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Speaker 1: what's become an infamous infamous spending by the city on

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Speaker 1: a homelessness project. There is a guy named Stephen Taylor,

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Speaker 1: and by through fraudulent means, falsified records, he got the

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Speaker 1: ability to spend eleven million dollars to buy an assisted

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Speaker 1: against the developer or the original owner, Stephen Taylor, and

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Speaker 1: UH the second company that bought the property, the Wineguard Center.

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Speaker 1: Two major officials have gone on leave. The locals don't

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Speaker 1: want this thing. We're going to talk by Samantha Nustbaum

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Speaker 1: because a lawsuit was filed tuesday by local residents against

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Speaker 1: the city and other various homelessness agencies over this deal.

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Speaker 1: Let's get Samantha Nusbaum on and then we're also going

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Speaker 1: to talk to their attorney as well.

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Speaker 2: Having us.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Hi, Barack, Laurie, Barock, LORC excuse me, Yeah, I've just

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Speaker 1: lost my sheet here for a second. Well, Barock, thank

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Speaker 1: you for coming on. And Samantha, thank you for coming on.

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Speaker 1: So Samantha, tell me what your You live in the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I live in the neighborhood and just sort of

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Speaker 3: as a quick backdrop and you cover the history there.

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Speaker 3: But this started as a neighborhood effort when we learned

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Speaker 3: of the project not only funded with sixty million task

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Speaker 3: payer dollars, it was turning what was then an existing

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Speaker 3: started digging in and as a side note, it's still

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Speaker 3: being renovated on a daily basis and has yet to

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Speaker 3: house a single person since twenty twenty three. But everyone

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Speaker 3: knew there was some sort of double escrow, some extreme

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Speaker 3: worse because that quick slip was a pre arranged deal

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Speaker 3: which appeared to involve city orchestration, corruption, its use of funds,

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Speaker 3: and more. In addition, paperwork for this deal, including all

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Speaker 3: by the city and the housing agencies. So as a result,

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Speaker 3: as a concerned taxpayer and neighbor, we brought all of

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Speaker 3: this to our council woman Katrslovsky multiple times since twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty four. We had private meetings and neighborhoods zooms and

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Speaker 3: can send many emails concerned citizen emails galore. And after

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Speaker 3: all of that, Katie Rslavski has made it clear that

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Speaker 3: alleged fraud does not impact the operation supports of moving forward.

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Speaker 3: She even told us on a zoom that the Feds

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Speaker 3: felt like we've done everything we can at that point

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Speaker 3: to express our concerns. So together with some other neighbors,

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Speaker 3: they formed a nonprofit called the Integrity Project. One of them, Paully,

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Speaker 3: was on your show previously, so thank you for that.

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Speaker 3: And based on our belief, we formed this nonprofit based

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Speaker 3: on our belief that evicting senior citizens. Stealing public funds

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Speaker 3: intended to help home most people is not unacceptable public policy.

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Speaker 3: So we arrived at our last resort, as you said,

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Speaker 3: litigation supported by the charity. There's another plaintiff, Howard Grossman,

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Speaker 3: and I filed the lawsuit, and our wonderful attorney, brock

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Speaker 3: Laurie's on to tell you a little bit more about that.

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Speaker 4: Okay, hell, you arrived, all right.

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Speaker 1: So you had to Steven Taylor, who used, if the

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Speaker 1: And I remember when we first read this story, Barack

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Speaker 1: I said, so that extra sixteen million were there others

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it does appear to be pre arranged, and it's

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Speaker 5: pretty shocking. I mean, this is a story about non

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Speaker 5: And look, it's not just a fight about three three

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Speaker 5: It could be repeated in any quiet neighborhood in California. Look,

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Speaker 5: the core facts are it's sold for eleven point two million,

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Speaker 5: is not a difference of opinion. It's an alarming use

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Speaker 5: And the transaction is now connected to a federal criminal investigation.

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Speaker 5: But the city is nevertheless pressing on and construction continues.

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Speaker 5: So Samantha and Howard Groseman filed this taxpayer lawsuit.

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Speaker 4: It's a public document. You can read it anytime you like.

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Speaker 5: Just to stop, to continue to waste and to avoid

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Speaker 5: end of the day, not just under California law, but

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Speaker 5: for moral reasons as well well. Complicate transaction.

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Speaker 1: When do you have a scandal like this where the

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Speaker 1: it was originally tax money that financed the deal.

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Speaker 1: To stop the construction and sort out who are the

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Speaker 5: Well, that's exactly right. And what we're pursuing now is

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Speaker 5: Court has decided to have that hearing coming up, I

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Speaker 5: believe on the nineteenth, and we're going to have a

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Speaker 5: hearing about exactly that, to enjoin the city from continuing

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Speaker 5: the construction of this monstrosity. Of course, at the at

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Speaker 5: At the same time, and now the burden is on

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Speaker 5: be enjoined from proceeding with this construction. So we feel

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Speaker 5: like we're a bit in the driver's seat. The burden

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Speaker 5: But let's see what happens.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well you go through the next legal steps,

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Speaker 5: We would definitely like to. We know that we'd like

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Speaker 5: to get funding for this. This is not just the

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Speaker 4: So you're looking for funding from the public.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry to boss point. The nonprofit that we formed

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Speaker 3: and all of the donations received, which are fully tax deductible,

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Speaker 3: that's where plaintiffs don't seek any personal game. We're not funding,

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Speaker 3: we're not running a nonprofit to pay officers. This is

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Speaker 3: strictly for the litigation. We feel that it really is

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Speaker 1: All right, I only got I only got a few

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Speaker 1: this legal effort, how can.

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Speaker 4: They do it?

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Speaker 3: Well, we have an Instagram account. It is the Integrity

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Speaker 3: Project with underscores between each word, and there's links there

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Speaker 3: to a go fund me. But thank you for letting

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Speaker 3: us share that information as well.

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Speaker 1: All Right, all right, well we'll talk again. Samantha and Rock.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much to both of you for coming on.

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Speaker 1: one more Whack at the Genie kenunyas Penata. We got

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Speaker 1: a great audio clip that somebody dug up on the internet.

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Speaker 1: As part of our I think it would be a

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Speaker 1: miserable career. Along those lines, I was waiting for this.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember the people Mover?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was supposed to take passengers to Lax I

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Speaker 1: think from well, all those parking garages in Englewood, right, yes,

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Speaker 1: Well, the people Mover was supposed to be ready in

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty shocking and it's really bizarre. I mean,

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Speaker 1: motivating factor. This is what happens when you have big events,

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Speaker 1: is like a city decides it's like, okay, this is

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Speaker 1: a good reason to, you know, upgrade our infrastructure. Well,

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Speaker 1: construction started way back in twenty nineteen and no problem

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Speaker 1: But under the leadership of Karen Bass and before that

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Speaker 1: the idiot Eric Arcetti, they're better at destroying things. Karen

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Speaker 1: Bass can't build anything. And they had announced two years

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Speaker 1: the first five years and they have not been able

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Speaker 1: It looks like that that everybody's fighting with each other.

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Speaker 1: The contractors are fighting with the city and the airport authority,

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Speaker 1: think I've seen the train sitting up there as well.

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Speaker 1: The people mover it just sits, but it doesn't move.

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Speaker 1: and it's suposed to handle tens of thousands of people

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Speaker 1: other big city airports had people movers like this. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're called trams in other cities, so it's not a

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Speaker 1: Why can't they stay here and keep the reservoir filled up?

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Speaker 1: Why can't they stay here and fund the fire department

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Speaker 4: That that's why can't you stay here?

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Speaker 1: She she Whenever she spoke publicly, it was always about

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Speaker 4: Was commitment to social justice. I'm not making this up.

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Speaker 1: You call it powered by equity, and I know that

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, And that's the number one thing that attracted

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Speaker 1: Wow, congratulations, thank you for your service.

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Speaker 7: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: It's important to me that everything we do it's with

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Speaker 1: Movement right the wrongs. You're just supposed to provide water

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Speaker 1: nobody's homes turned down the equity lens. I never heard

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Speaker 1: that phrase until a couple of years ago. Where is

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Speaker 4: This is this.

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Speaker 1: It's worse than I thought, This whole DEI craze.

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Speaker 4: Worse than I thought.

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Speaker 1: Not only do you get the most incompetent and then

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Speaker 1: and talk about all day. I figured they were incompetent, right,

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Speaker 1: because when you're not hiring based on accomplishments and talent

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Speaker 1: Denise Kinonyez. But I didn't know that. I just figured

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Speaker 1: they'd do their jobs badly, which they do. But I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of the time they didn't even do

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Speaker 1: their jobs. They just sat around and talked about the

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Speaker 1: equity lens, the commitment to social justice. Right we come back,

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about you know, there's another disaster

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Speaker 1: that's never getting fixed, and that's you know, the tens

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Speaker 1: of thousands of vagrants in the streets. And yesterday Monica

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Speaker 1: Rodrigo's councilwoman set out loud, the homelessness problem is not

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Speaker 1: a money issue, it's a leadership failure. And we'll talk

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Speaker 1: to Monica Rodriguez next. Deborah mark Lyve and the KFI

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