Corporate Media Has Allowed Human Trafficking To Flourish

Via The Tom Sumner Program: Author and Hall of Fame trial attorney Mike Papantonio joins the program to discuss the importance of using his books to tackle important issues. This new legal thriller is called, Inhuman Trafficking, and lays out the complex business of human trafficking, from truck stops to Wall Street.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Hey, good morning, everybody. Welcome to the show. I'm Tom Sumner. We got a good one in store today. Coming up in the third half of our three hour tour known as The Tom Sumner Program. We're gonna talk about a new legal thriller from a previous guest on the show, Mike Papantonio. I think I'm saying that right, but he goes by Mike and or Pap and he joins me by phone. Good morning, Pap, welcome to the show.

Tom, Good morning. How are you today?

I'm doing okay.

Good.

As I recall, from the last time you were on the show, your, your legal thrillers always have an issue that they're trying to tackle.

Yeah, the whole idea was to, when, when I start, first started writing these, we handled, we handle kind of the big cases all over the country. We, we're the people who launched the tobacco litigation and my firm launched the opioid litigation. We've launched probably 60 of the biggest pharmaceutical fraud cases in the country. So right now our, our attention is on human trafficking. So what I, here, here's the problem with what has happened to the media, Tom, the media has become dysfunctional where it comes to handling a story for more than 48 hours. Once corporate media took over, it's, it's all it, it's kind of wham bam, who'd do the story, the story disappears and people forget about it. So what we found is part of lawyering nowadays is not only to be able to, to, to launch the case and, and actually try the case and adequately take all the discovery, but you have to keep the story alive.

You have gotta be able to talk about opioids, for example, the one that we're working right now, it's very, you know, we're making real progress. We're probably gonna have a global settlement on this project before long. But in order to make that happen, what we had to do, Tom, is we had to let, we had to get the media away from their low hanging fruit, their laziness and low hanging fruit. And we had to actually feed the story to organizations like the, the Washington Post that did a wonderful job covering this project, but we had to get 'em that information. And so, so these books do the same thing. I mean, hopefully you read Inhuman Trafficking and you say, well, gee, I knew thinking was a problem, but I didn't understand, I didn't understand how it worked. I didn't understand that corporate America is very much involved in human trafficking. And now we're settling a good many of those cases with organizations that I, I, I'm not, I can't disclose to you, but they're some of the biggest organize, corporate organizations in the country. So, yeah, the.

Well, and, and Mike, I kind of, I kind of jumped right over it when, when I introd you, because I wanted to get right to talking to you, because it's been a little while since we've spoke. That you don't just, you know, play a lawyer in your books, but you're a lawyer in real life and, and this, this new thriller is called Inhuman Trafficking, and plays in the world of, of human trafficking, as you were just, just saying, Mike. What do you mean inhuman trafficking?

Well, you know, the point is there is no, there is no humane way to traffic. But I think, you know, that's, that is probably just hopefully an attention getter, you know, which, which is very necessary in this business right now, of human trafficking. You know, the, as I say, if you were to go to the

And Mike, Mike, I don't want, I don't want to interrupt your train of thought.

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