1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 2: Every day one to four o'clock we're here, and then 4 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 2: after four o'clock if you miss anything John Cobelt's show 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 2: on demand, that is the podcast, and you can catch 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 2: up on whatever you missed out on. We've got a 7 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 2: lot of good stuff. One thirty Michael Monks from CAFI 8 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 2: News coming on. The judge David Carter, federal judge who's 9 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 2: investigating all the corruption and failure in the homeless industry 10 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 2: here in La. 11 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: He got mad. Karen Bass decided not to show up. 12 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: She was late. 13 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 2: And can you imagine that Karen Bass doesn't even respect 14 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 2: a federal judge when she's got a court hearing she's 15 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 2: required to attend to. We'll talk about that. Two o'clock, 16 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,879 Speaker 2: we're gonna have Chad Bianco. He's one of the top 17 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 2: Republican candidates to run for governor in twenty twenty six, 18 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 2: and he said he becomes governor, he's going to work 19 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 2: to get rid of the income tax. 20 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 1: Whoo, yeah, how about that? 21 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:09,919 Speaker 2: I love all right, Okay, I'm interested, so we will 22 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 2: we will talk to Chad Bianco at two o'clock and 23 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 2: we got two rounds of the moist line. 24 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: We got a hack at a dumbster. We haven't diden 25 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 1: that in a while. 26 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 2: But first let's go to uh an attorney we've had 27 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 2: on many times. You're familiar with John Manley. He's been 28 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 2: a central figure defending many victims of pedophiles, especially children 29 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 2: who've been sexually assaulted by those in the Catholic Church 30 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 2: in school districts, you know, organized pedophilia, organized government sanction 31 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 2: or Catholic Church sanctioned pedophilia. And and Manly has is 32 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 2: involved in many of these cases and got huge settlements. 33 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 2: This is different, and this is a story we we've 34 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 2: talked about a couple of times already. Paul and Christie 35 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 2: a Ko. I think anybody who has ever gone to Mexico, 36 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 2: in the back of their mind worries that if somehow 37 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 2: they step out of line, maybe commit a traffic violation, 38 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 2: maybe driving down the wrong road, are you going to 39 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 2: end up. 40 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 1: In a Mexican prison. 41 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 2: Well that's what happened to Paul and Christie a Ko, 42 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 2: who are from Michigan, but apparently they have Southern California 43 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 2: ties as well, and they had a one hundred and 44 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 2: seventeen thousand dollars credit card charge dispute with the Palace Company, 45 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 2: a timeshare company. They used to go and use this 46 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 2: resort in Mexico, and American Express investigated and canceled nearly 47 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 2: all the transactions totally one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars, 48 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 2: but the Mexican company, or at least this palace company 49 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:57,239 Speaker 2: in Mexico, didn't accept it and had them arrested when 50 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 2: they came off the plane on their last trip. And 51 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 2: they're both supposedly being held in a maximum security prison. 52 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 2: What is all this about. Well, John Manley, who's the 53 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,359 Speaker 2: attorney for Paul and Christi Akeo, is coming on right now. 54 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: Paul, Hey, sorry, John, Hello you. 55 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 3: On, John. That's okay. I've been called worse all right? 56 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 3: Can you? 57 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 2: Can you explain because there are a lot of news stories, 58 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:23,839 Speaker 2: some of them are not so flattering to your clients. 59 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,919 Speaker 3: Yeah, So let me explain how I'm involved with this. 60 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 3: The Ko's daughter, Lindsay Lempke, is one of the lead 61 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 3: plaintiffs in the Larry Nasser case where I represented the victims. 62 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 3: I've known this family for ten years. That the non 63 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 3: flattering articles are put out by the some public relations 64 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 3: firm in New York hired by Palace Resorts. My clients 65 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 3: have done nothing wrong. They spent half a million dollars 66 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 3: on this timeshare over ten years. And what happened is 67 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 3: the timeshare company began to cancel their reservations, and they 68 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 3: hired a lawyer and said, you can't do this. We 69 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 3: paid you all this money. You're canceling lawyer reservations. This 70 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 3: isn't fair. Please stop, and wrote them fifteen times to 71 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 3: try and get them to stop, and then they wouldn't. 72 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 3: They just kept on canceling the reservation so they couldn't 73 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 3: use it. So they did when anybody else would do. 74 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 3: Who is an American Express card member. They challenged the charges, 75 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 3: and American Express is a very detailed analysis. You don't 76 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 3: just challenge the charges and get them, you get them reversed. 77 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 3: They didn't cancel their card or anything like that. And 78 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,239 Speaker 3: this was two years ago, and they hired a lawyer 79 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 3: that it seemed like the whole thing was done. They 80 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 3: sent them a notice of breach like they were supposed to, 81 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 3: and everything seemed fine. They had been to Mexico a 82 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 3: couple of times previously with no issues and that they 83 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,479 Speaker 3: had no idea there was an arrest warrant. They flew 84 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 3: to Mexico on March fourth to go to a totally 85 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 3: different resort, and they were arrested and thrown in prison, 86 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 3: and they were charged with fraud, and the allegations of 87 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 3: the fraud are one that you know. They challenged the 88 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 3: charges of the American Express and won. And then secondly 89 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 3: that Christiako posted her her complaints against Palace on a 90 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 3: Facebook page that had eight thousand Palace members who are 91 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 3: disfrontled and are just saying, Hey, we're not going to 92 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 3: get We're not getting what we're supposed to get. Frankly, John, 93 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 3: I've gotten dozens and dozens of emails, and my clients 94 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 3: have gotten hundreds from people who have similar complaints. Now, 95 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 3: they weren't thrown in jail, but I think what happened 96 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 3: is Palace Resorts, which owns three fourths of the Mexican 97 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:55,840 Speaker 3: I'm sorry of the Cancun waterfront, just the side of 98 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 3: the throne. In prison, they had one hearing in front 99 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,359 Speaker 3: of a j They were forced to wear Palace Resort 100 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 3: slippers to the hearing in front of this judge by 101 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 3: the guards in the prison. So imagine you're being you know, 102 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:11,479 Speaker 3: so that they're wearing these Palace Resort slippers. They have 103 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,919 Speaker 3: to you know, shackled go into the courtroom. And the 104 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 3: judge ruled that, hey, there's not enough evidence to prove this, 105 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 3: but I'm going to give Palace Resort six months more 106 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 3: to prove their case. And oh, by the way, you 107 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 3: have to stay in prison. They asked for, hey, give us, 108 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:29,599 Speaker 3: give us bail, give us, you know, house arrest. Nope, 109 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 3: And so they're sitting in a prison up until this 110 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 3: week when frankly, the White House in the State Department 111 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 3: got involved. They were being denied food, medical care, didn't 112 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 3: even have toilet paper. And this is this is not 113 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 3: a legitimate resort company, in my opinion. A legitimate resort 114 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 3: company settles civil disputes in civil ways. 115 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:51,039 Speaker 4: You don't. 116 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 3: You don't have people thrown in jail. That's what thugs crooks. 117 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: And are they still in jail? 118 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 3: Right? 119 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 1: Are they still in jail right now? 120 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 3: They're still in jail? Yeah, right. And Paula ko is 121 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,280 Speaker 3: a twenty one year Navy veteran. He's employed by the 122 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 3: Michigan State Police. Let me assure you the Michigan State 123 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 3: police don't hire crooks. They're up in arms about it. 124 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 3: And you know, we've gotten a lot of Frankly, we've 125 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 3: gotten a lot of help from the Department of State 126 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 3: and others, and we've offered. I've offered to say, look, 127 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 3: if you think you're owed one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars, 128 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 3: we'll put that. We'll put that in escrow in Delaware 129 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 3: where Palace is incorporated, or in Florida where they have 130 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 3: their main office, and we'll stipulate we'll agree to jurisdiction there. 131 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 3: You can sue him there. 132 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 2: Wait, this is an American company. Oh, this is an American 133 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 2: company who's used what every connection is they have in 134 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 2: Mexico to throw the chaos in jail. 135 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 3: It's a Mexican company that's also incorporated in the United States. 136 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 3: But essentially you're correct, that's right, right. 137 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 2: So does the US Does our government have any jurisdiction here, 138 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 2: any influence here? 139 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 3: They do, uh, and they're they're exerting it. And I 140 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 3: can tell you in the last week that the consulate 141 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 3: in in Cancun, I think at the urging of the 142 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 3: of folks at the White House, at the highest levels 143 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 3: of the government have been incredible and really, with the 144 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 3: exception of their congressman, no one else has been a 145 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 3: lot of help, with the exception of the Attorney General 146 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 3: of of of of Michigan. But you know, I mean 147 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 3: we've we've the other thing that. So here, here's where 148 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 3: this stands. There they're not this is really important. They're 149 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 3: not talking to the prosecutor. You know, when you get arrested, generally, 150 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 3: you know you've got to deal with the DA or 151 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 3: the prosecutor, even in Mexico, and they have Mexican lawyers. 152 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 3: They're the Mexican lawyers are dealing with the resort. So 153 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 3: the demand right now from the resort are you have 154 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:54,679 Speaker 3: to pay? Originally it was you have to pay one 155 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 3: point six million dollars you. 156 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 1: Have to How did you get to one point six million? 157 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 3: Who knows? I mean, these are the are these are 158 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 3: people that are completely okay. Off the rest of. 159 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 2: John hold On, I got to do news and then 160 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 2: we'll come back and we'll continue this for another segment. 161 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 2: John Manley, and he's representing Paul and Christy Ako. They're 162 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 2: the couple locked in a Mexican jail right now, and 163 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 2: they're going to be there quite some time in a 164 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 2: dispute with a timeshare company called the Palace Company. Uh, 165 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 2: they went to American Express and disputed the one hundred 166 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 2: and seventeen thousand dollars. Bill Amex sided with them and 167 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 2: Nick and then they took a trip to Mexico and 168 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:34,319 Speaker 2: they were met at the airport and taking to jail. 169 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 2: And it seems like everybody in that everybody in the 170 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 2: Mexican justice system is a raid against the Akaos. We'll 171 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 2: tell you more with John Manley. 172 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 173 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:49,839 Speaker 4: six forty. 174 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 2: Michael Monks from KFI News coming up after one thirty. 175 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 2: There's a federal judge still interrogating and investigating all the 176 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 2: fraud that's gone on in the homeless industry here in 177 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 2: Los Angeles City and County. And he was pissed at 178 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 2: Karen Bass, who was late to show up at a hearing. 179 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: Can you imagine. 180 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 2: Michael Monks will explain all this coming up, continue with 181 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:18,199 Speaker 2: the case of Paul and Christi at Keo. They are 182 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 2: from Michigan. They have times to California though, and they 183 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 2: have a southern California lawyer, John Many. 184 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: You may remember him. 185 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 2: On our show many times with those pedophile cases with 186 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 2: the church and the school districts, the palace companies who 187 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 2: they're fighting. That's a timeshare company, and the Chaos had 188 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 2: a timeshare and they canceled nearly one hundred and seventeen 189 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 2: thousand dollars in credit card transactions, and American Express sided 190 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 2: with them. They didn't want to pay, and we'll get 191 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 2: into that in just a moment. They thought they had 192 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:02,680 Speaker 2: it settled in a civil way, and then they came 193 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 2: off the plane recently and the Kios were arrested and 194 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 2: taken into a maximum security prison, and they were not 195 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 2: given much food or medical care, and they could not 196 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 2: visit much. With their Mexican lawyers, we have the US 197 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 2: government trying to help them out. We got John Manley 198 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 2: here to talk about it. Why why did the Kios 199 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 2: not want to pay one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars? 200 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 2: What was their objection? How did they feel they were wrong? 201 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 3: They were paying? You know, they had paid half a 202 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 3: million bucks a year. They were paying what they sixty 203 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 3: two hundred dollars a month, which is what they were 204 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 3: talked into, and they weren't allowed to use the resort 205 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 3: they were breaching their promises. And they sent, like I said, 206 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 3: fifteen times to different people at Palace saying, please, you 207 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 3: know we like it here, Please don't do this, otherwise 208 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 3: we're going to have to cancel. They hired a lawyer 209 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 3: in Florida who specializes in time shares, and he sent 210 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 3: them a notice of breach and said, you know, stop this. 211 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 3: These people have paid you all this money. 212 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 2: Say every time they wanted to go, every time they 213 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 2: wanted to go, Palace canceled their reservation. 214 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 3: After twenty twenty one or twenty correct so and they 215 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:16,439 Speaker 3: joined in twenty sixteen. So they did what any American 216 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 3: Express cardholder has done, what I've done, probably what all 217 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:23,200 Speaker 3: of us have done on the charges, and America Express 218 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 3: looked at it. Palace submitted evidence, They submitted evidence, and 219 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 3: they found with them. And then afterwards Christy Akeo posted 220 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 3: on a Facebook page exactly what happened. There was nothing fraudulent, 221 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 3: there was nothing criminal. Nobody canceled a credit card, nobody 222 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:40,559 Speaker 3: tried to do anything untoured. And you know that when 223 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 3: they arrived in Mexico, there was a video crew waiting 224 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 3: for them, the police and the day before the Palace 225 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 3: Resorts convinced the prosecutor to put out a red notice 226 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 3: on inter Pol. Okay, now they can't get out of 227 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 3: Mexico and they can't get out of prison unless us. 228 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 3: Let's them because Palace is controlling this through this family 229 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 3: that a family there that owns this called the Japoor 230 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 3: family were a billionaire. 231 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question, because I don't have 232 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 1: a lot of time. No, that's okay. 233 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 2: They you know, I've always been a lot of people 234 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 2: are very suspicious to the Mexican government. I mean I 235 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 2: always assume that it's correct. Yeah, corrupt right to the bones. 236 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 2: The drug cartels actually run it. You're not going to 237 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 2: get justice in a Mexican court or from Mexican police. 238 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 1: Like you're screwed, right? 239 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 3: Yeah? 240 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 1: So, uh are they just screwed now? Because I'll tell. 241 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:40,720 Speaker 3: You why they're not. Because we decided to go public. 242 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 3: They tried to do this quietly because it's wrong. And 243 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:50,079 Speaker 3: what you know, mister Ko is a veteran's they were imprisoned, 244 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 3: a veteran and a grandmother and they know that if 245 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 3: this doesn't stop, they're going to do this to every American. 246 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 3: No American, because you have a dispute a civil dispute 247 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 3: with some of your hotel should be thrown in a 248 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 3: prison cell, not given food, not given medical care. And frankly, 249 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,200 Speaker 3: it's clear that the administration and the State Department agree 250 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 3: and they are working very hard. But what I think 251 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 3: is that there should be a do not travel to 252 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 3: Cancun advisory put out by the State Department. You are 253 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 3: not safe if you go to Cancun. These people did 254 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 3: nothing wrong. They're good people. They're middle class people who 255 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 3: just wanted to go on vacation and timeshares and are 256 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 3: notorious for ripping people off in the United States. Can 257 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 3: you imagine what it's like in Mexico. And these people 258 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 3: are brutal and frankly, Cancun is controlled. Everybody knows Cancun 259 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 3: is controlled by the cartels. I'm not saying the cartel 260 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 3: controls this company. 261 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 2: No. I went to Knkun once and I don't have 262 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 2: time to get into the story, but it became very 263 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 2: clear that the cartels controlled the area. Let's say there 264 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 2: was a tremendous amount of security that the hotels and 265 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 2: resorts had in order to keep the cartels at. 266 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, so Americans should not travel there, And I just 267 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 3: ask people to pray for my clients. They're good people 268 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 3: and they're suffering, and they're actually doing a tremendous service 269 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 3: by coming out and saying we're not going to sign 270 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 3: this non disclosure clause. And they could get out, they 271 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 3: could probably get out tomorrow if they signed an admission 272 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 3: of guilt and an NDA, and they're not going to 273 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 3: do it because it's wrong and they didn't do anything wrong. 274 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 2: You can't trust, you can't sign it, and then hope 275 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 2: they're going to set you free. Maybe they won't. 276 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, And they insisted they take down the Facebook 277 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 3: page criticizing him. This is really really sort of Timeshares 278 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 3: meets the Sopranos. It's really rotten. 279 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: John. 280 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 2: We'll stay in touch, Okay, as this case goes on, John, 281 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 2: all right. John Manley, the attorney for Paul and Christi Akale. 282 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 2: They're in a Mexican prison. They had a dispute with 283 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 2: the Palace Company timeshare company. They did not want to 284 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 2: pay one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars worth of billing 285 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 2: because the Palace kept canceling the reservations. American Express sided 286 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 2: with the Akios and then they took a trip to Mexico. 287 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 1: And got arrested at the airport and they're both in prisoned. 288 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM 289 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 4: six forty. 290 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 2: Coming up after two o'clock. You want to listen to this. 291 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 2: We got the Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco. He's running 292 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 2: for governor as a Republican, and he announced today if 293 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 2: he's governor, he'd eliminate the state's income tax. And I 294 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 2: believe last time I mentioned this, Dever went woo. Who 295 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 2: that was that an opinion? I thought you weren't allowed 296 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 2: to have opinion. 297 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 1: Well, I mean I am not saying that. I I'm 298 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 1: not giving my well, am I supposed to interpre I'm 299 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: trying to figure this out. Well, who I don't want 300 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 1: to pay taxes? 301 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 2: I got to get John Nanley to interpret that. 302 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 1: All right. 303 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 2: We have Michael Monks here, who I'm sure doesn't want 304 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 2: to pay him to tax either. 305 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 1: I want Deborah Mark to pay my income taxes? You know, 306 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,640 Speaker 1: so do I that's a good idea. I want John 307 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: Cobell to pay mine. 308 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 2: US District Judge David Carter, he is investigating the all 309 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 2: the uh, the fraud, all right, the following is my opinion. 310 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 2: There's nothing but fraud going on. There's like criminal criminal 311 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:24,199 Speaker 2: activity going on every day in the homeless industry in 312 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 2: Los Angeles, whether it's the City of the County, LASA, 313 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 2: that monster that they created, all these criminal non profits. 314 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 2: Uh and and David Carter's trying to figure it all out. 315 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:39,639 Speaker 2: He demanded that there'd be a an audit, and Alvarez 316 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 2: and Marcel was the company that did the audit and 317 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 2: found there was about two point four billion dollars of 318 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 2: funding that nobody could account for, and among others, Mayor 319 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 2: Karen Bass was supposed to come in yesterday and explain things, 320 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 2: and when Carter looked for her, she wasn't around. 321 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,119 Speaker 1: What happened, It was quite a hearing. Okay, this is 322 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:04,360 Speaker 1: federal court, so we can't record while we're in there, 323 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:06,400 Speaker 1: or take pictures or anything like that. So I don't 324 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: have anything good to show you or play for you, unfortunately, 325 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,880 Speaker 1: but this hearing was hours long. We talked weeks ago 326 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 1: when this new audit came out of the LA Homeless 327 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,919 Speaker 1: Services Authority and the city and the way they spend money, 328 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: and it was not good right. They found poor accounting, 329 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: they found poor oversight. They could not determine whether the 330 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 1: contracts with these homeless services providers even did anything. How 331 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 1: do we measure what we were supposed to accomplish because 332 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 1: none of that was detailed. So it was a pretty 333 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:37,719 Speaker 1: scathing audit. Not the first scathing audit of LASA. This one, however, 334 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:40,719 Speaker 1: was mandated by this federal judge, David Carter. He's been 335 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 1: overseeing this federal case for a long time. The LA 336 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: Alliance for Human Rights a group of downtown business owners 337 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 1: who said seven years ago, six years ago, we're tired 338 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 1: of the way this homeless situation is going. You need 339 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: to do something about this. This is a civil case. It's 340 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: a civil case. They want the city to do something, 341 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 1: and the city has had to do things. They have 342 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:01,160 Speaker 1: certain number of beds have to create every year because 343 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,160 Speaker 1: of rulings in this very case. And now the judge 344 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 1: wants to know how some of this money has been 345 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,439 Speaker 1: spent or not spent, or what type of results they're getting. 346 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 1: He wanted Mayor Karen Bass there. He wanted the CEO 347 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 1: from lass of there, he wanted the city council president there. 348 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: He wanted County Supervisor Lindsay horror Bath there, none of 349 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 1: these people showed up. This was not it was in 350 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 1: an order. It was a request for their presence. But still, yeah, yeah, 351 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:28,360 Speaker 1: I mean, if judge requests your presence, you're showing up, right. 352 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: I mean, it just doesn't look good if you in 353 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: this crowd. So none of them show up. However, the 354 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:39,439 Speaker 1: judge expressed his displeasure with their absence and did so 355 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:42,880 Speaker 1: to one of the assistants serving Mayor Bass. And Mayor 356 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: Bass did scadaddle over to the Federal courthouse and stood 357 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 1: before the judge and heard a little bit of what 358 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 1: he had to say. She says, she agrees with some 359 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 1: of the stuff that came out in this audit. 360 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,919 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but how has it happened if she's in 361 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 2: charge of the city. 362 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 1: Well, that's what he would like to know. I think. Further, 363 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: because he's going to have another hearing on this, I 364 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: think he was He was pretty strong in his words 365 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 1: that he used for these folks and the way that 366 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: they need to get their act together as it relates 367 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: to the money. He was really upset that the loss 368 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 1: of CEO was not present. Vlicia kell Adams Adams Kellum, 369 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 1: she was in Boston, Okay, I don't know why she 370 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: was in Boston, But she was in Boston, and. 371 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 2: They're always traveling. Everybody's always on a plane somewhere. 372 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 1: He said, this should take president, and she wasn't there 373 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 1: to answer any questions. 374 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 3: So this is so bad. 375 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,400 Speaker 1: It was not a good look, and he was certainly 376 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 1: he didn't hold back and what he had to say 377 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 1: to these officials. And I think even folks from the 378 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 1: LA Alliance have expressed a sort of a shock at 379 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:49,920 Speaker 1: just how serious things got at this hearing. 380 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 2: Well, you know, he's expressing how most normal people in 381 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 2: this city, in county feel this all. 382 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: This is shocking. 383 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:58,639 Speaker 2: I mean, just the amount of theft that's going on 384 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:00,680 Speaker 2: here in broad daylight front of our eyes. 385 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:05,400 Speaker 1: They've not proven any fraud, you know, I think you're alleging. 386 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: I'm alleging, but it doesn't help their case to shoot 387 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:12,199 Speaker 1: back at you when they can't really prove where the 388 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:14,199 Speaker 1: money is gone or what it was supposed to do. 389 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 2: And that's what this audit found. Wait, this is not 390 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 2: a few dollars. This is two and almost two and 391 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:21,919 Speaker 2: a half billion, right, two and a half billion. We're 392 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:23,439 Speaker 2: talking about a lot of money that goes out the door, 393 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:25,439 Speaker 2: and by the way. This audit wasn't free either. This 394 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 2: was more than two million dollars to pay this auditing 395 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 2: firm to come in and take a look and reach 396 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 2: inconclusive results. 397 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:33,719 Speaker 1: It has to be fraud and theft. There is no 398 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: other possibility. Well, what they're saying is there are data 399 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:40,680 Speaker 1: systems that are used across the various agencies that are fragmented, 400 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 1: and it makes it difficult. Right, this is government bureaucracy 401 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 1: because there might be one system used at the city, 402 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,360 Speaker 1: one a system used at the county, one system used 403 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 1: to laws. Maybe there's six systems. 404 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 2: But when when when you send a payment out, whether 405 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:58,159 Speaker 2: it's an automatic deposit payment or it's a check, you 406 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 2: write down how much you're paying and who the check 407 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 2: or the deposit is going to. 408 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:07,479 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's real simple, that's right. And so the County Ledger, 409 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: the county itself has filed papers in this case and 410 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 1: wrote LASA does not know who it is paying and 411 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,959 Speaker 1: for what. The city doesn't know how much it is 412 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: paying and for what. The system is disjointed, it's mismanaged, 413 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,719 Speaker 1: with layers of redundancies and bureaucracy built on top of itself. 414 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 1: There is nearly zero financial oversight or accountability by the 415 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,199 Speaker 1: City and County of Lasa or by LASSA of the 416 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: service providers with whom it contracts. That's from the government 417 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: that co created LASA. That's a report from the government. 418 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 1: That is the county's position, the county which is leaving, 419 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 1: which appears the county they helped create this thing. They 420 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,639 Speaker 1: helped create it with the city years ago, years ago, 421 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 1: to try to combat this. 422 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 2: But all these people who were called to speak before 423 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,959 Speaker 2: the judge and who didn't show up, they all know 424 00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,399 Speaker 2: this has been going on for years, that's right, and 425 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 2: so what is the action? 426 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 1: Who's doing what right now to stop the bleeding and 427 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 1: figure out what they can do next. The county, for 428 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 1: their part, has decided, We're not so sure we're staying 429 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,440 Speaker 1: in laws, so we're going to create our own department 430 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: here and that would pretty well cripple LASA. And the 431 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: city is We're going to go steal the money in 432 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 1: another department. Well, what they will be able to do 433 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,679 Speaker 1: is they will not put their money into LASA and 434 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 1: when it's kept in the county. The way these governments 435 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 1: are audited is very strict, right, I mean, you really 436 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 1: are supposed to know where the dollars go, whereas can 437 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: I go to Alex Jones territory? Let's do it? Did 438 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,159 Speaker 1: I put my tinfoil hat? Put your tinfoil hat? Ons on? 439 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:40,919 Speaker 2: Is it possible there's another party that Karen Bass and 440 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,880 Speaker 2: Lindsay Horvath and Marquise Harris Dauson. 441 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 1: They don't want to offend. 442 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 2: Is there a larger criminal force, let's call it a 443 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,919 Speaker 2: mafia type force, And they're expecting the money to be 444 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 2: funneled through these nonprofits and these agencies, and they're supposed 445 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 2: to get it in the end, and that that Bass 446 00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 2: is going to say, gee, I don't know what happened, 447 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 2: because if she says what happened, off with her head. 448 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what was. What stood out the most 449 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 1: was how strong Judge Carter spoke against the way things 450 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 1: have been going, because the city and the county have 451 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 1: both had loss of in public forums to answer questions. 452 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 1: And I've been there, I've watched these or I have attended, 453 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: and the questions tend to be gentle, you know, I 454 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,439 Speaker 1: think to your point, there is a certain gentleness to 455 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 1: the way folks have handled this for fear of offending 456 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 1: colleagues people that they work with closely, but also to 457 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 1: your point, because they're part of it. They're part of 458 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:40,119 Speaker 1: the organization structurally they created that They're not necessarily writing 459 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,359 Speaker 1: the checks, they're not necessarily casked with monitoring the progress 460 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: every day, but they should be getting these reports to 461 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:46,919 Speaker 1: tell them. 462 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:48,680 Speaker 2: Is not getting up in the morning and go, oh 463 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 2: my god, I had no idea. Of course she knew 464 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 2: what was going on. And all these other characters, some 465 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 2: have been there many years, no question about it. And 466 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 2: I definitely think that action taken by the count recently 467 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 2: and suggestions made at city Hall recently, we are probably 468 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 2: at the beginning of the end of loss as we 469 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 2: know it. How about a federal investigation it could out, 470 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 2: how about a US attorney getting involved in this. This 471 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,680 Speaker 2: judge is not happy. There is going to be another hearing, 472 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 2: as I said, and we'll see what comes of that, 473 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 2: whether it proceeds into that territory. But right now they're 474 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 2: concerned about the amount of money that's been spent, so 475 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 2: much that they've spent more than two million more dollars 476 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 2: just to figure out where the dollars are going, and 477 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 2: did not like the response. All right, we will continue. 478 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:39,440 Speaker 2: We will indeed all right, Michael Monks KFI News. There 479 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,919 Speaker 2: is a story here, of course, if we had a 480 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,239 Speaker 2: news media outside of Michael covering it. Michael needs some 481 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 2: help here. 482 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 4: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI Am 483 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:51,880 Speaker 4: six forty. 484 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:56,119 Speaker 2: The John coblt Show, and we're live everywhere on the 485 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. You can follow us in John Cobelt Radio. 486 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 2: On social media. You follow us at John Cobelt Radio. 487 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 2: We have less than eight hundred followers that we need 488 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,120 Speaker 2: to hit twenty five thousand dollars and then everybody gets 489 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 2: cupcakes here. All right, We just had Michael Monks on. 490 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:17,160 Speaker 2: This is so outrageous. This is just so incredibly outrageous. 491 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 2: The there's a US district judge. His name's David o'carter. 492 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,679 Speaker 2: He is about eighty years old. He's been around forever, 493 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 2: and he's the only judge that I'm aware of who 494 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:33,200 Speaker 2: really mixes it up with the people involved in these 495 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 2: government cases and makes insistent demands. He forced Karen Bass 496 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 2: to show up in court yesterday. He'd requested Bass along 497 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,399 Speaker 2: with a bunch of other political hacks, and nobody showed. 498 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,360 Speaker 2: I go through the list again. He wanted Karen Bass, 499 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 2: she didn't show at first. Lindsey Horvath, who's the county 500 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 2: Supervisor chair, she didn't show. The President of the city, 501 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:04,439 Speaker 2: Marquise Harris Dawson, he didn't show that had Alassa, that 502 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:09,560 Speaker 2: homeless agency. Felicia Adams Kellum, she didn't show either. She's 503 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 2: in Boston, everybody you know. It's like Karen Bass is 504 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 2: in Africa, where Cardi Lara was in uh was in Bogota, Columbia. 505 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:23,399 Speaker 2: Felicia Adams Kellum, she's the one who gave two million 506 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 2: dollars to her husband's nonprofit. Well, that doesn't smell bad, doesn't. 507 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 2: And this is where all the homeless money goes. And 508 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 2: you know something I saw a story today at Fox 509 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 2: News had it and it was about a Chicago alderman 510 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 2: alderman or city councilman in Chicago, and he said something 511 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,959 Speaker 2: that really clicked with me about the police. There are 512 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,880 Speaker 2: always getting short changed and funding. You know, the way 513 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:01,080 Speaker 2: our fire department gets short changed. And he just said, 514 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:05,679 Speaker 2: he goes, the reason they shortchange the police department is 515 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:09,719 Speaker 2: because they want to steal the money. Like all the 516 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 2: politics about police is just is just to cover the 517 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,159 Speaker 2: real reason they want to defund the police is they 518 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:24,640 Speaker 2: want to steal the money and run it through homeless nonprofits. 519 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 2: In fact, that's why they fund the homeless agencies a 520 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,640 Speaker 2: billion four million. It's a billion, four hundred million every 521 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 2: year for the City of Los Angeles. It's not to 522 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 2: get to the homeless off the street. It's to steal 523 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 2: the money and give it to their political friends and relatives. 524 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 2: It's a money laundering operation. It's organized crime. And I 525 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 2: really wonder who's at the top of the pyramid when 526 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 2: it comes to organized crime in Los Angeles and the 527 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 2: money that's in the budget. Because Karen Bass obviously doesn't care, 528 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 2: she didn't even want to show up for the hearing. 529 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 2: Lindsey Horvath runs the County Supervisor Board, she didn't care. 530 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 2: She didn't show up. Or Keith Harris Dauson runs the 531 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:15,480 Speaker 2: city council. He didn't care, he didn't show up. This 532 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 2: is a federal judge saying, come here, you gotta explain, 533 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 2: because on the city side there's two and a half 534 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 2: billion dollars unaccounted for, unaccounted for, means stolen, and none 535 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 2: of these people are angry. 536 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,320 Speaker 1: None of them want to investigate. If they're pushed to 537 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 1: the wall. 538 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 2: It's like, well, yeah, obviously something has to be done, 539 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 2: but they know what's been done. Vlici Adams kellum, Hey, 540 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 2: she got her husband two million. She doesn't have to 541 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 2: show up in court. That money's already put away somewhere. 542 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 2: So this is why they don't fund the police or 543 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,959 Speaker 2: the fire department, or fix the sidewalks or whatever it is. 544 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 2: That's why they short change it. And then to distract 545 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 2: you with with politics, you start claiming that you know, 546 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 2: the police are brutal and racist. Nah, they don't believe that. 547 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,720 Speaker 2: It's just a way to siphon off the money so 548 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 2: they could steal it. And when I read this little 549 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 2: this quote by the Chicago politician, I thought, you know, 550 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 2: that's what it really is. 551 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: The question is who's in charge of all this? 552 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 2: Because either Bass and Horvath and Marquis harristas In and 553 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 2: Valicia are benefiting somehow, or there's somebody above them calling 554 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:35,200 Speaker 2: the shots, so they make sure the system runs the 555 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 2: people who need to be enriched are enriched. 556 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 1: And it looks like. 557 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,120 Speaker 2: They don't want to make any anyone unhappy. And David 558 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 2: o'corter is bagging his head saying what the hell is 559 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 2: going on here? Well, there is something going on, and 560 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 2: it's worse and it's deeper than anyone can imagine. And 561 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 2: because no, we don't, we don't. We ought to have 562 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 2: a state investigation by now by the attorney general. Right, 563 00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 2: we don't have a federal investigation, and maybe Trumps crowd 564 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 2: will do one. We all have a media investigation, but 565 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 2: we know that story. They'd rather do twenty minutes on recipes. 566 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 2: It's not there really isn't a television news media, with 567 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 2: a few obvious exceptions, but much of it is just nonsense. 568 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 2: So who's the shot caller, who's the kingpin? Who helped 569 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 2: set up? And who's policing this network of money laundering 570 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 2: that's funneling through these nonprofits two and a half billion 571 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 2: dollars and there's no invoices, there's no receipts, and nobody 572 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 2: seems upset. Come on, yeah, they're stealing it, but who's 573 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:55,600 Speaker 2: stealing it? Who's in charge of the machine. I mean, 574 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,920 Speaker 2: this has gone on in places like Chicago and New 575 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 2: York and Philadelphia for years. So who's our guy? Who's 576 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:12,040 Speaker 2: the guy pulling the strings? Some kind of panel of mobsters. 577 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,800 Speaker 2: It's gotta be all right, we come back. Chad Bianco 578 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 2: and he's the Riverside County Sheriff. He's running as a 579 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 2: Republican candidate for governor in twenty twenty six and he 580 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 2: announced today he gets in charge. He's going to work 581 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 2: to abolish the income tax for all of us. 582 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:35,600 Speaker 1: Whoo who, and we're gonna have. 583 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:40,400 Speaker 2: Deborah Mark to do the news coming up in just 584 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 2: a moment right now. Hey, you've been listening to The 585 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,120 Speaker 2: John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show 586 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 2: live on KFI Am six forty from one to four 587 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 2: pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on 588 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:54,800 Speaker 2: demand on the iHeartRadio app.