November 28, 2025 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (11/28) - The Best Of The John Kobylt Show. There are a lot of investigations going on in California into a lot of prominent issues that are crippling the state. Michel Shane comes on the show to talk about the fact that a plan for round-a-bouts on PCH is at risk of not being implemented. CA State Assemblyman James Gallagher comes on the show to talk about a possible 2-state solution for California. A homeless shelter is set to open in Cheviot Hill despite a federal investigation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Now, I told you there's
a whole lot of investigations going on, and I don't
even even know if I've time to go through them
all right now, But let me start. First of all,
we officially in Los Angeles have a new fire chief,
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HEIMI Moore. He was confirmed by the LA City Council,
and the first thing that he has to deal with is, well,
why did the firefighters abandon the hotspot after the January
first blaze? Why did the battalion chief, Mariol Garcia order
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them to roll up the hoses and go when you
still had the hot rocks, The tree stumps were smoldering,
the ground was smoking. Nothing's been explained. Why did he
do that? Was because they did want to pay the overtime?
I was smart. I was a good investment. And then secondly,
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there was another battalion chief who got word of this
and didn't didn't tell anybody, or if he told somebody,
then the third and the fourth person they all agreed
to cover up the news. We didn't find this out
until the past week. How many people in the LA
Fire department knew that the firefighters were told to go
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home and not attend to the hotspot after the January
first fire. Well, so he answered that question, Well, excuse me,
transparency and accountability are vital to ensure that we learned
from every incident. Oh, shut up, stop with your transparency
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and accountability. He knows the story. Yeah, he's calling for
an outside investigation. We don't need an outside investigation. You know,
after the fire happened, everybody had these questions and they said, well,
wait till the after action report. Right, how many times
did best say wait till the after action report. The
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after action report had nothing in about the hotspot being abandoned.
The after action report was worthless. It was a dodge.
It was part of the cover up because it gave
a talking point to the interim fire chief, Vian Aueva,
and it also gave a talking point to Bass to
just keep dodging and hiding and bobbing and weaving. There
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was no after action report that was of any use.
So now we found out the truth through lea leaked
text messages to the LA Times. Now I are going
to have to have an outside investigation, you know, iimmore
not g it off. Already, you've only been serving for
a few hours and already you're spewing this nonsense. You
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know what happened. You don't need an investigation. Why don't
you get Mario Garcia? Drag him, I don't know, drag
him somewhere. How about let's have another committee hearing with
the two Republican senators. Let's go to Rick Scott and
Ron Johnson. I bet you they'd fly back to California
and have Mario Garcia sitting there explaining why as battalion
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chief he told all the guys to go home and
not put out the hotspot? Why? And then find whoever
else knew about it, the other battalion chief, and find
out why he didn't make that public. You don't need
another investigation. These investigations are nonsense. They're garbage. Oh and
spare me the transparency and accountability routine. Nobody's buying it anymore. Okay,
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I mean, really, you're running the fire department for like
three hours, and already you're shuggling the same poop that
the last two did. LA County is opening an investigation
into state farms handling of wildfire claims. Great, that's after
ten months. They want all they want all his data
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in these documents to see if the unfair competition law
has been violated. And this could be penalties twenty five
hundred dollars per day per violation. I don't know. I
know plenty of people just in my own circle of
friends and acquaintances who've been screwed over by the insurance
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companies that are not getting paid or not getting paid
on time, or not getting paid enough. And they're going
after State Farm. And let's see, the leader of this
investigation is County Council Assistant County Council Scott Ken. We
want State Farm to take care of its customers as
soon as possible. Time is of the essence. Fat chance,
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If time is of the essence, where have you been
the last ten months? Here's another investigation. You know, David Carter,
who's the district judge who's been investigating the massive Karen
Bass homeless fraud story. Well, South La Shelter report has
to report to the court how many beds they have
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because Bass is supposed to provide a certain number of beds.
This homeless provider has a two point three million dollar contract.
Two point three million dollars of your money. Urban Alchemy
Safe Sleep Village got that two point three million supposed
to provide eighty eight beds, but the judge sent somebody
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over to count the beds. There's not eighty eight, there's
forty four. The other forty four were bear platforms. In fact,
the shelter itself is just grave tents on wooden platforms
over two parking lots. Half of them have no beds
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or whatever the hell they're sleeping on. Judge Carter, during
a court hearing this week, said he sends fraud you
think so nothing gets by him, and then he criticized
the city for their lack of curiosity. Is the city's
position when we find obvious fraud and the documents don't
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match that, you don't report this to the court. Urban Alchemy,
he says, they took the tents away after being told
budget cuts were coming. The city administrative officer for Karen
Bass Matt Zabel, did not respond to an email asking
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for an x explanation. Well, here's the explanation. They lied.
They lied to the judge. They said, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
we got two million, and by the way, shouldn't two
million dollars dollars cover eighty eight beds and tents. What
are these all made of silk? This is crazy. Even
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after they get investigated, even after they have a judge
who's appointed a special master to actually go over to
the homeless shelter site and count the beds, count the tents,
see if there's anything inside the tents, they still pull
the fraud. The money still disappears. Karen Bass and all
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the fraudulent bureaucrats who work under here cannot be stopped.
The money disappears, the nonprofits get their millions of dollars,
and the tents are empty. Here's just a platform inside,
no bent, no bed, Rather one more quick investigation. Eric
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Slowell Democrat in California. He was one of the leaders
of the impeachment against Trump. He's been hit with a
federal criminal referral for mortgage and tax fraud for a
home he bought in Washington, d c. That he claimed
was his primary residence. It's not you remember this guy.
This guy was sleeping with a Chinese. A Chinese spy
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called Fang Fang. Feng Fang, also known as Christine Feng,
was a Chinese spy. She came as a college student
and spent four years wooing and sleeping with state and
federal lawmakers, trying to get sensitive government intelligence and sending
it back to China. And one of the people she
targeted because he was on the House Intelligence Committee was
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Eric Swalwell. And he's still serving in Congress and now
they're investigating him for mortgage fraud? Was it five investigations?
In five investigations? There less than ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from a six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. You
could follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media
at John Cobelt Radio. We're also going to have James
Gallagher of the assembly Men on to talk about how
Eastern California wants to separate permanently divorce from Coastal California
now that Gavin Newsom has stripped away their longtime congressmen
and women. We'll discuss that with James Gallagher coming up.
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But first I'm on to want you to hear a
friend of mine, Michelle Shane. Michelle tragically lost his daughter
Emily back in twenty ten. A murderous maniac driver ran
or over on pch and he's been working tirelessly to
try to civilize PCH, and he's got this concept that
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Sunday is to commemorate the Empty Chair Club, people who
have been killed or seriously injured in traffic accidents. You
have the empty chair designating the place that they used
to they used to occupy in the home and in
the family. And I also want to talk about this
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controversy over roundabouts on PCH because it looked like they
were coming. Now maybe not. Let's get Michelle Shane on. Michelle,
how are you good?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
How are you John? Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I'm good. First, let's talk about the empty Chair Club
in this comm camera commemoration coming up on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Yeah. So on Sunday at Caltrans Plaza in downtown La
twelve to four, we're doing commemoration. We gut installation seven
hundred and ten empty chairs that represent all the people
that died in La County last year. And what happened
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is I came up with this idea about a year
ago when I was at an event with people who
had experienced loss from traffic fatalities, and it just hit
me that I'll never forget the first time my wife
set the table when Emily had was gone and she
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set the fifth seat and then realized that there was
no more fifth seat, and that was like a knife
in the heart. And to me, we're trying to scare
everyone straight with showing horrible things happening with car accidents
and whatnot, to try to get people to do the
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right thing. And I think this is more powerful an
empty chair sitting where someone used to be, and it's
the hardest seat to fill is one left empty. So
don't join the empty chair club, the only club nobody
wants to get into.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And so again, what's the day in time for the remembrance.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Sunday twelve to noon. The a whole bunch of dignitaries
and we have art exhibit and some booths and whatnot.
It'll be a very interesting time and victims will come
and talk about their experience and how they're trying to
figure out how they'll continue to move on with it.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Now, your daughter was killed on PCH and this week
you sent an email out we have almost like a newsletter.
The Malvern Planning Commission had voted to approve a fifty
five million dollar safety project on PCH. It was going
to be roundabouts to try to slow traffic down. That's
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the Malver Planning Commission, and then the Malibu City Council
may block it. Can you explain this?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
So the fifty five million dollar expenditure, which has been
in the works for about seven years, is separate from
what they're doing with the roundabouts. The roundabouts is two
million dollar test project and that hasn't gone to any
commissions yet as far as I know. What's happened is
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there's going to be two repaving projects, the McClure Tunnel
to I believe John Tyler and then John Tyler all
the way to Venturea, and they're going to resurface PCH
and while the resurfing PCH will put in bike lades, guardrails,
black sky compliant lighting so that it makes PCH safer.
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And people have gone up in arms because they think
that we're changing the perception and of who we are.
And my argument is we were never That was a fantasy.
We were never those people.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
What is it? Wait a second, how is making the
road safer and resurfacing and putting in these safety applications,
how does that change who the people in Malibu are? Right?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Well, sidewalks in a rural community. Oh goodness, street lights
in a rural Oh, street.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Lights and they don't want street lights.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Ludicrous. Fifteen years I've been watching people die on PCH
and they're saying to me, the Malibour Township Council, they're saying, oh,
this is going to change the face of Malibo. We
should stick keep the way we are.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
No sidewalks, no street lights on PCH. Yeah, I mean,
as John, that's insanity. They know what happens. And you
just had those four Pepperdine girls get killed two years ago.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Exactly as argument as well, this wouldn't have saved them. Well,
guess what. Fifteen years I've waited for them to spend
money on PCH. They're finally going to do it, and
now people are up in arms because they don't believe
it's their vision of PCH. It's the nuthouse is out.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
That can't be most of the people in Malibu. Is
this like no activists? Right, A small percentage who are
really noisy.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
That's exactly correct. It's the minority pushing the majority.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Oh that that is absolutely crazy.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
So uh wait you to see my article this week.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, so people should call cow up in arms you
should be. So people should call the city council members.
The quiet people should call and tell them to not
yea and.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Show off and show up on the twenty fourth. That's
city council. I've made to do the right thing.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well, I hear crazy stuff every day, but that that's
really nuts. All right, Michelle got to do the news.
Thank you for coming on again.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Thanks and letanks a lot.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Let me know what happens, all right, we come back
James Gallagher. The people in the eastern counties of California,
a lot of counties lightly populated, and Gavin Upitt Newsom's
plan is to rip away their federal reper presentation. They
can't choose their congress person anymore. They have to be
represented by Gavin Newsom's selection. Gavin Newsom is deciding who
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represents these people in Congress, and if they're Republican, no go.
That's what Prop fifty really is all about. We'll talk
to James Gallagher, the assemblyman who has got an idea
about just splitting the state into two once and for all.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
We have the podcast that's going to be there after
four o'clock should listen. All right, let's get to the present.
We've got James Gallagher and the State Assembly, who was
with us yesterday. We were going to talk about California
splitting into two and then we ended up in a
conversation about the indictment of Newsom's chief of staff. Let's
get back though, to the idea he's got that California
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should be split into a coastal state and an inland state,
especially after Gavin Newsom has more or less stripped away
their congressional representation that they want. He's magdated basically that
you have to vote Democrat. You might even have to
accept a coastal Democrat by the new way they've drawn
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the districts, and no Republicans are going to be allowed.
Could be as few as four out of the fifty
two seats that California gets in Congress. So let's get
James Gallagher on. James, How are you, John good? How
are you doing two days in a row. You're red hot?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, man, I said, anytime they'll become on the show. Well,
and yeah, I mean, this is this is what we're
faced with. I mean, in the aftermath, you know this proposition.
You know, many of us have been stripped of our
even ability to elect a representative of our choice, you know,
in our region, in our in our place. And the
other thing that I've seen, you know, in my time
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in the legislature, is that it's not just us folks
that I represent in Northern California. It's folks in the
Central Valley. It's folks in the Inland Empire who really
feel completely overlooked and ignored, you know, by the California
government and policy after policy keeps getting passed that impacts
them the most, you know, takes their tax dollars, impacts
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them of the highest taxes, regulations, and there's a very
strong frustration has been for a long time. And so
you know, that's why I've introduced this measure, you know,
in the aftermath of stripping our representation that hey, we
would like to pursue and look into statehood.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Your idea would let's go from south to north, which
started the Mexican border with Imperial County, and then Riverside
and San Bernardino would be included in the new state.
And we have a lot of listeners in those counties,
Kern County as well, and you keep going north all
the way up to the Oregon border. We're coastal California
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would literally be the string of counties that are right
up against the Pacific Ocean. That's where most of the
population is, you know, from San Diego through Orange County,
Los Angeles, Santa barber all the way up to all
the way up to San Francisco and then into northern California.
So it would be almost a straight line from north
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to south. And now there's not as much population in
eastern California, but I mean, would you be able to
because there's less population, less income, would you be able
to sustain yourself?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
You know?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I mean I think one thing people forget is like,
even though it would be you know, a fraction of California,
that's still a state of over ten million people strong.
You know, that includes many different industries and manufacturing and industry, farming, timber,
very resource heavy, you know, and industrious people who want
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to live free. And I'll tell you you know, we
actually would have a lot of revenue. And the other
part of that is we would have a limited government.
You know, that isn't spending you know, for example, billions
of dollars on healthcare for illegal immigrants. Right, it would
be something that's focused on taking care of the basics
of government, the fundamentals, roads, infrastructure, public safety, and I
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think absolutely it would be sustainable. It actually would be
one of the tenth largest state in the nation, you know,
if it were to come into being. So you know,
what we're talking about here is not like some small,
you know, you know, non economic powerhouse. It's actually, you know,
there's a lot here that could be a very strong
state in the United States.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
So well, that would be fascinating to see a play out.
How many businesses would relocate from coastal California to inland
California because the tax structure, structure will be far more
favorable to them. And how many wealthy people are suddenly
going to buy a place and use it as their
main address in eastern California.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Sure. I mean, look, we've had seven or eighty nine
companies leave California and go to other states. You know,
imagine if those companies could just go right across the
border into East California, set up shop there, much better
business climate, and we'd keep those jobs and we would
ensure that we have you know, strong economy here. In
our state, right, I mean, I think everybody knows that. Man,
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California is a great place. You know, we have amazing
you know climate here, we have amazing weather, we have
amazing resources. The problem is the government. I mean, the
government is horrendous. You know what it does to So
this is a process you know that you know can
be done. It's outlined under the US Constitution, and so
you know, I'm just opening the door. And if there
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are locals and jurisdictions that want to be part of this,
I think now is the time to do it. I mean,
how long we're going to wait? We're going to wait
for them to come cleanly strip us of representation our
state legislatures? Well are we going to?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I see this is a real inflection This is a
real inflection point that they've stripped away your congressional representation
in Washington, d C. This isn't about representation here in California.
It's like, I think everybody in these eastern counties has
the right to pick their own congress person from any
party they wish and not have it dictated by Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Absolutely, And look, I know this is a heavy lift.
You know, it's not something like, if I went in
tomorrow to push this bill in the legislature, it wouldn't
get anywhere. But if there's a groundswellow of support, you know,
from the ground up, from local jurisdictions up saying yeah,
you know what, we have had enough, we want something different.
I think that's the thing that could be a catalyst.
And you know, history has shown that that's actually what
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does it right. And to your point, what is more
fundamental to the American form of government than representation? No
taxation without representation was our battle cry that continues to
this day.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
That's what's so gregious about it. For all his prattling about,
you know, saving democracy, he took democracy away from millions
of people in the eastern half of California.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
He has dictated that you cannot select a congress person
unless it's from his party by by manipulating how the
lines are drawn on the districts that these were Republican
candidates can't win because of the way he drew the lides.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
And it gets even worse, you know, now withamyra we
have Mike Maguire, the former Senate pro Tem, who reportedly
drew a district for himself. You know, so that he
could run in Congress and represent my part of you know,
the North State. So we would end up having three
Bay Area persons representing the entire North State. Yeah, not clearly,
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those are They have no you know, real connection to
the area and cannot represent it in the way that
it deserves.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
The people in some rural areas. Could end up with
a congress person from Marin County, which may be the
most liberal county of the whole country.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Right, that's the other district, Marin to Modoc. Yeah, those
two places have nothing in common. Uh, you know. And
and again, this whole thing was done exactly that to
empower the party over the people, you know, empower politicians,
you know, over communities of interests.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
It's really abusive. I mean it's absolutely abusive.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Now.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I mean a lot of people really really upset about
what's happened.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Oh yeah, I mean up north. I mean there's you know,
people very frustrated. They all voted against it. I mean
you can see. I mean I think when this, when
this final map comes out of how people voted, it'll
be very similar. It'll be Inland, California who said no,
we don't want this, and it'll be the coast who
said yes, but they have all the votes. You know,
they have all the power, and they don't listen to
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us because they don't have to.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
They don't have right.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
They can continue taken control all aspects you know, of
this government, even though it damages us the most.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Well, we'll keep on this story and you let us
know if there's any developments, because you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah, thanks for folks down there. You know, hey, this
is a good thing to get engaged on and get
your locals to support it, all right.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
James Gallagher, he's a statis sembleman represents some areas north
of Sacramento in northern California. Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to talk with
poly Powers. Poly Powers is with a neighborhood group in
Chevy At Hills and two parts of the story. Part
one is Chevy Hills is beautiful residential neighborhood in the
west side of LA and they are renovating a building.
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So that's seventy mental patients and drug addicts can live
in the neighborhood and predictably, and and and rightfully, everybody
is very upset with this. Secondly, the reason this shelter
exists is because of some serious corruption. This building is
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part of that federal investigation that's been done that found
that the people behind financing this construction or this renovation
got their money from the state and the county and
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spent a lot of the money on nonsense. That basically
they're being charged with stealing the money and not using
it for the homeless. So we'll tell you about that.
Here's an overview of the story from Matt Seardoff from
Fox eleven.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Controversial building in Chevy Hills tied to a federal investigation
now on track to become a new homeless shelter.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
I believe that it should be stopped at least during
the federal investigation.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Last month, federal agents arrested real estate executive Stephen Taylor ECK,
used of bank fraud, identity theft, and money wandering. Investigators
say Taylor used fake bank records and bogus lines of
credit to bob what was then a senior living facility for.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Eleven million dollars. About a week later.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Taylor then sold it to the Wineguard center for twenty
seven million dollars of stunning sixteen million dollar profit.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Where is that money? Where is the sixteen million dollars
in profit that was intended to be used for homeless
housing and it seems to have been diverted.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Despite the arrest, renovations continue inside the building in Wineguard's
plans to house more than seventy homeless people.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
We feel like we've been completely left in the dark
about this entire situation.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
Neighbors, frustrated, describe the area as quiet, with lots of
families just blocks from Palms Elementary School.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
A lot of the things that we hold really dear
in this neighborhood that we've worked so hard.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
For to create community, it looks just very.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Unshaky right now.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Responding to our messages, We've been calling for meetings, and
we just feel that as a neighborhood, we're being ignored.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
A spokesperson for LACIT council member Katie Orislavsky, says they're
outraged by the fraud allegations out in Los Angeles. Face
is an urgent need for safe, well managed housing for
unhoused older adults. The council member remains focused on ensuring
the Shelby site is operated responsibly.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
There's billions of dollars on accounted for. Local and state
officials cannot give us answers.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
A federal task force continues investigating across California for fraud
in misuse of homeless funds.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
We're in a family filled residential neighborhood. There are plenty
of more appropriate sites.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
The mayor's office tells me tonight that housing is very
important in this part of LA But looking at the property,
it seems like construction is almost complete.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
No word on when this will open. So this is
a scam on top of a scam. If you're following
this in real estate Executive Stephen Taylor is being accused
by the federal government of bank fraud, identity theft, and
money laundering. He used fake bank records and fake lines
of credit to purchase the property for eleven million dollars,
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then sold it to something called the Wineguard Center ten
days later for twenty seven million. So he bought it
for eleven million with using all kinds of frauds and
then sold it for twenty seven million, making sixteen million dollars.
Nobody knows where that money is. And now instead of
a senior home living center. You are going to have
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a mental patient drug addicts center. And the people in
Chevy At Hills who are represented by one of the worst,
one of the worst city council people, Katie Roslovsky. Boy
is she a piece of work? Doesn't care, doesn't care
what's going to happen to the neighborhood. And this is
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near a school on top of it. And of course
Karen Bass is in support of this nonsense. And so
we spend millions and millions, and the homeless get all
the goodies here, and you, the taxpayer, get screwed because
you vote for a more on like Karen Bass, and
you vote for a more on like Katie Arslovsky. We're
going to talk to poll powers next. Now here's an
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Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Now, I told you there's
a whole lot of investigations going on, and I don't
even even know if I've time to go through them
all right now, But let me start. First of all,
we officially in Los Angeles have a new fire chief,
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HEIMI Moore. He was confirmed by the LA City Council,
and the first thing that he has to deal with is, well,
why did the firefighters abandon the hotspot after the January
first blaze? Why did the battalion chief, Mariol Garcia order
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them to roll up the hoses and go when you
still had the hot rocks, The tree stumps were smoldering,
the ground was smoking. Nothing's been explained. Why did he
do that? Was because they did want to pay the overtime?
I was smart. I was a good investment. And then secondly,
(01:08):
there was another battalion chief who got word of this
and didn't didn't tell anybody, or if he told somebody,
then the third and the fourth person they all agreed
to cover up the news. We didn't find this out
until the past week. How many people in the LA
Fire department knew that the firefighters were told to go
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home and not attend to the hotspot after the January
first fire. Well, so he answered that question, Well, excuse me,
transparency and accountability are vital to ensure that we learned
from every incident. Oh, shut up, stop with your transparency
(01:51):
and accountability. He knows the story. Yeah, he's calling for
an outside investigation. We don't need an outside investigation. You know,
after the fire happened, everybody had these questions and they said, well,
wait till the after action report. Right, how many times
did best say wait till the after action report. The
(02:12):
after action report had nothing in about the hotspot being abandoned.
The after action report was worthless. It was a dodge.
It was part of the cover up because it gave
a talking point to the interim fire chief, Vian Aueva,
and it also gave a talking point to Bass to
just keep dodging and hiding and bobbing and weaving. There
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was no after action report that was of any use.
So now we found out the truth through lea leaked
text messages to the LA Times. Now I are going
to have to have an outside investigation, you know, iimmore
not g it off. Already, you've only been serving for
a few hours and already you're spewing this nonsense. You
(02:58):
know what happened. You don't need an investigation. Why don't
you get Mario Garcia? Drag him, I don't know, drag
him somewhere. How about let's have another committee hearing with
the two Republican senators. Let's go to Rick Scott and
Ron Johnson. I bet you they'd fly back to California
and have Mario Garcia sitting there explaining why as battalion
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chief he told all the guys to go home and
not put out the hotspot? Why? And then find whoever
else knew about it, the other battalion chief, and find
out why he didn't make that public. You don't need
another investigation. These investigations are nonsense. They're garbage. Oh and
spare me the transparency and accountability routine. Nobody's buying it anymore. Okay,
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I mean, really, you're running the fire department for like
three hours, and already you're shuggling the same poop that
the last two did. LA County is opening an investigation
into state farms handling of wildfire claims. Great, that's after
ten months. They want all they want all his data
(04:09):
in these documents to see if the unfair competition law
has been violated. And this could be penalties twenty five
hundred dollars per day per violation. I don't know. I
know plenty of people just in my own circle of
friends and acquaintances who've been screwed over by the insurance
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companies that are not getting paid or not getting paid
on time, or not getting paid enough. And they're going
after State Farm. And let's see, the leader of this
investigation is County Council Assistant County Council Scott Ken. We
want State Farm to take care of its customers as
soon as possible. Time is of the essence. Fat chance,
(04:50):
If time is of the essence, where have you been
the last ten months? Here's another investigation. You know, David Carter,
who's the district judge who's been investigating the massive Karen
Bass homeless fraud story. Well, South La Shelter report has
to report to the court how many beds they have
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because Bass is supposed to provide a certain number of beds.
This homeless provider has a two point three million dollar contract.
Two point three million dollars of your money. Urban Alchemy
Safe Sleep Village got that two point three million supposed
to provide eighty eight beds, but the judge sent somebody
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over to count the beds. There's not eighty eight, there's
forty four. The other forty four were bear platforms. In fact,
the shelter itself is just grave tents on wooden platforms
over two parking lots. Half of them have no beds
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or whatever the hell they're sleeping on. Judge Carter, during
a court hearing this week, said he sends fraud you
think so nothing gets by him, and then he criticized
the city for their lack of curiosity. Is the city's
position when we find obvious fraud and the documents don't
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match that, you don't report this to the court. Urban Alchemy,
he says, they took the tents away after being told
budget cuts were coming. The city administrative officer for Karen
Bass Matt Zabel, did not respond to an email asking
(06:44):
for an x explanation. Well, here's the explanation. They lied.
They lied to the judge. They said, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
we got two million, and by the way, shouldn't two
million dollars dollars cover eighty eight beds and tents. What
are these all made of silk? This is crazy. Even
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after they get investigated, even after they have a judge
who's appointed a special master to actually go over to
the homeless shelter site and count the beds, count the tents,
see if there's anything inside the tents, they still pull
the fraud. The money still disappears. Karen Bass and all
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the fraudulent bureaucrats who work under here cannot be stopped.
The money disappears, the nonprofits get their millions of dollars,
and the tents are empty. Here's just a platform inside,
no bent, no bed, Rather one more quick investigation. Eric
(07:54):
Slowell Democrat in California. He was one of the leaders
of the impeachment against Trump. He's been hit with a
federal criminal referral for mortgage and tax fraud for a
home he bought in Washington, d c. That he claimed
was his primary residence. It's not you remember this guy.
This guy was sleeping with a Chinese. A Chinese spy
(08:16):
called Fang Fang. Feng Fang, also known as Christine Feng,
was a Chinese spy. She came as a college student
and spent four years wooing and sleeping with state and
federal lawmakers, trying to get sensitive government intelligence and sending
it back to China. And one of the people she
targeted because he was on the House Intelligence Committee was
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Eric Swalwell. And he's still serving in Congress and now
they're investigating him for mortgage fraud? Was it five investigations?
In five investigations? There less than ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from a six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. You
could follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media
at John Cobelt Radio. We're also going to have James
Gallagher of the assembly Men on to talk about how
Eastern California wants to separate permanently divorce from Coastal California
now that Gavin Newsom has stripped away their longtime congressmen
and women. We'll discuss that with James Gallagher coming up.
(09:25):
But first I'm on to want you to hear a
friend of mine, Michelle Shane. Michelle tragically lost his daughter
Emily back in twenty ten. A murderous maniac driver ran
or over on pch and he's been working tirelessly to
try to civilize PCH, and he's got this concept that
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Sunday is to commemorate the Empty Chair Club, people who
have been killed or seriously injured in traffic accidents. You
have the empty chair designating the place that they used
to they used to occupy in the home and in
the family. And I also want to talk about this
(10:12):
controversy over roundabouts on PCH because it looked like they
were coming. Now maybe not. Let's get Michelle Shane on. Michelle,
how are you good?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
How are you John? Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I'm good. First, let's talk about the empty Chair Club
in this comm camera commemoration coming up on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Yeah. So on Sunday at Caltrans Plaza in downtown La
twelve to four, we're doing commemoration. We gut installation seven
hundred and ten empty chairs that represent all the people
that died in La County last year. And what happened
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is I came up with this idea about a year
ago when I was at an event with people who
had experienced loss from traffic fatalities, and it just hit
me that I'll never forget the first time my wife
set the table when Emily had was gone and she
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set the fifth seat and then realized that there was
no more fifth seat, and that was like a knife
in the heart. And to me, we're trying to scare
everyone straight with showing horrible things happening with car accidents
and whatnot, to try to get people to do the
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right thing. And I think this is more powerful an
empty chair sitting where someone used to be, and it's
the hardest seat to fill is one left empty. So
don't join the empty chair club, the only club nobody
wants to get into.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And so again, what's the day in time for the remembrance.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Sunday twelve to noon. The a whole bunch of dignitaries
and we have art exhibit and some booths and whatnot.
It'll be a very interesting time and victims will come
and talk about their experience and how they're trying to
figure out how they'll continue to move on with it.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Now, your daughter was killed on PCH and this week
you sent an email out we have almost like a newsletter.
The Malvern Planning Commission had voted to approve a fifty
five million dollar safety project on PCH. It was going
to be roundabouts to try to slow traffic down. That's
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the Malver Planning Commission, and then the Malibu City Council
may block it. Can you explain this?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
So the fifty five million dollar expenditure, which has been
in the works for about seven years, is separate from
what they're doing with the roundabouts. The roundabouts is two
million dollar test project and that hasn't gone to any
commissions yet as far as I know. What's happened is
(13:09):
there's going to be two repaving projects, the McClure Tunnel
to I believe John Tyler and then John Tyler all
the way to Venturea, and they're going to resurface PCH
and while the resurfing PCH will put in bike lades, guardrails,
black sky compliant lighting so that it makes PCH safer.
(13:34):
And people have gone up in arms because they think
that we're changing the perception and of who we are.
And my argument is we were never That was a fantasy.
We were never those people.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
What is it? Wait a second, how is making the
road safer and resurfacing and putting in these safety applications,
how does that change who the people in Malibu are? Right?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Well, sidewalks in a rural community. Oh goodness, street lights
in a rural Oh, street.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Lights and they don't want street lights.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Ludicrous. Fifteen years I've been watching people die on PCH
and they're saying to me, the Malibour Township Council, they're saying, oh,
this is going to change the face of Malibo. We
should stick keep the way we are.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
No sidewalks, no street lights on PCH. Yeah, I mean,
as John, that's insanity. They know what happens. And you
just had those four Pepperdine girls get killed two years ago.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Exactly as argument as well, this wouldn't have saved them. Well,
guess what. Fifteen years I've waited for them to spend
money on PCH. They're finally going to do it, and
now people are up in arms because they don't believe
it's their vision of PCH. It's the nuthouse is out.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
That can't be most of the people in Malibu. Is
this like no activists? Right, A small percentage who are
really noisy.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
That's exactly correct. It's the minority pushing the majority.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Oh that that is absolutely crazy.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
So uh wait you to see my article this week.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, so people should call cow up in arms you
should be. So people should call the city council members.
The quiet people should call and tell them to not
yea and.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Show off and show up on the twenty fourth. That's
city council. I've made to do the right thing.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well, I hear crazy stuff every day, but that that's
really nuts. All right, Michelle got to do the news.
Thank you for coming on again.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Thanks and letanks a lot.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Let me know what happens, all right, we come back
James Gallagher. The people in the eastern counties of California,
a lot of counties lightly populated, and Gavin Upitt Newsom's
plan is to rip away their federal reper presentation. They
can't choose their congress person anymore. They have to be
represented by Gavin Newsom's selection. Gavin Newsom is deciding who
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represents these people in Congress, and if they're Republican, no go.
That's what Prop fifty really is all about. We'll talk
to James Gallagher, the assemblyman who has got an idea
about just splitting the state into two once and for all.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
We have the podcast that's going to be there after
four o'clock should listen. All right, let's get to the present.
We've got James Gallagher and the State Assembly, who was
with us yesterday. We were going to talk about California
splitting into two and then we ended up in a
conversation about the indictment of Newsom's chief of staff. Let's
get back though, to the idea he's got that California
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should be split into a coastal state and an inland state,
especially after Gavin Newsom has more or less stripped away
their congressional representation that they want. He's magdated basically that
you have to vote Democrat. You might even have to
accept a coastal Democrat by the new way they've drawn
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the districts, and no Republicans are going to be allowed.
Could be as few as four out of the fifty
two seats that California gets in Congress. So let's get
James Gallagher on. James, How are you, John good? How
are you doing two days in a row. You're red hot?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, man, I said, anytime they'll become on the show. Well,
and yeah, I mean, this is this is what we're
faced with. I mean, in the aftermath, you know this proposition.
You know, many of us have been stripped of our
even ability to elect a representative of our choice, you know,
in our region, in our in our place. And the
other thing that I've seen, you know, in my time
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in the legislature, is that it's not just us folks
that I represent in Northern California. It's folks in the
Central Valley. It's folks in the Inland Empire who really
feel completely overlooked and ignored, you know, by the California
government and policy after policy keeps getting passed that impacts
them the most, you know, takes their tax dollars, impacts
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them of the highest taxes, regulations, and there's a very
strong frustration has been for a long time. And so
you know, that's why I've introduced this measure, you know,
in the aftermath of stripping our representation that hey, we
would like to pursue and look into statehood.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Your idea would let's go from south to north, which
started the Mexican border with Imperial County, and then Riverside
and San Bernardino would be included in the new state.
And we have a lot of listeners in those counties,
Kern County as well, and you keep going north all
the way up to the Oregon border. We're coastal California
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would literally be the string of counties that are right
up against the Pacific Ocean. That's where most of the
population is, you know, from San Diego through Orange County,
Los Angeles, Santa barber all the way up to all
the way up to San Francisco and then into northern California.
So it would be almost a straight line from north
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to south. And now there's not as much population in
eastern California, but I mean, would you be able to
because there's less population, less income, would you be able
to sustain yourself?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
You know?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I mean I think one thing people forget is like,
even though it would be you know, a fraction of California,
that's still a state of over ten million people strong.
You know, that includes many different industries and manufacturing and industry, farming, timber,
very resource heavy, you know, and industrious people who want
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to live free. And I'll tell you you know, we
actually would have a lot of revenue. And the other
part of that is we would have a limited government.
You know, that isn't spending you know, for example, billions
of dollars on healthcare for illegal immigrants. Right, it would
be something that's focused on taking care of the basics
of government, the fundamentals, roads, infrastructure, public safety, and I
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think absolutely it would be sustainable. It actually would be
one of the tenth largest state in the nation, you know,
if it were to come into being. So you know,
what we're talking about here is not like some small,
you know, you know, non economic powerhouse. It's actually, you know,
there's a lot here that could be a very strong
state in the United States.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
So well, that would be fascinating to see a play out.
How many businesses would relocate from coastal California to inland
California because the tax structure, structure will be far more
favorable to them. And how many wealthy people are suddenly
going to buy a place and use it as their
main address in eastern California.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Sure. I mean, look, we've had seven or eighty nine
companies leave California and go to other states. You know,
imagine if those companies could just go right across the
border into East California, set up shop there, much better
business climate, and we'd keep those jobs and we would
ensure that we have you know, strong economy here. In
our state, right, I mean, I think everybody knows that. Man,
(21:28):
California is a great place. You know, we have amazing
you know climate here, we have amazing weather, we have
amazing resources. The problem is the government. I mean, the
government is horrendous. You know what it does to So
this is a process you know that you know can
be done. It's outlined under the US Constitution, and so
you know, I'm just opening the door. And if there
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are locals and jurisdictions that want to be part of this,
I think now is the time to do it. I mean,
how long we're going to wait? We're going to wait
for them to come cleanly strip us of representation our
state legislatures? Well are we going to?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I see this is a real inflection This is a
real inflection point that they've stripped away your congressional representation
in Washington, d C. This isn't about representation here in California.
It's like, I think everybody in these eastern counties has
the right to pick their own congress person from any
party they wish and not have it dictated by Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Absolutely, And look, I know this is a heavy lift.
You know, it's not something like, if I went in
tomorrow to push this bill in the legislature, it wouldn't
get anywhere. But if there's a groundswellow of support, you know,
from the ground up, from local jurisdictions up saying yeah,
you know what, we have had enough, we want something different.
I think that's the thing that could be a catalyst.
And you know, history has shown that that's actually what
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does it right. And to your point, what is more
fundamental to the American form of government than representation? No
taxation without representation was our battle cry that continues to
this day.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
That's what's so gregious about it. For all his prattling about,
you know, saving democracy, he took democracy away from millions
of people in the eastern half of California.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
He has dictated that you cannot select a congress person
unless it's from his party by by manipulating how the
lines are drawn on the districts that these were Republican
candidates can't win because of the way he drew the lides.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
And it gets even worse, you know, now withamyra we
have Mike Maguire, the former Senate pro Tem, who reportedly
drew a district for himself. You know, so that he
could run in Congress and represent my part of you know,
the North State. So we would end up having three
Bay Area persons representing the entire North State. Yeah, not clearly,
(23:54):
those are They have no you know, real connection to
the area and cannot represent it in the way that
it deserves.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
The people in some rural areas. Could end up with
a congress person from Marin County, which may be the
most liberal county of the whole country.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Right, that's the other district, Marin to Modoc. Yeah, those
two places have nothing in common. Uh, you know. And
and again, this whole thing was done exactly that to
empower the party over the people, you know, empower politicians,
you know, over communities of interests.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
It's really abusive. I mean it's absolutely abusive.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Now.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I mean a lot of people really really upset about
what's happened.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Oh yeah, I mean up north. I mean there's you know,
people very frustrated. They all voted against it. I mean
you can see. I mean I think when this, when
this final map comes out of how people voted, it'll
be very similar. It'll be Inland, California who said no,
we don't want this, and it'll be the coast who
said yes, but they have all the votes. You know,
they have all the power, and they don't listen to
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us because they don't have to.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
They don't have right.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
They can continue taken control all aspects you know, of
this government, even though it damages us the most.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Well, we'll keep on this story and you let us
know if there's any developments, because you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah, thanks for folks down there. You know, hey, this
is a good thing to get engaged on and get
your locals to support it, all right.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
James Gallagher, he's a statis sembleman represents some areas north
of Sacramento in northern California. Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to talk with
poly Powers. Poly Powers is with a neighborhood group in
Chevy At Hills and two parts of the story. Part
one is Chevy Hills is beautiful residential neighborhood in the
west side of LA and they are renovating a building.
(25:57):
So that's seventy mental patients and drug addicts can live
in the neighborhood and predictably, and and and rightfully, everybody
is very upset with this. Secondly, the reason this shelter
exists is because of some serious corruption. This building is
(26:19):
part of that federal investigation that's been done that found
that the people behind financing this construction or this renovation
got their money from the state and the county and
(26:39):
spent a lot of the money on nonsense. That basically
they're being charged with stealing the money and not using
it for the homeless. So we'll tell you about that.
Here's an overview of the story from Matt Seardoff from
Fox eleven.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Controversial building in Chevy Hills tied to a federal investigation
now on track to become a new homeless shelter.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
I believe that it should be stopped at least during
the federal investigation.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Last month, federal agents arrested real estate executive Stephen Taylor ECK,
used of bank fraud, identity theft, and money wandering. Investigators
say Taylor used fake bank records and bogus lines of
credit to bob what was then a senior living facility for.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Eleven million dollars. About a week later.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Taylor then sold it to the Wineguard center for twenty
seven million dollars of stunning sixteen million dollar profit.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Where is that money? Where is the sixteen million dollars
in profit that was intended to be used for homeless
housing and it seems to have been diverted.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Despite the arrest, renovations continue inside the building in Wineguard's
plans to house more than seventy homeless people.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
We feel like we've been completely left in the dark
about this entire situation.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
Neighbors, frustrated, describe the area as quiet, with lots of
families just blocks from Palms Elementary School.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
A lot of the things that we hold really dear
in this neighborhood that we've worked so hard.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
For to create community, it looks just very.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Unshaky right now.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Responding to our messages, We've been calling for meetings, and
we just feel that as a neighborhood, we're being ignored.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
A spokesperson for LACIT council member Katie Orislavsky, says they're
outraged by the fraud allegations out in Los Angeles. Face
is an urgent need for safe, well managed housing for
unhoused older adults. The council member remains focused on ensuring
the Shelby site is operated responsibly.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
There's billions of dollars on accounted for. Local and state
officials cannot give us answers.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
A federal task force continues investigating across California for fraud
in misuse of homeless funds.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
We're in a family filled residential neighborhood. There are plenty
of more appropriate sites.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
The mayor's office tells me tonight that housing is very
important in this part of LA But looking at the property,
it seems like construction is almost complete.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
No word on when this will open. So this is
a scam on top of a scam. If you're following
this in real estate Executive Stephen Taylor is being accused
by the federal government of bank fraud, identity theft, and
money laundering. He used fake bank records and fake lines
of credit to purchase the property for eleven million dollars,
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then sold it to something called the Wineguard Center ten
days later for twenty seven million. So he bought it
for eleven million with using all kinds of frauds and
then sold it for twenty seven million, making sixteen million dollars.
Nobody knows where that money is. And now instead of
a senior home living center. You are going to have
(29:31):
a mental patient drug addicts center. And the people in
Chevy At Hills who are represented by one of the worst,
one of the worst city council people, Katie Roslovsky. Boy
is she a piece of work? Doesn't care, doesn't care
what's going to happen to the neighborhood. And this is
(29:52):
near a school on top of it. And of course
Karen Bass is in support of this nonsense. And so
we spend millions and millions, and the homeless get all
the goodies here, and you, the taxpayer, get screwed because
you vote for a more on like Karen Bass, and
you vote for a more on like Katie Arslovsky. We're
going to talk to poll powers next. Now here's an
(30:13):
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