December 8, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (12/08) - Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about more people being charged in the LA County pandemic unemployment fraud scam. More on the additional people being charged in the LA County pandemic unemployment fraud scam. Juan from @CleanLAWithMe comes on the show to talk about his mission of cleaning up LA. New York is in for a rude awakening once Mamdani takes over.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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We are on every day from one until four o'clock.
Although I just found out for Michael Monks, nobody told me.
He comes in and he goes that I'm on until
four fifteen.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I go, I'm until four fifteen.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
He goes, Chargers game starts dead, and I'm supposed to
fill the fifteen minute gap.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
You don't want Conway to drive two blocks to get
here and worked just for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I do now it's actually it's actually four to.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Thirteen, four thirteen, Yes, so I gotta work like another
eight minutes.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Technically you get that overtime.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, oh on time and a half on that yeah,
uh wow is that amazing. I mean if you hadn't
told me, I would have just like packed up at
four o'clock and walked out and they would have had
eight minutes of I'm just a guy who pays attention.
All right, Well, I don't know nobody. No, obviously, nobody
talks to me. Michael Monks is here from CAFI News.
(01:00):
That's his primary job. Auditioned to scheduling, and this story
broke a little while back in October that there were
thirteen at the time LA County employee is accused of
stealing unemployment benefits during the pandemic. Thirteen and I guess
now there's another eleven?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I keep waiting for the day where you say Michael
Monks is coming up next, because everything's going right in
LA County and he's here to tell you all about it.
Today is not that day? No, No, another day. This
came out on Friday that they're yes, there are eleven
more LA County employees charged with stealing unemployment benefits during
the pandemic while still being employed full time by Los
(01:43):
Angeles County. This when this headline flash Friday, I had
actually taken the day off, but I saw it crossing
the social feeds and.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I thought, this is old news. What are they? What's that?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I first thought, Yeah, I was like, what's going on? Like, oh,
there's more. So now there's a total of twenty four
employees who allegedly submitted dudulent unemployment insurance claims to the
California Employment Development Department, falsely claiming to be unemployed in
earning zero income. And most of this was happening during
the pandemic where things were a little bit lax.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Because of the high volume of people. A lot of
people were in need, and so you were kind.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Of just checking boxes rapidly, and it just created the
cesspool of fraud.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
These these these.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Are workers in various departments. Nobody is exempt. We're talking
the Sheriff's Department, the Department of Public Works, Health and
Human Service, child support.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Were they thrown out of work or denied pay?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Oh certainly, well, well they are. There's processes for these things.
They're accused, they have not been convicted. Yeah, some of
them were represented by unions and that sort of thing,
so there's a whole process before people.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
From what I understand this, this was which was meant
for people who absolutely were no longer getting paychecks exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
When you think back to the pandemic and all that
extra money that was created to stimulate the economy to
keep people alive.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It wasn't these people though their government works exactly. The
employee unemployment rate was like ten percent. Yeah, completely, people
who could not work from home. Right, These people were
still making at least three thousand dollars a month, at
least three thousand dollars a month on the clock because
they were still employed.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
These were government workers, right, Yeah, I'm saying government workers
always get come completely safe.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
But again, these are folks who worked in departments that
are public facing that you you might have even seen
these folks working while they were collecting. One of these
people is not like the others. Her name is Georgett McKinney.
She faces additional chargers. She works in child support supervising,
as she has a supervising child support specialist. She's accused
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of sealing more than fifty five thousand dollars in unemployment
benefits between July twenty fourth of twenty twenty and September
twenty one of twenty twenty one, so more than a year.
But that was that was only using the identity Georgia McKinney,
which does happen to be her identity.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
She's also accused of.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Stealing more than seventy six thousand dollars for using twenty
eight fictitious identities.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Twenty eight so while she.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Represents just one additional employee charged, yeah, she was using
a lot of different names and allegedly.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
And were these uh stolen identities made up The.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Only detail that we have on them is that they
were fictitious, so they were not hers.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So when you look at and nobody caught this for
four years, that's right.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I mean, this was something that took a while to uncover.
Back in October, when La County DA Nathan Hockman first
announced that there were thirteen La County employees accused of
stealing unemployment benefits, he did suggest that there might be
more coming.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, but somehow.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
The total amount of stolen unemployment money is now over
seven hundred and forty one thousand dollars. But the difference
is the Auditor Controller, the office that manages the money
here in La County, says that the county has lost
over three and a half million dollars due to pandemic
unemployment insurance fraud, either committed by employees or by criminals
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at large fraudulently using La County employee identities.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Three and a half billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
How many criminals had been hired in the La County
government the cause these aren't the only twenty four No,
that's true, but that total amount does include criminals who
were just utilizing identities people at La County. But at
least twenty four accused criminals working within the county right
now on this issue alone. Look, this is three and
a half million dollars, which is unfortunately a drop in
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the bucket to the four point eight billion dollar sex
abuse settlement, the amount of money being spent on the
homelessness that's going the fire response. This is a city,
excuse me, a county that is struggling at every turn,
and to have two dozen of its own employees taking
a little lecture out of the coffers, it's just another
slap in the face. And they they had no problem
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doing it, and they got away with it for quite
some time, that's right. I mean the mindset of the
people who work in county government. I guess they all
told each other here's how you do it. I mean,
word must have spread pretty quickly. I'm we're making assumptions here,
but based on what we know. I know, I know,
a professional assumption maker, based on.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
What we know from this era.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Somebody figured out a loophole and shared it, you know,
and shared it, and other folks were tended. I mean,
the government was giving away money during the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
No questions to ask.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Now, there are those of us who took money because
it was offered to you based on your specific circumstances,
either you met a certain income level or your job
was impassion.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
It was supposed to bail out people got thrown out
of work, and that may be true for businesses that
didn't even necessarily need it, but it was offered and
they qualified, so I course you take it.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
It was going to be forgiven, and that's, of course
why we're dealing with the inflation that we're dealing with.
But there were plenty of folks who saw opportunities to
take no advantage.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Nobody crosschecked this for four years because they're on the
county payroll. And now you have another database of people
getting county unemployment checks and nobody. I mean, I don't
think you need complicated software to match those names up.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
And this is these folks were submitting dozens of documents
claiming that they were not employed, so they were many
opportunities to catch them. So but one of these had
submitted more than forty documents detailing how they were not
making any money at all. Meanwhile, they were still going
to work full time.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
What a bunch of crooks? Crazy? Could they all end up?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Really?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
End up in jail here.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well, there are these are mostly felony charges, and that
would typically come with jail time.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I don't I don't want to house arrest here. No,
I don't want probation. I want to see people behind bars.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, that could absolutely hopp I want to go visit
them and then laugh at them. You can give Nathan
Hawkman a call and see what his plan is here.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Some of these people have already appeared in court for
preliminary hearings.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Others are awaiting. All right, very good, thank you, my pleasure.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Michael Munks four fifteen, don't forget to not sign off
at four o'clock.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
We need you are to be dead air. Some would
say better, wow, I but if I run out, I
prepared to go right to four. I didn't prepare for
four to fifteen. Something tells me you will have something
to talk about. I might run on Eric replay this segment.
(08:35):
We can do that.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah, we might do that, just as a protest. All right,
when we come back. What I want to go, let
me tell you about the two thirty guests. All right,
I'll tell you about that when we come back.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
You know what I want to do.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I don't want to read the names of these these
these criminals, these eleven criminals who were charged with stealing money.
This is the new list on top of the thirteen
from earlier this year. These people ought to be publicized,
so that's next.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
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Have I mentioned the moist line today?
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The iHeartRadio app and vent all your anger and frustration.
What's going on in the world, and there's a there's
a lot going wrong, especially around here. I'm going to
go through the list of employees who Nathan Hockman says
was stealing money from us LA County Stack taxpayers. I'll
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tell you about because they have the names. We're going
to go through that in just a second. I did
want to tell you that there are two really good
short documentaries on the fires. One is called Paradise Abandoned
by Rob Montz. He's the director. We had him on Friday.
He focused on the Palisades and then also a second
(10:08):
one called Big Rock Burning, and that's more about Malibu,
and you should watch both. Both of them are less
than a half hour. One's twenty three minutes, one's twenty
nine minutes. And you will come to the inescapable strong
feeling that they let it burn, because I'm I think
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they let it burn by day. I mean everyone from
the mayor to the fire chief, to the fire officials involved,
and everyone. The governor, the mayor, the fire chiefs. We've
had three of them, and they all lie and cover
up and confuse the issue. But they let it burn. Now,
(10:55):
why did they let it burn? I don't know. These
two filmmakers don't say anything definitively, but they let it burn.
It They are very very early on stop fighting the fire.
They were overwhelmingly unprepared. It's almost like they never heard
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of a fire risk before. In Los Angeles during Santa
Ana season, when you had five days of warnings, it's
quite striking. It made me angry. I was sitting Saturday afternoon.
We were going out Saturday night, actually, we went to
the Palisades Christmas tree lighting, and my wife was getting
ready and I started watching these two documentaries waiting for
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her and it just made me furious. So it's Paradise
Abandoned and it's Big Rock Burning. You got to watch
both of them. Paradise bands on YouTube. Big Rock Burning
is on vimeo. You might have to pay a few
dollars for that one, but you ought to. And I
think the fire scandal, the lack of preparation and the
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lack of response, the lies and the cover up from
Bass to Newsome everybody running the fire departments, the DWP,
which a Keona is, this will eventually blow up into
a much bigger scandal. There is a really foul, ugly
story behind all this and I'm never given up on it.
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Now back to the criminals that get hired here in
Los Angeles County. Uh, you know we've got we've got
five women who run the LA County Supervisors Board. It's
very diverse, and one of them is sane. But the
other four, uh, Catherine Bargery saying, but Hildes, Elise janis Han,
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Lindsey Horvath, Holly Mitchell are are stupid and insane. And
they had a system of giving out unemployment benefits that
had apps absolutely no there was no security protocol on it.
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People stole money left and right, including twenty four La
County employees. Twenty four people who worked for the taxpayers
stole more tax money.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I've got their names.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Alejandro Mendez Albarrado, forty five years old, grown man, a
Sheriff's Department senior equipment maintenance worker, stole twenty one thousand
dollars in unemployment benefits. Brandon Joseph Batiste, thirty four, DWP
warehouse employee.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Boy, are we getting screwed by the DWP? Right?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
He stole ninety three hundred and unemployment benefits, says the DA.
Dina Liza Wolff, fifty six year old woman, a nurse,
a Department of Health Services licensed vocational nurse. It's eleven thousand,
seven hundred dollars that's going on here. Elizabeth Yacinto, sixty
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eight years old, wanted to get one big easy payday.
Department of Public Social Services eligibility worker stall eleven thousand,
seven hundred dollars, says the DA. Georgette McKinney, this is
the one. Michael Monks was talking about. Child Support Services
Department Supervising Child Support specialist.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Holy mackerel, that is a long title.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Stole fifty five thousand dollars using her own identity, and
she also stole another seventy six thousand dollars using twenty
eight fictitious identities. She's fifty nine years old. You add
that up, that's one hundred and thirty Wait a second,
(14:53):
how much is that? That's one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars.
Now that that's wrong. Here, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
One hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Georgette McKinney. Thank you, Georgette.
That's all great. I'll keep going to work. I'll keep
paying my taxes, no problem. Jessica Alcorta. Another thief, according
to the DA, An Lada Why a District Attorney's Office
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Legal Office support assistant. She's working in the DA's office
and she stole thirty six thousand dollars. DA office Legal
Office Support assistant. Christine Luise Canaro. Another nurse, Department of
Health Services. I thought nurses were good people. Eleven thousand,
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seven hundred dollars stolen, says the DA. Manuel Martinez, forty
three years old, Department of Health Services, Electrician Stall eleven thousand,
seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Rachel Nalutaya forty two.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
A nursing attendant Department of Health Services stole twenty three
thousand dollars. Oh, man, if you get a county nurse,
come over your house, hide your wallet. Oh lock, you're safe.
There's another one, Sue Manigh sixty nine years old. Oh
my god, a fourth nurse.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
This can't be.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Department of Health Services licensed vocational nurse stall eleven eight
hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Four nurses. Oh, this is terrible. Terry Beasley. The second.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Not much of an improvement on the first, forty four
years old Probation Department Detention Services officer Man's in law
enforcement stall eleven seven hundred dollars. And there were thirteen
others that got charged earlier this year for a total
of twenty four Oh are they public servants? They're working
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for the public, right, A bunch of crooks? Is everybody
a crook? When we come back. One Noah lives in
la He's seen what I've seen. The city is filthy
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and disgusting and filled with trash, and he got so
sick of it he quit his full time job to
clean the city streets himself. One is coming on the
show with us because He says, the city simply doesn't
want to do it anymore. They don't want to clean
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the streets. We're going to tell his story. Wan will
be on with us next.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
We are at every day from one until four, and
I'm told we're staying on today till four point fifteen,
whole extra segment because the Chargers game starts at four
point fifteen, or at least the coverage starts then. And
I guess Conway didn't want to work an extra eight minutes.
So I am doing because I'm a team player. I'm
(18:02):
doing my civic duty and I will do the extra
eight minutestil four thirteen. That's very nice of you, Thank you.
One no Ula is coming on. I saw this story.
Matthew Seedorf did a report on Fox eleven and I
read about it. One no Ula. He has quit his
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job here in Los Angeles to clean the city streets.
I completely identified with what he sees and what he's
doing here. The trash has just gotten so overwhelming and disgusting,
and Karen Bass's government refuses to clean the garbage. And
he says very simply why do we have to chase them?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Why?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
It really frustrates me because I do the job and
then I chase the city workers to come and pick
up the trash. Why do their people come and not
pick up the trash. Let's get one the ula on one.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
How are you hey?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
How you doing?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
How you doing? Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I really appreciate it. I am, I am.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
This is great what you're doing. You have an Instagram
account at clean la with me. At clean La with me,
you got fifty six thousand Instagram followers because everybody is
seeing what you're seeing. Talk about how you ended up
quitting your job to pick up the city's trash.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
So I moved from Virginia about thirteen months ago looking for,
you know, some investment for my tech company. But then
when I was like three weeks here, I went to
Alicia's Park and the first thing I saw it was
so much right all over, and I was like, why
you know? I was like, okay, Virginia is clean. I'm Ecuadorian,
(19:53):
where I come from, is really clean city. And it
really kind of shocked.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Me to see it all this trash.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
So I decided to do the cleanups and my wife
and my son lives back in Ecuador. So I called
my wife. I said, hey, I think I'm going to
start cleaning, and she said, you are you crazy? I said,
I'm going to clean it. You know, I have no plans.
It was not just cleaning. And then she said, but
put it on social media. So that's why I created
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Clean La with Me. And then in five weeks November
twenty second last year, I started cleaning and putting on
my cleaning Live with Me all my social media, you know,
all across the platforms and kind of I start going
via all my videos and I really enjoyed doing it,
you know, like come in and see all this this
trash streets Ali's parks everywhere. And I'm still new. I'm
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still learning from La, you know, I'm still I've been
only fourteen months here in LA, and I see all
this trash and I was like, why this is one
of the best plays in the world in the plant
it and we have all this trash here, Like what's
going on? You know? And because when you don't live
in La, in California, you think California La is just
(21:10):
no trash? Is everything very nice? Because we see in TV,
you know, Hollywood and all this and we never think
there's going to be this much trash on the strip.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah, exact in.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
The movies and TV shows, they clean up the trash
before they shoot the film.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah. Yeah, what time do you come from in Ecuador?
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Quenca is that third city of Ecuador.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
I moved from Ecuador to to to USA about thirty
years ago.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
And coming to Los Angeles, you thought it would be
clean and glamorous and beautiful, and you see all this
trash all over the place. I mean, I've been to
Ecuador because my family and I we visited the Galapagos
Islands and we visited Kito, right, that's the that's the capital.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, we spent a few days there and it's really
a pretty city.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
And you don't have this problem in your town.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
No, I travel, you know, I traveled to Aquada to
see my wife every four months. You know, I go
for a week for two weeks, and we don't have
this problem because in my city that the mayor is
doing a very good job with the with the company
who pick up the trash, they have twenty four hours,
they have three ships eight hours take up all the
time cleaning the city. So my city is very very clean.
(22:32):
So when I go back, I don't have this trash problem,
you know.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I mean when it's not that hard.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
The console they have to train, the people. I have
so many times I go pick up okay, you know,
I start this nonprofit back and I was that's when
I quit my job. I make a decision to quit
my job and do full time this cleaner clean alt
with me because I had a non profit, you know,
(22:59):
and now I do every day. I do every day
solo and on Saturdays I have a volunteer. Sometimes I
have even thirty people that come and help in some area.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Thirty people volunteers. Now, now you're able to quit your
your job.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I mean because uh my.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
All my followers, all my community, they don't make when
when I don't have you know, I said, hey I
need four bags, they send me. They send me on
my uh you know, go fund me or whatever. They
send me the funds and I go get the trash,
you know. So that's why they have been supporting myself.
Because all my community, they are supporting me really good,
(23:37):
you know.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
So I've never heard of something like this. So you're
you're your your community is supporting you.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
You're not working every Saturday.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Wow. Yeah. And are these Ecuadorians or.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
No?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Most of the people I don't, I don't have any.
I do have like I have Ecuador and have Mexican
and they come sometimes to do help me. But I
never had any Ecuadorian come and help me.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
So these are people in l A here, these are
local cities. They're helping you and and they're donating to
go fund me.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Yes they I mean if you go on my on
my Instagram Instagram, you can see that all the links
I have there, even though I'm selling some totel buses,
you know, would I'll pack a tote bags that I'm
selling there so to support my very low to compare
the body. They have to clean up the city and
they're not doing it. And really it makes me mad
(24:38):
because I do all the work and they don't come
and pick up the trash or sometimes you know, I
have to go back and make another video saying hey,
why the city they come and pick up the trash,
and then post them and attack them, and then finally
they come and pick up I think that really this
(24:59):
is the first walk entry.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Right, well, it used to be.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Well, well, I don't know about Los Angeles. I don't
have to qualifies anymore. Have you talked to some of
the employees or any management the sanitation department? Have they
explained why they don't pick up the garbage regularly?
Speaker 4 (25:17):
So so on one time it was for three weeks
the trash at Myers that said what I cleaned? And
I called three one one up and I said, why
you not coming picked up the trash? And you know
the person that was behind on the phone, she said,
we just passed the information all their requests. We passed
information to LA Sanitation, and I don't know why l
(25:40):
Sanitation is not picking up. And then when I call
l A Sanitation, I don't remember what they said. This
is something like something like make no sense. And I'm like, okay,
But then, yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Got LA Sanitation that you had the right number there.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Uh yeah. And then and even sometimes I got, you know,
in a couple of places I gotta go back and
put it again another video. And then I think one
time even I got the console member getting involved. And
two times actually District eight and District thirteen, I believe.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Did you remember the names of the council members?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
The council member it was for Boyle Heights. What is
his name?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Boyle Heights and this.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
And and I can't remember the names.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, I'll go look it up.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, you know, after the commercial breaker district. Yeah, and
so what did he say or what did his staff
saybo Isabel Colrado, Oh forget Yes, I think you might
have saved the call.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
It's not worth it.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Actually, she because then I talked to her, and then
she emailed to I think three one one up or
l A La s annitation and they send me a
picture that they picked up the trash. But that was
after weeks of making maybe two or three requests. So
those kind of things, those kinds of things, you know,
it makes me like, come on, and no, I mean,
(27:12):
she says, I cannot believe it. This is happening in La.
Sometimes I don't feel like I'm in La.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I know, I don't either.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
It didn't used to be like this when I moved
here back in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
It wasn't like this.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yeah, but something over the last ten years, everything's completely
falling apart, and this administration just a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Workers don't care. I mean, we just did a story.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
There's twenty four workers in the county who are stealing
thousands and thousands of dollars in unemployment benefits with fake IDs,
and I don't know what's happened. LA is run by
criminals and is staffed by criminals now, and they don't
do the basic things like picking up garbage. I don't
know what one I got to run. Thank you for
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coming on one.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Thank you so much for supporting my my mission. And
please have them follow me my clean and my social
media clean lay with me and have them support. Hopefully
we can have one thousand and one million people doing this.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Oh yeah, we're gonna need it. Wanda Ula and it's
at clean La with Me. That's the Instagram account at
clean La with Me. It's got fifty six thousand followers.
Join them, help them clean up the city. Because Karen
Bass refuses to U more coming up.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
After three o'clock. We're gonna we're gonna talk with at
the slow down. Justin Msoth. Justin wrote to us about
the fire, the Eaton fire in Alta, Dina, and he
says that he and his wife lost her family house
(28:53):
thirty five years the family's been living in it, all
their possessions to the Eaton fire, and inspired by Spencer Pratt,
who's been carrying on a campaign to get at the
truth of the Palisades fire, he wants to come on
now and talk about all the institutions that failed the
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people in now Tadena, the La County Fire Department, the
Sheriff's Department, the board of supervisors that are still avoiding responsibility.
We're going to talk with Justin Emsoft, one of our listeners,
coming up after three o'clock.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
You're going to want to hear him.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I don't understand what's going wrong with a lot of people.
New York City is going to have a full blown
communist takeover in just a few weeks. And the old
mayor who they kicked out actually had been doing a
lot of good, Eric Adams.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I know he had his issues.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
But they had been clearing out homeless encampments.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
They had been cleaning up parks.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
There's one particular park, Washington Square Park, excuse me, and
I've been there. And last month the FEDS had a
massive drug bust drug dealing operation, and the NYPD flooded
the park with seventy extra cops, a twenty four to
seven crackdown. They wanted to get rid of all the junkies,
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all the homeless people, and the neighbors were thrilled because
one LU student named Amelia Lewis was walking to class
the other day when some weirdo with a long history
of sex crimes came up behind her, slapped her butt,
(30:39):
yanked her hair, threw it to the ground. Amelia Lewis said,
these people are disgusting. They should not be able to
walk around targeting girls. I should not be scared to
walk to my nine thirty am class. Now they caught
the guy, James Rizzo, long rap sheet of crimes.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Well, the next day he was back.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
The next day he burglarized four apartments in the neighborhood.
I say all this because the New York Post has
a story that since the Feds and the New York
Police Department have cleaned up the park, busted up a
drug dealing ring, got rid of the homeless who were
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assaulting New York University students. Some of the NYU kids
are claiming that now Washington Square Park has lost its
charm because there are no more homeless, no more drug addicts,
no more criminals.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Are they in backwards land.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I mean, I'm going to New York on Wednesday night,
like I'm very happy this happened, and I'm doing there
sixty thousand dollars a year ago to NYU. They are
now drawing messages in chalk on the park walkways. The
message is where are our neighbors?
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
If I see this, I'm going to take some pictures
for you please.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
First year student Caspin Berkeley. I feel like a large
community is gone. This park was a home for them.
Caspin likes to spend a lot of time feeding pigeons.
I don't know if that's a I guess that's a girl.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I don't know. Another woman.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Sarah Karp is a public policy student and m one
you the criminalization of poverty is never the solution to anything,
which is exactly a talking point with the Democratic Socialists
of America. See when the cops and the Feds bust
up a drug ring and get rid of the homeless
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people and the junkies, most people cheer, and these DSA
people say, well, no, you're criminalizing poverty.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
This is what mom Donnie believes.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
The new incoming mayor, this is what four members of
our city Council believe in la It ruins the form
of community that these people have built and puts them
in riskier situations.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
She's talking about the homeless junkies.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
NYU's daily crime log is full of incidents around Washington
Square Park. One hundred and two were reported last month
before the cleanup. Stalking, harassment, fondling, robbery, larceny, extortion that
go after the college girls.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
All these horny, homeless drug.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Addicts and junkies go after the college girls, and the
college girls are complaining that the neighborhood's been ruined.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
You draw your own conclusions there.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
We've got Brigina die Gastino in for Deborah Mark.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Coming up next with the news.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Justin Msoft, one of our listeners, to talk about how
fresh rated he is with the response and the aftermath
of the Altadena fire. That's all next Regina live in
the KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear
the show live on KFI AM six forty from one
to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course
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anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We are on every day from one until four o'clock.
Although I just found out for Michael Monks, nobody told me.
He comes in and he goes that I'm on until
four fifteen.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I go, I'm until four fifteen.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
He goes, Chargers game starts dead, and I'm supposed to
fill the fifteen minute gap.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
You don't want Conway to drive two blocks to get
here and worked just for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I do now it's actually it's actually four to.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Thirteen, four thirteen, Yes, so I gotta work like another
eight minutes.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Technically you get that overtime.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, oh on time and a half on that yeah,
uh wow is that amazing. I mean if you hadn't
told me, I would have just like packed up at
four o'clock and walked out and they would have had
eight minutes of I'm just a guy who pays attention.
All right, Well, I don't know nobody. No, obviously, nobody
talks to me. Michael Monks is here from CAFI News.
(01:00):
That's his primary job. Auditioned to scheduling, and this story
broke a little while back in October that there were
thirteen at the time LA County employee is accused of
stealing unemployment benefits during the pandemic. Thirteen and I guess
now there's another eleven?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I keep waiting for the day where you say Michael
Monks is coming up next, because everything's going right in
LA County and he's here to tell you all about it.
Today is not that day? No, No, another day. This
came out on Friday that they're yes, there are eleven
more LA County employees charged with stealing unemployment benefits during
the pandemic while still being employed full time by Los
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Angeles County. This when this headline flash Friday, I had
actually taken the day off, but I saw it crossing
the social feeds and.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I thought, this is old news. What are they? What's that?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I first thought, Yeah, I was like, what's going on? Like, oh,
there's more. So now there's a total of twenty four
employees who allegedly submitted dudulent unemployment insurance claims to the
California Employment Development Department, falsely claiming to be unemployed in
earning zero income. And most of this was happening during
the pandemic where things were a little bit lax.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Because of the high volume of people. A lot of
people were in need, and so you were kind.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Of just checking boxes rapidly, and it just created the
cesspool of fraud.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
These these these.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Are workers in various departments. Nobody is exempt. We're talking
the Sheriff's Department, the Department of Public Works, Health and
Human Service, child support.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Were they thrown out of work or denied pay?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Oh certainly, well, well they are. There's processes for these things.
They're accused, they have not been convicted. Yeah, some of
them were represented by unions and that sort of thing,
so there's a whole process before people.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
From what I understand this, this was which was meant
for people who absolutely were no longer getting paychecks exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
When you think back to the pandemic and all that
extra money that was created to stimulate the economy to
keep people alive.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It wasn't these people though their government works exactly. The
employee unemployment rate was like ten percent. Yeah, completely, people
who could not work from home. Right, These people were
still making at least three thousand dollars a month, at
least three thousand dollars a month on the clock because
they were still employed.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
These were government workers, right, Yeah, I'm saying government workers
always get come completely safe.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
But again, these are folks who worked in departments that
are public facing that you you might have even seen
these folks working while they were collecting. One of these
people is not like the others. Her name is Georgett McKinney.
She faces additional chargers. She works in child support supervising,
as she has a supervising child support specialist. She's accused
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of sealing more than fifty five thousand dollars in unemployment
benefits between July twenty fourth of twenty twenty and September
twenty one of twenty twenty one, so more than a year.
But that was that was only using the identity Georgia McKinney,
which does happen to be her identity.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
She's also accused of.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Stealing more than seventy six thousand dollars for using twenty
eight fictitious identities.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Twenty eight so while she.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Represents just one additional employee charged, yeah, she was using
a lot of different names and allegedly.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
And were these uh stolen identities made up The.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Only detail that we have on them is that they
were fictitious, so they were not hers.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So when you look at and nobody caught this for
four years, that's right.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I mean, this was something that took a while to uncover.
Back in October, when La County DA Nathan Hockman first
announced that there were thirteen La County employees accused of
stealing unemployment benefits, he did suggest that there might be
more coming.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, but somehow.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
The total amount of stolen unemployment money is now over
seven hundred and forty one thousand dollars. But the difference
is the Auditor Controller, the office that manages the money
here in La County, says that the county has lost
over three and a half million dollars due to pandemic
unemployment insurance fraud, either committed by employees or by criminals
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at large fraudulently using La County employee identities.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Three and a half billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
How many criminals had been hired in the La County
government the cause these aren't the only twenty four No,
that's true, but that total amount does include criminals who
were just utilizing identities people at La County. But at
least twenty four accused criminals working within the county right
now on this issue alone. Look, this is three and
a half million dollars, which is unfortunately a drop in
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the bucket to the four point eight billion dollar sex
abuse settlement, the amount of money being spent on the
homelessness that's going the fire response. This is a city,
excuse me, a county that is struggling at every turn,
and to have two dozen of its own employees taking
a little lecture out of the coffers, it's just another
slap in the face. And they they had no problem
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doing it, and they got away with it for quite
some time, that's right. I mean the mindset of the
people who work in county government. I guess they all
told each other here's how you do it. I mean,
word must have spread pretty quickly. I'm we're making assumptions here,
but based on what we know. I know, I know,
a professional assumption maker, based on.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
What we know from this era.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Somebody figured out a loophole and shared it, you know,
and shared it, and other folks were tended. I mean,
the government was giving away money during the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
No questions to ask.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Now, there are those of us who took money because
it was offered to you based on your specific circumstances,
either you met a certain income level or your job
was impassion.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
It was supposed to bail out people got thrown out
of work, and that may be true for businesses that
didn't even necessarily need it, but it was offered and
they qualified, so I course you take it.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
It was going to be forgiven, and that's, of course
why we're dealing with the inflation that we're dealing with.
But there were plenty of folks who saw opportunities to
take no advantage.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Nobody crosschecked this for four years because they're on the
county payroll. And now you have another database of people
getting county unemployment checks and nobody. I mean, I don't
think you need complicated software to match those names up.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
And this is these folks were submitting dozens of documents
claiming that they were not employed, so they were many
opportunities to catch them. So but one of these had
submitted more than forty documents detailing how they were not
making any money at all. Meanwhile, they were still going
to work full time.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
What a bunch of crooks? Crazy? Could they all end up?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Really?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
End up in jail here.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well, there are these are mostly felony charges, and that
would typically come with jail time.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I don't I don't want to house arrest here. No,
I don't want probation. I want to see people behind bars.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, that could absolutely hopp I want to go visit
them and then laugh at them. You can give Nathan
Hawkman a call and see what his plan is here.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Some of these people have already appeared in court for
preliminary hearings.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Others are awaiting. All right, very good, thank you, my pleasure.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Michael Munks four fifteen, don't forget to not sign off
at four o'clock.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
We need you are to be dead air. Some would
say better, wow, I but if I run out, I
prepared to go right to four. I didn't prepare for
four to fifteen. Something tells me you will have something
to talk about. I might run on Eric replay this segment.
(08:35):
We can do that.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah, we might do that, just as a protest. All right,
when we come back. What I want to go, let
me tell you about the two thirty guests. All right,
I'll tell you about that when we come back.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
You know what I want to do.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I don't want to read the names of these these
these criminals, these eleven criminals who were charged with stealing money.
This is the new list on top of the thirteen
from earlier this year. These people ought to be publicized,
so that's next.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
M six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Have I mentioned the moist line today?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Probably not eight seven seven moist eighty six, eight seven
seven moist eighty six the actual numbers eight seven seven
sixty six four seven eight eight six.
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Or use the talkback feature on.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
The iHeartRadio app and vent all your anger and frustration.
What's going on in the world, and there's a there's
a lot going wrong, especially around here. I'm going to
go through the list of employees who Nathan Hockman says
was stealing money from us LA County Stack taxpayers. I'll
(09:45):
tell you about because they have the names. We're going
to go through that in just a second. I did
want to tell you that there are two really good
short documentaries on the fires. One is called Paradise Abandoned
by Rob Montz. He's the director. We had him on Friday.
He focused on the Palisades and then also a second
(10:08):
one called Big Rock Burning, and that's more about Malibu,
and you should watch both. Both of them are less
than a half hour. One's twenty three minutes, one's twenty
nine minutes. And you will come to the inescapable strong
feeling that they let it burn, because I'm I think
(10:33):
they let it burn by day. I mean everyone from
the mayor to the fire chief, to the fire officials involved,
and everyone. The governor, the mayor, the fire chiefs. We've
had three of them, and they all lie and cover
up and confuse the issue. But they let it burn. Now,
(10:55):
why did they let it burn? I don't know. These
two filmmakers don't say anything definitively, but they let it burn.
It They are very very early on stop fighting the fire.
They were overwhelmingly unprepared. It's almost like they never heard
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of a fire risk before. In Los Angeles during Santa
Ana season, when you had five days of warnings, it's
quite striking. It made me angry. I was sitting Saturday afternoon.
We were going out Saturday night, actually, we went to
the Palisades Christmas tree lighting, and my wife was getting
ready and I started watching these two documentaries waiting for
(11:38):
her and it just made me furious. So it's Paradise
Abandoned and it's Big Rock Burning. You got to watch
both of them. Paradise bands on YouTube. Big Rock Burning
is on vimeo. You might have to pay a few
dollars for that one, but you ought to. And I
think the fire scandal, the lack of preparation and the
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lack of response, the lies and the cover up from
Bass to Newsome everybody running the fire departments, the DWP,
which a Keona is, this will eventually blow up into
a much bigger scandal. There is a really foul, ugly
story behind all this and I'm never given up on it.
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Now back to the criminals that get hired here in
Los Angeles County. Uh, you know we've got we've got
five women who run the LA County Supervisors Board. It's
very diverse, and one of them is sane. But the
other four, uh, Catherine Bargery saying, but Hildes, Elise janis Han,
(12:46):
Lindsey Horvath, Holly Mitchell are are stupid and insane. And
they had a system of giving out unemployment benefits that
had apps absolutely no there was no security protocol on it.
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People stole money left and right, including twenty four La
County employees. Twenty four people who worked for the taxpayers
stole more tax money.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I've got their names.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Alejandro Mendez Albarrado, forty five years old, grown man, a
Sheriff's Department senior equipment maintenance worker, stole twenty one thousand
dollars in unemployment benefits. Brandon Joseph Batiste, thirty four, DWP
warehouse employee.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Boy, are we getting screwed by the DWP? Right?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
He stole ninety three hundred and unemployment benefits, says the DA.
Dina Liza Wolff, fifty six year old woman, a nurse,
a Department of Health Services licensed vocational nurse. It's eleven thousand,
seven hundred dollars that's going on here. Elizabeth Yacinto, sixty
(14:09):
eight years old, wanted to get one big easy payday.
Department of Public Social Services eligibility worker stall eleven thousand,
seven hundred dollars, says the DA. Georgette McKinney, this is
the one. Michael Monks was talking about. Child Support Services
Department Supervising Child Support specialist.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Holy mackerel, that is a long title.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Stole fifty five thousand dollars using her own identity, and
she also stole another seventy six thousand dollars using twenty
eight fictitious identities. She's fifty nine years old. You add
that up, that's one hundred and thirty Wait a second,
(14:53):
how much is that? That's one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars.
Now that that's wrong. Here, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
One hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Georgette McKinney. Thank you, Georgette.
That's all great. I'll keep going to work. I'll keep
paying my taxes, no problem. Jessica Alcorta. Another thief, according
to the DA, An Lada Why a District Attorney's Office
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Legal Office support assistant. She's working in the DA's office
and she stole thirty six thousand dollars. DA office Legal
Office Support assistant. Christine Luise Canaro. Another nurse, Department of
Health Services. I thought nurses were good people. Eleven thousand,
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seven hundred dollars stolen, says the DA. Manuel Martinez, forty
three years old, Department of Health Services, Electrician Stall eleven thousand,
seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Rachel Nalutaya forty two.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
A nursing attendant Department of Health Services stole twenty three
thousand dollars. Oh, man, if you get a county nurse,
come over your house, hide your wallet. Oh lock, you're safe.
There's another one, Sue Manigh sixty nine years old. Oh
my god, a fourth nurse.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
This can't be.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Department of Health Services licensed vocational nurse stall eleven eight
hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Four nurses. Oh, this is terrible. Terry Beasley. The second.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Not much of an improvement on the first, forty four
years old Probation Department Detention Services officer Man's in law
enforcement stall eleven seven hundred dollars. And there were thirteen
others that got charged earlier this year for a total
of twenty four Oh are they public servants? They're working
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for the public, right, A bunch of crooks? Is everybody
a crook? When we come back. One Noah lives in
la He's seen what I've seen. The city is filthy
(17:09):
and disgusting and filled with trash, and he got so
sick of it he quit his full time job to
clean the city streets himself. One is coming on the
show with us because He says, the city simply doesn't
want to do it anymore. They don't want to clean
(17:29):
the streets. We're going to tell his story. Wan will
be on with us next.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
We are at every day from one until four, and
I'm told we're staying on today till four point fifteen,
whole extra segment because the Chargers game starts at four
point fifteen, or at least the coverage starts then. And
I guess Conway didn't want to work an extra eight minutes.
So I am doing because I'm a team player. I'm
(18:02):
doing my civic duty and I will do the extra
eight minutestil four thirteen. That's very nice of you, Thank you.
One no Ula is coming on. I saw this story.
Matthew Seedorf did a report on Fox eleven and I
read about it. One no Ula. He has quit his
(18:24):
job here in Los Angeles to clean the city streets.
I completely identified with what he sees and what he's
doing here. The trash has just gotten so overwhelming and disgusting,
and Karen Bass's government refuses to clean the garbage. And
he says very simply why do we have to chase them?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Why?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
It really frustrates me because I do the job and
then I chase the city workers to come and pick
up the trash. Why do their people come and not
pick up the trash. Let's get one the ula on one.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
How are you hey?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
How you doing?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
How you doing? Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I really appreciate it. I am, I am.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
This is great what you're doing. You have an Instagram
account at clean la with me. At clean La with me,
you got fifty six thousand Instagram followers because everybody is
seeing what you're seeing. Talk about how you ended up
quitting your job to pick up the city's trash.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
So I moved from Virginia about thirteen months ago looking for,
you know, some investment for my tech company. But then
when I was like three weeks here, I went to
Alicia's Park and the first thing I saw it was
so much right all over, and I was like, why
you know? I was like, okay, Virginia is clean. I'm Ecuadorian,
(19:53):
where I come from, is really clean city. And it
really kind of shocked.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Me to see it all this trash.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
So I decided to do the cleanups and my wife
and my son lives back in Ecuador. So I called
my wife. I said, hey, I think I'm going to
start cleaning, and she said, you are you crazy? I said,
I'm going to clean it. You know, I have no plans.
It was not just cleaning. And then she said, but
put it on social media. So that's why I created
(20:21):
Clean La with Me. And then in five weeks November
twenty second last year, I started cleaning and putting on
my cleaning Live with Me all my social media, you know,
all across the platforms and kind of I start going
via all my videos and I really enjoyed doing it,
you know, like come in and see all this this
trash streets Ali's parks everywhere. And I'm still new. I'm
(20:46):
still learning from La, you know, I'm still I've been
only fourteen months here in LA, and I see all
this trash and I was like, why this is one
of the best plays in the world in the plant
it and we have all this trash here, Like what's
going on? You know? And because when you don't live
in La, in California, you think California La is just
(21:10):
no trash? Is everything very nice? Because we see in TV,
you know, Hollywood and all this and we never think
there's going to be this much trash on the strip.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah, exact in.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
The movies and TV shows, they clean up the trash
before they shoot the film.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah. Yeah, what time do you come from in Ecuador?
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Quenca is that third city of Ecuador.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
I moved from Ecuador to to to USA about thirty
years ago.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
And coming to Los Angeles, you thought it would be
clean and glamorous and beautiful, and you see all this
trash all over the place. I mean, I've been to
Ecuador because my family and I we visited the Galapagos
Islands and we visited Kito, right, that's the that's the capital.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, we spent a few days there and it's really
a pretty city.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
And you don't have this problem in your town.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
No, I travel, you know, I traveled to Aquada to
see my wife every four months. You know, I go
for a week for two weeks, and we don't have
this problem because in my city that the mayor is
doing a very good job with the with the company
who pick up the trash, they have twenty four hours,
they have three ships eight hours take up all the
time cleaning the city. So my city is very very clean.
(22:32):
So when I go back, I don't have this trash problem,
you know.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I mean when it's not that hard.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
The console they have to train, the people. I have
so many times I go pick up okay, you know,
I start this nonprofit back and I was that's when
I quit my job. I make a decision to quit
my job and do full time this cleaner clean alt
with me because I had a non profit, you know,
(22:59):
and now I do every day. I do every day
solo and on Saturdays I have a volunteer. Sometimes I
have even thirty people that come and help in some area.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Thirty people volunteers. Now, now you're able to quit your
your job.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I mean because uh my.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
All my followers, all my community, they don't make when
when I don't have you know, I said, hey I
need four bags, they send me. They send me on
my uh you know, go fund me or whatever. They
send me the funds and I go get the trash,
you know. So that's why they have been supporting myself.
Because all my community, they are supporting me really good,
(23:37):
you know.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
So I've never heard of something like this. So you're
you're your your community is supporting you.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
You're not working every Saturday.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Wow. Yeah. And are these Ecuadorians or.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
No?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Most of the people I don't, I don't have any.
I do have like I have Ecuador and have Mexican
and they come sometimes to do help me. But I
never had any Ecuadorian come and help me.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
So these are people in l A here, these are
local cities. They're helping you and and they're donating to
go fund me.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Yes they I mean if you go on my on
my Instagram Instagram, you can see that all the links
I have there, even though I'm selling some totel buses,
you know, would I'll pack a tote bags that I'm
selling there so to support my very low to compare
the body. They have to clean up the city and
they're not doing it. And really it makes me mad
(24:38):
because I do all the work and they don't come
and pick up the trash or sometimes you know, I
have to go back and make another video saying hey,
why the city they come and pick up the trash,
and then post them and attack them, and then finally
they come and pick up I think that really this
(24:59):
is the first walk entry.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Right, well, it used to be.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Well, well, I don't know about Los Angeles. I don't
have to qualifies anymore. Have you talked to some of
the employees or any management the sanitation department? Have they
explained why they don't pick up the garbage regularly?
Speaker 4 (25:17):
So so on one time it was for three weeks
the trash at Myers that said what I cleaned? And
I called three one one up and I said, why
you not coming picked up the trash? And you know
the person that was behind on the phone, she said,
we just passed the information all their requests. We passed
information to LA Sanitation, and I don't know why l
(25:40):
Sanitation is not picking up. And then when I call
l A Sanitation, I don't remember what they said. This
is something like something like make no sense. And I'm like, okay,
But then, yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Got LA Sanitation that you had the right number there.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Uh yeah. And then and even sometimes I got, you know,
in a couple of places I gotta go back and
put it again another video. And then I think one
time even I got the console member getting involved. And
two times actually District eight and District thirteen, I believe.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Did you remember the names of the council members?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
The council member it was for Boyle Heights. What is
his name?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Boyle Heights and this.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
And and I can't remember the names.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, I'll go look it up.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, you know, after the commercial breaker district. Yeah, and
so what did he say or what did his staff
saybo Isabel Colrado, Oh forget Yes, I think you might
have saved the call.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
It's not worth it.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Actually, she because then I talked to her, and then
she emailed to I think three one one up or
l A La s annitation and they send me a
picture that they picked up the trash. But that was
after weeks of making maybe two or three requests. So
those kind of things, those kinds of things, you know,
it makes me like, come on, and no, I mean,
(27:12):
she says, I cannot believe it. This is happening in La.
Sometimes I don't feel like I'm in La.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I know, I don't either.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
It didn't used to be like this when I moved
here back in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
It wasn't like this.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yeah, but something over the last ten years, everything's completely
falling apart, and this administration just a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Workers don't care. I mean, we just did a story.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
There's twenty four workers in the county who are stealing
thousands and thousands of dollars in unemployment benefits with fake IDs,
and I don't know what's happened. LA is run by
criminals and is staffed by criminals now, and they don't
do the basic things like picking up garbage. I don't
know what one I got to run. Thank you for
(27:56):
coming on one.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Thank you so much for supporting my my mission. And
please have them follow me my clean and my social
media clean lay with me and have them support. Hopefully
we can have one thousand and one million people doing this.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Oh yeah, we're gonna need it. Wanda Ula and it's
at clean La with Me. That's the Instagram account at
clean La with Me. It's got fifty six thousand followers.
Join them, help them clean up the city. Because Karen
Bass refuses to U more coming up.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
After three o'clock. We're gonna we're gonna talk with at
the slow down. Justin Msoth. Justin wrote to us about
the fire, the Eaton fire in Alta, Dina, and he
says that he and his wife lost her family house
(28:53):
thirty five years the family's been living in it, all
their possessions to the Eaton fire, and inspired by Spencer Pratt,
who's been carrying on a campaign to get at the
truth of the Palisades fire, he wants to come on
now and talk about all the institutions that failed the
(29:14):
people in now Tadena, the La County Fire Department, the
Sheriff's Department, the board of supervisors that are still avoiding responsibility.
We're going to talk with Justin Emsoft, one of our listeners,
coming up after three o'clock.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
You're going to want to hear him.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I don't understand what's going wrong with a lot of people.
New York City is going to have a full blown
communist takeover in just a few weeks. And the old
mayor who they kicked out actually had been doing a
lot of good, Eric Adams.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I know he had his issues.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
But they had been clearing out homeless encampments.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
They had been cleaning up parks.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
There's one particular park, Washington Square Park, excuse me, and
I've been there. And last month the FEDS had a
massive drug bust drug dealing operation, and the NYPD flooded
the park with seventy extra cops, a twenty four to
seven crackdown. They wanted to get rid of all the junkies,
(30:18):
all the homeless people, and the neighbors were thrilled because
one LU student named Amelia Lewis was walking to class
the other day when some weirdo with a long history
of sex crimes came up behind her, slapped her butt,
(30:39):
yanked her hair, threw it to the ground. Amelia Lewis said,
these people are disgusting. They should not be able to
walk around targeting girls. I should not be scared to
walk to my nine thirty am class. Now they caught
the guy, James Rizzo, long rap sheet of crimes.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Well, the next day he was back.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
The next day he burglarized four apartments in the neighborhood.
I say all this because the New York Post has
a story that since the Feds and the New York
Police Department have cleaned up the park, busted up a
drug dealing ring, got rid of the homeless who were
(31:22):
assaulting New York University students. Some of the NYU kids
are claiming that now Washington Square Park has lost its
charm because there are no more homeless, no more drug addicts,
no more criminals.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Are they in backwards land.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I mean, I'm going to New York on Wednesday night,
like I'm very happy this happened, and I'm doing there
sixty thousand dollars a year ago to NYU. They are
now drawing messages in chalk on the park walkways. The
message is where are our neighbors?
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
If I see this, I'm going to take some pictures
for you please.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
First year student Caspin Berkeley. I feel like a large
community is gone. This park was a home for them.
Caspin likes to spend a lot of time feeding pigeons.
I don't know if that's a I guess that's a girl.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I don't know. Another woman.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Sarah Karp is a public policy student and m one
you the criminalization of poverty is never the solution to anything,
which is exactly a talking point with the Democratic Socialists
of America. See when the cops and the Feds bust
up a drug ring and get rid of the homeless
(32:47):
people and the junkies, most people cheer, and these DSA
people say, well, no, you're criminalizing poverty.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
This is what mom Donnie believes.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
The new incoming mayor, this is what four members of
our city Council believe in la It ruins the form
of community that these people have built and puts them
in riskier situations.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
She's talking about the homeless junkies.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
NYU's daily crime log is full of incidents around Washington
Square Park. One hundred and two were reported last month
before the cleanup. Stalking, harassment, fondling, robbery, larceny, extortion that
go after the college girls.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
All these horny, homeless drug.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Addicts and junkies go after the college girls, and the
college girls are complaining that the neighborhood's been ruined.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
You draw your own conclusions there.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
We've got Brigina die Gastino in for Deborah Mark.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Coming up next with the news.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Justin Msoft, one of our listeners, to talk about how
fresh rated he is with the response and the aftermath
of the Altadena fire. That's all next Regina live in
the KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear
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