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Speaker 1: Michael Munks, who is KFI News. He covered today the

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Speaker 1: installation of the new chief executive of the disastrous, failing

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. The woman who ran the

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Speaker 1: place is out. She's resigned under a lot of pressure,

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Speaker 1: and the new person is named Jita git O'Neil. Gita O'Neill,

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Speaker 1: who has been an assistant LA City Attorney. Well, so,

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Speaker 1: there was a whole committee of clowns that voted today.

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Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, the way you're characterizing the organization

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Speaker 2: is is not how I heard it describe itself earlier

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Speaker 2: this morning when I was at this board meeting. You know,

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Speaker 2: the LA Homeless Services Authority LASA. They have a board

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Speaker 2: that is governed by appointees from the city and the county.

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Speaker 2: This board meets today and it was incidentally the last

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Speaker 2: day for outgoing CEO of Alicia Adams Kellum and the

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Speaker 2: approved first day for the woman you just mentioned, Git O'Neil,

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Speaker 2: whill be coming from City Hall to take over this

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Speaker 2: on a twelve month interim basis. Just to get the

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Speaker 2: Alicia Adams Kellum's salary of two one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 2: monthly basis nearly thirty one thousand dollars per month, so

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Speaker 2: she will make less than Callum, but her salary will

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Speaker 1: Three hundred and seventy and Adams Callum made thirty four

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Speaker 2: In fact, as Velicia Adams Kellum, who attended this meeting

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Speaker 3: We addressed audit findings directly, We strengthened our rehousing efforts

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Speaker 3: and took on tough shoos with courage and clarity. In

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Speaker 3: doing so, we've helped LASSA become more agile, more transparent,

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Speaker 3: what does that mean? And responsive? Real lasting change takes time,

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Speaker 1: Okay, but I'm incredibly dear.

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Speaker 3: Hows of what we've accomplished at LASA and for the

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Speaker 2: The reason I wanted you to hear that in its

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Speaker 2: mentioned some things that we've talked about a lot on

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Speaker 2: the audits that have found the misappropriation or the misaccounting

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Speaker 1: Have they ever found an accounting for the two billion dollars? Yet?

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Speaker 2: There's no good documentation for a lot of money that

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Speaker 1: Do you know what kind of what an enormous number?

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Speaker 2: That is two billions a huge And it's not a

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Speaker 1: They found similar problems. And she's never explained where the

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Speaker 2: We addressed it head on, and I tell you this

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Speaker 1: Here's what came up. Because you're gonna hear I call

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Speaker 2: Keep in mind they have a close relationship. She and

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Speaker 4: You were expected to have a magic wand you were

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Speaker 1: So she was attacked unfairly. Basically, this problem has not

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Speaker 2: We talked just I think last week when the new

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Speaker 1: Because they're dying. It matches the number of people who

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Speaker 4: that has been going about homelessness for a number of years,

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Speaker 1: What is she talking about?

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Speaker 2: Disruption is one of those buzzwords that are often used

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Speaker 1: She says that Kellum was mischaracterized.

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Speaker 4: And I feel that you were targeted and charged with

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Speaker 4: nobody goes and puts it back, and it harmed your reputation.

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Speaker 4: And unfortunately, that is what happens to leaders a lot

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Speaker 2: So I think what she means there, go ahead, Well,

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Speaker 2: there's the feelings of the organization that are pretty well documented. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: homelessness has gone up primarily over the past five or

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Speaker 2: Licia Adams Kellum's husband. And whether she had a knee

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Speaker 1: Well, because she denied that she signed off on it

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Speaker 2: Yes, And so I think that is what the mayor

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Speaker 4: No interest in reporting accurately and talking about what is

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Speaker 2: So that was basically the theme of this board, meaning,

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Speaker 2: way to phrase it, not properly accounted for billions, uh huh,

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Speaker 2: that has barely scratched the surface on eliminating street homelessness

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Speaker 2: in Los Angeles in Los Angeles County. Yeah, and an

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Speaker 1: Why did the county pull out entirely and all their money?

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Speaker 1: If Adams Callum was doing such a bang up job.

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Speaker 2: That's what shocked me about this meeting today is that

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Speaker 2: doing a good job. We're just not getting credit for it.

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Speaker 2: That's insanity. And the mayor so there really is like

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Speaker 2: a lot of hits and it's going to be hard

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Speaker 1: And now your reputation has probably been harmed. Uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it should be shattered. She shouldn't get a job in

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Speaker 1: explain where the two billion went. So is Karen Bass.

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Speaker 2: Here, the mayor says that she and Wendy Gruhle, who

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Speaker 1: They switched that governance around. It wasn't ntil today the

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Speaker 2: Bass and Gruel actually went to war over Velish adams

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Speaker 1: Did anybody push back, No one, nobody. No, it was

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Speaker 1: unanimous praise, unanimous praise for somebody who oversaw two billion

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Speaker 1: and the federal investigation continues. That's astounding. Yeah, the federal

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Speaker 1: that the court is overseeing and that I should I don't, No,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to see investigation. But the court is

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Speaker 1: certainly monitoring, right, I mean, it seems like there ought

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Speaker 2: Forget that when Bill Saley took over his US attorney

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Speaker 2: he did start a little organization.

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Speaker 1: He said, if there's any federal money involved in the organization,

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Speaker 1: we haven't.

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Speaker 2: Heard anything from now that you, but I'm sure he's

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Speaker 1: a huge success, one hundred million raised, and then all

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Speaker 1: the information about what happened went dead and people started saying, well,

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Speaker 1: where did the money go? And I didn't get the money,

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Speaker 1: and so it goes to these nonprofits. According to your research,

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Speaker 1: do the nonprofits explain where the money went after they

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Speaker 1: got funded? Do they have a list of homeowners residents

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Speaker 1: who got some kind of grant?

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Speaker 7: You think? Would you? No, it's confidentiality. We can't tell

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Speaker 7: you the person that may have gotten the money. To me,

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Speaker 7: now this becomes a much I'm angry at the nonprofits

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Speaker 7: for taking the money, and some of them really are sketch.

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Speaker 7: I'm not going to say which ones I think are sketched,

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Speaker 7: but there are some that are really sketched, and some

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Speaker 7: that just got their nonprofit by going through other nonprofits

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Speaker 7: and don't even have their own nonprofit number and got money,

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Speaker 7: which is a whole other story. But who came up

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Speaker 7: with the system. I think whoever is on top needs

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Speaker 7: to be called out, and you would like to know

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Speaker 7: who's on top. But I've asked, and I've been told,

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Speaker 7: we're not going going to go into that, right now

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Speaker 7: now on top, because making the decision that nonprofit should

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Speaker 7: get the money.

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Speaker 1: Would that be somebody idea? Would it be somebody at

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Speaker 1: the Aninberg Foundation. I mean they must have a CEO.

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Speaker 7: Well, it's supposed that the Annenberg is just a sort

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Speaker 7: of a see through pass through. Yeah, past here, that's

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Speaker 7: what it is. No, someone had to be responsible for

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Speaker 7: setting this up, for saying we need a committee to

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Speaker 7: decide on which nonprofits get it. And from what I

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Speaker 7: can tell, if you have a nonprofit and he would

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Speaker 7: set evacuation. They were throwing out money like a drunken

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Speaker 7: sailor and a port. I mean they were just going

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Speaker 7: crazy throwing the money out. So who came up with

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Speaker 7: this scheme? And why are they not being held accountable

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Speaker 7: for giving all this money to nonprofits? I almost don't

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Speaker 7: fault the nonprofits, is whoever came up with the system.

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Speaker 1: Congressman Kevin kylie I mentioned he's asking the Attorney General,

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Speaker 1: Pam Bondi, to investigate this. He said on X we've

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Speaker 1: learned that of the one hundred million raised, none actually

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Speaker 1: went to LA fire victims, went to nonprofits, many that

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Speaker 1: had nothing to do with fire relief. I've asked Attorney

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Speaker 1: General BONDI to open an investigation. I mean, since he

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Speaker 1: has gone public with this threat, does anybody come forward

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Speaker 1: and say, okay, okay, calm down, calm down, We're going

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Speaker 1: to explain here where the money went.

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Speaker 7: No. No, oh, And you might like this because our

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Speaker 7: governor Newsom has I looked up how Volunteers, which is

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Speaker 7: actually a nonprofit out of the state governor's office, and

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Speaker 7: they got fire aid funds. And once that was reported,

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Speaker 7: Spencer Pratt actually did it on a little Instagram thing

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Speaker 7: about how Heal Volunteers, a California governor nonprofit got it.

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Speaker 7: It was taken off the website. So the question becomes,

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Speaker 7: did they take it off? Did they give the money back?

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Speaker 7: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: This is going to require a lot of investigation. Are

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Speaker 1: the are other news outlets interested in this story?

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Speaker 7: I will say that I have to give a huge

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Speaker 7: shout out to Marla Tellez on Fox because she had

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Speaker 7: me on and it sort of opened it up for

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Speaker 7: a lot of people to say, what's going on here?

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Speaker 7: She had the courage to put me on. Not a

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Speaker 7: lot of media sources were that interested in I reached

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Speaker 7: out to some, and I don't know why. They weren't

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Speaker 7: interested in where the money was going.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, if you find out more more details,

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Speaker 1: something concrete, you can come on with us.

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Speaker 7: Okay, I would be happy to because the victims deserve

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Speaker 7: the money.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what was promised. And you know, I am

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Speaker 1: in general highly suspicious of the entire nonprofit industry based

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Speaker 1: on a lot of news that we've been covered over

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Speaker 1: the last few years. Whether it's homelessness or climate change.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of people who end up well,

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Speaker 1: they're parasites. And it wouldn't surprise me most of.

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Speaker 7: The executives are getting six figure salaries. This is really

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Speaker 7: I found that really interesting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's true. All right. Sus Pasco from Circlingthnews

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Speaker 1: dot com. Thank you for coming on with us.

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Speaker 7: Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Royal Oaks, ABC News Legal Analyst. You may have heard

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Speaker 1: Gallaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime friend. They led her out

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Speaker 1: of jail to talk to the Deputy Attorney General Todd

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Speaker 1: Blanche and the whole world is speculating, is she spilling

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Speaker 1: lots of dirty secrets on Epstein and Epstein's clients in

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Speaker 1: exchange for maybe getting her sentenced reduced or eliminated. They

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Speaker 1: can do that separately. The Supreme Court maybe hearing part

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Speaker 1: of Glene Maxwell's case because her lawyers claim the conviction

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Speaker 1: itself was invalid because the federal prosecutors had made a

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Speaker 1: non prosecution agreement with Epstein all the way back to

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Speaker 1: two thousand and seven when he was first charged and

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Speaker 1: jailed for his shedanigans. All the details we'll talk about

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Speaker 1: with the Royal Oaks coming up in just a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember in Alaska a couple years ago there

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Speaker 1: was a single engine plane crashed shortly after takeoff in

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Speaker 1: the mountains. Yes, I remember that. Only the pilot was

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Speaker 1: on board and he died. His name's Eugene Peltola. He

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Speaker 1: was the husband of a former Congresswoman Mary Peltola. They

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Speaker 1: have released all the details on why the plane crashed.

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Speaker 1: It was overloaded with moose meat and it had antlers

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Speaker 1: that they that they connected to the right wing and

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Speaker 1: that provided too much drag on the plane. They attached

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Speaker 1: the antlers to the wing. The overweight airplane and the

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Speaker 1: added drag and lateral weight imbalance caused by the antlers

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Speaker 1: resulted in the plane having insufficient power. So I know

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Speaker 1: you're you're very worried about the plane crashes. Make sure

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Speaker 1: you know how much moose meats aboard. So okay, excuse me, sir,

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Speaker 1: I have a question for you. Did you weigh your

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Speaker 1: moose meat. Peltola had taken a group of hunters and

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Speaker 1: their equipment from to an airstrip and I one day

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Speaker 1: before the crash, they bagged a moose. So they murdered

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Speaker 1: a moose and they wanted Peltola to transport the meat

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Speaker 1: in his plane. They weren't on board the plane. It's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: could you take the meat back? Home. He did not

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Speaker 1: weigh the moose meat, and so the plane was carrying

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen more pounds of cargo, then was

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Speaker 1: allowed on takeoff, also carrying antlers on the wing. This

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Speaker 1: is commonplace in Alaska, but it requires formal approval from

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Speaker 1: the FAA. They did not get that. I guess you

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Speaker 1: have to do some kind of measurement on that as well.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I have Okay, this is just well.

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Speaker 1: Plus you have to feel bad for the moose. Well,

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Speaker 1: he gets chopped up into slabs of me he brings

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Speaker 1: down a plane right, only you would find Hey, this

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Speaker 1: made the New York Times today. I mean, it's funny.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's funny. We got it. We got a dead man.

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Speaker 1: We have a dead moose. But you're laughing. You have

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Speaker 1: been corrupted. I have been corrupted yet. And now his wife,

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Speaker 1: the former congresswoman, is filing a lawsuit that he was

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Speaker 1: forced to fly too many hours with too little rest,

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Speaker 1: to fly under dangerous conditions and had to carry the

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Speaker 1: moose antwich on. Oh yes, at the headlines on the

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Speaker 1: headline playing in Alaska crash overloaded with moose meat and antlers. Okay,

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Speaker 1: when we come back, Royal Oaks, ABC News Legal analyst,

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Speaker 1: and he's going to explain. Uh, well, we'll ask him

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Speaker 1: about what today's rucus was about. Because Glene Maxwell met

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Speaker 1: with Todd Blanche. Is there anything that she could say

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Speaker 1: at this point that would reduce her sentence? And why

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Speaker 1: would anybody believe her? She's not exactly the most credible

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Speaker 1: woman in the world. Also, there's a case which is

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Speaker 1: headed to the Supreme Court regarding her conviction because the

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Speaker 1: prosecutors had agreed back in two thousand and seven with

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Speaker 1: Epstein that they would No. I guess nobody was supposed

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Speaker 1: to be prosecuted after seven I don't know. Well, that's

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Speaker 1: why Royal Oaks is coming out, because you're.

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Speaker 5: Not going to ask him about antlers and moose meat

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Speaker 5: though no, I thought that's what you were going to No,

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Speaker 5: because maybe you get a better reaction from him than me.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk with the Royal Oaks next. Deborah

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