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Speaker 2: I'm sporting my Angel shirt today because I went to
Speaker 2: the game last night and watched them lose an extra innings.
Speaker 1: What's the drive home like when they lose? I got
Speaker 1: home at midnight. That's late for you. You go to
Speaker 1: bet at like eight, I do?
Speaker 2: I do? And I thought, you know what, though, I
Speaker 2: can't leave early because Mike Trout was going to bat,
Speaker 2: Zach Netto was going to bat, Nolan Shawnawell was going
Speaker 2: to bat. We're going to come back and win this thing.
Speaker 2: And of course I left disappointed yet again.
Speaker 1: Well, Johnny, you were disappointed last night. But how about
Speaker 1: I get you in the right mood. Let's start off
Speaker 1: today with something we haven't had a chance to do
Speaker 1: in quite a while. There was a very special guest
Speaker 1: at this morning's La City Council meeting, and that very
Speaker 1: special guest is a man by the name of three
Speaker 1: in Shrimp. He's back, he's back, and he had some
Speaker 1: things to say about the conditions on Figueroa. Without further ado,
Speaker 1: here is three in Shrimp at the La City Council meeting.
Speaker 3: So I'm here to talking about the recent that the
Speaker 3: crime hike on the Figaroa Street. I see that. I
Speaker 3: remember that was one month or two months ago. LPD
Speaker 3: did a special operation in Figaroa and I remember they
Speaker 3: pastated legislay one hundred and thirteen people. And then after
Speaker 3: that and right now when I go back to Figaroa,
Speaker 3: all of the people are still coming back to the street.
Speaker 3: It seems like all of your special LPD operation works
Speaker 3: for one.
Speaker 1: Week pretty much when the when the World Cup happened.
Speaker 1: After that, I let the prostitution thrive, world's oldest profession.
Speaker 3: For a week. You got a girls coming from all
Speaker 3: over the world coming to the city of Los Angeles,
Speaker 3: Figaroa Street to pursue their dream, their dream, their American dream,
Speaker 3: to become an American All Star prostitute.
Speaker 2: American all Star prostitute, not just city old prostitute, an
Speaker 2: American all Star prostitute.
Speaker 1: This is where the best of the best convened to do,
Speaker 1: you know what. Street.
Speaker 3: So I just feels like LAPD can only takeing care
Speaker 3: of the crime on figure War Street for one week
Speaker 3: and then the other fifty one week of the year,
Speaker 3: nobody cares. I disagree with the city attorney, I disagree
Speaker 3: with our council member Blue mandingo. Where is your mandingo
Speaker 3: on the Figaroa Street? Where is the one we're taking
Speaker 3: care of the criminals with your bandingo girls?
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. There's so much actual civics going on
Speaker 1: at city Hall every single day. Well, it's like mister
Speaker 1: Smith goes to Washington, isn't it. Speaking of mister Smith
Speaker 1: goes to Washington. Somebody ditched the state. That's right.
Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom says, his work here is complete, so it's
Speaker 2: time for him to go to the state of Michigan
Speaker 2: to campaign on behalf of Abdul all Sied and other
Speaker 2: Democrats running for office in that swing state.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom because there's nothing going on here that deserves
Speaker 1: his attention. Not homelessness, not crime, not fires, not the
Speaker 1: legislative session, the housing crisis, the energy crisis, None of
Speaker 1: that matters. He needs to go spend a week in
Speaker 1: Michigan to campaign for Democrats up and down that state.
Speaker 2: And have you seen that Abdul all Sayed is putting
Speaker 2: out music vide videos where he's portraying the Blues Clues
Speaker 2: guy and he's doing country Western music videos. Well, the
Speaker 2: theater kids are now in control of the world. They
Speaker 2: know how to get attention. This is what the one
Speaker 2: thing that the Democrat Party doesn't want to destroy here
Speaker 2: with this strange relationship with the DSA is there's a
Speaker 2: lot of young people running who have some sort of
Speaker 2: charisma and they know how to get attention on social media,
Speaker 2: which is the exact opposite of a Chuck Schumer type.
Speaker 2: I like that woman that was running against him in
Speaker 2: the primary, the loud one with the big sunglasses.
Speaker 1: Was that Mallory? Yeah, the one I call Haley Mills. Well,
Speaker 1: let's see what Gavin is doing as he ditched the
Speaker 1: state to go kiss the ring in Michigan. Here is
Speaker 1: Fox forty in Sacramento.
Speaker 4: Fox Sport is your local election headquarters. Gavin Newsom is
Speaker 4: on the campaign trail out of state the California governors
Speaker 4: in Michigan today campaigning for Democrats ahead of the November midterms,
Speaker 4: and he's making no secret of his goald.
Speaker 1: Do you think Abdul wanted to meet with Gavin or
Speaker 1: was this just kind of forced upon him? Could be
Speaker 1: an arranged marriage?
Speaker 2: And why is it, by the way that he always
Speaker 2: has the shirt unbuttoned down to his navel, yet he
Speaker 2: makes his wife wear the key.
Speaker 1: Job Okay, then, no, it's true.
Speaker 2: Every time I see her she's all covered up, But
Speaker 2: he looks like he's ready to get it on with
Speaker 2: a prostitute.
Speaker 4: Taking on President Trump and securing a Democratic majority in Congress. Republicans, though,
Speaker 4: accused Newsom of trying to build his own national profile
Speaker 4: ahead of a potential twenty twenty eight run for president.
Speaker 1: Are you telling me that Gavin Newsom only cares about himself?
Speaker 1: That's hard to believe.
Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us tonight for Fox forty News at
Speaker 4: five thirty. I'm Niki Lorenzo. Fox forty Capitol reporter Aton
Speaker 4: Wallace has a look at who knew some plans to
Speaker 4: meet within Michigan and has reaction from critics.
Speaker 5: To maying, sure that we win the United States Senate.
Speaker 6: California Governor Gavin knew something with that message as he
Speaker 6: campaigns with Democrats in Michigan.
Speaker 2: Wait, wasn't he the guy that wanted to ban all
Speaker 2: the cars that rely on oil?
Speaker 1: Yes, and in fact, we have a mandate that we
Speaker 1: cannot buy gas powered cars as of twenty thirty five,
Speaker 1: nine years from now, and he went to Michigan, where
Speaker 1: all the cars are manufactured. Why would anyone in Michigan.
Speaker 1: Listen to this fool. I want to know what local
Speaker 1: state representatives think they're going to get a boost from
Speaker 1: having Gavin Newsome because he doesn't tailor his message for
Speaker 1: the state that he's campaigning in. He doesn't know or
Speaker 1: care anything about Michigan. I saw a gave a Newsom
Speaker 1: rally where after Prop fifty pasted, he went to Houston
Speaker 1: to have a rally in Texas. I know he starts
Speaker 1: talking about in Houston, Texas, how great California is. Texans
Speaker 1: don't care. Well.
Speaker 2: I saw him speaking to a group of people in
Speaker 2: Michigan and it looked like there were all of seventeen
Speaker 2: people there and they all had great ponytails.
Speaker 1: And that was just the man. You remember earlier this
Speaker 1: year when Gavin went to Nevada to campaign for the
Speaker 1: mayor of Las Vegas campaign, and he was in a
Speaker 1: room with maybe ten people.
Speaker 2: Nobody. Nobody is buying what this Charlotte and is selling.
Speaker 1: Gavin, you'd be more effective just going on TikTok live
Speaker 1: and selling emojis for a penny.
Speaker 6: The governor in the Wolverine state to campaign for Democratic
Speaker 6: candidates running for the state House and urging party unity
Speaker 6: all in a trip that included a meeting with US
Speaker 6: Senate candidate Abdul said, less than a week after l
Speaker 6: said won a close and bitter Democratic primary race against
Speaker 6: fellow Demo.
Speaker 1: She's kind of like the female Chris Farley. I'm now
Speaker 1: going to be so ruined where i can't remember if
Speaker 1: her name is Haley Mills or Hailey Stevens.
Speaker 2: Well, according to my text message to Alex Michaelson, it's
Speaker 2: Hailey Mills.
Speaker 6: Democrat to Hailey Stevens.
Speaker 1: There we go, it's Hailey Stevens. I'm going to commit
Speaker 1: that to memory, even though I'm notoriously awful with names. Goodness,
Speaker 1: that's really me.
Speaker 7: The focus is the things that united us together minus together,
Speaker 7: not our interesting differences.
Speaker 6: It comes as Democrats.
Speaker 1: He speaking there to a group of United Auto Workers. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they love Gavin. I'm sure they don't know
Speaker 1: the fact that he wants to put them out of work.
Speaker 6: Oh, they might flip at least three seats in the
Speaker 6: US House of Representatives to take back the majority in
Speaker 6: that chamber, and at least four seats in the US Senate.
Speaker 6: And doing so, says Newsom, will lead to this the
Speaker 6: end of Donald Trump's presidency, Newsom's trip coming.
Speaker 1: What's with the uh? He's almost doing the thing that
Speaker 1: you're not allowed to do it Cleveland Indians games anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he looks like, you know, when you're gonna upgrade
Speaker 2: the color of your belt over karate class and you
Speaker 2: got to chop through the wood.
Speaker 1: Everybody's kung fu fighting in Michigan. What are you doing, Gavin?
Speaker 1: This is what we try to do our best to
Speaker 1: describe to our radio listeners what he's doing. But sometimes
Speaker 1: you gotta go pull on the live feed and see
Speaker 1: Gavin in action because he he is a strange, strange
Speaker 1: creetzer John I don't like dot com. I talk with
Speaker 1: my hands a lot. But he looks like he's coming
Speaker 1: down off a heroin with the hand gingers. Notice how
Speaker 1: he's on as he's off the cuff, because he's got
Speaker 1: his sleeves rolled up.
Speaker 2: Literally, he's like Rob Bonta. He's rolling up his sleeves,
Speaker 2: locking arms, getting things done.
Speaker 1: Every type of leadership is about meeting the moment and
Speaker 1: rising to the occasion.
Speaker 6: And this is what's required, and so we're stepping up
Speaker 6: and getting it done.
Speaker 1: And in fact, over the weekend, Bob Bonta posted a
Speaker 1: tweet saying, how hey, we've been going after hospice fraud
Speaker 1: since twenty twenty two and I kid you not. In
Speaker 1: the tweet, he says, we've been hard at work, head down,
Speaker 1: sleeves rolled up. What an a hole?
Speaker 6: Bob Bonta after his team says he raised more than
Speaker 6: one hundred and sixty thousand dollars in small money donations
Speaker 6: for the Michigan Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: Okay, Aton, where do we get the stock footage of
Speaker 1: just the dollars hitting the floor a strip club? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Was he dancing on a pole?
Speaker 6: Included in his multi day trip there a tour of
Speaker 6: the famous Big House football stadium on the University of
Speaker 6: Michigan campus in an arbor, a meeting with Michigan.
Speaker 2: Come on, he's walking down the tunnel like he's Rudy
Speaker 2: getting ready to make his debut in NCAA football. The
Speaker 2: only way that guy would ever be in a uniform
Speaker 2: on a football field is if he had a clarinet
Speaker 2: in his hand.
Speaker 1: Hey, I was a clarinet player in marching band. Boy exactly.
Speaker 1: It was embarrassing. Now I don't know this for sure,
Speaker 1: but based on a lot of these other trips that
Speaker 1: Gavin has taken. Doesn't seem like he brought the fam. Yeah, gee,
Speaker 1: I wonder why.
Speaker 6: And in address at Fellowship Chapel, a historic black church
Speaker 6: in Detroit, Oh.
Speaker 1: No, Gavin, Okay, did he do the accent? I don't
Speaker 1: think he did. But let's give a listen.
Speaker 7: I want to get political, reverend, but we got an
Speaker 7: evasive species in the White House.
Speaker 1: That's true, that's right. You know he's running for president.
Speaker 1: When Gavin goes to a historically black church, oh boy,
Speaker 1: there is not one aspect of Newsom that comes off
Speaker 1: as authentic.
Speaker 2: Why is it always the black churches that they go to?
Speaker 2: How come you never see him at I don't know,
Speaker 2: someplace the Armenians go to or the Koreans.
Speaker 1: What an interesting point Latvian orthodox.
Speaker 6: Political move That's the analysis from Republican political analyst Matt Clink.
Speaker 6: He notes Michigan is a key swing state Newsom will
Speaker 6: need to win should he run for president in twenty
Speaker 6: twenty eight.
Speaker 1: But Clink also auto workers are totally getting behind Gavin.
Speaker 2: What what made him think that that was fertile ground
Speaker 2: for him? His whole presentation here was putting those people
Speaker 2: on edd.
Speaker 6: Who has this warning for news about who he meets with.
Speaker 8: There, the question becomes, is you know how close does
Speaker 8: he want to get to a pretty radical candidate, abdulah Sayed,
Speaker 8: who won the Democratic primary, and while he doesn't call
Speaker 8: himself a Democratic Socialist, he then in the next sentence
Speaker 8: turnarounds and advocates for all the policies.
Speaker 1: He says he's not DSA, but well maybe he's DSA light.
Speaker 6: Pornia Republican legislators are blasting news, some accusing him of
Speaker 6: putting his potential presidential ambitions ahead of his role as
Speaker 6: California governor.
Speaker 1: This is just another press release so he can run for.
Speaker 6: President of the United States and the Democratic It's not
Speaker 6: an important thing.
Speaker 1: But can somebody get Tony Strickland a better webcam? Is
Speaker 1: is worse than mine used to be? It really is.
Speaker 1: Come on. I know you get paid a decent salary.
Speaker 1: I know you got to live at Huntington Beach and
Speaker 1: that's expensive, but come on, Tony, you can do better.
Speaker 2: Now here's a question. If Abdul Alsayed is DSA light.
Speaker 2: Is he endorsed by Dylan mulvainy.
Speaker 6: Two sided activist Dolores where to echoing Newsom's message urging
Speaker 6: voters to do all they can to take on Trump.
Speaker 9: To bite that because we did not let them and
Speaker 9: the Trumpet administration take away our democracy.
Speaker 6: And Newsom's trip was paid for with his campaign funds,
Speaker 6: not with taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 1: Which is not necessarily true because, as you are well aware,
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom has to have a CHP security detail whenever
Speaker 1: he travels outside of the state. So even though the
Speaker 1: tickets were booked with campaign money, which what does he
Speaker 1: have campaign money for when he's not running for anything anymore?
Speaker 1: The CHP security detail that now has to fly to
Speaker 1: Michigan and back that we are paying for. Well, and
Speaker 1: how about that?
Speaker 2: Yes, his communication staff, which is in theory supposed to
Speaker 2: be doing state business, is hyping up his trip which
Speaker 2: is entirely for political purposes all over social media. They're
Speaker 2: not paid for by his campaign account, they're paid for
Speaker 2: by the taxpayers, yet they're acting as if they work
Speaker 2: for his presidential campaign and not for the people of California.
Speaker 6: Meantime, he's expected to return to California later this week
Speaker 6: reporting at the state capitol covering local news that matters.
Speaker 6: Saton Wallace, Fox forty.
Speaker 1: News So there you go, Gavin Newsom once again fleeing
Speaker 1: the state because nothing's going on here in California to
Speaker 1: go campaign for people in Michigan who either don't know
Speaker 1: who he is or don't care, or if they do
Speaker 1: know who he is, they're probably not a fan. I
Speaker 1: hope his flight home cancels. Is he flying American?
Speaker 2: Well, if he's flying to Detroit, he's probably flying on Delta.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, weren't they the ones that took over Northwest Orient?
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Speaker 2: People like to go to Las Vegas and bet on
Speaker 2: virtually everything, and I include myself with that remark, but
Speaker 2: I did not know you can bet on the wildfires.
Speaker 1: Apparently, Randy, you can. We are truly in the wild
Speaker 1: wild West when it comes to this new world of
Speaker 1: online gambling trading markets, and one of the strange things
Speaker 1: that has occurred is bets that may be in poor taste,
Speaker 1: to say the least, like which world leader is about
Speaker 1: to get assassinated next? You can bet on that. You
Speaker 1: can bet on if a plane is going to crash,
Speaker 1: and you can bet on what region is going to
Speaker 1: have a devastating wildfire next. Our two senators in California,
Speaker 1: Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, would like to have some
Speaker 1: federal regulation to ban this practice because the platform in question, polymarket,
Speaker 1: isn't going to do with it without. But let's find
Speaker 1: out who the hell is betting on the probability of
Speaker 1: wildfires in the state of California. For more, here is
Speaker 1: ABC seven in the Bay.
Speaker 10: California is always dangerous. Wildfire season is now the focus
Speaker 10: of political pressure for the attention it's receiving from the
Speaker 10: online gambling industry. This seems crazy, but it's true. The
Speaker 10: public can place bets on the areas of the state
Speaker 10: that could burn next. If a wildfire actually erupts.
Speaker 1: I wonder what the odds are for that the state
Speaker 1: is a tinderbox. How much, how honestly, how much could
Speaker 1: you be making. It's not like this is a long shot.
Speaker 2: Tell you what, you lay one hundred dollars down that
Speaker 2: Malibu's going to burn this.
Speaker 1: Year, congrats, I guess it's such a strange thing. You
Speaker 1: know what's so funny about this whole thing is there
Speaker 1: was that mass fight just four years ago where you
Speaker 1: had competing interests, the Vegas casinos and the tribal casinos
Speaker 1: putting competing measures on the ballot in twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: to legalize sports gambling, and they spent so much money
Speaker 1: against each other poison the well that nobody bet on
Speaker 1: any of it. So what happened was nobody voted yes
Speaker 1: on any of those things. So a couple of years later,
Speaker 1: this new technology comes out, these predictive markets which they're gambling,
Speaker 1: but because you're playing against another person and there's no
Speaker 1: one that counts as the house, it has completely changed
Speaker 1: the definition of gambling, which means that you can do
Speaker 1: all kinds of sports gambling in the state of California,
Speaker 1: even though it's not technically legal and when it comes
Speaker 1: to betting on all kinds of other things. We covered
Speaker 1: a lot about the presidential race, and we have yet
Speaker 1: to see any kind of action from Sacramento or Washington
Speaker 1: in wanting to limit the things that you can bet on,
Speaker 1: except for the very obvious cases of insider trading that
Speaker 1: have happened, including a soldier that was part of the
Speaker 1: Maduro raid that bet that Maduro was going to get arrested.
Speaker 2: Well, here's what I don't understand about these things. If
Speaker 2: you're betting on a horse, or you're betting on a
Speaker 2: football team, or you're betting on something along those lines,
Speaker 2: you have no impact on the outcome. But if you're
Speaker 2: betting on which area is going to experience a fire,
Speaker 2: in theory, you could be the one that sets the fire.
Speaker 2: So why in the world would you ever let someone
Speaker 2: bet on something where they could, in theory, impact the
Speaker 2: outcome or have insider knowledge, as you shaid.
Speaker 1: Wasn't it I think I have this story right. Wasn't
Speaker 1: it that the guy that runs Trump's teleprompter was betting
Speaker 1: on poly market the things that he knew Trump was
Speaker 1: going to say in the speech. Because there's people that
Speaker 1: make money on polymarket or Calshi if Trump has a
Speaker 1: non sequitor in the middle of a speech where he
Speaker 1: just says trans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but by allowing people to bet on these things,
Speaker 2: you're opening up the door to that.
Speaker 10: Yep, California State Senators Alex Padilla, Adam Schiff and seven
Speaker 10: of their Senate colleagues are now calling on these online
Speaker 10: trading websites to stop offering wildfire bets.
Speaker 1: ABC seven.
Speaker 10: I would assume South Bay reporter Dustin Dorsey has more
Speaker 10: on the dangers of the sort of gambling Dustin.
Speaker 7: Larry, that's right. You know, we all are familiar with
Speaker 7: sports betting on things like outcomes and statistics. But you
Speaker 7: can act why.
Speaker 1: If only these prediction markets were a thing a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago when Ebey was stealing all his show
Speaker 1: Haze money. Oh, could you imagine how you would clean.
Speaker 7: Up clean nowadays? Bet on almost anything that includes the weather,
Speaker 7: what's said in the next political speech, e sports, and
Speaker 7: apparently now wildfires.
Speaker 1: Here's how corrupt you can get with this. Let's say
Speaker 1: that you're a member of the La County Board of
Speaker 1: Supervisors and you put up a bet on Calshi that
Speaker 1: during this week's Board of Supervisors meeting, this phrase will
Speaker 1: be uttered. Quite frankly, you can be the one saying
Speaker 1: it and you could be the one betting on it.
Speaker 2: Well, there are certain things where if you do nothing
Speaker 2: but work in an industry or study a subject, you
Speaker 2: know things before other people do. I mean, we talked
Speaker 2: about the Eric Swallwell scandal that was going to come
Speaker 2: out long before it actually came out, and I think
Speaker 2: we correctly predicted the day that the story was going
Speaker 2: to break. Now, it's not because of clairvoyance, it's because
Speaker 2: this is what we do for a living, so we're
Speaker 2: aware of the industry that we work in. If we
Speaker 2: were to have bet money on the betting markets that
Speaker 2: he was going to drop out of the race because
Speaker 2: of a massive scandal, we would have cleaned up. Now
Speaker 2: we had insider knowledge, We knew what was coming down
Speaker 2: the pike. How is that ethical? How is that allowed?
Speaker 1: Well, it's not ethical. There's no ethics in any of this.
Speaker 1: So we're pretty much on the honor system that people
Speaker 1: aren't going to do this. But some people are Locally.
Speaker 7: Across the West Coast and even the continent, wildfires have
Speaker 7: been devastating communities throughout the twenty twenty six fire season.
Speaker 7: But as one person suffers, others are able to gain.
Speaker 9: There's starting to be the ability to actually place bets
Speaker 9: on whether wildfires will.
Speaker 5: Occur, how quickly they'll spread. It's monetized.
Speaker 1: This is so strange.
Speaker 2: Can you bet on whether or not Rob Bonta is
Speaker 2: going to be indicted by the Feds.
Speaker 1: Let's see. Let me just type in calshie rob Bonta
Speaker 1: and see if anything pops up, because that would be
Speaker 1: a very good bet to place. Okay, let's see calshy
Speaker 1: dot com. Let's see if I just type in Rob Bonta,
Speaker 1: if we get any hits Rob Bonta. I no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone has this. We could be making
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of money.
Speaker 5: On this, seeing human suffering and potential harm to people.
Speaker 7: Betting websites like polymarket allow people to bet on outcomes
Speaker 7: of real world events like elections, sports and more, including
Speaker 7: wildfires during the devastating twenty twenty five Palisades and eating
Speaker 7: wildfires and laws and.
Speaker 1: The what the platforms will say. And it's the same
Speaker 1: thing that the social media platform say, Hey, we're just
Speaker 1: the We're just the square where this is happening. This
Speaker 1: is one individual placing a bet against another individual, So
Speaker 1: we have nothing to do with this. Okay, But.
Speaker 2: In theory, let's take the Rob bond to bet. I
Speaker 2: haven't spoken to anyone at the Department of Justice. I
Speaker 2: haven't seen any documents that show that he is going
Speaker 2: to be indicted. My opinions are just based on the
Speaker 2: information that we know. Almost all of it is public,
Speaker 2: So I guess in theory it would be a legal
Speaker 2: bet to place. Correct in theory, it would.
Speaker 7: Jelis Polymarket accepted more than one point two million dollars
Speaker 7: in bets. That was nearly ten times more than what
Speaker 7: was bet on a recent San Francisco Giants game. This
Speaker 7: prompted a group of US Senators, including California's Adam Schiff
Speaker 7: and Alex Padia, to send a letter about this to
Speaker 7: the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, writing.
Speaker 1: Now, remember you can also these to just straight up
Speaker 1: bet sport. So if you know there's a terrible sports
Speaker 1: team out there that has no chance of winning, and
Speaker 1: they don't even actually have a stadium to play in,
Speaker 1: like the Oakland Roots, you can bet against them. The
Speaker 1: first thing that came up when I searched Rob Bonta.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but that's what came up.
Speaker 7: Part offering bets on destructive wildfires threatens to minimize communities suffering. Also,
Speaker 7: the rich and powerful can profit. As the United States
Speaker 7: faces yet another record breaking fire season this year, the
Speaker 7: Commodity Futures Trading Commission cannot allow these prediction markets to
Speaker 7: offer unrestricted betting on wildfires.
Speaker 1: And that's part of the weird regulatory world that we're
Speaker 1: at with this is that these aren't being regulate, these websites, polymarket, Calsheet,
Speaker 1: They're not being regulated by the same agencies that regulate
Speaker 1: gambling and gambling in places like Vegas, what have you,
Speaker 1: or even the online sports gambling. It is heavily regulated
Speaker 1: and there are guardrails in their rules. These because it
Speaker 1: is a trade, it is not necessarily a bet, are
Speaker 1: being regulated the same way that people bet on pork futures,
Speaker 1: which I still don't understand how that works.
Speaker 7: And Skeet, Senior Director of Leadership Ethics at the Marcolas
Speaker 7: Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clair University, says the
Speaker 7: risks may even outweigh the ethical concerns.
Speaker 5: We refer to as perverse incentives.
Speaker 9: When someone's motivated to do something that is not good,
Speaker 9: not serving the society, and certainly in this case, the
Speaker 9: ability to start a fire.
Speaker 7: A new website called wildfire was even created this year,
Speaker 7: offering the first prediction market for California wildfires.
Speaker 1: Oh god, people are so gross. Somebody didn't just make
Speaker 1: the bet on poly market. They built their own platforms
Speaker 1: specifically to bet on wildfires. What about this.
Speaker 2: Let's say you work for PG and E and you
Speaker 2: were in the room when they decided that they weren't
Speaker 2: going to take down faulty equipment because it was too expensive.
Speaker 2: And then you go and you place a bet that
Speaker 2: a fire is going to start because you have insider
Speaker 2: information that the faulty equipment is not going to be replaced.
Speaker 1: There are so many ethical concerns with this, and this
Speaker 1: is why Sacramento and Washington has to act in real time.
Speaker 7: Cal Fire told us in a statement that there are
Speaker 7: protections in place so that firefighters cannot use these sort
Speaker 7: of predictive sites. But these lawmakers are still seeking answers
Speaker 7: to several questions.
Speaker 1: You know, that just reminded me of something else. This was.
Speaker 1: It's so funny. I remember things based on where I
Speaker 1: was walking around at the time when I heard them,
Speaker 1: But I remember listening to Ashley Zavalla interviewing Bobert Bonta
Speaker 1: and asking specifically about regulating these markets, and asking, are
Speaker 1: there rules against your deputy district attorneys from placing bets
Speaker 1: on Polymarketer Calshi because those attorneys have inside information on
Speaker 1: what entities California is going to sue. And he was
Speaker 1: really dodgy about that one and said, no, there is
Speaker 1: no policy.
Speaker 2: Well, don't forget he was financed by the card clubs
Speaker 2: before he had a falling out with them and then
Speaker 2: became the champion of the Indian casinos. So gambling is
Speaker 2: really something that is near and dear to the heart
Speaker 2: of one Bob Bonta.
Speaker 7: And calling on the Commission to put in comments.
Speaker 1: This is why, by the way, you probably have Shift
Speaker 1: and Padia getting involved. They know you can't get Bonta
Speaker 1: to do anything on this. No, of course not. It's
Speaker 1: guard rails.
Speaker 7: Now, we have reached out to poly Market and this
Speaker 7: CFTC for comment. We have yet to hear back. However,
Speaker 7: the Senators have put a deadline of August fourteenth for
Speaker 7: a response to their letter. As they wait to hear back.
Speaker 7: We're live in the San Jos newsroom, Dustin Door CEE
Speaker 7: ABC seven, I win US News.
Speaker 1: So there you go. There are prediction markets where people
Speaker 1: are making trades bets on wildfires.
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Speaker 1: Todd Va Laville, also known as Mia Ventura, ABC, seven
Speaker 1: got some of the charging documents as to all the
Speaker 1: crimes this lady was committing over the years and her
Speaker 1: failed attempt to get mental health diversion. For more, here's
Speaker 1: ABC seven a court hearing today for the online personality
Speaker 1: accused of robbing and extorting wealthy men and young women
Speaker 1: that she met on dating apps.
Speaker 4: Eyewitness News investigative reporter Kevin Ozabek has been going through
Speaker 4: hundreds of pages of court documents detailing the crimes, and
Speaker 4: he's here now to tell us what he found.
Speaker 1: Kevin well Jovanna.
Speaker 11: Today, the legal team for this model and influencer argued
Speaker 11: she needs a mental health treatment plan, not incarceration.
Speaker 1: So what she'll scam people at the Psyche hospital, But.
Speaker 11: A judge has now denied that Ablavie, who also went
Speaker 11: by the name Mia Ventura, will get that mental health diversion.
Speaker 12: And thanks to this massive stack of court.
Speaker 1: Documentary, he's literally got the stack of court documents in
Speaker 1: his hand, and it's a big one. How many trees
Speaker 1: had to be cut down for that.
Speaker 11: Four hundred pages deep now obtained by seven on your
Speaker 11: Side investigates. We are also learning so much more on
Speaker 11: the allegations against her.
Speaker 1: I just want to take a moment to thank our
Speaker 1: local news investigative teams because they had to read four
Speaker 1: hundred pages to produce a three minute video, and I
Speaker 1: just get to play the three minute video and react
Speaker 1: to it. About a year ago I stopped doing OnlyFans
Speaker 1: and now I'm in real estate school and I just
Speaker 1: want to be home and find a man in bed.
Speaker 1: And she found Stephen Klubak. You imagine her as your
Speaker 1: real estate agent. Don't bust the trust. She seems like
Speaker 1: the kind of lady very much like Marie in Breaking
Speaker 1: Bad who goes to open houses and steals things.
Speaker 12: Edma Levie appearing on the Access Vegas podcast back in
Speaker 12: twenty twenty four, prosecutors say, during this taping, Lavie lefse what.
Speaker 1: Is that show? They keep showing it. This is where
Speaker 1: she stole a bunch of purses and stuff. But what
Speaker 1: is this podcast? I don't know.
Speaker 2: And if it's an audio podcast, all of these women
Speaker 2: showing their cleavage, it's not gonna help them move any condos.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a show that interviews all the strippers they
Speaker 1: get on that Thursday night flight from Burbank to Vegas all.
Speaker 12: Times, and allegedly stole items from other guests left in
Speaker 12: the green room, including a credit card. According to prosecutors,
Speaker 12: the stolen credit card was used at a pricey Beverly
Speaker 12: Hills salon.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. And by the way, I have to
Speaker 1: say this before I forget it. California posted an update
Speaker 1: on ADVA where she's been making jail phone calls with
Speaker 1: her porn star ex boyfriend, and she allegedly said that
Speaker 1: she's going to spend the bleep out of Klubec's credit
Speaker 1: card until he cancels it.
Speaker 12: Prosecutors also accused Lovey, who has appeared in both Penthouse
Speaker 12: and Playboy, of stealing from a seventy eight year old
Speaker 12: man she was dating.
Speaker 1: Investigating you know what, seventy eight year old man deserved it?
Speaker 1: What was she thinking?
Speaker 12: You stole seventeen thousand, five hundred in cash, one hundred
Speaker 12: thousand dollars worth of designer clothes, and gold coins, all
Speaker 12: from his Van Nuys home, all totally more than one
Speaker 12: hundred and twenty one thousand bucks worth of loot.
Speaker 1: That's quite a mark, but it's about to get worse.
Speaker 1: Uh oh.
Speaker 12: Detective say Levey gave an apartment tour on Too Talk
Speaker 12: and alleged she posted video which showed the stolen clothing
Speaker 12: inner closet. Prosecutors say Levi told that same seventy eight
Speaker 12: year old man that her mother died and asked for
Speaker 12: twenty five thousand to cover the funeral expense. According to investigators,
Speaker 12: while under investigation, Lavie made a trip to Israel and
Speaker 12: was seen with her mother, who was very much alive.
Speaker 1: She lied about her mom dying to this guy.
Speaker 12: This trove of court docs go on to outlie other allegations,
Speaker 12: like Levi allegedly stealing a Rolex from a man who
Speaker 12: would not buy her a Coachella wristband.
Speaker 1: I am very glad the judge did not give this
Speaker 1: woman diversion because this ain't mental illness. She is a
Speaker 1: straight up criminal.
Speaker 2: No, she'd end up sleeping with the psychiatrist.