1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: Posted after four o'clock, same as the radio show, and 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: you can get on that on the iHeart app as well. 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,880 Speaker 1: Bill Saley you know him if you've been listening to 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: the show for a long enough time. Bill most recently 5 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: was an assemblyman from the End of an Empire, and 6 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 1: now he's US Attorney for the Los Angeles District and 7 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 1: Trump has appointed him to that post. He's going to 8 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 1: be confirmed by the Senate, but he's already coming out blazing. 9 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: He announced the launch of a Homelessness, Fraud and Corruption 10 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 1: Task Force to go after the homeless industry here in 11 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: Los Angeles City and County. 12 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 2: Do you know? 13 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:46,599 Speaker 1: The county and the city and other cities in the 14 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: area will spend more than two billion dollars this year 15 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: on about seventy thousand vagrants. Two billion dollars in tax 16 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: money on seventy thousand vagrants. And as you know, the 17 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: problem general gets worse every year. So let's get BILLI 18 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: sale on. 19 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 3: Hey, John, how are you? 20 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: I'm good? This is your first major announcement since you 21 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: took over. Why did you side to target homelessness the agency? 22 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 2: First? 23 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 3: Well, look, this is something that's been on all our 24 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 3: radars for several years now. Even when I was in Sacramento, 25 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 3: we'd have hearings on homelessness and we would ask over 26 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 3: and over again, what happened to the money that we 27 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 3: already spent. Twenty four billion dollars of tax dollars over 28 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 3: the last five years has been allocated to homelessness in 29 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 3: the state of California. A large portion of that has 30 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 3: gone right here in southern California, and the homelessness issue 31 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 3: has only gotten worse. On Sunday, I went in towards 32 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 3: skid Row with Judge Carter. He walked me through it. 33 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 3: It is like a different world down there. There are 34 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 3: no government services being offered there john. Most of the 35 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 3: services being offered, whether it was you know, medical attention 36 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 3: or food, were from private donors. The only evidence I 37 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 3: saw of tax money being spent in down there was 38 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 3: a black jeep. And I'm not kidding. I saw this firsthand. 39 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 3: There's a black jeep that doesn't have doors on it 40 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 3: driving around handing out drug kits so the homeless can 41 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 3: safely shoot up down there on skid Row. They're handing 42 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,799 Speaker 3: crack pipes, turn of kits, little things to burn the 43 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 3: drugs on needles. That's the only that's the only tax 44 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 3: dollars I saw being spent there tax dollars. 45 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: This was a government funded jeep with government employees in 46 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 1: it handing out drug paraphernalia. 47 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 3: Yes, that's correct, And so you know, looking at the issue, 48 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 3: looking at the crisis, looking at the audit that was 49 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 3: conducted at the request of Judge Carter down in Orange County. 50 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 3: The auditors are beside themselves. They audited the programs and 51 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 3: they are missing two billion dollars. Cannot account for two 52 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 3: billion dollars. That's with a B and as I've said, 53 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 3: that's not a rounding error, and that's not a little 54 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 3: bit of money. That's a lot of money. So I 55 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 3: was asked, how does two billion dollars go missing? Well, 56 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 3: it doesn't. It's somewhere and we're going to find it. 57 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 3: And so over the weekend I put together this task force. 58 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 3: I think taxpayers deserve to know where their money is, 59 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 3: what happened to their money, who benefit, and whether there's 60 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 3: any wrongdoing. I'm not going to prejudge the investigation. I 61 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 3: don't know who and what will be involved, but we 62 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 3: are going to do a thorough investigation and if laws 63 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 3: were violated, we will arrest and prosecute. 64 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 1: Did you get any tips, not just the audit inspiring 65 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: you to do this, but maybe some somebody calling and 66 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: giving you a roadmap. 67 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 3: Let me just say, since we've said this, we have 68 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 3: been inundated with people calling and emailing us. And actually, 69 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 3: let me say this right now. If you have information, 70 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 3: please call the FBI at one eight hundred Call FBI. 71 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 3: That's one eight hundred call FBI. That is the best 72 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 3: place to send the information. That is the clearinghouse for information. 73 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 3: You can also go to tips dot FBI gov. But 74 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 3: we are being inundated by the public on this issue. John, 75 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 3: I can tell you whether they're credible, whether it going 76 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 3: to lead to anything too soon to tell. I can't 77 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 3: tell you that, And I'm not going to be able 78 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 3: to really talk to you much about this investigation as 79 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 3: it moves on until we're ready to make a move. 80 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 3: And that's to protect innocent people that might be No. 81 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: No, I understand you're getting investigators and prosecutors from various 82 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: federal agencies. Can you talk about which agencies are going 83 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: to be helping you out on this? 84 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, my office will be leading this. I have mind you, 85 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 3: this is the largest federal prosecutor's office in the country. 86 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 3: We oversee twenty million people. We have over three hundred 87 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 3: lawyers here. We are a large office. We know what 88 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 3: we're doing. You can look at the cases down at 89 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 3: La City Hall. You can look at the sheriff's cases. 90 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 3: We know what we're doing. I put my top prosecutors 91 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 3: from the Public Corruption Section and the Major Fraud Section 92 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,720 Speaker 3: on this. I'm also putting the Civil Division on this. 93 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 3: And then we have agents from the FBI, the IRS, 94 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 3: and the Office of inspect General for Housing and Urban 95 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:04,039 Speaker 3: Development because there were some federal funds that were given 96 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 3: out to these agencies as well. So this is a 97 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 3: robust task force. We had a meeting today in my 98 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 3: office and everyone's everyone's ready to get to work, and 99 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 3: so to the extent the public has information. Again one 100 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,159 Speaker 3: eight hundred call FBI. 101 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: Do you think it's a coincidence that LASA is suddenly 102 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,799 Speaker 1: being pulled into pieces? The county is backing out and defunding, 103 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: the city is going to defund as well. The leader 104 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: of LASA, Valicia Adams Kellam, has resigned. It's because they 105 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: heard footsteps or why do you think you know? 106 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 3: I have no idea. I don't know these people. I've 107 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 3: never talked to these people. I know Judge Carter has 108 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 3: been putting a lot of pressure on them and for answers. 109 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 3: I understand that the county voted to defund them, So 110 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 3: you know, maybe she, I don't know, maybe she thought 111 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 3: she's not going to get the money she needs anymore. 112 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 3: I have no idea, but we're going to look at 113 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 3: everything and everyone. That's what I can tell you. 114 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: One more issue, high speed rail. That's seventeen billion that 115 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 1: has disappeared in seventeen years with no track and no 116 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: possibility that anything significant is going to be built anytime soon. 117 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: Something's wrong there as well. 118 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe the Department of Transportation has already announced 119 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 3: an investigation into high speed rail. 120 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 4: I know. 121 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 3: I believe Congress has also said they're no longer funding this. 122 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 3: I am the first US attorney appointed by Trump in 123 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 3: the state of California. We have four federal districts in 124 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 3: the state. High speed rail will probably fall under one 125 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 3: of the other districts, probably the Eastern District or the 126 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 3: Northern District, which covers central California where a lot of 127 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 3: this work has happened. So once those US attorneys get appointed, 128 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 3: I suspect there'll be much more activity in this area 129 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 3: on that case. 130 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 1: Coming back to homelessness just for a minute, this is 131 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: just my opinion. I've got to believe that everybody in 132 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: government knows what's going on. I can't believe the supervisors, 133 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 1: the city council people, the mayor, all these directors, heads 134 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: of agencies don't know what's really going on with this 135 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: two billion that evaporated. 136 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 3: Well, we're going to find out and we're going to 137 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 3: get to the bottom of it. And we have a 138 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 3: lot of tools at our disposal, John, So we don't 139 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 3: necessarily need people, you know, we don't need people to 140 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 3: comply voluntarily. We've got a lot of tools to get 141 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 3: information and get to the bottom of this, and we're 142 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 3: going to use every tool at our disposal because the 143 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 3: public deserves answers and they deserve to have trust in 144 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 3: their public institutions. When voters vote and taxpayers pay, and 145 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 3: then money says it's going to be used for a cause, 146 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 3: it needs to be used for that cause. And if 147 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 3: it's not used for that cause, then people need to 148 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 3: be held accountable and responsible. And what's been most disturbing 149 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 3: to me in this whole case is that the elected officials, 150 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 3: the people responsible for administering this programs, have sort of 151 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 3: just put their hands up and said, we don't know 152 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 3: where the money is and let's stop talking about it, 153 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 3: let's move forward. Well we're not moving forward. The American 154 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 3: focus on moving forward, but we're looking at the past 155 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 3: and we need to know what happened to the money 156 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 3: before we can before we can move forward. 157 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: Well, that's what makes me crazy. None of them have 158 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: ever stood up and gotten angry about this. You have 159 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 1: an audit revealing there's over two billion dollars missing, and 160 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: nobody has anything to say. You think they'd be holding 161 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: hearings investigations themselves saying hey. 162 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 2: You guys blew two billion dollars in tax money. 163 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: What's going on? Nothing, which makes me think they're not upset, 164 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: And makes me think they're not upset because they know 165 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: what's been going on all this time. It makes me 166 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: think some of them are involved. 167 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 3: Well, and it's our job to find evidence improve it. 168 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 3: And so that's what we'll be doing, John, And look, 169 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 3: that is our role. I mean, really, the federal government 170 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 3: is uniquely positioned for cases just like this, when you 171 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 3: have the county and the state and locals all involved 172 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 3: in this. You can't really expect them to be objective 173 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 3: and to police themselves. So that is one of the 174 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,319 Speaker 3: critical roles of the federal government. We provide that needed oversight, 175 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 3: that check over the state, whether it comes to civil 176 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 3: rights issue or public corruption issues. That is our role 177 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 3: as the federal prosecutors here in the state of California. 178 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 3: And that's what we're going to do. And I don't 179 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 3: answer to any of them. I answer to the Attorney 180 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 3: General and the President of the United States. 181 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 1: Well, Bill, I am so glad you have the position 182 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: you do. Really, this is exciting times here, and good luck. 183 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: And if you need anything from us to help publicize 184 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: and to help look for more witnesses and evidence, and 185 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 1: just let us know. 186 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 3: Thank you, John. Yeah, just let just you can repeat 187 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 3: that number whenever you cover this. It's one eight hundred 188 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 3: call FBI and to extend anyone out there has details 189 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 3: or information. We'd love to talk to you. 190 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 1: All right, Bill, talk again soon, Thanks very much, thank you, John. 191 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:39,559 Speaker 2: All Right. 192 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:43,079 Speaker 1: The US Attorney for the Los Angeles District Bill Assailing, 193 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 1: and he has a multi agency task force that's investigating 194 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 1: the fraud and corruption in the homelessness industry here in 195 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 1: La County. We have told you for years, it just 196 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 1: can't be that. There's no way you spend billions of 197 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: dollars every year homelessness gets worse. At first, it seemed 198 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: like a joke. It's not a joke. There's people stealing 199 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 1: the money right in front of us, and all the 200 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: people in power who've been silent, and you know, we're 201 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 1: going to be publicizing the names of those who are silent. 202 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: What was the progressive call a few years ago, Silence 203 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:23,560 Speaker 1: is violence. Silence indicates corruption. Public officials who are silent 204 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: on what's going on with homelessness in La County may 205 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 1: be part of the corruption. And Bill's job is to 206 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: find the proof of it. But I have the suspicions 207 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: We've got more coming up. Thomas Buckley, who's a journalist, 208 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:38,959 Speaker 1: writes on substack he had a good column I just 209 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,199 Speaker 1: found a few minutes ago, and all this I want 210 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 1: to run a few numbers behind you, and it's staggering 211 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 1: how much money has been spent, absolutely staggering on relatively 212 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: few people who are all still living in the streets. 213 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: That's next. 214 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 215 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 4: six forty. 216 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 1: We just had mil Saley on the US attorney just 217 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 1: appointed by Trump, just took over in the past week 218 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 1: and his first major investigation, first target. He's put together 219 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: the Homelessness Fraud and Corruption Task Force. He's getting prosecutors, 220 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:19,560 Speaker 1: investigators from the FBI, the IRS, the Department of Housing 221 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: and Urban Development. And top item on the agenda two 222 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 1: point three billion dollars unaccounted for in the Los Angeles homeless. 223 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 2: Home it's called Losa. 224 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 5: I was from Los Angeles Homeless Services. 225 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. The county is defunding it. 226 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: The city is going to defund it. That's most of 227 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:48,599 Speaker 1: the money it gets. The head of it is Valicia 228 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 1: Adams Kellum. We threw in the dumpster Friday, her body 229 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 1: was still warm, and she resigned twenty minutes later, Los 230 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 1: Angeles Homeless Services Authority. It's not going to be around 231 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 1: much longer. Bill Saley took a tour with took a 232 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: walk with the judge along skid Row, David o'carter, who's 233 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:15,200 Speaker 1: overseeing a lawsuit which which led to the audit, which 234 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: led to an obvious truth. Now we just have to 235 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: detail the proof there's people in these homeless agencies. Maybe 236 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 1: the politicians themselves, the nonprofits involved, they're stealing the money. 237 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 1: That's no other way to explain two point three billion 238 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 1: dollars disappearing and the homelessness gets worse and worse. Thomas Buckley, 239 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 1: who's a journalist. He has a column on Substack called 240 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: The Point. I just want to read a few paragraphs 241 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 1: because he encapsulated this so well. In its effort to 242 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: combat homelessness, Los Angeles County and the city and other 243 00:12:56,040 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: cities in the county will spend more than two billion 244 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 1: dollars this year on seventy thousand or so vagrants. That 245 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 1: works out to be about thirty thousand dollars per drooping head, 246 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: he writes, And that doesn't include the states funding of 247 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: homelessness programs food Stamps, Medicaid, medical direct cash, social Security, disability, 248 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: other benefits that total up to another twenty four thousand 249 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 1: dollars a year per person, so now were up to 250 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: fifty four thousand dollars that taxpayers and donors are paying. 251 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 1: That does not include the value of the free rent 252 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:43,439 Speaker 1: provided to hundreds of people in these permanent supportive housing facilities, 253 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: including those that have been built recently at a cost 254 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: of between seven hundred thousand dollars and one million dollars. 255 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 1: In Santa Monica, they spent a million dollars per six 256 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 1: hundred square foot studio apartment unit, a million dollars for 257 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: you're a homeless person for his own apartment. Thomas Buckley writes, amazingly, 258 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 1: in LA and throughout the state, spending on solving homelessness 259 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 1: has more than doubled over the past decade or so. 260 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: What else, pretty much doubled while this money was being 261 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: spent the homeless population. We doubled the spending. We doubled 262 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: the homeless. Obviously, no real dent has been made in 263 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 1: the problem. The number of homeless people has only increased, 264 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 1: and still three or four homeless people die on the 265 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 1: streets of LA every day. The industry is made up 266 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 1: of catastrophically almost comically inept theoretical nonprofits that continue to 267 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: fail miserably but pay their staff very well, political cronies, 268 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 1: actual relatives of government officials, dolling out the money they've 269 00:14:56,080 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 1: done very well off the suffering of others. They might 270 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: finally be put under the microscope because of the audit 271 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: of LARSA and because of this now investigation that Bill 272 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: Sale is gonna lead. No wonder the county pulled out, 273 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: don't wonder the city's pulling out. 274 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 2: No wonder. 275 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: Valicia Adams Kellum quit twenty minutes after she was dumpster. 276 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:25,640 Speaker 1: If you, if you drive around, you might hear in 277 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: the distance the soft sound of humming. That's a lot 278 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 1: of paper shredders going off. And does it make any 279 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 1: noise when people start mass deleting all the records in 280 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 1: their computers, does that make does it make any kind 281 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: of a sound. 282 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 5: But yet we voted for another tax. 283 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: In Yes, yes, we voted for another tax increase. 284 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 5: Where's that money going to? 285 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: It's going in these same criminals they got to pay raise. 286 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 1: Which leads me to the other story which I want 287 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: to I want to discuss again for those of you 288 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: who haven't heard, they have just cracked a big racket 289 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: in Long Beach where a food bank. The executives and 290 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: the directors all ran off, and the board members ran 291 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: off with eleven million dollars of tax money and donations 292 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: eleven million. They've been doing this for a decade. Wait 293 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: tea hear what they spend it on. This is the 294 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: corruption capital of America tell you more about it coming up. 295 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on Demand from KFI AM 296 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 4: six forty. 297 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 1: I want purp walks. I want politicians. I want to 298 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: see their husbands, their wives, their their uncles and aunts, 299 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: their kids, anybody involved in this homeless scam that's been 300 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: going on for all these years. They built billions of 301 00:16:55,200 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: dollars and these are nonprofits and they are staffed by 302 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: people who pay themselves. I said this so many times. 303 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 1: People probably thought I was a conspiracy theory nut. But 304 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: you just had to look at the homeless numbers doubling 305 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 1: over the last ten years. Well, the spending doubled over 306 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: the last ten years. It's like, what do you think 307 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 1: is going on? These aren't failed programs. There aren't any programs. Well, 308 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:27,880 Speaker 1: like Bill Saley, who's now the US Attorney, He said 309 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: he walked along skid Row with Judge Carter. He could 310 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:35,640 Speaker 1: not find any social services for the homeless unskided Row. 311 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 1: More homeless people per square foot on skid Row than 312 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: anywhere else in the county. The only presence of government 313 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 1: was a black jeep that was handing out drug paraphernalia. 314 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 2: Now, remember four or. 315 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:58,400 Speaker 1: Five people die every day of drug overdoses in the county, 316 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:03,400 Speaker 1: in the city. And they got the government handing out 317 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:07,959 Speaker 1: taxpayer paid bags of drug paraphernalia so they can quickly 318 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:12,880 Speaker 1: kill themselves off, more quickly kill themselves off. And here's 319 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: more corruption. And this when I read the details of 320 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 1: the story, this is like a template. This happens to 321 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 1: be a food bank, but I imagine a lot of 322 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:21,160 Speaker 1: homeless people use the food bank. 323 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:21,440 Speaker 2: Right. 324 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 1: The food bank is called food Bank of Southern California, 325 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: a nonprofit, and now the state Department of Social Services 326 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 1: has filed a lawsuit that a dozen of its leaders. 327 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 2: These are. 328 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: People in management, directors, board members, executives. A dozen stole 329 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 1: the money spent it on themselves. Listen to this case. 330 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: This nonprofit has been around since nineteen seventy five. It's 331 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 1: supposed to feed poor people, but it's diverted eleven million 332 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 1: of state and federal funds to themselves. The food banks officers, directors, 333 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 1: and vendors diverted millions of dollars into their own pockets. 334 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: That's what it says in the complaint by the state attorney. 335 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:15,639 Speaker 1: They eventually closed the bank. Well, they started investigating in 336 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: June of last year. They closed it in October. Eleven 337 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:26,920 Speaker 1: million dollars two hundred thousand dollars went to pay for 338 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: Walmart gift cards four thousand, fifty dollars Walmart gift cards, 339 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: but there's no record of where the gift cards went. 340 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 1: There's no record that they were ever given to households. 341 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 1: It looks like the directors and the employees ran off 342 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 1: with the gift cards. Those are very difficult to trace. 343 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: They've had two CEO's recently, and one of them is 344 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 1: Gene Cooper, and then Brian Weaver took over last year 345 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:07,200 Speaker 1: because of Cooper getting investigated. And then there were twelve 346 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: members of the Food Bank board, including Dion Rambo, a 347 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: woman named sweet Alice Harris who's ninety years old, and 348 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:19,640 Speaker 1: Michael Barrett Cooper former CEO. Her husband Lamar Ramsey also 349 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 1: a defendant, and he didn't even work for the nonprofit. 350 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: They say that Cooper, Jeane Cooper, and the husband, Lamar 351 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 1: Ramsey used the Food Bank's money to pay for personal expenses, 352 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: home renovations, lawn services, even an artificial Christmas tree. They 353 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: used the nonprofit's corporate accounts and credit cards and spent 354 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,400 Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars at Best Buy 355 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,120 Speaker 1: Home Depot, Low's Office depot. 356 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 2: And at and T. 357 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:54,879 Speaker 1: They say Gene Cooper sent almost five thousand dollars to 358 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:59,119 Speaker 1: her sister in law for transportation, seven thousand dollars to 359 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: her husband, Lamar Ramsey for repairs that were never made 360 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 1: at the Food Bank, twenty six hundred dollars to Ramsey's 361 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: company to decorate business trucks. The Food Bank also gifted 362 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 1: Lamar Ramsey a ten thousand dollars box truck. Guess who 363 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: authorized that His wife, Geene Cooper, you know, like Valicia 364 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:28,040 Speaker 1: Adams Callum authorized a two million dollar payment to her 365 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:34,880 Speaker 1: husband's homeless nonprofit, Upward Bound Felicia running a LASA, same thing. 366 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: I told you. They make hundreds of thousands of dollars 367 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 1: and then they send thousands of dollars to their wives, 368 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,880 Speaker 1: husband's friends, relatives, and a lot of these people are 369 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 1: connected to See. The reason they get funding is they're 370 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:58,400 Speaker 1: connected to the politicians. They're connected to city council people, supervisors, mayors. 371 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 1: That's how they get the money. They get the inside 372 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,960 Speaker 1: I mean, any has anybody ever come to you to 373 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 1: open up a nonprofit? All right, So I told you 374 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 1: there were two CEOs. There was Cooper, then Brian Weaver 375 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 1: takes over, and he said I took over because we 376 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:24,119 Speaker 1: suspected fraud with Cooper. But Weaver is accused of taking 377 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: twenty thousand dollars and a cashier's check and not documenting 378 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 1: what it was used for. They claim he also bought 379 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 1: a tesla for himself, and then he hired his family members. 380 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: His family members were the project manager in the accountant. 381 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 1: So both CEOs were giving money and positions to family members. 382 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: Now let's go to the board here. Dion Rambo. The 383 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 1: state's accusing him of getting two hundred and seventy nine 384 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,199 Speaker 1: thousand dollars from another company. Well, no, he paid two 385 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy nine thousand dollars to another another company 386 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 1: called the Southwest Group that never provided any services, and 387 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,479 Speaker 1: the state thinks Rambo pocketed the money and used it 388 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:19,399 Speaker 1: for himself. Did you have this Michael Barrett, and he 389 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 1: was the board secretary. He paid his own company five 390 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: thousand dollars every quarter for a billboard over his church. 391 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 1: Barrett is the pastor of the do Rite Christian Church. 392 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 1: And he used the state tax money that was given 393 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: to the food Bank to make direct payments to his 394 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 1: church and to pay for the billboard over his church. 395 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:54,399 Speaker 1: There's a thousand of these stories here in La County, 396 00:23:54,800 --> 00:24:00,440 Speaker 1: a thousand of them. And Assie is going to find 397 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 1: out what's going on. That judge is going to find 398 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:06,959 Speaker 1: out what's going on. That's why the county supervisors pulled funding. 399 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: That's why the city council wants to pull funding. That's 400 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:16,439 Speaker 1: why Thelicia Adams Cullum resigned. There's more coming. This is 401 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 1: going to be a big, fat, juicy scandal that's going 402 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: to last quite some time. It's gonna take a little 403 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 1: while to get the proof. 404 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,200 Speaker 5: Then I think automatically that sales tax that I keep 405 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 5: talking about should be repealed, because why are we paying 406 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,120 Speaker 5: more money to go towards the homeless when this has. 407 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,880 Speaker 1: Happened all that, all this should get defunded, and everybody 408 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:40,119 Speaker 1: on the streets should be told go somewhere else, or 409 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: we're sending you to jail, or we're going to force 410 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: you into mental treatment, mental health treatment, or we're going 411 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,679 Speaker 1: to force you into a drug treatment, or you just go, 412 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:48,680 Speaker 1: you just get out of town. 413 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 2: But no more money. 414 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 1: Money's being cut off ten years billions of dollars of theft. 415 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 1: And if you see any more taxes on the ballot 416 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:04,959 Speaker 1: for homelessness, would please just once vote no. No, you 417 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 1: want to pay, fine, I don't want to pay anymore. 418 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 1: All right, more coming up. 419 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 420 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 4: sixty Conway. 421 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 1: Coming in here in just a minute. News coming out 422 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:25,840 Speaker 1: this afternoon, the Trump administration is revoking temporary legal status 423 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 1: to hundreds of thousands immigrants of immigrants who are allowed 424 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 1: into the country under Biden. Remember, they could fill out 425 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 1: a form on an app on their smartphone. It was 426 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,719 Speaker 1: called CBP one. They filled out a form and they 427 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:44,720 Speaker 1: were pre approved for entry, so the Biden crowd would 428 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 1: count them as legal entrance, not illegal entrants. And Trump's 429 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,720 Speaker 1: people blocked that app. Now you get a message suggesting 430 00:25:54,720 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: you deport. And now they're getting there. They're getting their 431 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:06,120 Speaker 1: status revoked. It was like temporary protective status. They're getting revoked, 432 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:11,400 Speaker 1: and they're canceling, uh, their social Security numbers that they 433 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: had obtained. See, if you get protected status to stay here, 434 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 1: you get a social Security number. They went and got one, 435 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,440 Speaker 1: and now those are being revoked as well, all right, 436 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,679 Speaker 1: conways here, Hey, now, hey, now you know my the 437 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 1: irs sent me a letter saying that my Social Security 438 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 1: number was stolen by somebody who's in this country illegally. 439 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 2: Is that right? Yeah? So that's that would be a 440 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 2: lot of fun to have to deal with that crazy. 441 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 1: This guy's going to get into more trouble than you 442 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 1: will do. 443 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,680 Speaker 2: I got a lot of feedback. You had the US 444 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 2: attorney on today and Bill a Sale, Well you talked 445 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 2: to him. To me, I got a lot of fee 446 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 2: I got a lot of blowback though, when I said, hey, 447 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 2: is this a death penalty case? And he sort of 448 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 2: laughed and he said, no, it's not a death penalty case, 449 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 2: but I could make I could make a case for that. 450 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 2: It's been five years, okay, five years. Yeah. Seven people 451 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,680 Speaker 2: die on the streets of Los Angeles County every night. Yeah, 452 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 2: so that's fourteen thousand deaths. If somebody came in and 453 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,919 Speaker 2: killed fourteen thousand people in LA, you give them the 454 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,120 Speaker 2: death penalty. Oh sure, yeah. So why aren't they getting 455 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:11,680 Speaker 2: it downtown? 456 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,879 Speaker 1: Well they should, you're right, Yeah, Well, the government's handing 457 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,880 Speaker 1: out the drug paraphernalia that is used to kill them. 458 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 2: Right, that guy's actually in our waiting room right now. 459 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 2: Comes in every Thursday. Dean Sharp is coming on with us, 460 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,960 Speaker 2: so we'll have that guy on. That guy is great. Also, 461 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 2: six confirmed dead in the helicopter in the Hudson. It's 462 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,879 Speaker 2: horrible news. Three of them were children. But I know 463 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 2: a ton of people have taken that. You know that flight, 464 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 2: I bet you have to. I bet you know people 465 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 2: have done it. I don't go in helicopter. You don't 466 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 2: go to helicopter. 467 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 1: No. I win two helicopter rides here, Cafi scare the 468 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 1: hell right over the fires oh years ago, one over 469 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: the earthquake, and then had a kid, and I sold everybody, no, 470 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: no more. 471 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,879 Speaker 2: They scare me. Yeah, well they say, it's like just 472 00:27:57,920 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 2: a big shaking bag of bolls. 473 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 1: It's I understand airplanes, like I get the physics. I'm 474 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: not afraid of flying in an airplane. Helicopters, I don't understand. 475 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,360 Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like there's any margin of area there 476 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: if the thing starts. 477 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 2: I totally get it. 478 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:12,680 Speaker 3: Man. 479 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, these guys are you know, they're a different breed. 480 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 2: Yeah they can fly those things. No, and they should, 481 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,439 Speaker 2: but I'll watch all right. And then we had a 482 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 2: tiny earthquake, nothing huge, out of a thousand pumps near India. 483 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 2: Thousand pumps. Yeah, I think all these little earthquakes are 484 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,720 Speaker 2: a problem. What do you think the problem is. I 485 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,639 Speaker 2: think it's a lead up to a major. Oh you 486 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,680 Speaker 2: think a big one mac in the face. Yeah, it 487 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 2: could be. Sometimes that happens. Sometimes it trails off, sometimes 488 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 2: it ramps up. I know. But is it a little 489 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 2: relief here and there or is it the lead up 490 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 2: to the big one. And when we had doctor Lucy 491 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 2: Jones on, she said something so great. She said, when 492 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 2: the big one hits, nobody in California will say, hey, 493 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 2: is this the big one? Not one person? She's funny, Yeah, 494 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 2: she's all right. 495 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 1: Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 496 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: You can always hear the show live on KFI Am 497 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,240 Speaker 1: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 498 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 1: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.