Meet the Prosecutor Who Investigated Steve Ballmer’s Clippers Nightmare | PTFO
As the Clippers await punishment, owner Steve Ballmer is big mad at Pablo Torre — and appears worried about what Aspiration founder Joseph Sanberg might have told the NBA. So Pablo and David Samson (finally) sit down with a special guest: Lou Manzo, the former DOJ prosecutor who investigated this whole tree-planting fraud in the first place, to go inside the courtroom, comb through footnotes and focus on the end game.
(Additional reporting by Anita Bennett)
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