Allan Dalton tells Lamacchia: left leaning political ideology drove Sitzer verdict

Dalton was the "star" of the infamous Tom Ferry podcast video shown in the Sitzer case

Allan Dalton and Anthony Lamacchia appearing on the Crush It In Real Estate YouTube channel June 27, 2024.

As Andy Dufresne observed in the Shawshank Redemption “Everybody is innocent in here, don’t you know that?” And so we have yet another stellar example of denial and blame shifting in the world of residential real estate.

Allan Dalton, star of the infamous Tom Ferry podcast video shown in the Sitzer case told Anthony Lamacchia in late June that the real estate industry was effectively a victim of left leaning political ideology which influenced the verdict: “alot that's going on in the world, people think there is the oppressed and the oppressor and so this this also comes under the the purview of like justice and social justice…minority home ownership is lower than 50%, white ownership is 74%.”

“The industry was very vulnerable but it wasn't culpable, it wasn't guilty,” Allan Dalton.

Dalton added, “So putting aside whatever the plaintiff’s motives were, whatever whatever, degree of mercenary motivation they had, the setting was was perfect to redress what's happening in the world, so sociologically okay, so the industry was very vulnerable but it wasn't culpable.”

Dalton also seems to misunderstand the central theory of the case, which was not that the Realtor Association fixed prices at a particular rate, but rather the conspiracy elevated prices:

“Anthony I think the industry was very vulnerable but it wasn't culpable it wasn't guilty, in all my years I never attended any situation with you or anyone else, okay, where anyone talked about what fees should be,” Dalton added.

An interview Dalton conducted, while he was with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, with Tom Ferry was a central piece of evidence in the trial last fall. Ferry deleted the video during the trial but an anonymous YouTube account re-published the video shorty thereafter.

Lamacchia has become a de-facto spokesman for the Realtor cause via his YouTube channel, even debating plaintiff Attorney Michael Ketchmark. And while the National Association of Realtors and Lamacchia have denied any message coordination, the president of NAR, Kevin Sears, just this spring merged his Springfield Massachusetts agency under the Lamacchia Realty brand.