August 12, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (08/12) - Elex Michaelson comes on the show to talk about leaving Fox11. LA County DA Nathan Hochman is trying to put a stop to all of the street takeovers. Andrew Do was ordered to pay over $800,000 in restitution and was sentenced to 5 years in prison for a bribery scheme. A USPS worker in Carson admitted to stealing cash and checks from the mail and flaunting a luxurious lifestyle on social media.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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on so for today. We've had on Don Mahallock, the
law enforcement expert service agent, talking about Trump taking over
Washington DC Police Department. We had on Sue Pasco to
talk about the continued frustration people are.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Having, and.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
A rambling, babbling supervisor Lindsay Horvath on an LA Times
podcast regarding the fire. We also had Michael Monkson talking
about a really infantile set of stunts by the illegal
alien nonprofits who get financed by our state money. We'll
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talk you could just listen and get all those segments.
Later on, we're going to talk to Alex Michaelson in
just a moment. Alex is leaving as the anchor of
Fox eleven and the host of the issue is and
he has been just the premiere anchorman in Los Angeles
for a lot of years now, and his show The
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Issue Is, which airs ten thirty on Friday nights. He's
asked me to be on at a number of times,
and it was the only kind of a talk show,
panel show, question and answer between Alex and three people
in media and in the politics, the only one of
its kind in the state. They'd covered all the issues,
many of which we cover here on the show. There
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are very few outlets in the state that cover the
stuff that really matter in people's day to day lives,
and he got it syndicated all across California as well.
But he's leaving Fox eleven and moving on to something new.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Do we have him available? What's going on? Elex? How
are you?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
John? How are you? Thank you for all of your
support of the show over the years. You've been one
of our favorite guests from the start, and there's no
one quite like you.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Oh that's very kind of you.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But you have provided us here with so much material
from your show just in general, your newscasts on Fox eleven,
you and and the other reporters. I think we've used
more clips from you and Fox eleven than all the
other stations combined over the years.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
So it's been it's been a nice synergy.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Well, and it's a testament to the Fox eleven management,
who has you know, created an opening to have real
conversations with people and to give space in TV to
dedicate to this not only from a time perspective, but
from a resource perspective, because you know, typical stations to
do six or seven second soundbites and you really can't
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get into the big, deep, complicated, nuanced issues by doing that.
And so I'm so grateful that our management has given
us the room to do it. Uh. And then people
like you have been you know, a big part of
helping tell the story and and cut through the clutter.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
No, I mean you've nobody else in town is doing it,
and and so you have.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Served a vital need.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Uh. And so that's why it's it's a big deal
that you're stepping down, just not on a personal level,
but just on you know, I'm looking around at the
media and nobody else is covering this stuff or doing
it the way you're doing it.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Well, thank you. I'm not dying and I'm not retiring.
Continue to work on these issues in a slightly different way.
That's going to be cool and exciting when the time
is right, we'll talk about to say.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Now you know, of course you're not going to say
where you're going and when you're going.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, but but you know, right now, I'm really focused
on on express and gratitude for for this incredible ridement
that we've been on together.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So that that that issue is show that you created,
that that was unique in Los Angeles and it spread
all across the state.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
What was how did you how did you come up
with that.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That that format? What what led to the development of
the show?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Well, it started you know, the president of Fox Television,
Jack Aberneth, he came to us and said that we wanted,
you know, to launch a show, and I said, well,
what do you want it to be? And his note
to me was just make it interesting, not a lot
of which is great, you know, to be given so
much latitude. And I came up with.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That that's a lot of in depth analysis that you
get from executives.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yes, yeah, no, no, I mean I appreciate it. It
was nice, you know, And we came up with the
name the issue is because my my point of it
was not to just to politics. It was to just
look at issues that that matter and that are interesting
and be able to have different kinds of conversations, and
so I thought about, you know, the shows that I
loved that got me excited about getting into TV. You know,
(05:11):
Meet the Press with Tim Russard was you know, one
of my inspirations. In real Time with Bill maher and
and and Conan Nolan who I had interned with and
loved and does a great show on Sundays, and sort
of putting all of them together into some of the
local version of some of these cooler national shows. And
part of the fun part of our show also, and
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it was a Friday night show and not a Sunday
morning show, is that we we intentionally made it more
of a party. As you know, Gloria already danced with you,
which I know is one of your highlights of your life.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
And I'm afraid they're going to show that clip during
my obituary.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Well you'll see it on Friday night at the Best
Step Show. But yeah, I mean it, you know, but
it was fun, right, And I think part of what
I think because it was fun, we allowed people that
you would never see together, who might not have a
lot in common, to realize that maybe they have something
culturally in common, or maybe there's there's a way to
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at least talk to each other, or if you have
an argument, it comes from a place of stibility, and
I think at this moment of so much division, stuff
like that's really important and needed. And I think there's
a lesson that you know that that can be learned
from from that. And so that's you know, to me,
what I'm most proud of of the show is sort
of demonstrating that one we can talk to each other
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and two we could laugh together.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
You have a great way of asking pointed questions with
a certain affability and likability, and and.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
That is that not your way, No.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
That's why I admire it.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I'm not capable of doing that. I always want to
bite their heads off. But but you're really good at
asking questions. You pay attention to the content of the questions.
They're far more harsher than your demeanor is at the time,
and it's very effective.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Thank you that that is part of the strategy of
doing it. I think I think it's And so that's
I appreciate you saying that because I think some people,
you know, see some of the like what we just
talked about, the fun and the dancing and all the
rest of that, and then that means that it's not
a substantive show. I actually think some of that allows
you to get more substantive because it creates an opening
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where people feel more comfortable and more relaxed, and then
they start to get more honest and they're not as tense,
and I think you're able to push and get things
that you will. Well, what do you do politicians? There
are other people on these uh on these podcasts that
end up giving their best answers because they they are
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relaxed and they and they feel comfortable.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Well, and it's intimidating for for most normal people to
sit in front of really bright lights, in front of
you know, big cameras, and to have a host boring
in on you on something you don't want to talk about.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
It's it's not a natural place for most people to be.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
So you you managed to draw a lot of people
out by relaxing.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Them, by making it fun. And it's quite a skill
you have.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
So go ahead tell me where you're going.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
You didn't make me relax enough.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
No, I see, I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
If you were asking me, I would have told you
because you know your magic would have worked. Seriously, Thank
you for coming on, Thank you for having me on
so many times. It really is the most fun I've
ever had being on a television show. It was a
good time. We were I got to be there on
some historic nights, like the night of the big Biden
flop that never going to forget that we did.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
We're doing a version of the best of piece and
and your one word is our entire description of that night,
where you just say excruciated. That describes that is that
is how an issue is history, that seminal moment in
American politics is remembered well. But I am so appreciated
(09:18):
to you and to Ray and the entire team in KAMPI,
and also your incredible wife Gebra, who's also a guest.
One of the highlights was when the two of you
came on together to fight against each other, which was
also a very cool moment in the history of the
issue is And she's she's unbelievable and you're a lucky man.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Well, thank you very much, and she wishes you the best,
and so do I and I can't wait to find
out where you're going and what you're doing and if
you ever ever need a guest to fill in at
the last minute.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I'm there for you.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I will be definitely calling you and I'm excited to
talk to you when the time is right. About that,
I think there's gonna be lots of opportunities for partnership,
all right.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Dan, Alex Michaelson, who's leaving Fox eleven. His nightly newscasts,
he did about what did you do?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Six seven a night, five, six, and ten, which I'll
be doing the rest of the week. And so no.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I bet you did six or seven separate newscasts to night.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
That's what it seemed like.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Oh yeah, it's been a lot, especially during the moments
of crisis. We would do twelve or fourteen hours at
a time.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Oh my god, dam a lot.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
But my great, great training, and I'm really grateful for
the gig. And yeah, so Friday night's a big final
show and I hope people check it out.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
All right, Well, congratulations and good luck and we'll all
learn soon.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Where are you going? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Thanks John, Thanks John.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Talk to you later, all right.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Elex Michael Sin from Fox eleven, and he's his show's
one of a kind. His anchor work is one of
a kind as well. Because it was so comfortable to
watch during during the Palisades fires, you know, we were
we were packed up at our house ready to bolt
at a moment's notice, watching uh, some of the time
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on my iPad because the power had been been out.
Just About everything in Los Angeles failed that week, just
about everything. The water failed, the power failed, the mayor failed,
the city council failed, the fire department was put in
a terrible position, the police were put in a terrible position.
And that was that was just unbelievable to live through
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and and truly the worst nightmare and horrific for the
people actually in the Palisades in Altadena.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
All right, well do more.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
We come back on Nathan hack and trying to stop
these stupid, ridiculous street takeovers that's plagued La for so long.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
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La County DA. Nathan Hackman, he had a press conference
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yesterday and said enough of the street takeovers. In fact
that it was an exact quote. We have said enough
is enough plaguing and ravaging communities for years. There have
been an a run of these, I mean in front
of the Crypto Arena in downtown LA. And not only
the cars doing spinouts and donuts, they light off fireworks,
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big crowds show up, and they also provided distraction for burglaries.
There was an AutoZone burglary on the twenty first of July,
another one on the twenty sixth in South Los Angeles.
Another AutoZone was targeted by looters vandals defaced it with
graffiti back in June.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
And this is the party.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
We have such bizarre, violent psycho subcultures in this city
that are tolerated, that are embraced by the vegetables on
the city council and really all the idiot mayor the
police I assume are told by the mayor not to
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mess with these street takeovers.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Of course they could be stopped.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Ninety nine zero point nine to nine percent of cities
and towns in America do not have these. They're in
LA because they're allowed to be in LA. And these
people are. I mean they freaking advertise. They advertise on
social media. Obviously, if hundreds of people know they're because
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thousands of people know they're coming and they show up,
the police can know, the government can know, and they
could stop it, stop it and preempt it, and they
could arrest these guys and put them in prison. And
if there aren't laws to put them in prison, then
write the laws and pass them. Of course you could
do it. Do you see these things going on in
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any other country, like in Europe Southolk? Do you see
this stuff going on? No, it doesn't go on. People
simply don't permit it. Somebody starts any trouble, Boom, they're gone.
They're in prison. Prison solves a lot of problems. I
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am big on dragging people off and putting them in prison.
If you can't behave you know, if you want your
own little private island, and on private island, you want
to take your stupid little car and spin it around
and show off your donuts to the other wild animals
on the island, go right ahead, but don't not in
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a civilized town. Of course, La is not civilized because
it's the management, it's the mayor, it's the City Council.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
It's what they tell the police to do.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Jeez, you know, if we could stop the Nazis, we
could stop a few street gangs from spinning cars out.
Just Hawkman says. They're not only going to go after
the drivers, but those who promote them on social media.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
If it's promoted on social media, why aren't the police
there first? Because they put an exact location, they want
the crowds, and then they want the videos and the photos,
and they want all that posted. Social media has just
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a terrible, terrible infectious virus.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
It really is. Hawkman said.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
They see the social media excitement of showing up in
a street takeover and they don't think there could be
any consequences, so they don't even they don't appreciate they're
engaging in illegal activity. They want to increase the fines
from five hundred to one thousand if you participate in
or even watch a street takeover an A motion to
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do so is passed by the Ellie County Board of
Supervisors in April. Has that become law, And of course,
with the way they write these television stories, you can't tell,
but it should be more than just fines because a
lot of these guys sell drugs on the side so
they could cover their weekend fines. I can't believe they
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of course they could stop this. I was going to say,
I can't believe they can't stop it, But of course
they could stop it.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
They just have chosen not to all these years.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
And maybe Nathan Hockman is going to change that now,
and they need to get the sheriff's deputies there or LAPD,
whatever jurisdiction it is, and just start closing streets down immediately.
It's like when these protests get out of control and
become riots. All these protests they don't have permits. You
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could stop them in their tracks within minutes. You just
have to do it. There is no right to blockade
a street. Freedom of speech doesn't mean you get to
block streets. It doesn't mean you get to terrorize neighborhoods.
It doesn't mean you get to use it as cover
for burglaries so your fellow street bugs can make a
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big profit stealing stuff. Just I can't believe this stuff
goes on for years and years and years, and I
can't believe again that people put up with it. But
maybe Nathan Haklin is going to change things more coming up.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
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Speaker 2 (17:52):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and you can
get the podcast after four o'clock in case you missed
the show. All right, let's uh, all right, now, we
spent a lot of time on LA city corruption.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
It's it's been a bad, bad stretch in Los Angeles.
We have bad corrupt government. We have three four former
city council people have gone to jail or federal prison
for one thing or another. And I was telling you
before that one of the people on the Washington DC
City Council who's been screaming at Trump this week because
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Trump took over the police department is up out of
federal bribery charges.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
That guy, that.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Guy was kicked off city council by the other council members.
He ran in the special election and he won, saying
it is back on the city council. Yeah, the voters
put him back on. He could run because he hadn't
been convicted of the felony yet. Presumably he will be.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Well.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
You know, Orange County is often left out and the
news stories because Orange County, you know, much more tranquil
and peacefull. Of the politicians there are marginally more honest,
but not this guy. This guy's finally going to prison.
We had him on the show once. I don't remember
for what. His name's Andrew DoD O, how you spell
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the name? Former Orange County supervisor. And yesterday he a
judge overseeing his bribery case ordered him to pay back
eight hundred and seventy eight thousand, two hundred and thirty
dollars and eighty cents restitution. He diverted millions of dollars
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in taxpayer money to nonprofits, to a nonprofit connected with
one of his daughters. It's actually it's sexually hard to
explain because what you do is, when you're a public official,
you have nonprofits connected to your family members, and you
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move the money around. It's like you ever go to
a baseball game and on the scoreboard in between innings
you have to find the ball. They put a ball
under one of three or four helmets, and then the
helmets all move around very rapidly, and your eyes are
supposed to try to follow where the ball is underneath
the helmet, and then they lift it up at the
end and you guess the number. That's what these guys
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do with tax money and their families nonprofits.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
They move the money around so it's difficult to track.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
So his daughter had had a nonprofit and this this
was ten million dollars in COVID nineteen money. Ten million
dollars and he took a half a million in bribes
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and in return, he directed money and voted in favor
of ten million to go to the charity that one
of his daughters was involved in. Andrew Doe now he's
going to prison. US District Judge James selna is setting
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him to prison for five years.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Bill A. Saley, who's the US attorney, says public.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Money intended to assist aging and ailing pandemic victims instead
filled the coffers of Doe, his family and insiders. Yeah,
this was money that was supposed to help sick, elderly people,
people who were victims of the COVID nineteen virus. Todd Spitzer,
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Orange County, DA says as a county supervisor, Doat transformed
the county into an ATM available to his insiders, his
loved ones, and himself withdrew millions of dollars to buy homes,
lavish dinners, expensive wine, while the elderly, the sick, and
the vulnerable were left to fend for themselves. Can't get
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more despicable than this. He's stealing cod That's why I
was so dangerous to dump so much free COVID money
into the system for biden on down because it just disappeared.
It's like the unemployment money, billions of unemployment dollars that
Newsom was shoveling out just disappeared to Frost's fraudsters. Now
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eighty five percent of the Newsom money was fraudsters outside
the country. Here, Orange County had its own homegrown fraudster.
Can't believe we had this guy on. I wonder how
many former guests have ended up in prison. So he
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got a half million in bribes and doll voted in
favor of this COVID money going to the Viet America Society,
the as that was the charity involved with his daughter
he directed and worked together to approve contracts and payments
to VAS. He actually admitted that he acted corruptly and
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abused his position as a county supervisor. And then they
have a long story here that details all the payments
and all the money moving around. He had to give
up well, he and his daughter. His daughter bought a
property in Tustin and she had to give that up,
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and he had. The whole family was in on this.
It's a massive investigation involving multiple law enforcement agencies.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Cheese, Why are so many?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Why are so many? I understand that you know, certain
percentage of the population. They're born sociopaths. They're born without consciences.
They're pathological liars. The the reason they can be criminals.
I mean, we'd all love to steal money, right, we'd all,
but we don't because we have a conscience.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Or we have a fear of getting caught.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
But if if you're born I think with a certain
type of brain damage, you don't have that fear. You
don't care, It doesn't bother you. It's it doesn't affect
them emotionally to do it. And all they all they
see is all the all the riches that they can get.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
We come back, uh. I know.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
The post office of my neighborhood was stealing our checks.
There were a lot of people in my neighborhood and
they posted all this online and they would pay their
bills with checks. Just a few years ago before. In fact,
that was the number one thing that sent us to
finally go online, because we figured, you know, it'd be
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a lot harder to steal our money. But man our
post office, a lot of DNI thieves didn't surprise me.
I'd go in there, I'd look around and saying, yeah,
I could see this. Well, we're going to play a
report because one postal worker in Carson, a woman, she
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was stealing checks, debit cards, credit cards, all kinds of
private information. Wait till you hear what she did with
all this money. She was having a good life. Now
she's going to have a very bad life. Tell you
about it.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Next.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Conway is going to be coming up in minutes. Oh,
just just one thing. I was just looking through the
news story. La Times had a whopper. You actually did
this long, long, SOB story and I'll spell you spare
you the details. It's it's a sob story about how
there's like a couple of thousand people living in Imperial County.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
You know where that is. That is east of San Diego.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
It runs along the Mexican border all the way out
to Arizona and how there's an increasing number of homeless
illegal aliens living there and it's really hot, and the
headline is living unhoused and undocumented in one of California's
hottest regions, and about how much they suffer living out
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in the heat without a home.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
They could have chose somewhere colder. That's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
What, what the hell I'm supposed to feel sorry for this?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
You're not supposed to be here.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I'm sure there's a thousand of these fascinating story on
how they got there. I think you got to go
back home and find your family. You're laying out and
it says you're one hundred and sixteen degree heat one
hundred and sixteen degrees and you're out in the desert
and you're breaking the law, and you don't have a
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home and you don't.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Have any water. What do you think is going to happen? Well,
why do I have to do something about it? No
cooling centers out there. Don't give them an idea.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
We'll be paying for cooling centers out in the middle
of the Imperial County.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
All right, here's I told you.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Right before the break, we had a horrible post office
I have in my neighborhood horrible, and they had people
just actively stealing people's checks.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Everybody would write.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
About it online on social media all the time. And
we actually had one of our checks stolen and we
tracked it down and because eventually it was cashed and
somebody had I don't know why it out or in
doubt the recipient of the check and they wrote in
a new name, and I think, I don't know we
were paying our gas bill or electric bill anyway. They
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busted a US Postal Service worker in Carson who is
stealing people's cash and checks in their mail.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
A former mail carrier for the US Postal Service who
flaunted luxury goods and wads of cash on social media
admitted today to conspiring to commit bank fraud. Thirty one
year old Mary Ann mcdomeitt of Carson has admitted stealing
checks and debit cards and credit cards for three years.
Authority say mcdonmitt bought luxury goods and took international trips
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to places like Aruba and Turks and Caicos. When that's
stolen money. She has agreed to forfeit her Rolex watch
and other luxury items after pleading guilty mcdummitt has been
in federal custodys since July first, and faces a maximum
sentence of thirty years in federal prison. She was based
at the main post office.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
In They found one hundred and thirty stolen credit cards
and debit cards. They had sixteen US Treasury checks and
these people's income tax returns. And they also found she
had a loaded ghost gun looked like a glock, no
serial number on it, and she had co conspirators because
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she'd sell the stolen cards to her friends. That's the
postal service for you. She probably worked at mine Conway.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
John cova, Hey, we don't do a lot of these
cross talks anymore.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
You're too lazy to walk in these.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Well, that's not true. I just think there's enough promotion
on this station, you think. But we got Steph Wush
coming on at four o'clock, which is great. But with
the post office, a friend of mine works at the
post office.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
We're actually a friend of a friend. I don't want
to get too deep into who this is.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
And he calls in sick about eighteen days a month,
and they've never checked on him, and they always pay
him his full salary. He only worked two days a month,
and he said eighty percent of the people he knows
in the post office got into it just to steal stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
This guy that works in the post office. Where'd you
meet this guy at the track? I was gonna say
that I thought it was too easy, a joke, you know.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
He goes to Target and it's the credit card shuffle,
you know, with this guy. But I've seen people like
that at the post office where they're opening up envelopes
and pulling credit cards.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Out to pay for stuff.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
It's incredible because you can tell you just have to
you know, remember back with the old days, when you
got a credit card, you had to call a phone
number to activate it. Yes, and they had and they
saw it was coming from your cell phone, so they'd activated.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Now the cards are being sent out, are already pre activated,
Is that right? Yeah, you don't have to do anything.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
I got a card the other day from I think
his bank America just said it's good.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
To go, and you could run off the big bill.
You can do whatever you want with it. Yeah, that's
why they do it. I don't know, that's why they
steal it, all right?
Speaker 6 (30:56):
I guess so, and Steph fu should for all right,
that's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah, this big that.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
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on so for today. We've had on Don Mahallock, the
law enforcement expert service agent, talking about Trump taking over
Washington DC Police Department. We had on Sue Pasco to
talk about the continued frustration people are.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Having, and.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
A rambling, babbling supervisor Lindsay Horvath on an LA Times
podcast regarding the fire. We also had Michael Monkson talking
about a really infantile set of stunts by the illegal
alien nonprofits who get financed by our state money. We'll
(01:00):
talk you could just listen and get all those segments.
Later on, we're going to talk to Alex Michaelson in
just a moment. Alex is leaving as the anchor of
Fox eleven and the host of the issue is and
he has been just the premiere anchorman in Los Angeles
for a lot of years now, and his show The
(01:23):
Issue Is, which airs ten thirty on Friday nights. He's
asked me to be on at a number of times,
and it was the only kind of a talk show,
panel show, question and answer between Alex and three people
in media and in the politics, the only one of
its kind in the state. They'd covered all the issues,
many of which we cover here on the show. There
(01:44):
are very few outlets in the state that cover the
stuff that really matter in people's day to day lives,
and he got it syndicated all across California as well.
But he's leaving Fox eleven and moving on to something new.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Do we have him available? What's going on? Elex? How
are you?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
John? How are you? Thank you for all of your
support of the show over the years. You've been one
of our favorite guests from the start, and there's no
one quite like you.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Oh that's very kind of you.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But you have provided us here with so much material
from your show just in general, your newscasts on Fox eleven,
you and and the other reporters. I think we've used
more clips from you and Fox eleven than all the
other stations combined over the years.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
So it's been it's been a nice synergy.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Well, and it's a testament to the Fox eleven management,
who has you know, created an opening to have real
conversations with people and to give space in TV to
dedicate to this not only from a time perspective, but
from a resource perspective, because you know, typical stations to
do six or seven second soundbites and you really can't
(02:59):
get into the big, deep, complicated, nuanced issues by doing that.
And so I'm so grateful that our management has given
us the room to do it. Uh. And then people
like you have been you know, a big part of
helping tell the story and and cut through the clutter.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
No, I mean you've nobody else in town is doing it,
and and so you have.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Served a vital need.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Uh. And so that's why it's it's a big deal
that you're stepping down, just not on a personal level,
but just on you know, I'm looking around at the
media and nobody else is covering this stuff or doing
it the way you're doing it.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Well, thank you. I'm not dying and I'm not retiring.
Continue to work on these issues in a slightly different way.
That's going to be cool and exciting when the time
is right, we'll talk about to say.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Now you know, of course you're not going to say
where you're going and when you're going.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, but but you know, right now, I'm really focused
on on express and gratitude for for this incredible ridement
that we've been on together.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So that that that issue is show that you created,
that that was unique in Los Angeles and it spread
all across the state.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
What was how did you how did you come up
with that.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That that format? What what led to the development of
the show?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Well, it started you know, the president of Fox Television,
Jack Aberneth, he came to us and said that we wanted,
you know, to launch a show, and I said, well,
what do you want it to be? And his note
to me was just make it interesting, not a lot
of which is great, you know, to be given so
much latitude. And I came up with.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That that's a lot of in depth analysis that you
get from executives.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yes, yeah, no, no, I mean I appreciate it. It
was nice, you know, And we came up with the
name the issue is because my my point of it
was not to just to politics. It was to just
look at issues that that matter and that are interesting
and be able to have different kinds of conversations, and
so I thought about, you know, the shows that I
loved that got me excited about getting into TV. You know,
(05:11):
Meet the Press with Tim Russard was you know, one
of my inspirations. In real Time with Bill maher and
and and Conan Nolan who I had interned with and
loved and does a great show on Sundays, and sort
of putting all of them together into some of the
local version of some of these cooler national shows. And
part of the fun part of our show also, and
(05:32):
it was a Friday night show and not a Sunday
morning show, is that we we intentionally made it more
of a party. As you know, Gloria already danced with you,
which I know is one of your highlights of your life.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
And I'm afraid they're going to show that clip during
my obituary.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Well you'll see it on Friday night at the Best
Step Show. But yeah, I mean it, you know, but
it was fun, right, And I think part of what
I think because it was fun, we allowed people that
you would never see together, who might not have a
lot in common, to realize that maybe they have something
culturally in common, or maybe there's there's a way to
(06:13):
at least talk to each other, or if you have
an argument, it comes from a place of stibility, and
I think at this moment of so much division, stuff
like that's really important and needed. And I think there's
a lesson that you know that that can be learned
from from that. And so that's you know, to me,
what I'm most proud of of the show is sort
of demonstrating that one we can talk to each other
(06:34):
and two we could laugh together.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
You have a great way of asking pointed questions with
a certain affability and likability, and and.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
That is that not your way, No.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
That's why I admire it.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I'm not capable of doing that. I always want to
bite their heads off. But but you're really good at
asking questions. You pay attention to the content of the questions.
They're far more harsher than your demeanor is at the time,
and it's very effective.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Thank you that that is part of the strategy of
doing it. I think I think it's And so that's
I appreciate you saying that because I think some people,
you know, see some of the like what we just
talked about, the fun and the dancing and all the
rest of that, and then that means that it's not
a substantive show. I actually think some of that allows
you to get more substantive because it creates an opening
(07:32):
where people feel more comfortable and more relaxed, and then
they start to get more honest and they're not as tense,
and I think you're able to push and get things
that you will. Well, what do you do politicians? There
are other people on these uh on these podcasts that
end up giving their best answers because they they are
(07:53):
relaxed and they and they feel comfortable.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Well, and it's intimidating for for most normal people to
sit in front of really bright lights, in front of
you know, big cameras, and to have a host boring
in on you on something you don't want to talk about.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
It's it's not a natural place for most people to be.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
So you you managed to draw a lot of people
out by relaxing.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Them, by making it fun. And it's quite a skill
you have.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
So go ahead tell me where you're going.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
You didn't make me relax enough.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
No, I see, I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
If you were asking me, I would have told you
because you know your magic would have worked. Seriously, Thank
you for coming on, Thank you for having me on
so many times. It really is the most fun I've
ever had being on a television show. It was a
good time. We were I got to be there on
some historic nights, like the night of the big Biden
flop that never going to forget that we did.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
We're doing a version of the best of piece and
and your one word is our entire description of that night,
where you just say excruciated. That describes that is that
is how an issue is history, that seminal moment in
American politics is remembered well. But I am so appreciated
(09:18):
to you and to Ray and the entire team in KAMPI,
and also your incredible wife Gebra, who's also a guest.
One of the highlights was when the two of you
came on together to fight against each other, which was
also a very cool moment in the history of the
issue is And she's she's unbelievable and you're a lucky man.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Well, thank you very much, and she wishes you the best,
and so do I and I can't wait to find
out where you're going and what you're doing and if
you ever ever need a guest to fill in at
the last minute.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I'm there for you.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I will be definitely calling you and I'm excited to
talk to you when the time is right. About that,
I think there's gonna be lots of opportunities for partnership,
all right.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Dan, Alex Michaelson, who's leaving Fox eleven. His nightly newscasts,
he did about what did you do?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Six seven a night, five, six, and ten, which I'll
be doing the rest of the week. And so no.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I bet you did six or seven separate newscasts to night.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
That's what it seemed like.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Oh yeah, it's been a lot, especially during the moments
of crisis. We would do twelve or fourteen hours at
a time.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Oh my god, dam a lot.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
But my great, great training, and I'm really grateful for
the gig. And yeah, so Friday night's a big final
show and I hope people check it out.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
All right, Well, congratulations and good luck and we'll all
learn soon.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Where are you going? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Thanks John, Thanks John.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Talk to you later, all right.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Elex Michael Sin from Fox eleven, and he's his show's
one of a kind. His anchor work is one of
a kind as well. Because it was so comfortable to
watch during during the Palisades fires, you know, we were
we were packed up at our house ready to bolt
at a moment's notice, watching uh, some of the time
(11:06):
on my iPad because the power had been been out.
Just About everything in Los Angeles failed that week, just
about everything. The water failed, the power failed, the mayor failed,
the city council failed, the fire department was put in
a terrible position, the police were put in a terrible position.
And that was that was just unbelievable to live through
(11:30):
and and truly the worst nightmare and horrific for the
people actually in the Palisades in Altadena.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
All right, well do more.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
We come back on Nathan hack and trying to stop
these stupid, ridiculous street takeovers that's plagued La for so long.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
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Speaker 2 (11:52):
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social media at John Cobelt Radio at John Cobelt Radio,
La County DA. Nathan Hackman, he had a press conference
(12:12):
yesterday and said enough of the street takeovers. In fact
that it was an exact quote. We have said enough
is enough plaguing and ravaging communities for years. There have
been an a run of these, I mean in front
of the Crypto Arena in downtown LA. And not only
the cars doing spinouts and donuts, they light off fireworks,
(12:37):
big crowds show up, and they also provided distraction for burglaries.
There was an AutoZone burglary on the twenty first of July,
another one on the twenty sixth in South Los Angeles.
Another AutoZone was targeted by looters vandals defaced it with
graffiti back in June.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
And this is the party.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
We have such bizarre, violent psycho subcultures in this city
that are tolerated, that are embraced by the vegetables on
the city council and really all the idiot mayor the
police I assume are told by the mayor not to
(13:22):
mess with these street takeovers.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Of course they could be stopped.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Ninety nine zero point nine to nine percent of cities
and towns in America do not have these. They're in
LA because they're allowed to be in LA. And these
people are. I mean they freaking advertise. They advertise on
social media. Obviously, if hundreds of people know they're because
(13:49):
thousands of people know they're coming and they show up,
the police can know, the government can know, and they
could stop it, stop it and preempt it, and they
could arrest these guys and put them in prison. And
if there aren't laws to put them in prison, then
write the laws and pass them. Of course you could
do it. Do you see these things going on in
(14:12):
any other country, like in Europe Southolk? Do you see
this stuff going on? No, it doesn't go on. People
simply don't permit it. Somebody starts any trouble, Boom, they're gone.
They're in prison. Prison solves a lot of problems. I
(14:34):
am big on dragging people off and putting them in prison.
If you can't behave you know, if you want your
own little private island, and on private island, you want
to take your stupid little car and spin it around
and show off your donuts to the other wild animals
on the island, go right ahead, but don't not in
(14:54):
a civilized town. Of course, La is not civilized because
it's the management, it's the mayor, it's the City Council.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
It's what they tell the police to do.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Jeez, you know, if we could stop the Nazis, we
could stop a few street gangs from spinning cars out.
Just Hawkman says. They're not only going to go after
the drivers, but those who promote them on social media.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
If it's promoted on social media, why aren't the police
there first? Because they put an exact location, they want
the crowds, and then they want the videos and the photos,
and they want all that posted. Social media has just
(15:40):
a terrible, terrible infectious virus.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
It really is. Hawkman said.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
They see the social media excitement of showing up in
a street takeover and they don't think there could be
any consequences, so they don't even they don't appreciate they're
engaging in illegal activity. They want to increase the fines
from five hundred to one thousand if you participate in
or even watch a street takeover an A motion to
(16:12):
do so is passed by the Ellie County Board of
Supervisors in April. Has that become law, And of course,
with the way they write these television stories, you can't tell,
but it should be more than just fines because a
lot of these guys sell drugs on the side so
they could cover their weekend fines. I can't believe they
(16:37):
of course they could stop this. I was going to say,
I can't believe they can't stop it, But of course
they could stop it.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
They just have chosen not to all these years.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
And maybe Nathan Hockman is going to change that now,
and they need to get the sheriff's deputies there or LAPD,
whatever jurisdiction it is, and just start closing streets down immediately.
It's like when these protests get out of control and
become riots. All these protests they don't have permits. You
(17:09):
could stop them in their tracks within minutes. You just
have to do it. There is no right to blockade
a street. Freedom of speech doesn't mean you get to
block streets. It doesn't mean you get to terrorize neighborhoods.
It doesn't mean you get to use it as cover
for burglaries so your fellow street bugs can make a
(17:31):
big profit stealing stuff. Just I can't believe this stuff
goes on for years and years and years, and I
can't believe again that people put up with it. But
maybe Nathan Haklin is going to change things more coming up.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and you can
get the podcast after four o'clock in case you missed
the show. All right, let's uh, all right, now, we
spent a lot of time on LA city corruption.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
It's it's been a bad, bad stretch in Los Angeles.
We have bad corrupt government. We have three four former
city council people have gone to jail or federal prison
for one thing or another. And I was telling you
before that one of the people on the Washington DC
City Council who's been screaming at Trump this week because
(18:31):
Trump took over the police department is up out of
federal bribery charges.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
That guy, that.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Guy was kicked off city council by the other council members.
He ran in the special election and he won, saying
it is back on the city council. Yeah, the voters
put him back on. He could run because he hadn't
been convicted of the felony yet. Presumably he will be.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Well.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
You know, Orange County is often left out and the
news stories because Orange County, you know, much more tranquil
and peacefull. Of the politicians there are marginally more honest,
but not this guy. This guy's finally going to prison.
We had him on the show once. I don't remember
for what. His name's Andrew DoD O, how you spell
(19:22):
the name? Former Orange County supervisor. And yesterday he a
judge overseeing his bribery case ordered him to pay back
eight hundred and seventy eight thousand, two hundred and thirty
dollars and eighty cents restitution. He diverted millions of dollars
(19:47):
in taxpayer money to nonprofits, to a nonprofit connected with
one of his daughters. It's actually it's sexually hard to
explain because what you do is, when you're a public official,
you have nonprofits connected to your family members, and you
(20:12):
move the money around. It's like you ever go to
a baseball game and on the scoreboard in between innings
you have to find the ball. They put a ball
under one of three or four helmets, and then the
helmets all move around very rapidly, and your eyes are
supposed to try to follow where the ball is underneath
the helmet, and then they lift it up at the
end and you guess the number. That's what these guys
(20:34):
do with tax money and their families nonprofits.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
They move the money around so it's difficult to track.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
So his daughter had had a nonprofit and this this
was ten million dollars in COVID nineteen money. Ten million
dollars and he took a half a million in bribes
(21:03):
and in return, he directed money and voted in favor
of ten million to go to the charity that one
of his daughters was involved in. Andrew Doe now he's
going to prison. US District Judge James selna is setting
(21:26):
him to prison for five years.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Bill A. Saley, who's the US attorney, says public.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Money intended to assist aging and ailing pandemic victims instead
filled the coffers of Doe, his family and insiders. Yeah,
this was money that was supposed to help sick, elderly people,
people who were victims of the COVID nineteen virus. Todd Spitzer,
(21:56):
Orange County, DA says as a county supervisor, Doat transformed
the county into an ATM available to his insiders, his
loved ones, and himself withdrew millions of dollars to buy homes,
lavish dinners, expensive wine, while the elderly, the sick, and
the vulnerable were left to fend for themselves. Can't get
(22:18):
more despicable than this. He's stealing cod That's why I
was so dangerous to dump so much free COVID money
into the system for biden on down because it just disappeared.
It's like the unemployment money, billions of unemployment dollars that
Newsom was shoveling out just disappeared to Frost's fraudsters. Now
(22:42):
eighty five percent of the Newsom money was fraudsters outside
the country. Here, Orange County had its own homegrown fraudster.
Can't believe we had this guy on. I wonder how
many former guests have ended up in prison. So he
(23:03):
got a half million in bribes and doll voted in
favor of this COVID money going to the Viet America Society,
the as that was the charity involved with his daughter
he directed and worked together to approve contracts and payments
to VAS. He actually admitted that he acted corruptly and
(23:27):
abused his position as a county supervisor. And then they
have a long story here that details all the payments
and all the money moving around. He had to give
up well, he and his daughter. His daughter bought a
property in Tustin and she had to give that up,
(23:49):
and he had. The whole family was in on this.
It's a massive investigation involving multiple law enforcement agencies.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Cheese, Why are so many?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Why are so many? I understand that you know, certain
percentage of the population. They're born sociopaths. They're born without consciences.
They're pathological liars. The the reason they can be criminals.
I mean, we'd all love to steal money, right, we'd all,
but we don't because we have a conscience.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Or we have a fear of getting caught.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
But if if you're born I think with a certain
type of brain damage, you don't have that fear. You
don't care, It doesn't bother you. It's it doesn't affect
them emotionally to do it. And all they all they
see is all the all the riches that they can get.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
We come back, uh. I know.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
The post office of my neighborhood was stealing our checks.
There were a lot of people in my neighborhood and
they posted all this online and they would pay their
bills with checks. Just a few years ago before. In fact,
that was the number one thing that sent us to
finally go online, because we figured, you know, it'd be
(25:14):
a lot harder to steal our money. But man our
post office, a lot of DNI thieves didn't surprise me.
I'd go in there, I'd look around and saying, yeah,
I could see this. Well, we're going to play a
report because one postal worker in Carson, a woman, she
(25:35):
was stealing checks, debit cards, credit cards, all kinds of
private information. Wait till you hear what she did with
all this money. She was having a good life. Now
she's going to have a very bad life. Tell you
about it.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Next.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Conway is going to be coming up in minutes. Oh,
just just one thing. I was just looking through the
news story. La Times had a whopper. You actually did
this long, long, SOB story and I'll spell you spare
you the details. It's it's a sob story about how
there's like a couple of thousand people living in Imperial County.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
You know where that is. That is east of San Diego.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
It runs along the Mexican border all the way out
to Arizona and how there's an increasing number of homeless
illegal aliens living there and it's really hot, and the
headline is living unhoused and undocumented in one of California's
hottest regions, and about how much they suffer living out
(26:40):
in the heat without a home.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
They could have chose somewhere colder. That's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
What, what the hell I'm supposed to feel sorry for this?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
You're not supposed to be here.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I'm sure there's a thousand of these fascinating story on
how they got there. I think you got to go
back home and find your family. You're laying out and
it says you're one hundred and sixteen degree heat one
hundred and sixteen degrees and you're out in the desert
and you're breaking the law, and you don't have a
(27:17):
home and you don't.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Have any water. What do you think is going to happen? Well,
why do I have to do something about it? No
cooling centers out there. Don't give them an idea.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
We'll be paying for cooling centers out in the middle
of the Imperial County.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
All right, here's I told you.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Right before the break, we had a horrible post office
I have in my neighborhood horrible, and they had people
just actively stealing people's checks.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Everybody would write.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
About it online on social media all the time. And
we actually had one of our checks stolen and we
tracked it down and because eventually it was cashed and
somebody had I don't know why it out or in
doubt the recipient of the check and they wrote in
a new name, and I think, I don't know we
were paying our gas bill or electric bill anyway. They
(28:09):
busted a US Postal Service worker in Carson who is
stealing people's cash and checks in their mail.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
A former mail carrier for the US Postal Service who
flaunted luxury goods and wads of cash on social media
admitted today to conspiring to commit bank fraud. Thirty one
year old Mary Ann mcdomeitt of Carson has admitted stealing
checks and debit cards and credit cards for three years.
Authority say mcdonmitt bought luxury goods and took international trips
(28:40):
to places like Aruba and Turks and Caicos. When that's
stolen money. She has agreed to forfeit her Rolex watch
and other luxury items after pleading guilty mcdummitt has been
in federal custodys since July first, and faces a maximum
sentence of thirty years in federal prison. She was based
at the main post office.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
In They found one hundred and thirty stolen credit cards
and debit cards. They had sixteen US Treasury checks and
these people's income tax returns. And they also found she
had a loaded ghost gun looked like a glock, no
serial number on it, and she had co conspirators because
(29:21):
she'd sell the stolen cards to her friends. That's the
postal service for you. She probably worked at mine Conway.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
John cova, Hey, we don't do a lot of these
cross talks anymore.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
You're too lazy to walk in these.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Well, that's not true. I just think there's enough promotion
on this station, you think. But we got Steph Wush
coming on at four o'clock, which is great. But with
the post office, a friend of mine works at the
post office.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
We're actually a friend of a friend. I don't want
to get too deep into who this is.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
And he calls in sick about eighteen days a month,
and they've never checked on him, and they always pay
him his full salary. He only worked two days a month,
and he said eighty percent of the people he knows
in the post office got into it just to steal stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
This guy that works in the post office. Where'd you
meet this guy at the track? I was gonna say
that I thought it was too easy, a joke, you know.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
He goes to Target and it's the credit card shuffle,
you know, with this guy. But I've seen people like
that at the post office where they're opening up envelopes
and pulling credit cards.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Out to pay for stuff.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
It's incredible because you can tell you just have to
you know, remember back with the old days, when you
got a credit card, you had to call a phone
number to activate it. Yes, and they had and they
saw it was coming from your cell phone, so they'd activated.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Now the cards are being sent out, are already pre activated,
Is that right? Yeah, you don't have to do anything.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
I got a card the other day from I think
his bank America just said it's good.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
To go, and you could run off the big bill.
You can do whatever you want with it. Yeah, that's
why they do it. I don't know, that's why they
steal it, all right?
Speaker 6 (30:56):
I guess so, and Steph fu should for all right,
that's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah, this big that.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Is coming up next, and we got Michael More Publicity
live the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been
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