Ozy CEO’s Lawyer Grills Co-Founder Over Posing as YouTube Exec

June 7, 2024, 10:23 PM UTC

A lawyer for Ozy Media Inc. CEO Carlos Watson grilled the company’s co-founder on Friday about his attempt to impersonate a YouTube executive and other misrepresentations.

The lawyer, Ronald Sullivan, opened the trial in the conspiracy case against Watson last week by telling jurors that Samir Rao was a “crooked co-founder” of the media company who got a “sweetheart deal” from prosecutors. Rao is a key prosecution witnesses, and Sullivan continued to paint him as a serial deceiver who implicated Watson to save himself.

“You’re a liar, right?” Sullivan said. “You’ve become quite a proficient liar?”

“I did it a ...

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