like functionally, like he doesn't understand the city or how it works. He does a really bad job. Like a little tiny significant this is recently. There are all these like great dining sheds all over the city that got built during lockdown and stayed on forever. And it was great for like street culture. It got rid of a bunch of parking. So there's less cars around. People are just like hanging out on the street and they pass like new laws about it.

And now they tore down all the shut off. And it was like, and he framed it as like, we're going to make it better. And it's basically get rid of all the dining sheds. And now you can't even have like sidewalk seating for most cafes. So like he just has no clue how to be the mayor of New York City. So like he's not even comp. Like there's nothing holding his administration together. Like it's all like he is. Even if he wasn't being arrested 45 times a day or indicted 45,

like even if he was not being chased around by the FBI constantly and everybody knows resigning and quitting and being forced out he would also just like his approving rate approval rating would also be just any absolute shitter because he cannot run the city in any way because he's his brain is melting out of his fucking ears. On the upside Matty he does on almost every day say a sentence that's never been said before by another human apart from possibly the duolingo owls Such as I'm going to launch a war on rats

Another reporter asked two Italian chiefs from the fire department were indicted on charges of accepting $190,000 worth of bribes. I wonder if this is the kind of case that undermines the public's confidence in your administration It is the kind of thing that leads to maybe led to this press conference, which Eric Adams says, it didn't lead to this press conference. We had the press conference to show the work we're doing, but I want to go back because I think this is what happens when action is taken during the administration. People rarely look at see what's going well. No one, no one, no one's asking me about fucking national rat day. Are they? Yeah. Another reporter asks, I wanted to ask about your chief lawyer's resignation. Did she advise you to be in clearing house?

And as we begin to go through this, there's numerous federal investigations. Are you going to try to protect yourself? To which he answers, first and foremost, you guys have heard me say it over and over again. I don't go into private conversations I have with people. Little did I know that when Lisa came on board, the chief counsel, not only is her professionalism, but that we were going to develop a friendship like we did. I like Lisa a lot. And she's made it clear that Eric, I'm here for you. That even

though I'm not part of the administration, feel free to reach out with me and communicate with me, which to me basically seems like he's saying, don't worry. She's still implicated. She's going to come down with it. If I go down, she's coming down looking directly at the camera and being like Lisa it's national rat day. Final question. Have you seen my beautiful generals? So are you looking to clear house to protect yourself with these numerous fetish girl investigations, which mayor Adam says, I'm looking to continue to do what I'm doing, which is produce for New Yorkers. And I think that when I communicated with previous mayors, they all said, Eric,

there's going to be moments that are going to be distracting you from doing this job. This is a big city. And there are so many things that will happen. That's that's so true. Honestly, so true, bestie. I don't disagree. This is a big city. So a couple hundred people in the administration

are gonna have their phones seized for the FBI. The fire chiefs are gonna drive Lamborghinis for some reason. That's New York, baby. It's like New York's a character in the story. That's my life. Guys, there's 8 million stories of the naked city. That's not my problem.

Some of them are crime stories. Yeah, so a lot of, all the ones kind of like, there's like a hotspot on the map around me that are crime stories for sure. And it moves around with me, absolutely.