April 9, 2025 • 30 mins
Bill Essayli, U.S. Attorney for Los Angeles-- The newly appointed U.S. attorney for L.A. and surrounding areas, announced the formation of a criminal task force to investigate potential fraud and corruption involving local homelessness funds, saying there will be arrests if federal laws have been broken // Michael Monks, LA28 Olympics to be the first female-majority Games as IOC locks in competition plan. Santa Monica will not host any LA28 Olympic competitions // New Homeless Fraud Task Force. In 2023, the most recent year of data available for the report, there were 2,508 deaths among people experiencing homelessness. Conway gave Bellio his FIRST and LAST hive five!!! And wasn’t repulsed // A store owner was run over and killed by suspected shoplifters in South El Monte.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's I Am six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. I am
six forty. It is the Conway Show. Dodgers have just won,
so that's good news. They're coming home to play the
Cubs starting on Friday. But let's get to the radical
corruption that might be happening in downtown Los Angeles. We've
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got a new sheriff in town, a newly appointed US
attorney in Los Angeles and surrounding areas, and he's with
us on the phone.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Bill is salee Am? I pronounced that right?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Tim?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Hey, how are you sir?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Good? How are you?
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Man?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I can't wait?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Can I come with you on some of these bus
downtown LA?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Probably not?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Damn? All right?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Well, thanks for coming on. What are we looking at downtown?
And but first of all, how were you appointed? You
have a long term relationship with the president?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You know, I met the President in January when he
came to visit the tour of the Pali States Fire,
and we had a very nice exchange. And I got
the call about two weeks ago that he was going
to pick me for this job. And I used to
work in this office. I was both a local and
federal prosecutor before I decided to go to Sacramento to
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serve there.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
All right, so who do you report to then? Who
is your you know, the next up or who do
you talk to back in Washington.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, I report directly to the Attorney General and the
Deputy Attorney General Pam Bondi and tubb up there DC.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So this is this is a big deal.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Then the Pam Bondi, you know, is picking up the
phone call and talk about the corruption in LA. There's
you know, then they think there's something serious going on.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Well, to be clear, there's ninety four US Attorney's districts
throughout the country. California is large, so we have four
different federal judicial districts. I'm the US Attorney for the
Central District of California. It covers seven counties up from
Santa Barbara all the way down LA to Orange County
riverside San Maardino. We have twenty million residents in our district.
This is the largest US Attorney's office outside of Washington.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
D C.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
It's a very big district. But I'm the US attorney,
so I'd set the priorities as far as what we're
going to do in this area. And of course there
are priorities that the Attorney General has and we act
upon that. But this is my call and I put
this task force together over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Have we had a US attorney look into downtown City
Hall before this?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I have no idea. I just got here. I got
sworn in Wednesday morning. I met and toured skid Row
with Judge Carter on Sunday, which is something to see
if you haven't been down there.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It's just it's awful. It's horrible.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
And you know why I take away Tim is like,
there's all these billions being spent, nothing to see for it.
Down on skid Row. The only services being offered there
were from private donors, people giving food and medical aid.
The only tax dollars I saw being used down there
were There is this jeep that drives around handing out
drug kits, needles, the syringes, tourniquits so they can safely
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use drugs.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well, I'm in radio, so that guy stops by every
afternoon here too, you know, enjoy ourselves.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Hey are you originally from.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
LA I'm from Riverside County. I grew up out there,
and I'm from born in Rased, southern California.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Okay, so you're well aware of the level of corruption
that La and the surrounding areas have had for a
long time.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, I'm well aware of the prosecutions. I mean, I
used to be a federal prosecutor here at the U
Attorney's Office. I'm well aware of the prosecutions of La
City and everything else that's been done, you know, with
different sheriffs offices and the sheriffs in the past. So look,
the role of the federal government is to conduct this oversight.
I mean, there's certain things the state can't police itself,
and that's what the federal government's for the reason. And
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again I don't have a conclusion here. People want me to,
you know, name who's going to get arrested or anything.
I don't know that yet. What I'm doing right now
is launching the investigation so we can get the answers.
All we know right now is that there's at least
two billion dollars that's unaccounted for, according to an audit
that was just conducted last month. And that's not a
rounding error, tim, Yeah, I would asked. I was asked
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how does two billion dollars go missing? It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You're right, it's stolen.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
It's stolen or mismanaged.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
We're going to get to the bottom of it now.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Bill the salies with us, the US appointed US attorney.
Where do you set up shop? Are you going to
be right in their own backyard? Right in city hall?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
The US Attorney's office is here in downtown LA at
the Spring Street Courthouse. We have office. We're sort of
attached to the federal court. So we have a presence
in LA. We have a presence in Santa Ana, and
a presence in Riverside. This task force is going to
be led by the best prosecutors in my Public Corruption section,
my Major Fraud section, and we're going to have special
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agents with FBI, I R S and Inspector General for
HUD as well on this task force.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Will we see any purp walks?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
You have my commitment that if we do this, when
we do this invest stigation, if we discover evidence that
federal laws were broken, people will get arrested.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And is when you come into town to look at
city Hall and the potential corruption, does is the mayor
aware of it?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Does the mayor greet you at the airport.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I don't. I generally don't know. I don't talk to
the mayor. I don't think it's appropriate in my role.
You know, we're going to look at everything in everyone
and I you know, tend to it is better for
us not to interact with them at this stage.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And is the main goal going to be the money
that's either been mismanaged or stolen from the the homeless
taxes that we paid. Will that be the you know,
the the top the a block or the number one
thing you're looking at.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
We're looking at all the money that's been allocated for
purposes of homelessness over the last five years. There's been
about twenty four billion dollars that's been allocated for homelessness
statewide over the last five years. A large number of
that has gone right here in La County. We have
one of the just homeless population, and so we're going
to be looking at all that money. We're looking in
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the past. I know the mayor said yesterday she wants
to move on and focus on the future. We're focused
on the past, and we need accounting and transparency of
what happened to all those dollars that were allocated and spent,
and we're going to account for every dollar that was
spent by these groups.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Are you looking on Are you looking at anybody on
the inside willing to flip and give you some information?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I mean obviously, even if I did, I wouldn't talk
to you about that. I mean, that's defending investigation. But honestly,
we're at the very beginning stage right now. So I
just put this task force together, announced it yesterday, and
they're going to get to work right away. And so
we're not going to be talking. You're not going to
hear us talking about what's happening with it or you
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know who who's talking to who. The only thing you'll
hear or see from us is if and when we
find evidence of a crime, we'll file the charges and
make the necessary arrests. And what does it And that's
to protect innocent people by ther way, get it?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, you don't want to wrap up anybody innocent downtown,
although I don't know if there are any.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
But what about timeline? Are you looking at months?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Years?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I'm looking at months, not yours. I mean, we've had
investigations ling there for years. I don't want that, so
I've asked. I've talked to the head of the FBI
office down here and the head of the IRS office.
They know this is a priority for me and I
want this in months.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Is the death penalty on the table?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
No, no, they definitely it's on the table.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Tip.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I've never been at US attorney. I don't know where
you apply that or not.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Only we apply those in murder cases.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I'll write that down for my next interview with you.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
What about the high speed rail Will that be something
that falls under your office?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Probably not. That's probably something in the eastern or northern district.
So again, California's so big, it's broken up into four
different districts. So far, I'm the first person to be
appointed by President Trump and California. So I expect there'll
be other appointments made shortly for those other districts in California.
And you know, we'll be working together on various investigations,
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but that investigation will probably be led out of one
of the other offices that covers that part of the state.
But already I think there's investigations already announced by Department
of Transportation and some other agencies that are already looking at
high speed rail.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And will are these people who get wherever it does
get caught if they do get caught and prosecutor are
they looking at considerable fines and time in prison.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah. So the way it works in the federal system
is depending on the charge and the amount of money
involved that drives the sentencing. So the more money that
is involved in the scheme or the corruption, the larger
your prison sentence is. So it really depends. But you've
seen even in the LA City cases, some big, many,
many years have been issued for prison sentences for former
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elected officials.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Oh yeah, and you know, you're probably familiar because you've
lived in southern California when you walk into city hall
and you know the downtown buildings where a city is run,
not a lot of Trump fans.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, I imagine not.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yeah. And also okay, so this this starts immediately. Then
you started today and it'll continue.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Then this started, this started yesterday, and we're going to
get to work. Look, tim regardless of your politics, everyone
wants answers. Yes, this is our money, This is all
the tax payer money. Billions of tax series have voted
over and over again they said, yes, please fix homelessness,
Please work on it, we'll give you what you need.
And they gave over billions of dollars, not millions, billions,
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and there's nothing to show for it, unfortunately, and the
public deserves an answer in accounting for where that money went.
So we're here to provide transparency and accountability, and if
the local and state officials can't account for the money,
we'll do it for.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Them, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
We I had a there's a charity event I went
two years ago and I got the opportunity to sit
next to Jackie Lazy, who is an awesome woman. She
was the district attorney at the time, and I had
asked her. I said, Hey, if my picture ever comes
across your desk, will you give me a break? And
she had the best response. She said, if your picture's
on my desk, you passed on a lot of breaks it.
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That's a great response.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
That is a good response.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
So I good luck.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We'd love to check in with you periodically to see
what's going on. I know you can't talk about much
during the investigation, but we're all I speak for everybody
here in Burbank because I'm the mayor of Burbank, and
we're very excited to have you in town because up
until now, nobody's looked for this money.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And it's our money, that's right, and we're going to
get answers. We're going to have the best people in
the best investigators on it, the best prosecutors on it,
and we don't need to ask for permission or request documents.
We'll get it ourselves.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Oh that's great, all right, Well, welcome to Los Angeles.
Good luck, and I hope you find you know, look,
I hope you find nothing but doesn't look like.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Thank you, Tim, appreciate you having me, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Thanks for coming on. Bill Asali.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
He is the newly appointed US attorney and he is
going to go downtown Los Angeles starting tomorrow morning. I
think he started today actually, and he's gonna find out
where the billions of dollars are. There's about five billion
dollars that is a little suspicious. A lot of it
is missing. It's our money, and now he's gonna go
look for it and heads are gonna roll. So John
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Speaker 5 (11:34):
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Speaker 1 (11:41):
Michael Monks is with us. We're talking about the Olympics
in twenty twenty eight exactly coming up. It's around the corner, absolutely,
and this is gonna be a big deal. For the
first time, we're gonna have more women athletes than men.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That's what they said. I mean.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
The LA twenty eight committee was in Switzerland today presenting
to the International Olympic Committee. A little press conference was
hell this morning our time, but late afternoon I imagine in Switzerland,
and that was the announcement. That was the big headline
was for the first time in Olympic history, there will
be more female athletes competing than males. And also, for
the first time in history, there will be an equal
number of women's teams in all of the team sports
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except for one, and that's soccer. And that's because the
women will have more teams than the men. All right,
I am woman, hear me roar indeed, and they'll have
more opportunities to roar because we will have more metal
events than any Olympics in history. All right, how did
Santa Monica screw up the volleyball? They had it right
in their back pocket. They might tell you that they
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didn't screw it up. Okay, they were trying not to
get screwed. Hosting the Olympics is very expensive. I mean,
even the city of Los Angeles with its agreement with
LA twenty eight, the city's on the hook for like
the first two hundred and seventy million dollars in potential
losses if this thing doesn't turn up profit. So it
is a gamble, and Santa Monica's probably looking at the
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landscape of all of the people who are coming in
for the Olympics and thinking, we're already a major part
of the La icono, you know, iconic atmosphere. We've got
the pier, we've got the beach, we've got the walk ability.
People are coming here. Let's not blow it by hosting
an event we might lose money on. Let's just make
that sweet cash on all the people who are coming
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to town.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Okay, that's one way to look at the Other way is,
you know, they could have charged for parking, for attendance.
All the restaurants could have all made you know, because
there'll probably forty thousand people that come in on a
weekly basis, maybe more than that.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
For to ask the folks in Huntington Beach because they
would like to host it. I talked to State Senator
Tony Strickland this morning, and he says he hopes his
city gets and he was a city councilman before he
went back to Sacramento, so he knows the ins and
outs of the city government as well. So it's interesting
to see two beach cities reaching different conclusions on the
value of hosting Olympic volleyball.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Real quickly, we have a very short segment here, but
we're just talking to the newly appointed US Attorney Bill A.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Saley. I know you covered downtown.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
If you're an employee of the city and managing money
with the homelessness, would.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
You be nervous?
Speaker 7 (14:11):
Here's what if I hadn't done anything wrong. No, in fact,
you probably want a thorough evaluation from somebody who might
be viewed as hostile. Let's get somebody in there who
wants to root out something, wants to find something to
make a name for himself. Let's have him come in
and do it and hope that he doesn't find anything wrong.
Let's hope we're just all incompetent and that's why we
can't keep track of this money.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It could be incompetence, it could be you know, just
people that got you know, got way over their skis
and did not handle money.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
I will say that of all the people President Trump
could have picked to be the US Attorney, this was
a choice that probably does concern some individuals, not necessarily
because they've done anything wrong, but because this guy has
been a Republican lawmaker in Sacramento where they don't have
a lot of power, and now he has immense power
over people that would be adversaries to him politically.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
So he will probably wield that.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
Now.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
I'm not suggesting that he will willfully pursue politics in
the office, but some of the issues that Republicans in
Sacramento have been raising for a long time without any
road map to get them pushed into law, he can
plow forward here on his own, such as investigating homeless spending.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And it was interesting, this is a very unconventional way
to put a US attorney in Los Angeles. He just
met him one day at the press con over the
fires in Pacific Palisades. He goes, hey, there might be
something going on downtown. He goes, okay, well you handle it.
I'm sure there's more to it than that. I'm sure
that you know. There were a lot of people vouching
for him. I mean, he's a talented guy. He's been
on the show's here many many times. We've talked to
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him many times. So I will be very.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Interested to see how this investigation goes. I was really
surprised to see him walking around with Judge Carter and
skid Row. I thought that was very interesting because he's
not just throwing out this bomb that he's going to
look into it. He's gone down to the epicenter of
it all, which is two blocks from my home, and
he's going to be looking. So I'm excited to see
what he might find. I will say I think he
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there was a knee jerk reaction. I think he said
no too quickly when I said is the death penalty
on the table and he said no. Well, you know,
when he was a lawmaker, he might have been able
to joke around with that a little bit more. But
you don't want to compromise any investigations.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
With you monster.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
You got Monk Saturday Night, seven to nine, Michael Monk's Reports.
Oh you're the best buddy, Thanks for coming in.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
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Speaker 1 (16:33):
You know, I got some texts saying, hey, why are
you talking about the death penalty when it comes to
investigating the money for the homeless people? I said, wow,
I it was It was just kidding A and.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
B or was I.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Because if somebody came to Los Angeles and killed twelve thousand,
seven hundred and seventy five people, would you want the death.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Penalty for that person? Sure?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Probably right, Well, that's how many people have died on
the streets of LA in the last five years. They
say there's an average of seven people in Southern California
to die every night in the streets of Southern California,
homeless people, seven to night. Then this money's been mismanaged
for five years. So seven times three sixty five times
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five is twelve, seven hundred and seventy five homeless people,
give or take a couple hundred have died, maybe because
they didn't get the money that we all are paying
taxes and that money should be going to them. And
if the money were to be going to them and
they did find housing, maybe some of those people would
be alive to them. So if I were in downtown
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LA and I was part of the homeless, you know money,
I would be nervous. I'd be driving home wondering how
this is going to shake down. There's a new sheriff
in town, Bill Salea, and he's the new district attorney,
I'm sorry, new US attorney for Los Angeles and the
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surrounding areas. And he's going to be looking into where
all the tax money, the billions of dollars that we
all have paid into, and where that money is going.
And here's a quote, taxpayers deserve answers for where and
how their hard earned money has been spent. If state
and local officials cannot provide proper oversight and accountability, will
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do it for them. And that is it already started today.
I think he's coming on with John Colbelt tomorrow. You
know what time he goes on Belly oone with John cobaltimorrow.
I will find out, all right, but that will be
a must listen to interview tomorrow because John Colbelt has
been all over this homeless story for the last ten years.
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I don't think a a single show goes by where
he isn't outraged over the money raised and the homeless
population in Los Angeles. I think he's mentioned it every
day for ten years. I think maybe during the fires
it probably he went three hours without mentioning it. But
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without with the exception of the fires and you know,
any natural disasters that we had, he's mentioned it every day.
So you got to listen to John Colebelt Show tomorrow
at three o'clock three pm tomorrow, All right, three pm?
Write that down in your calendar or uh, you know what, belly, Oh,
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why don't I got an email list of a couple
hundred people?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Will you email everybody individually?
Speaker 6 (19:47):
You're not doing anything right, No, I'm not doing it?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Okay, Yeah, just email everything.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
I'd be more than happy to do that, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Oh belly oh, come on man, we got there. We
gotta get a work team here.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
We are a team, and you want to tell you know,
we absolutely.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
I want to spread the word. This is very important.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yes, okay, but you also want to say what happened Monday?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
What happened Monday?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I forgot Bellio started the news the news Whip at
five oh five, the five o five News Whip, and
you started fifteen years ago. We just had our fifteenth
anniversary of doing it on Friday, and I said to Bellio.
I said, Bellio, I think that's a great benchmark. I
think you deserve an at a girl. And I put
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up my hand.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Oh yes, yes everyone.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
He high fived me.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I for the first time since I met Bellio fifteen
years ago or twelve years ago.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
He doesn't even know I high five did this is
true story? A man like like, what was your your
your reaction? You're repulsed by throw up? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
When I see couple's high five, I want to throw up.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
And especially if they say.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, we got it going on, right, because they think
they have all the answers. I saw that on New
Year's I was eating it. I took my wife to
Jerry's Deli on New Year's. I know, probably spent too
much on her, but you know, we all both had it.
We shared a bowl of soup and some bread, and
I saw a couple high five each other.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
On New Year's at Jerry's Deli. I almost threw up.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I wanted to walk up to the table and go, okay,
oh so it's YouTube, it's you and you. You have
all the answers, right, you got all the answers. You
got it going on. You're flying high, got the perfect relationship,
and you're publicly high fiving each other. A man and
a woman throw up the hand and connect. And by
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the way, bello. Yeah, that high five sounded like it
was not their first.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Oh no, no, you know.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
I asked some friends of mine, some couple, if they
high five to one another, and one couple said, we
do after like we finished like a gardening project, will
like high five. And then I said, oh, Tim would
be disgusted with you. And then they said, well does
it Does it count that we high five because we
did it without bickering?
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Oh we got through this without fighting?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Okay? Is that it's not as bad? It's not as bad.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
But I saw another couple at that same restaurant on
New Year's at Jerry Sally, a couple in their late fifties,
early sixties. They came in, they sat down, they ordered food,
They ate their advertisers, they ate their meal, they ate dessert,
They drank coffee, and they were there for two hours.
Never said a word to each other, not one word
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to each other. Without cell phones, it was pre cell phone.
They just sat there and stared at the menu, looked
around the restaurant and never said a word to each other.
And I said to myself, I love that couple. They
are my heroes.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
What if they're not talking to one another because they
had a huge fight, but at least.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
They went out and celebrated New Year's I love that.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
I'd rather see a couple high five.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
They that couple that didn't talk to each other.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
They'd be much more honest with everybody else that was
eating at Jerry's Deli if for two hours they just
punched each other in the face, because.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
That's what's divorced. That's what they were doing.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
When you don't talk to somebody for two hours, you're
punching each other in the face for two hours, or.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
You're just indifferent about one another.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
That would have been more interesting. All Right, we gotta
take a break here.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
But if you missed the first segment, Bellio booked a
great guest bill sale and he is going to look
for the homeless money downtown Los Angeles. He's and he
already started today or yesterday, and he is on the case.
And the next couple of months we will see accountability
for where all the billions of dollars that we paid
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in taxes and fees. Where all that money went five
billion dollars? Where is it he's going to find out.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
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Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
It's Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
We've got some terrible news for the people who live
in Elmonte, South Almonte. I believe yes, South almontea shopping center.
Guy rips off some stuff. It looks like either from
a dollar Tree or a giant market there as well,
there's a dollar Tree and it's where all these where
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pet Rush Street and Durfy and Peck Road all come together.
So if you're familiar with South Almonty, it is just
north of the sixty Freeway, south of the ten Freeway,
and west of the six to oh five Freeway. It's
on the other side of Garvy City Hall. For el
Monty's on the other side of the freeway up near
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Longo Toyota. But if if you're familiar with South Almonty,
that's a very busy area, very busy. You've got, you
know a lot of fast food places down there. You
know KFC, Dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Waba Grill.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I think it was a Jack in the box down
there as well, you know, all the stores that we
all go to are right there. CVS is another one,
and they are all stores that we all go to,
and and we think, okay, well, you know, it's it's safe,
it's a CVS, it's in my neighborhood. I don't feel,
you know, when I go to the CVS and Burbank,
I don't feel threatened at all. And I think that,
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you know, when you go to a CVS, you feel
like things are under control. So this guy, I think
it's a guy either was stealing for doll from Dollar
Tree or the Giant Store and the brother of the
owner went out to to respond and try to get
the you know whatever. The guy was stealing back and
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was run over and killed. And it's not worth it, man,
there's nothing in that Dollar Tree worth losing your life.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Now we're learning from the Sheriff's department that that man
that was killed here was the brother of a store owner. Back,
let me zoom in here. You can see the canopy
there in the middle of the parking lot.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
This is the.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Store that was targeted by a shoplifter. That brother of
the shop owner ran after that person into the parking
lot and was struck and killed by the vehicle. Now
as I come out to a wide shot, we have
homicide investigators here from the Sheriff's Department on seeing this
all happened around twelve eighteen this afternoon. The call came
out as a hit and run on a pedestrian and
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when deputies arrived, they found that person not conscious of
not breathing here in the parking lot. The entire shopping
center has been blocked off here for the investigation.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Again.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
This is in the two thousand block of Durfey Avenue
at the Dollar Tree shopping center. That's the latest overhead
up in Sky.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
All right, and there's you know, some schools in that
neighborhood as well. There was one report online on social
media that somebody showed up immediately to give the person
who got run over some aid from Guardian Ambulance. I
don't know if that's a true story or not, but
Guardian Ambulance is an ambulance dispatch company that's about literally
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one hundred yards northeast of where this happened, right there
on Rush and Durfy Road. There's a lot of traffic
in that area right now. So if you're on Peck
Road southbound or Rush Street or Durfy Street. You got
to avoid that area. There's gonna be a long investigation
to see what's going on. But it sounds like somebody
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ripped off some stuff from.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
The dollar tree.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
The dollar tree, and when he was confronted by the
store owner's brother, the store owner's brother was run over
and killed.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Killed.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
And now the guy's out, you know, of a brother
and still has to you know, open up the shop
the next day and still continue with his life and goes,
you know, and go and relives it over and over
and over. You know where he was when he saw
the guy do it? Did he yelled to his brother, Hey,
that's the guy that did it. See if you can
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grab him and the guilt that goes along with them.
But people stealing from the dollar tree and then runs
over the guy in South Almonte and kills him. So
a huge, huge investigation going on right now. If you
work in that neighborhood or live in that neighborhood, you've
got to try to avoid it. It's it's going to
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be a nightmare around there for a long time. And
again it's you know, so I know we're all into
sort of geography where this happened in southern California. It's
north of the sixty, west of the six oh five,
and south of the ten south of Garvey. So those
are that's the box that it's in and east of Rosemead.
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So if you're familiar with South Almonte, you've been in
this area. That's the main shopping area for South Almonte.
And and people are very familiar with with all you know,
the restaurants there, the uh you know, the store is there.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It's a very busy area.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
If you live in South al Monty, chances are those
are your stores. That's your Dollar Tree, you know, that's
your CVS. That's where you go to the Giant store.
Your dunkin Donuts is right there on the corner, Waba Grill,
you know, AutoZone. All those stores are right there, and
you frequent all of them and you feel safe. Maybe
you go to the AT and T store, the Jack
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of the Box, the KFC. It's all right there. And
this happened at right around noon on a very busy
day in South Almonte. And and now this guy's got
to bury his brother and maybe he's a father. I'm
sure that that you know when once they the ambulance
showed up or the paramedics, they probably took him to
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you know, South or Greater al Monty. Maybe you know
the Greater al Monty Hospital which is only about about.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
A mile and a half away.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Maybe that's where they took him or if they were
if he was still alive when they got him when
they got there. Uh, maybe he was taken to USC
who has a tremendous unit there a USC County Hospital
for shock and for people who you know, are in
desperate life. They need life saving equipment and life saving treatment.
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Maybe they took him there, but just a very sad
day for South Almonty. It's Conway Show. We're live on
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six forty. It is the Conway Show. Dodgers have just won,
so that's good news. They're coming home to play the
Cubs starting on Friday. But let's get to the radical
corruption that might be happening in downtown Los Angeles. We've
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got a new sheriff in town, a newly appointed US
attorney in Los Angeles and surrounding areas, and he's with
us on the phone.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Bill is salee Am? I pronounced that right?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Tim?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Hey, how are you sir?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Good? How are you?
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Man?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I can't wait?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Can I come with you on some of these bus
downtown LA?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Probably not?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Damn? All right?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Well, thanks for coming on. What are we looking at downtown?
And but first of all, how were you appointed? You
have a long term relationship with the president?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You know, I met the President in January when he
came to visit the tour of the Pali States Fire,
and we had a very nice exchange. And I got
the call about two weeks ago that he was going
to pick me for this job. And I used to
work in this office. I was both a local and
federal prosecutor before I decided to go to Sacramento to
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serve there.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
All right, so who do you report to then? Who
is your you know, the next up or who do
you talk to back in Washington.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, I report directly to the Attorney General and the
Deputy Attorney General Pam Bondi and tubb up there DC.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So this is this is a big deal.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Then the Pam Bondi, you know, is picking up the
phone call and talk about the corruption in LA. There's
you know, then they think there's something serious going on.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Well, to be clear, there's ninety four US Attorney's districts
throughout the country. California is large, so we have four
different federal judicial districts. I'm the US Attorney for the
Central District of California. It covers seven counties up from
Santa Barbara all the way down LA to Orange County
riverside San Maardino. We have twenty million residents in our district.
This is the largest US Attorney's office outside of Washington.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
D C.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
It's a very big district. But I'm the US attorney,
so I'd set the priorities as far as what we're
going to do in this area. And of course there
are priorities that the Attorney General has and we act
upon that. But this is my call and I put
this task force together over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Have we had a US attorney look into downtown City
Hall before this?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I have no idea. I just got here. I got
sworn in Wednesday morning. I met and toured skid Row
with Judge Carter on Sunday, which is something to see
if you haven't been down there.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It's just it's awful. It's horrible.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
And you know why I take away Tim is like,
there's all these billions being spent, nothing to see for it.
Down on skid Row. The only services being offered there
were from private donors, people giving food and medical aid.
The only tax dollars I saw being used down there
were There is this jeep that drives around handing out
drug kits, needles, the syringes, tourniquits so they can safely
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use drugs.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well, I'm in radio, so that guy stops by every
afternoon here too, you know, enjoy ourselves.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Hey are you originally from.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
LA I'm from Riverside County. I grew up out there,
and I'm from born in Rased, southern California.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Okay, so you're well aware of the level of corruption
that La and the surrounding areas have had for a
long time.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, I'm well aware of the prosecutions. I mean, I
used to be a federal prosecutor here at the U
Attorney's Office. I'm well aware of the prosecutions of La
City and everything else that's been done, you know, with
different sheriffs offices and the sheriffs in the past. So look,
the role of the federal government is to conduct this oversight.
I mean, there's certain things the state can't police itself,
and that's what the federal government's for the reason. And
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again I don't have a conclusion here. People want me to,
you know, name who's going to get arrested or anything.
I don't know that yet. What I'm doing right now
is launching the investigation so we can get the answers.
All we know right now is that there's at least
two billion dollars that's unaccounted for, according to an audit
that was just conducted last month. And that's not a
rounding error, tim, Yeah, I would asked. I was asked
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how does two billion dollars go missing? It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You're right, it's stolen.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
It's stolen or mismanaged.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
We're going to get to the bottom of it now.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Bill the salies with us, the US appointed US attorney.
Where do you set up shop? Are you going to
be right in their own backyard? Right in city hall?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
The US Attorney's office is here in downtown LA at
the Spring Street Courthouse. We have office. We're sort of
attached to the federal court. So we have a presence
in LA. We have a presence in Santa Ana, and
a presence in Riverside. This task force is going to
be led by the best prosecutors in my Public Corruption section,
my Major Fraud section, and we're going to have special
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agents with FBI, I R S and Inspector General for
HUD as well on this task force.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Will we see any purp walks?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
You have my commitment that if we do this, when
we do this invest stigation, if we discover evidence that
federal laws were broken, people will get arrested.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And is when you come into town to look at
city Hall and the potential corruption, does is the mayor
aware of it?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Does the mayor greet you at the airport.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I don't. I generally don't know. I don't talk to
the mayor. I don't think it's appropriate in my role.
You know, we're going to look at everything in everyone
and I you know, tend to it is better for
us not to interact with them at this stage.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And is the main goal going to be the money
that's either been mismanaged or stolen from the the homeless
taxes that we paid. Will that be the you know,
the the top the a block or the number one
thing you're looking at.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
We're looking at all the money that's been allocated for
purposes of homelessness over the last five years. There's been
about twenty four billion dollars that's been allocated for homelessness
statewide over the last five years. A large number of
that has gone right here in La County. We have
one of the just homeless population, and so we're going
to be looking at all that money. We're looking in
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the past. I know the mayor said yesterday she wants
to move on and focus on the future. We're focused
on the past, and we need accounting and transparency of
what happened to all those dollars that were allocated and spent,
and we're going to account for every dollar that was
spent by these groups.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Are you looking on Are you looking at anybody on
the inside willing to flip and give you some information?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I mean obviously, even if I did, I wouldn't talk
to you about that. I mean, that's defending investigation. But honestly,
we're at the very beginning stage right now. So I
just put this task force together, announced it yesterday, and
they're going to get to work right away. And so
we're not going to be talking. You're not going to
hear us talking about what's happening with it or you
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know who who's talking to who. The only thing you'll
hear or see from us is if and when we
find evidence of a crime, we'll file the charges and
make the necessary arrests. And what does it And that's
to protect innocent people by ther way, get it?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, you don't want to wrap up anybody innocent downtown,
although I don't know if there are any.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
But what about timeline? Are you looking at months?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Years?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I'm looking at months, not yours. I mean, we've had
investigations ling there for years. I don't want that, so
I've asked. I've talked to the head of the FBI
office down here and the head of the IRS office.
They know this is a priority for me and I
want this in months.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Is the death penalty on the table?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
No, no, they definitely it's on the table.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Tip.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I've never been at US attorney. I don't know where
you apply that or not.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Only we apply those in murder cases.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I'll write that down for my next interview with you.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
What about the high speed rail Will that be something
that falls under your office?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Probably not. That's probably something in the eastern or northern district.
So again, California's so big, it's broken up into four
different districts. So far, I'm the first person to be
appointed by President Trump and California. So I expect there'll
be other appointments made shortly for those other districts in California.
And you know, we'll be working together on various investigations,
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but that investigation will probably be led out of one
of the other offices that covers that part of the state.
But already I think there's investigations already announced by Department
of Transportation and some other agencies that are already looking at
high speed rail.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And will are these people who get wherever it does
get caught if they do get caught and prosecutor are
they looking at considerable fines and time in prison.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah. So the way it works in the federal system
is depending on the charge and the amount of money
involved that drives the sentencing. So the more money that
is involved in the scheme or the corruption, the larger
your prison sentence is. So it really depends. But you've
seen even in the LA City cases, some big, many,
many years have been issued for prison sentences for former
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elected officials.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Oh yeah, and you know, you're probably familiar because you've
lived in southern California when you walk into city hall
and you know the downtown buildings where a city is run,
not a lot of Trump fans.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, I imagine not.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yeah. And also okay, so this this starts immediately. Then
you started today and it'll continue.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Then this started, this started yesterday, and we're going to
get to work. Look, tim regardless of your politics, everyone
wants answers. Yes, this is our money, This is all
the tax payer money. Billions of tax series have voted
over and over again they said, yes, please fix homelessness,
Please work on it, we'll give you what you need.
And they gave over billions of dollars, not millions, billions,
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and there's nothing to show for it, unfortunately, and the
public deserves an answer in accounting for where that money went.
So we're here to provide transparency and accountability, and if
the local and state officials can't account for the money,
we'll do it for.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Them, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
We I had a there's a charity event I went
two years ago and I got the opportunity to sit
next to Jackie Lazy, who is an awesome woman. She
was the district attorney at the time, and I had
asked her. I said, Hey, if my picture ever comes
across your desk, will you give me a break? And
she had the best response. She said, if your picture's
on my desk, you passed on a lot of breaks it.
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That's a great response.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
That is a good response.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
So I good luck.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We'd love to check in with you periodically to see
what's going on. I know you can't talk about much
during the investigation, but we're all I speak for everybody
here in Burbank because I'm the mayor of Burbank, and
we're very excited to have you in town because up
until now, nobody's looked for this money.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And it's our money, that's right, and we're going to
get answers. We're going to have the best people in
the best investigators on it, the best prosecutors on it,
and we don't need to ask for permission or request documents.
We'll get it ourselves.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Oh that's great, all right, Well, welcome to Los Angeles.
Good luck, and I hope you find you know, look,
I hope you find nothing but doesn't look like.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Thank you, Tim, appreciate you having me, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Thanks for coming on. Bill Asali.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
He is the newly appointed US attorney and he is
going to go downtown Los Angeles starting tomorrow morning. I
think he started today actually, and he's gonna find out
where the billions of dollars are. There's about five billion
dollars that is a little suspicious. A lot of it
is missing. It's our money, and now he's gonna go
look for it and heads are gonna roll. So John
(11:24):
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Speaker 5 (11:34):
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Speaker 1 (11:41):
Michael Monks is with us. We're talking about the Olympics
in twenty twenty eight exactly coming up. It's around the corner, absolutely,
and this is gonna be a big deal. For the
first time, we're gonna have more women athletes than men.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That's what they said. I mean.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
The LA twenty eight committee was in Switzerland today presenting
to the International Olympic Committee. A little press conference was
hell this morning our time, but late afternoon I imagine in Switzerland,
and that was the announcement. That was the big headline
was for the first time in Olympic history, there will
be more female athletes competing than males. And also, for
the first time in history, there will be an equal
number of women's teams in all of the team sports
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except for one, and that's soccer. And that's because the
women will have more teams than the men. All right,
I am woman, hear me roar indeed, and they'll have
more opportunities to roar because we will have more metal
events than any Olympics in history. All right, how did
Santa Monica screw up the volleyball? They had it right
in their back pocket. They might tell you that they
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didn't screw it up. Okay, they were trying not to
get screwed. Hosting the Olympics is very expensive. I mean,
even the city of Los Angeles with its agreement with
LA twenty eight, the city's on the hook for like
the first two hundred and seventy million dollars in potential
losses if this thing doesn't turn up profit. So it
is a gamble, and Santa Monica's probably looking at the
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landscape of all of the people who are coming in
for the Olympics and thinking, we're already a major part
of the La icono, you know, iconic atmosphere. We've got
the pier, we've got the beach, we've got the walk ability.
People are coming here. Let's not blow it by hosting
an event we might lose money on. Let's just make
that sweet cash on all the people who are coming
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to town.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Okay, that's one way to look at the Other way is,
you know, they could have charged for parking, for attendance.
All the restaurants could have all made you know, because
there'll probably forty thousand people that come in on a
weekly basis, maybe more than that.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
For to ask the folks in Huntington Beach because they
would like to host it. I talked to State Senator
Tony Strickland this morning, and he says he hopes his
city gets and he was a city councilman before he
went back to Sacramento, so he knows the ins and
outs of the city government as well. So it's interesting
to see two beach cities reaching different conclusions on the
value of hosting Olympic volleyball.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Real quickly, we have a very short segment here, but
we're just talking to the newly appointed US Attorney Bill A.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Saley. I know you covered downtown.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
If you're an employee of the city and managing money
with the homelessness, would.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
You be nervous?
Speaker 7 (14:11):
Here's what if I hadn't done anything wrong. No, in fact,
you probably want a thorough evaluation from somebody who might
be viewed as hostile. Let's get somebody in there who
wants to root out something, wants to find something to
make a name for himself. Let's have him come in
and do it and hope that he doesn't find anything wrong.
Let's hope we're just all incompetent and that's why we
can't keep track of this money.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It could be incompetence, it could be you know, just
people that got you know, got way over their skis
and did not handle money.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
I will say that of all the people President Trump
could have picked to be the US Attorney, this was
a choice that probably does concern some individuals, not necessarily
because they've done anything wrong, but because this guy has
been a Republican lawmaker in Sacramento where they don't have
a lot of power, and now he has immense power
over people that would be adversaries to him politically.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
So he will probably wield that.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
Now.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
I'm not suggesting that he will willfully pursue politics in
the office, but some of the issues that Republicans in
Sacramento have been raising for a long time without any
road map to get them pushed into law, he can
plow forward here on his own, such as investigating homeless spending.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And it was interesting, this is a very unconventional way
to put a US attorney in Los Angeles. He just
met him one day at the press con over the
fires in Pacific Palisades. He goes, hey, there might be
something going on downtown. He goes, okay, well you handle it.
I'm sure there's more to it than that. I'm sure
that you know. There were a lot of people vouching
for him. I mean, he's a talented guy. He's been
on the show's here many many times. We've talked to
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him many times. So I will be very.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Interested to see how this investigation goes. I was really
surprised to see him walking around with Judge Carter and
skid Row. I thought that was very interesting because he's
not just throwing out this bomb that he's going to
look into it. He's gone down to the epicenter of
it all, which is two blocks from my home, and
he's going to be looking. So I'm excited to see
what he might find. I will say I think he
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there was a knee jerk reaction. I think he said
no too quickly when I said is the death penalty
on the table and he said no. Well, you know,
when he was a lawmaker, he might have been able
to joke around with that a little bit more. But
you don't want to compromise any investigations.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
With you monster.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
You got Monk Saturday Night, seven to nine, Michael Monk's Reports.
Oh you're the best buddy, Thanks for coming in.
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Speaker 1 (16:33):
You know, I got some texts saying, hey, why are
you talking about the death penalty when it comes to
investigating the money for the homeless people? I said, wow,
I it was It was just kidding A and.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
B or was I.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Because if somebody came to Los Angeles and killed twelve thousand,
seven hundred and seventy five people, would you want the death.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Penalty for that person? Sure?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Probably right, Well, that's how many people have died on
the streets of LA in the last five years. They
say there's an average of seven people in Southern California
to die every night in the streets of Southern California,
homeless people, seven to night. Then this money's been mismanaged
for five years. So seven times three sixty five times
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five is twelve, seven hundred and seventy five homeless people,
give or take a couple hundred have died, maybe because
they didn't get the money that we all are paying
taxes and that money should be going to them. And
if the money were to be going to them and
they did find housing, maybe some of those people would
be alive to them. So if I were in downtown
(17:49):
LA and I was part of the homeless, you know money,
I would be nervous. I'd be driving home wondering how
this is going to shake down. There's a new sheriff
in town, Bill Salea, and he's the new district attorney,
I'm sorry, new US attorney for Los Angeles and the
(18:10):
surrounding areas. And he's going to be looking into where
all the tax money, the billions of dollars that we
all have paid into, and where that money is going.
And here's a quote, taxpayers deserve answers for where and
how their hard earned money has been spent. If state
and local officials cannot provide proper oversight and accountability, will
(18:33):
do it for them. And that is it already started today.
I think he's coming on with John Colbelt tomorrow. You
know what time he goes on Belly oone with John cobaltimorrow.
I will find out, all right, but that will be
a must listen to interview tomorrow because John Colbelt has
been all over this homeless story for the last ten years.
(18:59):
I don't think a a single show goes by where
he isn't outraged over the money raised and the homeless
population in Los Angeles. I think he's mentioned it every
day for ten years. I think maybe during the fires
it probably he went three hours without mentioning it. But
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without with the exception of the fires and you know,
any natural disasters that we had, he's mentioned it every day.
So you got to listen to John Colebelt Show tomorrow
at three o'clock three pm tomorrow, All right, three pm?
Write that down in your calendar or uh, you know what, belly, Oh,
(19:42):
why don't I got an email list of a couple
hundred people?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Will you email everybody individually?
Speaker 6 (19:47):
You're not doing anything right, No, I'm not doing it?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Okay, Yeah, just email everything.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
I'd be more than happy to do that, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Oh belly oh, come on man, we got there. We
gotta get a work team here.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
We are a team, and you want to tell you know,
we absolutely.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
I want to spread the word. This is very important.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yes, okay, but you also want to say what happened Monday?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
What happened Monday?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I forgot Bellio started the news the news Whip at
five oh five, the five o five News Whip, and
you started fifteen years ago. We just had our fifteenth
anniversary of doing it on Friday, and I said to Bellio.
I said, Bellio, I think that's a great benchmark. I
think you deserve an at a girl. And I put
(20:38):
up my hand.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Oh yes, yes everyone.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
He high fived me.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I for the first time since I met Bellio fifteen
years ago or twelve years ago.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
He doesn't even know I high five did this is
true story? A man like like, what was your your
your reaction? You're repulsed by throw up? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
When I see couple's high five, I want to throw up.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
And especially if they say.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, we got it going on, right, because they think
they have all the answers. I saw that on New
Year's I was eating it. I took my wife to
Jerry's Deli on New Year's. I know, probably spent too
much on her, but you know, we all both had it.
We shared a bowl of soup and some bread, and
I saw a couple high five each other.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
On New Year's at Jerry's Deli. I almost threw up.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I wanted to walk up to the table and go, okay,
oh so it's YouTube, it's you and you. You have
all the answers, right, you got all the answers. You
got it going on. You're flying high, got the perfect relationship,
and you're publicly high fiving each other. A man and
a woman throw up the hand and connect. And by
(21:51):
the way, bello. Yeah, that high five sounded like it
was not their first.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Oh no, no, you know.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
I asked some friends of mine, some couple, if they
high five to one another, and one couple said, we
do after like we finished like a gardening project, will
like high five. And then I said, oh, Tim would
be disgusted with you. And then they said, well does
it Does it count that we high five because we
did it without bickering?
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Oh we got through this without fighting?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Okay? Is that it's not as bad? It's not as bad.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
But I saw another couple at that same restaurant on
New Year's at Jerry Sally, a couple in their late fifties,
early sixties. They came in, they sat down, they ordered food,
They ate their advertisers, they ate their meal, they ate dessert,
They drank coffee, and they were there for two hours.
Never said a word to each other, not one word
(22:51):
to each other. Without cell phones, it was pre cell phone.
They just sat there and stared at the menu, looked
around the restaurant and never said a word to each other.
And I said to myself, I love that couple. They
are my heroes.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
What if they're not talking to one another because they
had a huge fight, but at least.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
They went out and celebrated New Year's I love that.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
I'd rather see a couple high five.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
They that couple that didn't talk to each other.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
They'd be much more honest with everybody else that was
eating at Jerry's Deli if for two hours they just
punched each other in the face, because.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
That's what's divorced. That's what they were doing.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
When you don't talk to somebody for two hours, you're
punching each other in the face for two hours, or.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
You're just indifferent about one another.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
That would have been more interesting. All Right, we gotta
take a break here.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
But if you missed the first segment, Bellio booked a
great guest bill sale and he is going to look
for the homeless money downtown Los Angeles. He's and he
already started today or yesterday, and he is on the case.
And the next couple of months we will see accountability
for where all the billions of dollars that we paid
(24:05):
in taxes and fees. Where all that money went five
billion dollars? Where is it he's going to find out.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
It's Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
We've got some terrible news for the people who live
in Elmonte, South Almonte. I believe yes, South almontea shopping center.
Guy rips off some stuff. It looks like either from
a dollar Tree or a giant market there as well,
there's a dollar Tree and it's where all these where
(24:45):
pet Rush Street and Durfy and Peck Road all come together.
So if you're familiar with South Almonty, it is just
north of the sixty Freeway, south of the ten Freeway,
and west of the six to oh five Freeway. It's
on the other side of Garvy City Hall. For el
Monty's on the other side of the freeway up near
(25:05):
Longo Toyota. But if if you're familiar with South Almonty,
that's a very busy area, very busy. You've got, you
know a lot of fast food places down there. You
know KFC, Dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Waba Grill.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I think it was a Jack in the box down
there as well, you know, all the stores that we
all go to are right there. CVS is another one,
and they are all stores that we all go to,
and and we think, okay, well, you know, it's it's safe,
it's a CVS, it's in my neighborhood. I don't feel,
you know, when I go to the CVS and Burbank,
I don't feel threatened at all. And I think that,
(25:42):
you know, when you go to a CVS, you feel
like things are under control. So this guy, I think
it's a guy either was stealing for doll from Dollar
Tree or the Giant Store and the brother of the
owner went out to to respond and try to get
the you know whatever. The guy was stealing back and
(26:05):
was run over and killed. And it's not worth it, man,
there's nothing in that Dollar Tree worth losing your life.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Now we're learning from the Sheriff's department that that man
that was killed here was the brother of a store owner. Back,
let me zoom in here. You can see the canopy
there in the middle of the parking lot.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
This is the.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Store that was targeted by a shoplifter. That brother of
the shop owner ran after that person into the parking
lot and was struck and killed by the vehicle. Now
as I come out to a wide shot, we have
homicide investigators here from the Sheriff's Department on seeing this
all happened around twelve eighteen this afternoon. The call came
out as a hit and run on a pedestrian and
(26:43):
when deputies arrived, they found that person not conscious of
not breathing here in the parking lot. The entire shopping
center has been blocked off here for the investigation.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Again.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
This is in the two thousand block of Durfey Avenue
at the Dollar Tree shopping center. That's the latest overhead
up in Sky.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
All right, and there's you know, some schools in that
neighborhood as well. There was one report online on social
media that somebody showed up immediately to give the person
who got run over some aid from Guardian Ambulance. I
don't know if that's a true story or not, but
Guardian Ambulance is an ambulance dispatch company that's about literally
(27:21):
one hundred yards northeast of where this happened, right there
on Rush and Durfy Road. There's a lot of traffic
in that area right now. So if you're on Peck
Road southbound or Rush Street or Durfy Street. You got
to avoid that area. There's gonna be a long investigation
to see what's going on. But it sounds like somebody
(27:41):
ripped off some stuff from.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
The dollar tree.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
The dollar tree, and when he was confronted by the
store owner's brother, the store owner's brother was run over
and killed.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Killed.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
And now the guy's out, you know, of a brother
and still has to you know, open up the shop
the next day and still continue with his life and goes,
you know, and go and relives it over and over
and over. You know where he was when he saw
the guy do it? Did he yelled to his brother, Hey,
that's the guy that did it. See if you can
(28:16):
grab him and the guilt that goes along with them.
But people stealing from the dollar tree and then runs
over the guy in South Almonte and kills him. So
a huge, huge investigation going on right now. If you
work in that neighborhood or live in that neighborhood, you've
got to try to avoid it. It's it's going to
(28:37):
be a nightmare around there for a long time. And
again it's you know, so I know we're all into
sort of geography where this happened in southern California. It's
north of the sixty, west of the six oh five,
and south of the ten south of Garvey. So those
are that's the box that it's in and east of Rosemead.
(29:01):
So if you're familiar with South Almonte, you've been in
this area. That's the main shopping area for South Almonte.
And and people are very familiar with with all you know,
the restaurants there, the uh you know, the store is there.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It's a very busy area.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
If you live in South al Monty, chances are those
are your stores. That's your Dollar Tree, you know, that's
your CVS. That's where you go to the Giant store.
Your dunkin Donuts is right there on the corner, Waba Grill,
you know, AutoZone. All those stores are right there, and
you frequent all of them and you feel safe. Maybe
you go to the AT and T store, the Jack
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of the Box, the KFC. It's all right there. And
this happened at right around noon on a very busy
day in South Almonte. And and now this guy's got
to bury his brother and maybe he's a father. I'm
sure that that you know when once they the ambulance
showed up or the paramedics, they probably took him to
(30:02):
you know, South or Greater al Monty. Maybe you know
the Greater al Monty Hospital which is only about about.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
A mile and a half away.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Maybe that's where they took him or if they were
if he was still alive when they got him when
they got there. Uh, maybe he was taken to USC
who has a tremendous unit there a USC County Hospital
for shock and for people who you know, are in
desperate life. They need life saving equipment and life saving treatment.
(30:35):
Maybe they took him there, but just a very sad
day for South Almonty. It's Conway Show. We're live on
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