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I could not find the date of when “Borat” uncovered the pedo ring and sent the info to the FBI.

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I wondered about that too, lj - but was too lazy to dig! LOL!

The article was written today. I followed a link from the article, and it lead to an interview Dec 19, where he states that it took him two years to gather the material for the new series he is apparently releasing. But that’s just a guess. The horribleness occurred, I’m guessing, sometime in past two years.

The link with that is here:

https://deadline.com/2018/12/sacha-baron-cohen-who-is-america-shocking-scenes-donald-trump-dick-cheney-sarah-palin-oj-simpson-golden-globe-nomination-interview-1202522910/

DEADLINE: From planning to execution how long did it take to generate the material for seven episodes?

BARON COHEN: It took almost two years. There was a 10-week process at the beginning, which was the creation of the characters, and me and my co-writers Anthony Hines and Dan Mazer gave ourselves strict guidelines. Once a week, we would create a new character designed for a particular age, and we’d write for it and then we’d have the prosthetics built. At the end of the week, I would spend a day in the prosthetics, interviewing real people. We’d see whether people would believe it and if the character would work. It was an amazingly stressful process, each week coming out with something new, coming up with a complete backstory because obviously when you sit down with someone, these interviews can last up to five or six hours.