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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 10:55 AM Sep 2020

The Falwells, the pool attendant and the double life that brought them all down

For 2½ years, Giancarlo Granda had been telling his family about the generosity of his business partners. The wealthy couple from out of town had taken him under their wing, he said, rewarding the Miami pool attendant’s ambition with a stake in a multimillion-dollar real estate project. Now he wanted them to meet.

In a trendy Italian restaurant inside the South Beach property where he’d become a part owner, Granda introduced his parents and sister to his unlikely benefactors: Jerry and Becki Falwell.

Over wine and pasta, the president of Liberty University and his wife praised the square-jawed 22-year-old, saying he was like an adopted son, Granda and his sister recalled.

“Oh my God. They’re so nice,” Granda’s mother said of the Falwells afterward. “They’re so charming.”

“You see?” Granda recalled replying. “They just want to help me out.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/jerry-becki-falwell-affair-giancarlo-granda-trump/2020/09/18/456a1568-eccc-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html

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The Falwells, the pool attendant and the double life that brought them all down (Original Post) Zorro Sep 2020 OP
Sorry but I have no sympathy Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 #1
oh FUCK them Skittles Sep 2020 #2
100% THIS! Aristus Sep 2020 #3
Truly... nt uriel1972 Sep 2020 #4

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,104 posts)
1. Sorry but I have no sympathy
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 12:52 PM
Sep 2020

Maybe the Falwells can get their life back together but it's going to take a bit of humility and a withdrawl from public life.

Skittles

(152,964 posts)
2. oh FUCK them
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 09:07 PM
Sep 2020

what consenting adults do is no business of mine, but they were IN THE BUSINESS OF JUDGING THE BEHAVIOR OF OTHERS. Fucking HYPOCRITES.

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