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Pablo Torre: "This is the story of a smart man at Steve Ballmer who thought he was smarter than he was. And I say that because he partnered with a company in Aspiration that went bankrupt. It collapsed due to fraud. He, I am sure, lost millions of dollars that he was shocked to discover went into the pocket of a guy who is now in federal prison for 14 years, the co-founder of Aspiration, who, by the way, shows up in the NBA report and in our reporting because something that he attested to was able to be corroborated by three other patterns in separate companies. So, Steve Ballmer scammed but also was trying to deceive the NBA." Pablo Torre: If you’ve been following our (ongoing) investigation into the Clippers and Steve Ballmer and Kawhi Leonard, you know we’ve been waiting for this day for a year. We published Part I on September 3rd, 2025. This, Part 15, we streamed live last night — on September 2nd, 2026 — roughly 90 minutes after the NBA announced its punishment and the league’s outside counsel, Wachtell Lipton, dropped a detailed 35-page report. Accountability for the wealthiest people on Earth is hard to come by. Thank you for believing in the power of independent reporting to accomplish it. (And, yes, more to come.)

Pablo Torre Finds Out