November 10, 2025 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (11/10) - Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about LAPD being over budget with the amount of hirings they want to make. More on the LAPD being over budget with the amount of hirings they want to make. Prop 50 could get tossed out by the US Supreme Court. Pres. Trump does not want fat foreigners immigrating to the United States. A homeless shelter is set to open in Cheviot Hill despite a federal investigation.
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the iHeart app. All right, you may have heard in
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Debra's newscast that it's kind of a really strange story
that broke over the weekend. The LAPD was given a
limit on how many officers that can hire and how
much money they can spend on those officers, and they
just went out and hired an extra, an extra one
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hundred and seventy officers that they don't have money for.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
How does this work? We go to Michael monks Well,
de immersed in the city hall nonsense.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
The answer, according to city Hall is uh, I don't know.
I don't know how you got a Hello, laped, I
don't know how you got to make this decision. Where's
the money coming from? Nobody knows. Nobody knows the answer.
This came up in last week's City Council Budget Committee meeting,
and the city administrator was presenting his first of what
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will be four quarterly presentations on this state of the
city's finances. You may recall John. Last spring, the city
revealed that it was facing a billion dollar budget deficit
and had to jump through a lot of hoops in
order to close that, including proposing a lot of layoffs,
including civilian positions at the LAPD. Everybody was going to
get hit. They managed to save everybody's jobs by moving
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money around and maybe moving some people from one department
to another, so nobody ended up losing their jobs. Yeah,
but it's going to come back up again next spring.
I have no doubt about that, because the financial outlook
may not be as dire as it was last year,
but still poor, and it's poor because of reasons like this.
The oversight LAPD in that budget had been authorized to
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hire two hundred and forty additional officers. Heard from that
department for years now, we need more, we got to
have more. We'd like to have ten thousand. They got
about eighty seven hundred right now, authorized to hire two
hundred and forty. Their plan, as revealed at this budget
committee meeting where they were asking for an unbudgeted three
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and a half million dollars was revealed to be that
we've we four hundred and ten.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
New officers before the end of this fiscal year. And
with these guys already hired, are they in training?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Some have already gone through the academy or at least
through the recruitment class and the plan as announced. Won't
you listen for yourself. Here's the exchange as this was
revealed at the budget committee.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
The budget assumed hiring two forty. We are the hiring
plan assume as we would hire four ten through the
end of the year.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
But that's not what was approved in the budget.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
That's correct.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
The budget assumed hiring two forty.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
So we know because we adopted it and it was
voted on by the council and signed by the mayor
that the twenty five to twenty six adopted budget authorized
two hundred and forty police officers with the potential of
hiring up to four hundred and eighty officers contingent upon
available funding. I'm wondering what funding sources have been identified
to support hiring the additional officers.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
That part is correct.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
We're giving you two hundred and forty officers, and then
Mayor Bass came out a little bit after that budget
was approved and said, we have reached an agreement with
city hall leadership, city council leadership to hire another two
hundred and forty for in a total of four hundred
and eighty. After the money is found, where do they
find this money? It's always a mystery.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Is it buried out in the desert somewhere? What we
find the money? Well, I mean, it's all in front
of you, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
But the money has not been identified, and the hiring
has gone over the two hundred and forty anyway, And
so in addition to this three and a half million dollars,
they're millions and millions over already this fiscal year in
their overtime budget because they don't have enough officers.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Exactly. It's a cycle thing.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
By not hiring officers, you end up spending more money
in overtime. Well, let me ask you something, and you
may not know the answers to this, but I'm trying
to like get a mental image in my head of this.
I don't know how you hire one hundred and seventy people.
Let's say you're in charge of police hiring, doesn't somebody
above you then get some paperwork saying, oh, look at this,
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there's one hundred and seventy new police officers here. Well,
then they go to somebody, who goes to somebody to
see who approved this, where the money is for this?
It seemed like everybody was surprised and the hiring already
happened to some extent.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
That questions valid. John.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
In fact, you might serve on the city council someday
because that question wasased by city council members Katie Garslovsky
you heard there in that last clip, and council member
Tim Mcoscars you can hear right here.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I think the simple question is what money is it?
And if it hasn't been identified, who are we firing
that is currently on payroll to cover this?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
And at what point are we going to be real
about what is happening? And at what point does the
chair of Personnel tell the director of the personnel department
to stop hiring new officers or start firing other people.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Here's the my officers not identified additional funds for that
purpose as of today, as of the report, the report
in front of you. Of course, it projects significant overspending
and still with identified solutions, a gap of eighty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Well, it's just the police department just getting the big
middle finger to the city council.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It was the police department moving forward apparently as if
this money would be found. When Mayor Bass put out
that announcement, oh, I say that there would be two
hundred and forty on top of the authorized two hundred
and forty. It was supposed to be within ninety days.
Those ninety days have long passed, and no ever came
out and said, hey, we found the money to hire
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these officers.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Nobody said we didn't find the money.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It just seems like the communication broke down and the
department went through and hired these officers.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
In there. There's so many layers of bureaucracy.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
There had to be a lot of people who would
have noticed or be interested in something like this.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
The mayor put out a statement that said the budget
has been delivered under extremely difficult conditions, uncertainty from Washington,
explosion of liability, playing bob blah blah. She says this
budget continues to aggressively combat the home You know, she
went on and on and on, but she says, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I want to thank the city council for coming together on.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
This deal related to the police hiring, as we work
together to make Los Angeles safer. Now, who's the city
council leadership that she referenced, will Mark Louise Harris Dawson,
the councilman is the council president, and he's a brilliant man,
and he says that there's still more work ahead, especially
our commitment to work with the mayor to identify funds
for an additional two hundred and forty recruits within ninety days.
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We will share further updates in the weeks ahead.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
That those updates.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
You you imagined, not that they would hire anybody here,
but if they just you hired fifty people who showed
up for work and they started working, and nobody in
all the management structure knew who hired them or how
we were going to pay for them. You would never
see this in a private company where you had hundreds
of extra employees just suddenly appear.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
It would basically be like iHeart management saying we are hiring.
We are hiring seven people next month if we find
savings or money elsewhere. We would also like to hire
seven more, but the Human Resources department hiring fourteen. Huh,
but without that additional money being found any workplace.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
So that's what has happened here.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And by the way, the financial condition of the city
is not good even right now. They are already at
this point projecting that the budget is eighty million dollars
overspent across all departments.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Ex testing what incredibly stupid government we have. Maybe they
should take some of the money from the homeless outreach
that goes for the homeless people who are setting dogs
on fire on the South Side. About that, all right, Michael,
Very good, Michael. It's good at explaining this nonsense that's
on your business card. Michael Monks explainer of nonsense.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
We'll do more.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
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Speaker 2 (08:24):
Just one more thing about Michael Monk's report. I don't
know if the police department just went rogue and decided
to help with this. We're going to hire as many
cops as we can because we're way short, because our
LPD force is way too low. Okay, because we got
we have our own communist running things, all right. Karen
Bass big defund the police woman and she tries to
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talk a good game, but she's lying to you. She
doesn't want to hire police. City council doesn't want to
hire police. They have eighty seven hundred and they're projected
to lose several hundred this year through retirements. We need
ten thousands under via Goosa. God, how many years ago
was that? Thirteen years ago we had ten thousand. We
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actually should have twelve thousand, especially with the Olympics coming,
so we're way way short. And it's because they spend
money on all the methaddicts and the mental patients who
are busy lighten up dogs in the street. That's why,
because that's apparently the priority. Give the money to useless
programs so that mental patients and drug addicts can set
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dogs on fire. Welcome to your Los Angeles government. And
to get police who who should be who should be
arresting these homeless guys and taking him to jail instead
of allowing him to foul up the neighborhoods and kill
your pets. The police are the ones who get cut.
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Just ridiculous. Now mentioned before Newsom is in Brazil well
rattling about climate change nonsense. Last how we played a
clip where he apparently the arsonists didn't start the fire
in the Palisades, it was climate change.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Okay, really, I've got now.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Newsom was in the news for Prop fifty and there
is a chance here this is not this is not
hype or anything, that Prop fifty is going to get
thrown out by the Supreme Court. I'll tell you how
that would work in a moment. But we have another
Newsome clip to play, and I don't want to forget
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to play this today. He went to Houston for some reason.
Why was he in Houston?
Speaker 8 (10:42):
He was.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I guess he went maybe over the redistricting, but did
he It was some victory speech for Prop fifty. Oh,
so he goes into Texas to show how brave he is. Yeah,
all right, well listen to this. That's went a little awry.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You may have seen this on election day in Los Angeles.
Speaker 9 (11:00):
Days after I'll say it, Los Angeles Dollarars won.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
The World Series.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
I know, by the way, forgive me, forgive me, hold on,
hold on, hold on, hold on, hold hold.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
On that is hold.
Speaker 9 (11:20):
Did you not listen to Al Green? I was a
former mayor of San Francisco. That's harder for me than
it is for you. Okay, please, all right, I don't
need to hear that, idiot.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I don't think there are a lot of Dodgers fans
in Houston. It didn't even occur to him, So that
you know what, he's going to get a lot of that.
There was a story in the La Times this week
that once he ventures outside of California, he's not going
to find that many fans because most of the country
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is thinks California is nuts. And wait, wait till he
gets smacked. He'll be smacked around like that three times
a day when he opens his mouth. Now, let me
tell you about this story here at californiaglobe dot com
Katie Grimes. And this is a real thing. The Supreme
Court is soon going to decide on a case out
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of Louisiana whether a lot of the voting districts that
have been drawn all over the country violate the Equal
Protection Clause because they took race into account when they
drew the lines. They wanted to create majority black districts,
for example. And it's very possible, in fact, it's considered
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likely that the Supreme Court could invalidate Section two of
the Voting Rights Act and require race neutral maps. There
was a whole craze going back to the Voting Rights
Act of nineteen sixty five, and it prohibits racial discrimination
in voting. But what happened over the years is they
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started creating districts that guaranteed certain racial representation. They created
majority black districts so that they would have black congress
people representing them. And under the equal Protection Clause, there's
supposed to be no such thing, because these civil rights
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laws are supposed to apply to all American citizens.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
It was supposed.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
To put blacks on an equal playing field, but they
weren't designed to kick everybody else off the playing field.
And so it's very possible that all these congressional districts
are going to be redrawn, including California, because they drew
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the new California lines to create certain racially protected districts
as well. So it would really be funny. After all
the fighting and all the money and all of his
pre preening and pontificating Courty and Katie Grimes, High Court
is ready to strike down Louisiana's twenty twenty four congressional
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map unconstituted racial Gerryman, unconstitutional racial gerrymandering a violation of
the Fourteenth Amendments Equal Protection clause. An elections law attorney
named Mark Muser is quoted as saying, the Supreme Court
could soon change how every congressional map in America is drawn,
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including California.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
That's the short version.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
It gets very detailed and long winded and complicated. But
that is something to look out for. That the two
hundred and fifty million dollars of tax money that Newsome
blew your tax money in order to put on the
special election will be completely flushed down the toilet if
the Supreme Court goes the way A lot of analysts
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think they're going to go very soon. All right, Uh,
we've got more coming up here. It's another case where
I have so much that I want to do that
I have. I don't know. I don't know exactly what
I want to do. I probably should be more organized
than this. You don't.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Oh, here's a story. We're going to do.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
What Trump is banning fat people from foreign countries. It's
not a joke.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Fat people will not be able to get us. I
think there's going to be a weight limit, or maybe
a body miss body mass index limit.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I don't know, but we'll get into that. We'll we
come back.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That's that's a real no, no more fat people in
the country. And and they have they have reasons for
this too, budgetary reasons.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Tell you about it. We'll come back.
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Speaker 11 (16:42):
Okay, okay, it's it's number one on my listener things
to follow.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
All right, now, it is true President Trump is now
going to be rejecting visas for fat people. If you're
a resident of a foreign country and you want to
immigrate here.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Uh, you need a visa to do that.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Uh if you're obese or you have obesity related health
health issues.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
So this is an insurance situation.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Uh, this is this is Yeah, they don't want fat
people coming from foreign countries and using our healthcare benefits.
This is to save the government money because fat people
cost a lot of money for insurance companies.
Speaker 11 (17:32):
So what do you consider what what can the Trump
administration consider fat? I mean, because that is everybody has
a different vision of what is too fat.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, I guess they're gonna go by you know when
you see it, Oh.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
When you see cobo.
Speaker 12 (17:56):
You think they're going to start putting scales in airports
for when people get off the port. Put it in
a customs and border patrol with the ear at las.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
That's a good idea. That's right.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Save the meeting because right now, because this actually went
out from the State Department, they sent out a directive
to embassies and consulates around the world because I guess
you go to apply for the visa at your local
consulate or embassy, and they were told that to reject
people if they have certain medical conditions because they're going
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to take up they're going to cost too much money,
and the cable read you must consider an applicant's health.
Certain medical conditions, including but not limited to, cardiovascular diseases,
respiratory diseases, cancers, diabetes, metabolic.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Diseases, neurological diseases.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Mental health conditions can require hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of care. Then it goes on to say knowably
obesity obesitly leads to asthma, sleep, app the in, high
blood pressure. All these can require expensive long term care
as well.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
So they're going to have to size people up, if
you will.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
When they approach the desk in all these.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Rejected, well, why you're too fat, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Just get one of those little bureaucratic stamper things. Too fat,
too fat, Yeah, no sense having a discussion about it.
Well it's true, I mean the medical industry has preached
this for decades that people who get fat have a
lot of health problems. You know, just you wear out
your system, your blood vessels get clogged.
Speaker 11 (19:41):
What if they sign a waiver and they say I
will not go and seek any help for any any
medical issues because I'm.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, I think, I think if you can prove that
you're financially capable of taking care of yourself, you might
be waved through.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
That. That that that's the thing. There.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
There's an old fashioned term which I had never heard before,
but apparently it's from maybe one hundred years ago, called
being a public charge. If if you end up on
welfare getting any kind of medical benefits because you're too poor,
you are now a public charge and the public has
to take care of you. And it's bad enough we
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have too many Americans in that state, But why in
hell would you take in literally millions of new people
who can't care for themselves and they can't pay for it.
I'm the only idiot who does that is Gavin Newsom.
And he's given illegal alien health care from cradle to grave.
And I said, well, why are we going to be
taking in all these all these obese people from foreign
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countries and giving them free healthcare? In California? It's like,
what are you or not you and I doing? We're
trying to live healthy, we're working for a living. We
got we got, you know, employer insurance or union insurance.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
What what are we?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
What are we doing with taking in poor people, and
then we and they've got all kinds of terrible problems
and terrible habits, right, eat too much, smoke too much,
doing drugs. I don't want to take care of these people,
So get out now. Now the New Republic where I
found this story. It's a left wing magazine, and the
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writer says, denying fat people, Uh, denying fat people from
entering the US because they might end up having health
issues is incredibly broad, cruel and unusual.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
We don't want to pay for you. Why?
Speaker 10 (21:33):
Why is that.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Cruel and unusual?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
You know, it's it's cruel that we don't pay for
everybody's health care in this country. And then it's cruel
that we don't pay for everybody's health care like all
over the world. Who ends up, you know, crossing the
the open border that we had for four years. There's
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an immigration lawyer named so theogenovies talk to the LA Times,
taking into consideration one's diabetic history or heart health history.
That's quite expansive. If this change is going to happen immediately,
it's going to cause a myriad of issues when people
go into their consular interviews. Yeah, because I guess the
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people doing the interviews that the consulates are going to
have to do the old eyeball test there, or maybe
you've got to bring in a physical and prove that
you don't have any one of these diseases.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Yeah, you know your sugar numbers.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Well, if you're very large, how do you disguise that.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I don't think you can. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I guess if you're a guy, you can claim your
treads and you're pregnant maybe.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
Or you can say you're training for the NFL. That's right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Now you may not have heard this, but Trump administration
made a deal with two pharmaceutical companies. He calls them
the fat shots. This is zempic and zep bound for example.
Those companies that make those two medications cut the price
from three to fifty a month to one to fifty
a month. And I think we talked about this the
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other day. For the first time ever, the rate of
obesity in this country is down from forty to thirty
seven percent. Yeah, and they think I'm still.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
On the lookout for long term problems.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I am too, because you know, that really changes the
way your body processes, you know, sugars through the pancurries.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
Once you start, I don't think you are supposed to
ever stop.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I know, I think it'll come back very quickly because
your old appetite is going to come back, it seems.
I have a number of friends on this, do you
I do. It seems it suppresses their appetite and they
don't even think of food anymore.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yeah, god, yeah, I mean that's nice.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
And it definitely works. I mean I got friends who've lost,
you know, forty pounds plus. Yeah, and they're just not
they're not food oriented anymore. And it's quite dramatic. And
then I mean there's some side effects. Apparently you can
have incredibly impossible constipation, and you also have to work
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out to keep your your muscles strong because your body
starts to waste away to some extent. You lose the
fat and then you start losing muscle. So you also
could get a zepic face, which.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I've seen people have.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
It's not good.
Speaker 11 (24:35):
No, they look like like a pop balloon. Yes, that's
a good description. Also, somebody who maybe is very.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Ill, Yeah, yeah, they they they for their health.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
They may no longer be as sick anymore or prone
to getting terribly sick because they've lost the eight. But
they sure look real sickly. Yes, and that's that that's tough.
But I you know what, eventually, I imagine all that
stuff will work work itself out. You just gotta you gotta,
you do have to work out. You got to keep
your your muscle structure up or you're just gonna end
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up looking very shriveled and weak. I don't know, makes
it would make me nervous to be.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
On one of those drugs.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah, I mean, I you know, there's no evidence that
it's harmful, but I have a hard time trusting medicine.
I just have a hard time taking medicine that's going
to have a dramatic effect on my because you only
have one pancreas, right right, you know you have two kidneys,
so you ruin one, you got the other.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You got two lungs. You know.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
They can do transplants for a lot of these organs,
even a heart. Right, you mess up your heart or
your liver, they can transplay a pancreas. Now there's no
second pancreas, and there's been very few successful transplants. So
that's that's why I'm nervous. But that's just my own
It's like you know my own neuroticism.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
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Speaker 2 (26:05):
Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to talk with
poly Powers. Polly 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 seventy mental patients and drug addicts can live
in the neighborhood, and predictably and rightfully, everybody is very
upset with this. Secondly, the reason this shelter exists is
because of some serious corruption. This building is part of
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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 spent a
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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 13 (27:23):
Controversial building in Chevy Hills tied to a federal investigation
now on track to become a new homeless shelter.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
I believe that it should be stopped at least during
the federal investigation.
Speaker 13 (27:34):
Last month, federal agents arrested real estate executive Stephen Taylor,
accused 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 eleven million dollars. About a week later, Taylor then
sold it to the Wineguard Center for twenty seven million
dollars of stunning sixteen million dollar profit.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
Where is that money? Where is the sixteen million dollars
in that was intended to be used for homeless housing
and it seems to have been diverted.
Speaker 13 (28:05):
Despite the arrest, renovations continue inside the building in Windeguard's
plans to house more than seventy homeless people.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
We feel like we've been completely left in the dark
about this entire situation.
Speaker 13 (28:16):
Neighbors frustrated to describe the area as quiet with lots
of families just blocks from Poems Elementary School.
Speaker 12 (28:22):
A lot of the things that we hold really dear
in this neighborhood that We've worked so hard for to
create community.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
It looks just very unshaky right now.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
No one is responding to our messages. We've been calling
for meetings, and we just feel that as a neighborhood,
we're being ignored.
Speaker 13 (28:37):
A spokesperson for Lacity council member Katie Orslavsky says they're
outraged by the fraud allegations outing 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 1 (28:54):
There's billions of dollars on accounted for.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
Local and state officials cannot give us an answers.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
A federal task force can.
Speaker 13 (29:00):
He he's investigating across California for fraud in misuse of
homeless funds.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
We're in a family filled, residential neighborhood. There are plenty
of more appropriate sites.
Speaker 13 (29:09):
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 1 (29:19):
No word on when this will open. So this is
a scam on top of a scam.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
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, then sold it to something called the
Wineguard Center ten days later for twenty seven million. So
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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 you are
to have a mental patient drug addicts center. And the
people in Chevy At Hills who are represented by one
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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 near a school on top of it, And
of course Karen Bass is in support of this nonsense.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
And so we spend.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Millions and billions 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 Katy Raslovsky. We're going to talk
to poll Powers next Deborah Mark live in the KFI
twenty four our newsroom.
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seven Moist eighty six or usual the talkback feature on
the iHeart app. All right, you may have heard in
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Debra's newscast that it's kind of a really strange story
that broke over the weekend. The LAPD was given a
limit on how many officers that can hire and how
much money they can spend on those officers, and they
just went out and hired an extra, an extra one
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hundred and seventy officers that they don't have money for.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
How does this work? We go to Michael monks Well,
de immersed in the city hall nonsense.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
The answer, according to city Hall is uh, I don't know.
I don't know how you got a Hello, laped, I
don't know how you got to make this decision. Where's
the money coming from? Nobody knows. Nobody knows the answer.
This came up in last week's City Council Budget Committee meeting,
and the city administrator was presenting his first of what
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will be four quarterly presentations on this state of the
city's finances. You may recall John. Last spring, the city
revealed that it was facing a billion dollar budget deficit
and had to jump through a lot of hoops in
order to close that, including proposing a lot of layoffs,
including civilian positions at the LAPD. Everybody was going to
get hit. They managed to save everybody's jobs by moving
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money around and maybe moving some people from one department
to another, so nobody ended up losing their jobs. Yeah,
but it's going to come back up again next spring.
I have no doubt about that, because the financial outlook
may not be as dire as it was last year,
but still poor, and it's poor because of reasons like this.
The oversight LAPD in that budget had been authorized to
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hire two hundred and forty additional officers. Heard from that
department for years now, we need more, we got to
have more. We'd like to have ten thousand. They got
about eighty seven hundred right now, authorized to hire two
hundred and forty. Their plan, as revealed at this budget
committee meeting where they were asking for an unbudgeted three
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and a half million dollars was revealed to be that
we've we four hundred and ten.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
New officers before the end of this fiscal year. And
with these guys already hired, are they in training?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Some have already gone through the academy or at least
through the recruitment class and the plan as announced. Won't
you listen for yourself. Here's the exchange as this was
revealed at the budget committee.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
The budget assumed hiring two forty. We are the hiring
plan assume as we would hire four ten through the
end of the year.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
But that's not what was approved in the budget.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
That's correct.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
The budget assumed hiring two forty.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
So we know because we adopted it and it was
voted on by the council and signed by the mayor
that the twenty five to twenty six adopted budget authorized
two hundred and forty police officers with the potential of
hiring up to four hundred and eighty officers contingent upon
available funding. I'm wondering what funding sources have been identified
to support hiring the additional officers.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
That part is correct.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
We're giving you two hundred and forty officers, and then
Mayor Bass came out a little bit after that budget
was approved and said, we have reached an agreement with
city hall leadership, city council leadership to hire another two
hundred and forty for in a total of four hundred
and eighty. After the money is found, where do they
find this money? It's always a mystery.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Is it buried out in the desert somewhere? What we
find the money? Well, I mean, it's all in front
of you, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
But the money has not been identified, and the hiring
has gone over the two hundred and forty anyway, And
so in addition to this three and a half million dollars,
they're millions and millions over already this fiscal year in
their overtime budget because they don't have enough officers.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Exactly. It's a cycle thing.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
By not hiring officers, you end up spending more money
in overtime. Well, let me ask you something, and you
may not know the answers to this, but I'm trying
to like get a mental image in my head of this.
I don't know how you hire one hundred and seventy people.
Let's say you're in charge of police hiring, doesn't somebody
above you then get some paperwork saying, oh, look at this,
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there's one hundred and seventy new police officers here. Well,
then they go to somebody, who goes to somebody to
see who approved this, where the money is for this?
It seemed like everybody was surprised and the hiring already
happened to some extent.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
That questions valid. John.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
In fact, you might serve on the city council someday
because that question wasased by city council members Katie Garslovsky
you heard there in that last clip, and council member
Tim Mcoscars you can hear right here.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I think the simple question is what money is it?
And if it hasn't been identified, who are we firing
that is currently on payroll to cover this?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
And at what point are we going to be real
about what is happening? And at what point does the
chair of Personnel tell the director of the personnel department
to stop hiring new officers or start firing other people.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Here's the my officers not identified additional funds for that
purpose as of today, as of the report, the report
in front of you. Of course, it projects significant overspending
and still with identified solutions, a gap of eighty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Well, it's just the police department just getting the big
middle finger to the city council.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It was the police department moving forward apparently as if
this money would be found. When Mayor Bass put out
that announcement, oh, I say that there would be two
hundred and forty on top of the authorized two hundred
and forty. It was supposed to be within ninety days.
Those ninety days have long passed, and no ever came
out and said, hey, we found the money to hire
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these officers.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Nobody said we didn't find the money.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It just seems like the communication broke down and the
department went through and hired these officers.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
In there. There's so many layers of bureaucracy.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
There had to be a lot of people who would
have noticed or be interested in something like this.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
The mayor put out a statement that said the budget
has been delivered under extremely difficult conditions, uncertainty from Washington,
explosion of liability, playing bob blah blah. She says this
budget continues to aggressively combat the home You know, she
went on and on and on, but she says, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I want to thank the city council for coming together on.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
This deal related to the police hiring, as we work
together to make Los Angeles safer. Now, who's the city
council leadership that she referenced, will Mark Louise Harris Dawson,
the councilman is the council president, and he's a brilliant man,
and he says that there's still more work ahead, especially
our commitment to work with the mayor to identify funds
for an additional two hundred and forty recruits within ninety days.
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We will share further updates in the weeks ahead.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
That those updates.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
You you imagined, not that they would hire anybody here,
but if they just you hired fifty people who showed
up for work and they started working, and nobody in
all the management structure knew who hired them or how
we were going to pay for them. You would never
see this in a private company where you had hundreds
of extra employees just suddenly appear.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
It would basically be like iHeart management saying we are hiring.
We are hiring seven people next month if we find
savings or money elsewhere. We would also like to hire
seven more, but the Human Resources department hiring fourteen. Huh,
but without that additional money being found any workplace.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
So that's what has happened here.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And by the way, the financial condition of the city
is not good even right now. They are already at
this point projecting that the budget is eighty million dollars
overspent across all departments.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Ex testing what incredibly stupid government we have. Maybe they
should take some of the money from the homeless outreach
that goes for the homeless people who are setting dogs
on fire on the South Side. About that, all right, Michael,
Very good, Michael. It's good at explaining this nonsense that's
on your business card. Michael Monks explainer of nonsense.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
We'll do more.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Just one more thing about Michael Monk's report. I don't
know if the police department just went rogue and decided
to help with this. We're going to hire as many
cops as we can because we're way short, because our
LPD force is way too low. Okay, because we got
we have our own communist running things, all right. Karen
Bass big defund the police woman and she tries to
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talk a good game, but she's lying to you. She
doesn't want to hire police. City council doesn't want to
hire police. They have eighty seven hundred and they're projected
to lose several hundred this year through retirements. We need
ten thousands under via Goosa. God, how many years ago
was that? Thirteen years ago we had ten thousand. We
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actually should have twelve thousand, especially with the Olympics coming,
so we're way way short. And it's because they spend
money on all the methaddicts and the mental patients who
are busy lighten up dogs in the street. That's why,
because that's apparently the priority. Give the money to useless
programs so that mental patients and drug addicts can set
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dogs on fire. Welcome to your Los Angeles government. And
to get police who who should be who should be
arresting these homeless guys and taking him to jail instead
of allowing him to foul up the neighborhoods and kill
your pets. The police are the ones who get cut.
(09:54):
Just ridiculous. Now mentioned before Newsom is in Brazil well
rattling about climate change nonsense. Last how we played a
clip where he apparently the arsonists didn't start the fire
in the Palisades, it was climate change.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Okay, really, I've got now.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Newsom was in the news for Prop fifty and there
is a chance here this is not this is not
hype or anything, that Prop fifty is going to get
thrown out by the Supreme Court. I'll tell you how
that would work in a moment. But we have another
Newsome clip to play, and I don't want to forget
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to play this today. He went to Houston for some reason.
Why was he in Houston?
Speaker 8 (10:42):
He was.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I guess he went maybe over the redistricting, but did
he It was some victory speech for Prop fifty. Oh,
so he goes into Texas to show how brave he is. Yeah,
all right, well listen to this. That's went a little awry.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You may have seen this on election day in Los Angeles.
Speaker 9 (11:00):
Days after I'll say it, Los Angeles Dollarars won.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
The World Series.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
I know, by the way, forgive me, forgive me, hold on,
hold on, hold on, hold on, hold hold.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
On that is hold.
Speaker 9 (11:20):
Did you not listen to Al Green? I was a
former mayor of San Francisco. That's harder for me than
it is for you. Okay, please, all right, I don't
need to hear that, idiot.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I don't think there are a lot of Dodgers fans
in Houston. It didn't even occur to him, So that
you know what, he's going to get a lot of that.
There was a story in the La Times this week
that once he ventures outside of California, he's not going
to find that many fans because most of the country
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is thinks California is nuts. And wait, wait till he
gets smacked. He'll be smacked around like that three times
a day when he opens his mouth. Now, let me
tell you about this story here at californiaglobe dot com
Katie Grimes. And this is a real thing. The Supreme
Court is soon going to decide on a case out
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of Louisiana whether a lot of the voting districts that
have been drawn all over the country violate the Equal
Protection Clause because they took race into account when they
drew the lines. They wanted to create majority black districts,
for example. And it's very possible, in fact, it's considered
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likely that the Supreme Court could invalidate Section two of
the Voting Rights Act and require race neutral maps. There
was a whole craze going back to the Voting Rights
Act of nineteen sixty five, and it prohibits racial discrimination
in voting. But what happened over the years is they
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started creating districts that guaranteed certain racial representation. They created
majority black districts so that they would have black congress
people representing them. And under the equal Protection Clause, there's
supposed to be no such thing, because these civil rights
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laws are supposed to apply to all American citizens.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
It was supposed.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
To put blacks on an equal playing field, but they
weren't designed to kick everybody else off the playing field.
And so it's very possible that all these congressional districts
are going to be redrawn, including California, because they drew
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the new California lines to create certain racially protected districts
as well. So it would really be funny. After all
the fighting and all the money and all of his
pre preening and pontificating Courty and Katie Grimes, High Court
is ready to strike down Louisiana's twenty twenty four congressional
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map unconstituted racial Gerryman, unconstitutional racial gerrymandering a violation of
the Fourteenth Amendments Equal Protection clause. An elections law attorney
named Mark Muser is quoted as saying, the Supreme Court
could soon change how every congressional map in America is drawn,
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including California.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
That's the short version.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
It gets very detailed and long winded and complicated. But
that is something to look out for. That the two
hundred and fifty million dollars of tax money that Newsome
blew your tax money in order to put on the
special election will be completely flushed down the toilet if
the Supreme Court goes the way A lot of analysts
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think they're going to go very soon. All right, Uh,
we've got more coming up here. It's another case where
I have so much that I want to do that
I have. I don't know. I don't know exactly what
I want to do. I probably should be more organized
than this. You don't.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Oh, here's a story. We're going to do.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
What Trump is banning fat people from foreign countries. It's
not a joke.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Fat people will not be able to get us. I
think there's going to be a weight limit, or maybe
a body miss body mass index limit.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I don't know, but we'll get into that. We'll we
come back.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That's that's a real no, no more fat people in
the country. And and they have they have reasons for
this too, budgetary reasons.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Tell you about it. We'll come back.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
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Speaker 2 (16:01):
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Speaker 11 (16:42):
Okay, okay, it's it's number one on my listener things
to follow.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
All right, now, it is true President Trump is now
going to be rejecting visas for fat people. If you're
a resident of a foreign country and you want to
immigrate here.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Uh, you need a visa to do that.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Uh if you're obese or you have obesity related health
health issues.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
So this is an insurance situation.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Uh, this is this is Yeah, they don't want fat
people coming from foreign countries and using our healthcare benefits.
This is to save the government money because fat people
cost a lot of money for insurance companies.
Speaker 11 (17:32):
So what do you consider what what can the Trump
administration consider fat? I mean, because that is everybody has
a different vision of what is too fat.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, I guess they're gonna go by you know when
you see it, Oh.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
When you see cobo.
Speaker 12 (17:56):
You think they're going to start putting scales in airports
for when people get off the port. Put it in
a customs and border patrol with the ear at las.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
That's a good idea. That's right.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Save the meeting because right now, because this actually went
out from the State Department, they sent out a directive
to embassies and consulates around the world because I guess
you go to apply for the visa at your local
consulate or embassy, and they were told that to reject
people if they have certain medical conditions because they're going
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to take up they're going to cost too much money,
and the cable read you must consider an applicant's health.
Certain medical conditions, including but not limited to, cardiovascular diseases,
respiratory diseases, cancers, diabetes, metabolic.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Diseases, neurological diseases.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Mental health conditions can require hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of care. Then it goes on to say knowably
obesity obesitly leads to asthma, sleep, app the in, high
blood pressure. All these can require expensive long term care
as well.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
So they're going to have to size people up, if
you will.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
When they approach the desk in all these.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Rejected, well, why you're too fat, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Just get one of those little bureaucratic stamper things. Too fat,
too fat, Yeah, no sense having a discussion about it.
Well it's true, I mean the medical industry has preached
this for decades that people who get fat have a
lot of health problems. You know, just you wear out
your system, your blood vessels get clogged.
Speaker 11 (19:41):
What if they sign a waiver and they say I
will not go and seek any help for any any
medical issues because I'm.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, I think, I think if you can prove that
you're financially capable of taking care of yourself, you might
be waved through.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
That. That that that's the thing. There.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
There's an old fashioned term which I had never heard before,
but apparently it's from maybe one hundred years ago, called
being a public charge. If if you end up on
welfare getting any kind of medical benefits because you're too poor,
you are now a public charge and the public has
to take care of you. And it's bad enough we
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have too many Americans in that state, But why in
hell would you take in literally millions of new people
who can't care for themselves and they can't pay for it.
I'm the only idiot who does that is Gavin Newsom.
And he's given illegal alien health care from cradle to grave.
And I said, well, why are we going to be
taking in all these all these obese people from foreign
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countries and giving them free healthcare? In California? It's like,
what are you or not you and I doing? We're
trying to live healthy, we're working for a living. We
got we got, you know, employer insurance or union insurance.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
What what are we?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
What are we doing with taking in poor people, and
then we and they've got all kinds of terrible problems
and terrible habits, right, eat too much, smoke too much,
doing drugs. I don't want to take care of these people,
So get out now. Now the New Republic where I
found this story. It's a left wing magazine, and the
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writer says, denying fat people, Uh, denying fat people from
entering the US because they might end up having health
issues is incredibly broad, cruel and unusual.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
We don't want to pay for you. Why?
Speaker 10 (21:33):
Why is that.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Cruel and unusual?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
You know, it's it's cruel that we don't pay for
everybody's health care in this country. And then it's cruel
that we don't pay for everybody's health care like all
over the world. Who ends up, you know, crossing the
the open border that we had for four years. There's
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an immigration lawyer named so theogenovies talk to the LA Times,
taking into consideration one's diabetic history or heart health history.
That's quite expansive. If this change is going to happen immediately,
it's going to cause a myriad of issues when people
go into their consular interviews. Yeah, because I guess the
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people doing the interviews that the consulates are going to
have to do the old eyeball test there, or maybe
you've got to bring in a physical and prove that
you don't have any one of these diseases.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Yeah, you know your sugar numbers.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Well, if you're very large, how do you disguise that.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I don't think you can. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I guess if you're a guy, you can claim your
treads and you're pregnant maybe.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
Or you can say you're training for the NFL. That's right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Now you may not have heard this, but Trump administration
made a deal with two pharmaceutical companies. He calls them
the fat shots. This is zempic and zep bound for example.
Those companies that make those two medications cut the price
from three to fifty a month to one to fifty
a month. And I think we talked about this the
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other day. For the first time ever, the rate of
obesity in this country is down from forty to thirty
seven percent. Yeah, and they think I'm still.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
On the lookout for long term problems.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I am too, because you know, that really changes the
way your body processes, you know, sugars through the pancurries.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
Once you start, I don't think you are supposed to
ever stop.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I know, I think it'll come back very quickly because
your old appetite is going to come back, it seems.
I have a number of friends on this, do you
I do. It seems it suppresses their appetite and they
don't even think of food anymore.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yeah, god, yeah, I mean that's nice.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
And it definitely works. I mean I got friends who've lost,
you know, forty pounds plus. Yeah, and they're just not
they're not food oriented anymore. And it's quite dramatic. And
then I mean there's some side effects. Apparently you can
have incredibly impossible constipation, and you also have to work
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out to keep your your muscles strong because your body
starts to waste away to some extent. You lose the
fat and then you start losing muscle. So you also
could get a zepic face, which.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I've seen people have.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
It's not good.
Speaker 11 (24:35):
No, they look like like a pop balloon. Yes, that's
a good description. Also, somebody who maybe is very.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Ill, Yeah, yeah, they they they for their health.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
They may no longer be as sick anymore or prone
to getting terribly sick because they've lost the eight. But
they sure look real sickly. Yes, and that's that that's tough.
But I you know what, eventually, I imagine all that
stuff will work work itself out. You just gotta you gotta,
you do have to work out. You got to keep
your your muscle structure up or you're just gonna end
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up looking very shriveled and weak. I don't know, makes
it would make me nervous to be.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
On one of those drugs.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah, I mean, I you know, there's no evidence that
it's harmful, but I have a hard time trusting medicine.
I just have a hard time taking medicine that's going
to have a dramatic effect on my because you only
have one pancreas, right right, you know you have two kidneys,
so you ruin one, you got the other.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You got two lungs. You know.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
They can do transplants for a lot of these organs,
even a heart. Right, you mess up your heart or
your liver, they can transplay a pancreas. Now there's no
second pancreas, and there's been very few successful transplants. So
that's that's why I'm nervous. But that's just my own
It's like you know my own neuroticism.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
We're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to talk with
poly Powers. Polly 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
(26:28):
so that seventy mental patients and drug addicts can live
in the neighborhood, and predictably and rightfully, everybody is very
upset with this. Secondly, the reason this shelter exists is
because of some serious corruption. This building is part of
(26:49):
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 spent a
(27:09):
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 13 (27:23):
Controversial building in Chevy Hills tied to a federal investigation
now on track to become a new homeless shelter.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
I believe that it should be stopped at least during
the federal investigation.
Speaker 13 (27:34):
Last month, federal agents arrested real estate executive Stephen Taylor,
accused 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 eleven million dollars. About a week later, Taylor then
sold it to the Wineguard Center for twenty seven million
dollars of stunning sixteen million dollar profit.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
Where is that money? Where is the sixteen million dollars
in that was intended to be used for homeless housing
and it seems to have been diverted.
Speaker 13 (28:05):
Despite the arrest, renovations continue inside the building in Windeguard's
plans to house more than seventy homeless people.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
We feel like we've been completely left in the dark
about this entire situation.
Speaker 13 (28:16):
Neighbors frustrated to describe the area as quiet with lots
of families just blocks from Poems Elementary School.
Speaker 12 (28:22):
A lot of the things that we hold really dear
in this neighborhood that We've worked so hard for to
create community.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
It looks just very unshaky right now.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
No one is responding to our messages. We've been calling
for meetings, and we just feel that as a neighborhood,
we're being ignored.
Speaker 13 (28:37):
A spokesperson for Lacity council member Katie Orslavsky says they're
outraged by the fraud allegations outing 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 1 (28:54):
There's billions of dollars on accounted for.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
Local and state officials cannot give us an answers.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
A federal task force can.
Speaker 13 (29:00):
He he's investigating across California for fraud in misuse of
homeless funds.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
We're in a family filled, residential neighborhood. There are plenty
of more appropriate sites.
Speaker 13 (29:09):
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 1 (29:19):
No word on when this will open. So this is
a scam on top of a scam.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
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, then sold it to something called the
Wineguard Center ten days later for twenty seven million. So
(29:46):
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 you are
to have a mental patient drug addicts center. And the
people in Chevy At Hills who are represented by one
(30:08):
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 near a school on top of it, And
of course Karen Bass is in support of this nonsense.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
And so we spend.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Millions and billions 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 Katy Raslovsky. We're going to talk
to poll Powers next Deborah Mark live in the KFI
twenty four our newsroom.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Hey, you've been listening to The John Covelt Show podcast.
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