May 20, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (05/20) - Attorney Roger Behle and iHeartMedia LA employee David Howard come on the show to talk about all of the government incompetence regarding the Palisades Fire recovery and rebuilding efforts. Mayor Karen Bass might have to testify in court over the homeless problem in the city. A congresswoman is being indicted after assaulting ICE agents.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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after four o'clock. We've had a lot today. In the
first hour, we did quite a bit on Gavin Newsom
wanted to wanting to give another twelve billion dollars for
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free illegal alien healthcare. Million and a half illegal aliens,
twelve billion dollars of free healthcare. Tony Strickland was on
last hour about how they want ten more billion dollars
for high speed rail just to run it from Mercet
to Bakersfield. This hour we're going to be talking about
We're gonna have Roger Bailey come on now. He's the
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attorney for fourteen hundred Palisades residents who want to rebuild
their homes after Karen Bass let the place burn. Also,
we have in studio David Howard, who's sales manager here
at KFI and iHeart, and he's been on frequently chronicling
his frustration trying to get his house rebuilt. Uh and
and Roger represents you right in this overall lawsuit. Let's
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start with with Roger on welcome again to the show,
Thanks for coming on, see.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
You bet Hi, John, Hi, David, Hey, Roger, how are you?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
David's just gonna sit in here and chime in. Let me,
let me talk about the La Times yesterday had a
story as La rebuilt from the fires, residents ask what's
the plan, And it seems like the average victim of
the fires has no idea who's in charge. They don't
know who to go to to get anything done. Very
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little is getting done, and they're they're getting they're hitting
a brick wall, a brick wall of silence and confusion.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
For the most part.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Try to describe what life is like from from your view,
from the view of your clients, including David.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Well, most of the people are still in what I
refer to as the shock phase. Their entire life has
been upended and they're trying to figure out what to
do going forward. And those that have chosen to rebuild
are looking to the city to provide them a path
to that process, and they're getting no answers. They're being
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told things that aren't accurate timelines that aren't accurate, and
it's just adding to the frustration. And as you said,
they don't know who to go to, who is in charge,
who should they be listening to, and right now nobody
seems to know.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
But this has been going now four and a half months.
It's long past the fog of the fire and the
initial confusion and setting up the bureaucracy.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
It's four and a half months.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I mean, it should be everything, the whole structure, are
to be settled into place by now and should be
running at full speed, don't you think.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, well we were told, remember the press conference that
Karen did, was that you know, everything was going to
be on hyperdrive and we're expedite things and you know
you're going to have permits in twenty four hours. And
none of that's proven to be true. I mean, the
statistics on how many permits they've issued is stunning. I
think it may be ten eight. I mean, it's silly.
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Everything that they told Palisades residents would be happening hasn't happened.
It isn't happening.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
As a writer for the National Review, Jim Garrity, he
wrote a piece the other day and said, at this
current rate, it's going to take four hundred and sixty
one years to rebuild the Palisades in Altadena. Four hundred
and sixty you're twenty four eighty six. We can all
have a big party. And he wasn't kidding.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's how the math works out.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, I think it's optimistic. I don't think that's probably doable.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
All right, So now there's a deadline. There's an upcoming
government deadline.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
So one of the things we want to make sure
everybody's aware of is because the government, the City of
Los Angeles, is the defendant, the law requires that claimants
submit claims by the seventh of July, and we're just
making sure people are aware of it because if the
city has their way, that date will come and go
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and many people, thousands will be unaware that they have
to submit these claim forms. So we're just wanting to
be sure everybody knows mark on your calendar July seven.
And of course we're good to get with a lawyer
because they'll be sure to help you navigate the process.
But yeah, by July the seventh, those claim forms they're
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not file with the court, they just go to the city.
But that preserves your rights to make a formal claim
in the court. But I will tell you we've been
working with the city to try to streamline this process,
and even the judge who's presiding over the case that
ala try to help these people. There are thousands of
them that need to do this. That's make it as
easy as we can, and we've been met with nothing
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but more complication, confusion, things that aren't required. Again, it
seems to be that they're trying to make this process
as difficult as they can and hopes that some people
will just give up or just not timely so that
their claim.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
That's cruol, that really is bass and knew SOMEO booths
stood up and said they were going to streamline it
and make it the process work as rapidly as possible.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It's the reverse that they're making it more difficult than
it needs to be. There's actually very little that you
have to submit but the city, and if you go
online and try to do this, they've got all kinds
of things that aren't even required online. Again, the purpose
seems to be to make it so complicated in encumbersome
that people just don't do it, which is their goal.
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I suspect, well, yeah, but we can eliminate the people
we save money.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, it tamps down the claims. Now the DWP is
also trying to make it as.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Difficult as possible.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Or is that a separate set of forms for the
DWP or this is what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yeah, it's all City of Los Angeles. DWP is the
City of Los Angeles or an arm of the city.
But yes, it all gets processed through the city, but
just one claim form for the DWP. But we're also
you know, we're bringing the State of California in, so
there's a separate form for them, and then those people
that live in other areas Malibu, there's La County Waterworks,
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so there's some other government entities that need to have
claim forms for people that are in those areas. The
key though, is July seventh. Just mark your calendar that
they should not go by for anybody that wants to
participate in these cases. That's critical.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And you have some information on how the DWP knew
it was supposed to de energize the Palisades power grid,
but they did not, and that led to more fires.
The night of the of the Big One twelve hours later,
there were there were all these other fires in the
northern side of the Palisades. We talked about that on
the show at length. But now you found some proof
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that they were supposed to de energize it and they didn't.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You're right. When we were laughed together, we talked about
how other fires started spotfiars all over the place. And
now we've obtained copies of the laed Towp's owned logbooks
from their technicians that were manned in these what are
called distribution stations, and the one that we found was
in the center of the Palisades, called DS twenty nine,
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and the logbook shows that as early as about one
forty five in the afternoon on January seventh, the request
is made by a technician, Hey, we ought to de energize.
Let's turn off all the power. Later that afternoon, at
four o'clock, the answer is given, we don't need to
de energize. The response from the people in the distribution
station is, hey, we're going to have to evacuate the
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fires getting closed. Finally, a few minutes later the order
comes in, Hey, all right, go ahead and deenergize. Then
they say, sorry, we had to evacuate. We wait too long,
and they left and all of the power remain active.
And as you remember, we have videos of these power
lines arcing, sparking transformers, exploding power pulse falling into people's houses.
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And because of the power was active and should have
been the energized, should have been de energized right away
when they said, hey, let's turn it off, and they
left it on, and then they waited too long until
the fire was at the door of this distribution station
and people had to evacuate, leaving the power on.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
David Howard, Yes, I left it four forty five on
the seventh, and when I left, my lights were on
and the ring cameras are working. In fact, when my
house finally burnt down between five thirty and six thirty,
I was able to watch the beginning of it because
my cameras were powered, they were charged.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Well that was so you got a live stream of
your house burning down, right, Yeah?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So wouldn't it be automatic or I mean, maybe I'm
being an idiot. Wouldn't it be automatic you've got a
massive fire burning, you would de energize everything in sight.
Wouldn't that be step one in the emergency manual?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's the protocol? Edison follows that protocol, DWP does not.
And even when they had a request from somebody on
the ground, hey we ought to turn the power off.
Took two hours and they said no, we don't need
to de energize anything. Then it makes absolutely no sense.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
What would possibly be the reason, because by this time
the whole town is engulfed in flames, and now you
have the people who were working at the substation saying
we got to get out of here. I don't understand,
like who sends out this order? I mean eventually you're
going to have to depose all these people, that's right.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I mean, as we read it, it makes absolutely no sense.
The request has made, let's de energize. There's no response
until four and then the response is there's no need
to de energize. Why There's no explanation, but that's the
log in.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Do they have phones? Do they text?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Would?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Wouldn't there be a hotline?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
So you call up and start screaming, Hey, the fire
is just down the block. I think we ought to
de energize, or maybe somebody should have flip the switch themselves.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Well, this particular substation was built in nineteen thirty six,
and my guess is they may not have phones in it.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Just again, all right?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
All right, So July seventh is the government claim deadline
in the city of Los Angeles for the Palisade residents.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
That's right now, just an important date. We just want
to be sure that people are informed. Whether you call
us or somebody else or do it on your own,
just don't let that date go by if you choose
to participate in this. And I encourage everybody that lost
a home or sustain damage to participate. They really should,
all right.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Roger talking Roger Bailey, he's the attorney. He's representing fourteen
hundred frustrated Palisades residents.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
No, you're welcome, talk to you soon, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Talk about with David Howard, who's going through it. He
watched his home burn on the ring camera and we
were going to see what it's like now in the
process after four and a half months.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
All right, we just had Roger Bailey on.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
He's representing fourteen hundred Palisades homeowners who are suing the
city over bess letting the place burn. One of them
is David Howard, who's a sales manager here at High
Art KFI, and he's been on with us frequently to
talk about his his fight. He's got a lot of
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fire at him, which is good, but man, it must
be exhausting emotionally.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Huh. Can you rephrase I have a lot of fire
in me and make it something else?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
But yeah, sure, I mean, what's the latest?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
What are you dealing with at the moment?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Great question right now? Multiple things. In order to secure
your property, residents need to know that they have to
put up no trespassing signs, but not a normal no
trespassing sign. It has to state that the property cannot
be open to the public. You have to state the
LA Municipal Code, which is forty one twenty four. Those
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have to be on your actual property, and then you
have to go to the Los Angeles Western to the
West Division police station and file a separate piece of paper.
So it's somewha cumbersome because if somebody decides they want
to squad on your property, or there's a criminal element
trying to steal building materials, or for people that maybe
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are living in their homes right now that are just
getting back in and dealing with the houses that smoked
or smoked out but didn't burn to the ground. In
order for the police to remove move any bad guy
or true mooved squads, et cetera, you have to have
that in place. So it's one more thing that we
have to do.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
You have to have that in place. But we don't
have that on our homes now.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
No, But if you know, especially if the if the
roadblocks get lifted, yeah, right, which we expect will drive
a lot of you know, people to the area.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
That if those people are on our property.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
The only way we can get rid of them is
we have to have these trespassing signs posts. Yeah. And
I went to the UH station in person on Saturday
and was speaking to the to the officer that was
running the front of the police station. Really nice guy,
and he's saying that, yeah, he's sorry that they have
to make us do it this way, but it's it's
so antiquated. So that's you know, those are the baby
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things that kind of add up.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I don't know, it's your property when your house was there,
it's your property after the house has burned.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I don't have signs notifying that this is private property.
It's self evident that it is private property.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
And we know what. It almost goes back.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
It almost goes back to the hiking trails all through
the Santa Monica Mountains where they had to post no
trespassing signs for the same municipal code so they can
arrest the homeless that were in those areas because they
were causing fires and so forth.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, you got it now that I
hadn't thought of that. Yeah, I mean that crowd might
show up already.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
They have been, they've been showing up already.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Really. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Matter of fact, last week there was a guy that
was caught.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
I think he was some form of some type of
robbery and they found him and they opened up his
backpack in a nine millimeter handgun sitting in the back ranck.
So yeah, it's just again more things to worry about today.
You'll love this from just going back to Roger for
a second, it's really important that people note that this
deadline is fast approaching and they you know, we've talked
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about thinning the herd and then wanting to not let
people know that this even exists, and it's done on purpose.
It's done so the state and the DWP and the
municipalities can minimize their risk. Obviously, people are still with insurance.
For instance, this morning, I'm trying to collect my debris
moval coverage and I'm you know, if they're doing it
to me, they're doing it to a lot of other
people as well. But they were denying my debris coverage
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because they claimed two things. John, One that there was
no debris left because it all burnt down, but they
that doesn't count or burnt away.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
But that doesn't count the four feet.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Of debris that I had on a you know, a
seventy nine hundred square foot lot that wasn't all stucco.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
There's a lot of things that were inside the house.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Right.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
The other part that they're claiming is that some of
my debris blew away in the fire. These are actual quotes.
These are actual claims that the insurance company is telling.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Me and my justice they just make stuff up.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
It's like it blew away in the fire. Okay, well,
how did that happen? Right?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
So it's all these people that you know, we're nowhere
fifth page, six page, seven page news now for the
rest of the city. But there's thousands and thousands of
families not just in the Palisades, but are not to
Diana that are dealing with this every single day. And
I understand human nature, and I unders because I've been
part of it myself. If you know, God forbid, you
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look at a natural disaster with the hurricanes and Bhina,
and you know it affects you because you feel bad
for those people are going through it. But once life continues,
which is normal, right, we're kind of the one stuck
holding the bag, so it is.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
But we all pay for the government to help ease
this transition. You would think to get the houses rebuilt
and to get you know, the town back in order.
That's what they're supposed to do, and they seem to
be relentlessly an impediment.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Yes and then yesterday and I did not see it.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
I saw a blurb on it.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
But I think Bass may have been up in the
Palisades again for a photo shoot yesterday, because I think
it's gone from ten permits issued to I think a
total of forty eight. Right, and so she's always out
in front of the of the ability to be in
front of the camera and have her smile and the hey,
I'm part of this, but she's really not, and she
really doesn't care. So it's all it becomes even more insulting, right,
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it should be insulting to the residents, but quite honestly,
it should be insulting to the city, to the residents
of Los Angeles, because they're dealing with ameritive issues outside
of the Palisades, crime, homelessness. I mean, where what is
going to happen when the Olympics come here? I mean,
we can't even get out of our own way. We're
going to have the World Cup, another super Bowl in
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the Olympics. Yeah, well, all this is going on, ye,
and who's paying for it?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
We're going to be down to eighty four hundred cops.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Eighty four hundred cops and you know, but you'll have
enough people writing tickets because at a sixty million dollar deficit,
because we get to fund people's salaries and their pensions.
It's time to stop. People have to wake up, I know,
and you know, I use the term with you. I
don't like the term justice warrior because I don't like
good represents, but I love the term injustice warrior.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
And yes, that's what that's you, that's me, and that's
a lot of other people like me. All right, well
we'll keep talking. Thank you for coming on, David. Karen
Bass may have to testify in court over the homeless disaster.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
We'll tell you that coming up next.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
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eighty six. All right, this is out of the West
Side Current. It's interesting getting the most useful news not
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from the Los Angeles Times or the local television stations,
the big media operations, but from a Sacramento TV reporter,
Ashley Zavala, and also the West Side Current, which is
a local West Side news source, and they have a
story today. There's an ongoing lawsuit which we've talked about
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frequently between the LA Alliance for Human Rights and the
City of Los Angeles, US, and the LA Alliance is
filing a lawsuit claiming that a lot of this money
has gone to waste. There's a lot of businesses involved
in this alliance and it's before a judge David Ocarter,
and Carter is trying to figure out what to do
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because LASA, la Homeless Services Authority, is a bust. The
head of LASA is out. She's the one who gave
two million dollars to her husband's homeless nonprofit. And apparently
David Carter is going to insist on in person testimony
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from city leaders starting May twenty seventh, so that's next week.
After the audit by a company called Alvarez and Marcel.
The audit found that neither the city nor LASSA properly
manages hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts they pay
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those nonprofit providers with no proof of performance. This is
what we've been getting at for a couple of years now.
The homeless industry is a complete racket filled with politically
connected thieves. And this audit has discovered exactly that providers.
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Providers are the nonprofits that are supposed to provide services
to the illegals to get them off the street. They
do no such thing. They take the money, there's no
proof of performance. In some cases, the audit firm Alvarez
and Marcel found evidence of fraud, such as serving two
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meals to people in shelters, but charging for three, and
presumably they're keeping the difference overstating the staffing levels at
some shelters, so more money is given to them for staff,
except they don't hire the staff. The people running the
nonprofit keep the money. Two whistleblowers have alleged that lasa's
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former CEO, doctor Velicia Adams Kellum, she may still be
serving in that role, ordered her staff to alter the
statistics on Inside Safe. That's Karen Bass's sacred, homeless jewel
of a program. And I've always said every time Bass
ho holds whatever her fake press conferences, that those are
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false numbers she's giving out, don't believe them. Well, it
turns out Adam Kellems was ordering her staff at LASA
to alter the statistics on inside Safe because she didn't
want Karen Bass to look bad. You are paying, if
you're in Los Angeles for Los Angeles city attorneys who
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are trying to avoid having Karen Bass and other city
officials testify in open court. They're claiming all kinds of technicalities.
The city attorneys that you're paying for said Bass should
be exempt from testifying because she's too high up the
organizational chain. You believe this, they're saying, well, there's lower
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officials that have the same knowledge. There's no reason to
what that is a really wacky claim. She's ultimately in charge, obviously,
how can you say she should be exempt because other
people know what's going on. No, her testimony should be
on the record. Her face ought to be recorded, and
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we ought to be able to see this because we're
paying for it. Well, Carter disagreed with this absurd argument.
He said, the conversation has to start at the top
of responsibility. See according with the Westside Current. In the
same way that she's been dodging responsibility for the Palisades fire,
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she's also trying to avoid responsibility and answer many questions
that the audit team has raised. And that's why she's
trying to avoid testifying. Because when you have screwed up
a lot, and she has both with this homelessness fiasco
and the fire, you just want to shut up because
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if you answer any of the questions truthfully, people are
going to run and run you out of office, and
if you lie about it under oath, you'll be charged
with perjury.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
So you're stuck. It's the beauty of the system. You
get a choice.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You tell the truth and you fall on your sword,
or you lie and face perjury charges. But Bass has
screwed up royally, and she knows it, and everybody around
her knows it. Everybody knows it except the thirty two
percent of morons who would still vote for her again.
But at least it's only thirty two percent. She will
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show up at a press conference and make fake claims,
especially if she has some of her associates altering the documents.
Why can't she make those claims in court because they
are fake. She's not going to repeat in court what
she says on a podium in a microphone in front
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of a TV camera. Her smile isn't going to get
her out of trouble with David Carter. He's onto this.
So the question is, if LASA has been defunded and
disbanded and Karen Bass is clearly in over her head,
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who's going to run the homeless in the City the program?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
The judge is being.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Asked to create a receivership an outside ent, which he's
reluctant to do. The lead auditor for Alvarez and Marcel,
Diane Rafferty, seemed to support the idea of a receiver.
She told the court, all of this needs to be
looked at in a different way. We've got to review
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the homeless services from the ground up. He wants to
make sure a receivership is the only option. Judge Carter like,
there's no other way to salvage this. There's nobody who's competent,
who has the information, who's got the intellectual ability to
pull this off. He's doesn't really want to have an
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unelected outsider running a multi billion dollar government industry. But
the thing has so much fraud in it, so much
money has been stolen, so much incompetence, that it looks
like it's the only.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Option for Judge Carter Lasa.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
According to the West Side Current, the city and the
county have good reason to avoid a public hearing if
there's going to be a deep dive into the numbers.
City and county officials use controlled press events to touts
supposed success, but they have been much more reticent to
respond to audits. And you know what Karen Bess said
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about the audit in the lawsuit. She claimed the audit
was just about administration. She was more concerned with people.
Oh isn't that sweet of her? She's concerned with people.
This audit is about administrative things, you know, math, it's
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just money being stolen by my friends.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
It's just corruption, massive corruption.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
That has infiltrated the entire homeless industry under her watch.
And so that's just administration. Let's talk about the people
I'm helping. Yeah, I he I'm helping anybody. There's five
people a night that die in the streets. There's thousands
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every year that die in the streets. Neither the city
nor LOSSA has submitted any response to the audit company
refuting its findings. So Alvarez and Marcel was quite damning
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in its audit report, and there's been no response from
the city or LASSA. Nobody has refuted the findings. Bast
just dismissed it by saying, well, it's administration, whatever that means.
So westside current Tim Campbell, as the writer said, holding
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hearings in court will force local officials to answer publicly. Well,
that's going to be quite an entertaining show when it
comes about. And apparently Judge Carter is going to begin
testimony on May twenty seventh.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
The schedule hold, I got more coming up.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
We got charges against a congresswoman for interfering with ICE agents.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Podcast is going to be posted shortly after four o'clock.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
We had a lot on today and we covered how
the the.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
There's Democrats in the legislature who want to pass a
new tax to pay for legal alien health care. Yeah really.
And we had Tony Stricklan on about the ten billion
dollars needed to further fund high speed rail into oblivion.
And we also played some clips of Megan Kelly roasting
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alive Jake Tapper over covering up Joe Biden's senility all
those years. So if you missed all that, you should
listen to all that. And that's on the podcast John
Cobalts Show on demand on the iHeart app. Finally, we
have a congresswoman and this is just too good to
be true, a New Jersey Democrat named La Monica McIver, Yeah,
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law Monica mc iver, and she has been charged for
assaulting law enforcement officers outside an ICE detention facility. She
was one of these elected officials who are interfering with
ICE as they try to round up the legal aliens
and deport them. The US Attorney Alina Haba said that
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Lamonica McIver is going to be charged with assaulting and
impeding a law enforcement officer. She was there with other
members of Congress and the mayor of Newark, Ross Baraco,
who's running for governor New Jersey. They were protesting outside
of Delaney Hall, which is an ice detention facility, and
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there was pushing and shoving and according to the US
attorney representatives, Lamonica mc ivor assaulted, impeded, and interfered with
law enforcement. That's a violation a Title eighteen United States Code,
Section one eleven a one. This conduct cannot be overlooked
by the chief federal law enforcement official in the state
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of New Jersey. And it's my constitutional obligation to ensure
that our federal law enforcement is protected. No one is
above the law. Politicians are or otherwise. And Trump was
in support of this. I have no idea who she is,
but that woman was out of control. She was shoving
federal agents out of control. The days of that crapp
are over in this country. We're going to have law
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and over a law and order to thwart the arrest
of the Newark mayor Baraka. She was told to leave
the area. It was a secured area of the facility,
and the other the congress people were allowed to be there,
but not Baraka, And because it was a federal facility,
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and so she made forcible contact with law enforcement, slamming
your forearm, slamming your forearm into a Homeland Security agent
and pushing and using each of her forearms forearms to
strike forcibly an ice officer. They have pictures of it,
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body camera footage. Multiple attempts to forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate,
and interfere with the agents. So hope she goes Hope
she goes to prison.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Nothing this nonsense.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
The law is these people are here legally, and the
government is supposed to deport them, and you're not supposed
to have elected officials getting in the way of arrests
of agents trying to enforce federal law. Otherwise, you should
go to jail for a while, and maybe we could
put you on the deportation plane.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
That would be even better. All right, Conway's up next.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
We've got Michael Kurzer with the news 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 on KFI Am six forty from one to
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. Whatever
you miss you go to John Cobelt's show on demand
on the iHeart app. It's going to be posted shortly
after four o'clock. We've had a lot today. In the
first hour, we did quite a bit on Gavin Newsom
wanted to wanting to give another twelve billion dollars for
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free illegal alien healthcare. Million and a half illegal aliens,
twelve billion dollars of free healthcare. Tony Strickland was on
last hour about how they want ten more billion dollars
for high speed rail just to run it from Mercet
to Bakersfield. This hour we're going to be talking about
We're gonna have Roger Bailey come on now. He's the
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attorney for fourteen hundred Palisades residents who want to rebuild
their homes after Karen Bass let the place burn. Also,
we have in studio David Howard, who's sales manager here
at KFI and iHeart, and he's been on frequently chronicling
his frustration trying to get his house rebuilt. Uh and
and Roger represents you right in this overall lawsuit. Let's
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start with with Roger on welcome again to the show,
Thanks for coming on, see.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
You bet Hi, John, Hi, David, Hey, Roger, how are you?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
David's just gonna sit in here and chime in. Let me,
let me talk about the La Times yesterday had a
story as La rebuilt from the fires, residents ask what's
the plan, And it seems like the average victim of
the fires has no idea who's in charge. They don't
know who to go to to get anything done. Very
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little is getting done, and they're they're getting they're hitting
a brick wall, a brick wall of silence and confusion.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
For the most part.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Try to describe what life is like from from your view,
from the view of your clients, including David.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Well, most of the people are still in what I
refer to as the shock phase. Their entire life has
been upended and they're trying to figure out what to
do going forward. And those that have chosen to rebuild
are looking to the city to provide them a path
to that process, and they're getting no answers. They're being
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told things that aren't accurate timelines that aren't accurate, and
it's just adding to the frustration. And as you said,
they don't know who to go to, who is in charge,
who should they be listening to, and right now nobody
seems to know.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
But this has been going now four and a half months.
It's long past the fog of the fire and the
initial confusion and setting up the bureaucracy.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
It's four and a half months.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I mean, it should be everything, the whole structure, are
to be settled into place by now and should be
running at full speed, don't you think.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, well we were told, remember the press conference that
Karen did, was that you know, everything was going to
be on hyperdrive and we're expedite things and you know
you're going to have permits in twenty four hours. And
none of that's proven to be true. I mean, the
statistics on how many permits they've issued is stunning. I
think it may be ten eight. I mean, it's silly.
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Everything that they told Palisades residents would be happening hasn't happened.
It isn't happening.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
As a writer for the National Review, Jim Garrity, he
wrote a piece the other day and said, at this
current rate, it's going to take four hundred and sixty
one years to rebuild the Palisades in Altadena. Four hundred
and sixty you're twenty four eighty six. We can all
have a big party. And he wasn't kidding.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's how the math works out.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, I think it's optimistic. I don't think that's probably doable.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
All right, So now there's a deadline. There's an upcoming
government deadline.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
So one of the things we want to make sure
everybody's aware of is because the government, the City of
Los Angeles, is the defendant, the law requires that claimants
submit claims by the seventh of July, and we're just
making sure people are aware of it because if the
city has their way, that date will come and go
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and many people, thousands will be unaware that they have
to submit these claim forms. So we're just wanting to
be sure everybody knows mark on your calendar July seven.
And of course we're good to get with a lawyer
because they'll be sure to help you navigate the process.
But yeah, by July the seventh, those claim forms they're
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not file with the court, they just go to the city.
But that preserves your rights to make a formal claim
in the court. But I will tell you we've been
working with the city to try to streamline this process,
and even the judge who's presiding over the case that
ala try to help these people. There are thousands of
them that need to do this. That's make it as
easy as we can, and we've been met with nothing
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but more complication, confusion, things that aren't required. Again, it
seems to be that they're trying to make this process
as difficult as they can and hopes that some people
will just give up or just not timely so that
their claim.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
That's cruol, that really is bass and knew SOMEO booths
stood up and said they were going to streamline it
and make it the process work as rapidly as possible.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It's the reverse that they're making it more difficult than
it needs to be. There's actually very little that you
have to submit but the city, and if you go
online and try to do this, they've got all kinds
of things that aren't even required online. Again, the purpose
seems to be to make it so complicated in encumbersome
that people just don't do it, which is their goal.
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I suspect, well, yeah, but we can eliminate the people
we save money.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, it tamps down the claims. Now the DWP is
also trying to make it as.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Difficult as possible.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Or is that a separate set of forms for the
DWP or this is what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yeah, it's all City of Los Angeles. DWP is the
City of Los Angeles or an arm of the city.
But yes, it all gets processed through the city, but
just one claim form for the DWP. But we're also
you know, we're bringing the State of California in, so
there's a separate form for them, and then those people
that live in other areas Malibu, there's La County Waterworks,
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so there's some other government entities that need to have
claim forms for people that are in those areas. The
key though, is July seventh. Just mark your calendar that
they should not go by for anybody that wants to
participate in these cases. That's critical.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And you have some information on how the DWP knew
it was supposed to de energize the Palisades power grid,
but they did not, and that led to more fires.
The night of the of the Big One twelve hours later,
there were there were all these other fires in the
northern side of the Palisades. We talked about that on
the show at length. But now you found some proof
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that they were supposed to de energize it and they didn't.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You're right. When we were laughed together, we talked about
how other fires started spotfiars all over the place. And
now we've obtained copies of the laed Towp's owned logbooks
from their technicians that were manned in these what are
called distribution stations, and the one that we found was
in the center of the Palisades, called DS twenty nine,
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and the logbook shows that as early as about one
forty five in the afternoon on January seventh, the request
is made by a technician, Hey, we ought to de energize.
Let's turn off all the power. Later that afternoon, at
four o'clock, the answer is given, we don't need to
de energize. The response from the people in the distribution
station is, hey, we're going to have to evacuate the
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fires getting closed. Finally, a few minutes later the order
comes in, Hey, all right, go ahead and deenergize. Then
they say, sorry, we had to evacuate. We wait too long,
and they left and all of the power remain active.
And as you remember, we have videos of these power
lines arcing, sparking transformers, exploding power pulse falling into people's houses.
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And because of the power was active and should have
been the energized, should have been de energized right away
when they said, hey, let's turn it off, and they
left it on, and then they waited too long until
the fire was at the door of this distribution station
and people had to evacuate, leaving the power on.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
David Howard, Yes, I left it four forty five on
the seventh, and when I left, my lights were on
and the ring cameras are working. In fact, when my
house finally burnt down between five thirty and six thirty,
I was able to watch the beginning of it because
my cameras were powered, they were charged.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Well that was so you got a live stream of
your house burning down, right, Yeah?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So wouldn't it be automatic or I mean, maybe I'm
being an idiot. Wouldn't it be automatic you've got a
massive fire burning, you would de energize everything in sight.
Wouldn't that be step one in the emergency manual?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's the protocol? Edison follows that protocol, DWP does not.
And even when they had a request from somebody on
the ground, hey we ought to turn the power off.
Took two hours and they said no, we don't need
to de energize anything. Then it makes absolutely no sense.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
What would possibly be the reason, because by this time
the whole town is engulfed in flames, and now you
have the people who were working at the substation saying
we got to get out of here. I don't understand,
like who sends out this order? I mean eventually you're
going to have to depose all these people, that's right.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I mean, as we read it, it makes absolutely no sense.
The request has made, let's de energize. There's no response
until four and then the response is there's no need
to de energize. Why There's no explanation, but that's the
log in.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Do they have phones? Do they text?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Would?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Wouldn't there be a hotline?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
So you call up and start screaming, Hey, the fire
is just down the block. I think we ought to
de energize, or maybe somebody should have flip the switch themselves.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Well, this particular substation was built in nineteen thirty six,
and my guess is they may not have phones in it.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Just again, all right?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
All right, So July seventh is the government claim deadline
in the city of Los Angeles for the Palisade residents.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
That's right now, just an important date. We just want
to be sure that people are informed. Whether you call
us or somebody else or do it on your own,
just don't let that date go by if you choose
to participate in this. And I encourage everybody that lost
a home or sustain damage to participate. They really should,
all right.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Roger talking Roger Bailey, he's the attorney. He's representing fourteen
hundred frustrated Palisades residents.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
No, you're welcome, talk to you soon, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Talk about with David Howard, who's going through it. He
watched his home burn on the ring camera and we
were going to see what it's like now in the
process after four and a half months.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
All right, we just had Roger Bailey on.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
He's representing fourteen hundred Palisades homeowners who are suing the
city over bess letting the place burn. One of them
is David Howard, who's a sales manager here at High
Art KFI, and he's been on with us frequently to
talk about his his fight. He's got a lot of
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fire at him, which is good, but man, it must
be exhausting emotionally.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Huh. Can you rephrase I have a lot of fire
in me and make it something else?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
But yeah, sure, I mean, what's the latest?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
What are you dealing with at the moment?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Great question right now? Multiple things. In order to secure
your property, residents need to know that they have to
put up no trespassing signs, but not a normal no
trespassing sign. It has to state that the property cannot
be open to the public. You have to state the
LA Municipal Code, which is forty one twenty four. Those
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have to be on your actual property, and then you
have to go to the Los Angeles Western to the
West Division police station and file a separate piece of paper.
So it's somewha cumbersome because if somebody decides they want
to squad on your property, or there's a criminal element
trying to steal building materials, or for people that maybe
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are living in their homes right now that are just
getting back in and dealing with the houses that smoked
or smoked out but didn't burn to the ground. In
order for the police to remove move any bad guy
or true mooved squads, et cetera, you have to have
that in place. So it's one more thing that we
have to do.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
You have to have that in place. But we don't
have that on our homes now.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
No, But if you know, especially if the if the
roadblocks get lifted, yeah, right, which we expect will drive
a lot of you know, people to the area.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
That if those people are on our property.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
The only way we can get rid of them is
we have to have these trespassing signs posts. Yeah. And
I went to the UH station in person on Saturday
and was speaking to the to the officer that was
running the front of the police station. Really nice guy,
and he's saying that, yeah, he's sorry that they have
to make us do it this way, but it's it's
so antiquated. So that's you know, those are the baby
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things that kind of add up.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I don't know, it's your property when your house was there,
it's your property after the house has burned.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I don't have signs notifying that this is private property.
It's self evident that it is private property.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
And we know what. It almost goes back.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
It almost goes back to the hiking trails all through
the Santa Monica Mountains where they had to post no
trespassing signs for the same municipal code so they can
arrest the homeless that were in those areas because they
were causing fires and so forth.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, you got it now that I
hadn't thought of that. Yeah, I mean that crowd might
show up already.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
They have been, they've been showing up already.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Really. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Matter of fact, last week there was a guy that
was caught.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
I think he was some form of some type of
robbery and they found him and they opened up his
backpack in a nine millimeter handgun sitting in the back ranck.
So yeah, it's just again more things to worry about today.
You'll love this from just going back to Roger for
a second, it's really important that people note that this
deadline is fast approaching and they you know, we've talked
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about thinning the herd and then wanting to not let
people know that this even exists, and it's done on purpose.
It's done so the state and the DWP and the
municipalities can minimize their risk. Obviously, people are still with insurance.
For instance, this morning, I'm trying to collect my debris
moval coverage and I'm you know, if they're doing it
to me, they're doing it to a lot of other
people as well. But they were denying my debris coverage
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because they claimed two things. John, One that there was
no debris left because it all burnt down, but they
that doesn't count or burnt away.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
But that doesn't count the four feet.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Of debris that I had on a you know, a
seventy nine hundred square foot lot that wasn't all stucco.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
There's a lot of things that were inside the house.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Right.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
The other part that they're claiming is that some of
my debris blew away in the fire. These are actual quotes.
These are actual claims that the insurance company is telling.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Me and my justice they just make stuff up.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
It's like it blew away in the fire. Okay, well,
how did that happen? Right?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
So it's all these people that you know, we're nowhere
fifth page, six page, seven page news now for the
rest of the city. But there's thousands and thousands of
families not just in the Palisades, but are not to
Diana that are dealing with this every single day. And
I understand human nature, and I unders because I've been
part of it myself. If you know, God forbid, you
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look at a natural disaster with the hurricanes and Bhina,
and you know it affects you because you feel bad
for those people are going through it. But once life continues,
which is normal, right, we're kind of the one stuck
holding the bag, so it is.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
But we all pay for the government to help ease
this transition. You would think to get the houses rebuilt
and to get you know, the town back in order.
That's what they're supposed to do, and they seem to
be relentlessly an impediment.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Yes and then yesterday and I did not see it.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
I saw a blurb on it.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
But I think Bass may have been up in the
Palisades again for a photo shoot yesterday, because I think
it's gone from ten permits issued to I think a
total of forty eight. Right, and so she's always out
in front of the of the ability to be in
front of the camera and have her smile and the hey,
I'm part of this, but she's really not, and she
really doesn't care. So it's all it becomes even more insulting, right,
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it should be insulting to the residents, but quite honestly,
it should be insulting to the city, to the residents
of Los Angeles, because they're dealing with ameritive issues outside
of the Palisades, crime, homelessness. I mean, where what is
going to happen when the Olympics come here? I mean,
we can't even get out of our own way. We're
going to have the World Cup, another super Bowl in
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the Olympics. Yeah, well, all this is going on, ye,
and who's paying for it?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
We're going to be down to eighty four hundred cops.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Eighty four hundred cops and you know, but you'll have
enough people writing tickets because at a sixty million dollar deficit,
because we get to fund people's salaries and their pensions.
It's time to stop. People have to wake up, I know,
and you know, I use the term with you. I
don't like the term justice warrior because I don't like
good represents, but I love the term injustice warrior.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
And yes, that's what that's you, that's me, and that's
a lot of other people like me. All right, well
we'll keep talking. Thank you for coming on, David. Karen
Bass may have to testify in court over the homeless disaster.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
We'll tell you that coming up next.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
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Speaker 2 (18:12):
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eighty six. All right, this is out of the West
Side Current. It's interesting getting the most useful news not
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from the Los Angeles Times or the local television stations,
the big media operations, but from a Sacramento TV reporter,
Ashley Zavala, and also the West Side Current, which is
a local West Side news source, and they have a
story today. There's an ongoing lawsuit which we've talked about
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frequently between the LA Alliance for Human Rights and the
City of Los Angeles, US, and the LA Alliance is
filing a lawsuit claiming that a lot of this money
has gone to waste. There's a lot of businesses involved
in this alliance and it's before a judge David Ocarter,
and Carter is trying to figure out what to do
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because LASA, la Homeless Services Authority, is a bust. The
head of LASA is out. She's the one who gave
two million dollars to her husband's homeless nonprofit. And apparently
David Carter is going to insist on in person testimony
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from city leaders starting May twenty seventh, so that's next week.
After the audit by a company called Alvarez and Marcel.
The audit found that neither the city nor LASSA properly
manages hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts they pay
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those nonprofit providers with no proof of performance. This is
what we've been getting at for a couple of years now.
The homeless industry is a complete racket filled with politically
connected thieves. And this audit has discovered exactly that providers.
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Providers are the nonprofits that are supposed to provide services
to the illegals to get them off the street. They
do no such thing. They take the money, there's no
proof of performance. In some cases, the audit firm Alvarez
and Marcel found evidence of fraud, such as serving two
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meals to people in shelters, but charging for three, and
presumably they're keeping the difference overstating the staffing levels at
some shelters, so more money is given to them for staff,
except they don't hire the staff. The people running the
nonprofit keep the money. Two whistleblowers have alleged that lasa's
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former CEO, doctor Velicia Adams Kellum, she may still be
serving in that role, ordered her staff to alter the
statistics on Inside Safe. That's Karen Bass's sacred, homeless jewel
of a program. And I've always said every time Bass
ho holds whatever her fake press conferences, that those are
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false numbers she's giving out, don't believe them. Well, it
turns out Adam Kellems was ordering her staff at LASA
to alter the statistics on inside Safe because she didn't
want Karen Bass to look bad. You are paying, if
you're in Los Angeles for Los Angeles city attorneys who
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are trying to avoid having Karen Bass and other city
officials testify in open court. They're claiming all kinds of technicalities.
The city attorneys that you're paying for said Bass should
be exempt from testifying because she's too high up the
organizational chain. You believe this, they're saying, well, there's lower
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officials that have the same knowledge. There's no reason to
what that is a really wacky claim. She's ultimately in charge, obviously,
how can you say she should be exempt because other
people know what's going on. No, her testimony should be
on the record. Her face ought to be recorded, and
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we ought to be able to see this because we're
paying for it. Well, Carter disagreed with this absurd argument.
He said, the conversation has to start at the top
of responsibility. See according with the Westside Current. In the
same way that she's been dodging responsibility for the Palisades fire,
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she's also trying to avoid responsibility and answer many questions
that the audit team has raised. And that's why she's
trying to avoid testifying. Because when you have screwed up
a lot, and she has both with this homelessness fiasco
and the fire, you just want to shut up because
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if you answer any of the questions truthfully, people are
going to run and run you out of office, and
if you lie about it under oath, you'll be charged
with perjury.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
So you're stuck. It's the beauty of the system. You
get a choice.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You tell the truth and you fall on your sword,
or you lie and face perjury charges. But Bass has
screwed up royally, and she knows it, and everybody around
her knows it. Everybody knows it except the thirty two
percent of morons who would still vote for her again.
But at least it's only thirty two percent. She will
(24:07):
show up at a press conference and make fake claims,
especially if she has some of her associates altering the documents.
Why can't she make those claims in court because they
are fake. She's not going to repeat in court what
she says on a podium in a microphone in front
(24:27):
of a TV camera. Her smile isn't going to get
her out of trouble with David Carter. He's onto this.
So the question is, if LASA has been defunded and
disbanded and Karen Bass is clearly in over her head,
(24:48):
who's going to run the homeless in the City the program?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
The judge is being.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Asked to create a receivership an outside ent, which he's
reluctant to do. The lead auditor for Alvarez and Marcel,
Diane Rafferty, seemed to support the idea of a receiver.
She told the court, all of this needs to be
looked at in a different way. We've got to review
(25:17):
the homeless services from the ground up. He wants to
make sure a receivership is the only option. Judge Carter like,
there's no other way to salvage this. There's nobody who's competent,
who has the information, who's got the intellectual ability to
pull this off. He's doesn't really want to have an
(25:39):
unelected outsider running a multi billion dollar government industry. But
the thing has so much fraud in it, so much
money has been stolen, so much incompetence, that it looks
like it's the only.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Option for Judge Carter Lasa.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
According to the West Side Current, the city and the
county have good reason to avoid a public hearing if
there's going to be a deep dive into the numbers.
City and county officials use controlled press events to touts
supposed success, but they have been much more reticent to
respond to audits. And you know what Karen Bess said
(26:26):
about the audit in the lawsuit. She claimed the audit
was just about administration. She was more concerned with people.
Oh isn't that sweet of her? She's concerned with people.
This audit is about administrative things, you know, math, it's
(26:48):
just money being stolen by my friends.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
It's just corruption, massive corruption.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
That has infiltrated the entire homeless industry under her watch.
And so that's just administration. Let's talk about the people
I'm helping. Yeah, I he I'm helping anybody. There's five
people a night that die in the streets. There's thousands
(27:17):
every year that die in the streets. Neither the city
nor LOSSA has submitted any response to the audit company
refuting its findings. So Alvarez and Marcel was quite damning
(27:37):
in its audit report, and there's been no response from
the city or LASSA. Nobody has refuted the findings. Bast
just dismissed it by saying, well, it's administration, whatever that means.
So westside current Tim Campbell, as the writer said, holding
(28:00):
hearings in court will force local officials to answer publicly. Well,
that's going to be quite an entertaining show when it
comes about. And apparently Judge Carter is going to begin
testimony on May twenty seventh.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
The schedule hold, I got more coming up.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
We got charges against a congresswoman for interfering with ICE agents.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
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Speaker 2 (28:33):
Podcast is going to be posted shortly after four o'clock.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
We had a lot on today and we covered how
the the.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
There's Democrats in the legislature who want to pass a
new tax to pay for legal alien health care. Yeah really.
And we had Tony Stricklan on about the ten billion
dollars needed to further fund high speed rail into oblivion.
And we also played some clips of Megan Kelly roasting
(29:04):
alive Jake Tapper over covering up Joe Biden's senility all
those years. So if you missed all that, you should
listen to all that. And that's on the podcast John
Cobalts Show on demand on the iHeart app. Finally, we
have a congresswoman and this is just too good to
be true, a New Jersey Democrat named La Monica McIver, Yeah,
(29:26):
law Monica mc iver, and she has been charged for
assaulting law enforcement officers outside an ICE detention facility. She
was one of these elected officials who are interfering with
ICE as they try to round up the legal aliens
and deport them. The US Attorney Alina Haba said that
(29:51):
Lamonica McIver is going to be charged with assaulting and
impeding a law enforcement officer. She was there with other
members of Congress and the mayor of Newark, Ross Baraco,
who's running for governor New Jersey. They were protesting outside
of Delaney Hall, which is an ice detention facility, and
(30:13):
there was pushing and shoving and according to the US
attorney representatives, Lamonica mc ivor assaulted, impeded, and interfered with
law enforcement. That's a violation a Title eighteen United States Code,
Section one eleven a one. This conduct cannot be overlooked
by the chief federal law enforcement official in the state
(30:34):
of New Jersey. And it's my constitutional obligation to ensure
that our federal law enforcement is protected. No one is
above the law. Politicians are or otherwise. And Trump was
in support of this. I have no idea who she is,
but that woman was out of control. She was shoving
federal agents out of control. The days of that crapp
are over in this country. We're going to have law
(30:56):
and over a law and order to thwart the arrest
of the Newark mayor Baraka. She was told to leave
the area. It was a secured area of the facility,
and the other the congress people were allowed to be there,
but not Baraka, And because it was a federal facility,
(31:17):
and so she made forcible contact with law enforcement, slamming
your forearm, slamming your forearm into a Homeland Security agent
and pushing and using each of her forearms forearms to
strike forcibly an ice officer. They have pictures of it,
(31:40):
body camera footage. Multiple attempts to forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate,
and interfere with the agents. So hope she goes Hope
she goes to prison.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Nothing this nonsense.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
The law is these people are here legally, and the
government is supposed to deport them, and you're not supposed
to have elected officials getting in the way of arrests
of agents trying to enforce federal law. Otherwise, you should
go to jail for a while, and maybe we could
put you on the deportation plane.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
That would be even better. All right, Conway's up next.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
We've got Michael Kurzer with the news live in the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to
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