1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 1: Every day. 4 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 2: We do this from one until four o'clock and then 5 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 2: after four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the 6 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 2: iHeart app. All right, we're going to get John Alley 7 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 2: on again. John Ally a businessman who owns business properties 8 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 2: in Santa Monica and also in MacArthur Park in your 9 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 2: downtown Los Angeles, and let's talk to John. 10 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 3: Hi. John, good to be on. 11 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, thanks for coming back on. We just played 12 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:36,959 Speaker 2: some of the audio from the video you'd posted. Were 13 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 2: you an LAPD officer, were talking to this homeless couple 14 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 2: who were apparently flown from out of state by a 15 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:51,879 Speaker 2: rehab facility. They were trafficked and there was a insurance 16 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 2: company connected to this. Could you flesh out some of 17 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 2: the details here so people understand just what kind of 18 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 2: a racket is going on here and how the these 19 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 2: people are being trafficked and just left out in the 20 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 2: street at the end of it. 21 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 3: Exactly what's happening. We have reab clinics here with representatives 22 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,960 Speaker 3: in three to four other states recruiting people to come 23 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 3: to La to their reab clinic here, whether it be 24 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 3: in Culver City, Fan Eyes, and a lot of them 25 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:29,040 Speaker 3: still open two three, four months, maybe a year. Then 26 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 3: they get shut down because they're found out their insurance. 27 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 3: They work with the insurance companies, their insurance cuts off 28 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,479 Speaker 3: the funding for this after forty five to sixty days, 29 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 3: and they're actually driven to MacArthur Park. One was driven. 30 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 3: Most are driven to MacArthur Park or skid Row. One 31 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 3: was driven to a Santa Monica park. And we're seeing 32 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 3: this all the time. If you see the words MacArthur 33 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 3: Park mayor and CD one council member and in the 34 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 3: last ten years, all it means is failure, drugs, cartels, 35 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:09,799 Speaker 3: gangs and loss of income. In our view, Bass and 36 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 3: the council member of District one, they're community organizers. They've 37 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 3: never run a business. They've spent twenty seven million to 38 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 3: revitalize the park and they treat the transparency as a burden. 39 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 3: They've done everything but more police presence. So we searched 40 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:36,519 Speaker 3: some emails and we've got hard copy contracts, and we 41 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 3: found out something very very unusual. Quietly, through its department, 42 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 3: the city's Department of Disability, they contracted with the Sidewalk Project. 43 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 3: That's a firm using our tax dollars a group small 44 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 3: group to handout needles, meth pipes, and then unsus hernandez 45 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 3: of authorized on our own an additional one hundred and 46 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 3: sixty thousand dollars to expand it. So they're getting paid 47 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 3: eighty eight thousand a year on an non exclusive basis, 48 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 3: which means the city can hire additional nonprofits to do 49 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 3: the same thing. And they're doing it. There's usc there's 50 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 3: UCLA Street Team, there's the people concern. The police officers 51 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 3: that are doing their jobs as sworn officers in the 52 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 3: park and the surrounding area don't like it. They describe 53 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 3: this group as nothing but negative and they have negative 54 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 3: interactions with them, and they're handing. 55 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 2: Out The group is handing out needles and met pipes 56 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 2: in MacArthur Park. 57 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 3: It's funded by the city. Much of this is funded 58 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 3: in other areas by the county. In MacArthur Park it's 59 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 3: funded by the city. And it's a case of ideology 60 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 3: crashing into a reality of crime and death. These people 61 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 3: are dying on the streets five to six a day. 62 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 3: It's awful and I found it very strange because when 63 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 3: I last spoke after the fires. When I last spoke 64 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:22,279 Speaker 3: to Mayor Bath at the beginning of February, end of January. 65 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 3: She I asked her if she would come out and 66 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 3: in opposition to and really forced out the drug dealers. 67 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 3: We got rid of the drug dealers, We get rid 68 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 3: of a lot of the drug traffic and the drug use. 69 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 3: She said yes, She said she was totally against needle distribution. 70 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 3: I said, Mayor, can I quote you on that? She said, yes, 71 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:57,840 Speaker 3: you can. Then we met again with the city the 72 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 3: police chief, Jim o'd and her, and then I met 73 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,720 Speaker 3: with Jim O'Donnell in his office and both of them said, 74 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 3: we're against the program. It's wrong, and we'll speak out 75 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 3: against it. They've been dead silent about it. So we 76 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 3: dug through the records in last July, so six months 77 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 3: prior to this three conversations we had. We found out 78 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 3: that they institute this contract with interestingly, the Department of Disabilities, 79 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 3: so we try to Department of Disability would go unseen 80 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 3: and unheard of. It was approved in a batch of 81 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 3: items by our La City council sadly, so they. 82 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 1: Buried it to hide it. 83 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 2: And after Jim McDonald Jim O'Donnell and Karen Bask promised 84 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 2: you that they were going to stop this. No more needles, 85 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 2: no more math pipes. Best signed contracts. Really it's a 86 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 2: one year contract with four annual automatic extensions. It's a 87 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 2: five year contract to hand out these needles and met pipes. 88 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:18,359 Speaker 3: And with regular meetings. But there's no there's been no 89 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 3: meetings that we know of, and there's no definition of 90 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 3: what their success is. How do they define success? 91 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 2: Well, there can how there can't be success If you're 92 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 2: giving drug addicts needles and met pipes, it means they'll 93 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 2: take more drugs and then they're gonna die. There's no success. 94 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 3: It's not the insiders. One of the insiders at City 95 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 3: Hall are one of the staff people told us. That's 96 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 3: how this group got introduced to the city and two 97 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 3: unitsus Hernandez who pushed this hard. The mission statement, Sidewalk Project. 98 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 3: They're they're near skid Row, right in the midst of 99 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 3: skid Row. Quote. They're honored to provide syringe access services. 100 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 3: They aim to empower homeless communities around the world. 101 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, empower it's a it's a great yeah, right, you 102 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 2: know what it is. They're all making they're all making 103 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 2: a lot of money off off the taxes, off the taxpayers, 104 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 2: all of them, and all all all the silly wealthy 105 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 2: donors do. It's just a money making enterprise. And they 106 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 2: have a mission statement to provide them cover, provide them 107 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 2: a shield to emotionally manipulate people. There is no way 108 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 2: handing out free needles and free meth pipes gets anyone 109 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 2: off drugs. 110 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: It just means they're going to die quicker. It's impossible. 111 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 2: It's a total nonsense concept that people have bought into 112 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 2: because it sounded empathetic. It is not empathetic. It kills people, 113 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 2: and these people are murderers, these groups. This is organized 114 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 2: killing of these drug addicts and these mental patients. And 115 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 2: what why is I'll let you talk to this second, 116 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 2: but I just got to get off this off my chest. 117 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 2: Best is she getting kickbacks on this? Is you, miss 118 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 2: Hernanda's getting kickbacks? Why would you promote something that clearly 119 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 2: kills people unless you were getting a cut. 120 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: Go ahead, I'm. 121 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 3: Sorry, we agree, We agree, and the truth, the light 122 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 3: will shine on this. It's so much as occurred in 123 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 3: the last year, just by simple diligence. They go on, 124 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 3: they define, they have a separate category for sex workers 125 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:45,439 Speaker 3: and survivors. They define. They say sex workers are marginalized 126 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 3: people in the world. They're criminalized, they're vulnerable creditors. Sex 127 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 3: work is work, and we believe in decriminalization. And that's 128 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 3: who we got in MacArthur Park. So how can he 129 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 3: get better? That's the problem. 130 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 2: If you legalize it, because decriminalization is a long word 131 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 2: for legalized. You legalize it in MacArthur Park, they're more 132 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 2: likely to die. Who's using the prostitutes criminals and gang 133 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 2: members and drug addicts in the neighborhood high likelihood. They're 134 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:22,959 Speaker 2: killing a certain number of prostitutes every year. They don't care. 135 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:26,439 Speaker 3: They're inviting it. Yeah, it's that asout. They've got an 136 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:30,959 Speaker 3: outpost in the park that is meant to serve a 137 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 3: thousand women and gender quote expansive participants. 138 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: Gender expansive. 139 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 3: You can good luck on identifying that. 140 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. I don't want to know. 141 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: These are all fronts. 142 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:54,439 Speaker 2: These are money making fronts, and it's all nonsense ideology 143 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 2: so that people can make big profits on prostitutes and 144 00:09:57,880 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 2: then they die on drug addicts, and then they die 145 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 2: on the homeless people and then they die. 146 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 1: There is no other outcome. They'll die eventually. 147 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 3: We've contacted Andrew Green, who's the executive officer or the 148 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,440 Speaker 3: office have beenfrastructure for the mayor. Over the weekend, I 149 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:21,320 Speaker 3: again texted the mayor. I sent her an email asking 150 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 3: her what did you know about this? Did you know 151 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 3: about it? Maybe you didn't know about it that she 152 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 3: should have no response. We reached out to the Disabilities Commission, 153 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 3: we reached out to Chris Lee from the City, Gina Lombardo, 154 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 3: Eli Everett. 155 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 1: Nothing. 156 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 3: They wanted to go away, and they want this to continue. 157 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 3: It's their de facto shelter. So we're sick and tired 158 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 3: of getting milked every time we turn around. We can't 159 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 3: even report this on three to one one or nine 160 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:58,080 Speaker 3: to one one or two to one one. So we 161 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 3: posted and we're working at actually with four other cities 162 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 3: or we've just begun with the highest homeless populations centered 163 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 3: in their cities. We've set up hotlines. We've got a 164 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 3: hotline for LA so if you don't have time to 165 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 3: follow a police report or you see something like this, 166 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 3: I've tried to do it and it's a two hour wait, 167 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 3: and I've complained after I've waited one hour, and she 168 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 3: said the dispatcher has said, hey, you're really lucky. The 169 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 3: wait is two hours. So we have a number. It 170 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 3: gives you an incident report, an insurance supplement text transcript, 171 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:43,080 Speaker 3: and it's all by AI and it can't be changed later, 172 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 3: which is happening all the time. Before it gets to 173 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 3: the DA's office. The reports are changed, things are taken out. 174 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 3: It won't happen this way. So we've developed this number 175 00:11:56,240 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 3: we've sent back with our group has set with the 176 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:05,560 Speaker 3: help of LAPD, the sworn officers dedicated on the ground 177 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:09,599 Speaker 3: putting up with this nonsense. We sent back in the 178 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 3: last four or five months thirty people to over twenty 179 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 3: seven different states. And the requirement is they can't have 180 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 3: a court here in coming up, they can't have a 181 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 3: warrant for their arrest. They want to go home on 182 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 3: their own, and they have a family member at the 183 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 3: point of arrival to pick him up. And we've had 184 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:34,560 Speaker 3: one hundred percent success rate so far. 185 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 2: Hang on the line, Okay, we got to just do 186 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 2: some news. We'd write back with John Alley. He's a 187 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 2: business owner, activist Santa Monica and Los Angeles. 188 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 189 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:48,719 Speaker 4: six forty. 190 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 2: A few more minutes with John Alli. He's the businessman 191 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 2: here in Los Angeles, in Santa Monica, just fighting all 192 00:12:56,280 --> 00:13:00,599 Speaker 2: the insane policies from these destructive politicians, especially when it 193 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 2: comes to homelessness and all the crime connected. John, can 194 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 2: I ask you just one more question about this this 195 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:17,079 Speaker 2: human trafficking issue where these drug rehab facilities are flying 196 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 2: in drug addicts from out of state and they'll stay 197 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 2: for a few weeks and insurance covers it, and then 198 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 2: they're kicked off into the street. How does this work 199 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 2: for the insurance companies because it's costing them money to 200 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 2: pay for these out of state homeless people who suddenly 201 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 2: show up here. 202 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 1: I don't see the strut. 203 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, the insurance companies have a separate either obligation 204 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 3: with the drug user and or and they work hand 205 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 3: in hand with the broker with from the nonprofit the 206 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 3: drug rehab, so they're in it. They know it's going on. 207 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 3: There's no way that somebody that's a transient addict is 208 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 3: going to be healed and back to normal in six weeks. 209 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 3: It just doesn't happen. So they're fine to cover it, 210 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 3: but because they're going out of state, they pay less 211 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 3: insurance companies and it makes sense economically to send them. Okay, 212 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 3: we're state boarders. 213 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 2: So this is insurance that some of these out of 214 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 2: state people have, and the insurance companies are supposed to 215 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 2: cover it, but they come to California because it's going 216 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 2: to be cheaper for the insurance company. 217 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 3: And the duration of coverage is shorter if they go 218 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 3: out of state. 219 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 2: I see, So the insurance companies get to fulfill their 220 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 2: obligation for a cheaper price. 221 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 3: Exactly. I see. We've got the Olympics. We're concerned. Everybody 222 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 3: is concerned. They're approaching a couple of years. We have 223 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 3: seven to nine in trees around the world that have 224 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 3: not even set up or least host village homes. In LA. 225 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 3: The concern is crime and too much of it. Like 226 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 3: you say, too much of homelessness is going unreported. Much 227 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 3: of it it's due to deaths, but it's being unreported. 228 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 3: The same with crime, it's being unreported. The governor just 229 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 3: turned down a proposal to revamp both nine one one 230 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 3: and the three to one one non emergency lines anyone 231 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 3: like we discussed anyone who's called these numbers, no taking 232 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 3: wait a long long time. And every phone user here, 233 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 3: anyone holding a phone, is paying more than anyone else 234 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 3: in any other city in the country for nine one one. 235 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 3: So we believe the governor's answer, based on people we're 236 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 3: talking to a Sacramento will be another law passed or 237 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 3: a ballot initiative raising the sales tax probably go to 238 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 3: twelve or set. And we've also heard discussion of a 239 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 3: property parcel tax to be levied on all California properties. 240 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 3: It's being discussed now in Sacramento. 241 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 2: They're going to take more money. 242 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 3: You can't fix stupid, and you shouldn't try to save 243 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 3: it either. The system we're using can do it today. 244 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 3: It's so simple and it would relieve so much from 245 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 3: the infrastructure they did. 246 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 1: They just it was the story last week as they blew. 247 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 2: Almost a half a billion dollars seven years working on 248 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 2: a new nine to one one system and it was 249 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 2: a bust. 250 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: The whole thing didn't work. That's the state system. 251 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 3: Well, locally, it's it's awful. Whether you're calling for to 252 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 3: report a crime, a street light, a trash in the streets, 253 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 3: it's even a pothole it's it's it's pretty bad. 254 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: All right, all right, John, thank you for doing all 255 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: the work you do. 256 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:06,679 Speaker 2: If if there are a lot more people like you, 257 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 2: we wouldn't be in this in this BIX And I 258 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 2: don't know why people don't get involved the way you do. 259 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:13,360 Speaker 1: John Ally, thanks you. 260 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 3: For anyone Sure, anyone that would like to learn more 261 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:19,919 Speaker 3: about our work, just follow me on X. It's John 262 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 3: underscore underscore, Ali. 263 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:26,120 Speaker 2: All right, John Underscore Underscore Alli. A L L E 264 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 2: is how you all right? 265 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:30,639 Speaker 1: A L L E? 266 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:33,680 Speaker 2: All right, John Ally there, thanks for coming on when 267 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 2: we come back. Now, if you were here for the 268 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 2: whole half hour, you heard him talk about Karen Bass. 269 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 2: He is talked to Karen Bass repeatedly about not using 270 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:55,640 Speaker 2: tax money to pay for these programs which which hand 271 00:17:55,640 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 2: out free needles and free mech pipes, and Karen Bass agrees, 272 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 2: no freed needles, no, no meth pipes. And then Ali 273 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 2: discovers a contract that could run five years where the 274 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 2: city is handing out needles and meth pipes through this nonprofit. Well, 275 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 2: I'm going to play you a report that Channel five's 276 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 2: Aaron Myers did. This may be the single worst local 277 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:29,120 Speaker 2: report I have seen in My Life reporting live previewing 278 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:36,919 Speaker 2: Karen Bass's re election campaign kickoff. I honestly, I I 279 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 2: hope you finish eating. This is the worst journalism I've 280 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 2: ever heard. I say that frequently, but really, this isn't 281 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame. 282 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM. 283 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 2: Six forty after four o'clock. John Cobelt's show on demand 284 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,119 Speaker 2: on the iHeart app. I've got to play you a 285 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:01,639 Speaker 2: report by Channel five reporter Aaron Miles Myers. And you know, 286 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,679 Speaker 2: we just had the businessman activist John Ally on and 287 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:08,719 Speaker 2: he talked about how Karen Bass personally promised him that 288 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 2: she would not approve any contracts that would hand out 289 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 2: free heroin needles, fentanyl needles, and met pipes, and then 290 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 2: the city made a deal to do exactly that. It's 291 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 2: called Sidewalk Project to hand out needles and met pipes 292 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:34,399 Speaker 2: in MacArthur Park, to one year contract with four automatic 293 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 2: annual extensions, so potentially five years of a contract to 294 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:42,400 Speaker 2: do exactly what he promised she promised, John Alley will 295 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 2: not be done. And also Jim McDonald was in on 296 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 2: that as well. He said he was totally against it. 297 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 2: I don't understand Jim McDonald how he is not raging 298 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 2: against met pipes and needles being handed out when all 299 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 2: they do is kill the addicts and add to the 300 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:08,439 Speaker 2: extreme disorder going on in MacArthur Park. I don't know 301 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 2: what's wrong with them. I don't know what's wrong with him. 302 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,120 Speaker 2: I don't know what's wrong with Bass other than there's 303 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 2: a lot of money in this industry, and I really 304 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 2: don't know who's getting a cut anymore. I don't know 305 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 2: if somebody in Bass or BASSIS staffed are getting a 306 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:25,479 Speaker 2: cut of the contract they made to hand out needles 307 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 2: and met pipes, because that's a terrible, terrible, absurd policy. 308 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,400 Speaker 2: It's been going on for way too long. It all 309 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 2: does is kill people, and everybody knows this, it's obvious. 310 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 2: But considering that, considering the abominable response to the fire, 311 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 2: I think we've chronicled that very well, the abominable response 312 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 2: to homelessness, the huge mountains of garbage. Listen to this 313 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 2: report KTLA Channel five reporter Aaron Myers reporting live previewing 314 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:01,400 Speaker 2: Bass's reelection campaign, Brace Yourself. 315 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,679 Speaker 5: There will be several speakers, and then Mayor Karen Bass 316 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 5: will speak as well and talk about what her plans 317 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 5: are in her campaign and things that are important to her. 318 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 5: You can see there are a lot of supporters out 319 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 5: here this morning who are here to listen to what 320 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 5: she has to say. I want to bring in Kathleen 321 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,440 Speaker 5: Ross and the president and CEO of the Hollywood Partnership 322 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 5: in Myra Valdez. She is the President emeritus of San 323 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 5: Fernando Young Democrats. Now you both came out here talk 324 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 5: about your support for Mayor Bass. 325 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 4: First of all, kat. 326 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 6: Well, we wanted to come out to show up for 327 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 6: Mayor Bass because she's certainly showed up for La and 328 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 6: so it's important to be here and get her campaign going. 329 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 5: And now I know some of the things that are 330 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 5: important to her are crime, solving, homelessness, affordability. Mayra, talk 331 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,920 Speaker 5: to me about what that means to you to hear that. 332 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 7: Yeah, well, it means that she's working towards all the 333 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 7: priorities that I really care for and that are at 334 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 7: the forefront of every Angelina's mind. You know, she believes 335 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 7: that everybody deserves to live in a community that is safe, clean, 336 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:04,639 Speaker 7: and that our homeless neighbors are housed, and she's working 337 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:06,200 Speaker 7: to do all of that as well as make the 338 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 7: city more affordable living for all young people. 339 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: Right stop, I. 340 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:18,760 Speaker 2: I feel like I'm insane or that interview was done 341 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 2: in an insane asylum. The generic question. And Mayor Bass 342 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 2: is very concerned about, you know, crime and affordability and homeless. 343 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:33,880 Speaker 1: How about. 344 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:40,359 Speaker 2: Well Mayor Bass lost several billion dollars in homeless money 345 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,160 Speaker 2: and then hired fifteen lawyers to keep her from testifying 346 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 2: in court about it. How about that, Aaron Myers, That 347 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:55,960 Speaker 2: would be a fascinating question. How about Karen Bass defunding 348 00:22:55,960 --> 00:23:02,919 Speaker 2: the fire department disappearing to God while there were a 349 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:10,440 Speaker 2: week's worth of extreme wind and fire warnings, the fire 350 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:16,400 Speaker 2: departments in total disarray. It was a shambles. I don't 351 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:20,879 Speaker 2: understand this. Why ask these weird generic questions? I know 352 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 2: she's interested. What what are you doing? Why did you 353 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,479 Speaker 2: become a reporter? Why are you on television? Why did 354 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 2: Channel five hire her? CHAPD five us to have a 355 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,439 Speaker 2: great historic news department, the best, the best in the 356 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 2: country for local news. This is what it is now. 357 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:43,479 Speaker 2: You get a couple of a couple of staffers. I 358 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 2: guess for the Bass campaign to talk generically about what 359 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,679 Speaker 2: about Karen Bass's dream for La She's been here for 360 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 2: three years. It's a freaking disaster. Do you believe the 361 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,160 Speaker 2: amount of garbage? How about why does Karen Bass allow 362 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 2: so much garbage to pile up? Why won't she clean 363 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 2: it up? I mean, just play some more of this gait. 364 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:10,919 Speaker 2: We'll play the rest of it. 365 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 7: And she's working to do all of that as well 366 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 7: as make the city more affordable to living for all 367 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 7: young people. 368 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 5: And I know she did launch Insight Safe to help 369 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 5: with homelessness and removing encampments, getting people indoors. Now, the 370 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 5: one thing she has been facing some criticism on is 371 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 5: the Palisades fire. 372 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 2: How does she get past the one thing she's been 373 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 2: facing is criticism of about the fire. 374 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 1: Listen to this part. 375 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 5: The one thing she has been facing some criticism on 376 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 5: is the Palisades fire. How does she get past that? 377 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,640 Speaker 5: I know that's been difficult at this point. 378 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 6: Well, the fire was horrendous. It shook Los Angeles to 379 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 6: the core. No Leader, I don't know Leader is prepared 380 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 6: for that. However, in the aftermath and the recovery efforts, 381 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,400 Speaker 6: the team has really stepped up and focused. A lot 382 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 6: of our family and friends live in the Palisades area 383 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 6: and were very affected and seeing the movement now despite 384 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,040 Speaker 6: all obstacles moving forward is promising a. 385 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 1: Right stop stop. 386 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 2: Has she been to the Palisades, this lady. Has the 387 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:27,199 Speaker 2: reporter been to the Palisades? What were they injecting? What 388 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 2: were they smoking? Seriously, were they on LSD? What kind 389 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 2: of a delusion are they living? What are they talking about? 390 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 2: No leader could have stopped it. If we had fire 391 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 2: crews at the scene of the original New Year's Day fire, 392 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 2: they would have put out the rekindling real fast. But 393 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 2: Karen Vass had zero meetings after the New Year's Day 394 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 2: fire to plan for. 395 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 1: Rekindling, zero meetings. 396 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 2: There was zero firefighters at the scene with zero equipment. 397 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,880 Speaker 2: She and the fire chief met zero times to discuss 398 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 2: what to do if these strong sant Ana winds. 399 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: Kicked up? Are we kindling? I I'm just shocked at this, 400 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 1: absolutely shocked. 401 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,639 Speaker 2: In fact, the fire department got kicked off by the 402 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:32,120 Speaker 2: state as we told you last week, and the LA 403 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 2: Fire Department went home, rolled up their hoses even though 404 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:39,640 Speaker 2: the land was still smoldering, because they were trying because 405 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 2: the state was trying to protect the milk vetch plant. 406 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: This is insane, And does this. 407 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 2: Report Aaron Myers know anything about the State Parks Department 408 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 2: and the milk vetch plant and the hoses being rolled 409 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 2: up and the smoldering land and Karen Pass had no 410 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 2: knowledge of any of this was going on because she 411 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,159 Speaker 2: was planning to go to Ghana and she and the 412 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:09,680 Speaker 2: fire chiefs spoke about it exactly zero times. What do 413 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:11,479 Speaker 2: you mean no leader could have done anything, Yes, they 414 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 2: could have. Had they just had a conversation about putting 415 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,919 Speaker 2: a crew at the hotspot, then it would have been stopped. 416 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 1: None of this would have happened. Play some more and. 417 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 5: Then real quick, Mara, I know there are several candidates 418 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 5: who've thrown the ring in to be the next mayor. 419 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 5: What does Mara Baths have that is going to make 420 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,120 Speaker 5: her stand out in that situation? 421 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 7: Well, Mary Baths has the experience, having served in Congress, 422 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 7: having served as mayor these last three years. We think 423 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 7: it's incredibly important that she gets elected to a second term, 424 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 7: and she has four additional years to complete the promises 425 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 7: that she has made, and we're here to help her 426 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 7: every step. 427 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:48,680 Speaker 3: Of the way. 428 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 5: Thank you both for talking to us this morning. We 429 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,439 Speaker 5: really appreciate it. And the election is officially on June second. 430 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 5: If a runoff is needed, that would be November third. 431 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 5: But you can see here lots of supporters out here 432 00:27:59,359 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 5: for Mayor Care. 433 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 2: That is the worst news report ever done here in 434 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 2: Los Angeles, the worst. As Aaron Myers kt LA Channel five, 435 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on there. That's totally flabbergasted. 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You can subscribe by going to YouTube dot 443 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 2: com slash at Johncobelt Show, YouTube dot com slash at 444 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 2: John Coblt's Show, and you do that and the rest 445 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,720 Speaker 2: of our social media you follow at John Cobelt Radio 446 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 2: at John Cobelt Radio. 447 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 1: Now, the Department of Health and Human Services is doing. 448 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 2: Its own investigation to all that fraud in Minnesota involving 449 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 2: the Somali immigrants who built taxpayers out of a billion 450 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 2: dollars in phony claims and according to The New York Post. 451 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 2: They've obtained letters and they're going to investigate whether these 452 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,920 Speaker 2: tax dollars that were set to Minnesota social service programs 453 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 2: were used to fuel illegal mass migration. Alex Adams is 454 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 2: an assistant secretary of Health and Human Services, one of 455 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 2: their departments, and they sent a letter to Governor Tim 456 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 2: Waltz and the Minneapolis Mayor, Jacob Fry and a nonprofit, 457 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:46,320 Speaker 2: a nonprofit that got hundreds of thousands of dollars in 458 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 2: federal grants, this one to provide head start programs. You know, 459 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:57,520 Speaker 2: that's education for very young children. And Adams says, we're 460 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 2: concerned it might have been used to fuel illegal mas migration, 461 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,280 Speaker 2: and they're trying to track the money. 462 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 1: Good luck with that. 463 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 2: You might as well just book a one way flight 464 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 2: to Somalia because you're going to spend the rest of 465 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 2: your life there trying to track the money. Listen to this. 466 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:23,400 Speaker 2: In twenty nineteen, forty thousand illegal aliens lived in Minnesota 467 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 2: for in twenty nineteen. Four years later it was one 468 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 2: hundred and thirty thousand. Went from forty to one hundred 469 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 2: thirty thousand in four years. Ninety thousand illegal aliens in Minnesota, 470 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 2: it became two percent of the state's population, and I 471 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 2: think a lot higher percentage. 472 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 1: Of the Social service money. 473 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 2: And Adams says there's public statements from hundreds of Minnesota 474 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 2: Department of Human Services workers state employees saying that clear 475 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:11,640 Speaker 2: warnings of fraud were disregarded, the whistleblowers were faced retaliation, 476 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 2: and the misuse of federal funds may have persisted for years. 477 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 2: They sent that to Tim Walls and they said, under 478 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 2: your leadership, can you imagine this? And Waltz knew it 479 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 2: was going on, so did everybody else in the new administration. 480 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 2: They were not going to deny the Somali immigrants this money, 481 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 2: even though nobody was entitled to it, and they didn't 482 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,360 Speaker 2: want to risk not getting their vote in the. 483 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 1: Next election cycle. This is really really absurd. 484 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:50,479 Speaker 2: Treasury departments investigating, the House Oversight Committee is investigating, and 485 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 2: it's at least a billion dollars and maybe more. Now 486 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 2: they've convicted dozens of these fraudsters to account for about 487 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty million dollars, but that's only a 488 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 2: quarter of the known fraud, and like I said, they 489 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 2: think it could be many billions more. Listen to all 490 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:17,280 Speaker 2: these listen to all these programs. Hate that word uh. 491 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 2: Parents in Community Action? Does that mean community services? Block grant, 492 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 2: Social services block grant title for e foster care, Refugee 493 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:36,560 Speaker 2: cast Assistant, refugee cash assistance, refugee medical assistance, the Low 494 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 2: Income Home Energy Assistance program, the Childcare and Development Fund. 495 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:49,400 Speaker 2: Each one of these was a sesspool for people stealing money, 496 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 2: some of it stolen by legal Somali migrants, some of 497 00:32:55,920 --> 00:33:03,240 Speaker 2: it funneled to illegal Smali migrants. 498 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,480 Speaker 1: The UH, the Parents. 499 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 2: In Community Action, and this Childcare Development Fund those that 500 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 2: was the conduit. 501 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 1: To the head Start programs. 502 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 2: And they are looking for names, addresses, social security numbers, 503 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,960 Speaker 2: date of birth, and on and on and on, and 504 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,360 Speaker 2: they're gonna they're gonna do a massive investigation. That I 505 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,360 Speaker 2: mean Tim Watts ought to be ought to be deported 506 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,960 Speaker 2: out of the state and out of the country. Any 507 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:36,160 Speaker 2: politician that facilitated billions of dollars of taxpayer waste for 508 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 2: legal aliens because he was trying to get the legal 509 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 2: migrants votes, that's not criminal? 510 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,920 Speaker 1: How is that not criminal? H? 511 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,320 Speaker 2: I mean, obviously laws were broken here by the fraudsters. 512 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,480 Speaker 1: But how about the other end when. 513 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:57,280 Speaker 2: The people allowing the fraud to happen, looked the other 514 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 2: way and enabled facilitated what was going on, especially the 515 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:07,440 Speaker 2: political leaders who were doing it for their own votes. 516 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:08,360 Speaker 1: That's not a crime. 517 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,320 Speaker 2: There's got to be there's got to be a felony 518 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,439 Speaker 2: somewhere in there, you would think. 519 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:14,920 Speaker 1: All right, We. 520 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,480 Speaker 2: Got Mark Garagos coming up after three o'clock. He has 521 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,680 Speaker 2: a client, a Pacific Palisades owner that they have filed 522 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 2: a separate lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles and 523 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 2: the DWP NLA County and Karen Batts for all the 524 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 2: failures in the fire. So Garrigos is in on the 525 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,680 Speaker 2: action too, and we will talk to him coming up. Now, 526 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,480 Speaker 2: here's an update from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, 527 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,360 Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 528 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI Am six 529 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,760 Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 530 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,080 Speaker 2: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.