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Speaker 2: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel

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Speaker 2: podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Now, I told you there's

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Speaker 2: a whole lot of investigations going on, and I don't

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Speaker 2: even even know if I've time to go through them

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Speaker 2: all right now, But let me start. First of all,

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Speaker 2: we officially in Los Angeles have a new fire chief,

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Speaker 2: HEIMI Moore. He was confirmed by the LA City Council,

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Speaker 2: and the first thing that he has to deal with is, well,

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Speaker 2: why did the firefighters abandon the hotspot after the January

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Speaker 2: first blaze? Why did the battalion chief, Mariol Garcia order

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Speaker 2: them to roll up the hoses and go when you

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Speaker 2: still had the hot rocks, The tree stumps were smoldering,

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Speaker 2: the ground was smoking. Nothing's been explained. Why did he

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Speaker 2: do that? Was because they did want to pay the overtime?

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Speaker 2: I was smart. I was a good investment. And then secondly,

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Speaker 2: there was another battalion chief who got word of this

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Speaker 2: and didn't didn't tell anybody, or if he told somebody,

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Speaker 2: then the third and the fourth person they all agreed

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Speaker 2: to cover up the news. We didn't find this out

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Speaker 2: until the past week. How many people in the LA

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Speaker 2: Fire department knew that the firefighters were told to go

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Speaker 2: home and not attend to the hotspot after the January

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Speaker 2: first fire. Well, so he answered that question, Well, excuse me,

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Speaker 2: transparency and accountability are vital to ensure that we learned

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Speaker 2: from every incident. Oh, shut up, stop with your transparency

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Speaker 2: and accountability. He knows the story. Yeah, he's calling for

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Speaker 2: an outside investigation. We don't need an outside investigation. You know,

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Speaker 2: after the fire happened, everybody had these questions and they said, well,

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Speaker 2: wait till the after action report. Right, how many times

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Speaker 2: did best say wait till the after action report. The

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Speaker 2: after action report had nothing in about the hotspot being abandoned.

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Speaker 2: The after action report was worthless. It was a dodge.

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Speaker 2: It was part of the cover up because it gave

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Speaker 2: a talking point to the interim fire chief, Vian Aueva,

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Speaker 2: and it also gave a talking point to Bass to

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Speaker 2: just keep dodging and hiding and bobbing and weaving. There

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Speaker 2: was no after action report that was of any use.

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Speaker 2: So now we found out the truth through lea leaked

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Speaker 2: text messages to the LA Times. Now I are going

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Speaker 2: to have to have an outside investigation, you know, iimmore

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Speaker 2: not g it off. Already, you've only been serving for

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Speaker 2: a few hours and already you're spewing this nonsense. You

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Speaker 2: know what happened. You don't need an investigation. Why don't

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Speaker 2: you get Mario Garcia? Drag him, I don't know, drag

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Speaker 2: him somewhere. How about let's have another committee hearing with

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Speaker 2: the two Republican senators. Let's go to Rick Scott and

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Speaker 2: Ron Johnson. I bet you they'd fly back to California

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Speaker 2: and have Mario Garcia sitting there explaining why as battalion

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Speaker 2: chief he told all the guys to go home and

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Speaker 2: not put out the hotspot? Why? And then find whoever

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Speaker 2: else knew about it, the other battalion chief, and find

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Speaker 2: out why he didn't make that public. You don't need

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Speaker 2: another investigation. These investigations are nonsense. They're garbage. Oh and

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Speaker 2: spare me the transparency and accountability routine. Nobody's buying it anymore. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I mean, really, you're running the fire department for like

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Speaker 2: three hours, and already you're shuggling the same poop that

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Speaker 2: the last two did. LA County is opening an investigation

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Speaker 2: into state farms handling of wildfire claims. Great, that's after

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Speaker 2: ten months. They want all they want all his data

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Speaker 2: in these documents to see if the unfair competition law

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Speaker 2: has been violated. And this could be penalties twenty five

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Speaker 2: hundred dollars per day per violation. I don't know. I

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Speaker 2: know plenty of people just in my own circle of

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Speaker 2: friends and acquaintances who've been screwed over by the insurance

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Speaker 2: companies that are not getting paid or not getting paid

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Speaker 2: on time, or not getting paid enough. And they're going

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Speaker 2: after State Farm. And let's see, the leader of this

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Speaker 2: investigation is County Council Assistant County Council Scott Ken. We

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Speaker 2: want State Farm to take care of its customers as

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Speaker 2: soon as possible. Time is of the essence. Fat chance,

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Speaker 2: If time is of the essence, where have you been

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Speaker 2: the last ten months? Here's another investigation. You know, David Carter,

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Speaker 2: who's the district judge who's been investigating the massive Karen

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Speaker 2: Bass homeless fraud story. Well, South La Shelter report has

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Speaker 2: to report to the court how many beds they have

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Speaker 2: because Bass is supposed to provide a certain number of beds.

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Speaker 2: This homeless provider has a two point three million dollar contract.

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Speaker 2: Two point three million dollars of your money. Urban Alchemy

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Speaker 2: Safe Sleep Village got that two point three million supposed

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Speaker 2: to provide eighty eight beds, but the judge sent somebody

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Speaker 2: over to count the beds. There's not eighty eight, there's

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Speaker 2: forty four. The other forty four were bear platforms. In fact,

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Speaker 2: the shelter itself is just grave tents on wooden platforms

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Speaker 2: over two parking lots. Half of them have no beds

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Speaker 2: or whatever the hell they're sleeping on. Judge Carter, during

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Speaker 2: a court hearing this week, said he sends fraud you

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Speaker 2: think so nothing gets by him, and then he criticized

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Speaker 2: the city for their lack of curiosity. Is the city's

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Speaker 2: position when we find obvious fraud and the documents don't

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Speaker 2: match that, you don't report this to the court. Urban Alchemy,

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Speaker 2: he says, they took the tents away after being told

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Speaker 2: budget cuts were coming. The city administrative officer for Karen

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Speaker 2: Bass Matt Zabel, did not respond to an email asking

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Speaker 2: for an x explanation. Well, here's the explanation. They lied.

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Speaker 2: They lied to the judge. They said, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we got two million, and by the way, shouldn't two

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Speaker 2: million dollars dollars cover eighty eight beds and tents. What

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Speaker 2: are these all made of silk? This is crazy. Even

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Speaker 2: after they get investigated, even after they have a judge

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Speaker 2: who's appointed a special master to actually go over to

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Speaker 2: the homeless shelter site and count the beds, count the tents,

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Speaker 2: see if there's anything inside the tents, they still pull

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Speaker 2: the fraud. The money still disappears. Karen Bass and all

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Speaker 2: the fraudulent bureaucrats who work under here cannot be stopped.

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Speaker 2: The money disappears, the nonprofits get their millions of dollars,

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Speaker 2: and the tents are empty. Here's just a platform inside,

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Speaker 2: no bent, no bed, Rather one more quick investigation. Eric

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Speaker 2: Slowell Democrat in California. He was one of the leaders

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Speaker 2: of the impeachment against Trump. He's been hit with a

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Speaker 2: federal criminal referral for mortgage and tax fraud for a

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Speaker 2: home he bought in Washington, d c. That he claimed

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Speaker 2: was his primary residence. It's not you remember this guy.

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Speaker 2: This guy was sleeping with a Chinese. A Chinese spy

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Speaker 2: called Fang Fang. Feng Fang, also known as Christine Feng,

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Speaker 2: was a Chinese spy. She came as a college student

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Speaker 2: and spent four years wooing and sleeping with state and

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Speaker 2: federal lawmakers, trying to get sensitive government intelligence and sending

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Speaker 2: it back to China. And one of the people she

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Speaker 2: targeted because he was on the House Intelligence Committee was

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Speaker 2: Eric Swalwell. And he's still serving in Congress and now

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Speaker 2: they're investigating him for mortgage fraud? Was it five investigations?

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Speaker 2: In five investigations? There less than ten minutes.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from a six forty.

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Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four o'clock. You

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Speaker 2: Gallagher of the assembly Men on to talk about how

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Speaker 2: Eastern California wants to separate permanently divorce from Coastal California

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Speaker 2: now that Gavin Newsom has stripped away their longtime congressmen

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Speaker 2: and women. We'll discuss that with James Gallagher coming up.

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Speaker 2: But first I'm on to want you to hear a

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Speaker 2: friend of mine, Michelle Shane. Michelle tragically lost his daughter

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Speaker 2: Emily back in twenty ten. A murderous maniac driver ran

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Speaker 2: or over on pch and he's been working tirelessly to

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Speaker 2: try to civilize PCH, and he's got this concept that

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Speaker 2: Sunday is to commemorate the Empty Chair Club, people who

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Speaker 2: have been killed or seriously injured in traffic accidents. You

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Speaker 2: have the empty chair designating the place that they used

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Speaker 2: to they used to occupy in the home and in

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Speaker 2: the family. And I also want to talk about this

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Speaker 2: controversy over roundabouts on PCH because it looked like they

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Speaker 2: were coming. Now maybe not. Let's get Michelle Shane on. Michelle,

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Speaker 2: how are you good?

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Speaker 4: How are you John? Thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 2: I'm good. First, let's talk about the empty Chair Club

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Speaker 2: in this comm camera commemoration coming up on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So on Sunday at Caltrans Plaza in downtown La

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Speaker 4: twelve to four, we're doing commemoration. We gut installation seven

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Speaker 4: hundred and ten empty chairs that represent all the people

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Speaker 4: that died in La County last year. And what happened

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Speaker 4: is I came up with this idea about a year

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Speaker 4: ago when I was at an event with people who

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Speaker 4: had experienced loss from traffic fatalities, and it just hit

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Speaker 4: me that I'll never forget the first time my wife

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Speaker 4: set the table when Emily had was gone and she

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Speaker 4: set the fifth seat and then realized that there was

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Speaker 4: no more fifth seat, and that was like a knife

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Speaker 4: in the heart. And to me, we're trying to scare

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Speaker 4: everyone straight with showing horrible things happening with car accidents

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Speaker 4: and whatnot, to try to get people to do the

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Speaker 4: right thing. And I think this is more powerful an

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Speaker 4: empty chair sitting where someone used to be, and it's

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Speaker 4: the hardest seat to fill is one left empty. So

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Speaker 4: don't join the empty chair club, the only club nobody

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Speaker 4: wants to get into.

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Speaker 2: And so again, what's the day in time for the remembrance.

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Speaker 4: Sunday twelve to noon. The a whole bunch of dignitaries

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Speaker 4: and we have art exhibit and some booths and whatnot.

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Speaker 4: It'll be a very interesting time and victims will come

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Speaker 4: and talk about their experience and how they're trying to

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Speaker 4: figure out how they'll continue to move on with it.

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Speaker 2: Now, your daughter was killed on PCH and this week

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Speaker 2: you sent an email out we have almost like a newsletter.

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Speaker 2: The Malvern Planning Commission had voted to approve a fifty

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Speaker 2: five million dollar safety project on PCH. It was going

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Speaker 2: to be roundabouts to try to slow traffic down. That's

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Speaker 2: the Malver Planning Commission, and then the Malibu City Council

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Speaker 2: may block it. Can you explain this?

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Speaker 1: Sure?

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Speaker 4: So the fifty five million dollar expenditure, which has been

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Speaker 4: in the works for about seven years, is separate from

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Speaker 4: what they're doing with the roundabouts. The roundabouts is two

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Speaker 4: million dollar test project and that hasn't gone to any

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Speaker 4: commissions yet as far as I know. What's happened is

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Speaker 4: there's going to be two repaving projects, the McClure Tunnel

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Speaker 4: to I believe John Tyler and then John Tyler all

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Speaker 4: the way to Venturea, and they're going to resurface PCH

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Speaker 4: and while the resurfing PCH will put in bike lades, guardrails,

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Speaker 4: black sky compliant lighting so that it makes PCH safer.

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Speaker 4: And people have gone up in arms because they think

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Speaker 4: that we're changing the perception and of who we are.

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Speaker 4: And my argument is we were never That was a fantasy.

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Speaker 4: We were never those people.

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Speaker 2: What is it? Wait a second, how is making the

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Speaker 2: road safer and resurfacing and putting in these safety applications,

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Speaker 2: how does that change who the people in Malibu are? Right?

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Speaker 4: Well, sidewalks in a rural community. Oh goodness, street lights

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Speaker 4: in a rural Oh, street.

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Speaker 2: Lights and they don't want street lights.

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Speaker 4: Ludicrous. Fifteen years I've been watching people die on PCH

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Speaker 4: and they're saying to me, the Malibour Township Council, they're saying, oh,

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Speaker 4: this is going to change the face of Malibo. We

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Speaker 4: should stick keep the way we are.

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Speaker 2: No sidewalks, no street lights on PCH. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 2: as John, that's insanity. They know what happens. And you

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Speaker 2: just had those four Pepperdine girls get killed two years ago.

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Speaker 4: Exactly as argument as well, this wouldn't have saved them. Well,

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Speaker 4: guess what. Fifteen years I've waited for them to spend

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Speaker 4: money on PCH. They're finally going to do it, and

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Speaker 4: now people are up in arms because they don't believe

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Speaker 4: it's their vision of PCH. It's the nuthouse is out.

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Speaker 2: That can't be most of the people in Malibu. Is

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Speaker 2: this like no activists? Right, A small percentage who are

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Speaker 2: James Gallagher. The people in the eastern counties of California,

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Speaker 2: We've got James Gallagher and the State Assembly, who was

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Speaker 2: Your idea would let's go from south to north, which

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And look, I know this is a heavy lift.

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Speaker 2: That's what's so gregious about it. For all his prattling about,

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Speaker 5: He has dictated that you cannot select a congress person

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Speaker 1: And it gets even worse, you know, now withamyra we

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Speaker 2: They don't have right.

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Speaker 1: They can continue taken control all aspects you know, of

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Speaker 2: Well, we'll keep on this story and you let us

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for folks down there. You know, hey, this

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to talk with

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Speaker 2: poly Powers. Poly Powers is with a neighborhood group in

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Speaker 2: Chevy At Hills and two parts of the story. Part

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Speaker 2: So that's seventy mental patients and drug addicts can live

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Speaker 6: Controversial building in Chevy Hills tied to a federal investigation

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Speaker 7: I believe that it should be stopped at least during

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Speaker 6: Last month, federal agents arrested real estate executive Stephen Taylor ECK,

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Speaker 6: seven million dollars of stunning sixteen million dollar profit.

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Speaker 7: Where is that money? Where is the sixteen million dollars

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Speaker 7: in profit that was intended to be used for homeless

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Speaker 7: housing and it seems to have been diverted.

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Speaker 6: Despite the arrest, renovations continue inside the building in Wineguard's

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Speaker 6: plans to house more than seventy homeless people.

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Speaker 2: We feel like we've been completely left in the dark

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Speaker 2: about this entire situation.

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Speaker 6: Neighbors, frustrated, describe the area as quiet, with lots of

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Speaker 6: families just blocks from Palms Elementary School.

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Speaker 2: A lot of the things that we hold really dear

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Speaker 2: in this neighborhood that we've worked so hard.

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Speaker 3: For to create community, it looks just very.

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Speaker 2: Unshaky right now.

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Speaker 7: Responding to our messages, We've been calling for meetings, and

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Speaker 7: we just feel that as a neighborhood, we're being ignored.

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Speaker 6: A spokesperson for LACIT council member Katie Orislavsky, says they're

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Speaker 6: outraged by the fraud allegations out in Los Angeles. Face

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Speaker 6: is an urgent need for safe, well managed housing for

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Speaker 6: unhoused older adults. The council member remains focused on ensuring

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Speaker 6: the Shelby site is operated responsibly.

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Speaker 2: There's billions of dollars on accounted for. Local and state

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Speaker 2: officials cannot give us answers.

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Speaker 6: A federal task force continues investigating across California for fraud

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Speaker 6: in misuse of homeless funds.

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Speaker 7: We're in a family filled residential neighborhood. There are plenty

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Speaker 7: of more appropriate sites.

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Speaker 6: The mayor's office tells me tonight that housing is very

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Speaker 6: important in this part of LA But looking at the property,

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Speaker 6: it seems like construction is almost complete.

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Speaker 2: No word on when this will open. So this is

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Speaker 2: a scam on top of a scam. If you're following

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Speaker 2: this in real estate Executive Stephen Taylor is being accused

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Speaker 2: by the federal government of bank fraud, identity theft, and

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Speaker 2: money laundering. He used fake bank records and fake lines

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Speaker 2: of credit to purchase the property for eleven million dollars,

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Speaker 2: then sold it to something called the Wineguard Center ten

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Speaker 2: days later for twenty seven million. So he bought it

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Speaker 2: for eleven million with using all kinds of frauds and

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Speaker 2: then sold it for twenty seven million, making sixteen million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Nobody knows where that money is. And now instead of

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Speaker 2: a senior home living center. You are going to have

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Speaker 2: a mental patient drug addicts center. And the people in

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Speaker 2: Chevy At Hills who are represented by one of the worst,

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Speaker 2: one of the worst city council people, Katie Roslovsky. Boy

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Speaker 2: is she a piece of work? Doesn't care, doesn't care

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Speaker 2: what's going to happen to the neighborhood. And this is

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Speaker 2: near a school on top of it. And of course

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass is in support of this nonsense. And so

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Speaker 2: we spend millions and millions, and the homeless get all

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Speaker 2: the goodies here, and you, the taxpayer, get screwed because

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Speaker 2: you vote for a more on like Karen Bass, and

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Speaker 2: you vote for a more on like Katie Arslovsky. We're

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