America's Next Top Tort

America's Next Top Tort

June 19, 2026 · 28 min

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The episode discusses recent legal developments including a dismissed COVID fraud case, an Antifa indictment, and various high-profile legal battles.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show The U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago has dismissed another high-profile case — this one a COVID fraud case — that had been led by AUSA Sheri Mecklenburg. We discuss that and more developments in the Broadview Six case. Meanwhile, in Minnesota, federal prosecutors have obtained a conspiracy indictment against self-proclaimed “Antifa” activists who sought to interfere with ICE operations in the Twin Cities. And the slush fund drama continues even as Todd Blanche seeks approval to become for real-for real Attorney General. And soon-to-be-congressman Brad Lander is acquitted in his own misdemeanor case about ICE obstruction. Plus, for paying subscribers: * A look at Sam Bankman-Fried’s prison life , his aspirations to return to changing the world (something Judge Lewis Kaplan would really like him not to try to do again), and how Michael Avenatti thinks he’s too full of himself, * A loss in Trump’s fight to eliminate “woke” signage from national parks , * Tyra Banks’s stronger-than-expected defamation claim against Netflix , in which she is invoking the Earl Milford doctrine (with representation…

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Hosts: Josh Barro, Ken White

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