"enjoy the sex in prison": NBC Reporter Relishes Evicting Tenant in Bleak Instagram Posts

[Celerity]

what a POS!

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marc-caputo-nbc-politics-reporter-relishes-evicting-tenant-in-bleak-instagram-posts



A senior national political reporter at NBC News decided, for some reason, to share his delight at evicting a tenant in a series of mocking Instagram stories on Tuesday, according to a report.

Marc Caputo uploaded screen-recordings of texts sent between himself, a property manager, and the tenant occupying a house owned by Caputo in Key West, Defector claims.

The messages chronicled the tenant pleading for more time as Caputo refuses, referring to the tenant as a “junkie” and telling the property manager he hopes the tenant “enjoys the sex in prison.” In one post showing a screenshot of a message from a producer asking him to do a live TV broadcast, Caputo allegedly wrote: “...of course TV wants me on in the 2 pm hour. A live eviction wd make for good TV.”

When the property manager text Caputo saying the tenant “doesn’t have anywhere to go and nobody has any love for him,” Caputo allegedly replied: “He will have a gun to his head in almost a literal sense because law enforcement will be there.” NBC News declined to comment to Defector about the posts, while Caputo said his actions were “born out of deep frustration that I transmuted into mockery of a terrible situation.”

Read it at Defector

[Deminpenn]

1. Didn't this guy work for Trump?

nt

[Yonnie3]

5. There was a Michael Caputo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Caputo

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Michael Raymon Caputo (born March 24, 1962)[1] is an American political strategist and lobbyist. In April 2020, Caputo was appointed as assistant secretary of public affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration. He worked for the Reagan Administration with Oliver North, and later as director of media services on the campaign for President George H. W. Bush in the 1992 United States presidential election. Caputo moved to Russia in 1994, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and was an adviser to Boris Yeltsin. He worked for Gazprom Media in 2000 where he worked on improving the image of Vladimir Putin in the U.S. He moved back to the U.S. and founded a public relations company, and then moved to Ukraine to work on a candidate's campaign for parliament.

----snip----

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Different Guy

Marc is a writer for Poltico.
Michael is equally a slime all though.
He was the one at HHS suppressing COVID info that was bad for TFG.

[Yonnie3]

11. I forgot to point that it was a diferent man in my reply

and that was the reason for my reply.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. They Share More Than A Last Name

They obviously share many repulsive characteristics.

[Deminpenn]

19. Now I remember, this guy was a local Florida reporter

who was a guest MSNBC had on to talk FL politics. IIRC, he parlayed that into a job with NBC although I thought it was just as a regular "political analyst" on NBC/MSNBC, not a credentialed reporter.

[Yonnie3]

24. They are not alone, there are many of their ilk

People with these repulsive characteristics have been more open with their character (lack of) and apparently they now feel empowered. No longer do they scurry out of sight like cockroaches when the light is turned on. They've always been around, but not so open.

I worry.

[Walleye]

2. I am tired of hearing white men use "frustration" as an excuse for despicable behavior

Most of us live every day with unbearable levels of frustration in our lives. We don’t act like jerk offs because of the

[hlthe2b]

3. I am so hoping for some INSTANT KARMA to target Caputo.

What a POS.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

13. me too

[EYESORE 9001]

4. I wonder if he got his start

pulling the wings off flies.

[shrike3]

6. My father was a landlord. I understand the challenges.

But put that stuff on Instagram? Where millions of people will get to see it? And you are an on-air reporter for a national news network? Where are people's heads?

Did he think he was getting revenge? On a guy with nothing? Sheesh.

[2naSalit]

8. Gosh...

Almost sounds like somebody's advances were rebuffed or something?

[Archae]

9. I used to work with my Dad who was a landlord for a time...

One couple we evicted, got several months behind in rent, and after they left, we spent weeks cleaning the place, finding a lot of junk, trash, and a bag of weed that we turned over to the cops.

To a junkie or druggie, buying their fix is more important than paying a bill or the rent.

[RandiFan1290]

10. Awww, bless your heart. nt

[Archae]

16. You should have seen the apartment after my Dad evicted the couple.

(Lower floor of a house)

Trash just about everywhere.

Furniture left behind that looked like it had been carted in from a landfill.

Animal waste all over one room and dog claw marks on the walls and door.

I don't doubt that there are people who get behind due to job insecurity or family issues, like a parent taking off.

But there are still plenty of people are simply lazy, or live to just get high, addicted to their dope of choice or alcohol.

[Caliman73]

14. Such is the power of chemical dependence...

People who rent properties have a difficult job balancing their economic interests with humanity and understanding people's behaviors and problems. When you have tenants who do not meet their end of the contract, it is a difficult position to be in.

The humanity might be shown by not denigrating others for their failings and using terms like "junkie" or "druggie". It certainly is frustrating seeing no income from an investment or to see people damaging your property. When we see people as "things" or "other" we tend to throw out some of our own humanity too. It can be difficult to hold on to it, but it damages all of us if we don't.

It is true that when people are dependent or addicted to substances, the impulse and drive to maintain their addiction takes precedent over many things in their lives, including paying bills, working, taking care of children or other dependents. Long term use of drugs and alcohol changes brain chemistry and people have to use more and more of a substance just to feel at their baseline. It is a powerful drive that a lot of people do not understand unless they have experienced it, or possibly can relate to is having worked with people with substance dependence.

[Kaleva]

15. The in-laws used to rent out but quit it for partly the situation you described.

[Archae]

17. Not surprised, my Dad quit for the same reason.

[madville]

12. I'd be finding a new property manager

The property manager, hired by the property owner should be working for the property owner, not the non-paying tenant.

Also one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country, tenant that’s unable to pay needs to relocate regardless.

Either way though, posting that in social media with a news job is nuts, this must have been going on for awhile to boil over like that.

[Coventina]

20. "I hope you get raped" is basically what he said. What a POS!!!

That is not someone I would trust in a job.
I would fire someone like that immediately.

I don't care if he was "in the right" legally, you don't say stuff like that. You just don't.

[sarisataka]

22. I wish I could say

I haven't see equal posted here.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

21. I see that sentiment here quite a bit.

[maxsolomon]

23. I do too; it's usually expressed in the 1st 5 comments on any thread

about any man being sentenced to prison.

Really revealing about the person (always a man) making the comment, don't you think? The 1st place their mind goes is Prison Rape...