transcript: crooked former chicago cop steve mandell discusses his alleged torture room

8/13/2019 Transcript: Crooked former Chicago cop Steve Mandell discusses his alleged torture room

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CASE TITLE: United States v. Steven Mandell 1CASE NUMBER: 12 CR 8422ACTIVITY: Telephone Conversation between Steven Mandell3

and George Michael4DATE: September 21, 20125TIME: 2:16 p.m. CST6TARGET PHONE:7

8SPEAKERS: MANDELL = Steven Mandell9

MICHAEL = George Michael1011

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(NON-PERTINENT CONVERSATION)1415

MICHAEL: Anyway I went 1617

MANDELL: Whats new sir? 1819

MICHAEL: I, I went to Club Med. (Inaudible).2021

MANDELL: Did you enjoy it? Did you like it?2223

MICHAEL: I got, I got to tell you. I got to make a joke24out of this. This place would have made Stalin25proud. These, these, these people, this, this26poor old lady, this ninety year old lady.27Theres a , uh, restaurant bar next door, okay?28

29MANDELL: Ah-ha.30

31MICHAEL: And they convinced her that they were gonna take32

it. It was a former beauty salon and they were33gonna take it and they were gonna expand and cut34a hole in the wall and then renovate the space35to expand their restaurant bar. Well, they, they36gutted it. And then they turned around and37changed their mind and stiffed her.38

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MANDELL: So its just one giant barn? 4041

MICHAEL: Its one giant barn. I mean 4243

MANDELL: Well, you know Polish people like 4445

MICHAEL: literally.4647


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MANDELL: the Budzinskis are clean people. So its pretty1clean as well, not a lot of work necessary for2these old folks?3

4MICHAEL: Well, it, its cleaned out. Theres just uh,5

like the truck load on the, my friends red truck6and its empty. 7

8MANDELL: Yeah.9

10MICHAEL: You know its empty, but we , we gotta, you know,11

its got to have a toilet and a sink and some12electric and a little bit of heat. But other than13that its a shell. 14

15MANDELL: Alright.16

17MICHAEL: I mean, its ( inaudible).18

19MANDELL: Is there cars enough for both the couples, for20

Stanley and Stella?2122

MICHAEL: You know, if you took out uhm, the way it lays23out, what they did was they put in an addition24on to the property, okay? And the addition has25the garage. If you took out this little26cheap-shit cinder block wall, then put ten cars27in there.28

29MANDELL: Okay.30

31MICHAEL: Just a little cinder block wall takes, takes32

away from just driving straight to the street33from the alley. In other words, no big deal.34

35MANDELL: You, you got that Bluetooth on?36

37MICHAEL: Yeah, let me take it off here. Let me take it38

off.39

40MANDELL: No, no, its fine, everythings fine.41

Everythings fine.4243

MICHAEL: You want me to take the Bluetooth off?4445

MANDELL: No, no, Im glad to be 4647


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1MICHAEL: No let me take it off. So you can hear. Okay,2

is this better?34

MANDELL: Yeah, its great. 56

MICHAEL: Okay. Theres a uh, its wide open. Nothing ,7zero. No walls, no partitions, no nothing except8for (inaudible) that stops the car. If that9cinder block wall was taken out, y oud drive10through, youd driv e through the front door and11go the whole way through.12

13MANDELL: Alright enough said. Enough said. I dont know ,14

Ill try to catch up to you maybe in the morning. 1516

MICHAEL: Well if you see, (inaudible) I m, I already got17a call into uh, you know, Mr. Oxford.18(Inaudible).19

20MANDELL: Okay, you want me to stop by in the morning? Im21

not even quite sure if its your phone , if maybe22its ev , its mine.23

24(END OF CONVERSATION)25

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