Name: Netflix PAID for the Lawyer of the Inventing Anna Case | Are You Garbage
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Netflix PAID for the Lawyer of the Inventing Anna Case | Are You Garbage' from Are You Garbage Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-11-29. Transcript available.

And you were mentioning before, you had a huge case recently.
So I did represent Anna Delvey, the German heiress,
and they did make a Netflix show about it.
I've seen the movie.
Okay, so...
Damn, you were her lawyer?
Yes, I was her trial lawyer, and I represented her,
and I was a character in the show.
I loved it.
Me and my wife loved that fucking show.
Who played you?
Did they screw you?
No, it's the gentleman from Succession, Arian Moyet.
I may be pronouncing the name wrong.
Get out of here.
But Stewie from Succession.
Look it up.
Let's see this.
Oh, right.
That's you.
Holy shit.
Damn.
That's a good-looking...
That's a good version of it.
I'm happy that it's getting back up now.
This is how we're doing it.
I fucking love it.
Did he reach out to you?
Yeah, so he was great.
I spent time with him.
I went to set.
I met him.
And his name is Todd Spodick in the show, so it's...
I gotta go re-watch that now.
Yeah, you gotta re-watch it, yeah.
I fucking love that.
Yeah, yeah, it was a great show, and he was great,
and he did a great job, and they recreated the whole set,
the courtroom, the fucking pens, the scratches on the table, everything.
No way.
And refreshment, I remember, did she get off or no?
So it was a mixed verdict.
She won some of the charges, which was...
I like that answer.
...quite remarkable to begin with.
Yeah, she was...
Her hands were dirty.
Yeah, she was dead to rights, and then she went down.
She was scamming people, saying that she was a German heiress...
Exactly.
...and didn't have any money.
Yeah, you should join the defense team.
I mean, you got it right there.
Your Honor!
I call a lunch break.
Okay, wow.
Okay.
So that case generated a lot of publicity and attention and things like that.
And how long has that case run yet?
Because that's like the thing.
I watch a lot of...
I love the Law and Orders.
I love the fucking first 48s.
They condense it, it seems like, four days.
But isn't it stretched out over, like, months or years?
So the cases that I have, I represent a lot of people for financial crimes.
So they're long-term investigations.
They're paper-heavy cases.
So this is like they've got...
Or they are charged with...
Yeah, so either the state...
Skimming the books of something.
Exactly.
Either the state or the states will be doing a long-term investigation.
It could be wire fraud, money laundering, scams.
Crypto scams are obviously very prevalent now.
Okay.
Not the Bitcoin.
So these cases take a long time to go to trial, no matter what.
And even when you're at trial, it could be three months of trial.
Really?
And that trial was, I think, four to six weeks or something like that.
Damn.
And she didn't have any cash.
So is that something you do pro bono for the publicity?
No.
So she wound up coming up with cash.
And then a deal was worked out with Netflix as well.
No shit.
Wait, hold on.
Wait.
Netflix paid some of your salary?
Yeah, Netflix was involved.
And it all worked out.
Get the fuck out of here.
Gotta love showbiz, baby.
You can't hustle a hustler, man.
Come on.
You know that.
He gets his SAG card.
I want points on the back end.
Get the fuck out of here.
Look at you.
You'd be that sick.
So can I ask you, what do you walk away with something like that?
A fee-wise or what?
Oh, the fees vary depending on the case.
But look, it's a substantial amount of time.
You're looking at $50,000 plus to dedicate any lawyer's time for that long.
Hundreds of hours.
Thousands of hours.
There are cases that go hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I travel a lot for work, so a lot of times I have to go and stay somewhere else
and be
away from my kids.
Sure.
Now, where else have you taken the ball?
Are you just New York?
So I'm only licensed in New York, but I get pro hoc, meaning I get permission
from the
federal courts to practice in a federal court in other jurisdictions.
So I have cases in Texas, California, Las Vegas.
Was that a federal trial?
That was a state trial.
That was a state trial.
Okay.
Southern District.
Southern District's federal.
Those guys don't mess around, do they?
Yeah.
Southern District's serious.
You know, it's a premier U.S. attorney's office.
A lot of people there.
A lot of resources.
Okay.
Damn.
All right.
Damn.
All right.
This guy's got...
You're higher.
I know.
I know.
I literally...
I'm calling you.
I'll set up a little office back here with Miller High Life, and we're good.