April 2, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (04/02) - Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about the Menendez Brothers claiming that LA County DA Nathan Hochman is playing political games with their release effort. The CEO of LAHSA had her mic cut off yesterday during the meeting where the County Board of Supervisors voted to create their own homeless agency and strip funding from LAHSA. More on the federal judge who is fed up with the wasteful spending on homelessness in LA.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Michael Monks was just done with us for the last
half hour, and if you missed it, you can hear
it on the podcast posted after four o'clock John Cobelt's
show on demand, and we went through all the homeless
news yesterday. There's a feeling like an earthquake is coming
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that everybody in government now sees that much of the
nation is upset with failed progressive politics and the rats
are scrambling. The ship is sinking and the rats are scrambling.
So yesterday the new homeless tax kicked in, and then
the county decided to pull out of Larsa, and the
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city council also decided that they weren't going to give
Karen Bess nearly the money that she's asking for for
her homeless projects. So there's a lot going on. There's
a federal judge named David Carter who's putting a lot
of pressure on everyone, and I think that has a
lot to do with the Rats scrambling. I'm going to
talk about him coming up because he looks like he's
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considering just blowing everything up he doesn't want to. He
realizes blowing everything up is not going to solve all
the problems, but he actually doesn't know what else to do.
It's that much of a failure. But hey, you voted
for all this. In the meantime, Alex Stone from ABC
News is coming on. The Menendez brothers are still whining
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and complaining that they're in prison for blowing their parents'
heads off. And now the Menenda's brother's entourage is upset
with Nathan Hackman, the La County DA because he still
opposes their release.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Let's see what the latest chapter is with Alex. How
are you? Hey?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
They're John doing well? So, yeah, this is as we
all know in La this ongoing saga since last fall
where George Gascon was siding with him and then and
now Nathan Hackman has not done the one to eighty
and so the family and the Menendez brothers and Mark
Garrigos are quite angry about the turn that Hawkman has
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done from what Garaghos was doing. And you remember about
a week and a half two weeks ago when Hawkman
filed the paperwork a little bit longer ago than that,
filed the paperwork saying that he would not support the
argument any longer that they have been rehabilitated and that
they should get out, and that he will go to
court in a hearing that right now is scheduled in
about two weeks. It's been delayed over and over again,
it may be delayed again and argue against them getting out.
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He argues, Hawkman does this.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
They pose an unreasonable risk of danger to the community
and the resentencing should not therefore be granted.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So this hearing's coming up, a judge could decide to
give them parole. The Parole Board is looking into them
as well. They're going to report in June to the
court and the governor where they could get clemency from
the governor or help the court decide. But Mark Garrigos
and the Menendez family members in this new filing, they're
angry about Nathan Hawkman going the opposite supporting them. Garrigos
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claims that the brothers fit perfectly under California law being rehabilitated,
that they should get out, and because I know that
you would love to hear from Geragos, he says, this
is why they have done good in prison.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
They have done some unbelievable work while in prison. Lyle
has kind of taken on what's called a green space
project for himself that's actually been implemented in the prison.
He's graduated from University of California.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
He's gotten a BA degree.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Eric has started hospice care for inmates.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So hospice care, so the Garrigos team. They have filed
these new arguments with the court against Hakman, saying that
Hawkman pushing back against the release is political and it's
for his political gain as a more conservative da That
they claim Hawkman is using outdated arguments, he's ignoring that
the men were sexually abused as children. That they say
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that that's what this is about. Hakman says, the abuse
has nothing to do with this over the alleged over
the murders. But the alleged abuse doesn't come into play
with the murders because it wasn't self defense. In that moment,
the family says that that Hawkman is just ignoring abuse victims.
That they've been arguing this as they held they've been
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holding constant rallies.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Today we stand together not just for Eric and Lyle,
but for every person who has been silenced, for every
person who has fought to be believed.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
So they want the judge to ignore Hawkman's argument in
this to keep them in prison. That Hawkman's arguing. They're saying,
ignore that, but Hawkman says that the whole defense that
they were abused and killed out of self defense, that
is a lie.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
He says they've been.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Telling lies for thirty five years, and that until they
come totally clean, he's not going to push for their release.
But it's really that self defense thing where he says
that is not self defense because they were not being
they were not in danger in that moment when they killed.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
And he put it this way.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
While the Menendez brothers persist in telling that for the
last over thirty years about their self defense defense and
persist in insisting that they did not suborn any perjury
or attempt to suborn perjury, then they do not meet
the standards for Ree's sentence sake.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
But the family and the brothers and Gerr Goosey disagree
with that and san that Hokman is completely wrong and
that this is politics. So they're telling the judge go
ahead and let them out, essentially, but give them parole.
The judges have to hear this rehabilitation argument in two
weeks if the hearing doesn't get delayed again.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
But for now they remain in prison.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
The most likely avenue probably is clemency at this point,
but the judge could decide to go forward with parole.
This is the argument for the death penalty, because if
they're executed, we wouldn't have to deal with this a
few weeks.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
All right, Alex Stone, thank you very much. You got it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Thanks for ABC News. They are so tiresome. It was
not self defense. They could have walked out the front door,
gotten to their luxury cars and in a way. All right,
they are psychopaths, and I mean I know the attorneys.
I know Garrigos is making good money on this, and
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so are the other attorneys. But the family, you're all crazy.
You have two psychopaths you want to unleash on the
rest of us. No, you're lucky that they weren't executed,
because they should have been. When we come back, I
want to talk about Judge Carter, David o'carter. He's at
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the end of his rope with all these homeless agencies
because it's clear they're all failures. Somebody's stealing the money,
somebody is paying out money to nonprofits and no one's
writing down where it's going, and he doesn't know what
to do. Because the homeless problem is not getting any better.
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Everybody's starting to turn on each other. This is almost
like the final days of so Union, Like there's all
this whole woke, progressive infrastructure we've been dealing with for
the last ten years. It's starting to collapse. And one
of the signs of collapse is when when everyone starts
eating one another, and these characters definitely are. We'll get
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into that after the news. And also we've got a
question online on Instagram. It's a poll, and the question
is who do you believe is to blame for these
homeless tax increases in Los Angeles with the money being
wasted or accounted for? And right now, according to KFI listeners,
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sixty one percent blame stupid voters, twenty three percent greedy politicians,
twelve percent blame fraudulent nonprofits, and four percent blame slimy lobbyists.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
There you go, that's.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Some crowd and they have they have plundered about I
don't know how many billions of dollars over the last
ten years. So you keep going to Instagram and you
can vote on that poll.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
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Speaker 2 (08:11):
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two rounds of it in the three o'clock hour.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Excuse me, you know you have an off, but.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
That's too far with eight seven seven Moist eighty six
eight seven seven Moist Day six. I have the allergy
problems too, I know.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
But at least I turn my mic off when I'm
coughing up the store.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You don't turn it off for your yawns.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Yes, I do. I mean one time. It was a mistake.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
All right, all right, I'm getting on.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Oh oh really somebody suggests a yawn. Yes, yeah, I've
seen that in zoos. Do you think, well, if all
if all the gorillas, one of them starts to yawn,
and than all the others will too.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I actually saw that one.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Yeahageous.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
It is.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
So this is really rich. There's nobody who claims any
of the homeless systems are working here in La County.
It's really awful because ten years ago we didn't have
any of this, and now we've had too much of
it for years, and it's because of stupid progressive politics
nothing else. If we had, you know, ten different people
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on city Council, three four different people on La County
Supervisor's board, a different mayor who weren't infected with progressive politics,
LA County and City.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Would look much different. We'd have a lot more money.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
But instead they got this bizarre, wacky notion that we
could take in all the drug addicts, alcoholics, mental patients
and weirdos from all over the country and let them
lay out in the streets and defecate and urinate and
inject their drugs and snort their meth and leave their
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garbage and their filth and their tents, and that they
could steal whatever they want to steal, and we don't
have any right to get in their way. They've got
the freedom to do all this. And oh my god,
there's a million court cases in the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And just think about it.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
On day one, the first guy who laid down a
tent and was sitting there injecting his heroin or snorting
his meth, if the cops would come and say, buddy,
not here, We'll give you a ride.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Where are you going?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
You just did that with Vagrant number one, and number
two and number three.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
This would never have happened. But I think they allowed
this because they realized, Ah, this is going to be
a huge revenue stream. We let the vagrants in here.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
The cover story is their civil rights, and now we
could set up all these phony beloney agencies, nonprofits, and
we're all gonna get rich. You're gonna have the politicians,
friends and relatives start nonprofits left and right, and they have,
and you're gonna have all these bureaucrats at the agencies.
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They're gonna have new fiefdoms to rule over. And the
people at the nonprofits are making six figures and the
people who run these agencies are making six figures. And
they keep jacking up the taxes. They have spent billions
and billions, and the homeless rate goes up and up,
and if there's a random year where the homeless rate
is stagnant, it's like, oh my god, look at that
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the homeless rate.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
H it didn't go up.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
It didn't go down, but it didn't go up, and wow,
we should get more money, and look how great we are.
And they created the problem, they do not solve it,
and they get rich off it. And if you don't
think that's what's going on, then you're a hopelessly naive.
You're a silly person. And here's one at the top
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of the food chain. We're gonna play you this clip. Eric,
get it ready. Michael Monks mentioned this last hour. LA
County is pulling its money out of LASA, that is
the joint city and state, City and county agency Los
Angeles Homeless Services Association. LA County contributes a lot of
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the money, LA City contributes some, and the county says
enough is enough. And the head of LASA is Valicia
Adams Kellum, and she is a piece of work. She
actually gave she signed a two million dollar contract and
gave the two million dollars to her husband's nonprofit. Probably
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stuff like that is going on every day, but this
was blatant. And then she claimed, well, I didn't look
at what I was signing. They shouldn't have given it
to me. Okay, I guess you can't read either, Felicia.
She was to appear before the federal judge David Carter.
He had invited all these city leaders and she didn't
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show up because she was speaking at Harvard.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Harvard she went.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
To the LA County support of Supervisors meeting yesterday, but
they didn't want to hear from her. Really, they treated
her like any other riff raff constituent. She only got
a minute, then she asked for thirty seconds, got that,
and then had her mic cut off. Listen to the
President of LASA, Alicia Adams Kellen.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
I am the CEO of LASA, and there's been a
lot of negative things said about LASA today. As was
said in the motion when it first released, it indicated
that much of the look back audits did not cover
the time of my leadership. But when I came on
and I met with each of you, I took on
the responsibility of the many years twenty plus years of
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system failure, particularly at but I made promises. One would
be a reduction in unsheltered homelessness, which we've seen now
two years in a row. To enhance transparency, I promised
that we would improve our operations and we have. We've
implemented twenty new data dashboards that provide unprecedented insight into
how our system functions. The questions you had about functions
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and system improvements. We can actually provide that data to
you today and it is on our public website. And
it's public facing. To improve our contracting, we're at eighty percent.
Thank you, Next speaker, please can we give her, given
the fact that she is over lost, I'd like to
give her an initial thirty seconds to finish up. To
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improve provider payments, we worked with all of you to
ensure that we would have advanced systems where we would
reconcile and providers no longer waiting months and months. We've
made a lot of the changes that you proposed, and
the oversight and KPIs that we have helped make available
to ECRA is possible by the tremendous people that joined
me at.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
LASA just a year ago. Right as I said before,
anyone understands me.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
He's very personal to me. Me and my daughter's experienced homelessness.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You know what it's like. Thank you, Thank you off
for Mike.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Did you say that she and her experiences Wait wait, wait, Stott, stop,
is that her still talking?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
No? No, your mic was cut off.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Your mic was cut off of Bye Bye, go away.
Mike was cut off. So she was homeless and her
daughters were homeless. So they hired a homeless person to
run LASA. And it's a disaster. What do you know
who would have thought? And she was speaking at Harvard
last week. So the homeless person runs LASA, the thing's
a disaster and she gets rewarded with a speaking engagement
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at at Harvard.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Measure needs to be repealed, don't.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
You think or what do you think she makes? I
just looked up her salary U two fifty Eric, what
do you think?
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Well, let's get Debra's going two fifty, I'm going seven
to fifty likes.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
It's four hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
What four hundred thirty thousand dollars that's her salary, And
there's there's over two billion dollars unaccounted for. And she
gave two million dollars to her husband's nonprofit, which is
what you get when you hire a homeless person to
run your agency. We've got more coming up, a lot more.
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I didn't even get to Judge Carter's rantings.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
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Speaker 2 (16:41):
All right, well we left you last right before Debra's news.
We were playing you a clip of this hopeless hapless
Valicia Adams Kellum. The more name somebody has usually the
worst they are at their jobs. And she's in charge
of LASA, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, which is
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in total disarray, and now the county is defunding their
share of LASA. And it's so bad for Valicia that
when she showed up at the county meeting where they
were taking away her funding, she had to stand in
line with the rest of the riff rath and they
only gave her a minute and a half to speak
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and then they cut off her microphone.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Now, so she's toast one way or the other. You
would think who hired her?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Karen Bass, another Karen Bass friend like Deenie Keinonia's and
you know what, she's making double what the last permanent director.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Made as a salary.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Remember Genie Canonias took over the LEDWP. She got way
more than her predecessor. She was a friend of Bass.
And this lady, Alicia Adams Callum, she's getting four hundred
and thirty thousand dollars. The last permanent director was Heidi
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Marston who got two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. So
Bass has hired two women that she's friends with and
gave them both exorbitant salaries and they're both disasters. Kenonias
didn't fill up the reservoir in the Palisades and then
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the fire hit. They didn't turn off the electricity in
the power lines. A second big fire hit the Palisades
that day, and Valici Adams.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Kellum, well, you know about the audits. The audits say
that billions of dollars are unaccounted for it. They don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Exactly what the money went for if it wasn't outright
stolen by someone in the system. So, going back to
the county supervisors beating yesterday, the Laici Adams Kellum was
allowed to speak as a shed stand in line and
she got They gave her ninety seconds, and right before
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they cut the mic off, she blurted this out.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
Me and my daughter's experienced homelessness, you know what.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
It's like things.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
They cut her off right in the middle of the
word homelessness. So she used to be homeless. They literally
hired a homeless person to run a homeless agency with
a multi billion dollar budget.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
What the hell?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Then I look her up and she's got a doctorate
from Stanford.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Well, I guess it.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Wasn't in finance because all the money has gone out
the back door and nobody knows where it is or
what it went for. And then of course there's the
two million dollar contract she awarded her own husband's nonprofit.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Another good high by Karen Bass.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Now let me get to David o'carter, the judge, because
he's as pissed as anybody. He is a federal judge
overseeing this case. And the reason he's overseeing that it's
a five year old lawsuit. It was brought by the
La Alliance for Human Rights. Don't be misled by the.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Name, though.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
It's actually an organization of business owners, property owners and
residents who were sick of the homeless situation in the streets.
They filed a lawsuit and it's still being litigated, and
Carter has had it. Yesterday he gave Karen Bass and
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the chairwoman of the La County Board of Supervisors, Katherine Barger,
until May to the system or he's going to become
your worst nightmare. So they have a month, which is
why Barger led the charge to defund LASSA, because who.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Knows what the judge is going to do.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Judge Carter said, I think as elected officials, you've inherited
an extraordinarily extraordinarily difficult task.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
And I imagine you came.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
To court today thinking that Helen Brimstone would rain upon you.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Quite the opposite.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I'm going to be asking if there's anything that your
branch of government can do to resolve the problems that
have been presented to you. But again, if they didn't
resolve them, he'll become your worst nightmare. So he doesn't
want to have to find someone else to take over
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the cys them unless the two of you can work
this out in some way, the Court's going to have
to and I'm not sure what to do about that
because I'm intruding. I've got a great chance of a
reversal upon appeal. I understand that, but if I don't,
then I'm complicit. Then I'm sitting here doing nothing. So
he doesn't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
He doesn't know.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
If legally he can do it, but he is going
to do it because everybody else has botched this up.
The money's disappeared with no results for years and years.
So the first thing they did was they decided to
shut off Felicia Adams Callum's microphone enough out of her
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she didn't show up for Judge Carter because she was
giving an address at Harvard.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
What is that address about.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
How to bankrupt a major cities homeless agency without getting
the homeless off the streets?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Was that the title of her speech?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
So, Carter, as you know we've been telling you, authorized
an audit and found that the whole system from the city,
the county, and the LA Homeless Services Authority was disjointed.
It doesn't have adequate data systems, it doesn't have financial controls.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
There's waste and fraud.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
After you meant, after you voted for Measure H in
twenty seventeen, that's the original homeless sales tax. Loss's budget
has grown more than seven times, more than seven times,
and the homelessness got worse.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Don't you think people should be refunded their money.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
I know we touched upon this yesterday, but there has
to be some something that we can do because people
voted for a tax not knowing a lot of this
behind the scenes information.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Oh, this Measure A that passed November ought to be repealed.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
That's exactly what I'm saying. So let's get the process started.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
We ought to have a repeal. I mean, the county
is defunding los anyway, Let's take our money from the
county and say, look, it can't be any worse because
we gave you billions, literally billions of dollars and the
city too, and everything got worse. You don't know what
you're doing. The judge thinks you're a bunch of clowns.
Speaker 7 (24:32):
Well, the judge needs to say, okay, you need to
refund and repeal.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah, the auditors think there's a lot of fraud and
waste and criminal activity when we come back. He made
a crack about Newsom because Newsom was supposed to show up.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
And talk to the judge and he didn't either tell
you about it.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
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Guess who's coming on right after three o'clock. I know,
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Speaker 7 (25:04):
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Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, the Riverside County Assemblymen frequent guest on the John
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He started listening to Johnny Ken's show back when he
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listen just like me, just like you.
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That's right. Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
And at works, you tie kids up and they have
to listen to this crap for years.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
You end up you end up working here. Bill Sally
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Trump just made him the US attorney for Los Angeles
and that and that is a big deal, and he
is going to give one and only interview about it,
and it's going to be with us.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Coming up in just a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Continuing on about Judge David o'carter, who who is ripped
on everyone. He's got to deal with this lawsuit brought
by a group of business owners, property owners and residents
who are fed up with all the homeless going on,
you know, for the last ten years in LA And
he told everybody he doesn't know what to do. That
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LASA and the city and the county are so bad
that he'd like to take some extreme action.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
But he doesn't know what he said.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
This isn't new, This is old news to elected officials
and to LASSA, the bad accounting procedures, not knowing where
the money is going, not knowing if the money is stolen.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
He says, this is old news.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
But there's no auditing going on, there's no transparency, there's
no accountability.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
So an attorney for the plaintiffs.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Matthew Umhoffer said, well, why why don't you appoint a receiver,
And a receiver would be an outside executive, an outside
boss to oversee the agency not connected to government. And
Judge Carter said, well, what's that supposed to look like?
What's the function of this receiver? What are they going
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to do? And i'm Hoffer says, well, the receiver becomes
the homelessnesses are for the city. And Carter said, well,
that's going to have to be an eight hundred pound gorilla.
I'm haffer said, it might include control of the budget,
the homeless budget in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Well, he says, well, he's.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Judge Carter said, nobody elected the court and nobody elected
the receivership. That could be construed as a real intrusion
of power. And I'm trying to get a resolution from you.
But let's hear the drama of this for just a moment,
because I'm having trouble sorting out what this would even
potentially look like. He says, this is a dramatic action
by the court if it was ever to be considered basically,
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we'd have an outsider running the homeless budget.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
And this is me talking here who's not elected.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
But the people see, we're in a weird place because
the people we elected are almost all incompetent. Bass is
a disaster. Eighty percent of the LA County supervisors are disasters.
This Vlisia Adams Kellum is a disaster, and she's given
money away to her husband's nonprofit. The city council is
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a disaster. They're begging that the county stay in laws
because I think the city council has a lot of
friends and relatives who run these nonprofits. They want all
this dysfunction to continue because right now, these nonprofit homeless
agencies are wasting tons of taxpayer money, but the people
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running them are getting rich. And I swear some of
these city council people must be getting kickbacks. It wouldn't
be the first time. I'm what if we had. We've
had four of them either go to jail or on
their way, and then Carter said, are you asking to
take over the entire city? First of all, I'd be
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working with a bureaucracy that is not functioning. I don't
know if I want to work with these same people anymore.
That's doomed to failure. It's doomed to fit. So he's
saying that all these people that he invited to solve
the problem, he's realized there are all a bunch of losers. Oh,
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here's another loser who was supposed to show up, Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
He didn't And the judge says, well, he has a
blog and he's busy blogging.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
His podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, so he invited Newsom. News didn't show.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Bast didn't show at first. The city council president or
Keith Harris Dawson, well he's a complete loser. Felicia Adams
Kellam went to Boston. Is why is everybody like constantly
on a plane somewhere.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
I think our jobs are I don't know. John, we
need to get some traveling here.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, I know, I'm yeah, I know. We should.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
We should, we should be traveling. We actually do our job.
So Bass is in Africa when the fire hits. Vlisi
Adams Kellam is in Boston when the judge is demanding
that she attended a hearing. You have that, idiot, cal Fart,
Ricardo Lara, The insurance industry is a disaster, and he's
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in Bogota, Columbia, or Bermuda or Paris.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
This has got to end. This has got to be collapsing.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
We're gonna talk to someone competent right after Devers three
o'clock news. Bill is Saley, Riverside County Assembly who's on
our show many times, and he just got a major
promotion Donald Trump. President Trump nominated him to be US
attorney here in Los Angeles, and we are gonna We're
(30:57):
gonna put him on in just a few minutes. This
is his first and only interview on the matter. He's
going to have to speak carefully because he needs to
be confirmed by the Senate.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Yes, he doesn't have the gig yet.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, well he's going to be interim, but he can't
get the permanent gig until he gets approval. So you know,
we don't we don't want to trap him into anything
that's going to cause the Senate a problem.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
What would you, I mean, what would you possibly?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I've caused a lot of people a lot of heartache.
So we'll see Deborah Mark live in the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John
Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Michael Monks was just done with us for the last
half hour, and if you missed it, you can hear
it on the podcast posted after four o'clock John Cobelt's
show on demand, and we went through all the homeless
news yesterday. There's a feeling like an earthquake is coming
(00:23):
that everybody in government now sees that much of the
nation is upset with failed progressive politics and the rats
are scrambling. The ship is sinking and the rats are scrambling.
So yesterday the new homeless tax kicked in, and then
the county decided to pull out of Larsa, and the
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city council also decided that they weren't going to give
Karen Bess nearly the money that she's asking for for
her homeless projects. So there's a lot going on. There's
a federal judge named David Carter who's putting a lot
of pressure on everyone, and I think that has a
lot to do with the Rats scrambling. I'm going to
talk about him coming up because he looks like he's
(01:08):
considering just blowing everything up he doesn't want to. He
realizes blowing everything up is not going to solve all
the problems, but he actually doesn't know what else to do.
It's that much of a failure. But hey, you voted
for all this. In the meantime, Alex Stone from ABC
News is coming on. The Menendez brothers are still whining
(01:29):
and complaining that they're in prison for blowing their parents'
heads off. And now the Menenda's brother's entourage is upset
with Nathan Hackman, the La County DA because he still
opposes their release.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Let's see what the latest chapter is with Alex. How
are you? Hey?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
They're John doing well? So, yeah, this is as we
all know in La this ongoing saga since last fall
where George Gascon was siding with him and then and
now Nathan Hackman has not done the one to eighty
and so the family and the Menendez brothers and Mark
Garrigos are quite angry about the turn that Hawkman has
(02:06):
done from what Garaghos was doing. And you remember about
a week and a half two weeks ago when Hawkman
filed the paperwork a little bit longer ago than that,
filed the paperwork saying that he would not support the
argument any longer that they have been rehabilitated and that
they should get out, and that he will go to
court in a hearing that right now is scheduled in
about two weeks. It's been delayed over and over again,
it may be delayed again and argue against them getting out.
(02:29):
He argues, Hawkman does this.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
They pose an unreasonable risk of danger to the community
and the resentencing should not therefore be granted.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So this hearing's coming up, a judge could decide to
give them parole. The Parole Board is looking into them
as well. They're going to report in June to the
court and the governor where they could get clemency from
the governor or help the court decide. But Mark Garrigos
and the Menendez family members in this new filing, they're
angry about Nathan Hawkman going the opposite supporting them. Garrigos
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claims that the brothers fit perfectly under California law being rehabilitated,
that they should get out, and because I know that
you would love to hear from Geragos, he says, this
is why they have done good in prison.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
They have done some unbelievable work while in prison. Lyle
has kind of taken on what's called a green space
project for himself that's actually been implemented in the prison.
He's graduated from University of California.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
He's gotten a BA degree.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Eric has started hospice care for inmates.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So hospice care, so the Garrigos team. They have filed
these new arguments with the court against Hakman, saying that
Hawkman pushing back against the release is political and it's
for his political gain as a more conservative da That
they claim Hawkman is using outdated arguments, he's ignoring that
the men were sexually abused as children. That they say
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that that's what this is about. Hakman says, the abuse
has nothing to do with this over the alleged over
the murders. But the alleged abuse doesn't come into play
with the murders because it wasn't self defense. In that moment,
the family says that that Hawkman is just ignoring abuse victims.
That they've been arguing this as they held they've been
(04:16):
holding constant rallies.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Today we stand together not just for Eric and Lyle,
but for every person who has been silenced, for every
person who has fought to be believed.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
So they want the judge to ignore Hawkman's argument in
this to keep them in prison. That Hawkman's arguing. They're saying,
ignore that, but Hawkman says that the whole defense that
they were abused and killed out of self defense, that
is a lie.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
He says they've been.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Telling lies for thirty five years, and that until they
come totally clean, he's not going to push for their release.
But it's really that self defense thing where he says
that is not self defense because they were not being
they were not in danger in that moment when they killed.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
And he put it this way.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
While the Menendez brothers persist in telling that for the
last over thirty years about their self defense defense and
persist in insisting that they did not suborn any perjury
or attempt to suborn perjury, then they do not meet
the standards for Ree's sentence sake.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
But the family and the brothers and Gerr Goosey disagree
with that and san that Hokman is completely wrong and
that this is politics. So they're telling the judge go
ahead and let them out, essentially, but give them parole.
The judges have to hear this rehabilitation argument in two
weeks if the hearing doesn't get delayed again.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
But for now they remain in prison.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
The most likely avenue probably is clemency at this point,
but the judge could decide to go forward with parole.
This is the argument for the death penalty, because if
they're executed, we wouldn't have to deal with this a
few weeks.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
All right, Alex Stone, thank you very much. You got it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Thanks for ABC News. They are so tiresome. It was
not self defense. They could have walked out the front door,
gotten to their luxury cars and in a way. All right,
they are psychopaths, and I mean I know the attorneys.
I know Garrigos is making good money on this, and
(06:09):
so are the other attorneys. But the family, you're all crazy.
You have two psychopaths you want to unleash on the
rest of us. No, you're lucky that they weren't executed,
because they should have been. When we come back, I
want to talk about Judge Carter, David o'carter. He's at
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the end of his rope with all these homeless agencies
because it's clear they're all failures. Somebody's stealing the money,
somebody is paying out money to nonprofits and no one's
writing down where it's going, and he doesn't know what
to do. Because the homeless problem is not getting any better.
(06:54):
Everybody's starting to turn on each other. This is almost
like the final days of so Union, Like there's all
this whole woke, progressive infrastructure we've been dealing with for
the last ten years. It's starting to collapse. And one
of the signs of collapse is when when everyone starts
eating one another, and these characters definitely are. We'll get
(07:19):
into that after the news. And also we've got a
question online on Instagram. It's a poll, and the question
is who do you believe is to blame for these
homeless tax increases in Los Angeles with the money being
wasted or accounted for? And right now, according to KFI listeners,
(07:40):
sixty one percent blame stupid voters, twenty three percent greedy politicians,
twelve percent blame fraudulent nonprofits, and four percent blame slimy lobbyists.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
There you go, that's.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Some crowd and they have they have plundered about I
don't know how many billions of dollars over the last
ten years. So you keep going to Instagram and you
can vote on that poll.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
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am six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
John coblt Our moistline is operating. We're gonna play Friday,
two rounds of it in the three o'clock hour.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Excuse me, you know you have an off, but.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
That's too far with eight seven seven Moist eighty six
eight seven seven Moist Day six. I have the allergy
problems too, I know.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
But at least I turn my mic off when I'm
coughing up the store.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You don't turn it off for your yawns.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Yes, I do. I mean one time. It was a mistake.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
All right, all right, I'm getting on.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Oh oh really somebody suggests a yawn. Yes, yeah, I've
seen that in zoos. Do you think, well, if all
if all the gorillas, one of them starts to yawn,
and than all the others will too.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I actually saw that one.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Yeahageous.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
It is.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
So this is really rich. There's nobody who claims any
of the homeless systems are working here in La County.
It's really awful because ten years ago we didn't have
any of this, and now we've had too much of
it for years, and it's because of stupid progressive politics
nothing else. If we had, you know, ten different people
(09:26):
on city Council, three four different people on La County
Supervisor's board, a different mayor who weren't infected with progressive politics,
LA County and City.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Would look much different. We'd have a lot more money.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
But instead they got this bizarre, wacky notion that we
could take in all the drug addicts, alcoholics, mental patients
and weirdos from all over the country and let them
lay out in the streets and defecate and urinate and
inject their drugs and snort their meth and leave their
(10:04):
garbage and their filth and their tents, and that they
could steal whatever they want to steal, and we don't
have any right to get in their way. They've got
the freedom to do all this. And oh my god,
there's a million court cases in the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And just think about it.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
On day one, the first guy who laid down a
tent and was sitting there injecting his heroin or snorting
his meth, if the cops would come and say, buddy,
not here, We'll give you a ride.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Where are you going?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
You just did that with Vagrant number one, and number
two and number three.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
This would never have happened. But I think they allowed
this because they realized, Ah, this is going to be
a huge revenue stream. We let the vagrants in here.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
The cover story is their civil rights, and now we
could set up all these phony beloney agencies, nonprofits, and
we're all gonna get rich. You're gonna have the politicians,
friends and relatives start nonprofits left and right, and they have,
and you're gonna have all these bureaucrats at the agencies.
(11:15):
They're gonna have new fiefdoms to rule over. And the
people at the nonprofits are making six figures and the
people who run these agencies are making six figures. And
they keep jacking up the taxes. They have spent billions
and billions, and the homeless rate goes up and up,
and if there's a random year where the homeless rate
is stagnant, it's like, oh my god, look at that
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the homeless rate.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
H it didn't go up.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
It didn't go down, but it didn't go up, and wow,
we should get more money, and look how great we are.
And they created the problem, they do not solve it,
and they get rich off it. And if you don't
think that's what's going on, then you're a hopelessly naive.
You're a silly person. And here's one at the top
(12:01):
of the food chain. We're gonna play you this clip. Eric,
get it ready. Michael Monks mentioned this last hour. LA
County is pulling its money out of LASA, that is
the joint city and state, City and county agency Los
Angeles Homeless Services Association. LA County contributes a lot of
(12:22):
the money, LA City contributes some, and the county says
enough is enough. And the head of LASA is Valicia
Adams Kellum, and she is a piece of work. She
actually gave she signed a two million dollar contract and
gave the two million dollars to her husband's nonprofit. Probably
(12:44):
stuff like that is going on every day, but this
was blatant. And then she claimed, well, I didn't look
at what I was signing. They shouldn't have given it
to me. Okay, I guess you can't read either, Felicia.
She was to appear before the federal judge David Carter.
He had invited all these city leaders and she didn't
(13:06):
show up because she was speaking at Harvard.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Harvard she went.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
To the LA County support of Supervisors meeting yesterday, but
they didn't want to hear from her. Really, they treated
her like any other riff raff constituent. She only got
a minute, then she asked for thirty seconds, got that,
and then had her mic cut off. Listen to the
President of LASA, Alicia Adams Kellen.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
I am the CEO of LASA, and there's been a
lot of negative things said about LASA today. As was
said in the motion when it first released, it indicated
that much of the look back audits did not cover
the time of my leadership. But when I came on
and I met with each of you, I took on
the responsibility of the many years twenty plus years of
(13:57):
system failure, particularly at but I made promises. One would
be a reduction in unsheltered homelessness, which we've seen now
two years in a row. To enhance transparency, I promised
that we would improve our operations and we have. We've
implemented twenty new data dashboards that provide unprecedented insight into
how our system functions. The questions you had about functions
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and system improvements. We can actually provide that data to
you today and it is on our public website. And
it's public facing. To improve our contracting, we're at eighty percent.
Thank you, Next speaker, please can we give her, given
the fact that she is over lost, I'd like to
give her an initial thirty seconds to finish up. To
(14:43):
improve provider payments, we worked with all of you to
ensure that we would have advanced systems where we would
reconcile and providers no longer waiting months and months. We've
made a lot of the changes that you proposed, and
the oversight and KPIs that we have helped make available
to ECRA is possible by the tremendous people that joined
me at.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
LASA just a year ago. Right as I said before,
anyone understands me.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
He's very personal to me. Me and my daughter's experienced homelessness.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You know what it's like. Thank you, Thank you off
for Mike.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Did you say that she and her experiences Wait wait, wait, Stott, stop,
is that her still talking?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
No? No, your mic was cut off.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Your mic was cut off of Bye Bye, go away.
Mike was cut off. So she was homeless and her
daughters were homeless. So they hired a homeless person to
run LASA. And it's a disaster. What do you know
who would have thought? And she was speaking at Harvard
last week. So the homeless person runs LASA, the thing's
a disaster and she gets rewarded with a speaking engagement
(15:52):
at at Harvard.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Measure needs to be repealed, don't.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
You think or what do you think she makes? I
just looked up her salary U two fifty Eric, what
do you think?
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Well, let's get Debra's going two fifty, I'm going seven
to fifty likes.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
It's four hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
What four hundred thirty thousand dollars that's her salary, And
there's there's over two billion dollars unaccounted for. And she
gave two million dollars to her husband's nonprofit, which is
what you get when you hire a homeless person to
run your agency. We've got more coming up, a lot more.
(16:32):
I didn't even get to Judge Carter's rantings.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
All right, well we left you last right before Debra's news.
We were playing you a clip of this hopeless hapless
Valicia Adams Kellum. The more name somebody has usually the
worst they are at their jobs. And she's in charge
of LASA, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, which is
(17:02):
in total disarray, and now the county is defunding their
share of LASA. And it's so bad for Valicia that
when she showed up at the county meeting where they
were taking away her funding, she had to stand in
line with the rest of the riff rath and they
only gave her a minute and a half to speak
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and then they cut off her microphone.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Now, so she's toast one way or the other. You
would think who hired her?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Karen Bass, another Karen Bass friend like Deenie Keinonia's and
you know what, she's making double what the last permanent director.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Made as a salary.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Remember Genie Canonias took over the LEDWP. She got way
more than her predecessor. She was a friend of Bass.
And this lady, Alicia Adams Callum, she's getting four hundred
and thirty thousand dollars. The last permanent director was Heidi
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Marston who got two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. So
Bass has hired two women that she's friends with and
gave them both exorbitant salaries and they're both disasters. Kenonias
didn't fill up the reservoir in the Palisades and then
(18:28):
the fire hit. They didn't turn off the electricity in
the power lines. A second big fire hit the Palisades
that day, and Valici Adams.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Kellum, well, you know about the audits. The audits say
that billions of dollars are unaccounted for it. They don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Exactly what the money went for if it wasn't outright
stolen by someone in the system. So, going back to
the county supervisors beating yesterday, the Laici Adams Kellum was
allowed to speak as a shed stand in line and
she got They gave her ninety seconds, and right before
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they cut the mic off, she blurted this out.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
Me and my daughter's experienced homelessness, you know what.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
It's like things.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
They cut her off right in the middle of the
word homelessness. So she used to be homeless. They literally
hired a homeless person to run a homeless agency with
a multi billion dollar budget.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
What the hell?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Then I look her up and she's got a doctorate
from Stanford.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Well, I guess it.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Wasn't in finance because all the money has gone out
the back door and nobody knows where it is or
what it went for. And then of course there's the
two million dollar contract she awarded her own husband's nonprofit.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Another good high by Karen Bass.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Now let me get to David o'carter, the judge, because
he's as pissed as anybody. He is a federal judge
overseeing this case. And the reason he's overseeing that it's
a five year old lawsuit. It was brought by the
La Alliance for Human Rights. Don't be misled by the.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Name, though.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
It's actually an organization of business owners, property owners and
residents who were sick of the homeless situation in the streets.
They filed a lawsuit and it's still being litigated, and
Carter has had it. Yesterday he gave Karen Bass and
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the chairwoman of the La County Board of Supervisors, Katherine Barger,
until May to the system or he's going to become
your worst nightmare. So they have a month, which is
why Barger led the charge to defund LASSA, because who.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Knows what the judge is going to do.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Judge Carter said, I think as elected officials, you've inherited
an extraordinarily extraordinarily difficult task.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
And I imagine you came.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
To court today thinking that Helen Brimstone would rain upon you.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Quite the opposite.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I'm going to be asking if there's anything that your
branch of government can do to resolve the problems that
have been presented to you. But again, if they didn't
resolve them, he'll become your worst nightmare. So he doesn't
want to have to find someone else to take over
(21:59):
the cys them unless the two of you can work
this out in some way, the Court's going to have
to and I'm not sure what to do about that
because I'm intruding. I've got a great chance of a
reversal upon appeal. I understand that, but if I don't,
then I'm complicit. Then I'm sitting here doing nothing. So
he doesn't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
He doesn't know.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
If legally he can do it, but he is going
to do it because everybody else has botched this up.
The money's disappeared with no results for years and years.
So the first thing they did was they decided to
shut off Felicia Adams Callum's microphone enough out of her
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she didn't show up for Judge Carter because she was
giving an address at Harvard.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
What is that address about.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
How to bankrupt a major cities homeless agency without getting
the homeless off the streets?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Was that the title of her speech?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
So, Carter, as you know we've been telling you, authorized
an audit and found that the whole system from the city,
the county, and the LA Homeless Services Authority was disjointed.
It doesn't have adequate data systems, it doesn't have financial controls.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
There's waste and fraud.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
After you meant, after you voted for Measure H in
twenty seventeen, that's the original homeless sales tax. Loss's budget
has grown more than seven times, more than seven times,
and the homelessness got worse.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Don't you think people should be refunded their money.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
I know we touched upon this yesterday, but there has
to be some something that we can do because people
voted for a tax not knowing a lot of this
behind the scenes information.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Oh, this Measure A that passed November ought to be repealed.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
That's exactly what I'm saying. So let's get the process started.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
We ought to have a repeal. I mean, the county
is defunding los anyway, Let's take our money from the
county and say, look, it can't be any worse because
we gave you billions, literally billions of dollars and the
city too, and everything got worse. You don't know what
you're doing. The judge thinks you're a bunch of clowns.
Speaker 7 (24:32):
Well, the judge needs to say, okay, you need to
refund and repeal.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah, the auditors think there's a lot of fraud and
waste and criminal activity when we come back. He made
a crack about Newsom because Newsom was supposed to show up.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
And talk to the judge and he didn't either tell
you about it.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
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Guess who's coming on right after three o'clock. I know,
I know, girl in the front row.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Okay, who Bill has a new gig?
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, the Riverside County Assemblymen frequent guest on the John
Cobelt Show. And in fact, you know he's been listening.
He started listening to Johnny Ken's show back when he
was a kid. Really, yes, his parents had him tied
up in the back seat and he was forced to
listen just like me, just like you.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
That's right. Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
And at works, you tie kids up and they have
to listen to this crap for years.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
You end up you end up working here. Bill Sally
is coming on.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Trump just made him the US attorney for Los Angeles
and that and that is a big deal, and he
is going to give one and only interview about it,
and it's going to be with us.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Coming up in just a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Continuing on about Judge David o'carter, who who is ripped
on everyone. He's got to deal with this lawsuit brought
by a group of business owners, property owners and residents
who are fed up with all the homeless going on,
you know, for the last ten years in LA And
he told everybody he doesn't know what to do. That
(26:17):
LASA and the city and the county are so bad
that he'd like to take some extreme action.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
But he doesn't know what he said.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
This isn't new, This is old news to elected officials
and to LASSA, the bad accounting procedures, not knowing where
the money is going, not knowing if the money is stolen.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
He says, this is old news.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
But there's no auditing going on, there's no transparency, there's
no accountability.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
So an attorney for the plaintiffs.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Matthew Umhoffer said, well, why why don't you appoint a receiver,
And a receiver would be an outside executive, an outside
boss to oversee the agency not connected to government. And
Judge Carter said, well, what's that supposed to look like?
What's the function of this receiver? What are they going
(27:10):
to do? And i'm Hoffer says, well, the receiver becomes
the homelessnesses are for the city. And Carter said, well,
that's going to have to be an eight hundred pound gorilla.
I'm haffer said, it might include control of the budget,
the homeless budget in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Well, he says, well, he's.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Judge Carter said, nobody elected the court and nobody elected
the receivership. That could be construed as a real intrusion
of power. And I'm trying to get a resolution from you.
But let's hear the drama of this for just a moment,
because I'm having trouble sorting out what this would even
potentially look like. He says, this is a dramatic action
by the court if it was ever to be considered basically,
(27:50):
we'd have an outsider running the homeless budget.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
And this is me talking here who's not elected.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
But the people see, we're in a weird place because
the people we elected are almost all incompetent. Bass is
a disaster. Eighty percent of the LA County supervisors are disasters.
This Vlisia Adams Kellum is a disaster, and she's given
money away to her husband's nonprofit. The city council is
(28:18):
a disaster. They're begging that the county stay in laws
because I think the city council has a lot of
friends and relatives who run these nonprofits. They want all
this dysfunction to continue because right now, these nonprofit homeless
agencies are wasting tons of taxpayer money, but the people
(28:39):
running them are getting rich. And I swear some of
these city council people must be getting kickbacks. It wouldn't
be the first time. I'm what if we had. We've
had four of them either go to jail or on
their way, and then Carter said, are you asking to
take over the entire city? First of all, I'd be
(29:00):
working with a bureaucracy that is not functioning. I don't
know if I want to work with these same people anymore.
That's doomed to failure. It's doomed to fit. So he's
saying that all these people that he invited to solve
the problem, he's realized there are all a bunch of losers. Oh,
(29:23):
here's another loser who was supposed to show up, Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
He didn't And the judge says, well, he has a
blog and he's busy blogging.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
His podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, so he invited Newsom. News didn't show.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Bast didn't show at first. The city council president or
Keith Harris Dawson, well he's a complete loser. Felicia Adams
Kellam went to Boston. Is why is everybody like constantly
on a plane somewhere.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
I think our jobs are I don't know. John, we
need to get some traveling here.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, I know, I'm yeah, I know. We should.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
We should, we should be traveling. We actually do our job.
So Bass is in Africa when the fire hits. Vlisi
Adams Kellam is in Boston when the judge is demanding
that she attended a hearing. You have that, idiot, cal Fart,
Ricardo Lara, The insurance industry is a disaster, and he's
(30:23):
in Bogota, Columbia, or Bermuda or Paris.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
This has got to end. This has got to be collapsing.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
We're gonna talk to someone competent right after Devers three
o'clock news. Bill is Saley, Riverside County Assembly who's on
our show many times, and he just got a major
promotion Donald Trump. President Trump nominated him to be US
attorney here in Los Angeles, and we are gonna We're
(30:57):
gonna put him on in just a few minutes. This
is his first and only interview on the matter. He's
going to have to speak carefully because he needs to
be confirmed by the Senate.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Yes, he doesn't have the gig yet.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, well he's going to be interim, but he can't
get the permanent gig until he gets approval. So you know,
we don't we don't want to trap him into anything
that's going to cause the Senate a problem.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
What would you, I mean, what would you possibly?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I've caused a lot of people a lot of heartache.
So we'll see Deborah Mark live in the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John
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