1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:07,200 Bombshell news as Leonardo DiCaprio, who essentially testified against Hollywood in what is the 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:12,200 biggest social and political corruption case that we have ever seen. 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:13,960 It's going on right now. 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:20,620 Now, DiCaprio dropped bombshell after bombshell, too, talking about hundreds of millions of 5 00:00:20,620 --> 00:00:26,200 dollars that ended up in Hollywood's hands and how the star power that that bought was 6 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:30,260 ultimately used to pump money into the political system. 7 00:00:30,620 --> 00:00:35,360 Tens of millions of dollars, by the way, all of it very illegal. 8 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:43,160 And make no mistake, Leonardo DiCaprio's testimony here has real consequences, as in may put 9 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:49,640 pros from the Fugees, you know, one of their founding members in federal prison for decades 10 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:50,720 from what he's saying. 11 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:55,600 Now, you and I, we are going to talk about some of those bombshells that Leonardo DiCaprio 12 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:57,340 dropped in the courtroom today. 13 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,000 And this, it really is Hollywood on trial. 14 00:01:01,140 --> 00:01:03,840 You have people like Kim Kardashian named in this. 15 00:01:03,940 --> 00:01:10,540 I mean, she walked away with millions, including $250,000 in a trash bag, a white Lamborghini, 16 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:11,080 and more. 17 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,860 Kanye West, he got Cade as well. 18 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,560 You also had Jamie Foxx. 19 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:17,100 Usher was named. 20 00:01:17,220 --> 00:01:19,780 I mean, this, the names go on and on and on. 21 00:01:19,940 --> 00:01:21,980 I mean, it's crazy times, huh? 22 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:23,380 Crazy times, indeed. 23 00:01:23,380 --> 00:01:28,900 All right, so hey there, to all you fine folks on this fine day, by the way, I hope 24 00:01:28,900 --> 00:01:30,600 you are doing excellently. 25 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:38,660 So, Leonardo DiCaprio enters a federal courtroom, April 3rd, 2023, and starts dropping bombshell 26 00:01:38,660 --> 00:01:41,180 after bombshell for about an hour. 27 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:47,220 Now, Leonardo DiCaprio is testifying against Pross, one of the founding members of the Fugees. 28 00:01:47,220 --> 00:01:51,180 Like I said, he may go away for decades because of this. 29 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:54,160 He is probably going to face jail time for sure. 30 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:59,520 And the reason, in my opinion, that Leonardo DiCaprio is testifying for the government is 31 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,120 because he didn't want to face charges as well. 32 00:02:02,220 --> 00:02:08,020 I mean, the FBI, they pulled him in back in 2018 because of all of this. 33 00:02:08,100 --> 00:02:10,360 It wasn't just the FBI talking to him either. 34 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:16,220 You had the IRS, the assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, plus 35 00:02:16,220 --> 00:02:21,720 trial attorneys for the DOJ for money laundering and asset recovery sections. 36 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:28,180 Now, Leonardo DiCaprio testifies basically about everything the FBI, they grilled him on. 37 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:32,520 He has also apparently testified about this stuff to a grand jury. 38 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:37,580 We don't get to see that testimony, but he testified as part of that as well. 39 00:02:37,860 --> 00:02:43,320 But what he's talking about here is his introduction into this, how he gets involved with the players 40 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:51,320 and this fiasco in the first place, because this is a case involving $4.5 billion, that's 41 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:57,220 right, billion with a B dollars, that ends up putting a prime minister in Malaysia behind 42 00:02:57,220 --> 00:03:00,460 bars, ends up putting Goldman Sachs players. 43 00:03:00,460 --> 00:03:06,080 They end up having one of them put behind bars, plus several other social and political 44 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:06,700 players. 45 00:03:06,900 --> 00:03:12,180 So DiCaprio says, at the first time, you know, when I get involved, I meet a guy named 46 00:03:12,180 --> 00:03:12,560 Lowe. 47 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:18,960 Now, Lowe ends up being a Chinese, quote unquote, dissident, aka a Chinese spy. 48 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:20,520 That's what you're going to find out. 49 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:27,340 But DiCaprio meets him back in 2010 at a birthday party in Las Vegas. 50 00:03:27,340 --> 00:03:32,340 DiCaprio says, at that time, he didn't know a lot about this person and thought that they 51 00:03:32,340 --> 00:03:37,640 were, quote unquote, sort of a prodigy in the business world and ultra successful. 52 00:03:37,980 --> 00:03:44,460 That's where Proz comes in, too, because Proz helps make and solidify this connection. 53 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:50,440 Now, as far as Proz goes, you have DiCaprio meeting Proz in the 1990s. 54 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:56,020 He attended a Fuji's concert, and DiCaprio also says that maybe he attended a Thanksgiving 55 00:03:56,020 --> 00:04:00,640 meal at DiCaprio's home, but that memory does not serve. 56 00:04:00,780 --> 00:04:05,180 Now, DiCaprio was asked also to identify Proz in the courtroom. 57 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:10,200 And DiCaprio had a visible impact on the jury in the courtroom. 58 00:04:10,460 --> 00:04:12,400 I mean, people were covering their mouths. 59 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,800 They were in shock that this guy, you know, he was here and he was testifying. 60 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,500 So, you have Proz play this off. 61 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,500 He ends up leaning back and he ends up waving to the actor, saying, you know, essentially, 62 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:25,240 hey, nice to see you. 63 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:31,980 So, Lowe and DiCaprio's relationship, along with Proz, this has developed over time. 64 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:34,620 They say at first, it was purely social. 65 00:04:34,840 --> 00:04:40,740 That's what DiCaprio testifies to, recounting a multitude of lavish parties around the world, 66 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,060 several of which Proz also allegedly attended. 67 00:04:44,060 --> 00:04:50,380 In one instance, DiCaprio said that Lowe flew several celebrities to Australia from New 68 00:04:50,380 --> 00:04:55,160 Year's Eve, then flew them back to Las Vegas in time to celebrate for the New Year's again. 69 00:04:55,340 --> 00:04:59,460 He was asked by the defense attorney, did you make it back in time to celebrate? 70 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:04,100 To which DiCaprio responds, yeah, it depends on how you look at it. 71 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:06,140 To which the courtroom laughs. 72 00:05:06,220 --> 00:05:09,660 And that can actually be a good thing, depending on how things play out. 73 00:05:09,660 --> 00:05:15,720 Because a laughing courtroom is not a hanging courtroom, although there's some real problems 74 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:16,920 for Proz in this. 75 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,780 For example, there's the discussion about political corruption. 76 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,220 And this one is a big one. 77 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:23,640 Why? 78 00:05:23,780 --> 00:05:30,960 Well, about 2012, so about two years into the relationship between Lowe and DiCaprio, 79 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:35,840 DiCaprio has a conversation about the ongoing presidential election. 80 00:05:36,060 --> 00:05:37,500 Quote, this is from DiCaprio. 81 00:05:37,500 --> 00:05:41,940 It was a casual conversation about what party he was in support of. 82 00:05:42,060 --> 00:05:47,820 I told him what party I was in support of, and he told me that he, or that he and a group, 83 00:05:48,140 --> 00:05:52,800 was going to make a significant contribution to the Democratic Party, saying this was around 84 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:54,120 $20 to $30 million. 85 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:59,280 I said, wow, that's a lot of money, DiCaprio said. 86 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:06,680 Now, prosecutors are saying that Lowe and Proz, they were making connections in the political 87 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:13,720 realm using Hollywood stardom, including Leonardo DiCaprio, to make donations through a series 88 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:15,340 of straw donors. 89 00:06:15,500 --> 00:06:18,940 So, you know, that is very, very illegal. 90 00:06:19,380 --> 00:06:25,560 Now, Lowe, as part of the relationship here, eventually offers to fund a movie for DiCaprio. 91 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:27,780 That's what DiCaprio testifies to. 92 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:33,780 DiCaprio's lawyers, a production company, and a third party, they all conduct background 93 00:06:33,780 --> 00:06:39,180 checks into Lowe and his finances, and they give DiCaprio the green light to make the deal. 94 00:06:39,380 --> 00:06:42,140 Now, prosecutors allege, I think this is something here. 95 00:06:42,220 --> 00:06:43,380 This is a bombshell. 96 00:06:43,380 --> 00:06:49,640 Well, when you think about it, that Lowe laundered money from 1MDB through a Los Angeles-based 97 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:52,300 movie production, Red Granite Pictures. 98 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:58,940 Red Granite Pictures allegedly used some of the laundered money to fund movies, including 99 00:06:58,940 --> 00:07:03,080 DiCaprio's 2013 The Wolf of Wall Street. 100 00:07:03,300 --> 00:07:10,780 DiCaprio even thanks Lowe by name while accepting the Golden Globe for the role in the movie. 101 00:07:10,780 --> 00:07:16,860 That's because Lowe ends up coughing up $100 million for a movie that ends up being ultra 102 00:07:16,860 --> 00:07:20,020 successful, by the way, but Hollywood didn't want to touch it. 103 00:07:20,100 --> 00:07:25,180 And don't you find it fascinating that a movie that is about corruption was funded by corruption 104 00:07:25,180 --> 00:07:26,540 of the biggest type? 105 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:32,080 Now, Lowe also ends up giving money to DiCaprio's environmental foundation. 106 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:35,320 You have him meeting up with a prime minister. 107 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:39,820 In fact, through part of this, he ends up meeting that prime minister two times. 108 00:07:39,820 --> 00:07:43,140 And DiCaprio says, yeah, you know, we're trying to make good on all of this. 109 00:07:43,260 --> 00:07:44,920 We're trying to make restitution. 110 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:47,620 And that, yeah, that's a theme throughout Hollywood. 111 00:07:48,020 --> 00:07:50,900 And this is ultimately why Hollywood is on trial. 112 00:07:50,980 --> 00:07:52,360 Because they love that money. 113 00:07:52,500 --> 00:07:56,320 They don't want to ask a lot of questions about where it come from and why people like 114 00:07:56,320 --> 00:08:00,060 Kim Kardashian walk away with $250,000 in a trash bag. 115 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:02,820 Another $100,000 from that setting. 116 00:08:02,980 --> 00:08:04,680 Another $100,000 more. 117 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:09,600 Plus, hundreds, hundreds of thousands of dollars more in wedding gifts. 118 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,180 She got a white Lamborghini with Kanye West. 119 00:08:12,460 --> 00:08:13,560 They ask for a Monet. 120 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:18,780 Kanye West gets $1.2 million for a private performance. 121 00:08:18,940 --> 00:08:21,160 Putting on a concert for seven people. 122 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:26,520 Plus, again, I mean, if you look at names, you have people like Jamie Foxx coming in. 123 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:27,220 Usher. 124 00:08:27,220 --> 00:08:33,720 Like I said, a lot of people, their use, their stardom to open the doors in politics. 125 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,580 Both sides, by the way, are inherently corrupt in this. 126 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:38,840 I don't want you to think it's a one-sided affair. 127 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:40,840 It's a mess all around. 128 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,100 But anyway, let me know what you think about this. 129 00:08:43,260 --> 00:08:48,120 Leonardo DiCaprio dropping bombshells because he doesn't want to go to prison, essentially. 130 00:08:48,420 --> 00:08:50,500 Man, what a world. 131 00:08:50,680 --> 00:08:52,200 Anyway, links in the description. 132 00:08:52,580 --> 00:08:53,460 Check those out. 133 00:08:53,820 --> 00:08:54,580 Sub to the channel. 134 00:08:54,580 --> 00:08:57,260 You'll enjoy it, and I appreciate you. 135 00:08:57,340 --> 00:08:59,660 I want to end here thanking you for being here, too. 136 00:08:59,860 --> 00:09:00,320 See ya.