Woody Overton (21:56)
Well, I alluded to it already. He had a gambling addiction and he lost more than $1.7 million. Y' all gambling? On multiple visits to the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Tampa. And this, according to Sheriff Grady Judge Judd Penrod describes himself as a gambling addict. And now, naturally, you know, most people don't think about this, but lawyers carry like, malpractice insurance, like doctors have to carry, et cetera. So there are several lawsuits against this guy to try to recoup some of the money. But a former associate attorney discovered Penrod's misuse of clients funds and reported them to the Florida Bar Association. Penrod then reported himself to the Florida Supreme Court for misuse of funds from two clients. Penrod petitioned the Supreme Court for disciplinary revocation with leave to apply for readmission. Okay, yeah, okay, you know what? Go ahead and, and give me a slap on the wrist. But I would like to reapply to be a lawyer again and up some other people's lives. But the Florida Bar, they weren't having any of it. And they said, Mr. Penrod, go yourself. We are permanently revoking your license. And they did this in November of 2024, and they disbarred his ass. And he's been in jail on a 500, 000 bond since his arrest. But copies of Penrod's bank records show that he had wired more than 1.2 million to the Hard Rock and had withdrawn more than 24,000 from ATMs at the casino. The State Attorney's Office for the 10th Judicial Circuit said that Penrod engaged in money laundering through financial transactions intended to conceal the theft that was the source of the money or to avoid transaction reporting requirements. And this went on from April 2023 to April of 2024. Even before his arrest, Penrod faced a civil lawsuit which was filed in Polk county by the adult offspring of a client who had since died. And in the suit, Charles Anderson and Sherry Prevsnik accused Penrod of stealing nearly 1.8 million from the trust. So they're their father, David D. Anderson. You know, they. On a personal night, I sit around and I think about me and my daddy's gone. And he worked 48 years as a trial lawyer to build the life that he left behind for all of us and his family. And for somebody to go in and steal just because they want to go be a high roller at the Hard Rock and get free rooms and, you know, be a pimp player, you're stealing again. I'd rather deal with a murderer than a thief. But in the complaint, Anderson Prevsnik said that Penrod traveled to Pennsylvania and confessed to depleting the trust fund and using the money to gamble at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino. But he told me, say, hey, you know what? I'll pay you the money back over 10 years. Well, that didn't really go over right. The complaint quoted from a letter in which Penrod described himself as a raging in quotations gambling addict. Well, in June, Judge Michael McDaniel issued an order granting partial summary judgment and damages of 1.75 million to the family. Well, guess what? They're never going to see it, right, Unless they get it from insurance. Penrod's former business partner, Dennis Scavazio filed a lawsuit in June accusing him and related companies a breach of contract and other injuries in the complaint. And Scavazo says that he discovered in 2021 that Penrod was losing business and personal funds through gambling. Well, they didn't stop it until 2024. The two signed an employment separation agreement, but Penrod failed to remove Scavazio's name from a joint credit card account and other things. Right. So Cavazio incurred tax liabilities and a dramatic drop in his credit score and collection attempts from credit card companies, etc. Well, you know what? That is a effed up professional that you would never expect. You know, and it just, it's not just unfortunate. It's up. It just. I don't get it. It's time for effed up professionals. Rolling on with effed up professionals. And they're in all professions, prisons, you know, always been my jam. They're always said they're a whole different world. And I told you, I think it was just on, on one of the episodes this week, like a pin joint would cost $2 on the street of marijuana. It would, you know, sell us for like 100 bucks inside the prison and all 9% of everything that gets brought in gets brought in through correctional officers. Well, about to tell you about another one in the. This one, of course, I. I should have done Worldwide crime also this one. A female prison officer has appeared in court accused applauding with two inmates to supply drugs and smuggle phones into Her Majesty's Prison Brixton. Shannon Day, who's 24, of Sydenham, southeast London, appeared in the Croydon's Magistrates court on Wednesday and she is charged along with bertil Bellubia, who's 34, and Mark McBain, who's 62. The court heard that the trio are charged with a range of offenses including drug smuggling, misconduct in public office fraud and money laundering. And all three are accused of conspiring between September 1 and October 31 of 2022 to supply a quantity of cannabis, marijuana. And they are also charged with conspiring to supply a quantity of spice paper. Where y'. All. That's some bad. And I mean, you heard the story about the guy cuts his baby out of his wife's belly because he got on this, the synthetic. Anyway, spice paper, which is synthetic. Synthetic drug spice, which is designated as a class B. It's sprayed onto paper and is. They either smoke it or eat it like acid. And they are further charged with conspiring between the same dates to convey prohibited articles into Brixton, which are three mobile phones and the chargers. That wasn't a thing. Back in my day, nobody had a cell phone. But, you know, after Courtney Coco's Dateline thing, and I've told you all this before, people from all over the world reaching out to me to work for cases, including I had like four different inmates on, not the same person from across the United States. They, they, they were in prison on an illegal cell phone, asking me to help them with their case. And they sent it to me. Whatever the. I. How much are you in prison if you can sit in your cell and surf the Internet every day? I think that makes your time go by a lot faster. But back to it. Day is additionally charged with one count of misconduct in public office. Well, you know what? I don't know what the penalties for that are in Britain or wherever. England, and. But now she'll spend Christmas inside the bars, right? And not carrying through the bars. So there you have that. All right. When you work in law enforcement, you see all kinds of shit, right? You come in, usually the people you contact, they're having their worst day and sometimes not. But, you know, emergency rooms. And they always have to go there on homicides and rapes and what have you. And they're always A show. That's why they have law enforcement there and security guards and everything else. Because you're going to run across. I've been in an emergency room working on a homicide when people showed up and the cops had to put one guy's head through a wall in Charity Hospital. New Orleans was no longer there. But the. It's just, it's a shit show. And like when I was in the hospital last time, Sin told one of the staff that came in the room she was gonna go down to the car to get something. They're like, don't go outside, right? Because that's, that's like a bad place. On steroids. We're going to North Carolina, tell you about a special kind of in a hospital. And the officials with a North Carolina hospital reported that because violence against medical personnel is steadily rising, the facility has made employee safety a top priority. In the move to work more closely with security teams and city police came after her asshole, who was a 25 year old patient, guess what he did. He used his HIV positive blood as a deadly weapon against two staffers. Now he has been to court and he's just learned his fate, right? So. And I told you about this when it happened. But back in October, Cameron Gilchrist was in the middle of receiving diabetic treatment at the UNC Rex Hospital in Raleigh when he attacked two workers, a man and a woman. And March 21, they said Gilcrease not only removed his IV, but he intentionally aimed his HIV positive blood at the victim's eyes. Then saw an arrest warrant, they said. It's unclear whether the two staffers contracted HIV after the exposure, but a warrant said they did incur physical injuries, including irritation. Well, let me tell you about that. The, the bites, times I was bitten and different, or I got cuts on me and mixed in the blood with the people I had to fight and stuff. The. I got tested for many years because HIV doesn't always show up right away, right. You know, this guy's got HIV or this girl's got hiv and it can take a long period of time. So now you're living under the spin of the gun, waiting at, you know, is it going to happen to me? Well, Gilcrease wasn't apprehended until six months later because he had been receiving both medical and psychiatric care in the time since and couldn't be arrested. He was held at the Wake County Detention center in lieu of a $25,000 bond. And he was initially charged with two felonies for assaulting emergency personnel and As I so often do, he went out like a little and he copped a plea deal. And on December 11, he pled guilty to two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. And a judge sentenced him to 91 days in jail. But he immediately walked free because he got credit for time served. And if he hadn't taken the plea deal, he faced up seven years in prison. To me, that's, that's a fucking slap in the face. I'm gonna be so pissed off. But a spokesperson for the UNC Rex Health told People magazine said unfortunately, violent situations and threats of violence against health workers have become more common across the country. Health care workers are estimated to be five times more likely to be injured in workplace violence incident than workers in all other private sector industries combined. Y', all, that's a lot.
