🧩 BND index · M1973
Got Capone on taxes
A powerful figure suspected of a grave wrong is brought down instead by a smaller, provable breach, a rule broken or a filing missed, and tellers point out that the lesser charge did what the big one could not.
📜 Plots🗂️ Accountability🗂️ Moral Scandals🗂️ Crime and punishment
- 3claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 2center shows it came up on
- 3right shows it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (2 left-leaning, 2 center, 3 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- center
- right-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns amid Chinese spy scandal and allegations of misconduct Nov 8 to Nov 14
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “he ended up getting fired, not because of his relationship with this Chinese spy, alleged, but because ... he was also having a relationship with another subordinate... which is a corporate no-no.” “Jensen Huang Resigns After Having Another Affair In Addition to the Chinese Spy” “That's a violation of company policy” “This one doesn't appear to have.” “What took him out, I mentioned this before, but just to reiterate for people, is another affair was revealed.”
🧶 Its claims
what people have said in this shape, summed up in our words: their claims, not ours, and not checked unless a fact-checker is named; newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 0
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
No claim heard only on the left so far.
Told on the right 1
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-13 “Jensen Huang is said to have been ousted over an affair with a subordinate, a policy breach, rather than over his suspected-spy romance.” — said on 1 show
Told on both sides 1
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-11-13 “Jensen Huang's resignation follows the revelation of an affair with another NVIDIA executive.” — said on 6 shows
Retold online 1
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-11-14 “Jensen Huang is said to have resigned over another affair, on top of his romance with a suspected Chinese spy.” — told by people online
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