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Ira Judelson

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“I went to Italy, I want to say a couple years back, and I'm in the middle of the sea. I don't swim. I'm with a friend of mine. I don't know how to swim. He throws me a noodle. He calls me noodles now. It's my boy Mikey Cohn. And he basically, the phone is ringing. I'm in the middle of the sea in Capri and a huge case breaks, and I'm on the phone. They're all swimming in the ocean. I'm on the phone going, all right, get the house, find out the appraisal value of it. Let's get a confession of judgment against the house. Have Michael write the bail, have Joey write the bail, call the insurance company. How many people are on it? Okay, who's the DA? Who's the defensor? And I'm in the middle of the sea doing this. And they're all dancing and singing, you know, and but that's my bit. And I love that half hour putting that deal day was great. Well,”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. I mean, I do listen, there's a lot of things that I don't enjoy about my business. You know, sometimes fighting with the other side to get somebody out the door and them using the bail as a kind of a way not to let the client out. And I disagree with that, you know, because you want to win your case, you win your case.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, exactly. But I really believe that. So that's why I don't want to miss any of my kids' sporting events. And I want to spend as much time with my wife and laugh and joke. And more than anything, be with my friends”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We did. We did. We went to Pasqual's. We did. But that goes back to my point. You got to live your life. You've got to live your moments. Oprah said one time, die poor, live your life. She's easy for her to say. She's got everything going for her. She loses weight. She makes fucking money. It's unbelievable.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To that day, and he left a message on my voicemail. He's almost in tears. And he's like, I'm not going to let anything happen to you. I love you and I'm going to take care of you. And our relationship has always been like that. But I realized that day that life is very short. And at any time, health could grab you. And I want to live the moment. We were just talking about, you've got to live the moment. I've been to the Kentucky Derby with Danny. I've been to crap tables with Danny. I've been out to dinner with Danny. I've been to softball games with Danny. We've been just out just sitting smoking a cigar in his backyard. And you got to live your life.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm like, what? They're like, we did give lymphoma. I'm like, we want you to do this biopsy. So I go and I do a biopsy and it comes back negative. So we're jumping for joy and go back to the oncologist. And she says, I want you to do this bone marrow. And I want to take a piece out of your stomach. And my wife's like, he's not a fucking cadaver. We're not taking pieces. Well, we think he has lymphoma. We just don't know where the primary is. Long story very short, I turned around and a buddy of mine turned me on to another doctor. It turns out that I have an autoimmune disease. I didn't have lymphoma. I was supposed to start chemo, but I didn't. I have what is called sarcadosis. And sarcodosis is an autoimmune disease. And it's very rare, but people have it, and it affects your lungs. And when I have a common cold, it can turn into pneumonia. You have a common cold, and you guys are, you know, taking nyquil and going to sleep. So I always got to watch that. But it goes back.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm going to give you another thing that I'm going to talk about. This is something I could talk about with one of my best friends right here. How to be about six little over six years ago, I had lumps on my body. I didn't know what it was. I was trying to lose weight, and I went to a doctor and the doctor says, when was the last time you went to your, who's your primary doctor? I said, why do I need a primary doctor? I'm coming to you. You're my urologist. So I want to see a primary. And I went to a primary and the primary says, I want you to go to this doctor. I said, okay, was there anything wrong? Nothing's wrong. You're fine. So I go to take my wife and I walk in and I see this word on top of the doctors that says oncologist. I'm like, Blake, what the fuck am I doing on an oncologist? I walk into the doctor's office and they say, okay, we want you to do this. We take him blood. We think you have lymphoma.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, let's call a spade a spade. I mean, Danny is in the hedge fund world and invests every day. Not everything is a winning investment. So he has to lose money in a deal to know that he's going to gain money later on. And if everybody was going to gain money all the time, we'd see him in Okana County Jail, North Carolina as we see Madoff there now. So, I mean, you know, you can't win all the time. I mean, I've had people that jump on me and I've had great bails. And listen, I was in the bar business. I was a sports agent. I went down to the Fulton Street fish market. I bought fish upstairs. I was a bouncer. You know, you gotta, you know, I live with my parents now. You gotta fail and you got to understand what failure is, you know, and say, you can go one way or you can go the other.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, we know he was doing okay, but the point is that Derek said my career is my career. I don't have time to really right now raise a child. I don't have time to get married. I want to focus on this. There'll be time. I mean, for him, it worked. You know, for other people, you know, but Derek's passion for the game and doing what he did was incredible. And, you know, it's a great foundational format.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“100% doesn't matter what you do 100% passion and you got to work hard Look at Derek Jeter. Derek Jetah did not get married. Until he was, what is he, 40?”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Listen, I mean, again, I'm not, obviously I'm not the brightest guy in this room right here amongst you guys, but I think you got to have a mixture of street and legal in your world. You got to know what you got to have some sort of a, listen, I'm a chameleon. I could talk to a Harvard grad and I could also talk to the guy that basically has a third grade education. And that's what I think you also need in a guy that's coming out today. You got to be able to be a chameleon. You got to be able to talk and speak different languages to get where you want to get to.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, if things come easy for you your whole life and then you get to a certain level and then all of a sudden it doesn't become easy. There's two ways you can go. One, you can go and become, you know, basically a little spoiled brat and live off mommy and daddy until they cut the lines. Or two, you can work harder. So I only hire, like I have a guy in Brooklyn. He's an Arabic kid. And this kid is as hungry as they come. He calls me at two o'clock in the morning with a call. Could I go do a bell? Of course you can go do a bell. Okay. And that's the guy I want. That's the guy that says, because if I go work, he's making money. And he's got five kids. And he's got to support those kids. And he's got to worry about everything in this world and he's got to go home to his wife and his wife believes in him. But if you get somebody that basically says, well, my job ends at 3 o'clock. I'm not taking that phone call.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I failed a lot in a lot of my businesses. And I finally found a great niche for myself in this industry. And if I said to somebody young out there is that, you know, it's funny. You go to college, and unless you're going to be a doctor or go to MIT and become a space engineer, you're going to come out in this world. And this world is not as what you think it is. Oh, well, wait a second. This guy's making millions. I'm going to go to Wall Street. Well, no, no, no, no. You got to pay your dues and you got to basically get in there. And these clients have to believe in you. And it's hard. And I'm telling a young guy nowadays that you get that degree. And that degree basically is a key, a key into a door to get you an interview, to get you a job. Then it's what you know. Okay, but before that, it's who you know. And you got to keep striving and striving and striving. And you can't quit because if things come easy.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's a great question. And we're in a day and age right now, and I'm trying to teach my kids this, where you play a sport and everybody gets a trophy. And I fucking hate that, okay, more than life itself. Oh, God, little Jimmy, he's playing baseball. He's going to get a trophy. He's in fifth, sixth grade. No. Those days are over. Okay. There's a time when everybody plays and there's a time when you have to earn it. And there's a time when you get to seventh or eighth grade where you start to play a modified sport where you and then everybody's got to make the team, they say. But then in ninth grade, they make cuts. So you're setting your kid up for failure. And I hate that because I think that you have to earn it. And what I'm saying today is that you got to have heart and you have to have a set of balls and you got to know that to be a winner, you have to be a loser. You have to fail to win.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“22, but I don't think I would want to get out right now. You never know. I have been approached to get out and stay involved and let somebody buy my business. I don't know if I would want to do that now.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I might want to pursue some other opportunities. I wanted to do a TV show. I was talking with some gentlemen out in California right now. We're talking he wants to do TV show with me. I thought about maybe writing another book. I don't know. I want to do, as I mentioned to you, somebody wants to option my book. And I was talking to you guys about it before. And he keeps pursuing me, pursuing me, pursuing me. The option of Bush because he wants to do a feature film. I've actually thought about going around to other bail companies around the country and being a consultant to help them get their brand going, help to get their business going. I've got a lot of ideas, but again, you talked about balance. I also love my family. And I don't have enough time in a day sometimes. You know, I'm on the field and watching my kids play sports and the phone doesn't stop. And the funny thing is when it does stop, I get upset because it's not ringing. And when it rings, I get upset because I'm like, well, I'm doing something.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that I always want to work. I like it. Now, don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching my kids play sports. I enjoy being with my wife all the time. I enjoy my friends. I love my friend here. And, you know, we've had a great, but I love what I do. I could actually say that I get up in the morning and I love what I do. If you get on the train tomorrow and you look at people going down to the city or anywhere in the country, how many people really love what they do? I love what they do. Not enough is right. And the answer is, I don't know. If I found another passion, we talked about it, about doing some different things together.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My business You know, it's funny. My father is 82 years old and going through a very difficult time in his life right now. And he worked, as I said, at Rikers Island Prison in Spotford in the Juvenile Detention Center there. And he had all these jobs. And I think the worst thing in the world for him was retiring”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like bullies. I really don't. I don't like people taking advantage of people, and especially a man taking advantage of a woman. Really, it eats me alive. And there's a lot of people who I've bailed out and a lot of people that have been involved with and a lot of my friends, who I call friends today that don't like that either. I'm watching after this woman and making sure that she can go to work and that she can make sure that her son is safe because she's fearful of her life.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Doing that now. I'm protecting somebody right now with some guys that I know. You know, she's going through a very bitter situation in her life. I don't even want to say it. It's a domestic situation. And I don't like bullies at all. I teach my son and my daughter. And they've been on the bus before, and I got a phone call. And it's, you know, the principal of school says, Mr. Juttleson, I'm like, please call me Ira. He says, oh, Ira, listen. Your son hit somebody on the bus. And I said, my son went to work on somebody in the bus. And he goes, yes. Can you come in? And they say, you know, whatever. And I get my son. And he's like, Dad, I'm on the bus. And this kid was being really mean to this other guy. I told him to knock it off. He wouldn't knock it off. And he said, what are you going to do? And I did something. And I looked at the prince and I said, well, I got no problem with that.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Their families are looking for jobs, and I try to help them call my buddy in the Wall Street world or call my buddy over at JP Morgan or whatever, or call my friend that's in the garment district. And it's like I enjoy helping people. I don't know if the word fixer, I'm living that world because as I help everybody, and it's not just in my world, it's in other parts of the world because my tentacles reach to places that no one else could reach to.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's the action, it's the juice. It's taking the bale from the beginning and putting it together. It's knowing that it's going to be a very difficult ride, but more than anything is seeing the face of the family when they get their loved one out the door. Because as I said before, sometimes it's good people making bad decisions. And, you know, we're in a world every day where people just do a lot of stupid things. A lot of people don't get caught. I always say to my kids, you see a lot of people driving 75 on the highway in a 55 mile zone. They just don't get caught. Eventually they will. But I think it's the relationships and it's also more than anything. It's the relationships that I've built over the years. I mean, I have judges that I know very well that, you know, have gotten sick, that I care about, you know, and we talk off the bench. I've had DAs that I'm very close with.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Fat Joe. I was close to Earl. Still am. I would do anything Ja. Obviously I've been involved with Lil Wayne doing some work for him down the line, the former ODB, Old Dirty Bastard, who passed away. And I've done Plexical Burris. And, you know, I've done Cat Williams. We can go down the line. Lauren Taylor. Lawrence Taylor. Wow, Lawrence Taylor, right? I don't remember that one. Lawrence, you know, Lawrence wanted to play golf in the Bahamas. And I said, yeah, you can go. Good luck. And I called his house and, you know, his wife started screaming at me.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And he gives me my money. He's like, I'm coming. I'm like, I go early. You can't come to my come on. I'm coming. I'm like, all right, come. So you walk in and at that time he was the man and the mall shuts down. You want to talk about a frenzy? And I'm in Bilderbert. And so is his kids. And so is my nieces, all her friends. And there's Earl's kids and was sitting there. And he goes into, I think, Toys R Us and spends like $300 on my niece. And my sister's like, who the fuck is this? You know, she's listening to Kenny Chesney. I'm like, oh, this is DMX. You don't know Earl? And he sat there, and Earl was at my niece's birthday party. And we have a great relationship. He was in Vegas one night, and he was all jammed up, and he called me and I was like, I'll do what I can for you. He was in New York on his child sports stuff, and he called me. And, you know, I have a lot of great relationships. I have a great relationship, as I said.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Gotta go. We got to be at your niece's birthday at 3 30 up in Bildebear in Danberry, Connecticut. And I'm like, all right. And all of a sudden three o'clock comes and we're on the highway and it's Earl. Where you fucking at? I'm at your house. I said, Earl, you said one o'clock. I said, I got my nieces. Where's your niece's birthday party? I said, it's up in Bildebear in Danberry. And he's like, I'm coming. You got to understand something. My sister, I mean, there's just no way she wants DMX and his family at my niece's birthday party. And all of a sudden we're in traffic come off of the Danberry Mall. And all of a sudden I just see, and he shouldn't even be driving because most of the time he's out, you know, for traffic violations and I see him fly on the shoulder. And my kid goes, isn't that DMX fucking flying on the shoulder? I go, yeah, what are you doing? And I get to the mall, and there he is.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He had it all. I mean, Earl was doing movies and he had a great voice. And, you know, I called him surf and turf because he could have done movies and sang. And he had the whole thing going on. And he got hooked, obviously, on some bad stuff. And, you know, his wife is a sweetheart, and we became very friendly. In fact, in the book, we talk about how I was at my daughter's birthday up in Connecticut, where we are today. And I told DMX, you know, he owed me money. And he was supposed to make an appointment with me three times to pay me, but he has a little bit of a time management problem. And finally, he basically said, okay, I'm going to pay you today. I said, he goes, I'll be there at one o'clock. And I said, okay, what time you come one o'clock? So I'm sitting there at 1.30, 2 o'clock. And my wife comes out at 2.30.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, first things first, Ja obviously is going through a tough time right now, but he's a good man. He's a good guy. And in the hip-hop community right now, he's going through a tough time, but he's a good guy. And hopefully he gets out of this. You talk about that thing in the Bahamas? Yes. And he's a good man. And I know him. He's not that type of guy. He's not that type of guy. If something went south, he had no idea what was going on. He's not that type of person. And I hope he gets out of this because he's a good man. He really is. And he was coming back and he owned up to everything he did. He's a good guy. DMX, well, you know, Earl is a whole different Earl is a whole different guy. I mean, I love Earl like you wouldn't believe, man. I mean, I'm on speed dial with Earl all the time, and I get upset. I really do. I get upset for Earl because aka DMX because he had it all.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My daughter, because my wife is holy, I go, I'm leaving. They go, she has to pass a hearing test. I go, Really? I walk up to my kid. I go, ah! And she starts screaming and crying. I go, she can hear, fine. We walked out of the hospital.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So now my wife is calling me. It's like 6 39. I finally did all the bails, blah, blah, blah. And she's like, this place stinks. You got to get me out of here. There's bed pans all over the place. Nobody's speaking English in this hospital. Get me the fuck out of here. So I basically go back. Now, I don't even know how to put a car seat in. So I get the car seat in, which was, so she says, bring the car seat up. You got to get me out of here. I'm not staying here any longer. And I take the whole piece of the car seat out. So, you know, you sit the car seat. I took the whole piece out. So I'm walking through the hospital with the car seat. And the nurse is like, and now there were bed pans in there that was sitting in there for all day. And she's like, look, I took the bed pants and I put them on the front of the nurses' table. I go, she's like, that's disgusting. I go, that's what my wife's been sitting in all day. And I go, I'm taking my kid out. She goes, you ain't taking your kid out. I go, yeah, I'm taking my kid out. So I walked in and I grabbed my...”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I'm like, holy shit. Now, you got to understand a regular indictment should take no more than this. This took like two and a half hours, you know, back and forth. And I'm like, oh, God. And now I got to go in front of the judge and get more response. And I know he is looking at me and he takes, and I'm sitting in front of a microphone now and he pushes it to the side. He goes, what'd you have? I go, I had a girl. He goes, I got two girls and a boy. He goes, by the way,”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“An indictment or sitting in the jury box. And the place is packed, and I'm not going to mention any names. And I basically sit there and I got my today's man suit on that. Because me and Blake are just starting out and I'm sitting there. And the first guy gets up and you're supposed to come out of the jury box. Go straight in front of the judge. You got the prosecutors on one side, got defense attorneys on the other. And he comes up and he's handcuffed. He looks at me and goes, how you doing, Ira? It's Paulie. How are you? My wife's Sharice is in the back over there. He goes, congratulations on your baby. It's awesome. We got a little gift for you. And I'm like, I look up and I'm like, oh, okay, thank you, Noah, whatever. And he goes in front of the judge, and the judge sets a bail. And then the next guy up, and he goes, how you doing, Ira? That's my wife, Connie, in the back. Congratulations on the baby, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, oh, thank you. And this one on for another seven defendants.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And all I hear in the background is, well, the kid that I use for bail bonds, his wife just gave birth, and then I hear throughout the echoes of all the hallway. So he gets back on the field and goes, they're going to wait for you. I go, what do you mean they're going to wait for me? He goes, they're going to wait for you. He goes, they're going to wait a night. They'll stay in. They'll get away from their wives. They don't mind. I said, okay, what do I do? He goes, I don't know. We'll talk later. Go back to your wife. And I went back and I stayed with my kid and now I'm sitting there and I'm trying to put all these bales together. So I'm on the phone with my insurance company trying to put all these bales together. I have like nine bales and I'm getting properties and I'm like properties now and it's great. So now the next day I come to court and literally I got to be honest with you I get to court. I'm so nervous and I got all these bonds in front of me and all the defendants like I said the ones that I had and I think it was a 13 person.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of the industry, these are the guys that you want to know. These are the best lawyers around. And what did I? I was taking pizzerias as collateral. So now I go down and I go, Mara, I can't, my wife gave birth. I can't get down there.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was the first time where I actually was my first big payday in the business And my wife, Blake, was pregnant when I first daughter, and we had it at a hospital in the Bronx, which we would never do again. And I'll tell you a great story about that too. And we're sitting there and we're walking back and forth. And we had already had Mexican food that night just to get this baby out, you know? Because, you know, my daughter now, who's a pain in the ass, became more of a pain in the ass that night. And the phone rings at like eight o'clock in the morning after a huge, huge, like, laborous, my wife was in labor for a long time. And it's Mari Richmond. And I love don't Maury Murray. And, you know, he says, Ira, I said, what's that? He says, listen to me. A big case broke in the Javit Center. And there's 15 defendants. I'm representing three or four for a Raymond purposes only. Jerry Shargell's down here. He's got some. Now you got to remember something. These are the good.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I'm like, all right. And he goes, don't worry about it. This guy's not going anywhere. And I'm like, oh, you're right, but I just want to pay my respect.”
2017-06-06 · Invest Like the Best · Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm not concerned because even though I turned down a lot of bales all the time. The people in the alleged gangs, people in the alleged underworld. I'm there, get out of jail card. I'm their guy. And I'm their bank. You know, I'm their Willy Wonka. So you got to take care of me. And they do. I've walked into rooms. I've actually walked into a funeral once and I'm ready to pay my respects. And a guy comes up and goes, Allah, listen to me. The cops came in and I go, whoa, whoa, can I just go pay respects to John over here? He goes, yeah, but after you pay respects to John, I got to go. I'm like, all right, well, let me go through the line. Let me pay my respects. Then we'll go talk about your case. I do that. And he's looking at me over there, and I'm not even online. And he goes, hold on, hold on. He actually came and pushed me to the front of the line so I can pay my respects to go back out.”
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“Look what I did. She goes, listen. She goes, it was a 35. If it didn't go to you, they went into somebody else. I said, I just don't know if I want to be in this business anymore. I don't know if I can handle that. She goes, you're providing a service. Just don't get attached. But unfortunately, I get attached. So it killed me because I had a tremendous amount of guilt and a lot of sleepless nights. Because you do business and you do bail for people, and that could happen. And it's happened before.”
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“Unbeknownst to me, he went in, got out on Bell, and he went and shot a few people at Wendy's. I don't know if anybody remembers that years ago. And when the DA's office called me up and said, hey, we need that file. I said, sure, what did he do? And I put two and two together. And it killed me that I had done a bail. And I remember speaking to my wife about it. And I said, Blake, I said.”
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“Anyway, I want to know why Bobby Lupo is. Every bale that you do, you get attached to. And then just so you know, there's other sides to it where you realize you're taking somebody out on a vehicular manslaughter on a DWI and that person just killed somebody. And that's been, I'll tell you a great story. I almost left the business. I had been involved in the beginning. I did a bail for John Taylor. I don't know if anybody remembers that name. Well, I did a bail for him, and it was $3,500 bail. What do you mean? $3,500 bill, right? You know, that's like, you know, urinating on the street. And it was a gentleman that had a gun, but the gun wasn't loaded as a first arrest, never in trouble. The defendant was a manager of a restaurant. And do this bail. So I did the bail.”
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“Because you can. And at that point in my life, the street part came out of me and also the father part came out of me. And I just looked at this man's eyes. And this guy was a tough son of a bitch. You soared. His hands, he would. And, you know, and he knew that this guy was going to get out. And we talked and we talked. And it ended up working out for him. He was able to move on, get his kid. And unfortunately for the other gentleman, it really didn't work out. I think he had a bad road in the beginning. And then again, I had heard that he had got shanked inside, which is a terrible thing. Anybody see?”
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“And this guy was hurt pretty bad. In fact, he was in the hospital for a very long time. I don't know what happened. I don't know how it happened. And then he was actually convicted and he's doing time upstate. And the craziest thing happened to him when he was upstate. He was shanked. Again, I don't know what happened, but I had heard that he was shanked inside. And then I heard he was in protective custody. And I have a relationship with that gentleman to this very day. And this guy got custody of his kid. I think his kid is doing well. I haven't spoke to him in quite a long time. But situations like that, it's almost where you don't have control. There's a part in the equalizer. I don't know if you've ever seen the movie The Equalizer. When Denzel is sitting on the porch with the former CIA person and she says, Robert, why? And he goes.”
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“And this guy walked in my office and he was steaming. And we bonded, no pun intended, with the fact that I'm a father and he was a father. And he felt so guilty that he was away during the time that his daughter needed him. Now he's this ironworker and he's working his ass off making X amount of money and he's got his kid and now his kid's molested by this animal. And he wants to do something. So he wants to bail the guy out to go to work on him. And I sat with him for about an hour, expressing to him that the first thing they're going to do is come back to you. You can't do this. You can't do it this way. So a plan was devised where somebody else bailed this gentleman out and this guy got out and something happened to this gentleman, which I don't really know exactly, but allegedly he was canned.”
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“I'll tell you it is a story a lot of the sexual components of the stories I get involved in where young kids are involved always grabs my heart a little bit. And I'm trying to go back to a story where A guy came into my office hard work and ironworker in the Union and he had a young daughter and he was away for a little while himself and his daughter was living with the wife and he was a hardworking, strong guy. And it turns out that the daughter became very quiet around him after a period of time and he couldn't figure out where it was. And he ended up finally, he got the daughter on the weekends and he ended up finally getting the daughter and the daughter says, listen, mommy's boyfriend's been touching me, molesting me. And this guy could not believe it. And the guy got pinched for it because finally after a while, the girl kept making complaints and making complaints to the school. And the school's the one that called because the mother never did anything because the mother wanted the guy to stay because he was paying the bills.”
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“And I say, well, don't just remember me. Remember the guy that was inside watching your back all the time. And I send his mother three, four hundred dollars and say, you know, tell Carlos thank you very much. I mean, that means everything because he didn't forget me. And that respect goes a long way because I tell you right now, I trust people more in my industry than people I grew up with.”
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“From a company, and he goes inside and he walks on the yard and he's shitting his pants. And I reach out to that guy's mother and I say, make sure that he's okay for his two-year stretch. And then he's in the law library doing all these other people's appeals, but he's being protected inside and he comes out and he looks after me and says, I'll never forget that you saved my life.”
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“Not reading the tears, you're not sensing the moment. And that's the part of my business that I think is different than anybody else. Because I, hey, listen, people look at me and they might say, well, wait a second, Ira, you're taking out a bad person. And I'm like, well, everybody has the right to bail. But, you know, sometimes you talk to, I've had people walk in my office and basically like, man, all right, I sell guns. That's what I do, man. I grew up in the hood. And this is how I make my living. My mom's strung out. I don't even know who my dad is right now. My grandmother raised me. And, you know, this is how I got to earn and I'm slinging. And that guy, I trust him more than anybody I grew up with because that guy, if I need anything, has my back. And that guy, if I say to him, don't fuck me. He goes, you think I'm jumping, man? If I got to go lay up and lay up is a turn of going to do time, I'll go lay up. Now, I call that guy when he's inside because when a hedge fund guy gets arrested for stealing 20 million dollars.”
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“Take phone calls at one in the morning. I take phone calls at all times of the night. And you, again, with the flip phone that I have, you could hear. I spoke to a woman today that spoke broken English. She was Hispanic. And I couldn't understand a word she's saying, not because she was speaking bad English. She was crying for the whole time of our conversation that her 21-year-old son was with six guys. They got pulled over. There was drugs in the car, and all six of them got arrested, and he had nothing to do with it. And she's like, I couldn't understand. And finally, I had a calmer down. I'm like, I will take care of this for you. I will figure it out. But after the tears, you feel that. You feel the empathy. You know what that client in an email, you're not hearing the tears.”
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“Really? Yeah, it got called on the case. I was going to do a bond for one of the people. I don't want to mention the name. And she didn't have enough. And she was incarcerated. And the attorney came to me and said, put something together. Now, I've written before in the federal bureaus. It's not often, but I've written in there where they come in and they've asked a bell bonds and to piece off the rest. And I've done it. And I have the highest respect for those people too. I almost got involved in that case.”
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“Laugh and we joke, and we say, Look at your office now, you know, look what it's become. So that power, that source of power comes with experience and time, but you can't lose where you came from. And that's a big part of it. I mean, listen, Danny's in this room and you're in this room and you guys have been in the investment world. People, when they come to you, they expect your experience and your knowledge. You're not going to get them into a madeoff situation. So they come to you knowing that they could trust you and they could respect you and you're going to get the job done. Too bad that.”
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“Lawyer. So that lawyer is banking on me to get that guy out the door because he wants that X amount of money retainer. So he's like, Ira, make this happen. But he just understands that he needs me. And the same thing, I'll get a call from a judge and he'll say, I want you to take this case. I'll get a call from a DA and says, you know, you can get involved. And we trust you're going to do the right thing. And I've had DAs over the years that say to clients, we respect his work. We know who he is. And again, this is a business for me. And they get what they want. They worry about the case. That's where people lose thought. They worry about the case. The defense attorney could do the case. The DA could prosecute the case. And the bondsman's going to get the defendant at the court and make sure that everything's on the up and up. And I have a ton of the DAs were DAs at that point. They're now defense attorneys that I've grown with. They were young kids when I was a young kid, you know, and I've been in the business almost 20 years and now they've been out and we've grown together.”
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