December 1, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (12/01) - NewsNation's Rich McHugh comes on the show to talk about a fraud case in Minnesota where millions of taxpayer dollars meant to feed children were allegedly stolen. More on the fraud case in Minnesota where millions of taxpayer dollars meant to feed children were allegedly stolen. More info is coming out about the Lachman Fire starting on state land and the state knew about the Lachman Fire. LA County wants to ban masks on federal law enforcement officials.
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comes back. I've been telling you about Rich McHugh. I
was about to join the show. Rich mcusing a great
reporter for News Nation, the cable TV channel, and he's
on the case up in Minnesota. Tim Wallas is the governor,
ran and ran for vice president with Kamala Harris now
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running for a third term, and he's got one whopper
of a scandal that he's trying to deal with here
because it turns out more than a billion dollars in
taxpayer money has been stolen by dozens of Somali immigrants
who set up many of these fake nonprofits and supposedly
was spending the money on child nutrition programs during COVID,
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and there was no such thing. Actually, they were sped
to get on themselves all kinds of lavish lifestyle pursuits.
Let's talk to Rich McHugh from News Nation to flesh
this out. Rich, how are you.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I'm good, John, Thanks for having me back.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, good to have you on.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Give people an overview if they're not real familiar with
this case.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Sure, So this cropped up. This was, first of all,
this is the largest ever COVID scam in all of
COVID scams. It cropped up in I believe it was
twenty twenty two when the district attorney of the prosecuting
attorney in Minneapolis first came forward with charges and announced
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like sweeping allegations and charges against a program called Feeding
Our Future, which sounded like a noble cause at the time.
You know, it was created. This this non for profit
was created to like help you know, basically provide meals
for kids in underdeveloped areas. And very quickly it was
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seized upon by fraudsters and essentially people figured out the
scam and got on board, and we're like saying that
they were feeding you know, thousands and then ten thousands.
And you know, we went to one restaurant in Minneapolis
called it was called the Safari, which was said to
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be feeding We did the math, said.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
To be feeding eighteen thousand people a day.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
There's like thirty three seats in this place, and they
claim to have, like you know, have fed something like
three point seven million people over the course of seven months.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
It's just astounding numbers.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
And so this fraud has been kind of broken wide
open by the prosecuting attorney there, the US attorney, and
they've charged I think it's it's mostly related to feeding
our future.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
That charged I.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Believe eighty six individuals. I'm told that that number is
going to rise a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But of those charged, of.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Those indicted, seventy nine of them are of Somali descent.
And you know, Governor Tim wats is on Meet the
Press talking about how this is you know, they're targeting
a small minority of you know, this community. But in
talking to federal sources there, they say, no, this is
widespread and this is just the beginning, and we don't
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have enough. This was a quote I can't say from her,
but it was we don't have enough federal authorities here
to prosecute the individuals that we need to prosecute.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
When I heard that, I was like, wow, this is
this is a big deal.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
And some of the money may have gone to a
terrorist group, al Shabab.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
So talking to federal sources, again I can't name them,
but I've talked to a number of people, federal sources,
current federal sources, former and Joint Terrorism Task Force folks,
and each of them said, look, this money has been
going to a big chunk of this money.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Goes to Somalia. And they you know, some of them are.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
More specialized and how they understand this, especially the JTTF guys,
but they say, like, all the money that goes to Somalia,
the Alcated backed terror group al Shabab, takes a cut
of everything that comes in the country because there's no
centralized banks, there's no there's no real government there as
far as I can tell, and everything comes in through
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what what are called jualas, which are like they're like,
you know, mom and pop, you know down in dirty
western unions that there might be a juala in you know,
on the outskirts of Minneapolis and some strip mall and
some some person sends money over to somebody over in there.
People take cuts and they say that the Al Schabob
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takes a cut.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Of everything coming in.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
So yes, they don't have a forensic accounting of exactly
how much is going into the pockets of Al Schabab,
but they said unequivocally, yes, money is.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
We are these tax dollars are going into the pockets
of this terror group Al Schabab.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
That's that's stunning. It's a billion dollars. It was that
easy to create a fake nonprofit and claim your free
feeding kids and they start sending you millions of dollars.
I mean, any anybody could have done this, and I
guess just about anybody.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Did do this.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
It's stunning, and it sounds like there's there's a number
of outreaches, a number of like outcroppings from this, not
just feeding our future, but they're is you know, autism
scams related for children, there's home relocation services. Basically, they're
kind of like they inserted themselves anywhere where. It was like,
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you know, people in need or distressed, and nobody was
going to question it, and nobody did question it for
for a long time. But you know, the question that
I have is I first reported on this in twenty
twenty two for a nation admittedly.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Sort of forgot about it.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I was like, Oh, the Feds are on it, but
it's it's blown open in scale since then.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And the question I.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Have is, you know, how is nobody in the in
the government there really doing anything about this?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You know, in my conversations with federal sources, it's.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
All driven by them. There's no there was no there
was nothing. There was no assistance coming from the state,
and looking into this, into these allegations, it felt like
just the opposite.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Frankly, and there's a story in the New York Times
quoting KESA Magon. He's a Somali American and he worked
as a fraud investigator in the Minnesota Attorney General's office,
and he said elected officials, particularly those Democrats, they did
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not want to prosecute the Somalis because they were afraid
of being called racist. So the Waltz administration backed off
and just let them take whatever they wanted to take.
And this is from a Somali, a fraud investigator.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
What I heard from.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
A lot of people in Minnesota who provided this unprompted
was that you cannot win office in Minnesota anymore without
having the Somali community, because there are that many people
in the Somali community.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
In Minnesota and they vote as a block.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
And so if you don't have their support, you don't win.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
And so there's a.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Reluctance, according says the people that live in Minnesota of
calling out what it really is. But now that it's
been exposed, I think everybody's talking about is up.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh the damn, it's really burst here. Rich, excellent reporting.
Thank you for coming on and taking the time with
US News Nation, Rich McHugh NewsNation Cable News Channel.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Go find it and watch it.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Rich and many other reporters they are doing doing a
great job.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
We come back.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I want to go further down that road because the
Time New York Times has some more details on this story. Yeah,
the Walls administration was paralyzed. They wanted some Mali American
votes so badly. They let all these Somali American fake
nonprofit thieves steal a billion dollars because they didn't want
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to be called racist and they didn't want to lose
the votes. And this is a this is a charge
coming from other Somalis.
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time is it?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Two thirty? Okay?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
We just had Rich mcew on from News Nation, the
cable news channel, and he had some of this story
coming out of Minnesota. What a huge embarrassment to that
boob Governor Tim Wallas. What a loser this guy is.
It turns out he's been governor now for two full
terms and the Somali immigrants in Minnesota looted a billion
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dollars in tax money from Waltz since since COVID because
they have a very generous welfare system there.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
The New York Times calls it.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
A Scandinavian style welfare system. So they shovel the money
out to you know, lazy people, people who refuse to work.
And that's just a matter of normal business for people
in Minnesota. But then the Somalis came. Now they have
eighty thousand people from Somalia in Minnesota and they are
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now a big voting block. You know, they got they
got citizenship and they all vote Democratic. So now the
likes of Tim Walls has to appeal to them. And
if there are enough Somalians involved in an extensive fraud ring,
he's not going to prosecute them. And again I'm going
to read you the words of a of a Somalia,
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Somalia American named Casa Magan, who is a fraud investigator
for the Minnesota Attorney General's office. He set elected officials
in the state, especially the Democrats, were reluctant to go
after the Somalians who are stealing the money. There's a
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perception that forcefully tackling the issue might cause political backlash
among the Somali community, which is a court voting block.
Out of eighty six people so far that's been indicted,
seventy nine are Somalian.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Fifty nine have been convicted.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And listen to Tim Wallashsey I'll meet the press yesterday
dancing around.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
This speaking of the Somali community. President Trump is targeting
them and your state and party. Citing fraud is the
reason for his crackdown. Dozens of people of East African
descent have been charged, convicted, and sentenced for stealing more
than a billion dollars in taxpayer money from government programs
during COVID. As you know, Governor, that is more than
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Minnesota spends each year to run its Department of Corrections.
So I want to give you a chance to respond
to this.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Stop that for a second. I don't want that to
get lost. This was more.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
This stolen money was more than Minnesota spends on their
prison system every year. That's how much these this Somalian
fraud ring pulled off.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
All right, play somewhere.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
As you know, Governor, that is more than Minnesota spends
each year to run its Department of Corrections. So I
want to give you a chance to respond to this.
Do you take responsibility for failing to stop this fraud
in your state?
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Well, certainly I take responsibility for putting people in jail.
Governors don't get to just talk theoretically, we have to
solve problems. And I will note it's not just Somalis.
Minnesota is a generous state. Minnesota's a prosperous days, a
well run state or triple A bond rated.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
About that. Stop.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Seventy nine out of the eighty six were Somalis. Okay,
not all of them, more of them were play some more.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
A well run state or triple A bond rated. But
that attracts criminals. Those people are going to jail. We're
doing everything we can, but to demonize an entowerent community.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
They're going to jail because Trump's federal government investigated, because
your state government backed off because he didn't want to
piss off Somali voters.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
I continue, but to demonize an entire community on the
actions of a few, it's lazy. And as you heard
Senator Kelly say, this president has cut a lot of
inspector generals. He's cut programs that could help us take
tackle the.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Song we got. It's Trump's fault.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
They hand out a billion dollars to criminals in Minnesota.
They did it while Biden was president. Trump's federal investigators
are busting the case.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
But it's Trump's fault.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
This guy, this blubbering buffoon, is one of the all
time biggest idiots ever elected in office. I can't believe
he almost made it his vice president. I'm just absolutely
shocked that this guy could have been a heart beat
away from being president.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
Play some more programs that could help us tackle us on.
So we are, We'll take it on. We'll put folks
in jail. I don't care what your nationality is, I
don't care who your religion is, your color, you get
committing crimes. These are programs that were meant to serve
students with autism, to housing, and to making sure people
had enough to eat. There's a reason Minnesota ranks as
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the top lowest childhood poverty, best place for children to live.
People are taking advantage that they're going to prison. That
is totally disconnected with demonizing an entire group of people
who came here fleeing civil war and created a vibrant
community that makes Minnesota in this country better. But that's
Donald Trump to flect again. I come up with no solutions.
He's not going to help fix anything. On fraud, my god,
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there's a big difference between fraud and corruption, and corruption
is something he knows about.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You believe him. What a brainless hack, what a Sacafeci's unbelievable.
Listen to this. Here's a prosecutor. The federal prosecutor named
Joseph Thompson. He says that he's a career prosecutor who
was a U interim US attorney. Said he believed the
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race sensitivities played a major role in the rise of
fraud because as the pandemic money was being handed out,
the state was also reeling from the George Floyd incident
which happened in Minneapolis. This was a huge part of
the problem, said Thompson. Allegations of racism can be a
reputation or career killer.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Can you imagine, because that was the side of the
George Floyd killing and subsequent riots. Everybody in the Walts
administration was terrified of accusing the Somalis, and so that
group of thieves stole a billion dollars free money because
Tim Walls was filling his pants up, worried, worried that
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he was going to be called a racist. This is
a great way to govern, isn't it. He would have
been a genius to have as vice president. And now
he admits that the state may have erred on the
side of generosity. This is so, this is so awful.
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Somalia doesn't have a government. It Al Shabab is a
terrorist organization that runs parts of the country. Some of
the money that the Somalis were stealing in Minnesota went
to al Shabab, who in turn is connected to al Qaeda.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Our tax money because.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
A lot of this federal tax money, our tax money
gets funneled to organizations that want to kill us. Going
back to rich mccu's report, a good example of the
Safari restaurant in downtown Minneapolis owners right now in federal prison.
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It's a thirty five seat restaurant supposedly served eighteen thousand
meals a day. I mean, it was so overwhelmingly blatant
because Walts wasn't gonna do anything about it. He wants
to run for reelection, he wanted to be vice president,
he wanted a national political career. He wasn't going to
be accused of racism. What a disaster, What a pathetic
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What a pathetic disaster. Oh, just one more quick thing.
The Department of Human Services at Minnesota, they have an
ex account represents four hundred and eighty employees.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
They said Walts is one.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Hundred percent responsible for the massive fraud that's Minnesota government
employees putting out on their x that he's one hundred
percent responsible.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
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Now, we told you last week about how the the
attorneys for the Palisades Residents uh demanded some documentation out
of the state. The suspicion was that the state parkland
to Banga State Park is where the fire started, and
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that the state had policies which prevented the LA Fire
Department from putting it out properly. Turned out, the attorneys
were correct. That's exactly what happened. I read some of
the report and it says explicitly that when you have
like the New Year's Day fire, when the mop up
crew comes, they're not allowed to disturb the vegetation. The
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milk vetch plant is the plant in question here, and
there is photographic evidence of a rather overfed state employee
getting in the way of the LA Fire Department when
they wanted to do the mop up, and instead they
left early and left the tree stumps and the rocks
too hot and the.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Smoke smoldering out of the ground.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
And it was Newsom's Parks Department that insisted the La
Fire Department, go home, and now just to follow up
on this because it's getting more and more attention. The
New York Post Joel Pollock has a story the headline
all you Need to Know Smoking Gun. Gavin Newsom's Plant
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Police set the stage for the deadly Palisades fire because
the mop up duty was January second, the day after
the original fire. January seventh is when the fire took
off and did all the damage we're well aware of,
but that's really what it was. It was the Plant Police.
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The document which I have seen. We in fact, we
have a copy here at the station defines avoidance areas
all sensitive natural and cultural resources and there's to be
no heavy equipment, vehicles and retardant allowed and the public
should not be told where those areas are. Avoidance areas
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should be shared with the incident command, but measures should
be taken to keep the information confidential. They also advised
firefighters to use modified fire suppression techniques, consider allowing large
logs to burn out. No mop up techniques are allowed
in avoidance area without the presence of an archaeologist.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I don't think one was available.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
And this is one of the other attorneys who gave
this information to The New York Times. His name is Robertson.
He says the wildfire management plan prevented the LA Fire
Department from fully extinguishing the fire. We believe this is
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the reason the LA Fire Department was restricted from performing
a normal mop up of the Lockman fire. He told
the Post. I suspect the State Park Resources advisors shared
the avoidance map with the Lackman Incident Command, and LAFD
was forced not to mop up. So that's why the
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fire reignited on January seventh.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
And again.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yeah, the attorney is Alexander Trey Robertson, who's representing, along
with Roger Bailey, thousands of residents. My personal opinion is
that we will learn this is why the fire rekindled.
The plant police prevented LA Fire Department from doing their job.
Gavin Newsom's plant Police, the milk Vetch plant, among others,
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really was their policy. I have seen it in black
and white. We're holding onto the report. We will refer
to that report over and over again so that everybody
listening to the show knows that it was a real
Gavin Newsom California State Department policy. There was a real
employee that basically chased the LA Fire Department off the
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spot where the January first fire happened, and that allowed
it to rekindle on January seventh. It is the state's responsibility.
It is their fault. It is Newsom's fault. It is
the fault of the California Parks Commissioner, the agency, the
employees there, and everybody ought to be subpoened and forced
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to testify. And there should be criminal charges there. Absolutely.
I think when you wipe when you killed twelve people
and you wipe out seven thousand homes, I think you
committed a crime there. I don't think you should have
any kind of a government immunity for being that stupid.
All right, more coming up.
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Speaker 1 (26:52):
Coming up after three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Well, this is a pretty scary headline California Globe has
California's oil and gas industry hit the point of no return.
We have chased so many oil companies out, We do
so little oil production in the state. The main oil
pipeline is about to shut itself down. Two more refineries
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are closing. I'll give you one statistic and then I
tell you who we're having on after three o'clock. Katie
Grimes to the LA and the California Globe dot com.
She wrote this line. In nineteen eighty eight, the state
of California only imported four and a half percent of
all the oil that we consumed four and a half percent.
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By twenty twenty, we were importing over seventy percent. What
is the point of this. We're using more oil than ever,
more oil and gas than ever, but we're importing it
seventy percent instead of four percent. We're going to talk
with Michael Miche the USC professor, because he and two
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other professors in a report warned that without oil and
gas it's to devastate the economy.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Here.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
We'll talk about that coming up.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
We were talking about incredibly stupid politicians like Tim Watts
in Minnesota, where we have a collection here, especially most
of the LA County supervisors. I mean, these are really
empty heads. Janice Hahn and Lindsay Horrth. Janice Han and
Lindsay Horrivath now this week are voting on an ordinance
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that's going to ban masks on ice agents. First of all,
the state already issued the ban, so that would override
whatever the county does. Secondly, the federal government overrides the
state and the county.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I don't think they understand this.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Janie Han says that federal government probably will take action,
but she thought, never thought she'd see the day with
a masked, anonymous federal police force with target people based
on their skin color and spoken language and forced people
into unmarked lands a gunpoint. You know, if we had
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a preponderance of Scandinavians immigrating illegally into the country, you
might seem some word diversity, But immigrants are who they are.
The skin color doesn't matter. It matters that they're breaking
the law. We've got many, many, tens of millions of
people of color who aren't getting arrested by Ice because
they're legal residents. Janis Han is is she too stupid
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to understand it or she's just wilfully lying and misleading people.
And Lindsay Horvath, well, you can see how she's streamlined
the county permitting process for all the people in Altadena
and Ballistdes.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Huh, she's done a hell of a job on that.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I mean, these just so they're still beating this drum
that they can mandate no masks on ice agents. You can't.
It's a federal operation. It's federal law. Han when asked
if the board is considering alternatives, if the ordnance fails
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to stand the legal inspection, the supervisors would cross that bridge.
If we come to it. You're there, You're at the bridge.
There's no chance. Do you really think the Supreme Court
of the United States is going to say that a
local counties law on masks overrides.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Federal policy on masks.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
We're talking about federal law enforcement and these penny ante
local supervisors. By the way, Jennis Hahn allows seventy thousand
homeless drug addicts and mental patients to live in the
streets and every day between five and ten die in
the county. Every day she lets them die. She says
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nothing about it. She's done. She's spent her whole life
in local politics, and every year it got worse. But
she's putting all her energy in a useless, wasteful piece
of nonsense trying to ban masks on ice agents.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I mean, I'm stupid.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Doesn't even begin to describe this, and she even knows
it's it's empty.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
She admits it. What are you doing.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Where did the billions of dollars in homeless money go.
We have our own Somali fraud situation here in Los Angeles,
probably times a hundred. The massive amount of fraud in
the homeless industry that Han is embedded in, along with
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Lindsay Horvat she's embedded in.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
They don't do They enable everything.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
And when you're a politician and you enable that kind
of fraud for so many years, you have to wonder,
are some of these politicians.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
In on it? Somewhere along the line.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Through sitting politicians, are they getting a cut that's funneled
back to them somehow? Maybe did their brother in law
or their brother or a cousin or a business partner
or cash under the cash under the table bags of
money accounts in Switzerland or the Cayman Islands or the Bahamas.
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Something is really rotten in La County and La City government.
Billions of dollars in homeless money have disappeared. You see
the template that Tim Watts allowed in Minneapolis. You apply
that template here, multiply it by one hundred, and that's
what we've got. We come back. It is the oil
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and gas industry at the point of no return, that's
the story. In the California Globe Californiaglobe dot com, Katiegrimes
wrote it, We're gonna have Michael miche on from he's
the USC professor.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Here's all you need to know.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Nineteen eighty eight, state of California only imported four and
a half percent of the oil we consumed. By twenty twenty,
we were importing over seventy percent. From four and a
half to seventy percent. I don't exactly know how that
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comes back. I've been telling you about Rich McHugh. I
was about to join the show. Rich mcusing a great
reporter for News Nation, the cable TV channel, and he's
on the case up in Minnesota. Tim Wallas is the governor,
ran and ran for vice president with Kamala Harris now
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running for a third term, and he's got one whopper
of a scandal that he's trying to deal with here
because it turns out more than a billion dollars in
taxpayer money has been stolen by dozens of Somali immigrants
who set up many of these fake nonprofits and supposedly
was spending the money on child nutrition programs during COVID,
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and there was no such thing. Actually, they were sped
to get on themselves all kinds of lavish lifestyle pursuits.
Let's talk to Rich McHugh from News Nation to flesh
this out. Rich, how are you.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I'm good, John, Thanks for having me back.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, good to have you on.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Give people an overview if they're not real familiar with
this case.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Sure, So this cropped up. This was, first of all,
this is the largest ever COVID scam in all of
COVID scams. It cropped up in I believe it was
twenty twenty two when the district attorney of the prosecuting
attorney in Minneapolis first came forward with charges and announced
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like sweeping allegations and charges against a program called Feeding
Our Future, which sounded like a noble cause at the time.
You know, it was created. This this non for profit
was created to like help you know, basically provide meals
for kids in underdeveloped areas. And very quickly it was
(02:16):
seized upon by fraudsters and essentially people figured out the
scam and got on board, and we're like saying that
they were feeding you know, thousands and then ten thousands.
And you know, we went to one restaurant in Minneapolis
called it was called the Safari, which was said to
(02:38):
be feeding We did the math, said.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
To be feeding eighteen thousand people a day.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
There's like thirty three seats in this place, and they
claim to have, like you know, have fed something like
three point seven million people over the course of seven months.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
It's just astounding numbers.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
And so this fraud has been kind of broken wide
open by the prosecuting attorney there, the US attorney, and
they've charged I think it's it's mostly related to feeding
our future.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
That charged I.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Believe eighty six individuals. I'm told that that number is
going to rise a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But of those charged, of.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Those indicted, seventy nine of them are of Somali descent.
And you know, Governor Tim wats is on Meet the
Press talking about how this is you know, they're targeting
a small minority of you know, this community. But in
talking to federal sources there, they say, no, this is
widespread and this is just the beginning, and we don't
(03:47):
have enough. This was a quote I can't say from her,
but it was we don't have enough federal authorities here
to prosecute the individuals that we need to prosecute.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
When I heard that, I was like, wow, this is
this is a big deal.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
And some of the money may have gone to a
terrorist group, al Shabab.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
So talking to federal sources, again I can't name them,
but I've talked to a number of people, federal sources,
current federal sources, former and Joint Terrorism Task Force folks,
and each of them said, look, this money has been
going to a big chunk of this money.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Goes to Somalia. And they you know, some of them are.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
More specialized and how they understand this, especially the JTTF guys,
but they say, like, all the money that goes to Somalia,
the Alcated backed terror group al Shabab, takes a cut
of everything that comes in the country because there's no
centralized banks, there's no there's no real government there as
far as I can tell, and everything comes in through
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what what are called jualas, which are like they're like,
you know, mom and pop, you know down in dirty
western unions that there might be a juala in you know,
on the outskirts of Minneapolis and some strip mall and
some some person sends money over to somebody over in there.
People take cuts and they say that the Al Schabob
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takes a cut.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Of everything coming in.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
So yes, they don't have a forensic accounting of exactly
how much is going into the pockets of Al Schabab,
but they said unequivocally, yes, money is.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
We are these tax dollars are going into the pockets
of this terror group Al Schabab.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
That's that's stunning. It's a billion dollars. It was that
easy to create a fake nonprofit and claim your free
feeding kids and they start sending you millions of dollars.
I mean, any anybody could have done this, and I
guess just about anybody.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Did do this.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
It's stunning, and it sounds like there's there's a number
of outreaches, a number of like outcroppings from this, not
just feeding our future, but they're is you know, autism
scams related for children, there's home relocation services. Basically, they're
kind of like they inserted themselves anywhere where. It was like,
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you know, people in need or distressed, and nobody was
going to question it, and nobody did question it for
for a long time. But you know, the question that
I have is I first reported on this in twenty
twenty two for a nation admittedly.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Sort of forgot about it.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I was like, Oh, the Feds are on it, but
it's it's blown open in scale since then.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And the question I.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Have is, you know, how is nobody in the in
the government there really doing anything about this?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You know, in my conversations with federal sources, it's.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
All driven by them. There's no there was no there
was nothing. There was no assistance coming from the state,
and looking into this, into these allegations, it felt like
just the opposite.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Frankly, and there's a story in the New York Times
quoting KESA Magon. He's a Somali American and he worked
as a fraud investigator in the Minnesota Attorney General's office,
and he said elected officials, particularly those Democrats, they did
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not want to prosecute the Somalis because they were afraid
of being called racist. So the Waltz administration backed off
and just let them take whatever they wanted to take.
And this is from a Somali, a fraud investigator.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
What I heard from.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
A lot of people in Minnesota who provided this unprompted
was that you cannot win office in Minnesota anymore without
having the Somali community, because there are that many people
in the Somali community.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
In Minnesota and they vote as a block.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
And so if you don't have their support, you don't win.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
And so there's a.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Reluctance, according says the people that live in Minnesota of
calling out what it really is. But now that it's
been exposed, I think everybody's talking about is up.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh the damn, it's really burst here. Rich, excellent reporting.
Thank you for coming on and taking the time with
US News Nation, Rich McHugh NewsNation Cable News Channel.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Go find it and watch it.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Rich and many other reporters they are doing doing a
great job.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
We come back.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I want to go further down that road because the
Time New York Times has some more details on this story. Yeah,
the Walls administration was paralyzed. They wanted some Mali American
votes so badly. They let all these Somali American fake
nonprofit thieves steal a billion dollars because they didn't want
(08:56):
to be called racist and they didn't want to lose
the votes. And this is a this is a charge
coming from other Somalis.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
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time is it?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Two thirty? Okay?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
We just had Rich mcew on from News Nation, the
cable news channel, and he had some of this story
coming out of Minnesota. What a huge embarrassment to that
boob Governor Tim Wallas. What a loser this guy is.
It turns out he's been governor now for two full
terms and the Somali immigrants in Minnesota looted a billion
(09:58):
dollars in tax money from Waltz since since COVID because
they have a very generous welfare system there.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
The New York Times calls it.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
A Scandinavian style welfare system. So they shovel the money
out to you know, lazy people, people who refuse to work.
And that's just a matter of normal business for people
in Minnesota. But then the Somalis came. Now they have
eighty thousand people from Somalia in Minnesota and they are
(10:30):
now a big voting block. You know, they got they
got citizenship and they all vote Democratic. So now the
likes of Tim Walls has to appeal to them. And
if there are enough Somalians involved in an extensive fraud ring,
he's not going to prosecute them. And again I'm going
to read you the words of a of a Somalia,
(10:55):
Somalia American named Casa Magan, who is a fraud investigator
for the Minnesota Attorney General's office. He set elected officials
in the state, especially the Democrats, were reluctant to go
after the Somalians who are stealing the money. There's a
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perception that forcefully tackling the issue might cause political backlash
among the Somali community, which is a court voting block.
Out of eighty six people so far that's been indicted,
seventy nine are Somalian.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Fifty nine have been convicted.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And listen to Tim Wallashsey I'll meet the press yesterday
dancing around.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
This speaking of the Somali community. President Trump is targeting
them and your state and party. Citing fraud is the
reason for his crackdown. Dozens of people of East African
descent have been charged, convicted, and sentenced for stealing more
than a billion dollars in taxpayer money from government programs
during COVID. As you know, Governor, that is more than
(12:04):
Minnesota spends each year to run its Department of Corrections.
So I want to give you a chance to respond
to this.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Stop that for a second. I don't want that to
get lost. This was more.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
This stolen money was more than Minnesota spends on their
prison system every year. That's how much these this Somalian
fraud ring pulled off.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
All right, play somewhere.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
As you know, Governor, that is more than Minnesota spends
each year to run its Department of Corrections. So I
want to give you a chance to respond to this.
Do you take responsibility for failing to stop this fraud
in your state?
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Well, certainly I take responsibility for putting people in jail.
Governors don't get to just talk theoretically, we have to
solve problems. And I will note it's not just Somalis.
Minnesota is a generous state. Minnesota's a prosperous days, a
well run state or triple A bond rated.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
About that. Stop.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Seventy nine out of the eighty six were Somalis. Okay,
not all of them, more of them were play some more.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
A well run state or triple A bond rated. But
that attracts criminals. Those people are going to jail. We're
doing everything we can, but to demonize an entowerent community.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
They're going to jail because Trump's federal government investigated, because
your state government backed off because he didn't want to
piss off Somali voters.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
I continue, but to demonize an entire community on the
actions of a few, it's lazy. And as you heard
Senator Kelly say, this president has cut a lot of
inspector generals. He's cut programs that could help us take
tackle the.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Song we got. It's Trump's fault.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
They hand out a billion dollars to criminals in Minnesota.
They did it while Biden was president. Trump's federal investigators
are busting the case.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
But it's Trump's fault.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
This guy, this blubbering buffoon, is one of the all
time biggest idiots ever elected in office. I can't believe
he almost made it his vice president. I'm just absolutely
shocked that this guy could have been a heart beat
away from being president.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
Play some more programs that could help us tackle us on.
So we are, We'll take it on. We'll put folks
in jail. I don't care what your nationality is, I
don't care who your religion is, your color, you get
committing crimes. These are programs that were meant to serve
students with autism, to housing, and to making sure people
had enough to eat. There's a reason Minnesota ranks as
(14:32):
the top lowest childhood poverty, best place for children to live.
People are taking advantage that they're going to prison. That
is totally disconnected with demonizing an entire group of people
who came here fleeing civil war and created a vibrant
community that makes Minnesota in this country better. But that's
Donald Trump to flect again. I come up with no solutions.
He's not going to help fix anything. On fraud, my god,
(14:55):
there's a big difference between fraud and corruption, and corruption
is something he knows about.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You believe him. What a brainless hack, what a Sacafeci's unbelievable.
Listen to this. Here's a prosecutor. The federal prosecutor named
Joseph Thompson. He says that he's a career prosecutor who
was a U interim US attorney. Said he believed the
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race sensitivities played a major role in the rise of
fraud because as the pandemic money was being handed out,
the state was also reeling from the George Floyd incident
which happened in Minneapolis. This was a huge part of
the problem, said Thompson. Allegations of racism can be a
reputation or career killer.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Can you imagine, because that was the side of the
George Floyd killing and subsequent riots. Everybody in the Walts
administration was terrified of accusing the Somalis, and so that
group of thieves stole a billion dollars free money because
Tim Walls was filling his pants up, worried, worried that
(16:07):
he was going to be called a racist. This is
a great way to govern, isn't it. He would have
been a genius to have as vice president. And now
he admits that the state may have erred on the
side of generosity. This is so, this is so awful.
(16:29):
Somalia doesn't have a government. It Al Shabab is a
terrorist organization that runs parts of the country. Some of
the money that the Somalis were stealing in Minnesota went
to al Shabab, who in turn is connected to al Qaeda.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Our tax money because.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
A lot of this federal tax money, our tax money
gets funneled to organizations that want to kill us. Going
back to rich mccu's report, a good example of the
Safari restaurant in downtown Minneapolis owners right now in federal prison.
(17:11):
It's a thirty five seat restaurant supposedly served eighteen thousand
meals a day. I mean, it was so overwhelmingly blatant
because Walts wasn't gonna do anything about it. He wants
to run for reelection, he wanted to be vice president,
he wanted a national political career. He wasn't going to
be accused of racism. What a disaster, What a pathetic
(17:37):
What a pathetic disaster. Oh, just one more quick thing.
The Department of Human Services at Minnesota, they have an
ex account represents four hundred and eighty employees.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
They said Walts is one.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Hundred percent responsible for the massive fraud that's Minnesota government
employees putting out on their x that he's one hundred
percent responsible.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
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Now, we told you last week about how the the
attorneys for the Palisades Residents uh demanded some documentation out
of the state. The suspicion was that the state parkland
to Banga State Park is where the fire started, and
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that the state had policies which prevented the LA Fire
Department from putting it out properly. Turned out, the attorneys
were correct. That's exactly what happened. I read some of
the report and it says explicitly that when you have
like the New Year's Day fire, when the mop up
crew comes, they're not allowed to disturb the vegetation. The
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milk vetch plant is the plant in question here, and
there is photographic evidence of a rather overfed state employee
getting in the way of the LA Fire Department when
they wanted to do the mop up, and instead they
left early and left the tree stumps and the rocks
too hot and the.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Smoke smoldering out of the ground.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
And it was Newsom's Parks Department that insisted the La
Fire Department, go home, and now just to follow up
on this because it's getting more and more attention. The
New York Post Joel Pollock has a story the headline
all you Need to Know Smoking Gun. Gavin Newsom's Plant
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Police set the stage for the deadly Palisades fire because
the mop up duty was January second, the day after
the original fire. January seventh is when the fire took
off and did all the damage we're well aware of,
but that's really what it was. It was the Plant Police.
(23:46):
The document which I have seen. We in fact, we
have a copy here at the station defines avoidance areas
all sensitive natural and cultural resources and there's to be
no heavy equipment, vehicles and retardant allowed and the public
should not be told where those areas are. Avoidance areas
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should be shared with the incident command, but measures should
be taken to keep the information confidential. They also advised
firefighters to use modified fire suppression techniques, consider allowing large
logs to burn out. No mop up techniques are allowed
in avoidance area without the presence of an archaeologist.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I don't think one was available.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
And this is one of the other attorneys who gave
this information to The New York Times. His name is Robertson.
He says the wildfire management plan prevented the LA Fire
Department from fully extinguishing the fire. We believe this is
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the reason the LA Fire Department was restricted from performing
a normal mop up of the Lockman fire. He told
the Post. I suspect the State Park Resources advisors shared
the avoidance map with the Lackman Incident Command, and LAFD
was forced not to mop up. So that's why the
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fire reignited on January seventh.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
And again.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yeah, the attorney is Alexander Trey Robertson, who's representing, along
with Roger Bailey, thousands of residents. My personal opinion is
that we will learn this is why the fire rekindled.
The plant police prevented LA Fire Department from doing their job.
Gavin Newsom's plant Police, the milk Vetch plant, among others,
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really was their policy. I have seen it in black
and white. We're holding onto the report. We will refer
to that report over and over again so that everybody
listening to the show knows that it was a real
Gavin Newsom California State Department policy. There was a real
employee that basically chased the LA Fire Department off the
(26:06):
spot where the January first fire happened, and that allowed
it to rekindle on January seventh. It is the state's responsibility.
It is their fault. It is Newsom's fault. It is
the fault of the California Parks Commissioner, the agency, the
employees there, and everybody ought to be subpoened and forced
(26:27):
to testify. And there should be criminal charges there. Absolutely.
I think when you wipe when you killed twelve people
and you wipe out seven thousand homes, I think you
committed a crime there. I don't think you should have
any kind of a government immunity for being that stupid.
All right, more coming up.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Coming up after three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Well, this is a pretty scary headline California Globe has
California's oil and gas industry hit the point of no return.
We have chased so many oil companies out, We do
so little oil production in the state. The main oil
pipeline is about to shut itself down. Two more refineries
(27:17):
are closing. I'll give you one statistic and then I
tell you who we're having on after three o'clock. Katie
Grimes to the LA and the California Globe dot com.
She wrote this line. In nineteen eighty eight, the state
of California only imported four and a half percent of
all the oil that we consumed four and a half percent.
(27:38):
By twenty twenty, we were importing over seventy percent. What
is the point of this. We're using more oil than ever,
more oil and gas than ever, but we're importing it
seventy percent instead of four percent. We're going to talk
with Michael Miche the USC professor, because he and two
(28:01):
other professors in a report warned that without oil and
gas it's to devastate the economy.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Here.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
We'll talk about that coming up.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
We were talking about incredibly stupid politicians like Tim Watts
in Minnesota, where we have a collection here, especially most
of the LA County supervisors. I mean, these are really
empty heads. Janice Hahn and Lindsay Horrth. Janice Han and
Lindsay Horrivath now this week are voting on an ordinance
(28:36):
that's going to ban masks on ice agents. First of all,
the state already issued the ban, so that would override
whatever the county does. Secondly, the federal government overrides the
state and the county.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I don't think they understand this.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Janie Han says that federal government probably will take action,
but she thought, never thought she'd see the day with
a masked, anonymous federal police force with target people based
on their skin color and spoken language and forced people
into unmarked lands a gunpoint. You know, if we had
(29:19):
a preponderance of Scandinavians immigrating illegally into the country, you
might seem some word diversity, But immigrants are who they are.
The skin color doesn't matter. It matters that they're breaking
the law. We've got many, many, tens of millions of
people of color who aren't getting arrested by Ice because
they're legal residents. Janis Han is is she too stupid
(29:43):
to understand it or she's just wilfully lying and misleading people.
And Lindsay Horvath, well, you can see how she's streamlined
the county permitting process for all the people in Altadena
and Ballistdes.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Huh, she's done a hell of a job on that.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I mean, these just so they're still beating this drum
that they can mandate no masks on ice agents. You can't.
It's a federal operation. It's federal law. Han when asked
if the board is considering alternatives, if the ordnance fails
(30:22):
to stand the legal inspection, the supervisors would cross that bridge.
If we come to it. You're there, You're at the bridge.
There's no chance. Do you really think the Supreme Court
of the United States is going to say that a
local counties law on masks overrides.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Federal policy on masks.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
We're talking about federal law enforcement and these penny ante
local supervisors. By the way, Jennis Hahn allows seventy thousand
homeless drug addicts and mental patients to live in the
streets and every day between five and ten die in
the county. Every day she lets them die. She says
(31:13):
nothing about it. She's done. She's spent her whole life
in local politics, and every year it got worse. But
she's putting all her energy in a useless, wasteful piece
of nonsense trying to ban masks on ice agents.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I mean, I'm stupid.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Doesn't even begin to describe this, and she even knows
it's it's empty.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
She admits it. What are you doing.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Where did the billions of dollars in homeless money go.
We have our own Somali fraud situation here in Los Angeles,
probably times a hundred. The massive amount of fraud in
the homeless industry that Han is embedded in, along with
(32:05):
Lindsay Horvat she's embedded in.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
They don't do They enable everything.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
And when you're a politician and you enable that kind
of fraud for so many years, you have to wonder,
are some of these politicians.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
In on it? Somewhere along the line.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Through sitting politicians, are they getting a cut that's funneled
back to them somehow? Maybe did their brother in law
or their brother or a cousin or a business partner
or cash under the cash under the table bags of
money accounts in Switzerland or the Cayman Islands or the Bahamas.
(32:45):
Something is really rotten in La County and La City government.
Billions of dollars in homeless money have disappeared. You see
the template that Tim Watts allowed in Minneapolis. You apply
that template here, multiply it by one hundred, and that's
what we've got. We come back. It is the oil
(33:09):
and gas industry at the point of no return, that's
the story. In the California Globe Californiaglobe dot com, Katiegrimes
wrote it, We're gonna have Michael miche on from he's
the USC professor.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Here's all you need to know.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Nineteen eighty eight, state of California only imported four and
a half percent of the oil we consumed. By twenty twenty,
we were importing over seventy percent. From four and a
half to seventy percent. I don't exactly know how that
helped the climate, because it didn't. Debor Mark live in
the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear
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