December 25, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (12/25) - Best Of The John Kobylt Show. John Alle comes on the show to talk about the MacArthur Park homeless problem. Mayor Bass has kicked off her campaign for re-election. $1 billion dollars of taxpayer funds were stolen in the state of Minnesota.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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iHeart app. All right, we're going to get John Alley
on again. John Ally a businessman who owns business properties
in Santa Monica and also in MacArthur Park in your
downtown Los Angeles, and let's talk to John.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Hi. John, good to be on.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, thanks, thanks for coming back on. We just played
some of the audio from the video you'd posted. Were
you an LAPD officer, were talking to this homeless couple
who were apparently flown from out of state by a
rehab facility. They were trafficked and there was a insurance
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company connected to this. Could you flesh out some of
the details here so people understand just what kind of
a racket is going on here and how the these
people are being trafficked and just left out in the
street at the end of it.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Exactly what's happening. We have reab clinics here with representatives
in three to four other states recruiting people to come
to La to their reab clinic here, whether it be
in Culver City, Fan Eyes, and a lot of them
still open two three, four months, maybe a year. Then
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they get shut down because they're found out their insurance.
They work with the insurance companies, their insurance cuts off
the funding for this after forty five to sixty days,
and they're actually driven to MacArthur Park. One was driven.
Most are driven to MacArthur Park or skid Row. One
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was driven to a Santa Monica park. And we're seeing
this all the time. If you see the words MacArthur
Park mayor and CD one council member and in the
last ten years, all it means is failure, drugs, cartels,
gangs and loss of income. In our view, Bass and
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the council member of District one, they're community organizers. They've
never run a business. They've spent twenty seven million to
revitalize the park and they treat the transparency as a burden.
They've done everything but more police presence. So we searched
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some emails and we've got hard copy contracts, and we
found out something very very unusual. Quietly, through its department,
the city's Department of Disability, they contracted with the Sidewalk Project.
That's a firm using our tax dollars a group small
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group to handout needles, meth pipes, and then unsus hernandez
of authorized on our own an additional one hundred and
sixty thousand dollars to expand it. So they're getting paid
eighty eight thousand a year on an non exclusive basis,
which means the city can hire additional nonprofits to do
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the same thing. And they're doing it. There's usc there's
UCLA Street Team, there's the people concern. The police officers
that are doing their jobs as sworn officers in the
park and the surrounding area don't like it. They describe
this group as nothing but negative and they have negative
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interactions with them, and they're handing.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Out The group is handing out needles and met pipes
in MacArthur Park.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
It's funded by the city. Much of this is funded
in other areas by the county. In MacArthur Park it's
funded by the city. And it's a case of ideology
crashing into a reality of crime and death. These people
are dying on the streets five to six a day.
It's awful and I found it very strange because when
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I last spoke after the fires. When I last spoke
to Mayor Bath at the beginning of February, end of January.
She I asked her if she would come out and
in opposition to and really forced out the drug dealers.
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We got rid of the drug dealers, We get rid
of a lot of the drug traffic and the drug use.
She said yes, She said she was totally against needle distribution.
I said, Mayor, can I quote you on that? She said, yes,
you can. Then we met again with the city the
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police chief, Jim o'd and her, and then I met
with Jim O'Donnell in his office and both of them said,
we're against the program. It's wrong, and we'll speak out
against it. They've been dead silent about it. So we
dug through the records in last July, so six months
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prior to this three conversations we had. We found out
that they institute this contract with interestingly, the Department of Disabilities,
so we try to Department of Disability would go unseen
and unheard of. It was approved in a batch of
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items by our La City council sadly, so they.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Buried it to hide it.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
And after Jim McDonald Jim O'Donnell and Karen Bask promised
you that they were going to stop this. No more needles,
no more math pipes. Best signed contracts. Really it's a
one year contract with four annual automatic extensions. It's a
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five year contract to hand out these needles and met pipes.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And with regular meetings. But there's no there's been no
meetings that we know of, and there's no definition of
what their success is. How do they define success?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Well, there can how there can't be success If you're
giving drug addicts needles and met pipes, it means they'll
take more drugs and then they're gonna die. There's no success.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It's not the insiders. One of the insiders at City
Hall are one of the staff people told us. That's
how this group got introduced to the city and two
unitsus Hernandez who pushed this hard. The mission statement, Sidewalk Project.
They're they're near skid Row, right in the midst of
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skid Row. Quote. They're honored to provide syringe access services.
They aim to empower homeless communities around the world.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, empower it's a it's a great yeah, right, you
know what it is. They're all making they're all making
a lot of money off off the taxes, off the taxpayers,
all of them, and all all all the silly wealthy
donors do. It's just a money making enterprise. And they
have a mission statement to provide them cover, provide them
a shield to emotionally manipulate people. There is no way
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handing out free needles and free meth pipes gets anyone
off drugs.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
It just means they're going to die quicker. It's impossible.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It's a total nonsense concept that people have bought into
because it sounded empathetic. It is not empathetic. It kills people,
and these people are murderers, these groups. This is organized
killing of these drug addicts and these mental patients. And
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what why is I'll let you talk to this second,
but I just got to get off this off my chest.
Best is she getting kickbacks on this? Is you, miss
Hernanda's getting kickbacks? Why would you promote something that clearly
kills people unless you were getting a cut.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Go ahead, I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Sorry, we agree, We agree, and the truth, the light
will shine on this. It's so much as occurred in
the last year, just by simple diligence. They go on,
they define, they have a separate category for sex workers
and survivors. They define. They say sex workers are marginalized
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people in the world. They're criminalized, they're vulnerable creditors. Sex
work is work, and we believe in decriminalization. And that's
who we got in MacArthur Park. So how can he
get better? That's the problem.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
If you legalize it, because decriminalization is a long word
for legalized. You legalize it in MacArthur Park, they're more
likely to die. Who's using the prostitutes criminals and gang
members and drug addicts in the neighborhood high likelihood. They're
killing a certain number of prostitutes every year. They don't care.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
They're inviting it. Yeah, it's that asout. They've got an
outpost in the park that is meant to serve a
thousand women and gender quote expansive participants.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Gender expansive.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
You can good luck on identifying that.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I don't know what that means. I don't want to know.
These are all fronts.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
These are money making fronts, and it's all nonsense ideology
so that people can make big profits on prostitutes and
then they die on drug addicts, and then they die
on the homeless people and then they die.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
There is no other outcome. They'll die eventually.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
We've contacted Andrew Green, who's the executive officer or the
office have beenfrastructure for the mayor. Over the weekend, I
again texted the mayor. I sent her an email asking
her what did you know about this? Did you know
about it? Maybe you didn't know about it that she
should have no response. We reached out to the Disabilities Commission,
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we reached out to Chris Lee from the City, Gina Lombardo,
Eli Everett.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Nothing.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
They wanted to go away, and they want this to continue.
It's their de facto shelter. So we're sick and tired
of getting milked every time we turn around. We can't
even report this on three to one one or nine
to one one or two to one one. So we
posted and we're working at actually with four other cities
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or we've just begun with the highest homeless populations centered
in their cities. We've set up hotlines. We've got a
hotline for LA so if you don't have time to
follow a police report or you see something like this,
I've tried to do it and it's a two hour wait,
and I've complained after I've waited one hour, and she
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said the dispatcher has said, hey, you're really lucky. The
wait is two hours. So we have a number. It
gives you an incident report, an insurance supplement text transcript,
and it's all by AI and it can't be changed later,
which is happening all the time. Before it gets to
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the DA's office. The reports are changed, things are taken out.
It won't happen this way. So we've developed this number
we've sent back with our group has set with the
help of LAPD, the sworn officers dedicated on the ground
putting up with this nonsense. We sent back in the
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last four or five months thirty people to over twenty
seven different states. And the requirement is they can't have
a court here in coming up, they can't have a
warrant for their arrest. They want to go home on
their own, and they have a family member at the
point of arrival to pick him up. And we've had
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one hundred percent success rate so far.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Hang on the line, Okay, we got to just do
some news. We'd write back with John Alley. He's a
business owner, activist Santa Monica and Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
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Speaker 2 (12:49):
A few more minutes with John Alli. He's the businessman
here in Los Angeles, in Santa Monica, just fighting all
the insane policies from these destructive politicians, especially when it
comes to homelessness and all the crime connected. John, can
I ask you just one more question about this this
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human trafficking issue where these drug rehab facilities are flying
in drug addicts from out of state and they'll stay
for a few weeks and insurance covers it, and then
they're kicked off into the street. How does this work
for the insurance companies because it's costing them money to
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pay for these out of state homeless people who suddenly
show up here.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I don't see the strut.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, well, the insurance companies have a separate either obligation
with the drug user and or and they work hand
in hand with the broker with from the nonprofit the
drug rehab, so they're in it. They know it's going on.
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There's no way that somebody that's a transient addict is
going to be healed and back to normal in six weeks.
It just doesn't happen. So they're fine to cover it,
but because they're going out of state, they pay less
insurance companies and it makes sense economically to send them. Okay,
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we're state boarders.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
So this is insurance that some of these out of
state people have, and the insurance companies are supposed to
cover it, but they come to California because it's going
to be cheaper for the insurance company.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And the duration of coverage is shorter if they go
out of state.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I see, So the insurance companies get to fulfill their
obligation for a cheaper price.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Exactly. I see. We've got the Olympics. We're concerned. Everybody
is concerned. They're approaching a couple of years. We have
seven to nine in trees around the world that have
not even set up or least host village homes. In LA.
The concern is crime and too much of it. Like
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you say, too much of homelessness is going unreported. Much
of it it's due to deaths, but it's being unreported.
The same with crime, it's being unreported. The governor just
turned down a proposal to revamp both nine one one
and the three to one one non emergency lines anyone
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like we discussed anyone who's called these numbers, no taking
wait a long long time. And every phone user here,
anyone holding a phone, is paying more than anyone else
in any other city in the country for nine one one.
So we believe the governor's answer, based on people we're
talking to a Sacramento will be another law passed or
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a ballot initiative raising the sales tax probably go to
twelve or set. And we've also heard discussion of a
property parcel tax to be levied on all California properties.
It's being discussed now in Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
They're going to take more money.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
You can't fix stupid, and you shouldn't try to save
it either. The system we're using can do it today.
It's so simple and it would relieve so much from
the infrastructure they did.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
They just it was the story last week as they blew.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Almost a half a billion dollars seven years working on
a new nine to one one system and it was
a bust.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
The whole thing didn't work. That's the state system.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Well, locally, it's it's awful. Whether you're calling for to
report a crime, a street light, a trash in the streets,
it's even a pothole it's it's it's pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
All right, all right, John, thank you for doing all
the work you do.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
If if there are a lot more people like you,
we wouldn't be in this in this BIX And I
don't know why people don't get involved the way you do.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
John Ally, thanks you.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
For anyone Sure, anyone that would like to learn more
about our work, just follow me on X. It's John
underscore underscore, Ali.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
All right, John Underscore Underscore Alli. A L L E
is how you all right?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
A L L E?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
All right, John Ally there, thanks for coming on when
we come back. Now, if you were here for the
whole half hour, you heard him talk about Karen Bass.
He is talked to Karen Bass repeatedly about not using
tax money to pay for these programs which which hand
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out free needles and free mech pipes, and Karen Bass agrees,
no freed needles, no, no meth pipes. And then Ali
discovers a contract that could run five years where the
city is handing out needles and meth pipes through this nonprofit. Well,
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I'm going to play you a report that Channel five's
Aaron Myers did. This may be the single worst local
report I have seen in My Life reporting live previewing
Karen Bass's re election campaign kickoff. I honestly, I I
hope you finish eating. This is the worst journalism I've
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ever heard. I say that frequently, but really, this isn't
the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Six forty after four o'clock. John Cobelt's show on demand
on the iHeart app. I've got to play you a
report by Channel five reporter Aaron Miles Myers. And you know,
we just had the businessman activist John Ally on and
he talked about how Karen Bass personally promised him that
she would not approve any contracts that would hand out
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free heroin needles, fentanyl needles, and met pipes, and then
the city made a deal to do exactly that. It's
called Sidewalk Project to hand out needles and met pipes
in MacArthur Park, to one year contract with four automatic
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annual extensions, so potentially five years of a contract to
do exactly what he promised she promised, John Alley will
not be done. And also Jim McDonald was in on
that as well. He said he was totally against it.
I don't understand Jim McDonald how he is not raging
against met pipes and needles being handed out when all
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they do is kill the addicts and add to the
extreme disorder going on in MacArthur Park. I don't know
what's wrong with them. I don't know what's wrong with him.
I don't know what's wrong with Bass other than there's
a lot of money in this industry, and I really
don't know who's getting a cut anymore. I don't know
if somebody in Bass or BASSIS staffed are getting a
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cut of the contract they made to hand out needles
and met pipes, because that's a terrible, terrible, absurd policy.
It's been going on for way too long. It all
does is kill people, and everybody knows this, it's obvious.
But considering that, considering the abominable response to the fire,
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I think we've chronicled that very well, the abominable response
to homelessness, the huge mountains of garbage. Listen to this
report KTLA Channel five reporter Aaron Myers reporting live previewing
Bass's reelection campaign, Brace Yourself.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
There will be several speakers, and then Mayor Karen Bass
will speak as well and talk about what her plans
are in her campaign and things that are important to her.
You can see there are a lot of supporters out
here this morning who are here to listen to what
she has to say. I want to bring in Kathleen
Ross and the president and CEO of the Hollywood Partnership
in Myra Valdez. She is the President emeritus of San
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Fernando Young Democrats. Now you both came out here talk
about your support for Mayor Bass.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
First of all, kat.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Well, we wanted to come out to show up for
Mayor Bass because she's certainly showed up for La and
so it's important to be here and get her campaign going.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
And now I know some of the things that are
important to her are crime, solving, homelessness, affordability. Mayra, talk
to me about what that means to you to hear that.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Yeah, well, it means that she's working towards all the
priorities that I really care for and that are at
the forefront of every Angelina's mind. You know, she believes
that everybody deserves to live in a community that is safe, clean,
and that our homeless neighbors are housed, and she's working
to do all of that as well as make the
city more affordable living for all young people.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Right stop, I.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I feel like I'm insane or that interview was done
in an insane asylum. The generic question. And Mayor Bass
is very concerned about, you know, crime and affordability and homeless.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
How about.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Well Mayor Bass lost several billion dollars in homeless money
and then hired fifteen lawyers to keep her from testifying
in court about it. How about that, Aaron Myers, That
would be a fascinating question. How about Karen Bass defunding
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the fire department disappearing to God while there were a
week's worth of extreme wind and fire warnings, the fire
departments in total disarray. It was a shambles. I don't
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understand this. Why ask these weird generic questions? I know
she's interested. What what are you doing? Why did you
become a reporter? Why are you on television? Why did
Channel five hire her? CHAPD five us to have a
great historic news department, the best, the best in the
country for local news. This is what it is now.
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You get a couple of a couple of staffers. I
guess for the Bass campaign to talk generically about what
about Karen Bass's dream for La She's been here for
three years. It's a freaking disaster. Do you believe the
amount of garbage? How about why does Karen Bass allow
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so much garbage to pile up? Why won't she clean
it up? I mean, just play some more of this gait.
We'll play the rest of it.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
And she's working to do all of that as well
as make the city more affordable to living for all
young people.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
And I know she did launch Insight Safe to help
with homelessness and removing encampments, getting people indoors. Now, the
one thing she has been facing some criticism on is
the Palisades fire.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
How does she get past the one thing she's been
facing is criticism of about the fire.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Listen to this part.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
The one thing she has been facing some criticism on
is the Palisades fire. How does she get past that?
I know that's been difficult at this point.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Well, the fire was horrendous. It shook Los Angeles to
the core. No Leader, I don't know Leader is prepared
for that. However, in the aftermath and the recovery efforts,
the team has really stepped up and focused. A lot
of our family and friends live in the Palisades area
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and were very affected and seeing the movement now despite
all obstacles moving forward is promising a.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Right stop stop.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Has she been to the Palisades, this lady. Has the
reporter been to the Palisades? What were they injecting? What
were they smoking? Seriously, were they on LSD? What kind
of a delusion are they living? What are they talking about?
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No leader could have stopped it. If we had fire
crews at the scene of the original New Year's Day fire,
they would have put out the rekindling real fast. But
Karen Vass had zero meetings after the New Year's Day
fire to plan for.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Rekindling, zero meetings.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
There was zero firefighters at the scene with zero equipment.
She and the fire chief met zero times to discuss
what to do if these strong sant Ana winds.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Kicked up? Are we kindling? I I'm just shocked at this,
absolutely shocked.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
In fact, the fire department got kicked off by the
state as we told you last week, and the LA
Fire Department went home, rolled up their hoses even though
the land was still smoldering, because they were trying because
the state was trying to protect the milk vetch plant.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
This is insane, And does this.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Report Aaron Myers know anything about the State Parks Department
and the milk vetch plant and the hoses being rolled
up and the smoldering land and Karen Pass had no
knowledge of any of this was going on because she
was planning to go to Ghana and she and the
fire chiefs spoke about it exactly zero times. What do
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you mean no leader could have done anything, Yes, they
could have. Had they just had a conversation about putting
a crew at the hotspot, then it would have been stopped.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
None of this would have happened. Play some more and.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Then real quick, Mara, I know there are several candidates
who've thrown the ring in to be the next mayor.
What does Mara Baths have that is going to make
her stand out in that situation?
Speaker 7 (27:30):
Well, Mary Baths has the experience, having served in Congress,
having served as mayor these last three years. We think
it's incredibly important that she gets elected to a second term,
and she has four additional years to complete the promises
that she has made, and we're here to help her
every step.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Of the way.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Thank you both for talking to us this morning. We
really appreciate it. And the election is officially on June second.
If a runoff is needed, that would be November third.
But you can see here lots of supporters out here
for Mayor Care.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
That is the worst news report ever done here in
Los Angeles, the worst. As Aaron Myers kt LA Channel five,
I don't know what's going on there. That's totally flabbergasted. Okay,
we've got more coming up on the John Coblt Show.
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Speaker 1 (28:53):
Now, the Department of Health and Human Services is doing.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Its own investigation to all that fraud in Minnesota involving
the Somali immigrants who built taxpayers out of a billion
dollars in phony claims and according to The New York Post.
They've obtained letters and they're going to investigate whether these
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tax dollars that were set to Minnesota social service programs
were used to fuel illegal mass migration. Alex Adams is
an assistant secretary of Health and Human Services, one of
their departments, and they sent a letter to Governor Tim
Waltz and the Minneapolis Mayor, Jacob Fry and a nonprofit,
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a nonprofit that got hundreds of thousands of dollars in
federal grants, this one to provide head start programs. You know,
that's education for very young children. And Adams says, we're
concerned it might have been used to fuel illegal mas migration,
and they're trying to track the money.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
You might as well just book a one way flight
to Somalia because you're going to spend the rest of
your life there trying to track the money. Listen to this.
In twenty nineteen, forty thousand illegal aliens lived in Minnesota
for in twenty nineteen. Four years later it was one
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hundred and thirty thousand. Went from forty to one hundred
thirty thousand in four years. Ninety thousand illegal aliens in Minnesota,
it became two percent of the state's population, and I
think a lot higher percentage.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Of the Social service money.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
And Adams says there's public statements from hundreds of Minnesota
Department of Human Services workers state employees saying that clear
warnings of fraud were disregarded, the whistleblowers were faced retaliation,
and the misuse of federal funds may have persisted for years.
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They sent that to Tim Walls and they said, under
your leadership, can you imagine this? And Waltz knew it
was going on, so did everybody else in the new administration.
They were not going to deny the Somali immigrants this money,
even though nobody was entitled to it, and they didn't
want to risk not getting their vote in the.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Next election cycle. This is really really absurd.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Treasury departments investigating, the House Oversight Committee is investigating, and
it's at least a billion dollars and maybe more. Now
they've convicted dozens of these fraudsters to account for about
two hundred and fifty million dollars, but that's only a
quarter of the known fraud, and like I said, they
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think it could be many billions more. Listen to all
these listen to all these programs. Hate that word uh.
Parents in Community Action? Does that mean community services? Block grant,
Social services block grant title for e foster care, Refugee
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cast Assistant, refugee cash assistance, refugee medical assistance, the Low
Income Home Energy Assistance program, the Childcare and Development Fund.
Each one of these was a sesspool for people stealing money,
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some of it stolen by legal Somali migrants, some of
it funneled to illegal Smali migrants.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
The UH, the Parents.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
In Community Action, and this Childcare Development Fund those that
was the conduit.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
To the head Start programs.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
And they are looking for names, addresses, social security numbers,
date of birth, and on and on and on, and
they're gonna they're gonna do a massive investigation. That I
mean Tim Watts ought to be ought to be deported
out of the state and out of the country. Any
politician that facilitated billions of dollars of taxpayer waste for
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legal aliens because he was trying to get the legal
migrants votes, that's not criminal?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
How is that not criminal? H?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I mean, obviously laws were broken here by the fraudsters.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
But how about the other end when.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
The people allowing the fraud to happen, looked the other
way and enabled facilitated what was going on, especially the
political leaders who were doing it for their own votes.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
That's not a crime.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
There's got to be there's got to be a felony
somewhere in there, you would think.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
All right, We.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Got Mark Garagos coming up after three o'clock. He has
a client, a Pacific Palisades owner that they have filed
a separate lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles and
the DWP NLA County and Karen Batts for all the
failures in the fire. So Garrigos is in on the
action too, and we will talk to him coming up. Now,
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We do this from one until four o'clock and then
after four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the
iHeart app. All right, we're going to get John Alley
on again. John Ally a businessman who owns business properties
in Santa Monica and also in MacArthur Park in your
downtown Los Angeles, and let's talk to John.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Hi. John, good to be on.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, thanks, thanks for coming back on. We just played
some of the audio from the video you'd posted. Were
you an LAPD officer, were talking to this homeless couple
who were apparently flown from out of state by a
rehab facility. They were trafficked and there was a insurance
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company connected to this. Could you flesh out some of
the details here so people understand just what kind of
a racket is going on here and how the these
people are being trafficked and just left out in the
street at the end of it.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Exactly what's happening. We have reab clinics here with representatives
in three to four other states recruiting people to come
to La to their reab clinic here, whether it be
in Culver City, Fan Eyes, and a lot of them
still open two three, four months, maybe a year. Then
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they get shut down because they're found out their insurance.
They work with the insurance companies, their insurance cuts off
the funding for this after forty five to sixty days,
and they're actually driven to MacArthur Park. One was driven.
Most are driven to MacArthur Park or skid Row. One
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was driven to a Santa Monica park. And we're seeing
this all the time. If you see the words MacArthur
Park mayor and CD one council member and in the
last ten years, all it means is failure, drugs, cartels,
gangs and loss of income. In our view, Bass and
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the council member of District one, they're community organizers. They've
never run a business. They've spent twenty seven million to
revitalize the park and they treat the transparency as a burden.
They've done everything but more police presence. So we searched
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some emails and we've got hard copy contracts, and we
found out something very very unusual. Quietly, through its department,
the city's Department of Disability, they contracted with the Sidewalk Project.
That's a firm using our tax dollars a group small
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group to handout needles, meth pipes, and then unsus hernandez
of authorized on our own an additional one hundred and
sixty thousand dollars to expand it. So they're getting paid
eighty eight thousand a year on an non exclusive basis,
which means the city can hire additional nonprofits to do
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the same thing. And they're doing it. There's usc there's
UCLA Street Team, there's the people concern. The police officers
that are doing their jobs as sworn officers in the
park and the surrounding area don't like it. They describe
this group as nothing but negative and they have negative
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interactions with them, and they're handing.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Out The group is handing out needles and met pipes
in MacArthur Park.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
It's funded by the city. Much of this is funded
in other areas by the county. In MacArthur Park it's
funded by the city. And it's a case of ideology
crashing into a reality of crime and death. These people
are dying on the streets five to six a day.
It's awful and I found it very strange because when
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I last spoke after the fires. When I last spoke
to Mayor Bath at the beginning of February, end of January.
She I asked her if she would come out and
in opposition to and really forced out the drug dealers.
(04:33):
We got rid of the drug dealers, We get rid
of a lot of the drug traffic and the drug use.
She said yes, She said she was totally against needle distribution.
I said, Mayor, can I quote you on that? She said, yes,
you can. Then we met again with the city the
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police chief, Jim o'd and her, and then I met
with Jim O'Donnell in his office and both of them said,
we're against the program. It's wrong, and we'll speak out
against it. They've been dead silent about it. So we
dug through the records in last July, so six months
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prior to this three conversations we had. We found out
that they institute this contract with interestingly, the Department of Disabilities,
so we try to Department of Disability would go unseen
and unheard of. It was approved in a batch of
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items by our La City council sadly, so they.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Buried it to hide it.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
And after Jim McDonald Jim O'Donnell and Karen Bask promised
you that they were going to stop this. No more needles,
no more math pipes. Best signed contracts. Really it's a
one year contract with four annual automatic extensions. It's a
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five year contract to hand out these needles and met pipes.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And with regular meetings. But there's no there's been no
meetings that we know of, and there's no definition of
what their success is. How do they define success?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Well, there can how there can't be success If you're
giving drug addicts needles and met pipes, it means they'll
take more drugs and then they're gonna die. There's no success.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It's not the insiders. One of the insiders at City
Hall are one of the staff people told us. That's
how this group got introduced to the city and two
unitsus Hernandez who pushed this hard. The mission statement, Sidewalk Project.
They're they're near skid Row, right in the midst of
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skid Row. Quote. They're honored to provide syringe access services.
They aim to empower homeless communities around the world.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, empower it's a it's a great yeah, right, you
know what it is. They're all making they're all making
a lot of money off off the taxes, off the taxpayers,
all of them, and all all all the silly wealthy
donors do. It's just a money making enterprise. And they
have a mission statement to provide them cover, provide them
a shield to emotionally manipulate people. There is no way
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handing out free needles and free meth pipes gets anyone
off drugs.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
It just means they're going to die quicker. It's impossible.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It's a total nonsense concept that people have bought into
because it sounded empathetic. It is not empathetic. It kills people,
and these people are murderers, these groups. This is organized
killing of these drug addicts and these mental patients. And
(07:59):
what why is I'll let you talk to this second,
but I just got to get off this off my chest.
Best is she getting kickbacks on this? Is you, miss
Hernanda's getting kickbacks? Why would you promote something that clearly
kills people unless you were getting a cut.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Go ahead, I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Sorry, we agree, We agree, and the truth, the light
will shine on this. It's so much as occurred in
the last year, just by simple diligence. They go on,
they define, they have a separate category for sex workers
and survivors. They define. They say sex workers are marginalized
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people in the world. They're criminalized, they're vulnerable creditors. Sex
work is work, and we believe in decriminalization. And that's
who we got in MacArthur Park. So how can he
get better? That's the problem.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
If you legalize it, because decriminalization is a long word
for legalized. You legalize it in MacArthur Park, they're more
likely to die. Who's using the prostitutes criminals and gang
members and drug addicts in the neighborhood high likelihood. They're
killing a certain number of prostitutes every year. They don't care.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
They're inviting it. Yeah, it's that asout. They've got an
outpost in the park that is meant to serve a
thousand women and gender quote expansive participants.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Gender expansive.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
You can good luck on identifying that.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I don't know what that means. I don't want to know.
These are all fronts.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
These are money making fronts, and it's all nonsense ideology
so that people can make big profits on prostitutes and
then they die on drug addicts, and then they die
on the homeless people and then they die.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
There is no other outcome. They'll die eventually.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
We've contacted Andrew Green, who's the executive officer or the
office have beenfrastructure for the mayor. Over the weekend, I
again texted the mayor. I sent her an email asking
her what did you know about this? Did you know
about it? Maybe you didn't know about it that she
should have no response. We reached out to the Disabilities Commission,
(10:32):
we reached out to Chris Lee from the City, Gina Lombardo,
Eli Everett.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Nothing.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
They wanted to go away, and they want this to continue.
It's their de facto shelter. So we're sick and tired
of getting milked every time we turn around. We can't
even report this on three to one one or nine
to one one or two to one one. So we
posted and we're working at actually with four other cities
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or we've just begun with the highest homeless populations centered
in their cities. We've set up hotlines. We've got a
hotline for LA so if you don't have time to
follow a police report or you see something like this,
I've tried to do it and it's a two hour wait,
and I've complained after I've waited one hour, and she
(11:24):
said the dispatcher has said, hey, you're really lucky. The
wait is two hours. So we have a number. It
gives you an incident report, an insurance supplement text transcript,
and it's all by AI and it can't be changed later,
which is happening all the time. Before it gets to
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the DA's office. The reports are changed, things are taken out.
It won't happen this way. So we've developed this number
we've sent back with our group has set with the
help of LAPD, the sworn officers dedicated on the ground
putting up with this nonsense. We sent back in the
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last four or five months thirty people to over twenty
seven different states. And the requirement is they can't have
a court here in coming up, they can't have a
warrant for their arrest. They want to go home on
their own, and they have a family member at the
point of arrival to pick him up. And we've had
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one hundred percent success rate so far.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Hang on the line, Okay, we got to just do
some news. We'd write back with John Alley. He's a
business owner, activist Santa Monica and Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
A few more minutes with John Alli. He's the businessman
here in Los Angeles, in Santa Monica, just fighting all
the insane policies from these destructive politicians, especially when it
comes to homelessness and all the crime connected. John, can
I ask you just one more question about this this
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human trafficking issue where these drug rehab facilities are flying
in drug addicts from out of state and they'll stay
for a few weeks and insurance covers it, and then
they're kicked off into the street. How does this work
for the insurance companies because it's costing them money to
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pay for these out of state homeless people who suddenly
show up here.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I don't see the strut.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, well, the insurance companies have a separate either obligation
with the drug user and or and they work hand
in hand with the broker with from the nonprofit the
drug rehab, so they're in it. They know it's going on.
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There's no way that somebody that's a transient addict is
going to be healed and back to normal in six weeks.
It just doesn't happen. So they're fine to cover it,
but because they're going out of state, they pay less
insurance companies and it makes sense economically to send them. Okay,
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we're state boarders.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
So this is insurance that some of these out of
state people have, and the insurance companies are supposed to
cover it, but they come to California because it's going
to be cheaper for the insurance company.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And the duration of coverage is shorter if they go
out of state.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I see, So the insurance companies get to fulfill their
obligation for a cheaper price.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Exactly. I see. We've got the Olympics. We're concerned. Everybody
is concerned. They're approaching a couple of years. We have
seven to nine in trees around the world that have
not even set up or least host village homes. In LA.
The concern is crime and too much of it. Like
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you say, too much of homelessness is going unreported. Much
of it it's due to deaths, but it's being unreported.
The same with crime, it's being unreported. The governor just
turned down a proposal to revamp both nine one one
and the three to one one non emergency lines anyone
(15:31):
like we discussed anyone who's called these numbers, no taking
wait a long long time. And every phone user here,
anyone holding a phone, is paying more than anyone else
in any other city in the country for nine one one.
So we believe the governor's answer, based on people we're
talking to a Sacramento will be another law passed or
(15:54):
a ballot initiative raising the sales tax probably go to
twelve or set. And we've also heard discussion of a
property parcel tax to be levied on all California properties.
It's being discussed now in Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
They're going to take more money.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
You can't fix stupid, and you shouldn't try to save
it either. The system we're using can do it today.
It's so simple and it would relieve so much from
the infrastructure they did.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
They just it was the story last week as they blew.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Almost a half a billion dollars seven years working on
a new nine to one one system and it was
a bust.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
The whole thing didn't work. That's the state system.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Well, locally, it's it's awful. Whether you're calling for to
report a crime, a street light, a trash in the streets,
it's even a pothole it's it's it's pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
All right, all right, John, thank you for doing all
the work you do.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
If if there are a lot more people like you,
we wouldn't be in this in this BIX And I
don't know why people don't get involved the way you do.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
John Ally, thanks you.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
For anyone Sure, anyone that would like to learn more
about our work, just follow me on X. It's John
underscore underscore, Ali.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
All right, John Underscore Underscore Alli. A L L E
is how you all right?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
A L L E?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
All right, John Ally there, thanks for coming on when
we come back. Now, if you were here for the
whole half hour, you heard him talk about Karen Bass.
He is talked to Karen Bass repeatedly about not using
tax money to pay for these programs which which hand
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out free needles and free mech pipes, and Karen Bass agrees,
no freed needles, no, no meth pipes. And then Ali
discovers a contract that could run five years where the
city is handing out needles and meth pipes through this nonprofit. Well,
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I'm going to play you a report that Channel five's
Aaron Myers did. This may be the single worst local
report I have seen in My Life reporting live previewing
Karen Bass's re election campaign kickoff. I honestly, I I
hope you finish eating. This is the worst journalism I've
(18:40):
ever heard. I say that frequently, but really, this isn't
the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Six forty after four o'clock. John Cobelt's show on demand
on the iHeart app. I've got to play you a
report by Channel five reporter Aaron Miles Myers. And you know,
we just had the businessman activist John Ally on and
he talked about how Karen Bass personally promised him that
she would not approve any contracts that would hand out
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free heroin needles, fentanyl needles, and met pipes, and then
the city made a deal to do exactly that. It's
called Sidewalk Project to hand out needles and met pipes
in MacArthur Park, to one year contract with four automatic
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annual extensions, so potentially five years of a contract to
do exactly what he promised she promised, John Alley will
not be done. And also Jim McDonald was in on
that as well. He said he was totally against it.
I don't understand Jim McDonald how he is not raging
against met pipes and needles being handed out when all
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they do is kill the addicts and add to the
extreme disorder going on in MacArthur Park. I don't know
what's wrong with them. I don't know what's wrong with him.
I don't know what's wrong with Bass other than there's
a lot of money in this industry, and I really
don't know who's getting a cut anymore. I don't know
if somebody in Bass or BASSIS staffed are getting a
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cut of the contract they made to hand out needles
and met pipes, because that's a terrible, terrible, absurd policy.
It's been going on for way too long. It all
does is kill people, and everybody knows this, it's obvious.
But considering that, considering the abominable response to the fire,
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I think we've chronicled that very well, the abominable response
to homelessness, the huge mountains of garbage. Listen to this
report KTLA Channel five reporter Aaron Myers reporting live previewing
Bass's reelection campaign, Brace Yourself.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
There will be several speakers, and then Mayor Karen Bass
will speak as well and talk about what her plans
are in her campaign and things that are important to her.
You can see there are a lot of supporters out
here this morning who are here to listen to what
she has to say. I want to bring in Kathleen
Ross and the president and CEO of the Hollywood Partnership
in Myra Valdez. She is the President emeritus of San
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Fernando Young Democrats. Now you both came out here talk
about your support for Mayor Bass.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
First of all, kat.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Well, we wanted to come out to show up for
Mayor Bass because she's certainly showed up for La and
so it's important to be here and get her campaign going.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
And now I know some of the things that are
important to her are crime, solving, homelessness, affordability. Mayra, talk
to me about what that means to you to hear that.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Yeah, well, it means that she's working towards all the
priorities that I really care for and that are at
the forefront of every Angelina's mind. You know, she believes
that everybody deserves to live in a community that is safe, clean,
and that our homeless neighbors are housed, and she's working
to do all of that as well as make the
city more affordable living for all young people.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Right stop, I.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I feel like I'm insane or that interview was done
in an insane asylum. The generic question. And Mayor Bass
is very concerned about, you know, crime and affordability and homeless.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
How about.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Well Mayor Bass lost several billion dollars in homeless money
and then hired fifteen lawyers to keep her from testifying
in court about it. How about that, Aaron Myers, That
would be a fascinating question. How about Karen Bass defunding
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the fire department disappearing to God while there were a
week's worth of extreme wind and fire warnings, the fire
departments in total disarray. It was a shambles. I don't
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understand this. Why ask these weird generic questions? I know
she's interested. What what are you doing? Why did you
become a reporter? Why are you on television? Why did
Channel five hire her? CHAPD five us to have a
great historic news department, the best, the best in the
country for local news. This is what it is now.
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You get a couple of a couple of staffers. I
guess for the Bass campaign to talk generically about what
about Karen Bass's dream for La She's been here for
three years. It's a freaking disaster. Do you believe the
amount of garbage? How about why does Karen Bass allow
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so much garbage to pile up? Why won't she clean
it up? I mean, just play some more of this gait.
We'll play the rest of it.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
And she's working to do all of that as well
as make the city more affordable to living for all
young people.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
And I know she did launch Insight Safe to help
with homelessness and removing encampments, getting people indoors. Now, the
one thing she has been facing some criticism on is
the Palisades fire.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
How does she get past the one thing she's been
facing is criticism of about the fire.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Listen to this part.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
The one thing she has been facing some criticism on
is the Palisades fire. How does she get past that?
I know that's been difficult at this point.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Well, the fire was horrendous. It shook Los Angeles to
the core. No Leader, I don't know Leader is prepared
for that. However, in the aftermath and the recovery efforts,
the team has really stepped up and focused. A lot
of our family and friends live in the Palisades area
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and were very affected and seeing the movement now despite
all obstacles moving forward is promising a.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Right stop stop.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Has she been to the Palisades, this lady. Has the
reporter been to the Palisades? What were they injecting? What
were they smoking? Seriously, were they on LSD? What kind
of a delusion are they living? What are they talking about?
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No leader could have stopped it. If we had fire
crews at the scene of the original New Year's Day fire,
they would have put out the rekindling real fast. But
Karen Vass had zero meetings after the New Year's Day
fire to plan for.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Rekindling, zero meetings.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
There was zero firefighters at the scene with zero equipment.
She and the fire chief met zero times to discuss
what to do if these strong sant Ana winds.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Kicked up? Are we kindling? I I'm just shocked at this,
absolutely shocked.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
In fact, the fire department got kicked off by the
state as we told you last week, and the LA
Fire Department went home, rolled up their hoses even though
the land was still smoldering, because they were trying because
the state was trying to protect the milk vetch plant.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
This is insane, And does this.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Report Aaron Myers know anything about the State Parks Department
and the milk vetch plant and the hoses being rolled
up and the smoldering land and Karen Pass had no
knowledge of any of this was going on because she
was planning to go to Ghana and she and the
fire chiefs spoke about it exactly zero times. What do
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you mean no leader could have done anything, Yes, they
could have. Had they just had a conversation about putting
a crew at the hotspot, then it would have been stopped.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
None of this would have happened. Play some more and.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Then real quick, Mara, I know there are several candidates
who've thrown the ring in to be the next mayor.
What does Mara Baths have that is going to make
her stand out in that situation?
Speaker 7 (27:30):
Well, Mary Baths has the experience, having served in Congress,
having served as mayor these last three years. We think
it's incredibly important that she gets elected to a second term,
and she has four additional years to complete the promises
that she has made, and we're here to help her
every step.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Of the way.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Thank you both for talking to us this morning. We
really appreciate it. And the election is officially on June second.
If a runoff is needed, that would be November third.
But you can see here lots of supporters out here
for Mayor Care.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
That is the worst news report ever done here in
Los Angeles, the worst. As Aaron Myers kt LA Channel five,
I don't know what's going on there. That's totally flabbergasted. Okay,
we've got more coming up on the John Coblt Show.
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Speaker 1 (28:53):
Now, the Department of Health and Human Services is doing.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Its own investigation to all that fraud in Minnesota involving
the Somali immigrants who built taxpayers out of a billion
dollars in phony claims and according to The New York Post.
They've obtained letters and they're going to investigate whether these
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tax dollars that were set to Minnesota social service programs
were used to fuel illegal mass migration. Alex Adams is
an assistant secretary of Health and Human Services, one of
their departments, and they sent a letter to Governor Tim
Waltz and the Minneapolis Mayor, Jacob Fry and a nonprofit,
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a nonprofit that got hundreds of thousands of dollars in
federal grants, this one to provide head start programs. You know,
that's education for very young children. And Adams says, we're
concerned it might have been used to fuel illegal mas migration,
and they're trying to track the money.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
You might as well just book a one way flight
to Somalia because you're going to spend the rest of
your life there trying to track the money. Listen to this.
In twenty nineteen, forty thousand illegal aliens lived in Minnesota
for in twenty nineteen. Four years later it was one
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hundred and thirty thousand. Went from forty to one hundred
thirty thousand in four years. Ninety thousand illegal aliens in Minnesota,
it became two percent of the state's population, and I
think a lot higher percentage.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Of the Social service money.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
And Adams says there's public statements from hundreds of Minnesota
Department of Human Services workers state employees saying that clear
warnings of fraud were disregarded, the whistleblowers were faced retaliation,
and the misuse of federal funds may have persisted for years.
(31:17):
They sent that to Tim Walls and they said, under
your leadership, can you imagine this? And Waltz knew it
was going on, so did everybody else in the new administration.
They were not going to deny the Somali immigrants this money,
even though nobody was entitled to it, and they didn't
want to risk not getting their vote in the.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Next election cycle. This is really really absurd.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Treasury departments investigating, the House Oversight Committee is investigating, and
it's at least a billion dollars and maybe more. Now
they've convicted dozens of these fraudsters to account for about
two hundred and fifty million dollars, but that's only a
quarter of the known fraud, and like I said, they
(32:07):
think it could be many billions more. Listen to all
these listen to all these programs. Hate that word uh.
Parents in Community Action? Does that mean community services? Block grant,
Social services block grant title for e foster care, Refugee
(32:30):
cast Assistant, refugee cash assistance, refugee medical assistance, the Low
Income Home Energy Assistance program, the Childcare and Development Fund.
Each one of these was a sesspool for people stealing money,
(32:51):
some of it stolen by legal Somali migrants, some of
it funneled to illegal Smali migrants.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
The UH, the Parents.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
In Community Action, and this Childcare Development Fund those that
was the conduit.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
To the head Start programs.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
And they are looking for names, addresses, social security numbers,
date of birth, and on and on and on, and
they're gonna they're gonna do a massive investigation. That I
mean Tim Watts ought to be ought to be deported
out of the state and out of the country. Any
politician that facilitated billions of dollars of taxpayer waste for
(33:36):
legal aliens because he was trying to get the legal
migrants votes, that's not criminal?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
How is that not criminal? H?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I mean, obviously laws were broken here by the fraudsters.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
But how about the other end when.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
The people allowing the fraud to happen, looked the other
way and enabled facilitated what was going on, especially the
political leaders who were doing it for their own votes.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
That's not a crime.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
There's got to be there's got to be a felony
somewhere in there, you would think.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
All right, We.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Got Mark Garagos coming up after three o'clock. He has
a client, a Pacific Palisades owner that they have filed
a separate lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles and
the DWP NLA County and Karen Batts for all the
failures in the fire. So Garrigos is in on the
action too, and we will talk to him coming up. Now,
(34:35):
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