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Speaker 1: You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: We are on every day from one until four and

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Speaker 1: after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the

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Speaker 1: iHeart App. I want to talk to you about all

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Speaker 1: the fraudsters that are now already here in the Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles area. We're going to try to get a hold

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Speaker 1: of the billions and billions of state and federal dollars

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Speaker 1: that are going to be spent to try to rebuild

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Speaker 1: a pacific Pacific Palisades and Altadena after the fires. The

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Speaker 1: LA Daily News the headline was expect Los Angeles' multi

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Speaker 1: billion dollar fire recovery to bring fraud, abuse, and more misfortune.

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Speaker 1: The amount of money that is blown on criminals by

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Speaker 1: the government in these circumstances is truly astonishing. The the GAO,

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Speaker 1: which is the US Government Accountability Office in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: In July of twenty twenty three, they analyzed how much

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Speaker 1: money the federal government had paid out in emergency assistance

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Speaker 1: in the last twenty years. So from two thousand and

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Speaker 1: three to twenty twenty three, the US government paid two

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Speaker 1: point four trillion dollars in fraudulent payments two point four trillion.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you hear Elon Musk say, wants to

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Speaker 1: squeeze two trillion dollars out of the budget or are

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Speaker 1: you going to do that? Here's a great start. These

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Speaker 1: are criminals, very often from foreign countries. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: eighty five percent of the fifty billion dollars stolen by

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Speaker 1: criminals in the COVID unemployment scandal from twenty twenty, eighty

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Speaker 1: five percent were paid to people living out of the

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Speaker 1: United States. And I imagine I've read stories is like

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Speaker 1: people around the world find the US and especially California

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Speaker 1: to be an easy mark, and they get online and

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Speaker 1: they fill out forms for whatever the disaster is, you know,

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Speaker 1: money that was going out for unemployment, and these go

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Speaker 1: online and fill out a form and next thing you know,

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Speaker 1: they're sitting in Indonesia somewhere or Russia and a big

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Speaker 2: It's like a cartoon.

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Speaker 1: Right now, seven hundred and fifty men million dollars in

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Speaker 1: federal money has already been set aside here for the

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Speaker 1: La fires, thirty three million that's going to get paid

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Speaker 1: to residents, five hundred and fifty million to the US

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Speaker 1: Army Corps of Engineers. And the state has already put

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Speaker 1: aside two and a half billion for recovery efforts, funding

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Speaker 1: for shelters for evacuees, hazardous waste removal, expedited building permits.

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Speaker 1: You know, I mean, the federal government just prints money

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Speaker 1: this kind of thing. Nathan Hockman at a press conference says,

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Speaker 1: we're about to have billions of dollars of federal money

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Speaker 1: rip it off. So that's what's going to be next

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Speaker 1: is worldwide fraudsters. AYA in California is the easiest mark

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Speaker 1: in the world because Gavin Newsome never cares about wasting

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Speaker 2: This is like the UH Full Employment.

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Speaker 1: Act for international criminals and fraudsters. Because to go through

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Speaker 1: the greatest hits again, Newsom blew twenty four billion dollars

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Speaker 1: doesn't know where the money went. Fifty billion dollars on

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Speaker 1: COVID unemployment funding doesn't know where the money went. Most

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Speaker 1: of issues. Her homeless money evaporated. She doesn't know where

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Speaker 1: it went. And they admit this, and they've hired auditors,

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Speaker 1: and the auditors come in and they look and oh,

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Speaker 1: you can't find the money. There's no records. I'd never

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Speaker 1: heard of this before. Up until about, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: the high speed rail. It's like trail went dead. You know,

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Speaker 1: money was paid out, but there's no invoices. The companies

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Speaker 2: In writing, or to delete it or to shred it.

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Speaker 1: And when neither party can tell you what happened, money's gone.

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Speaker 1: we got a friend went to fill out an application

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Speaker 1: do it immediately. They do it before you can get

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Speaker 1: And you still can't get past the National Guard member

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Speaker 1: who's refusing to give you access. Two point four trillion

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Speaker 1: I have read that Medicaid programs every year hundreds of

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Speaker 1: They rent out office space, they put up signs, they

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Speaker 1: claiming fake patients with fake medical conditions, and get real checks,

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Speaker 1: you know, by the dozens, by the hundreds, and they

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Speaker 1: just keep processing these fake people or maybe real people.

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Speaker 1: They stolen their identities, and it's a big business. And

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Speaker 1: nobody in the government checks because it's not their money.

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Speaker 1: According to one government official, often these investigations lead back

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Speaker 1: to the people who are supposed to be protecting the money,

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Speaker 1: the people who work for government in charge of the funding.

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Speaker 1: They're the ones who are doing the most of the

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Speaker 1: much of the theft. And he says, the sheer volume

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Speaker 1: the recovery, it's too tempting, he says, with all these

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Speaker 1: contracts going through and all these dollars being funneled public

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Speaker 1: officials become highly susceptible. They're enticed to steer contract to

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Speaker 1: and that's where you get everybody's brother in law and

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll get more coming up.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: Trump is doing lots of things all at once, but

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Speaker 1: the one thing that has gotten the most attention has

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Speaker 1: been the immigration raids by ice, the shutdown of the border.

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Speaker 1: Do you know how well this has worked? And it

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Speaker 1: done at any moment during the Biden administration. The number

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Speaker 1: five hundred and eighty two. Biden was letting in ten

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Speaker 1: there was nothing else he could do. He actually said

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Speaker 1: said there's nothing more I can do here. He needs

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Speaker 2: Know any better. Of course, it's a complete lie.

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Speaker 1: Trump just issued a series of executive orders enforcing the law,

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Speaker 2: There you go, all taken care of. You just enforce

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Speaker 1: You empower the guys with the guns to do what

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Speaker 1: they do.

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Speaker 2: Problem solved. That was all by design.

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Speaker 1: That was the Biden administration and all those sick o

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Speaker 1: progressives that had taken over while he was slipping into dementia.

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Speaker 1: To recall this havoc on cities around the country, most shameful,

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Speaker 1: most disgusting thing you'll ever see, just horrific. And now

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Speaker 1: it's all going to get cleaned up. Oh did you

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Speaker 1: see who was part of the part of the squad.

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Speaker 1: They were in New York City. Christine No, Homeland Security director,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was just a lovely thing to do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I thought she'd be good in homeland security.

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Speaker 2: She'll do that to her dog, Oh, I'm sure. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well she showed up with all the immigration officials and

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Speaker 1: first New York City raids. Went to the Bronx. You

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Speaker 1: know what she wore to the pre tactical meeting. What

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Speaker 1: a rose gold Rolex daytona watch?

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Speaker 4: No, I don't have one before you asked and rose gold?

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Speaker 2: What is rose gold?

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Speaker 4: It's so you have white gold and you have yellow gold,

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Speaker 4: and rose gold is kind of in the middle.

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Speaker 1: It's well, you normally don't wear that to an immigration rate.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if it was the most appropriate thing.

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Speaker 2: Rose gold work.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure I'm surprised nobody snagged it from her wrist.

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Speaker 2: She really she must be interesting. She kill her on dog.

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Speaker 1: She wears a gold rolex to the immigration rate, and

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Speaker 1: she's Homeland Security Director.

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Speaker 1: Six forty and after four o'clock John Cobelts show on

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Speaker 1: demand on the iHeart app. There's a lot of disruption

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Speaker 1: going on in Washington, d C. Today for several reasons.

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Speaker 1: Here's one. It looks like Trump is offering two million

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Speaker 1: some of them are threatening to quit. They're all venting

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Speaker 1: if I'd gone into a coma five years ago and

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Speaker 2: I'd want to go climb back into the coma.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they should be grateful that they had these

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Speaker 4: five years of being able to work from home.

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Speaker 2: Which has never happened in the history of the planet.

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Speaker 1: That somebody got five years, they got paid, and they

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Speaker 5: Here it happens. What a way to end the week.

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Speaker 1: That that girl's a child. I swear to God, if

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Speaker 2: Johnny B. Yeah, Revere, Johnny B.

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Speaker 6: Jonathan Bredmeer, Oh yeah, Mary, Johnny B out of Chicago,

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Speaker 6: that's on the loop.

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Speaker 2: I had a program director who used the same name,

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Speaker 2: Johnny B.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know, radio idiots copy each other's names,

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Speaker 1: that's right. So if there's a successful Johnny B, then

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Speaker 1: the local guy, right.

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Speaker 6: Like, there's a there's a duo in South Mexico that

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Speaker 6: constantly complains about people coming over from Central America, and

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Speaker 6: it's called the Wan and Ken Show.

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Speaker 2: I wondered where that was gonna pay, all right, I

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Speaker 2: mean I was happy with it. I was I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: go after those guys, all right.

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