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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Verry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel a good
one coming on. It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Bill as Sally is a name you should remember because
he is making waves and making a difference, and I
think I think he's going to be a superstar. Way
Rudy Giuliani was when he first came on the national
scene as a as a mafia prosecutor. Bill sale E
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ss a y l I. Here he is announcing that
California Democrats mishandled millions of federal tax dollars that were
meant for homeless housing. Before we play this, you will
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note that the areas where you will find the most
fraud and corruption and theft by Democrats and self dealing
is always in kind of the soft sciences. It's always
in after school programs or homeless housing programs, our free
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meals for poor families. They go in and so I'm
not for these programs at all in the first place,
but they will tell you that they are because they
help the people who need it most, all these poor people.
All right, let's buy that premise for a moment. If
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in fact, these programs help the poor people the most,
and that's why we allocate the taxpayer dollars to go there,
isn't it the case that if you steal from that fund,
you hurt the people who were most vulnerable and most
most damaged by all of this. According to their own logic,
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that would definitely be the case. So so isn't it
interesting that the place they choose to steal and just
watch you can see it in your local in your
local municipality, especially if you're in one of the fifty
largest cities, but it could be even smaller. You're going
to find scandals of money that comes up missing, and
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it's going to be in things like homeless housing, after
school programs, meal programs for poor families. It's always things
related to poor people.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
California state officials failed to provide meaningful oversight over the
individuals who received most of these funds, and they had
little to know answers to the public's demand for accountability. Well,
that accountability starts today. Today we are announcing significant developments
into our investigation. We're making public two criminal cases relating
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to two separate real estate developers who were involved in
misappropriating millions of state funds intended to combat homelessness. This morning,
federal agents arrested Cody Holmes, a thirty one year old
Beverly Hills resident and the former CFO of Shangri Law Industries,
a Downtown, LA based developer of affordable housing, for defrauding
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the Home Key program that is administered by the State
of California. The program awarded grant money, which included federal
tax dollars for specific projects to convert motels into housing
for the homeless and to operate the units.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
By April of.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Twenty twenty two, Shangri Law Industries, where Holmes was the CFO,
had co applied with multiple California cities to convert numerous
properties in California, including a location in Thousand Oaks. The
state asked for proof that the company had the financial
capacity to build all the projects. In response, Homes and
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Shangra Law knowingly submitted fake bank statements which claimed to
show that developer had about one hundred and sixty million
dollars on deposit. Not only were the bank statements fake,
our investigation shows that Shangra Law and its affiliates had
nowhere near the amount of money they claimed they had
in the Fink Bank statements. The state agency ultimately paid
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nearly twenty six million dollars directly to the developer for
the Thousand Oaks project. Even though the developer received all
the money from the state, the developer did not complete
the construction of the Thousand Oaks project. Instead, our investigation
showed that at least two point two million dollars was
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diverted to pay mister Holmes is American Express Bill, which
includes purchases at luxury retailers.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Essentially, he stole the money. As I said, keep your
keep your ears perked. For the name Bill Asseie, US Attorney.
He is today a US attorney, but we have had
some ambitious US attorneys go on to bigger things in
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politics when they're done. I don't really care where he goes.
I mean, if he's as good as guy as he
appears to be and a man of such action, I'd
love to see him continue in a life of service,
whatever that may be. At present, I think he's doing
a great job with the US Attorney's Office on the
West Coast in California, and I'd like to see him
stay there for a while. I'm just saying I see
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a really rare and unique cut above level of talent
in Bill A. Sley, the US Attorney, and Trump is
very high on him, very very high.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Listening to the Michael Berry Show podcast, is Sexy Be Sexy.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Will marris an on bird He's always been this snarky
little liberal who sees himself as an intellectual, But like
many people, he kind of kind of stepped back over
how far the liberalism's going and decided, wait a second,
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I got to start pointing some of this out. I
can't defend this. I think part of it is even
though he's not a practicing Jew, he is a Jew,
and I think he's still a Jewish. Identity can cause
some people to be quite aware of their own level
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of exposure to bad people who will kill Jews. And
and most Jews have been taught this from a young age.
You know, remember the Holocaust, Remember what was happening, Remember
that it happened. And you know, look at what happened
at the programs in the Soviet Union, and it wasn't
just Germany. Jews were being treated badly in other places.
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And so I think his self identity tells him, hey,
these liberals have changed and now they they're authoritarian. And
then you look at what's happening in New York with Mamdani.
They they are now openly embracing jew haters and and
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we've seen how that how that goes. This is this
is a really really bad time for authoritarianism, socialism on
the rise in this country, and the cold cultural message
that they're using to appeal to some disparate groups. But
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so Bill Maher has been talking about the number of
Christians that are being slaughtered by Muslims in Nigeria and
your first reaction is, I don't know about that, because
you literally don't know about that. Most people don't know.
You might, but most people won't know that. Well, when
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you don't know something, there is the mistaken belief that
it's probably not true, on the faulty premise. If it was,
I would have heard of it before. That gives news
directors a massive amount of power, because news directors can
choose what to cover, and just as importantly, they can
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choose what not to cover. Burying a story is just
as powerful as publishing one. So here is a story
about just that five hundred thousand Christians being killed last year,
and this individual I'm still not certain on his name.
I'll have that for you on Monday. But it's the
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point that he makes that is at least worth giving consideration.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
To love the world and you want to see a
better world, your interest is not just free palace time.
I mean there are more people dining in Nigeria than
are dining in Palaest time.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I can't tell you that last he long.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Over five hundred thousand Christians were killed in Nigeria just
in one year, and nobody's protesting.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
The activits are not seeing anything for me. That'sip Christians
in the North of Nigeria.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Christians are being killed daily because the Islamic million times don't.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Want Christians to exist in the North of Nigeria.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
They want to see a world where there are no
Christians at all, and they want to contact Nier, not
just Nigeria, and they want to concur Africa. They want
to conquer Europe and they want to concur America. The
younger generation who want to live in it better world
must speak out.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Tod while we're on the subject of killing people. Jay Jones,
as we've talked about earlier this week, is the attorney
is a candidate for attorney general on the Democrat side
in Virginia, and he was texting with another Democrat who
he trusted about how he fantasized about murdering his opponent
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in the race, his opponent's wife and children, and then
the children, and how great it would be that these
children will be murdered and he would have to suffer
from this. And then when he was asked by his
person he was he was texting with, he was his friend,
you don't you don't mean like this guy, do you
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don't you know you can't mean this, And he went
back to, Yeah, they're awful people. They're awful people. The
idea of demonizing your opponent making them subhuman is a
tactic that has been used even inadvertently subconsciously throughout history.
Because most children are taught from an early age. Somewhat universally,
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you're taught that you don't you don't hurt other people,
you don't bully other people, you don't bring harm to
them unless in the form of justice or self defense.
So it's hard to get people to openly want to
violate those rules of decorum and civilization that you're taught civility,
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that you're taught from a young age because humans don't
do that to other humans. Now, you can do that
to a cow because you're going to eat him, or
a chicken because you're gonna eat him. You can ride
a horse in a way you know, you can right
them till they're so exhausted. It's dumb. It's a bad
use of your money, it's of your of your resource.
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But you can get away with it. But you couldn't
do that with a human because we have certain rules
with human to human interaction and restrictions, and that's always
been the case. So what you have to do is
you have to make Republicans in this case into something
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other than humans. And once you do that, once you
do that, then you have you have made it such
that that they're targets and that works out well well.
Terry Kilgore, a Republican Virginia state delegate, was talking to
Tucker Carlson and he said, look, Jay Jones, the Virginia
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Attorney General. Those children he was talking he was fantasized
about murdering. Those are some random kids of a guy
he's running against. He knows those kids. He knows a
lot of things about those kids.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
The General Simley all the time. Everybody knew the Gilbert kids.
And Jay Jones would have known the Gilbert kids. That's
what's terrible about this whole situation. It wasn't like, Hey,
I want to kill a kid who's from another country.
You would know this kid, these kids because you're around
the General Assembly.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
That's horrifying. So Todd got got he got out. He's
no longer serving is a direct.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
No, he's no longer serving. He is now come with attorney. Assistant,
come with attorney in Page County. Talked to him this
past week just to check on him. And the bad
thing about it is now there has to be police
presents where his kids are. And that's what's because they
they still receive threads, and that's what's bad about this
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whole ordeal.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
And Ron the King of Dean and this other guy,
Michael Barry.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
These are the kind of guys you're like a smacking ass.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
So it's rather late in the program to bring this up,
only because, to be completely honest, I forgot to cover
it earlier. But let's get to it now. JB. Pritzker
is the big fat guy who is the governor of Illinois,
and there's a lot about this guy Supposedly at his
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house he had some toilets disassembled so that they wouldn't
show up on the tax rolls and that would lower
his appraisal. He does very, very squirrelly things, and you
know that seems to be in keeping with what every
other Democrat does, all while calling the rest of US criminals.
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So last year he and his wife pocketed ten point
seven million dollars worth of taxable income. Okay, he's from
a rich family, the Pritzkers. New York Post reports, however,
that that includes one point four million dollars he won
from play, saying blackjack in Las Vegas, and that that's
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what's on his tax return. So he wants us to
believe that, while actively the governor of Illinois, he goes
to Vegas and he's really really good at blackjack and
won one point four million dollars. No, a great line
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of Akerman. I don't believe you, and I don't believe him.
Why does it matter, Michael, Well, this sure smacks to
me of money laundering. See for him to have that
kind of money, how does he have that kind of
money unaccounted for? With Hunter Biden, you wanted to pass
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bribes to him, so he could kick it up to
Joe Biden. Well, how do people that need favors from
the government, or that want to a pardon from the president,
how do how those people just hand a hundred money
That's going to be weird. It's going to show up
in his bank account, not the number of millions we want.
You can't just give some money, you know, you can't
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just give him a bag of cash. I mean, this
is going to have to be like we wire money
because it's going to be caught. And so we had
to find some reason that we would want to pay
a hunter Biden a million dollars legal fees. He doesn't
want to come and do the work, he doesn't want
to show up at board meetings, and we don't like
him too. He's really weird. He's got a lot of problems.
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So so how do we do it? Oh, well, we
have him just slap a little paint or maybe somebody
else slaps a little paint on a canvas, and we say,
this is very rare, and we'll pay you a million bucks.
And he does, and the articles come out he's selling
for more than Picasso. Yeah, we believe it. Sure seems
completely reasonable. Well, we all know what's happening in that situation.
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So here is a story of about JB. Pritzker claiming
the one point four million dollars in gambling income he
reported on his partially released tax returns came from a
single trip to Vegas where he got incredibly lucky. Oh okay,
Brian Williams, Now you're going to add to the story. Yeah, yeah,
I went out to oh Am My Life. I made
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a lot of money on that one, and I just
I remember that there's a really good restaurant downstairs. I
had a really good breakfast. Oh wow, he must be
telling the truth. He says things that are designed to
build credibility and make us believe that he's telling us
the truth. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Sure, yeah, we believe you obviously. And I've explained this,
or at least we did in the statement. You know
that I went on vacation with my wife with some friends.
I was incredibly lucky. You have to be to end
up ahead, frankly, going through a casino anywhere. It was
in Las Vegas. And I like to play cards, and
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so you know that I founded a charitable poker match
here in Chicago called the Chicago Poker challenge that raises millions,
has raised millions of dollars for.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
The Holocaust Museum here and particularly to stand.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Up for civil rights.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
That's much of what the Holocaust Museum does. And so anyway,
that's that's all I can say about it. I mean,
I had had fun doing it. I encourage people to
come to the state of Illinois and gamble in our
casinos here.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
We have some really lovely places to go. Jim reminded
me that what Pritzker is doing is exactly what was
described in Goodfellows. Their friends made me.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
We walked out with four hundred and twenty thousand dollars
without using a gun, and we did the right thing.
We gave Paulie his tribute. Indeed to be a good summer.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I'm Friday, but that is a lot of money for
a kid like you.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Right, anybody asks you where you got it?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
You got it all right. You got all this cash
that you receive illicitly, and you got to got to
be able to buy things with it, got to be
able to use it, move it around. It's it raises
red flags for walking around with one hundred thousand dollars
of cash on Monday and a different one on Tuesday.
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So he brings to my attention the good Fellow story,
and now all I'm thinking is good grief. Maybe that
really is actually where he got the idea. Maybe he
watched this scene and this is where he got the idea.
Or maybe he has friends in the mafia and this
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is used by lots of folks. There's a reason the
mafia got into the casinos. It is known to be
a way to wash money. And so in this case,
if our boy here, Pritzker is trying to wash a
lot of money. You've seen Ozart. You know how hard
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they have to work to take illegal money in and
wash it and make it clean so that it can
be used. It's not easy. But you want us to
believe you went to Vegas and you walked away with
one point four million dollars of the house is money
in one weekend? Not a chance. We don't even a
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little bit believe you on that. JB. Pritzker, not even
a little bit. Now, let's talk more about how the
left has lost their minds and that everything they say
they stand for is the exact opposite of what they
stand for. There is a podcast, I've never heard of
it that doesn't mean it's not a good podcast. I
just haven't heard of it called I've had it. And
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the co host is a woman named Jennifer Welch on
MSNBC and CNN, And here she is talking about JD
Vance and that his wife is of Indian descent. So
if his wife is of Indian descent and his children
are half her and JD. Van still wants to enforce
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our immigration laws, then he hates his family, doesn't stand
up for his family, and therefore he wouldn't stand up
for you. That's a real, real spacious argument. But that's
what they've been reduced to.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
He is married to a woman of Indian descent, he
has mixed race children. So to all of the MAGA
voters out there, if this man will not defend his
wife and will not defend his kids, do you think
he gives a crap about you or anything to.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Do with you.
Speaker 8 (22:03):
And here again, as Jennifer Welch, I'm a white woman
that has lived in a red state my entire life,
and I can tell you when I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Around white people, they test the racist water.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
They test it on people like you all all the time.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
And they'll try to say off.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Shore it was wonderful to have you, mister president of
the Michael Barry Show. So the left has gone from
trying to take all our guns to now saying we
got to get guns of our own because we have
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to attack the left. They are openly calling for conflict.
It's what they're doing. And a guy like Don Lemon
is dangerous because he got kicked out of CNN. Imagine
that he gets kicked out of CNN. So now, like
Jesse Smolette, he's sort of this this desperate guy out
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there and he has to say ridiculous things to be
talked about. So he does. And here's one example.
Speaker 9 (23:13):
Black people, brown people of all stripes, whether you're an
Indian American or a Mexican American and whoever you are,
go out in your plate where you live.
Speaker 10 (23:24):
And get a gun legally, get a license to carry legally,
because when you have people knocking on your door and
taking you away without.
Speaker 9 (23:35):
Due process as a citizen, isn't that what the Second
Amendment was written for. Go back and read what the
Second Amendment says, and perhaps it will knock some sense
in the head in the heads of these people who
are saying, well, it's all great I don't believe they're
doing it without due process. They're asking people for papers,
They're not really beating people up. These people are doing
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things that are illegal. Nobody is illegal. It is a
misdemeanor to the border.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Now Here is Don Lemon back when he was on
CNN talking about the dangers, the fear, the anxiety of
being a public person because a crazy could shoot you.
Speaker 11 (24:17):
There's another fact that we need to face. Every single
one of us is just playing the odds at this point,
the odds that in a country of three hundred and
twenty five million souls, that we won't be the ones
who get hit by the next bullets that start flying.
We won't be the one that gets at that phone
call about someone you love. Who did your son, your daughter,
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your brother, your sister, your spouse, or your parent, even
a friend, anyone you know, the phone call that changes
your life. But with every deadly shooting in this country,
the odds.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Get worse and worse and worse.
Speaker 11 (24:57):
Are you really willing to keep playing those odds. Your
life is too precious for that. The lives of our
loved ones are too precious, The lives of the people
in our cities and towns are too precious. Have we
forgotten that life is a gift. It's a disgrace that
this is still happening. After Sandy Hook, Columbine, Virginia Tech,
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Emmanuel Am Church, Paulse nightclub shooting, Las Vegas. The list
goes on and on and on. This is who we
are right now. But is this really who we want
to be? A country where anybody at any time could
be shot to death.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I kind of goofed that audio. I forgot it. I
forgot exactly how it went. But he's talking about the
fear in America of people, you know, of being shot
after school shooting, you know, when they're trying to hype
up the Hey we got tamp this down everyone. People
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are scared. And then what's he doing now saying black
and brown people or brown people buy guns. And then
when ice shows up. First of all, brown people can't
if it's if my brown people. He's using that as
a euphemism for illegal aliens. First of all, illegal aliens
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are not all brown people. We had one of them
who was black, who was the superintendent in Iowa, of
the largest school district in the state of Iowa. And
I mean this case, my goodness, if we had time
to sit down and focus on just one case. We don't,
but that case, my goodness, the things he's gotten away with.
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And he's a black guy who's an illegal alien. So
now you're you're telling people arm yourself and fire on
federal agents who, by the way, are following the law.
Are following the law. Oh I almost forgot. Courtesy of
executive producer Chadakoni Nakanishi, we can reduce my friend's got
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Kutaj sent me a message unprompted. He sends me a
picture of Ted Dibiassi wearing a black leather jacket with
sparkles on him, and he wrote, Junkyard Dog was the
best man in Ted Dibiassi's wedding. I just thought you
should know. And now I can't stop thinking about that.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
A historic moment in the Middle East, as World Wars
signed a deal formalizing a ceasefire in Gossap.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
The historic day in Israel is that twenty remaining hostages
take him by him off two years ago, are making
their way home.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
And after so many years of unceasing war and analyst Angel,
today this guy's are calm, The guns are silent, the
sirens are still, and the sun rises on a holy
land that is finally at peace, a land.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
This is the most amazing thing is this is history
in the making. Who would have believed he could do this.
He's pulled it off, and the whole world is watching
and celebrating it. Big Departments has revoked the visas of
six people over accusations that they praised or celebrated the
assassination of Charlie.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
Kirk, marring them no one will welcome in the United States.
Speaker 10 (28:18):
Social media posts the State Department listed examples from six
people who had their visas revoked. They were from Argentina,
South Africa, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, and Germany.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Get them out, you know. I hope that Donald Trump
can inspire some other people to grow a set and
find a spine and continue when he's gone, because a
lot of people are doing what they're doing because Trump
is president, but they would never of themselves, Suisponte do
the things that they're doing now.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
Texas A and M fans and one drunk fan in particular,
after university police started posting their arrests on x it reads, Mackie.
Speaker 9 (28:53):
Park contacted subjects eating a sandwich with a water, jug
of whiskey bac WASZ point three Pret seven released to EA.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
This dude was really really dangerously drunk. Our time together
has come to an in drawn to a close. I
will remind you we do have bonus podcasts which we
post on the weekend. Every show that we do morning
three hours and evening two hours is podcasted, and so
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you can find those on wherever you get, wherever you
listen to your apps. Our website is Michael Berryshow dot com.
You can send me an email there. I do read
every single one of them. I do not respond to
every one of them. I don't have the time. I
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on Facebook, you'll see there. That's where I That's where
I spend more of my time engaging with you good folks.
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I hope you have a wonderful weekend. He's a gentleman.
Elvis has let for building. Thank you and good night
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Verry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel a good
one coming on. It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Bill as Sally is a name you should remember because
he is making waves and making a difference, and I
think I think he's going to be a superstar. Way
Rudy Giuliani was when he first came on the national
scene as a as a mafia prosecutor. Bill sale E
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ss a y l I. Here he is announcing that
California Democrats mishandled millions of federal tax dollars that were
meant for homeless housing. Before we play this, you will
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note that the areas where you will find the most
fraud and corruption and theft by Democrats and self dealing
is always in kind of the soft sciences. It's always
in after school programs or homeless housing programs, our free
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meals for poor families. They go in and so I'm
not for these programs at all in the first place,
but they will tell you that they are because they
help the people who need it most, all these poor people.
All right, let's buy that premise for a moment. If
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in fact, these programs help the poor people the most,
and that's why we allocate the taxpayer dollars to go there,
isn't it the case that if you steal from that fund,
you hurt the people who were most vulnerable and most
most damaged by all of this. According to their own logic,
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that would definitely be the case. So so isn't it
interesting that the place they choose to steal and just
watch you can see it in your local in your
local municipality, especially if you're in one of the fifty
largest cities, but it could be even smaller. You're going
to find scandals of money that comes up missing, and
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it's going to be in things like homeless housing, after
school programs, meal programs for poor families. It's always things
related to poor people.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
California state officials failed to provide meaningful oversight over the
individuals who received most of these funds, and they had
little to know answers to the public's demand for accountability. Well,
that accountability starts today. Today we are announcing significant developments
into our investigation. We're making public two criminal cases relating
(03:15):
to two separate real estate developers who were involved in
misappropriating millions of state funds intended to combat homelessness. This morning,
federal agents arrested Cody Holmes, a thirty one year old
Beverly Hills resident and the former CFO of Shangri Law Industries,
a Downtown, LA based developer of affordable housing, for defrauding
(03:40):
the Home Key program that is administered by the State
of California. The program awarded grant money, which included federal
tax dollars for specific projects to convert motels into housing
for the homeless and to operate the units.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
By April of.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Twenty twenty two, Shangri Law Industries, where Holmes was the CFO,
had co applied with multiple California cities to convert numerous
properties in California, including a location in Thousand Oaks. The
state asked for proof that the company had the financial
capacity to build all the projects. In response, Homes and
(04:18):
Shangra Law knowingly submitted fake bank statements which claimed to
show that developer had about one hundred and sixty million
dollars on deposit. Not only were the bank statements fake,
our investigation shows that Shangra Law and its affiliates had
nowhere near the amount of money they claimed they had
in the Fink Bank statements. The state agency ultimately paid
(04:43):
nearly twenty six million dollars directly to the developer for
the Thousand Oaks project. Even though the developer received all
the money from the state, the developer did not complete
the construction of the Thousand Oaks project. Instead, our investigation
showed that at least two point two million dollars was
(05:04):
diverted to pay mister Holmes is American Express Bill, which
includes purchases at luxury retailers.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Essentially, he stole the money. As I said, keep your
keep your ears perked. For the name Bill Asseie, US Attorney.
He is today a US attorney, but we have had
some ambitious US attorneys go on to bigger things in
(05:32):
politics when they're done. I don't really care where he goes.
I mean, if he's as good as guy as he
appears to be and a man of such action, I'd
love to see him continue in a life of service,
whatever that may be. At present, I think he's doing
a great job with the US Attorney's Office on the
West Coast in California, and I'd like to see him
stay there for a while. I'm just saying I see
(05:56):
a really rare and unique cut above level of talent
in Bill A. Sley, the US Attorney, and Trump is
very high on him, very very high.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Listening to the Michael Berry Show podcast, is Sexy Be Sexy.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Will marris an on bird He's always been this snarky
little liberal who sees himself as an intellectual, But like
many people, he kind of kind of stepped back over
how far the liberalism's going and decided, wait a second,
(06:40):
I got to start pointing some of this out. I
can't defend this. I think part of it is even
though he's not a practicing Jew, he is a Jew,
and I think he's still a Jewish. Identity can cause
some people to be quite aware of their own level
(07:01):
of exposure to bad people who will kill Jews. And
and most Jews have been taught this from a young age.
You know, remember the Holocaust, Remember what was happening, Remember
that it happened. And you know, look at what happened
at the programs in the Soviet Union, and it wasn't
just Germany. Jews were being treated badly in other places.
(07:23):
And so I think his self identity tells him, hey,
these liberals have changed and now they they're authoritarian. And
then you look at what's happening in New York with Mamdani.
They they are now openly embracing jew haters and and
(07:45):
we've seen how that how that goes. This is this
is a really really bad time for authoritarianism, socialism on
the rise in this country, and the cold cultural message
that they're using to appeal to some disparate groups. But
(08:05):
so Bill Maher has been talking about the number of
Christians that are being slaughtered by Muslims in Nigeria and
your first reaction is, I don't know about that, because
you literally don't know about that. Most people don't know.
You might, but most people won't know that. Well, when
(08:27):
you don't know something, there is the mistaken belief that
it's probably not true, on the faulty premise. If it was,
I would have heard of it before. That gives news
directors a massive amount of power, because news directors can
choose what to cover, and just as importantly, they can
(08:51):
choose what not to cover. Burying a story is just
as powerful as publishing one. So here is a story
about just that five hundred thousand Christians being killed last year,
and this individual I'm still not certain on his name.
I'll have that for you on Monday. But it's the
(09:13):
point that he makes that is at least worth giving consideration.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
To love the world and you want to see a
better world, your interest is not just free palace time.
I mean there are more people dining in Nigeria than
are dining in Palaest time.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I can't tell you that last he long.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Over five hundred thousand Christians were killed in Nigeria just
in one year, and nobody's protesting.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
The activits are not seeing anything for me. That'sip Christians
in the North of Nigeria.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Christians are being killed daily because the Islamic million times don't.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Want Christians to exist in the North of Nigeria.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
They want to see a world where there are no
Christians at all, and they want to contact Nier, not
just Nigeria, and they want to concur Africa. They want
to conquer Europe and they want to concur America. The
younger generation who want to live in it better world
must speak out.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Tod while we're on the subject of killing people. Jay Jones,
as we've talked about earlier this week, is the attorney
is a candidate for attorney general on the Democrat side
in Virginia, and he was texting with another Democrat who
he trusted about how he fantasized about murdering his opponent
(10:35):
in the race, his opponent's wife and children, and then
the children, and how great it would be that these
children will be murdered and he would have to suffer
from this. And then when he was asked by his
person he was he was texting with, he was his friend,
you don't you don't mean like this guy, do you
(10:57):
don't you know you can't mean this, And he went
back to, Yeah, they're awful people. They're awful people. The
idea of demonizing your opponent making them subhuman is a
tactic that has been used even inadvertently subconsciously throughout history.
Because most children are taught from an early age. Somewhat universally,
(11:22):
you're taught that you don't you don't hurt other people,
you don't bully other people, you don't bring harm to
them unless in the form of justice or self defense.
So it's hard to get people to openly want to
violate those rules of decorum and civilization that you're taught civility,
(11:43):
that you're taught from a young age because humans don't
do that to other humans. Now, you can do that
to a cow because you're going to eat him, or
a chicken because you're gonna eat him. You can ride
a horse in a way you know, you can right
them till they're so exhausted. It's dumb. It's a bad
use of your money, it's of your of your resource.
(12:06):
But you can get away with it. But you couldn't
do that with a human because we have certain rules
with human to human interaction and restrictions, and that's always
been the case. So what you have to do is
you have to make Republicans in this case into something
(12:26):
other than humans. And once you do that, once you
do that, then you have you have made it such
that that they're targets and that works out well well.
Terry Kilgore, a Republican Virginia state delegate, was talking to
Tucker Carlson and he said, look, Jay Jones, the Virginia
(12:47):
Attorney General. Those children he was talking he was fantasized
about murdering. Those are some random kids of a guy
he's running against. He knows those kids. He knows a
lot of things about those kids.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
The General Simley all the time. Everybody knew the Gilbert kids.
And Jay Jones would have known the Gilbert kids. That's
what's terrible about this whole situation. It wasn't like, Hey,
I want to kill a kid who's from another country.
You would know this kid, these kids because you're around
the General Assembly.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
That's horrifying. So Todd got got he got out. He's
no longer serving is a direct.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
No, he's no longer serving. He is now come with attorney. Assistant,
come with attorney in Page County. Talked to him this
past week just to check on him. And the bad
thing about it is now there has to be police
presents where his kids are. And that's what's because they
they still receive threads, and that's what's bad about this
(13:45):
whole ordeal.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
And Ron the King of Dean and this other guy,
Michael Barry.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
These are the kind of guys you're like a smacking ass.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
So it's rather late in the program to bring this up,
only because, to be completely honest, I forgot to cover
it earlier. But let's get to it now. JB. Pritzker
is the big fat guy who is the governor of Illinois,
and there's a lot about this guy Supposedly at his
(14:18):
house he had some toilets disassembled so that they wouldn't
show up on the tax rolls and that would lower
his appraisal. He does very, very squirrelly things, and you
know that seems to be in keeping with what every
other Democrat does, all while calling the rest of US criminals.
(14:43):
So last year he and his wife pocketed ten point
seven million dollars worth of taxable income. Okay, he's from
a rich family, the Pritzkers. New York Post reports, however,
that that includes one point four million dollars he won
from play, saying blackjack in Las Vegas, and that that's
(15:04):
what's on his tax return. So he wants us to
believe that, while actively the governor of Illinois, he goes
to Vegas and he's really really good at blackjack and
won one point four million dollars. No, a great line
(15:27):
of Akerman. I don't believe you, and I don't believe him.
Why does it matter, Michael, Well, this sure smacks to
me of money laundering. See for him to have that
kind of money, how does he have that kind of
money unaccounted for? With Hunter Biden, you wanted to pass
(15:53):
bribes to him, so he could kick it up to
Joe Biden. Well, how do people that need favors from
the government, or that want to a pardon from the president,
how do how those people just hand a hundred money
That's going to be weird. It's going to show up
in his bank account, not the number of millions we want.
You can't just give some money, you know, you can't
(16:14):
just give him a bag of cash. I mean, this
is going to have to be like we wire money
because it's going to be caught. And so we had
to find some reason that we would want to pay
a hunter Biden a million dollars legal fees. He doesn't
want to come and do the work, he doesn't want
to show up at board meetings, and we don't like
him too. He's really weird. He's got a lot of problems.
(16:37):
So so how do we do it? Oh, well, we
have him just slap a little paint or maybe somebody
else slaps a little paint on a canvas, and we say,
this is very rare, and we'll pay you a million bucks.
And he does, and the articles come out he's selling
for more than Picasso. Yeah, we believe it. Sure seems
completely reasonable. Well, we all know what's happening in that situation.
(16:58):
So here is a story of about JB. Pritzker claiming
the one point four million dollars in gambling income he
reported on his partially released tax returns came from a
single trip to Vegas where he got incredibly lucky. Oh okay,
Brian Williams, Now you're going to add to the story. Yeah, yeah,
I went out to oh Am My Life. I made
(17:21):
a lot of money on that one, and I just
I remember that there's a really good restaurant downstairs. I
had a really good breakfast. Oh wow, he must be
telling the truth. He says things that are designed to
build credibility and make us believe that he's telling us
the truth. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Sure, yeah, we believe you obviously. And I've explained this,
or at least we did in the statement. You know
that I went on vacation with my wife with some friends.
I was incredibly lucky. You have to be to end
up ahead, frankly, going through a casino anywhere. It was
in Las Vegas. And I like to play cards, and
(18:01):
so you know that I founded a charitable poker match
here in Chicago called the Chicago Poker challenge that raises millions,
has raised millions of dollars for.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
The Holocaust Museum here and particularly to stand.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Up for civil rights.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
That's much of what the Holocaust Museum does. And so anyway,
that's that's all I can say about it. I mean,
I had had fun doing it. I encourage people to
come to the state of Illinois and gamble in our
casinos here.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
We have some really lovely places to go. Jim reminded
me that what Pritzker is doing is exactly what was
described in Goodfellows. Their friends made me.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
We walked out with four hundred and twenty thousand dollars
without using a gun, and we did the right thing.
We gave Paulie his tribute. Indeed to be a good summer.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I'm Friday, but that is a lot of money for
a kid like you.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Right, anybody asks you where you got it?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
You got it all right. You got all this cash
that you receive illicitly, and you got to got to
be able to buy things with it, got to be
able to use it, move it around. It's it raises
red flags for walking around with one hundred thousand dollars
of cash on Monday and a different one on Tuesday.
(19:32):
So he brings to my attention the good Fellow story,
and now all I'm thinking is good grief. Maybe that
really is actually where he got the idea. Maybe he
watched this scene and this is where he got the idea.
Or maybe he has friends in the mafia and this
(19:59):
is used by lots of folks. There's a reason the
mafia got into the casinos. It is known to be
a way to wash money. And so in this case,
if our boy here, Pritzker is trying to wash a
lot of money. You've seen Ozart. You know how hard
(20:22):
they have to work to take illegal money in and
wash it and make it clean so that it can
be used. It's not easy. But you want us to
believe you went to Vegas and you walked away with
one point four million dollars of the house is money
in one weekend? Not a chance. We don't even a
(20:44):
little bit believe you on that. JB. Pritzker, not even
a little bit. Now, let's talk more about how the
left has lost their minds and that everything they say
they stand for is the exact opposite of what they
stand for. There is a podcast, I've never heard of
it that doesn't mean it's not a good podcast. I
just haven't heard of it called I've had it. And
(21:06):
the co host is a woman named Jennifer Welch on
MSNBC and CNN, And here she is talking about JD
Vance and that his wife is of Indian descent. So
if his wife is of Indian descent and his children
are half her and JD. Van still wants to enforce
(21:30):
our immigration laws, then he hates his family, doesn't stand
up for his family, and therefore he wouldn't stand up
for you. That's a real, real spacious argument. But that's
what they've been reduced to.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
He is married to a woman of Indian descent, he
has mixed race children. So to all of the MAGA
voters out there, if this man will not defend his
wife and will not defend his kids, do you think
he gives a crap about you or anything to.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Do with you.
Speaker 8 (22:03):
And here again, as Jennifer Welch, I'm a white woman
that has lived in a red state my entire life,
and I can tell you when I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Around white people, they test the racist water.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
They test it on people like you all all the time.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
And they'll try to say off.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Shore it was wonderful to have you, mister president of
the Michael Barry Show. So the left has gone from
trying to take all our guns to now saying we
got to get guns of our own because we have
(22:41):
to attack the left. They are openly calling for conflict.
It's what they're doing. And a guy like Don Lemon
is dangerous because he got kicked out of CNN. Imagine
that he gets kicked out of CNN. So now, like
Jesse Smolette, he's sort of this this desperate guy out
(23:02):
there and he has to say ridiculous things to be
talked about. So he does. And here's one example.
Speaker 9 (23:13):
Black people, brown people of all stripes, whether you're an
Indian American or a Mexican American and whoever you are,
go out in your plate where you live.
Speaker 10 (23:24):
And get a gun legally, get a license to carry legally,
because when you have people knocking on your door and
taking you away without.
Speaker 9 (23:35):
Due process as a citizen, isn't that what the Second
Amendment was written for. Go back and read what the
Second Amendment says, and perhaps it will knock some sense
in the head in the heads of these people who
are saying, well, it's all great I don't believe they're
doing it without due process. They're asking people for papers,
They're not really beating people up. These people are doing
(23:56):
things that are illegal. Nobody is illegal. It is a
misdemeanor to the border.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Now Here is Don Lemon back when he was on
CNN talking about the dangers, the fear, the anxiety of
being a public person because a crazy could shoot you.
Speaker 11 (24:17):
There's another fact that we need to face. Every single
one of us is just playing the odds at this point,
the odds that in a country of three hundred and
twenty five million souls, that we won't be the ones
who get hit by the next bullets that start flying.
We won't be the one that gets at that phone
call about someone you love. Who did your son, your daughter,
(24:40):
your brother, your sister, your spouse, or your parent, even
a friend, anyone you know, the phone call that changes
your life. But with every deadly shooting in this country,
the odds.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Get worse and worse and worse.
Speaker 11 (24:57):
Are you really willing to keep playing those odds. Your
life is too precious for that. The lives of our
loved ones are too precious, The lives of the people
in our cities and towns are too precious. Have we
forgotten that life is a gift. It's a disgrace that
this is still happening. After Sandy Hook, Columbine, Virginia Tech,
(25:18):
Emmanuel Am Church, Paulse nightclub shooting, Las Vegas. The list
goes on and on and on. This is who we
are right now. But is this really who we want
to be? A country where anybody at any time could
be shot to death.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I kind of goofed that audio. I forgot it. I
forgot exactly how it went. But he's talking about the
fear in America of people, you know, of being shot
after school shooting, you know, when they're trying to hype
up the Hey we got tamp this down everyone. People
(25:55):
are scared. And then what's he doing now saying black
and brown people or brown people buy guns. And then
when ice shows up. First of all, brown people can't
if it's if my brown people. He's using that as
a euphemism for illegal aliens. First of all, illegal aliens
(26:21):
are not all brown people. We had one of them
who was black, who was the superintendent in Iowa, of
the largest school district in the state of Iowa. And
I mean this case, my goodness, if we had time
to sit down and focus on just one case. We don't,
but that case, my goodness, the things he's gotten away with.
(26:41):
And he's a black guy who's an illegal alien. So
now you're you're telling people arm yourself and fire on
federal agents who, by the way, are following the law.
Are following the law. Oh I almost forgot. Courtesy of
executive producer Chadakoni Nakanishi, we can reduce my friend's got
(27:11):
Kutaj sent me a message unprompted. He sends me a
picture of Ted Dibiassi wearing a black leather jacket with
sparkles on him, and he wrote, Junkyard Dog was the
best man in Ted Dibiassi's wedding. I just thought you
should know. And now I can't stop thinking about that.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
A historic moment in the Middle East, as World Wars
signed a deal formalizing a ceasefire in Gossap.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
The historic day in Israel is that twenty remaining hostages
take him by him off two years ago, are making
their way home.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
And after so many years of unceasing war and analyst Angel,
today this guy's are calm, The guns are silent, the
sirens are still, and the sun rises on a holy
land that is finally at peace, a land.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
This is the most amazing thing is this is history
in the making. Who would have believed he could do this.
He's pulled it off, and the whole world is watching
and celebrating it. Big Departments has revoked the visas of
six people over accusations that they praised or celebrated the
assassination of Charlie.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
Kirk, marring them no one will welcome in the United States.
Speaker 10 (28:18):
Social media posts the State Department listed examples from six
people who had their visas revoked. They were from Argentina,
South Africa, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, and Germany.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Get them out, you know. I hope that Donald Trump
can inspire some other people to grow a set and
find a spine and continue when he's gone, because a
lot of people are doing what they're doing because Trump
is president, but they would never of themselves, Suisponte do
the things that they're doing now.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
Texas A and M fans and one drunk fan in particular,
after university police started posting their arrests on x it reads, Mackie.
Speaker 9 (28:53):
Park contacted subjects eating a sandwich with a water, jug
of whiskey bac WASZ point three Pret seven released to EA.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
This dude was really really dangerously drunk. Our time together
has come to an in drawn to a close. I
will remind you we do have bonus podcasts which we
post on the weekend. Every show that we do morning
three hours and evening two hours is podcasted, and so
(29:25):
you can find those on wherever you get, wherever you
listen to your apps. Our website is Michael Berryshow dot com.
You can send me an email there. I do read
every single one of them. I do not respond to
every one of them. I don't have the time. I
wish I did, I just don't. And you can buy
our show merch there. You can sign up for our
(29:47):
daily Blast, and you can find me on social media.
I'm not very active on Twitter. I have an Instagram page.
I'm not terribly active on but I do post a
fair amount on Facebook. So if you can find me
on Facebook, you'll see there. That's where I That's where
I spend more of my time engaging with you good folks.
(30:09):
I hope you have a wonderful weekend. He's a gentleman.
Elvis has let for building. Thank you and good night
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