How Legal Loopholes Exploit Small Businesses & Families I Tiffany Cianci & Ian Carroll DSH #1394
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:36 - How They Keep You Silent
05:00 - Therasage
09:48 - Corruption in the Legal System
13:38 - Propaganda of Arbitration
14:22 - Chief Justice John Roberts
17:08 - Solutions
18:33 - The Massage Envy Case
20:46 - Arbitrator Costs and Fees
24:59 - Judicial Bias in Arbitration
25:50 - The Arbitration Industry Overview
27:55 - The Revolving Door in Justice
30:03 - Justice and Affordability
32:30 - Acknowledging Systemic Issues
35:40 - Exposing Corruption
37:30 - Lena Khan and the FTC
42:15 - New FTC Document Insights
44:40 - Michael Browning Jr. Interview
48:53 - The Zipper Case Explained
51:12 - Understanding the Arbitration System
53:38 - State Bar System Challenges
56:00 - Corruption in Arizona State Bar
58:00 - Fixing the Legal System
58:25 - Follow Tiffany and Ian
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I believe
he was going to push to keep her.
And we knew Kamala was going to get rid of Lena Khan.
I had meetings with a bunch of like liberal journalists on TikTok and they were like, what would it take?
Because first of all, I don't endorsed.
And they're like, what would it take?
Because if she came out tomorrow and said, I'll keep Lena Khan, that would probably be enough to sway my vote.
I'm not kidding.
I thought Lena Khan was that important.
All right, guys, got Tiffany and Ian here today.
I'm sure you've been seeing a lot of them.
Been blowing up on Candace.
Congrats, guys, and thanks for coming on again.
Absolutely.
Thanks for having us.
Yeah.
Thanks for having me.
You're my favorite.
Exposing a whole new world with this arbitration stuff in secret court.
Yeah, a secret world that's been going on for ages.
And the only people that really know about it are people that get caught in it.
And the moment you get caught in it, you get silenced by it.
And so, I mean, Tiffany's a great example of that.
But fortunately, she broke her silence.
And there are others that have broken their silence, but it's just, it's tragic how much
destruction of the justice system has already occurred by the time any alarm bells are kind of being sounded publicly.
Yeah.
How do you think they keep everyone so silent?
Is it like a clause in the agreement?
There's, there's a couple of ways.
Most of the people that end up in arbitration end up there because they sign something unknowingly.
And when they sign something unknowingly, it's a big catch-all of clauses.
So my favorite is always the trampoline park for a birthday party, right?
Yeah.
You go to any opponent park.
You don't leave it any specific names.
You can go to the trampoline park for a kid's birthday party.
And at least some of them have you sign in on an iPad at the front.
When you do, you don't read the 90 pages that are attached to that.
And in there is an arbitration agreement, but it's not the only agreement.
There might also be a confidentiality agreement, a non-disparagement clause, a non-disclosure agreement, an agreement to mediate without going to the press.
There could be a non-class agreement.
And so you're not signing one agreement or two agreements or three agreements or a liability waiver.
You're signing hundreds of agreements you never even saw.
And even if you had seen it, you didn't have a lawyer, so you didn't know what it meant.
And so people are silenced by agreements they never even realize they entered.
And then what happens is some of those agreements might not even be enforceable.
But when they go to immediately get a lawyer, or they immediately notify the party, my kid's injured.
My kid fell off your zipline.
My kid's life is irrevocably destroyed.
And they go, if you say anything to anyone, we're going to sue you.
Jeez.
And most people
can't afford that.
They can't.
No, no family can afford that.
And so their lawyers will immediately say, if you want us to be able to settle this instead of going to this very expensive arbitration process, you have to stay quiet.
And their lawyers will say, it's my job to get you the most money I can.
And they're never going to let us get into court because of these horrible agreements.
So the best I can do for you is the best settlement I can get you.
And if you speak, I can't get you that.
Or they've already destroyed you in the arbitration.
The arbitrator issued a gag at the beginning of the case, which in my case, I was given a gag order.
Right.
And they'll issue a gag at the beginning of the case.
And by the time you're done, you're bankrupt and you can't afford to risk another lawsuit because your bankruptcy only covers covers the existing lawsuit.
Yeah.
Like they're desperate for me to lie.
They are desperate for me to lie, I am sure.
They would give anything for me to lie so that they could sue me again right now.
And it's telling that they, that they can't.
Right.
They have it.
That says a lot.
And I'll be honest, like half of that is probably that I'm telling absolutely the truth.
And the other half is that if they sue me, they have to sue me in court this time.
And that would give me open discovery.
on all of their communications.
Oh, yeah, let's go.
Let's get that discovery.
If they're going to say I'm lying, I get to prove that that they're not lying, that I am lying, right?
And so I get to go get all those communications and be like, I'm not lying.
Look, that email did exist, right?
But you bring up a really important point there that they would have to sue you in open court, right?
And because most people don't know, and this is what I've been talking about on the Candace show and what you've been sounding the alarm on for a long time now is that in arbitration, they don't have to follow the law.
In arbitration, the arbitrators are explicitly not required to follow the law.
And so there's this secret court where you can't talk about it.
And the judges and lawyers do not have to follow the law.
And so you, and theoretically, like your lawyers don't have to follow the law either, but it doesn't work that way.
Like the repeat clients are the corporations and the and the private equity guys, the big boys.
And so they have these very cozy relationships with those arbitrators, which are the judges in these courts.
And so they get this incredible treatment and they get to get away with libel, lying, all sorts of fraud, all sorts of craziness.
While you have to kind of play by the rules and just get clobbered while you pay them for the service.
It's almost, I'm going to give you an example that I've never spoken about on any show in my case of what happened.
Okay.
In my case, they denied me all my witnesses.
So it was just me and my lawyer that went.
They had a team of lawyers, literally an army of lawyers across a table bigger than this every day, double this size.
And they had no reason to deny you your witnesses.
They just no reason to deny me my witnesses.
They denied me all my witnesses.
They got dozens of witnesses approved.
I got none.
Okay.
So it was me and my lawyer.
My lawyer had one guy who he had no resources.
He had no backup.
He had no paralegals helping.
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Only one that could prep our case every day, a very complex, 11-day-long trial.
Okay.
And when we get to court that day, their lawyer normally on and Laura Sixkiller go, Your Honor, we'd like to propose invoking the federal rules of communication.
We weren't in a federal court.
We weren't in a federal case.
And he goes, and he didn't, I personally believe Patrick Irvine just didn't want to look stupid.
He goes, yeah, remind the court what that is.
And they're they're like, we would like to make sure that as long as she's testifying, she can't talk to her lawyer.
Wow.
And they kept me testifying for days.
So every day I couldn't help my lawyer prepare.
You couldn't call for your lawyer.
I couldn't talk to my lawyer during my case.
Holy.
Every night he would have to say, I can't talk to you, Tiffany.
And he didn't know what he was preparing.
It was a complex case.
I was the only one that knew all those documents.
Yeah.
And I was not allowed to speak to my lawyer
for a week.
Ordered by the court.
And my lawyer was actually a guy who followed the rules.
And every night he would say, I'm so sorry.
I'll see you in the morning.
We'll do our best.
Every day he would walk out of that courtroom and say, we're going to do our best.
I can't talk to you.
He would say it on our lunch breaks.
I can't talk to you.
You know how obscene that is?
That's not a rule of arbitration.
He can make up whatever he wants.
Why is that even a rule of court?
It's a rule of court.
Like if you're in a big federal court, you have a bunch of lawyers on both sides.
And so you can't coach the witness while they're testifying over multiple days.
Okay.
But I was also the client.
Yeah.
That's normally for like, like somebody's testifying against the mob.
You don't want the lawyer talking to them between days.
I was the client too.
That would never be allowed to be invoked when you're the client too.
Open court, that would never be allowed.
Never.
That's right.
Because my lawyer has to prepare for court.
But anything they asked for, he was like, yes, sir.
Yes, ma'am.
Yes, sir.
I was like, could I just like, maybe go take a bathroom break?
Nope.
Could I just go and check for some evidence?
Nope.
Could I show you this video?
See, Michael Browning, their CEO, he answered a question.
And they were like, we asked him, do you recall at any point in a video that was released saying, we will not tolerate disunity?
He says, nope.
I don't recall that ever happening.
That didn't happen.
And I was like, Your Honor, I have a video of him saying that.
Gotta release it.
I would like to show it to you.
And I pulled up the laptop and they were like, we object.
And I'm like, he just lied under oath.
By law, I'm allowed to impeach his testimony.
He just perjured himself.
And they were like, what will the video show?
Exactly what he just said didn't happen.
I was like, I don't think we need to look at that.
I swear to God, that was a whole
multiple times, right?
Multiple times, over and over again.
You could have used a video as evidence.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I didn't get to use any of my evidence.
I showed that video on the Candace show in the first episode.
I guess in the episode, yeah, in the episode that aired just this week, two days ago.
Jeez.
Yep.
This is a wild video.
I can't believe this.
It was the most insane experience of my life because I am married to a federal attorney.
I went to law school with my husband.
I sat in classrooms with my husband.
Okay.
I was pre-law.
I took the same pre-law classes as my my husband.
We believed in the criminal justice system.
My husband did not become a lawyer to be one of the bad guys.
My husband became a federal attorney to do good, to make a difference, to protect our country, to do a lot of things he wanted to do.
And the hardest thing has been watching the deterioration of my husband's faith in his profession.
My husband is not the man I married.
My husband is a different person at this point.
My husband has no faith in his profession.
He doesn't believe in anything that he does.
He doesn't believe that the bar is capable of ethics.
He doesn't believe that the bar is capable of honesty.
He believes that it's a massive corruption scheme and you only get the justice you can afford in America.
And for a federal attorney who spent his entire life trying to be an, he was the first in his family to go to college.
So was I.
He worked so hard to get there, worked so hard to get to law school, worked so hard to get to a tier one school, worked so hard
in a social justice law school.
He went to a social justice law school.
Yeah.
Right.
And for us to come out and for him to feel the way he feels today, it's broken my heart.
You bring up an important point to take, to take a second to expand on.
You say you can only get the justice you can afford
because we've talked about a few examples here so far.
And one thing that's really important, I think, to remind everyone every time is you're one example of one woman that went through this in one industry with one company that went after you.
And that was a toddler Jim.
And he owns this like brand, Unleashed Brands, that owns a bunch of kids' franchises and stuff like that.
But you're just one example out of millions of Americans that go through this because it's not just one industry.
It's you always go through these crazy lists of like, A, in your phone, there's like 20 to 30 arbitration agreements, and there's a crazy case about Uber that you can Google, but all your apps come with arbitration agreements.
Your phone itself comes with an arbitration agreement.
Your house has an arbitration agreement.
If you're renting, you have an arbitration agreement.
If you're employed, you have an arbitration agreement.
Your vet, right?
Your nursing homes.
Your pediatric emergency rooms, right?
All pediatricians' offices at this point have added them.
Dentists, orthodontists, you see it in, oh my gosh, funeral homes.
Wow.
I mean, even a lot of products come with arbitration agreements.
So you're in this position.
The 50s love that.
You're in this position now, whereas an American, yeah, you have constitutional rights normally, right?
And we all expect that the courts will work properly.
And so if a peasant kills a peasant, there's a court system that'll sort out the peasant squabbles.
But the moment that you get into anything goes wrong where you're up against a rich person, suddenly you are almost always already bound by an arbitration agreement.
And so you suddenly do not have rights.
Anytime that you're in a dispute against a corporation, a private equity group, or a billionaire, usually through one of those things, you immediately wind up realizing like, I already do not have rights.
And so it's actually that all Americans do not have rights if they're against the oligarch class.
You only have rights if you're against each other.
Wow.
And that is the definition of a two-tier justice system.
And it's already in place.
It's been in place for years.
It's a facade designed to give all of us the illusion that we have a one-tiered justice system to give us all the illusion that there's justice for all because we see people go to jail and we see people that, you know, win once in a while, somebody wins a big settlement, right?
We all watch Judge Judy.
We've all watched Judge Judy.
Absolutely.
You know, Judge Judy is an arbitration court.
No way.
Did you know Judge Judy, you have to sign your ear?
She's, she, you agree to go before her as your alternative dispute resolution.
Yup.
She's an arbitration court.
That's so fun, right?
That's what makes it fun.
She can do whatever she wants, right?
Judge Judy's an arbitration court.
She's not like an arbitration court.
She's an alternative dispute.
Like she makes it fun, right?
And she has to be fair because she's on TV.
She's what they hold out.
Look, this is alternative dispute resolution.
You have justice.
Yep.
No.
And actually, so when I started doing the research to kind of like build on the story that you were telling me, I started to find a lot of what essentially seems like propaganda about arbitration that is like legal publications sort of describing what the ideal of arbitration is, that it'll be faster, it'll be cheaper, it'll be a way easier way to settle a dispute just out of court.
So you don't have to deal with all the fees.
You don't have to deal with all that stuff.
And it makes it sound like a very reasonable idea.
And that is 100% not the reality.
And it really is propaganda.
And I don't know if it's necessarily coming down from law school into people's brains and they're just regurgitating it or if there's actually paid programs kind of pushing this stuff out or if it's a mixture or something.
But so I'll take a little bit of that mantle up.
First of all, this entire corruption has been propagated by really one man, which is horrifying to say.
And I'm going to have a hard time saying this because I don't agree with much of what he's done, but I disagree.
But I do agree with someone.
Chief Justice John Roberts has single-handedly engineered this system.
Wow.
He has single-handedly expanded this.
The Federal Arbitration Act was very narrow when it was drafted.
It is only through his rulings that it has been expanded.
Do you remember when he was put in place?
How long he's been there?
Yeah, he's been there 20.
I could look it up.
Maybe like.
So he's been there a long time, walking the line further and further.
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further and further right he's he's authored all of the major opinions on arbitration he's a very pro-business um
2005 yeah
20 years yeah 20 years so uh
he's a very pro-business jurist very pro-industry jurist very pro what he calls free market jurist yeah free market but it's not a free market if you're suddenly locking bad conduct behind secret courtrooms Exactly.
And I like to believe, and
there's a ton of responsibility on Congress.
I am not going to say like, oh, he did it.
The Supreme Court can only do what Congress lets them do by failing to address issues in law.
They're so happy to just write a law and be like, we did something.
Look at this one thing we've done in the last four years.
And then to not actually put in enough nuance to properly legislate.
And so you leave the courts to work it out.
And that is a huge problem.
And it's a bigger problem since Chevron has come down, because at least then you had experts that got involved in the regulation of it.
Chevron was good and it was bad.
And there's going to be good outcomes and bad comes, bad outcomes as a result.
But that's a court case that said wherever the legislature failed, the experts and the regulatory agencies could fill in the gaps.
So if legislatures didn't understand water contamination, the experts that did understand water contamination would say how that was put into place.
And Chevron allowed that.
Well, now Chevron's gone.
And so there's going to be litigation after litigation tearing down any decision that was made based on Chevron over the last 20 years.
And as a result, what I hope comes out of it, I think it's unlikely given the reality of our current legislative situation, but what I hope comes out of it is that it will force necessarily specificity in legislating.
Because if they don't use it, then then the courts aren't going to force it because Chevron can no longer be relied on.
That's how every gap in legislation was filled for the last decades
and so it they either have to be specific in the way that they write a law or the law is not enforceable it cannot be implemented is congress looking into this at all is there any solutions being proposed oh there are so many easy solutions to this it's pathetic how many easy solutions there is let's require arbitrators to follow the law just follow the law that would be the easiest law to write ever like it's amazing you wrote the whole act and they didn't think and follow the law they were like new judges less discovery, still enforceable in court.
No need to follow the law.
Like, who was like, this is a great idea?
Yeah.
Not right, right?
But this could be the easiest amendment in human history.
Like, literally, you go in and you're like, hey, Republicans, did you know that liberal arbitrators don't have to follow the law and can force women abortions?
And then you could be like,
and then you could be like, Republican legislators, did you, or liberal legislators, did you know that Republican arbitrators don't have to follow the law and they can like deny poor people any access to justice?
Did you know that?
Did you know that?
And all you guys have to do is pass one single sentence, amendment to the Federal Arbitration Act.
Arbitrators must follow existing laws for the jurisdiction governing the dispute.
Bingo.
I did it for you.
Bingo.
Wow.
The gift is yours, guys.
Like, that's literally, that's it.
It's the whole thing and there there could be more than that too but that's such a good start right so you always bring up this example of the massage envy case where 180 women came forward because there were probably a many more than that but there were 180 women at massage envy's the nation's largest massage uh franchise chain that were
by their massage therapists
um and and coworkers yeah exactly so all sorts of different claims and they came together and they tried to file a class action i believe initially tried to file a suit they tried to push them into arbitration and it became became this kind of battle over like, can you push sexual assault charges into secret courts?
And eventually they changed the law.
I don't know the specifics.
So they did force them into the secret courts.
They did.
The court ruling was forcing them to secret courts and breaking up the class.
And that led to three women breaking their silence and their gag orders and going to the press.
I read it in USA Today.
It was the first one I read.
And in USA Today, there was a huge scandal.
It was picked up by a lot.
And they said women are being forced into secret courts for being.
and when that happened, all the female legislators in the districts where it was happening took a lot of heat.
And suddenly, literally in the matter of like two months, a law was passed, HB 4505 or 5404, that was that in instances of sexual assault or harassment, you can no longer force an arbitration agreement to be enforced.
It was the easiest thing.
It passed unanimously.
And it's massive because over 50% of women in the workplace are subject to forced arbitration clauses in their employment contracts.
So if you think of like, what, we're 300 million Americans, I'm just making up numbers, but like maybe there's eight, 10 million, eight to 10 million women that are working in the workplace.
5 million women are subject to an arbitration clause.
And if someone at their workplace million total Americans that have employment contracts that have arbitration clauses right now,
you know, maybe three years ago, it's probably higher now.
So maybe 30, 40 million women that have arbitration clauses.
So that if anyone at their workplace sexually assaults them, their boss, their coworker, whatever, they basically have no recourse.
Because, like, if they speak out, they'll get fired.
If they don't speak out and try to go the legal route, they'll get forced into arbitration.
They can't afford that.
And they have to pay to go to that arbitration and no one wants to pick up these cases because he's such a child.
Let's break down what you had to pay for your arbitrator and how that system works because it doesn't even register in regular people's minds what we're talking about here.
Because you are literally, it's not like you have to pay a filing fee to put it to like enter court.
It's that you are paying an hourly wage plus a bunch of other payments to the judge themselves.
Yeah.
As well as paying your lawyer the fees that you would need to pay, right?
Can you break us down what you were paying for your arbitrators?
So I had two different arbitrators during my case, and there's other arbitrators I've been before in cases I've testified in.
In my arbitration case, I had first to pay a $3,600 filing fee.
for the count if I wanted to defend my defamation case.
Just to get started.
Just to get started.
If I wanted to say say they defamed me, they lied about me, I had to pay $3,600 to even start that process, which is not the $150 filing fee in a court.
Right.
This is $3,600 just to start.
Then I had to pay for the process to select the arbitrator.
I didn't even get to participate in the selection of the emergency arbitrator they gave us.
She was just $500 an hour.
And we had to pay that in advance.
So I was told we had to advance like $5,000 to her.
Wow.
So that was just to get started.
Then during this, they filed against me in court too.
So simultaneously, I spent $80,000 in fees in Maricopa County court where they lost over and over again.
But I spent $80,000 in legal fees during that big, while I have this one going on, I also have the court case going on.
Simultaneously, they're trying to dismiss this case while I'm spending 80 grand.
And they
brought
that case and now they want to dismiss it because they're losing and they want to shop that back to arbitration.
They used it for all the discovery they could get.
They got a whole bunch of
like, they got tons of evidence they wouldn't wouldn't have gotten during arbitration.
They got tons of like depositions they wouldn't have gotten in depth in arbitration.
They wouldn't have been guaranteed any of that.
So they exploited the court system to get excess discovery.
Wow.
They found out the judge was not having it.
Like there was literally a point one of the transfers is like, you can argue anything you want.
I'm not inclined to grant this.
Like this is ridiculous.
And they also got to bleed you of a lot more money that way, because that is the point.
It's, this is not just because they're seeking justice.
This is because they're seeking to overwhelm you and overcharge you and bleed you dry.
Yep.
And then at the same time they they they dismissed that case they came back to arbitration and they're like we're starting we're amending this arbitration and we're adding 11 counts against her and in those 11 counts we need a long-term where we're seeking a permanent injunction we need a new arbitrator so we went through a new selection process that costs money
like and you have to file again now and then during that process you have to have lawyers and while you're when you choose your arbitrators the arbitrators i got were between twelve hundred and fifty dollars and three hundred dollars an hour anywhere in there crazy and you get to strike some they stroke struck all the cheap ones yeah So they forced you to pay more.
So that forced me to strike the $1,200 an hour ones.
I could never afford it because you don't get to choose your arbitrator ultimately.
At least that's what they tell you.
They tell you it's an independent process.
So I stroke the expensive ones because they struck the cheap ones.
I'm from Vegas.
I know my odds.
Right.
Then you rank them in order.
We knew there was a guy named Colin that everyone in had said was the most fair arbitrator in Arizona.
So we ranked him number one.
They also ranked him pretty media.
They ranked him three.
We got Colin.
We were so excited.
We were like, we have a fair arbitrator.
This is amazing.
They immediately filed an objection.
And they said, no, no, no, he can't be their arbitrator.
Like 25 years ago, he was on a case with her lawyer.
They weren't together.
They weren't in the same practice, but they both worked on a case.
So he has to be removed.
And so they forced him out.
Wow.
And they object until they get to the arbitrator they want.
Then they got Irvine and that's who they wanted.
So he was like 450 or 500 an hour.
And that was $500 an hour for every bit of case research he had to do, for every phone call he had to take, for every email he had to answer, one one hour minimum.
So if it was a 10 minute process, we were paying $500.
If we wanted to go before him because they were terrorizing me, I had to have enough money for a three-hour hearing.
So I had to put up enough money for all of us to do that, three grand.
I didn't have it over and over again.
People ask me all the time, when they were trying to force you to have the abortion, Tiffany, why didn't you just ask the judge to help?
We did.
We did ask the judge to help.
And there was a process that was open.
And they allowed that emotions practice to close.
Whoever initiates emotions practice has to have the money in the account to go before your arbitrators.
I wanted to go back before him, but it meant I had to initiate it.
I didn't have any money in my account.
My lawyer was like, we'd have to give money to AAA
at the same time that they're literally saying, if you don't tell us by tomorrow you've scheduled an abortion, we're going to file a sanctions motion against you.
Right.
Like, that's literally what's happening.
I have no money.
I can't go to work.
I have nowhere to borrow it.
I'm in labor.
I'm literally losing a kid.
Like everything was coming in.
And by the way, get up and go drive to the bank because if you don't produce some documents by tomorrow, she's going to file a sanctions motion against you for that too.
And so i dragged myself bleeding out of bed and went to a bank so this is all happening and and in the middle of all of it everything we have to go for the arbitrator for we're paying 500 an hour 500 an hour during the trial that's twenty seven thousand four hundred dollars a week geez and if you have let's say you work something out you have to cancel a hearing 500 fine canceling the hearing yeah like and you mentioned something important there you said we'd have to pay triple a yeah right and that's something that we need to stop for a second and elaborate on because when the audience hears the word judge or arbitrator, they're assuming we're talking about a government institution or a government system.
And you're paying this government justice system for the obviously, it's expensive to run a court, right?
No, AAA, the American Arbitration Association, is a private company that runs the arbitration industry.
And there's a lawsuit that was just filed a week or two ago.
against this system.
I forget exactly who the defendant is.
A woman named Stephanie, I think.
Yeah, Stephanie is, yeah, I forget forget her exact name.
I brought the lawsuit up in one of my recent Candice episodes.
And it alleges in that lawsuit that AAA controls 94% of the arbitration industry.
And so the entire arbitration industry is a cartel run by a private company called AAA.
And of the entire rest of the industry, 6% is controlled by JAMS, which is another private corporation.
And then the other point, like 00003% or something like that.
But that's a real number.
That's not a major number.
That's the only thing other competitors.
And so when she says she has to top off her account with AAA in order to have the privilege of going to court to say, I don't want to have an abortion,
AAA is a private company that she has to pay.
And AAA is who her arbitrator works for.
And AAA is who her arbitrator, who, if he wants to make a 10-minute phone call and bill her one more hour to get $500 more,
all of that is a private company that works with all of these arbitrators, that works with all of these corporations and all these private equity guys.
It's one giant cartel that just preys on people like Tiffany.
In American history, if any other corporation has ever reached 92% control of any industry, they're broken up immediately.
No.
That is an ass, that is so far past the Sherman antitrust law parameters.
That is so much higher than the Sherman antitrust law parameters.
But every damn judge in America is using AAA as their retirement plan.
And so none of them are going to do anything about it.
That's the problem.
None of them are going to do anything about it because right now they're making $130,000 a year while all of their legal cohorts are like Norman Leon are billing $1,300 an hour.
And they're like, when's mine going to come?
And they know in retirement, it's coming.
This is so important to mention because because you're saying they're using it as their retirement plan.
And that's not to mean like they're investing money for a retirement savings account.
What she means is that they are planning on using the revolving door from the main, the real justice system into the arbitration system once they're done.
And so what that means is that when they're in the main justice system, they actually want to act in favor of the big boys so that when they become arbitrators later, they'll already be favorably viewed.
Because if they don't get picked as arbitrators by the corporations corporations and the private equity groups, they won't make the money because they'll just get struck.
They'll never have the cases.
They'll never make all this crazy money.
But if when they're a normal judge, they act very favorably to corporations and private equity, they know that later on they've got a golden parachute waiting for them of really easy work for huge amounts of money.
And like really, like there are judges that shop around for cases because if you have a specific knowledge of case law, then you're more marketable.
So say you got to do a telecom case.
Now you can bill $1,200 an hour as an arbitrator.
Let's say you did a maritime law case, 2500 an hour
right let's say that you did nuanced intellectual property of a dispute between google and another tech company 4 000 an hour that's insane and so you have to think about when you think about law school and the type of you know 18 year olds that are dreaming about law school and going through that career how many of them are like tiffany's husband that want to change the world and make the world a better place and and do right and how many of them are wanting to go through that extremely grueling school process to make a lot of money?
Right.
And then of the ones that were idealistic and actually wanted to do this really hard thing in order to do the right thing, how many of them survive with that mentality by the end of law school?
And just imagine when all these lawyers are graduating and passing the bar and becoming lawyers and judges and
all these legal professions, what percentage of these new legal professionals are there for the money versus there to do the right thing.
And then by the end of their careers, how many of them have been soured on that and have now just been doing it for the money?
During the first part of our case, one of my husband's law school friends who was a couple of years ahead of him,
Ross, he came to us and he's like, you guys need to know, you're not litigators.
Your husband is not a litigator.
And I am warning you, he said these words, said, you're going into a system you believe exists.
This is an argument every day.
And you don't have the money to win in the system.
And Ryan was like, what are you talking about?
I know the law.
The law is on our side.
And he said, I am telling you, you only get the justice you can afford.
You have all of us.
We were surrounded by lawyers.
We had so many lawyers that would come over and have research nights at our house.
It literally looked like the scene in Van Wilder where they're trying to get him out of it.
They had the board up and we're hanging a glove.
You know what I mean?
They were like, we had so many lawyers camped out in our living room that were literally trying to just show all the ways that we could do this, to feed it to our one very, like, very long-term lawyer who'd been fighting the franchise system and corruption for decades.
He's retired now.
It It was his last case.
I broke my lawyer.
My case, he believed my case was going to be the case that showed that you could make a difference.
He believed it.
He took it.
He worked so hard for so little money.
Wow.
He gave up everything.
He gave up time with his family in his golden years.
And he fought so hard.
And he literally looked at me and he was so hopeful, but he knew.
As soon as we walked in the arbitration room, he said, you're going to be my last case.
And he absolutely meant it.
So he retired.
He retired.
He couldn't do it.
He literally called me the other day and he's like, I'm so proud of you.
Don't you ever give up.
He said he was watching Candace.
My lawyer could never have watched Candace, by the way.
I'm very proud that he watched Candace.
He lived.
My lawyer worked in San Francisco.
He came out and did all this for me like for like almost nothing because he was one of those guys that worked.
He worked in the FTC.
He worked in the FTC.
He was a lawyer at the FTC that enforced the franchise act.
And like my lawyer could never.
have been a guy that like watched Candace Owens, but he did believe that the system could be fixed for small business owners.
And my case absolutely, irrevocably broke him he said it was the most blatant case of retaliation he'd ever seen it was the most obvious case it was the most obvious no no arbitrator could look away from it everyone had to see it and he's not the only legal expert that has told you this
so many so many lawyers are helping me secretly in the background yeah so many lawyers from their side really have secretly helped me in the background yeah even they know it's even they know it's messed up yeah like there are lawyers that have called me this week multiple lawyers that work with the ifa that have called me this week and they're like don't stop.
Whatever you do, don't stop.
Wow.
You're so close.
Yeah.
You're so close.
Like, don't stop because no one's ever made it this far.
Yeah.
And the IFA is the International Franchise Association.
And we don't have time to get into them, but I do just want to give them a quick shout out that, boys, your time will come.
We will get into you later.
Don't worry.
We are coming for you too.
Because they are tied.
It's not just this one private equity group that's going after her.
It's not just the arbitration industry.
It's not just one thing.
It's this huge network of corruption that has just grown out of this sort of black box, this like wall, this curtain.
Super exploitative, like interlocked, just filth.
Yeah.
Revolving doors in every direction.
And a lot of them know how messed up it is.
But when you're getting so fat on all these big checks, it's hard not to just keep on looking the other way and keep on making money.
At least that's the way I assume that they justify it.
I honestly believe they all know it's going to come to an end and they're going to get as much out of it as they can until it does.
Yeah.
Because something
has to break.
Something has to break.
And I really hope that we're at that moment.
I truly believe.
It almost broke 10 years ago.
It almost broke with Cahala Brands and Coldstone.
It almost broke with Quiznos.
And then that got silenced with some settlements.
And then it almost broke with Cahala Brands.
I think it was CBS in 60 Minutes.
We're doing this huge investigative report into Cajala Brands, which CEO was Governor Doug Ducey of Arizona.
Where are all of these cases taking place?
Texas and Arizona.
Where is the class action against AAA taking place right now?
Arizona.
Where did all of the Quizno's law take place?
Massage Envy's law took place.
Arizona.
Arizona and Texas are cesspools for this.
But right now, they were doing this huge investigative report at CBS on Cahala brands being extremely litigious against their franchisees and their association and being retaliatory.
And the day before it was set to air, the day before it was set to air,
it was struck by the network.
And then suddenly there were Kahala brand ads all over CBS and it disappeared.
Weird.
Gone.
Now, I'm sure that's totally unrelated.
Obviously.
Just a coincidence.
But these franchisees had put themselves so far out there on this huge investigative report that almost made the nightly news because it's a very convoluted thing.
You need an hour, two hours to even scratch the surface.
I've needed three to just get started.
We've needed three episodes to start and like we could do eight more today, right?
And like, so you need a lot.
And that's not built for nightly news anymore.
It's three minute segments, just like this.
So if you can get to 60 minutes, you can get an investigative report that actually cares, you know, if we could bring back the David Horowitz's of the world, the fight backs of the world, right?
And you could do that and you can get to those places, then you've got to, you've got to put all your eggs in that basket because the only chance you have or have.
Now with the alternative media that we have here, we don't have to do that anymore.
We're working around it.
We're not going with that anymore because they don't care.
Their advertising dollars depend on us, right?
But back then, they got so close.
It was one day away and everything blew up.
It's just one more example of how this sort of decentralized media, this open media space is changing the world every day because you can only hide this kind of corruption for so long before what was hidden in the secret courts of arbitration will eventually make its way to the court of public opinion.
And, you know, you can get away with a whole lot of garbage in a secret court where there are no rules.
But once you bring that paper trail out into the light and you show it to Urban Air's customers, you show it to the franchise association's, you know, constituents, when you show what they've been doing, the rats start to jump ship, the customers stop coming, everyone has questions, and everyone demands answers.
Because, like in Tiffany's case, she's up against this company that is specifically targeting businesses that target children.
And kids are getting hurt, nearly killed at Urbanair, and it's getting covered up in secret court.
And, you know, you can get away with that in secret court.
You cannot get away with that in the public square.
And the moment that someone starts talking about it, which Tiffany fortunately bravely survived this entire crazy case, kept all these crazy receipts, and then has been here sounding the alarm on the internet for so long.
It's like that, that system is bound to, bound to implode.
And I think it's imploding now.
I hope so.
Yeah, based on all the chatter behind the scenes, all the things that people like lawyers, people that are in other disputes with Urbanair and with Unleashed Brands,
all this chatter behind the scenes that they're saying about what people are doing, the reactions that are happening.
I suspect that.
Even reactions from judges and other lawyers.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, there is more than enough evidence here to criminally investigate Michael Browning Jr.
We were there.
That's what kills me.
The FTC had opened their investigation with the DOJ into Unleashed Brands.
I received a request for documents, something called like a CID, where you have to, it's like a subpoena from the government.
I received a request for documents.
I uploaded like 14,000 documents.
to the FTC, all of this.
They had opened the investigation.
They had called in tons of franchisees.
Everybody came to DC.
We went to meetings with all their lawyers.
We were in it.
It was happening.
And then the election happened and it just stopped.
Now, it doesn't, the thing about the FTC is that once an investigation is opened, that investigation is nonpartisan and it carries forward.
What we need right now is somebody in the FTC to simply go downstairs and turn the light back on, please.
I just break the fourth wall for a minute.
Please.
Right.
We need Alvaro Obadoya to get back into his job and get to work.
We need Rebecca Slaughter getting back to work.
We need the people that are there to care more about these kids and these small businesses than they do about the donors.
And let me tell you, Michael Browning is not a big donor.
No.
You don't care.
He doesn't donate enough for you guys to care.
I know.
We'd see way more photos with Ted Cruz.
Okay.
He's only ever posted one from outside his office.
He's not a big donor, I promise you.
So please, come on, guys.
Did Doge cut FTC or what's going on?
So, no, the FTC is actually, there's a lot of people inside that really like some of the work the FTC is doing.
JD Vance was a big fan of Lena Khan.
I actually think that Trump's biggest mistake since taking office, like the biggest mistake he's made, was cutting Lena Khan.
I believe he's going to come to regret it because she was doing the work he started in his first term and doing it very successfully.
I believe that that was the best decision Biden made.
And I believe getting rid of her was the worst decision that Trump has made.
And it's not like that's a unique thing for someone to say.
Josh Holly liked Lena Khan.
JD Vance was a big fan of Lena Khan.
He said it on the record when he, after he was nominated.
Before he won, though, before he won?
He said it before he won, but after he was nominated as the VP.
I just wonder if that's not coming down from some of his donors or special interest groups that got him there.
Can I go conspiracy for a minute with Ian here for a second?
You have to with Ian.
I believe that Matt Gates's support for Lena Khan was the reason that all of the leaks came out to force him out of AG.
He said he was excited to start working with Lena to take down all of these monopolies.
Yeah.
Matt Gates loved Lena Khan.
And Matt Gates, I believe he would have done stuff about it.
He was going to push to keep her.
And we knew Kamala was going to get rid of Lena Khan.
I had meeting.
I had meetings with a bunch of like liberal journalists on TikTok and they were like, what would it take?
It's like, first of all, I don't endorse.
And they're like, what would it take?
It was like, if she came out tomorrow and said, I'll keep Lena Khan, that would probably be enough to sway my vote.
I'm not kidding.
I thought Lena Khan was that important.
I said, whoever says they'll save Lena, they get me.
Kennedy said he liked Lena.
I was like, Kennedy can have me.
Right.
But I truly believe we knew she was not going to keep her.
We knew that because her largest donor made a condition of his donation getting rid of Lena Khan because they were investigating his companies
for breaking them up.
So we knew she was going to get rid of him.
I wasn't positive on Trump because he was surrounded by people that actually supported this liberal appointed chairwoman.
It would have been a really good reach for his populist supporters.
And then
he fired Alvaro Badoya and Rebecca Slaughter, which is something you're not legally supposed to be able to do.
And they're suing to get their jobs back.
I actually think they'll win.
I just want them there faster so we can get going again.
But without them there, the guys that are still there could still walk downstairs and restart this and we can keep it going.
And I hope all of our supporters are writing to the FTC every single day.
They're on Twitter and they actually pay attention to it.
The way that the FTC found me, I tagged them on my Twitter and that's how I got my first message from Oliver Obedoya.
Wow.
Not from his team, from him.
He's like, I'm going to set up a meeting with you.
I was like, what?
Seriously?
No.
Seriously?
Like, I tagged him one time.
He's like, let's talk, ma'am.
I was like,
I mean, I can only imagine his Twitter inbox is not super full.
Thank you, Commissioner Bedoya.
like the second highest ranking member of the Federal Trade Commission for watching my Twitter messages to you.
Like it was literally, I tagged him in a tweet saying, we need you.
He's like, we want to help you.
Okay.
Great.
So like, it is not like we, they do pay attention to their Twitter folk.
Get on X.
I didn't realize that.
We should be tagging them in a live interest.
Yeah.
Let's get this DOJ investigation going.
Let's absolutely get back in there.
I wonder what, because Trump runs some big businesses.
I wonder what he thinks of all this arbitration stuff.
I'm sure he utilized it.
I'm sure he uses it.
I'm sure he uses it because it's the standard.
And if you don't, you, I mean, first of all, let's just be real.
Like, if they can find a way to drag him into court, they do.
Like, that's, that's the reality of Trump.
I don't have to be on his side to know that lawfare is real in his world.
Like, there's been a lot of lawfare where even my husband, he was like,
like, even our most, our most liberal legal friends were like,
I mean, that's awkward.
That's weird for us.
Like,
we probably could have found something real to bring to court.
And instead, we did that.
Like, I mean, so like, if they can find a way, arbitration is probably a better place to keep it out of the press, right?
So I'm sure they use it.
I don't like it.
I don't think they should use it.
I don't endorse any company using it, but they all do.
They all do.
And I think it's wrong.
And it would be easily fixed, right?
Like, follow the law, appellate review process when they don't.
Yeah.
It's not hard.
It's not hard.
It's the easy thing.
And
I don't think I told you this, but I have a new document to send the FTC.
Last night, I got sent an email, $130,000 of payments by Unleashed Brands for Chinese laborers to build their parks.
Let's go.
Allegedly, for educational purposes only.
Whoa.
Yeah, we had email chains showing that.
So we, the first episode, I guess the second episode I did was all about how this
trampoline park company, he transformed his trampoline parks into these like urban air adventure parks by stealing all this IP.
I mean, we have, we have documented evidence of some theft of IP.
And we have allegations of a bunch more now.
Allegations of a bunch more.
That he basically, a lot of what's in an urban air trampoline park is actually stolen IP.
That then once he had the IP, like once he stole like stole these companies and ideas, then he started cutting the number of people that would staff them.
And so you'd have like one 15-year-old staffing this complex ride.
And then having Chinese labor flown in, we have emails showing that Chinese labor was being flown in to install them, which is like very complex thing to install and you have to install it properly.
Otherwise, it's not safe.
And so all these kind of like serious red flags.
So it sounds like you have evidence of payments now.
I have an email that was forwarded to me last night from a very reputable source that I have already forwarded forwarded along to everyone that needs it to keep me safe.
I'll already make sure that the info is safe.
I don't know if I can keep me safe, but I can keep the info safe.
I've already forwarded it to like 10 people this morning.
That is, I think it's $129,000 in payments for Chinese laborers they were flying in to build their parks.
Yeah.
Why wouldn't you just pay Americans?
Because it's a lot cheaper than the Chinese.
I remember it's because early in my TikTok, I also had a memorandum of understanding I posted that said, if you didn't want to pay American workers, you could just go to Home Depot and find your own Mexican.
They wrote that in a memorandum of understanding.
I'll give you a copy because you're going to need to back that up if you post this.
And it's a memorandum of understanding.
It says, if you don't want to pay our company and you don't want to hire labor ready, then you can just go to Home Depot and find a Mexican.
Nice.
And then it's signed, Michael Browning Jr.
I swear to God, he signed this document.
Like a like Nepo Baby Michael was like, this is an excellent document to put my name on.
That tracks.
He already had a corporate lawyer like, who was like, yes, this is a good idea.
That tracks.
Stephen, good job.
We got to get Michael on Candace to talk about his side of it.
Oh, yeah.
Michael Brown Jr., I would talk to you.
Come on.
I have questions, bro.
Has he said a single thing since all this?
He's turned off all his comments.
Yeah.
Well, no, he turns the comments on just briefly enough, apparently, for a couple of really nice comments to slip through.
Like, literally, no, I'm I'm not talking, I'm talking five minutes because we watched it.
Oh, wow.
Where there were, I have a bunch of screenshots of horrible comments on his Instagram and they're deleting them.
But it's like, there are six comments on this post and there's zero showing below.
So they're hiding them really quick.
It's like on Instagram, you hide your comments.
And then all the comments would be turned off.
And then for five minutes, they would be turned on.
And one bad one would slip through.
And three more, like three glowing ones from the same guy one minute apart will slip through.
He's like, you're, you're an inspiration to us all.
And then it's turned off again.
I love going to your parks.
It's amazing.
It's a lot like reading their glass door ratings.
Yeah.
The glass door ratings and you can see like all of the real ones from all their franchisees.
And then they're like, I loved my CEO.
His vision casting was so inspiring.
Like, you loved his vision casting, did you?
Wow.
Meanwhile, like the videos you post, like all the Candice videos posted about it, they have all kinds of reports in the comments from people that used to work there, people that used to manage at those parks.
They're like, I would never send my kids there.
I worked there for like three months and I had to stop because it was so dangerous and so unsafe.
And I was being put into such horrible situations.
We had a mom that said she had her two kids worked there.
And she's like, I had to bring them out because they were being traumatized by the severe graphic injuries they were witnessing every week.
Jeez.
That they were witnessing children with like multiple compound fractures and their bones sticking out of their bodies.
And she's like, my children were traumatized.
My daughter would cry going into work because she was afraid of what was going to happen to the kids.
And I made them quit their summer job.
That's insane.
Like stuff like that.
Like we're getting stuff like that daily right now.
Yeah, I'm sure you're getting the craziest messages right now.
Yeah.
Yeah, because you, the, and, and the common pushback around trampoline parks here is like, yeah, it's like, yeah, you know that it's a dangerous place.
Like, it's, it's understandable that sometimes kids would get hurt in a trampoline park.
And that is true.
And that's like, yeah, you are taking on a certain responsibility for risk when you take your kids to a trampoline park, but
these are not just, it's not like they're just jumping on trampolines and getting hurt on trampolines because the kid doesn't have good balance.
They're getting onto rides that are like theme park style rides with like harnesses that need to work properly, that need to be put on properly.
They're literally supervised from urban air theme parks.
Bingo.
U-A-T-P.
This is not a standard trampoline park.
Urban air theme parks.
And when they are not staffed properly, when the equipment is not used properly, then you have like people falling out of harnesses, falling off of rides like 30 feet onto concrete with their heads, things like that.
So it's like a whole different ballgame.
There was a girl in, we've talked a lot about ziplines, but they also have these giant rock walls that are like 24 feet tall.
Oh, this one is so traumatic.
There was a girl in Sugarland, Texas.
Sugarland, Texas.
Young girl in Sugarland, Texas, like somewhere between 11 and 14.
I think she was 13 when it happened.
And they put her in a harness.
And there's a thing where you jump down at the end and you're supposed to clip it so it slows your fall.
And they have a teenager working there, right?
And she gets put in and she climbs all the way to the top, made no mistakes.
Would have been better if she'd made a mistake.
And they're like, jump down.
And they had never attached her harness.
And she crashes 24 feet to the ground and breaks like every bone in her lower body.
It just compounds into that.
As a former rock climbing instructor,
ankles, legs,
temurs, hips, everything.
This girl just crashed to the floor.
There is a duty of care.
There is a standard of care.
There should be two people.
I check it, you check it.
We talk to each other.
Here's two thumb signals.
And we say, go, go.
There's a whole sequence for rock climbing.
But what 14-year-old should ever be trusted with that, that duty?
First of all, what about these poor 15-year-olds that were never qualified to do this?
What happens to them when they realize these kids are permanently maimed because they made a mistake because they were trained for six hours and told to get out there?
And I think that's a one by our house.
Kid is in a spinner and they have this weird like
bumper car situation where there's some that you just drive and you run into each other and they have a big round bottom and you just slam into each other.
And some of them, you are in a harness and you spin around in them.
while you're driving into each other.
That doesn't sound scary at all.
I mean, it sounds awesome.
Well, so like if it works, the kid that was way too small for this ride was put in.
He didn't have the right wristband.
He didn't, he was way too small for the ride.
And he gets put in and he's upside down and falls out because he was way too small.
He didn't have the wristband to be on that ride.
Jesus.
And the mom jumps over, hits the emergency stop.
The kid screams at her, what are you doing?
The kid's standing there, right?
As these cars are all running.
As these cars are all running at him,
his legs could have been crushed.
And the mom screams, what are you doing?
What are you doing?
And he says, I work in this snack bar.
I didn't know.
know.
You know why I know that story?
That was my son.
No way.
That was my son.
First time we went.
I just went to visit my neighbors.
They were new in our franchise community.
I was like, hey, new owners, what's up?
They're like, stay and play.
My kid had an under 42 inches badge, no deluxe rides.
They let him on that ride.
And they literally looked at me and said, I just work in the snack bar.
It's my first day.
They just told me to come cover this guy.
Didn't the harness on the zipline fail on you on that same day?
It did.
Wow.
She's been dealing with this multiple occasions.
I mean, like, I literally, I thought I was being a good person in my family of franchises.
I didn't sue them.
And this was before.
This is before any of this happened.
I went to the owners and I was like, just so you know, I fell on the zipline.
Like, I slipped out of my harness.
And like, I was up there screaming for minutes.
Jeez.
Minutes.
And I finally grabbed my keys.
There were a bunch of witnesses.
There's like videos that I like pulled my keys out of my pocket and threw it and hit somebody.
And they saw me.
They came up through this search and rescue like weird tunnel and they like used like this thing to get me and pull me over.
And then my daughter, who at the time was probably
maybe eight or nine, eight, maybe, because it was before all this and she's 12 now.
I'm guessing it was like eight.
They, they looked at her and she was right ahead of me and they're like, you have to go back.
And she's like, uh-uh, I'm going down there.
You have to go back and you have to take your mom's harness.
And I was saying no.
And they're like, she has to.
And they literally like shoved her out.
And my daughter had to go back after she watched me dangle for minutes on minutes on minutes.
while she was trying to scream for help for me while she was just dangling at the edge because she had turned around and saw me.
and so she didn't have the momentum to keep going.
And they had her hold back my harness with her.
This is crazy.
Quick, go do a search and rescue operation for us.
Go fix our equipment, right?
Like, this was literally like before any of this happened.
I never talked, I never talked about it because who the hell would believe me that that happened to me and all of this, right?
I never talk about that.
You're like one of the only people that actually knows.
I would present, I know, I knew what you were saying the whole time you were telling that story.
I was wondering if you were going to say who it was.
Um, because, like, you know,
I would presume that you have a story like that because it must happen relatively frequently.
I mean, what, I mean, the odds are I was just very happenstance, the only one that it ever happened to in that park and also the only one they sued repeatedly.
And it definitely never, ever happened again in that park.
I was the lone issue, and that was the only 14-year-old that ever manned that ride.
And
they definitely started training people better after that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Parents got to know this stuff because they're taking their kids to go on these roller coasters and all these exactly dangerous rides.
And there's no accountability if something, something happens, right yeah zero accountability and again just to remind us all it's like this we're talking about a theme park we're talking about one business model one franchise but the model of covering up negligence covering up assault covering up any kind of harm to customers using arbitration clauses and all of these complex legal frameworks baked into these agreements that is universal basically I'm going to go a step further because he just talked about how arbitration is used to cover up all of this malfeasance.
I'm going to go a step further because the arbitrators that are writing these decisions never want them to come out.
They're lazy.
They want their 27 grand, their 55 grand, their 150 grand, and they want to get out.
My arbitrator wrote a 12-page decision that should have taken in any courtroom easily 100 pages if it had had legal reasoning.
There was no legal reasoning done in my arguments.
None.
He didn't do a single legal analysis in my 12-page decision on 12 counts that double spaced.
That was literally like nine lines.
Double spaced page per count.
Really?
And like literally,
no arbitrator will ever want any of these decisions to be publicly made possible.
And I need everybody to understand, yes, we have arbitration and these guys all covering for one another.
Simultaneously, we have a judicial system that is covering for one another.
We have a judicial system that is a vested interest in keeping this covered up and the illusion of legal justice going because if you don't have it, you're not going to keep paying lawyers to go to those arbitrations for you.
They want you to believe you've got a shot because those lawyers are benefiting too.
Okay.
And so we have this problem where we have lawyers that regulate lawyers.
Another really important law we need to pass in every every jurisdiction in America is appointing everyday citizens to oversee the state bars.
Because I'm going to use my example, because I have so many good ones.
In my case, they committed so many egregious acts of unethical conduct.
So many, from stealing employee files to hiring investigators after they told me to leave up trademarks, to hiring private investigators to terrorize autistic employees that worked for me.
to hiring felons to forge documents, to filing motions to force me to have an abortion.
And we filed a state bar complaint.
And you would think, because it is illegal,
it is a felony and a criminal act to coerce an abortion in the state of Arizona, that that would be unethical, that a lawyer might get in trouble for breaking the law.
It is illegal.
It's one of the only states in America where it is illegal to coerce an abortion.
And they did it plainly in writing.
That's not like I have to make a stretch here.
It happened.
We have the email.
We have the email.
And so I filed a bar complaint.
My husband's like, we have to file a bar complaint.
400-page bar complaint.
I've sent you a copy.
It's huge.
It's massive.
All these exhibits.
They
prepared yourself, right?
I prepared it.
Norman Leon said in Courtney's like, who'd you pay $50,000 for your bar complaint if you're broke?
I was like, damn, Norman, I'm better than I thought.
And I want to be clear, they paid like $150,000 to defend it.
So I feel pretty good about that.
Boom.
But like, literally, they thought I'd paid $50,000 to have this drafted.
I worked on it endlessly for four months after I lost my child.
It's all I worked on.
It's all I poured my energy, my heart, and my soul into.
All I could do to focus my energy and not lose it and get through that.
And I got an investigator that was a good guy.
And he was like, this is the most horrifying thing I've ever read.
Normally, the triage process to get your claim accepted is they, they say, this has merit, this doesn't have merit.
You go through weeks of review at the Arizona State Bar.
Mine was accepted in eight minutes.
Eight minutes of reading the first, they read the first two pages.
They were like, click.
They called me.
They asked me four questions.
They asked me if these exhibits were real.
They asked me to attest to them.
I said yes.
They were like, we're moving you forward.
Then I got escalated to a senior investigator.
He calls me.
He's like, this is horrible.
This is terrible.
I've never seen anything this bad.
This is going to end up in a case because once you move past there, you go to a court of judges that oversee other lawyers.
And this is where it becomes a public situation.
That's up till then, it's private.
They hide, they hide the complaints for the lawyers.
Those should be public.
Every state in America should statutize that that should be public.
If there's a complaint against an attorney, every future client should be able to see it.
Every one of them.
And every future opponent should be able to use it.
Okay.
But they hide it until you get to the point where you're going to a court.
And I was at that point where we were about to be referred.
And suddenly my investigator disappeared.
Stopped calling me back.
Stopped calling me.
Stopped referring me.
He'd asked me for all these videos, the videos you've been showing of my deposition.
He said he needed those.
He said he needed to show I was deposed in labor and that she was terrorizing me about my lost kid.
I was sending them.
He was supposed to send me this upload link and he disappeared.
What the heck?
Then all of a sudden, I can't get an answer from anyone.
So I fly to Arizona and walk into the state bar.
I ask for a woman named Maria because I know that's his assistant.
They send someone out to me and they're like, he has a new job.
I'm sorry.
I was like, why don't I have a new investigator?
They're like, you will.
Suddenly I find out I'm with the lead investigator for the state bar of Arizona.
He's the senior most guy.
I'm like, okay, cool.
And he writes an opinion saying, since the lawyers have never been
penalized for their unethical conduct, we don't think that we should give them their first penalty.
That was the reasoning he used.
Can you imagine?
This guy never murdered anyone before, so we're definitely not going to send him to jail for murdering someone now.
But he's
so he says, he says, we're not going to go through it he didn't want any of the videos he didn't he didn't even take time to review them i sent all the evidence and that day he issued the opinion and it was it was hundreds of hours of videos right
we find out that my judge in my case my arbitrator in my case had been appointed the chair of the arizona state bars character and fitness committee of review to decide who got infracted and what lawyers were following their ethics.
My judge got assigned.
My investigator disappeared.
Totally unrelated.
Your judge that oversaw the abortion proceedings.
My judge from my arbitration that was overseeing this same election.
That was getting paid to allow them to coerce you to have an abortion.
He was now the chair that decided who did unethical things for the whole state bar, everybody.
It is the most corrupt system in America.
Lawyers protect lawyers.
And because they only oversee each other, they protect a system that keeps them making tons of money.
And if you're only a judge, you have to keep them happy because you need to make money when you retire or it it was all for nothing.
It is so hard to keep anyone in state and error.
So we need laws that, one, make arbitrators follow the law.
We need laws that require a review process when they don't.
These are simple laws.
These are not complex.
This is one sentence amendment to the Federal Arbitration Act.
And we need.
the antitrust laws to be used to break up a 94% monopoly in our country that is abusing small businesses and Americans.
And everywhere in America, I recommend everyone that's in a state that has the option to pass laws without your legislature.
We love these states, right?
States like Nevada, for instance.
I know you have a big Nevada audience.
Nevada, Nevada, guys, we're looking at you.
These are states where you can go and you can just gather 10,000 signatures and put it on the ballot and you guys can decide.
You guys could create a review panel for your state bar.
You could also demand that your arbitrators in this state follow the law if they're arguing under Nevada law.
You guys can do that without the federal government if you want to.
What we really need is for that to happen in Arizona because they purposely do all this in Arizona because Arizona is the hotbed of these corruptions.
But if one state passes it, suddenly you have precedent, suddenly you have a conversation going.
Yep.
And that changes everything.
But if you're ever signing a contract, it's worth looking to see if it's governed in the state of Arizona.
Or Texas.
Bedford, Texas.
Arizona or Bedford, Texas.
Because if it is, you might be working with a predatory, evil corporation or private equity group that is specifically preparing you for this exact outcome if anything goes wrong.
That's good.
And I'm going to say it's not a lot of people that like to watch your content and mine are not going to like this.
It is not exclusive to private equity firms.
I would like to point out that a couple people recently, Don Lemon, I think, cited the new terms of service at X for why he was leaving the app.
And he said they just put through a new arbitration agreement.
And guess where Elon based it?
Bedford, Texas.
Bedford, Texas.
No way.
I swear to God.
This is a feature.
This is not a bug.
This is a cottage industry that is built to protect the powerful and it is built to deny justice to the everyday Americans that give the power to those people that they extort and exploit for the power they have.
And we need to fix it.
And it's not hard to fix.
This is a one-sentence law.
One sentence.
Let's get it done, guys.
Where could people follow your story?
You guys got more episodes coming out.
You go first.
So you guys can find me on TikTok and YouTube at Tiffany Siancy and on X and Instagram at the Vino Mom.
And you can see me a lot with Ian right now on the Candace Carol after the Candace Owens show.
I was like, Candace Owens.
Yeah, I'm Ian Carroll on Candace Owens.
Yeah, I'm currently hosting the Candace Owens podcast while she is on maternity leave, raising baby Roman.
So, Candace on YouTube.
I have a YouTube channel I'd love for people to follow that is Ian Carroll's Show on YouTube.
I'm also Ian Carol's Show on X and TikTok and Instagram.
And I have a website that is cancelioncarroll.com.
Check them out, guys.
Thanks for watching.
Peace.