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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The world is a serious place, and I got some
serious stuff I wanted to talk to you about too,
especially right here in Ohio. Blazer just had Keith Faber
in about a week ago, Ohio auditor, and he was
talking about the work that he's been doing going around
the state, you know, basically trying to make sure that
the people that are entrusted by the people of the
(00:20):
state of Ohio are held accountable for their actions. That
leads us to the story from the wsyxcite today to
Siota County, Ohio public officials. There are among four people
been indicted on an alleged kickback scheme that involved the
Southern Ohio Port Authority at a Portsmouth area business park.
Brian Davis, He's a Siota County commissioner. Robert Horton headed
(00:45):
the Southern Ohio Port Authority and the Siota County Economic
Development Department, and their wives, yeah, their wives were indicted
in an ongoing investigation. The indictments alleged that Horton received
kickbacks for securing public contracts. Davis used his position as
(01:07):
county commissioner and is alleged to secure the contracts and
the public funding that was involved, and on one occasion,
Horton is accused of agreeing to pay an unnamed business
more so he could account for a commission that was
to be paid to his wife, who has a business
called RPL Consulting Management. The commission was paid despite his
(01:33):
wife allegedly not having anything to do with this transaction.
The court record said that the money was then removed
from rpl's account and went into the Horton's account under
the alleged direction of Robert Horton. A similar scheme was
used during the bidding process for construction of a building
at the Minford Emergency Ambulance Service at the Southern Ohio
(01:56):
Aeronautical Regional Business Park August twenty twenty two. Davis used
the authority of his office in his position as a
commissioner to vote for and pass a resolution to transfer
one and a half million dollars that would then allow
Horton to use that for the sore Business Park project
without any additional oversight. Allege kickbacks were then paid out
(02:18):
in the form of sales commissions. This is just crazy
and so blatant. I mean, anybody who looks at a
little book keeping could see what was going on. So
Key Faber keep on keeping on. I mean, we'll have
to see how this one turns out, but it's uh yeah,
(02:41):
it seems pretty cut and dry. Case has been sent
to the Ohio Supreme Court after the Siota County Common
Police Court recused itself, and good for them. Good for them,
I mean that this is too intermingled with local officials,
local elected officials, and the county court said, no, we
don't think so, so it's going to go on to
the court. This story bothers me. It's out of Florida,
(03:04):
and that's not why it bothers me, although most stories
out of Florida do. This guy sing si n g
H killed three people on the road. Truck driver. He
did so by trying to make an illegal U turn
with his truck and the truck jackknifed and hit a
(03:30):
mini van and all three people in the minivan were killed.
This is tragic and you think, Okay, well, they know
who he is, they know what he did. He's gonna
you know, get charged, go to jail. Well, no, first
of all, he fled Florida the next day, he and
his brother to Sacramento, California. He had at one point
a CDL. However, Fox is reporting that he actually took
(03:53):
the test for the CDL either the day of or
the day after the accident and failed it. So I'm
not sure what that's about. The baffling part to this
story isn't about him. Isn't about the test, the licensing,
(04:15):
or anything else. The baffling part of this story to me,
because once upon a time, Virginia, we were all on
the same page. Is the nearly two and a half
million What was nearly when I got the story? Who
knows what it is now two and a half million
people or so that have signed an online petition for
(04:40):
Governor DeSantis basically asking them to give this guy pass
to show leniency with him. I at the very least,
he broke the rules of the road. Find a U
(05:00):
turney illegally with the SEMI. I don't know anything else
about him. I do know they say that he crossed
into the US illegally in twenty eighteen, came across the
southern border. After that, he obtained a commercial driver's license
(05:21):
in California, where apparently anybody can get him, tried to
get work authorization. He was rejected during the first Trump
administration in September of twenty twenty, so we know illegal
failed or refused the CDL outside of the state of California,
(05:45):
couldn't find any work. Illegal U turn with a tractor trailer.
Three people dead, and so two and a half million
people think that it makes sense to show him leniency.
Maybe he didn't mean I'm assuming he didn't mean to
(06:06):
do what he did. I would hope he didn't mean
to do what he did. But he did what he did,
and what they're saying it was a tragic accident, not
a deliberate act. On the petition, while accountability matters, the
severity of the charges against him does not align. That's correct,
(06:34):
just sounds weird. Does not align with the circumstances of
the incident. If the guy's convicted, the petition asks that
Singh receive a proportionate and reasonable sentence, the parole eligibility
be granted after part of his sentence is served, and
(06:54):
that there are alternatives to incarceration, like count or community
service considered for his sentence. Did I mention three people
were dead? I don't know where these people come from.
I don't understand their thought process. Someone here illegally on
(07:20):
the road, illegally doing something illegal, made three people no
longer exist and were signing a petition for leniency. I
call me crazy. I just I don't think that's cool,
don't think it's right, don't think it's sensible, don't think
it's it's reasonable. But we are surrounded by the nonsensible,
(07:46):
non reasonable people today, which leads me to Reynoldsburg. Child
says she was sold Toinoldsburg. Man sold is in quotation
marks A judge is sent bond for two million dollars
(08:07):
for man accused of having sexual contact with a seven
year old child. I would suggest that the term man
no longer applied to him. Daniel Sisk, fifty eight, Rinnoldsburg,
charged with one count of growth sexual imposition on Friday.
Court documents filed by the Rinaldsburg Police Department alleged the
victim said she was sold to Sisk. Statement of Facts
(08:33):
in said the detective received an anonymous report on August
twentieth the child had been bought from North Carolina to
Ohio was being sexually abused. The tip claimed the child
had been sold to a male who now possessed her
but not any legal rights. Don't know what that means.
(08:55):
Police made contact with the child. At a home along
a Legro Drive. Also told detective she was sold and
that her mother gave her to Dan my dad to
have sex. That's a quote from a seven year old child.
No seven year old child should even know what that means,
(09:20):
Dan my dad. The child recounted her alleged abuse to detective,
said that she was told to not tell anyone because
things would go wrong. Legal guardian told police that her daughter,
who is a child's mother, picked the victim up on
July thirteenth and did not return her. Apparently grandma had
custody of this little girl. A woman and three children
(09:44):
lived with Sisk in this same home or the seven
year old child had been taken. The woman said that
she knew the child was sleeping in the same bed
as Sisk and thought it was weird, but she thought
of Sisk as a father figure to the child and
said Sisk had been with the child or in the
(10:05):
child's life for a long time. She reportedly knew the
child said Sisk had humped her. This is a seven
year old child. When arrested, because Sis said the victim
had been with him for two months and a week,
he confirmed the child used to sleep in his bed,
(10:27):
but it stopped when he thought better of it. He
also said that he bathed the child despite her being
seven years old. He appeared in court on Friday, jets
bond at two million dollars. Preliminary hit hearing it set
for September fourth. What is wrong with us? I'm thinking
(10:51):
about mom who allegedly sold daughter, kidnapped daughter first of all,
then sold daughter. I'm thinking about the woman and her
kids who live in the house who saw this happening
and thought, well, it was a little weird that was
her quote, it was a little weird, and did nothing
(11:12):
about it. I'm thinking about this guy, this dirt ball.
How do you do such a thing? You got a
whole bunch of people, adult, alleged people who could have
been should have been protecting kids, and instead every one
(11:33):
of those people did something to her or let that
child down. I don't know who made the anonymous call.
Maybe it was the woman living in his house. I
hope so. I hope so, But ultimately I am just
my heart is broken for this seven year old child
(11:54):
who should not know about having sex with her, who
should not know the word humping. How was she raised
or was she raised? I don't know how long Grandma
had her, but obviously wherever she was before that was
(12:18):
at the very least terrible
The world is a serious place, and I got some
serious stuff I wanted to talk to you about too,
especially right here in Ohio. Blazer just had Keith Faber
in about a week ago, Ohio auditor, and he was
talking about the work that he's been doing going around
the state, you know, basically trying to make sure that
the people that are entrusted by the people of the
(00:20):
state of Ohio are held accountable for their actions. That
leads us to the story from the wsyxcite today to
Siota County, Ohio public officials. There are among four people
been indicted on an alleged kickback scheme that involved the
Southern Ohio Port Authority at a Portsmouth area business park.
Brian Davis, He's a Siota County commissioner. Robert Horton headed
(00:45):
the Southern Ohio Port Authority and the Siota County Economic
Development Department, and their wives, yeah, their wives were indicted
in an ongoing investigation. The indictments alleged that Horton received
kickbacks for securing public contracts. Davis used his position as
(01:07):
county commissioner and is alleged to secure the contracts and
the public funding that was involved, and on one occasion,
Horton is accused of agreeing to pay an unnamed business
more so he could account for a commission that was
to be paid to his wife, who has a business
called RPL Consulting Management. The commission was paid despite his
(01:33):
wife allegedly not having anything to do with this transaction.
The court record said that the money was then removed
from rpl's account and went into the Horton's account under
the alleged direction of Robert Horton. A similar scheme was
used during the bidding process for construction of a building
at the Minford Emergency Ambulance Service at the Southern Ohio
(01:56):
Aeronautical Regional Business Park August twenty twenty two. Davis used
the authority of his office in his position as a
commissioner to vote for and pass a resolution to transfer
one and a half million dollars that would then allow
Horton to use that for the sore Business Park project
without any additional oversight. Allege kickbacks were then paid out
(02:18):
in the form of sales commissions. This is just crazy
and so blatant. I mean, anybody who looks at a
little book keeping could see what was going on. So
Key Faber keep on keeping on. I mean, we'll have
to see how this one turns out, but it's uh yeah,
(02:41):
it seems pretty cut and dry. Case has been sent
to the Ohio Supreme Court after the Siota County Common
Police Court recused itself, and good for them. Good for them,
I mean that this is too intermingled with local officials,
local elected officials, and the county court said, no, we
don't think so, so it's going to go on to
the court. This story bothers me. It's out of Florida,
(03:04):
and that's not why it bothers me, although most stories
out of Florida do. This guy sing si n g
H killed three people on the road. Truck driver. He
did so by trying to make an illegal U turn
with his truck and the truck jackknifed and hit a
(03:30):
mini van and all three people in the minivan were killed.
This is tragic and you think, Okay, well, they know
who he is, they know what he did. He's gonna
you know, get charged, go to jail. Well, no, first
of all, he fled Florida the next day, he and
his brother to Sacramento, California. He had at one point
a CDL. However, Fox is reporting that he actually took
(03:53):
the test for the CDL either the day of or
the day after the accident and failed it. So I'm
not sure what that's about. The baffling part to this
story isn't about him. Isn't about the test, the licensing,
(04:15):
or anything else. The baffling part of this story to me,
because once upon a time, Virginia, we were all on
the same page. Is the nearly two and a half
million What was nearly when I got the story? Who
knows what it is now two and a half million
people or so that have signed an online petition for
(04:40):
Governor DeSantis basically asking them to give this guy pass
to show leniency with him. I at the very least,
he broke the rules of the road. Find a U
(05:00):
turney illegally with the SEMI. I don't know anything else
about him. I do know they say that he crossed
into the US illegally in twenty eighteen, came across the
southern border. After that, he obtained a commercial driver's license
(05:21):
in California, where apparently anybody can get him, tried to
get work authorization. He was rejected during the first Trump
administration in September of twenty twenty, so we know illegal
failed or refused the CDL outside of the state of California,
(05:45):
couldn't find any work. Illegal U turn with a tractor trailer.
Three people dead, and so two and a half million
people think that it makes sense to show him leniency.
Maybe he didn't mean I'm assuming he didn't mean to
(06:06):
do what he did. I would hope he didn't mean
to do what he did. But he did what he did,
and what they're saying it was a tragic accident, not
a deliberate act. On the petition, while accountability matters, the
severity of the charges against him does not align. That's correct,
(06:34):
just sounds weird. Does not align with the circumstances of
the incident. If the guy's convicted, the petition asks that
Singh receive a proportionate and reasonable sentence, the parole eligibility
be granted after part of his sentence is served, and
(06:54):
that there are alternatives to incarceration, like count or community
service considered for his sentence. Did I mention three people
were dead? I don't know where these people come from.
I don't understand their thought process. Someone here illegally on
(07:20):
the road, illegally doing something illegal, made three people no
longer exist and were signing a petition for leniency. I
call me crazy. I just I don't think that's cool,
don't think it's right, don't think it's sensible, don't think
it's it's reasonable. But we are surrounded by the nonsensible,
(07:46):
non reasonable people today, which leads me to Reynoldsburg. Child
says she was sold Toinoldsburg. Man sold is in quotation
marks A judge is sent bond for two million dollars
(08:07):
for man accused of having sexual contact with a seven
year old child. I would suggest that the term man
no longer applied to him. Daniel Sisk, fifty eight, Rinnoldsburg,
charged with one count of growth sexual imposition on Friday.
Court documents filed by the Rinaldsburg Police Department alleged the
victim said she was sold to Sisk. Statement of Facts
(08:33):
in said the detective received an anonymous report on August
twentieth the child had been bought from North Carolina to
Ohio was being sexually abused. The tip claimed the child
had been sold to a male who now possessed her
but not any legal rights. Don't know what that means.
(08:55):
Police made contact with the child. At a home along
a Legro Drive. Also told detective she was sold and
that her mother gave her to Dan my dad to
have sex. That's a quote from a seven year old child.
No seven year old child should even know what that means,
(09:20):
Dan my dad. The child recounted her alleged abuse to detective,
said that she was told to not tell anyone because
things would go wrong. Legal guardian told police that her daughter,
who is a child's mother, picked the victim up on
July thirteenth and did not return her. Apparently grandma had
custody of this little girl. A woman and three children
(09:44):
lived with Sisk in this same home or the seven
year old child had been taken. The woman said that
she knew the child was sleeping in the same bed
as Sisk and thought it was weird, but she thought
of Sisk as a father figure to the child and
said Sisk had been with the child or in the
(10:05):
child's life for a long time. She reportedly knew the
child said Sisk had humped her. This is a seven
year old child. When arrested, because Sis said the victim
had been with him for two months and a week,
he confirmed the child used to sleep in his bed,
(10:27):
but it stopped when he thought better of it. He
also said that he bathed the child despite her being
seven years old. He appeared in court on Friday, jets
bond at two million dollars. Preliminary hit hearing it set
for September fourth. What is wrong with us? I'm thinking
(10:51):
about mom who allegedly sold daughter, kidnapped daughter first of all,
then sold daughter. I'm thinking about the woman and her
kids who live in the house who saw this happening
and thought, well, it was a little weird that was
her quote, it was a little weird, and did nothing
(11:12):
about it. I'm thinking about this guy, this dirt ball.
How do you do such a thing? You got a
whole bunch of people, adult, alleged people who could have
been should have been protecting kids, and instead every one
(11:33):
of those people did something to her or let that
child down. I don't know who made the anonymous call.
Maybe it was the woman living in his house. I
hope so. I hope so, But ultimately I am just
my heart is broken for this seven year old child
(11:54):
who should not know about having sex with her, who
should not know the word humping. How was she raised
or was she raised? I don't know how long Grandma
had her, but obviously wherever she was before that was
(12:18):
at the very least terrible
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