1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 2: We are on every day from one until four o'clock. 4 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:12,559 Speaker 2: Although I just found out for Michael Monks, nobody told me. 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 2: He comes in and he goes that I'm on until 6 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 2: four fifteen. 7 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: I go, I'm until four fifteen. 8 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 2: He goes, Chargers game starts dead, and I'm supposed to 9 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 2: fill the fifteen minute gap. 10 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 3: You don't want Conway to drive two blocks to get 11 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 3: here and worked just for fifteen minutes. 12 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:31,319 Speaker 1: I do now it's actually it's actually four to. 13 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:35,160 Speaker 2: Thirteen, four thirteen, Yes, so I gotta work like another 14 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 2: eight minutes. 15 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: Technically you get that overtime. 16 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh on time and a half on that yeah, 17 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 2: uh wow is that amazing. I mean if you hadn't 18 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 2: told me, I would have just like packed up at 19 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 2: four o'clock and walked out and they would have had 20 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 2: eight minutes of I'm just a guy who pays attention. 21 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 2: All right, Well, I don't know nobody. No, obviously, nobody 22 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 2: talks to me. Michael Monks is here from CAFI News. 23 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 2: That's his primary job. Auditioned to scheduling, and this story 24 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 2: broke a little while back in October that there were 25 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 2: thirteen at the time LA County employee is accused of 26 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,120 Speaker 2: stealing unemployment benefits during the pandemic. Thirteen and I guess 27 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 2: now there's another eleven? 28 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: Is that right? 29 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,039 Speaker 3: I keep waiting for the day where you say Michael 30 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 3: Monks is coming up next, because everything's going right in 31 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 3: LA County and he's here to tell you all about it. 32 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 3: Today is not that day? No, No, another day. This 33 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:33,680 Speaker 3: came out on Friday that they're yes, there are eleven 34 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 3: more LA County employees charged with stealing unemployment benefits during 35 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 3: the pandemic while still being employed full time by Los 36 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 3: Angeles County. This when this headline flash Friday, I had 37 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 3: actually taken the day off, but I saw it crossing 38 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 3: the social feeds and. 39 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: I thought, this is old news. What are they? What's that? 40 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 3: I first thought, Yeah, I was like, what's going on? Like, oh, 41 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 3: there's more. So now there's a total of twenty four 42 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 3: employees who allegedly submitted dudulent unemployment insurance claims to the 43 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 3: California Employment Development Department, falsely claiming to be unemployed in 44 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 3: earning zero income. And most of this was happening during 45 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 3: the pandemic where things were a little bit lax. 46 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 1: Because of the high volume of people. A lot of 47 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 1: people were in need, and so you were kind. 48 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 3: Of just checking boxes rapidly, and it just created the 49 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 3: cesspool of fraud. 50 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 1: These these these. 51 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 3: Are workers in various departments. Nobody is exempt. We're talking 52 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 3: the Sheriff's Department, the Department of Public Works, Health and 53 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 3: Human Service, child support. 54 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: Were they thrown out of work or denied pay? 55 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 3: Oh certainly, well, well they are. There's processes for these things. 56 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:49,920 Speaker 3: They're accused, they have not been convicted. Yeah, some of 57 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 3: them were represented by unions and that sort of thing, 58 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 3: so there's a whole process before people. 59 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 2: From what I understand this, this was which was meant 60 00:02:55,880 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 2: for people who absolutely were no longer getting paychecks exactly. 61 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 4: Right. 62 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 3: When you think back to the pandemic and all that 63 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,079 Speaker 3: extra money that was created to stimulate the economy to 64 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 3: keep people alive. 65 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 2: It wasn't these people though their government works exactly. The 66 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,519 Speaker 2: employee unemployment rate was like ten percent. Yeah, completely, people 67 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:13,799 Speaker 2: who could not work from home. Right, These people were 68 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 2: still making at least three thousand dollars a month, at 69 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 2: least three thousand dollars a month on the clock because 70 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 2: they were still employed. 71 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 1: These were government workers, right, Yeah, I'm saying government workers 72 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: always get come completely safe. 73 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 3: But again, these are folks who worked in departments that 74 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 3: are public facing that you you might have even seen 75 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 3: these folks working while they were collecting. One of these 76 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 3: people is not like the others. Her name is Georgett McKinney. 77 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 3: She faces additional chargers. She works in child support supervising, 78 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 3: as she has a supervising child support specialist. She's accused 79 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 3: of sealing more than fifty five thousand dollars in unemployment 80 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 3: benefits between July twenty fourth of twenty twenty and September 81 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 3: twenty one of twenty twenty one, so more than a year. 82 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 3: But that was that was only using the identity Georgia McKinney, 83 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 3: which does happen to be her identity. 84 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: She's also accused of. 85 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 3: Stealing more than seventy six thousand dollars for using twenty 86 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 3: eight fictitious identities. 87 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: Twenty eight so while she. 88 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 3: Represents just one additional employee charged, yeah, she was using 89 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 3: a lot of different names and allegedly. 90 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: And were these uh stolen identities made up The. 91 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 3: Only detail that we have on them is that they 92 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 3: were fictitious, so they were not hers. 93 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 2: So when you look at and nobody caught this for 94 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 2: four years, that's right. 95 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 3: I mean, this was something that took a while to uncover. 96 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 3: Back in October, when La County DA Nathan Hockman first 97 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 3: announced that there were thirteen La County employees accused of 98 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 3: stealing unemployment benefits, he did suggest that there might be 99 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 3: more coming. 100 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, but somehow. 101 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 3: The total amount of stolen unemployment money is now over 102 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 3: seven hundred and forty one thousand dollars. But the difference 103 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 3: is the Auditor Controller, the office that manages the money 104 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 3: here in La County, says that the county has lost 105 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 3: over three and a half million dollars due to pandemic 106 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 3: unemployment insurance fraud, either committed by employees or by criminals 107 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:20,600 Speaker 3: at large fraudulently using La County employee identities. 108 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: Three and a half billion dollars. 109 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 2: How many criminals had been hired in the La County 110 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 2: government the cause these aren't the only twenty four No, 111 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 2: that's true, but that total amount does include criminals who 112 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:35,720 Speaker 2: were just utilizing identities people at La County. But at 113 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 2: least twenty four accused criminals working within the county right 114 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 2: now on this issue alone. Look, this is three and 115 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 2: a half million dollars, which is unfortunately a drop in 116 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 2: the bucket to the four point eight billion dollar sex 117 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 2: abuse settlement, the amount of money being spent on the 118 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,679 Speaker 2: homelessness that's going the fire response. This is a city, 119 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 2: excuse me, a county that is struggling at every turn, 120 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 2: and to have two dozen of its own employees taking 121 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 2: a little lecture out of the coffers, it's just another 122 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:07,239 Speaker 2: slap in the face. And they they had no problem 123 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 2: doing it, and they got away with it for quite 124 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 2: some time, that's right. I mean the mindset of the 125 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 2: people who work in county government. I guess they all 126 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 2: told each other here's how you do it. I mean, 127 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 2: word must have spread pretty quickly. I'm we're making assumptions here, 128 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 2: but based on what we know. I know, I know, 129 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 2: a professional assumption maker, based on. 130 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:29,159 Speaker 1: What we know from this era. 131 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 3: Somebody figured out a loophole and shared it, you know, 132 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:36,840 Speaker 3: and shared it, and other folks were tended. I mean, 133 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 3: the government was giving away money during the pandemic. 134 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: No questions to ask. 135 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,119 Speaker 3: Now, there are those of us who took money because 136 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 3: it was offered to you based on your specific circumstances, 137 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 3: either you met a certain income level or your job 138 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 3: was impassion. 139 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 2: It was supposed to bail out people got thrown out 140 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 2: of work, and that may be true for businesses that 141 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 2: didn't even necessarily need it, but it was offered and 142 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 2: they qualified, so I course you take it. 143 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 3: It was going to be forgiven, and that's, of course 144 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 3: why we're dealing with the inflation that we're dealing with. 145 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:09,359 Speaker 3: But there were plenty of folks who saw opportunities to 146 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 3: take no advantage. 147 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 2: Nobody crosschecked this for four years because they're on the 148 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 2: county payroll. And now you have another database of people 149 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 2: getting county unemployment checks and nobody. I mean, I don't 150 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 2: think you need complicated software to match those names up. 151 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. 152 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 3: And this is these folks were submitting dozens of documents 153 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 3: claiming that they were not employed, so they were many 154 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 3: opportunities to catch them. So but one of these had 155 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 3: submitted more than forty documents detailing how they were not 156 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 3: making any money at all. Meanwhile, they were still going 157 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 3: to work full time. 158 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 1: What a bunch of crooks? Crazy? Could they all end up? 159 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 2: Really? 160 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: End up in jail here. 161 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 3: Well, there are these are mostly felony charges, and that 162 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 3: would typically come with jail time. 163 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 2: I don't I don't want to house arrest here. No, 164 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 2: I don't want probation. I want to see people behind bars. 165 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, that could absolutely hopp I want to go visit 166 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 3: them and then laugh at them. You can give Nathan 167 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 3: Hawkman a call and see what his plan is here. 168 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: Yeah. 169 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 3: Some of these people have already appeared in court for 170 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 3: preliminary hearings. 171 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: Others are awaiting. All right, very good, thank you, my pleasure. 172 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 3: Michael Munks four fifteen, don't forget to not sign off 173 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 3: at four o'clock. 174 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: We need you are to be dead air. Some would 175 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: say better, wow, I but if I run out, I 176 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: prepared to go right to four. I didn't prepare for 177 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: four to fifteen. Something tells me you will have something 178 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: to talk about. I might run on Eric replay this segment. 179 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: We can do that. 180 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, we might do that, just as a protest. All right, 181 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 2: when we come back. What I want to go, let 182 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 2: me tell you about the two thirty guests. All right, 183 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 2: I'll tell you about that when we come back. 184 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: You know what I want to do. 185 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 2: I don't want to read the names of these these 186 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:56,080 Speaker 2: these criminals, these eleven criminals who were charged with stealing money. 187 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 2: This is the new list on top of the thirteen 188 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 2: from earlier this year. These people ought to be publicized, 189 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 2: so that's next. 190 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:08,079 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 191 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 5: M six forty. 192 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:11,959 Speaker 1: Have I mentioned the moist line today? 193 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 2: Probably not eight seven seven moist eighty six, eight seven 194 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 2: seven moist eighty six the actual numbers eight seven seven 195 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 2: sixty six four seven eight eight six. 196 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: Or use the talkback feature on. 197 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 2: The iHeartRadio app and vent all your anger and frustration. 198 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 2: What's going on in the world, and there's a there's 199 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 2: a lot going wrong, especially around here. I'm going to 200 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 2: go through the list of employees who Nathan Hockman says 201 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 2: was stealing money from us LA County Stack taxpayers. I'll 202 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 2: tell you about because they have the names. We're going 203 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 2: to go through that in just a second. I did 204 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:53,680 Speaker 2: want to tell you that there are two really good 205 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 2: short documentaries on the fires. One is called Paradise Abandoned 206 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,199 Speaker 2: by Rob Montz. He's the director. We had him on Friday. 207 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 2: He focused on the Palisades and then also a second 208 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 2: one called Big Rock Burning, and that's more about Malibu, 209 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 2: and you should watch both. Both of them are less 210 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 2: than a half hour. One's twenty three minutes, one's twenty 211 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 2: nine minutes. And you will come to the inescapable strong 212 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 2: feeling that they let it burn, because I'm I think 213 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 2: they let it burn by day. I mean everyone from 214 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 2: the mayor to the fire chief, to the fire officials involved, 215 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 2: and everyone. The governor, the mayor, the fire chiefs. We've 216 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 2: had three of them, and they all lie and cover 217 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,959 Speaker 2: up and confuse the issue. But they let it burn. Now, 218 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 2: why did they let it burn? I don't know. These 219 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 2: two filmmakers don't say anything definitively, but they let it burn. 220 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 2: It They are very very early on stop fighting the fire. 221 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:15,560 Speaker 2: They were overwhelmingly unprepared. It's almost like they never heard 222 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 2: of a fire risk before. In Los Angeles during Santa 223 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 2: Ana season, when you had five days of warnings, it's 224 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 2: quite striking. It made me angry. I was sitting Saturday afternoon. 225 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 2: We were going out Saturday night, actually, we went to 226 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 2: the Palisades Christmas tree lighting, and my wife was getting 227 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 2: ready and I started watching these two documentaries waiting for 228 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 2: her and it just made me furious. So it's Paradise 229 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 2: Abandoned and it's Big Rock Burning. You got to watch 230 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 2: both of them. Paradise bands on YouTube. Big Rock Burning 231 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 2: is on vimeo. You might have to pay a few 232 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 2: dollars for that one, but you ought to. And I 233 00:11:56,280 --> 00:12:00,839 Speaker 2: think the fire scandal, the lack of preparation and the 234 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 2: lack of response, the lies and the cover up from 235 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 2: Bass to Newsome everybody running the fire departments, the DWP, 236 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:12,959 Speaker 2: which a Keona is, this will eventually blow up into 237 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 2: a much bigger scandal. There is a really foul, ugly 238 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:21,199 Speaker 2: story behind all this and I'm never given up on it. 239 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 2: Now back to the criminals that get hired here in 240 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 2: Los Angeles County. Uh, you know we've got we've got 241 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 2: five women who run the LA County Supervisors Board. It's 242 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 2: very diverse, and one of them is sane. But the 243 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 2: other four, uh, Catherine Bargery saying, but Hildes, Elise janis Han, 244 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 2: Lindsey Horvath, Holly Mitchell are are stupid and insane. And 245 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 2: they had a system of giving out unemployment benefits that 246 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:05,559 Speaker 2: had apps absolutely no there was no security protocol on it. 247 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 2: People stole money left and right, including twenty four La 248 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,959 Speaker 2: County employees. Twenty four people who worked for the taxpayers 249 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 2: stole more tax money. 250 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 1: I've got their names. 251 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 2: Alejandro Mendez Albarrado, forty five years old, grown man, a 252 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 2: Sheriff's Department senior equipment maintenance worker, stole twenty one thousand 253 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 2: dollars in unemployment benefits. Brandon Joseph Batiste, thirty four, DWP 254 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:42,440 Speaker 2: warehouse employee. 255 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: Boy, are we getting screwed by the DWP? Right? 256 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:51,239 Speaker 2: He stole ninety three hundred and unemployment benefits, says the DA. 257 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 2: Dina Liza Wolff, fifty six year old woman, a nurse, 258 00:13:56,200 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 2: a Department of Health Services licensed vocational nurse. It's eleven thousand, 259 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 2: seven hundred dollars that's going on here. Elizabeth Yacinto, sixty 260 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 2: eight years old, wanted to get one big easy payday. 261 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 2: Department of Public Social Services eligibility worker stall eleven thousand, 262 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 2: seven hundred dollars, says the DA. Georgette McKinney, this is 263 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 2: the one. Michael Monks was talking about. Child Support Services 264 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 2: Department Supervising Child Support specialist. 265 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: Holy mackerel, that is a long title. 266 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 2: Stole fifty five thousand dollars using her own identity, and 267 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 2: she also stole another seventy six thousand dollars using twenty 268 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 2: eight fictitious identities. She's fifty nine years old. You add 269 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 2: that up, that's one hundred and thirty Wait a second, 270 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 2: how much is that? That's one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars. 271 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 2: Now that that's wrong. Here, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. 272 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 2: One hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Georgette McKinney. Thank you, Georgette. 273 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 2: That's all great. I'll keep going to work. I'll keep 274 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 2: paying my taxes, no problem. Jessica Alcorta. Another thief, according 275 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 2: to the DA, An Lada Why a District Attorney's Office 276 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:19,239 Speaker 2: Legal Office support assistant. She's working in the DA's office 277 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 2: and she stole thirty six thousand dollars. DA office Legal 278 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 2: Office Support assistant. Christine Luise Canaro. Another nurse, Department of 279 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 2: Health Services. I thought nurses were good people. Eleven thousand, 280 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 2: seven hundred dollars stolen, says the DA. Manuel Martinez, forty 281 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 2: three years old, Department of Health Services, Electrician Stall eleven thousand, 282 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 2: seven hundred dollars. 283 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: Rachel Nalutaya forty two. 284 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 2: A nursing attendant Department of Health Services stole twenty three 285 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 2: thousand dollars. Oh, man, if you get a county nurse, 286 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 2: come over your house, hide your wallet. Oh lock, you're safe. 287 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 2: There's another one, Sue Manigh sixty nine years old. Oh 288 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 2: my god, a fourth nurse. 289 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: This can't be. 290 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 2: Department of Health Services licensed vocational nurse stall eleven eight 291 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 2: hundred dollars. 292 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 1: Four nurses. Oh, this is terrible. Terry Beasley. The second. 293 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 2: Not much of an improvement on the first, forty four 294 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 2: years old Probation Department Detention Services officer Man's in law 295 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 2: enforcement stall eleven seven hundred dollars. And there were thirteen 296 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 2: others that got charged earlier this year for a total 297 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 2: of twenty four Oh are they public servants? They're working 298 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 2: for the public, right, A bunch of crooks? Is everybody 299 00:16:52,400 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 2: a crook? When we come back. One Noah lives in 300 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 2: la He's seen what I've seen. The city is filthy 301 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 2: and disgusting and filled with trash, and he got so 302 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,679 Speaker 2: sick of it he quit his full time job to 303 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:21,399 Speaker 2: clean the city streets himself. One is coming on the 304 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 2: show with us because He says, the city simply doesn't 305 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 2: want to do it anymore. They don't want to clean 306 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 2: the streets. We're going to tell his story. Wan will 307 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 2: be on with us next. 308 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:39,399 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 309 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 5: six forty. 310 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:43,119 Speaker 2: We are at every day from one until four, and 311 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:46,360 Speaker 2: I'm told we're staying on today till four point fifteen, 312 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:51,200 Speaker 2: whole extra segment because the Chargers game starts at four 313 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,479 Speaker 2: point fifteen, or at least the coverage starts then. And 314 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 2: I guess Conway didn't want to work an extra eight minutes. 315 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 2: So I am doing because I'm a team player. I'm 316 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:05,200 Speaker 2: doing my civic duty and I will do the extra 317 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 2: eight minutestil four thirteen. That's very nice of you, Thank you. 318 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 2: One no Ula is coming on. I saw this story. 319 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 2: Matthew Seedorf did a report on Fox eleven and I 320 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 2: read about it. One no Ula. He has quit his 321 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 2: job here in Los Angeles to clean the city streets. 322 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 2: I completely identified with what he sees and what he's 323 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:38,679 Speaker 2: doing here. The trash has just gotten so overwhelming and disgusting, 324 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 2: and Karen Bass's government refuses to clean the garbage. And 325 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 2: he says very simply why do we have to chase them? 326 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 1: Why? 327 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 2: It really frustrates me because I do the job and 328 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 2: then I chase the city workers to come and pick 329 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 2: up the trash. Why do their people come and not 330 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 2: pick up the trash. Let's get one the ula on one. 331 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 1: How are you hey? 332 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:06,640 Speaker 2: How you doing? 333 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 4: How you doing? Thanks for having me. 334 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:12,120 Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. I am, I am. 335 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 2: This is great what you're doing. You have an Instagram 336 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 2: account at clean la with me. At clean La with me, 337 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 2: you got fifty six thousand Instagram followers because everybody is 338 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:27,439 Speaker 2: seeing what you're seeing. Talk about how you ended up 339 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:30,119 Speaker 2: quitting your job to pick up the city's trash. 340 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 4: So I moved from Virginia about thirteen months ago looking for, 341 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,880 Speaker 4: you know, some investment for my tech company. But then 342 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,159 Speaker 4: when I was like three weeks here, I went to 343 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:47,439 Speaker 4: Alicia's Park and the first thing I saw it was 344 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 4: so much right all over, and I was like, why 345 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 4: you know? I was like, okay, Virginia is clean. I'm Ecuadorian, 346 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 4: where I come from, is really clean city. And it 347 00:19:57,920 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 4: really kind of shocked. 348 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 1: Me to see it all this trash. 349 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 4: So I decided to do the cleanups and my wife 350 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 4: and my son lives back in Ecuador. So I called 351 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:10,159 Speaker 4: my wife. I said, hey, I think I'm going to 352 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 4: start cleaning, and she said, you are you crazy? I said, 353 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 4: I'm going to clean it. You know, I have no plans. 354 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 4: It was not just cleaning. And then she said, but 355 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 4: put it on social media. So that's why I created 356 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 4: Clean La with Me. And then in five weeks November 357 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 4: twenty second last year, I started cleaning and putting on 358 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 4: my cleaning Live with Me all my social media, you know, 359 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 4: all across the platforms and kind of I start going 360 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:38,919 Speaker 4: via all my videos and I really enjoyed doing it, 361 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 4: you know, like come in and see all this this 362 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:46,920 Speaker 4: trash streets Ali's parks everywhere. And I'm still new. I'm 363 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 4: still learning from La, you know, I'm still I've been 364 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,640 Speaker 4: only fourteen months here in LA, and I see all 365 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 4: this trash and I was like, why this is one 366 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 4: of the best plays in the world in the plant 367 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,640 Speaker 4: it and we have all this trash here, Like what's 368 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 4: going on? You know? And because when you don't live 369 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,879 Speaker 4: in La, in California, you think California La is just 370 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:14,119 Speaker 4: no trash? Is everything very nice? Because we see in TV, 371 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 4: you know, Hollywood and all this and we never think 372 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 4: there's going to be this much trash on the strip. 373 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:20,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, exact in. 374 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 2: The movies and TV shows, they clean up the trash 375 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 2: before they shoot the film. 376 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, what time do you come from in Ecuador? 377 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,119 Speaker 4: Quenca is that third city of Ecuador. 378 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 1: Yeah. 379 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 4: I moved from Ecuador to to to USA about thirty 380 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:38,120 Speaker 4: years ago. 381 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 2: And coming to Los Angeles, you thought it would be 382 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:46,679 Speaker 2: clean and glamorous and beautiful, and you see all this 383 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 2: trash all over the place. I mean, I've been to 384 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 2: Ecuador because my family and I we visited the Galapagos 385 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 2: Islands and we visited Kito, right, that's the that's the capital. 386 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, we spent a few days there and it's really 387 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 1: a pretty city. 388 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 2: And you don't have this problem in your town. 389 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,359 Speaker 4: No, I travel, you know, I traveled to Aquada to 390 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 4: see my wife every four months. You know, I go 391 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 4: for a week for two weeks, and we don't have 392 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,879 Speaker 4: this problem because in my city that the mayor is 393 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,640 Speaker 4: doing a very good job with the with the company 394 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 4: who pick up the trash, they have twenty four hours, 395 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 4: they have three ships eight hours take up all the 396 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 4: time cleaning the city. So my city is very very clean. 397 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 4: So when I go back, I don't have this trash problem, 398 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 4: you know. 399 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 1: I mean when it's not that hard. 400 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:42,199 Speaker 4: The console they have to train, the people. I have 401 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 4: so many times I go pick up okay, you know, 402 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 4: I start this nonprofit back and I was that's when 403 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 4: I quit my job. I make a decision to quit 404 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 4: my job and do full time this cleaner clean alt 405 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 4: with me because I had a non profit, you know, 406 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 4: and now I do every day. I do every day 407 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 4: solo and on Saturdays I have a volunteer. Sometimes I 408 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 4: have even thirty people that come and help in some area. 409 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 2: Thirty people volunteers. Now, now you're able to quit your 410 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 2: your job. 411 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: I mean because uh my. 412 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaker 4: All my followers, all my community, they don't make when 413 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,439 Speaker 4: when I don't have you know, I said, hey I 414 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 4: need four bags, they send me. They send me on 415 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,640 Speaker 4: my uh you know, go fund me or whatever. They 416 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 4: send me the funds and I go get the trash, 417 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 4: you know. So that's why they have been supporting myself. 418 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,400 Speaker 4: Because all my community, they are supporting me really good, 419 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:37,679 Speaker 4: you know. 420 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 2: So I've never heard of something like this. So you're 421 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 2: you're your your community is supporting you. 422 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 4: You're not working every Saturday. 423 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah. And are these Ecuadorians or. 424 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 2: No? 425 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 4: Most of the people I don't, I don't have any. 426 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:00,880 Speaker 4: I do have like I have Ecuador and have Mexican 427 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 4: and they come sometimes to do help me. But I 428 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 4: never had any Ecuadorian come and help me. 429 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 2: So these are people in l A here, these are 430 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 2: local cities. They're helping you and and they're donating to 431 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 2: go fund me. 432 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 1: Wow. 433 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 4: Yes they I mean if you go on my on 434 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 4: my Instagram Instagram, you can see that all the links 435 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,639 Speaker 4: I have there, even though I'm selling some totel buses, 436 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 4: you know, would I'll pack a tote bags that I'm 437 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 4: selling there so to support my very low to compare 438 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 4: the body. They have to clean up the city and 439 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,400 Speaker 4: they're not doing it. And really it makes me mad 440 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 4: because I do all the work and they don't come 441 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:45,439 Speaker 4: and pick up the trash or sometimes you know, I 442 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,680 Speaker 4: have to go back and make another video saying hey, 443 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 4: why the city they come and pick up the trash, 444 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 4: and then post them and attack them, and then finally 445 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:58,919 Speaker 4: they come and pick up I think that really this 446 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 4: is the first walk entry. 447 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 1: Right, well, it used to be. 448 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:05,680 Speaker 2: Well, well, I don't know about Los Angeles. I don't 449 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 2: have to qualifies anymore. Have you talked to some of 450 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:13,399 Speaker 2: the employees or any management the sanitation department? Have they 451 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 2: explained why they don't pick up the garbage regularly? 452 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:21,359 Speaker 4: So so on one time it was for three weeks 453 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 4: the trash at Myers that said what I cleaned? And 454 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 4: I called three one one up and I said, why 455 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 4: you not coming picked up the trash? And you know 456 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 4: the person that was behind on the phone, she said, 457 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,119 Speaker 4: we just passed the information all their requests. We passed 458 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,399 Speaker 4: information to LA Sanitation, and I don't know why l 459 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,920 Speaker 4: Sanitation is not picking up. And then when I call 460 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 4: l A Sanitation, I don't remember what they said. This 461 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 4: is something like something like make no sense. And I'm like, okay, 462 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 4: But then, yeah, you. 463 00:25:55,840 --> 00:26:00,440 Speaker 2: Got LA Sanitation that you had the right number there. 464 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 4: Uh yeah. And then and even sometimes I got, you know, 465 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 4: in a couple of places I gotta go back and 466 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,920 Speaker 4: put it again another video. And then I think one 467 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,679 Speaker 4: time even I got the console member getting involved. And 468 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 4: two times actually District eight and District thirteen, I believe. 469 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: Did you remember the names of the council members? 470 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 2: Uh? 471 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:23,399 Speaker 4: The council member it was for Boyle Heights. What is 472 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 4: his name? 473 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:26,920 Speaker 1: Boyle Heights and this. 474 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 4: And and I can't remember the names. 475 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:30,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll go look it up. 476 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:36,199 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, after the commercial breaker district. Yeah, and 477 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,399 Speaker 2: so what did he say or what did his staff 478 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:44,639 Speaker 2: saybo Isabel Colrado, Oh forget Yes, I think you might 479 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:45,920 Speaker 2: have saved the call. 480 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:47,399 Speaker 1: It's not worth it. 481 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 4: Actually, she because then I talked to her, and then 482 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,159 Speaker 4: she emailed to I think three one one up or 483 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 4: l A La s annitation and they send me a 484 00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 4: picture that they picked up the trash. But that was 485 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 4: after weeks of making maybe two or three requests. So 486 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 4: those kind of things, those kinds of things, you know, 487 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 4: it makes me like, come on, and no, I mean, 488 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 4: she says, I cannot believe it. This is happening in La. 489 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,440 Speaker 4: Sometimes I don't feel like I'm in La. 490 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 1: I know, I don't either. 491 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 2: It didn't used to be like this when I moved 492 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 2: here back in the nineties. 493 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:24,720 Speaker 1: It wasn't like this. 494 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, but something over the last ten years, everything's completely 495 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 2: falling apart, and this administration just a lot of them. 496 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 1: Workers don't care. I mean, we just did a story. 497 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:38,159 Speaker 2: There's twenty four workers in the county who are stealing 498 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:42,879 Speaker 2: thousands and thousands of dollars in unemployment benefits with fake IDs, 499 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 2: and I don't know what's happened. LA is run by 500 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,680 Speaker 2: criminals and is staffed by criminals now, and they don't 501 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 2: do the basic things like picking up garbage. I don't 502 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 2: know what one I got to run. Thank you for 503 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 2: coming on one. 504 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,879 Speaker 4: Thank you so much for supporting my my mission. And 505 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 4: please have them follow me my clean and my social 506 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 4: media clean lay with me and have them support. Hopefully 507 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 4: we can have one thousand and one million people doing this. 508 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're gonna need it. Wanda Ula and it's 509 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 2: at clean La with Me. That's the Instagram account at 510 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,920 Speaker 2: clean La with Me. It's got fifty six thousand followers. 511 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,640 Speaker 2: Join them, help them clean up the city. Because Karen 512 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 2: Bass refuses to U more coming up. 513 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty. 514 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,400 Speaker 2: After three o'clock. We're gonna we're gonna talk with at 515 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 2: the slow down. Justin Msoth. Justin wrote to us about 516 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 2: the fire, the Eaton fire in Alta, Dina, and he 517 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 2: says that he and his wife lost her family house 518 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 2: thirty five years the family's been living in it, all 519 00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 2: their possessions to the Eaton fire, and inspired by Spencer Pratt, 520 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 2: who's been carrying on a campaign to get at the 521 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 2: truth of the Palisades fire, he wants to come on 522 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 2: now and talk about all the institutions that failed the 523 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 2: people in now Tadena, the La County Fire Department, the 524 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 2: Sheriff's Department, the board of supervisors that are still avoiding responsibility. 525 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 2: We're going to talk with Justin Emsoft, one of our listeners, 526 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 2: coming up after three o'clock. 527 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 1: You're going to want to hear him. 528 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 2: I don't understand what's going wrong with a lot of people. 529 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 2: New York City is going to have a full blown 530 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 2: communist takeover in just a few weeks. And the old 531 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 2: mayor who they kicked out actually had been doing a 532 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 2: lot of good, Eric Adams. 533 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: I know he had his issues. 534 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 2: But they had been clearing out homeless encampments. 535 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 1: They had been cleaning up parks. 536 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 2: There's one particular park, Washington Square Park, excuse me, and 537 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 2: I've been there. And last month the FEDS had a 538 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 2: massive drug bust drug dealing operation, and the NYPD flooded 539 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,239 Speaker 2: the park with seventy extra cops, a twenty four to 540 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 2: seven crackdown. They wanted to get rid of all the junkies, 541 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 2: all the homeless people, and the neighbors were thrilled because 542 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 2: one LU student named Amelia Lewis was walking to class 543 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 2: the other day when some weirdo with a long history 544 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 2: of sex crimes came up behind her, slapped her butt, 545 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 2: yanked her hair, threw it to the ground. Amelia Lewis said, 546 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 2: these people are disgusting. They should not be able to 547 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 2: walk around targeting girls. I should not be scared to 548 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 2: walk to my nine thirty am class. Now they caught 549 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 2: the guy, James Rizzo, long rap sheet of crimes. 550 00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: Well, the next day he was back. 551 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 2: The next day he burglarized four apartments in the neighborhood. 552 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 2: I say all this because the New York Post has 553 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 2: a story that since the Feds and the New York 554 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 2: Police Department have cleaned up the park, busted up a 555 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,080 Speaker 2: drug dealing ring, got rid of the homeless who were 556 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:28,400 Speaker 2: assaulting New York University students. Some of the NYU kids 557 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 2: are claiming that now Washington Square Park has lost its 558 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:38,360 Speaker 2: charm because there are no more homeless, no more drug addicts, 559 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,320 Speaker 2: no more criminals. 560 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 1: Are they in backwards land. 561 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm going to New York on Wednesday night, 562 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 2: like I'm very happy this happened, and I'm doing there 563 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 2: sixty thousand dollars a year ago to NYU. They are 564 00:31:55,880 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 2: now drawing messages in chalk on the park walkways. The 565 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 2: message is where are our neighbors? 566 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:03,280 Speaker 4: Oh? 567 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:04,959 Speaker 1: If I see this, I'm going to take some pictures 568 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 1: for you please. 569 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 2: First year student Caspin Berkeley. I feel like a large 570 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 2: community is gone. This park was a home for them. 571 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,960 Speaker 2: Caspin likes to spend a lot of time feeding pigeons. 572 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 2: I don't know if that's a I guess that's a girl. 573 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 1: I don't know. Another woman. 574 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 2: Sarah Karp is a public policy student and m one 575 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 2: you the criminalization of poverty is never the solution to anything, 576 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:39,760 Speaker 2: which is exactly a talking point with the Democratic Socialists 577 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 2: of America. See when the cops and the Feds bust 578 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 2: up a drug ring and get rid of the homeless 579 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 2: people and the junkies, most people cheer, and these DSA 580 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 2: people say, well, no, you're criminalizing poverty. 581 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,320 Speaker 1: This is what mom Donnie believes. 582 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 2: The new incoming mayor, this is what four members of 583 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:08,720 Speaker 2: our city Council believe in la It ruins the form 584 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 2: of community that these people have built and puts them 585 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 2: in riskier situations. 586 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 1: She's talking about the homeless junkies. 587 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 2: NYU's daily crime log is full of incidents around Washington 588 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:29,040 Speaker 2: Square Park. One hundred and two were reported last month 589 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 2: before the cleanup. Stalking, harassment, fondling, robbery, larceny, extortion that 590 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 2: go after the college girls. 591 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 1: All these horny, homeless drug. 592 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 2: Addicts and junkies go after the college girls, and the 593 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,320 Speaker 2: college girls are complaining that the neighborhood's been ruined. 594 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 1: You draw your own conclusions there. 595 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 2: We've got Brigina die Gastino in for Deborah Mark. 596 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:56,320 Speaker 1: Coming up next with the news. 597 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,560 Speaker 2: Justin Msoft, one of our listeners, to talk about how 598 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:04,000 Speaker 2: fresh rated he is with the response and the aftermath 599 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 2: of the Altadena fire. 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