March 13, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (03/13) - Stephen Cloobeck comes on the show to talk about why he is running for California Governor in the 2026 election. Fire relief fraud is running rampant right now. A Texas embalmer was arrested for mutilating a corpse.
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Colbelt Show on demand. All right, let's get to it.
There's a lot of people running for governor. Steve Klubeck
is a Democrat, a very successful businessman, and he has
been all over the state because obviously things are a mess.
He's a businessman, very successful. We'll talk about that. He's
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a turnaround artist. He can he can take failing businesses
and bring them back to life and make them into
quite a success. And that is the kind of capabilities
I think you'd agree that California needs. I mean, if
you heard that Kamala Harris thing we just played last segment,
it's like, enough of that, enough of this nonsense. Right,
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the rest of the country is rebooting itself. We've got
we've got to go in a completely different direction here.
Let's get Steve Kolbeck on running for governor and talk
about his background and what he sees is wrong with
California and what he can do to help fix it. Steven,
how are you, John?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Thank you? I'm good. How are you today?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I'm very good.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Let's uh, let's give a background as like just a
short biography of your business life.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Well, you know, John, I'm a product of California, California
values kindergarten through first year of college, came back to
southern California, thought I was going to be a surgeon,
worked at Cedar Sanai doing heart research for a while,
and slipped into business and learned in the street, build
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shopping centers throughout California. But I grew up where we
could ride our bike to the market, we could go
to Little League, and it was safe. California has become, unfortunately,
not the land of aspiration, the greatest date for education.
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It used to be the bully pulpit of the United States.
What a great place to aspire within, which is what
I grew up in. I'm a product of that. And
it's not affordable, it's not liveable, it's not workable. We've
lost our way. We lost our way. And you know,
I've fixed the most broken of business and people have
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bet against me each and every time and it's interesting
because I learned business in the street. I learned politics
and policy in the street. I had really great mentors.
Mike Milton, Harry Reid became an adopted day at forty
years a lifelong Democrat, blue Dog Democrat, balance sheet INtime statement.
We don't steal, John is zero. None of this nine
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hundred and fifty dollars free me. Give me a break.
If I was a kid and stole nine hundred and
fifty dollars or a dollar, I don't know, I wouldn't
be afraid of the police officer. I'd be afraid of
my father. That's where I come from. I have even
been called on to fix federally the Tourism Department of
the United States that did not exist. We lost a
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decade of tourism travel in the United States, and tourism
is an export. There's no cap X, there's no money required,
and rejuvenated international visitation in the United States. It's called
brand USA. Highly accreative, nonpartisan, just get the job done.
And it's still in existence today, fourteen years later, with
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an outsized return. I'm used to seeing results those in cards,
having responsibility and treating everyone with respect, you know, respect, responsibility,
results old school. Our leadership today is not accountable. They
don't execute and there's no enforcement. Go look at edd
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fraud in our state. Tens of billions of dollars uncollected.
People forgot. They want you to forget their mistakes. Now
we got to collect it. Where is the tens of
billions of dollars of homelessness unaccounted for in the state level,
and not about Los Angeles. We've just seen what's gone
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on with the lack of accounting and chasing away all
this revenue from our state, people leaving close to a
million people fleeing and businesses because California is not affordable, libable,
and workable. And instead of electing those that we have
in the past, that beautiful social experiment we all wanted, Well,
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I guess that's failed, as we've seen, and if we
want to continue to elect that type of leadership, expect
the same results. We've got to make some demonstrative changes
and enough is enough. We've heard that before. But I mean,
you want to elect leaders like Harris for example, Imagine this, John.
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You have investors and bankers, and you want to take
money for a great result, build a project, and you
blow through a billion three in ninety days. Do you
think those investors and bankers would give you money again?
When is enough enough? We have California values here which
are different than a lot of states, and this is
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the greatest state in the United States. We're a country.
Job where a country, We're going to start acting like
a country and be on offense not defense. We don't resist,
we unify. And I don't know anyone else that is
running for office right now that has dealt with President
Trump which I have, that can actually represent our great
state toe to toe with the federal government and site
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for our California values in a thoughtful way. And the
federal government just wants to see respect out of California,
and we have not shown that respect in my opinion.
But there are solutions. There are solutions, And that's why
I'm running because I interviewed every single person that was
running for office, and I said, this is the best
we got. Are you kidding me? Not one person assigned
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the front of a check, John.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Not one? Not one is what.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Signed the front of a check? Yes, who's made payroll?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
John?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I know I've not only made payroll, John, I've come
out of my pocket for payroll. I know what it
feels like. Great jobs, and I live in the real
world and I get things done. I'm not in the
red carpet, John, I don't have I don't put hair
gel in my hair, and I just roll up my
sleeves and get the job done. No red carpet, no,
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no trophies. I want everyone to do well. Everyone's a
customer to me. In California. You know, everyone's a customer,
and that our customers, all of us, because it's our money.
It's not Sacramento's money, it's our money. And we got
to think about unintended consequences when we make decisions, and
we've got to make life simpler and easily or easier
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to operate. I know this sounds like, wow, it can be.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Done, though, well it was being done not that long ago.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, but we go ahead.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
No, I'm just saying, it's really only in the last
ten years where the bottom is falling out of the place.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
But you're right that I would agree with that. But
how did we let this slip away? We did this together.
We can't point fingers at each other, we can't be
vile with each other. We have to have civility, and
we just saw the worst of the worst right in January, Yeah,
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didn't we? Where leadership has failed us on the most
important concept of why we pay taxes for life safety?
Life safety and what are we doing about it? And
we're watching them not even levels set us as to
win out to Dina and when the Palisades will come back,
You've got arguments between the city, of the county, the
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state who's in charge.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
John, I want to talk more about that, but I
got to take a break for news and a couple
of commercials, little business, and then we'll continue. I want
to talk about Palisades and now to Diana because that is, unfortunately,
the greatest, most tragic example of all the political failures
that we have in the state, and it's going to
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dominate life in Southern California for years to come because
we're all going to have to pay for it one
way or another.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
So we're going to continue here with Stephen Klubeck.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
He's a Democrat running for governor, a successful businessman all
his life, and he has, like he said, he's talked
to hundreds of people, businessmen, lawmakers, governors, senators, congressman, mayors,
everybody in the state to figure out what's happened, why
and how we can live better, and we'll talk about
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his run for governor, and we'll also focus first on
the Palisades Altadena situation.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
That's next.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
We're going to continue with Stephen Klubeck, businessman running for
governor as a Democrat, and he has been involved in
a lot of successful business can turn around major companies,
and he's looking around California and he's seeing what we're
all seeing. And he spent a lot of time talking
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with I was talking with most of the major California
leaders in politics and business industry. And he's running for governor.
There's got to be a better, like he keeps saying,
it's just not affordable, livable, or workable. So let's continue
with Stephen Klubeck. And we left off with the with
the Palisades Altadena fire, and that's such it's the worst
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example of a total failure of our political leaders that
I've ever seen in my life. Because you had a
mayor that was way out of the country, you had
a fire department that's been half funded, you had a
water reservoir that was completely empty. You had the fire
hydroents were broken. They only have half the firefighters. They
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need a lot of the fire engines need to be fixed.
The warning systems in La County were broken. A big
chunk of Alta Dina was never warned until three point
thirty in the morning. And now no one ever took responsibility,
nobody ever apologized, nobody's explained publicly exactly how we're going
to get out of this, and they just go on
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about their days. Basically, the attitude is no comment and
it's going to talk about talk about what you've seen
and felt in the last couple of months since it happened.
About the response of our government.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
You know, John, it's if that wasn't a wake up
calling all of us, every single person in oh should
be booted. I mean, if those hosts work for a company,
if they own their a company there to be out
of business, or if they work for a company, they'd
be you know, severely reprimanded, have their paydoct or removed.
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Our text dollars are supposed to protect us and serve
us life safety, which is police and fired. I mean,
I you didn't hear from me during that period of
time socially because I was out in the field every day,
every day, and I was taught never to politicize it.
To dister, because you know, I've been the guy to
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help fix the politicians' problems in the past. I've been
called in numerous times to fix the political elected folks problems.
And I was out in the field helping first responders,
getting them water, food, protein bars. And I'm in some
fire stations. John, there's no washer and dryers in what world?
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And I start doing due diligence and talking more importantly,
not talking, but listening, which is what we've forgotten. To
listen to folks as to what really occurred. And to
have the leader of our community go out of town
when they knew prior to going on the trip. And
you want to blame it on not knowing, You've got
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to better know everything. If the leader of our community
doesn't know everything that's going on, what are they going
to just point the blame point thinkers of people. They
got to know everything. Otherwise, get better people that work
with you. Don't look, they all let us down, John,
How can you have reservoirs they're empty over what one
hundred and fifty one hundred seventy thousand dollars and it's
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not fixed for a year. In what world? In what world?
How can we have fire trucks not repaired, replaced, fire
station's not built that should have been built. You've got
to fund police and fire, and you've got to make
sure that it's sacricanc You don't touch that. That's one
on one. So we've elected poor leaders that have never
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signed to the front of a check. I told you
that before. They don't know what they don't know. They
have no experience him on us. But never again, John Right,
we can't forget this, No.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
We can't.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
And it frustrates me that nobody wants, nobody in power
wants to talk about it anymore. And they're not even
being pressed all that hard by the media out here.
It's almost like it's ancient history.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
They should be well because they want us to forget. No,
we shall not forget. We shall not forget. And this
now uncovers a lot of issues. All these power lines
that are up in the air with transformers, well we're
going to put them back up in the air. We're
going to bury them underground. And that takes time. I
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mean I don't know if you saw the press conference
with the mayor and Brad Sherman talking to the President
of the United States. Yes, oh, he had a field
day with them. I just wish I was there that
day because I would have said, you know, mister President,
you know we're both in the hospitality business, and we
both build things all over the world. I operated in
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thirty five countries and you've operated too, And you and
I both know that these folks can't go on their
property today or tomorrow. Beam has got to take care
of that hazardous waste quickly and efficiently, and that's on you,
mister President. That's on you. So when you get that done,
then every property owner has the right to either take
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care of it themselves or opt into the Army Corps
of Engineers paying for them to do it. So though,
by the way, if it's the Armor Corp of Engineers,
that's on you, mister President. You've got to get that
done efficiently and effectively too. And if people want to
do it themselves, they've got to do it. But this
is where government's got to commence on. If they don't
do it, then government's got to step in and do
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it for them. And charge them a surcharge for them
not doing it, because you don't want these communities, both
Altadena and Pasadena, to look like a war zone or
a construction site for the next seven to ten years.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Right, what's yeah, No, I'm not people people feel and
I got a lot of friends in the Palisades. I'm
sure you do too. They are are helpless and hopeless
and there's no leader.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Oh I'll give you a better one, John. I found
out the other day the reservoirs in Alton Dina are
not operating properly. The reservoirs.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I didn't know that too.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, this is going to come out.
This is hot news. The reservoirs in Altadina. You can't
forget about Alsadina. It's not all about Pasadena. I mean Palisades, right, Okay,
you know that's that's the bougie area. You know, it
gets a lot of attention. What about Altadina. Altadena is
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just as important, equally as important. You got three reservoirs
that already provided proper water in what world? In what world?
So that's going to come out soon and hopefully there'll
be some solutions on that. And by the way, has
that reservoir passed in Palisades? Has that been fixed yet?
How come that hasn't been fixed too?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh shocking? Two months they still haven't filled it up.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Okay, so you got why? Why Why wasn't it fixed immediately?
And the same thing with the three reservoirs in Altadina.
Why let's start there.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
To me, it's like filling up your kid's pool with
a hose. It's not that complicated to fill a reservoir
with water, and they just don't and they never talk
about it. It doesn't even come up with the public meetings.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
All of them. That's what's most important to get those
reservoirs fixed and filled. Okay, yeah, Step one, How are
we going to handle the infrastructure to or water, power,
gas electric? How are you going to fix it? What
are you gonna do? We're gonna do the same old,
same old, but we're gonna come in with new, creative
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solutions that will last the test of time to the future.
What are we going to do? I mean, who wants
to even live in Alcadena? If you if your home
survived in a construction warzone, where you're gonna shop, We're
gonna get gas, where you're going to your place of
worship and where the kids going to school. What's the
solutions for the infrastructure. You got to have infrastructure built
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out at the same time of people building homes. As
the real question job insurance. That topic insurance. We got
an insurance crisis in this state, or it does too,
by the way, But how do we fix that? How
do we fix that? But how do the people deal
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with you know, the different buckets of where they sit.
Some people have no insurance, Well that's a problem. How
do they keep the vultures from purchasing their properties? Some
people have inadequate insurance and they have a gap, okay
a gap because they're homes paid off, their mortgage paid off,
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but they got to rebuild a new home with a
new mortgage. It's probably double the rate for their principle
and interest is going to be a lot more. Do
they have the cashload to support that? And they got
to build a heart and structure, one would think, and
that perhaps is not even the appraise value of the home.
It's probably one and a half time. So where's that
extra cash coming from?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Steven I gotta take a break to do the news.
Can we do this again soon you come back on.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I can't wait. Darn's enjoyable, all.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Right, Stephen Klubec.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
He's a Democrat businessman running for governor here in California,
and I'm sure he's got even a lot more beyond
what he said in the last half hour. And we'll
talk against student. Stephen, Thanks again for your time.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
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six forty.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
It's a John cobelt Show I AM six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Coming up after three o'clock.
Kevin Kylie, the congressman from northern California, former legislator. He
knows he was around when this California high speed rail
thing was blossoming, and he wants the FBI to investigate
high speed rail because he suspects, I suspect it has
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been one big criminal operations operation. It's hard to believe
that laws, criminal laws haven't been violated because thirteen billion
dollars has disappeared, and we don't have any rail we
don't have any trains, we don't have any rail stations.
There's no high speed anything in the near future. It's
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not even running anywhere close to La and San Francisco,
let alone San Diego and Sacramento, and it is sut
and it's happened in front of our eyes very clearly.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Everyone has seen it.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
And just like the disaster in the Palisades and how
to Dina, everybody responsible just goes on living their lives,
never talking about it, never responding, never pressed very hard,
and they go on bumbling around in the high speed
rail case, wasting money. It's just it's just so weird here.
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It's gotten so weird in California. And part of it
is the complete lack of any sustained coverage on these
issues by anyone else in the media except us.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
So we're shouting as loud as we can here.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
And we just had a really good conversation with Stephen Klubek,
and I definitely want to talk more to him in
the future. Stephen is a very successful businessman and you
should look up his bio to see his long history,
and he he sees what all normal people see, that
California is a disaster. And he talked about the end
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about the lack of insurance that's going to be available,
and that's a whole separate issue for the people in Palisades,
but it's going to affect everyone because our insurance rates
are going to be affected by the huge payouts that
are going to be made in Altadena and Palisades. Also,
what's reared its ugly head again, he mentioned the tens
of billions of dollars that was stolen from the Unemployment
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to apartment during the COVID lockdown, when Gavin Newsom and
his Labor secretary Julie Sue had a system where you
could apply for unemployment benefits during COVID and get them,
and there were just an incredible number of fraudulent claims,
and eighty five percent of the fraudulent claims were from
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outside the country, and very little of it has been
recovered and very little has been prosecuted. Well, literally, some
of the same people who stole money from the Unemployment
department during COVID are now stealed trying to steal money
from FEMA. Over the Palisades and Olta Dina fires.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Here's the story.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Out of the La Times, they arrested three people, Joyce
Turner fifty five years old from Texas, Tyrone Barnes thirty eight,
of Paramount and had desha Robertson thirty six of Lakewood.
They were arrested on Tuesday for defrauding FEMA. These are
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federal charges. They took advantage of a FEMA program and
filed false claims. And I'll tell you how in a moment,
but they they take real addresses and file the claims
on behalf of the people who live in the homes
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or who lived on the properties.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
And this happened to friends of ours. They went to.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Apply for some kind of FEMA assistance and said that
somebody had already stolen their identity. I mean they filed
within days after the disaster. Somebody had already stolen their identity.
There's an incredible number of thieves around the world, and
they spent a lot of time looting California because we
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had that Gavin use him has no controls on the outflow.
Why do you think he admitted that they spent twenty
four billion on homelessness and they don't know where the
money went. In La City, La County, that that criminal
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hotbed LASSA two and a half billion dollars, don't know
where it went. High speed rail thirteen billion dollars, nobody
knows where it went. Unemployment thirty to fifty billion dollars
out the door. Nobody knows where it went. I mean
that's just off the top of my head. Four major,
multi billion dollar frauds with no records left behind. And
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then you know you have everything going on in Washington,
which is a gigantic scam. Well, here's about these three characters, Joyce, Tyrone,
and Hidishia. Joyce Turner submitted an app location January ninth.
She jumped right on this, claiming that she had a
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Pasadena rental property on Walnut Street that got damaged in
the fire. Then she called the FEMA disaster hotline the
next day to change the address to a townhouse on
Delray Avenue. So one day it's a house on Wall Street,
next day it's a townhouse on Delray Avenue. She received
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more than twenty five thousand dollars from FEMA. She forged
Elise to make it appear as though she lived in
the home at on Delray.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
It stole somebody's identity.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
The Delray Avenue property was damaged, but his owners had
not applied for disaster assistance because that home was actually vacant.
It's been up for sale since last year. The owners
don't live there anymore. And this woman, somehow, I don't know,
notice the damage baby noticed that nobody was there and decided, well,
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I live there now, I'll just contact FEMA, and she
actually got more than twenty five thousand dollars. Joyce Turner
has never lived in California. She lives in Texas.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
She also get this.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
She also applied for unemployment insurance from the EDD in
August of twenty twenty and then again in January of
this year. In twenty twenty five, and the Unemployment Department
under Gavenusom paid her more than fifty thousand dollars on
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just one of the claims. So she made twenty five
grand on a FEMA claim for the fire, fifty grand
on an unemployment claim from the state.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Then there's a.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
There's another property on Harding Avenue and the owners there,
they're only identified by their initials MS and as they
were told when they applied to FEMA that someone else
had already submitted an application for their property. And this
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is Hidishia Robertson, suspected of filing a fraudulent application. She
was seeking benefits of about a damaged dressed or residence
in the Palisades, except Robertson did not own it, did
not rent, did not live there, did not work at
the property. She got twenty five thousand dollars to Dcia Robertson.
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Then she submitted a letter to FEMA asking for more money,
saying I've lost both my home and workplace, leaving me
in an extremely difficult financial and personal situation.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
She also tried to.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Obtain more FEMA benefits for some property in San Francisco. Now,
if you get convicted of fraud in connection with a
major disaster, you can get up to thirty years in prison.
I hope they get all thirty years. They should all
die in prison. If we started sentencing people so they
die in prison, this stuff will stop. But these people, again,
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these aren't kids pulling a prank. Troce Turner's fifty five,
Tyron Barnes thirty eight, Dhia Robertson is thirty six.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
This is what they do. This is how they earn money.
You have to have.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Do you have to And this is why I don't
have much sympathy for government employees squealing that they're getting
cut in the federal government. But because look at this,
these are all government workers. Rubber stamping all these claims,
letting the fraud happen. Nobody doing even the slightest check.
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I mean, all you got to do is like a
Google search to see who owns a property.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
More.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Coming up three o'clock Kevin Kylie. He's the congressman Northern California.
He wants the FBI to investigate that criminal operation, California's
high speed rail. We'll talk to Kevin Kylie in about
fifteen minutes.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
About about fifteen to ten to fifteen minutes, we're gonna
have Kevin Kylie on. The Congressman wants the FBI investigating
high speed rail because the criminals there. All right, I
have a disturbing story involving an embalmer at a funeral home. Yeah,
you are going to go oh on this one. Her
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name is Amber Laddermilk's thirty four years old. She works
as an embalmer at the Memorial Mortuary and Crematory in Houston.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
She's licensed. Do you have to have a license?
Speaker 5 (30:02):
I would hope so.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Can't just let anybody come in off the street.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
I don't know who would want that job.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Anyway, Well, this is the kind of employee you get.
A man named Charles Rodriguez died. He's fifty eight years old,
and his body was taken to the mortuary. Charles was
a bad man. He was a registered sex offender. He'd
been charged with sexual assault twenty years ago. He was
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on the registry. He died in natural causes. Well, the
body comes in, and, according to two other employees at
the mortuary, louder Milk, when she heard what Rodriguez had done,
stabbed him twice in the grind in the cremation room.
Now he's already dead.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Yeah, yeah, twice in the grind made her feel better.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, well, and then cut off his penis.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
What'd she do with it?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
And then.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I don't know how to say this, she relocated the penis,
uh huh into an opening where yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Like the northern most opening.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Eric's trying to figure it out, and I'm sort of
giving him a.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Well, is making the motion to south, and John just
said north north.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
I'm thinking, okay, well, then maybe it's north. Okay, then
forget it, Eric, Sorry, start at the top of your head.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Yes, okay, I.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Thought it was somewhere.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Now.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
One of the witnesses was an embalming student. He'd never
seen this before, and in fact, Ladimirk said, you didn't
see anything.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Or else you're going to be next.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Well, actually it was.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
He was told that in a manner that he perceived
as to be threatened exactly.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
How he deterpreted it as he should.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
The second witness showed up a little later and noticed
that Charles Rodriguez's grain area was quote disfigured. When this
person asked ladder Milk what had happened, Laddermik said that
the deceased had a lot going on with him. Okay,
(32:26):
the the prosecutor says, this case is about two troubled people,
the victim, who is a registered sex offender, and the defendant,
who is accused of viciously attacking his dead body. No
matter what what thinks of his life, the law requires
that he be treated with dignity in death. She is
(32:48):
now in jail five thousand dollars bail. She has been fired.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Oh boy, there's so many things to say about had
a scalpel.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
So it was one quick slice.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
You know, he didn't feel anything.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
That's what I thought. What's the big deal here?
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Except the family members right, Well, if any family members
showed up a funeral.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, I'm not sure he got much of a crowd.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Who cares.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Well, there you go. What was the harm here, He's
already dead. She got she got a little.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
The witnesses, they were appalled.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Yeah, the first guy was a little shook up because
you know, he's she was still holding the scalpel. Yeah,
it's like, hey, you didn't see anything. You're right, I
didn't see anything.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Who told on? Who told on?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I don't know, I don't know. I guess I guess.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Well, I mean, once once it was cut off and
was relocated, it was a lot of evidence.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Everyone can see.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
That is so disgusting.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
That most disgusting.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yeah, you know, and I picked that one over a
couple of other story also would be offensive.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Wow, well this was quite offensive.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Okay, Well I was holding on to it. You weren't
here yesterday. Oh wow, Yeah, I just I'll just save
this coming. That's right, all right, Kevin Kylie. H I
five is Kevin Kyllie. I wouldn't be following. Yeah, that story,
well I have to follow it.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Unfortunately we have you as a buffer in between. He's
the Republican congressman in northern California. It's in the state
Assembly for years, and now he's in Congress and he
knows all about the horrors of high speed rail. He
is asking the FBI director Cash Pattel to investigate high
speed rail seventeen years old, thirteen billion gone, no track,
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no trains, no stations, no nothing. That is next, Kevin Kylie, Debra.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
Mark, I'm offended, actually offended at that story.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
So I don't know how to go.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
On at what that I that I told the.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Story commutilated penis.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Well, I mean you take it up with what's her name?
See how she reacts Loudermilk, Amber Louder.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Oh, yeah, I'm gonna have a conversation.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, you call Amber Louder. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
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There's a lot of people running for governor. Steve Klubeck
is a Democrat, a very successful businessman, and he has
been all over the state because obviously things are a mess.
He's a businessman, very successful. We'll talk about that. He's
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a turnaround artist. He can he can take failing businesses
and bring them back to life and make them into
quite a success. And that is the kind of capabilities
I think you'd agree that California needs. I mean, if
you heard that Kamala Harris thing we just played last segment,
it's like, enough of that, enough of this nonsense. Right,
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the rest of the country is rebooting itself. We've got
we've got to go in a completely different direction here.
Let's get Steve Kolbeck on running for governor and talk
about his background and what he sees is wrong with
California and what he can do to help fix it. Steven,
how are you, John?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Thank you? I'm good. How are you today?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I'm very good.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Let's uh, let's give a background as like just a
short biography of your business life.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Well, you know, John, I'm a product of California, California
values kindergarten through first year of college, came back to
southern California, thought I was going to be a surgeon,
worked at Cedar Sanai doing heart research for a while,
and slipped into business and learned in the street, build
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shopping centers throughout California. But I grew up where we
could ride our bike to the market, we could go
to Little League, and it was safe. California has become, unfortunately,
not the land of aspiration, the greatest date for education.
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It used to be the bully pulpit of the United States.
What a great place to aspire within, which is what
I grew up in. I'm a product of that. And
it's not affordable, it's not liveable, it's not workable. We've
lost our way. We lost our way. And you know,
I've fixed the most broken of business and people have
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bet against me each and every time and it's interesting
because I learned business in the street. I learned politics
and policy in the street. I had really great mentors.
Mike Milton, Harry Reid became an adopted day at forty
years a lifelong Democrat, blue Dog Democrat, balance sheet INtime statement.
We don't steal, John is zero. None of this nine
(03:08):
hundred and fifty dollars free me. Give me a break.
If I was a kid and stole nine hundred and
fifty dollars or a dollar, I don't know, I wouldn't
be afraid of the police officer. I'd be afraid of
my father. That's where I come from. I have even
been called on to fix federally the Tourism Department of
the United States that did not exist. We lost a
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decade of tourism travel in the United States, and tourism
is an export. There's no cap X, there's no money required,
and rejuvenated international visitation in the United States. It's called
brand USA. Highly accreative, nonpartisan, just get the job done.
And it's still in existence today, fourteen years later, with
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an outsized return. I'm used to seeing results those in cards,
having responsibility and treating everyone with respect, you know, respect, responsibility,
results old school. Our leadership today is not accountable. They
don't execute and there's no enforcement. Go look at edd
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fraud in our state. Tens of billions of dollars uncollected.
People forgot. They want you to forget their mistakes. Now
we got to collect it. Where is the tens of
billions of dollars of homelessness unaccounted for in the state level,
and not about Los Angeles. We've just seen what's gone
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on with the lack of accounting and chasing away all
this revenue from our state, people leaving close to a
million people fleeing and businesses because California is not affordable, libable,
and workable. And instead of electing those that we have
in the past, that beautiful social experiment we all wanted, Well,
(04:58):
I guess that's failed, as we've seen, and if we
want to continue to elect that type of leadership, expect
the same results. We've got to make some demonstrative changes
and enough is enough. We've heard that before. But I mean,
you want to elect leaders like Harris for example, Imagine this, John.
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You have investors and bankers, and you want to take
money for a great result, build a project, and you
blow through a billion three in ninety days. Do you
think those investors and bankers would give you money again?
When is enough enough? We have California values here which
are different than a lot of states, and this is
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the greatest state in the United States. We're a country.
Job where a country, We're going to start acting like
a country and be on offense not defense. We don't resist,
we unify. And I don't know anyone else that is
running for office right now that has dealt with President
Trump which I have, that can actually represent our great
state toe to toe with the federal government and site
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for our California values in a thoughtful way. And the
federal government just wants to see respect out of California,
and we have not shown that respect in my opinion.
But there are solutions. There are solutions, And that's why
I'm running because I interviewed every single person that was
running for office, and I said, this is the best
we got. Are you kidding me? Not one person assigned
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the front of a check, John.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Not one? Not one is what.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Signed the front of a check? Yes, who's made payroll?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
John?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I know I've not only made payroll, John, I've come
out of my pocket for payroll. I know what it
feels like. Great jobs, and I live in the real
world and I get things done. I'm not in the
red carpet, John, I don't have I don't put hair
gel in my hair, and I just roll up my
sleeves and get the job done. No red carpet, no,
(06:58):
no trophies. I want everyone to do well. Everyone's a
customer to me. In California. You know, everyone's a customer,
and that our customers, all of us, because it's our money.
It's not Sacramento's money, it's our money. And we got
to think about unintended consequences when we make decisions, and
we've got to make life simpler and easily or easier
(07:21):
to operate. I know this sounds like, wow, it can be.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Done, though, well it was being done not that long ago.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, but we go ahead.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
No, I'm just saying, it's really only in the last
ten years where the bottom is falling out of the place.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
But you're right that I would agree with that. But
how did we let this slip away? We did this together.
We can't point fingers at each other, we can't be
vile with each other. We have to have civility, and
we just saw the worst of the worst right in January, Yeah,
(08:01):
didn't we? Where leadership has failed us on the most
important concept of why we pay taxes for life safety?
Life safety and what are we doing about it? And
we're watching them not even levels set us as to
win out to Dina and when the Palisades will come back,
You've got arguments between the city, of the county, the
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state who's in charge.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
John, I want to talk more about that, but I
got to take a break for news and a couple
of commercials, little business, and then we'll continue. I want
to talk about Palisades and now to Diana because that is, unfortunately,
the greatest, most tragic example of all the political failures
that we have in the state, and it's going to
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dominate life in Southern California for years to come because
we're all going to have to pay for it one
way or another.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
So we're going to continue here with Stephen Klubeck.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
He's a Democrat running for governor, a successful businessman all
his life, and he has, like he said, he's talked
to hundreds of people, businessmen, lawmakers, governors, senators, congressman, mayors,
everybody in the state to figure out what's happened, why
and how we can live better, and we'll talk about
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his run for governor, and we'll also focus first on
the Palisades Altadena situation.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
That's next.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
We're going to continue with Stephen Klubeck, businessman running for
governor as a Democrat, and he has been involved in
a lot of successful business can turn around major companies,
and he's looking around California and he's seeing what we're
all seeing. And he spent a lot of time talking
(09:49):
with I was talking with most of the major California
leaders in politics and business industry. And he's running for governor.
There's got to be a better, like he keeps saying,
it's just not affordable, livable, or workable. So let's continue
with Stephen Klubeck. And we left off with the with
the Palisades Altadena fire, and that's such it's the worst
(10:13):
example of a total failure of our political leaders that
I've ever seen in my life. Because you had a
mayor that was way out of the country, you had
a fire department that's been half funded, you had a
water reservoir that was completely empty. You had the fire
hydroents were broken. They only have half the firefighters. They
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need a lot of the fire engines need to be fixed.
The warning systems in La County were broken. A big
chunk of Alta Dina was never warned until three point
thirty in the morning. And now no one ever took responsibility,
nobody ever apologized, nobody's explained publicly exactly how we're going
to get out of this, and they just go on
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about their days. Basically, the attitude is no comment and
it's going to talk about talk about what you've seen
and felt in the last couple of months since it happened.
About the response of our government.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
You know, John, it's if that wasn't a wake up
calling all of us, every single person in oh should
be booted. I mean, if those hosts work for a company,
if they own their a company there to be out
of business, or if they work for a company, they'd
be you know, severely reprimanded, have their paydoct or removed.
(11:39):
Our text dollars are supposed to protect us and serve
us life safety, which is police and fired. I mean,
I you didn't hear from me during that period of
time socially because I was out in the field every day,
every day, and I was taught never to politicize it.
To dister, because you know, I've been the guy to
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help fix the politicians' problems in the past. I've been
called in numerous times to fix the political elected folks problems.
And I was out in the field helping first responders,
getting them water, food, protein bars. And I'm in some
fire stations. John, there's no washer and dryers in what world?
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And I start doing due diligence and talking more importantly,
not talking, but listening, which is what we've forgotten. To
listen to folks as to what really occurred. And to
have the leader of our community go out of town
when they knew prior to going on the trip. And
you want to blame it on not knowing, You've got
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to better know everything. If the leader of our community
doesn't know everything that's going on, what are they going
to just point the blame point thinkers of people. They
got to know everything. Otherwise, get better people that work
with you. Don't look, they all let us down, John,
How can you have reservoirs they're empty over what one
hundred and fifty one hundred seventy thousand dollars and it's
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not fixed for a year. In what world? In what world?
How can we have fire trucks not repaired, replaced, fire
station's not built that should have been built. You've got
to fund police and fire, and you've got to make
sure that it's sacricanc You don't touch that. That's one
on one. So we've elected poor leaders that have never
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signed to the front of a check. I told you
that before. They don't know what they don't know. They
have no experience him on us. But never again, John Right,
we can't forget this, No.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
We can't.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
And it frustrates me that nobody wants, nobody in power
wants to talk about it anymore. And they're not even
being pressed all that hard by the media out here.
It's almost like it's ancient history.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
They should be well because they want us to forget. No,
we shall not forget. We shall not forget. And this
now uncovers a lot of issues. All these power lines
that are up in the air with transformers, well we're
going to put them back up in the air. We're
going to bury them underground. And that takes time. I
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mean I don't know if you saw the press conference
with the mayor and Brad Sherman talking to the President
of the United States. Yes, oh, he had a field
day with them. I just wish I was there that
day because I would have said, you know, mister President,
you know we're both in the hospitality business, and we
both build things all over the world. I operated in
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thirty five countries and you've operated too, And you and
I both know that these folks can't go on their
property today or tomorrow. Beam has got to take care
of that hazardous waste quickly and efficiently, and that's on you,
mister President. That's on you. So when you get that done,
then every property owner has the right to either take
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care of it themselves or opt into the Army Corps
of Engineers paying for them to do it. So though,
by the way, if it's the Armor Corp of Engineers,
that's on you, mister President. You've got to get that
done efficiently and effectively too. And if people want to
do it themselves, they've got to do it. But this
is where government's got to commence on. If they don't
do it, then government's got to step in and do
(15:24):
it for them. And charge them a surcharge for them
not doing it, because you don't want these communities, both
Altadena and Pasadena, to look like a war zone or
a construction site for the next seven to ten years.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Right, what's yeah, No, I'm not people people feel and
I got a lot of friends in the Palisades. I'm
sure you do too. They are are helpless and hopeless
and there's no leader.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Oh I'll give you a better one, John. I found
out the other day the reservoirs in Alton Dina are
not operating properly. The reservoirs.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I didn't know that too.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, this is going to come out.
This is hot news. The reservoirs in Altadina. You can't
forget about Alsadina. It's not all about Pasadena. I mean Palisades, right, Okay,
you know that's that's the bougie area. You know, it
gets a lot of attention. What about Altadina. Altadena is
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just as important, equally as important. You got three reservoirs
that already provided proper water in what world? In what world?
So that's going to come out soon and hopefully there'll
be some solutions on that. And by the way, has
that reservoir passed in Palisades? Has that been fixed yet?
How come that hasn't been fixed too?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh shocking? Two months they still haven't filled it up.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Okay, so you got why? Why Why wasn't it fixed immediately?
And the same thing with the three reservoirs in Altadina.
Why let's start there.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
To me, it's like filling up your kid's pool with
a hose. It's not that complicated to fill a reservoir
with water, and they just don't and they never talk
about it. It doesn't even come up with the public meetings.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
All of them. That's what's most important to get those
reservoirs fixed and filled. Okay, yeah, Step one, How are
we going to handle the infrastructure to or water, power,
gas electric? How are you going to fix it? What
are you gonna do? We're gonna do the same old,
same old, but we're gonna come in with new, creative
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solutions that will last the test of time to the future.
What are we going to do? I mean, who wants
to even live in Alcadena? If you if your home
survived in a construction warzone, where you're gonna shop, We're
gonna get gas, where you're going to your place of
worship and where the kids going to school. What's the
solutions for the infrastructure. You got to have infrastructure built
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out at the same time of people building homes. As
the real question job insurance. That topic insurance. We got
an insurance crisis in this state, or it does too,
by the way, But how do we fix that? How
do we fix that? But how do the people deal
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with you know, the different buckets of where they sit.
Some people have no insurance, Well that's a problem. How
do they keep the vultures from purchasing their properties? Some
people have inadequate insurance and they have a gap, okay
a gap because they're homes paid off, their mortgage paid off,
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but they got to rebuild a new home with a
new mortgage. It's probably double the rate for their principle
and interest is going to be a lot more. Do
they have the cashload to support that? And they got
to build a heart and structure, one would think, and
that perhaps is not even the appraise value of the home.
It's probably one and a half time. So where's that
extra cash coming from?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Steven I gotta take a break to do the news.
Can we do this again soon you come back on.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I can't wait. Darn's enjoyable, all.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Right, Stephen Klubec.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
He's a Democrat businessman running for governor here in California,
and I'm sure he's got even a lot more beyond
what he said in the last half hour. And we'll
talk against student. Stephen, Thanks again for your time.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
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Speaker 3 (19:36):
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Kevin Kylie, the congressman from northern California, former legislator. He
knows he was around when this California high speed rail
thing was blossoming, and he wants the FBI to investigate
high speed rail because he suspects, I suspect it has
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been one big criminal operations operation. It's hard to believe
that laws, criminal laws haven't been violated because thirteen billion
dollars has disappeared, and we don't have any rail we
don't have any trains, we don't have any rail stations.
There's no high speed anything in the near future. It's
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not even running anywhere close to La and San Francisco,
let alone San Diego and Sacramento, and it is sut
and it's happened in front of our eyes very clearly.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Everyone has seen it.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
And just like the disaster in the Palisades and how
to Dina, everybody responsible just goes on living their lives,
never talking about it, never responding, never pressed very hard,
and they go on bumbling around in the high speed
rail case, wasting money. It's just it's just so weird here.
(20:59):
It's gotten so weird in California. And part of it
is the complete lack of any sustained coverage on these
issues by anyone else in the media except us.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
So we're shouting as loud as we can here.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
And we just had a really good conversation with Stephen Klubek,
and I definitely want to talk more to him in
the future. Stephen is a very successful businessman and you
should look up his bio to see his long history,
and he he sees what all normal people see, that
California is a disaster. And he talked about the end
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about the lack of insurance that's going to be available,
and that's a whole separate issue for the people in Palisades,
but it's going to affect everyone because our insurance rates
are going to be affected by the huge payouts that
are going to be made in Altadena and Palisades. Also,
what's reared its ugly head again, he mentioned the tens
of billions of dollars that was stolen from the Unemployment
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to apartment during the COVID lockdown, when Gavin Newsom and
his Labor secretary Julie Sue had a system where you
could apply for unemployment benefits during COVID and get them,
and there were just an incredible number of fraudulent claims,
and eighty five percent of the fraudulent claims were from
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outside the country, and very little of it has been
recovered and very little has been prosecuted. Well, literally, some
of the same people who stole money from the Unemployment
department during COVID are now stealed trying to steal money
from FEMA. Over the Palisades and Olta Dina fires.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Here's the story.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Out of the La Times, they arrested three people, Joyce
Turner fifty five years old from Texas, Tyrone Barnes thirty eight,
of Paramount and had desha Robertson thirty six of Lakewood.
They were arrested on Tuesday for defrauding FEMA. These are
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federal charges. They took advantage of a FEMA program and
filed false claims. And I'll tell you how in a moment,
but they they take real addresses and file the claims
on behalf of the people who live in the homes
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or who lived on the properties.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
And this happened to friends of ours. They went to.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Apply for some kind of FEMA assistance and said that
somebody had already stolen their identity. I mean they filed
within days after the disaster. Somebody had already stolen their identity.
There's an incredible number of thieves around the world, and
they spent a lot of time looting California because we
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had that Gavin use him has no controls on the outflow.
Why do you think he admitted that they spent twenty
four billion on homelessness and they don't know where the
money went. In La City, La County, that that criminal
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hotbed LASSA two and a half billion dollars, don't know
where it went. High speed rail thirteen billion dollars, nobody
knows where it went. Unemployment thirty to fifty billion dollars
out the door. Nobody knows where it went. I mean
that's just off the top of my head. Four major,
multi billion dollar frauds with no records left behind. And
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then you know you have everything going on in Washington,
which is a gigantic scam. Well, here's about these three characters, Joyce, Tyrone,
and Hidishia. Joyce Turner submitted an app location January ninth.
She jumped right on this, claiming that she had a
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Pasadena rental property on Walnut Street that got damaged in
the fire. Then she called the FEMA disaster hotline the
next day to change the address to a townhouse on
Delray Avenue. So one day it's a house on Wall Street,
next day it's a townhouse on Delray Avenue. She received
(25:25):
more than twenty five thousand dollars from FEMA. She forged
Elise to make it appear as though she lived in
the home at on Delray.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
It stole somebody's identity.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
The Delray Avenue property was damaged, but his owners had
not applied for disaster assistance because that home was actually vacant.
It's been up for sale since last year. The owners
don't live there anymore. And this woman, somehow, I don't know,
notice the damage baby noticed that nobody was there and decided, well,
(26:01):
I live there now, I'll just contact FEMA, and she
actually got more than twenty five thousand dollars. Joyce Turner
has never lived in California. She lives in Texas.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
She also get this.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
She also applied for unemployment insurance from the EDD in
August of twenty twenty and then again in January of
this year. In twenty twenty five, and the Unemployment Department
under Gavenusom paid her more than fifty thousand dollars on
(26:39):
just one of the claims. So she made twenty five
grand on a FEMA claim for the fire, fifty grand
on an unemployment claim from the state.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Then there's a.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
There's another property on Harding Avenue and the owners there,
they're only identified by their initials MS and as they
were told when they applied to FEMA that someone else
had already submitted an application for their property. And this
(27:17):
is Hidishia Robertson, suspected of filing a fraudulent application. She
was seeking benefits of about a damaged dressed or residence
in the Palisades, except Robertson did not own it, did
not rent, did not live there, did not work at
the property. She got twenty five thousand dollars to Dcia Robertson.
(27:40):
Then she submitted a letter to FEMA asking for more money,
saying I've lost both my home and workplace, leaving me
in an extremely difficult financial and personal situation.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
She also tried to.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Obtain more FEMA benefits for some property in San Francisco. Now,
if you get convicted of fraud in connection with a
major disaster, you can get up to thirty years in prison.
I hope they get all thirty years. They should all
die in prison. If we started sentencing people so they
die in prison, this stuff will stop. But these people, again,
(28:18):
these aren't kids pulling a prank. Troce Turner's fifty five,
Tyron Barnes thirty eight, Dhia Robertson is thirty six.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
This is what they do. This is how they earn money.
You have to have.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Do you have to And this is why I don't
have much sympathy for government employees squealing that they're getting
cut in the federal government. But because look at this,
these are all government workers. Rubber stamping all these claims,
letting the fraud happen. Nobody doing even the slightest check.
(28:56):
I mean, all you got to do is like a
Google search to see who owns a property.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
More.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Coming up three o'clock Kevin Kylie. He's the congressman Northern California.
He wants the FBI to investigate that criminal operation, California's
high speed rail. We'll talk to Kevin Kylie in about
fifteen minutes.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
About about fifteen to ten to fifteen minutes, we're gonna
have Kevin Kylie on. The Congressman wants the FBI investigating
high speed rail because the criminals there. All right, I
have a disturbing story involving an embalmer at a funeral home. Yeah,
you are going to go oh on this one. Her
(29:50):
name is Amber Laddermilk's thirty four years old. She works
as an embalmer at the Memorial Mortuary and Crematory in Houston.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
She's licensed. Do you have to have a license?
Speaker 5 (30:02):
I would hope so.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Can't just let anybody come in off the street.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
I don't know who would want that job.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Anyway, Well, this is the kind of employee you get.
A man named Charles Rodriguez died. He's fifty eight years old,
and his body was taken to the mortuary. Charles was
a bad man. He was a registered sex offender. He'd
been charged with sexual assault twenty years ago. He was
(30:29):
on the registry. He died in natural causes. Well, the
body comes in, and, according to two other employees at
the mortuary, louder Milk, when she heard what Rodriguez had done,
stabbed him twice in the grind in the cremation room.
Now he's already dead.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Yeah, yeah, twice in the grind made her feel better.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, well, and then cut off his penis.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
What'd she do with it?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
And then.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I don't know how to say this, she relocated the penis,
uh huh into an opening where yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Like the northern most opening.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Eric's trying to figure it out, and I'm sort of
giving him a.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Well, is making the motion to south, and John just
said north north.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
I'm thinking, okay, well, then maybe it's north. Okay, then
forget it, Eric, Sorry, start at the top of your head.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Yes, okay, I.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Thought it was somewhere.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Now.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
One of the witnesses was an embalming student. He'd never
seen this before, and in fact, Ladimirk said, you didn't
see anything.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Or else you're going to be next.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Well, actually it was.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
He was told that in a manner that he perceived
as to be threatened exactly.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
How he deterpreted it as he should.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
The second witness showed up a little later and noticed
that Charles Rodriguez's grain area was quote disfigured. When this
person asked ladder Milk what had happened, Laddermik said that
the deceased had a lot going on with him. Okay,
(32:26):
the the prosecutor says, this case is about two troubled people,
the victim, who is a registered sex offender, and the defendant,
who is accused of viciously attacking his dead body. No
matter what what thinks of his life, the law requires
that he be treated with dignity in death. She is
(32:48):
now in jail five thousand dollars bail. She has been fired.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Oh boy, there's so many things to say about had
a scalpel.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
So it was one quick slice.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
You know, he didn't feel anything.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
That's what I thought. What's the big deal here?
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Except the family members right, Well, if any family members
showed up a funeral.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, I'm not sure he got much of a crowd.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Who cares.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Well, there you go. What was the harm here, He's
already dead. She got she got a little.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
The witnesses, they were appalled.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Yeah, the first guy was a little shook up because
you know, he's she was still holding the scalpel. Yeah,
it's like, hey, you didn't see anything. You're right, I
didn't see anything.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Who told on? Who told on?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I don't know, I don't know. I guess I guess.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Well, I mean, once once it was cut off and
was relocated, it was a lot of evidence.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Everyone can see.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
That is so disgusting.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
That most disgusting.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yeah, you know, and I picked that one over a
couple of other story also would be offensive.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Wow, well this was quite offensive.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Okay, Well I was holding on to it. You weren't
here yesterday. Oh wow, Yeah, I just I'll just save
this coming. That's right, all right, Kevin Kylie. H I
five is Kevin Kyllie. I wouldn't be following. Yeah, that story,
well I have to follow it.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Unfortunately we have you as a buffer in between. He's
the Republican congressman in northern California. It's in the state
Assembly for years, and now he's in Congress and he
knows all about the horrors of high speed rail. He
is asking the FBI director Cash Pattel to investigate high
speed rail seventeen years old, thirteen billion gone, no track,
(34:34):
no trains, no stations, no nothing. That is next, Kevin Kylie, Debra.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
Mark, I'm offended, actually offended at that story.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
So I don't know how to go.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
On at what that I that I told the.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Story commutilated penis.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Well, I mean you take it up with what's her name?
See how she reacts Loudermilk, Amber Louder.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Oh, yeah, I'm gonna have a conversation.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, you call Amber Louder. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Hey, hey, want to have lunch? Debra Mark live in
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear
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