# Shengys Back On Trial

An episode of [The John Phillips Show](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/824357555), 26 Oct 2026, 41 min.

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This episode of the John Phillips Show is a must-listen for anyone concerned about the state of California. The conversation starts with a discussion about the state's dire situation, from rising crime rates to the homelessness crisis, and the need for real change. But it quickly takes a dark turn, delving into the world of corruption and deceit. The speaker shares a shocking story about a massive Medicare fraud scheme, where doctors and a chiropractor were arrested for billing millions of dollars for unnecessary procedures. The conversation also touches on the city of Los Angeles' proposed public bank, which has been met with skepticism due to concerns about taxpayer money being used for political influence. The speaker questions the city's ability to manage its finances, pointing out that it can't even fix streetlights, but is willing to spend $400,000 to study a public bank. The episode also covers the ongoing trial of former Oakland Mayor Shang-Yi Tao, who is accused of bribery and wire fraud. The speaker discusses the shocking evidence presented in court, including text messages and videos that appear to outline the corrupt deal between Tao and the Dong family. The conversation also touches on the city's plans to redevelop the Oakland Coliseum, which has been plagued by corruption and mismanagement. If you're concerned about the state of California and the corruption that seems to permeate every level of government, this episode is a must-listen. Join the conversation and hear the speaker's thoughts on the issues that matter most. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Something's not right here. Crime is up all over the state.
[0:05] Speaker 2: The homelessness in the city is out of control.
[0:08] Speaker 1: The economy is sick.
[0:09] Speaker 3: Taxes are high.
[0:11] Speaker 4: Housing is expensive and businesses are leaving. California needs fixing.
[0:17] Speaker 4: And John Phillips is just the man to lead the charge.
[0:20] Speaker 4: It's the Fix California Hour with John Phillips and Randy Wang.
[0:25] Speaker 1: It's the Fix California Hour on the John Phillips Show.
[0:28] Speaker 1: Johnny's on vacation. It's Randy Wang here. And you can
[0:32] Speaker 1: join us in the chat room at JohnnyDon'tLike.com. That's Johnny
[0:36] Speaker 1: with a Y. JohnnyDon'tLike.com where you can comment on the
[0:40] Speaker 1: news of the day. Chat with your fellow listeners. Make
[0:43] Speaker 1: fun of me. Make fun of each other. Do whatever
[0:46] Speaker 1: you'd like to. Make fun of Johnny because he's on vacation.
[0:49] Speaker 1: We're having a great time here until 3 o'clock every
[0:52] Speaker 1: single day at johnnydontlike.com. I have to stop pre-promoting guests.
[1:00] Speaker 1: I think I'm cursed. I usually don't do it. But
[1:04] Speaker 1: the last couple of days I do it and then
[1:06] Speaker 1: something happens. We're supposed to have Joey Tucci on the show.
[1:11] Speaker 1: But I also just saw that he was at a
[1:14] Speaker 1: puppy town hall with Steve Hilton in downtown LA just
[1:17] Speaker 1: a few minutes ago. So maybe he's busy. So if
[1:21] Speaker 1: he joins us, great. If he doesn't, we'll get him
[1:25] Speaker 1: another time. But I really like talking to that guy,
[1:29] Speaker 1: even though some of it's very hard to hear because
[1:31] Speaker 1: the things that he has witnessed and documented in Skid
[1:34] Speaker 1: Row is just, I mean, I use the term unacceptable
[1:38] Speaker 1: a lot on this show. But the kind of stuff
[1:40] Speaker 1: that we tolerate in the city of Los Angeles in
[1:43] Speaker 1: the name of equity or because people are experiencing poverty,
[1:47] Speaker 1: it is so insane to me. I don't care what
[1:52] Speaker 1: you're going through. If you torture a dog, you should
[1:55] Speaker 1: be in prison. It should be that simple. And for
[2:00] Speaker 1: the out-of-control animal shelter crisis that we have in Los Angeles...
[2:05] Speaker 1: The fact that we're not going after anybody who's illegally
[2:08] Speaker 1: breeding dogs shows you that nobody cares. And it's interesting.
[2:13] Speaker 1: I was going to ask Joey, too, about the fact
[2:15] Speaker 1: that he just put out a video where earlier he
[2:19] Speaker 1: said that he doesn't like his choices in Los Angeles,
[2:22] Speaker 1: but he was going to suck it up for vote
[2:23] Speaker 1: for Bass, even though he's been a disaster. He put
[2:26] Speaker 1: out a video today, said he's not going to do that.
[2:29] Speaker 1: He cannot in good conscience vote for Karen Bass. And
[2:33] Speaker 1: if your big issue is animal welfare, I'm not surprised
[2:38] Speaker 1: one bit because she has been a complete failure on
[2:42] Speaker 1: this pretends to address the issue, completely ignores it. She's
[2:47] Speaker 1: endorsed by Isabel Harado, who according to Joey has been
[2:51] Speaker 1: a even bigger disaster, does not care at all. Nobody
[2:56] Speaker 1: cares about the dogs on skid row. Nobody cares about
[2:59] Speaker 1: the dogs in that encampment underground in our Lita. Nobody
[3:03] Speaker 1: in elected office actually cares about animals. And maybe it's
[3:08] Speaker 1: wrong to say this, but I'm going to say it. Me,
[3:13] Speaker 1: as a dog lover, I'd rather my money go to
[3:16] Speaker 1: you taking care of the dogs than giving any more
[3:18] Speaker 1: money to the drug addicts. Because the dogs are innocent.
[3:22] Speaker 1: The drug addicts are not. I have some compassion for them.
[3:27] Speaker 1: I wish we would stop enabling their habits and put
[3:30] Speaker 1: them in a place where they can get clean, but
[3:32] Speaker 1: we don't do that. So I would take just a
[3:35] Speaker 1: small portion of the money that we're using to indefinitely
[3:38] Speaker 1: house people in motels, and I would use it to
[3:41] Speaker 1: stand up our pathetic animal shelter system. But if Joey
[3:47] Speaker 1: dials in, we'll get into all that. For now, we're
[3:51] Speaker 1: going to move on. There was a massive fraud bust
[3:55] Speaker 1: yesterday in Southern California. The Fed's announcing a huge Medi-Cal
[4:01] Speaker 1: scheme where a doctor and a chiropractor were performing unnecessary
[4:07] Speaker 1: surgery on victimized patients so they could bill Medicare for
[4:14] Speaker 1: millions and millions and millions of dollars. For more on this,
[4:20] Speaker 1: we go to Fox 11. in Los Angeles.
[4:23] Speaker 5: Zanna Chiropractor is among several health care professionals arrested and
[4:27] Speaker 5: charged in alleged health care fraud schemes. The Department of
[4:31] Speaker 5: Justice says collectively the schemes amount to two billion dollars
[4:35] Speaker 5: in losses. Fox 11's Rachel Aragon live in Tarzana with
[4:38] Speaker 5: a closer look at the alleged crimes.
[4:40] Speaker 1: Rachel.
[4:43] Speaker 3: Hey, Christine, yeah, we know right now several defendants, in fact,
[4:45] Speaker 3: are being accused of a variety of health care schemes,
[4:48] Speaker 3: including billing Medicare for unnecessary procedures. But right here in Tarzana,
[4:52] Speaker 3: we know one of those early morning raids happening here
[4:55] Speaker 3: for one of the defendants who's been accused of just that,
[4:57] Speaker 3: billing Medicare for procedures patients did not ask for.
[5:00] Speaker 1: Boy, this doctor billed so much fraudulent Medicare money they
[5:04] Speaker 1: could afford a home in the Tarzana Hills.
[5:08] Speaker 4: Some people may ask, you.
[5:09] Speaker 6: Know, is it necessary to go out and arrest a
[5:11] Speaker 6: chiropractor or a doctor?
[5:13] Speaker 7: The answer is yes.
[5:14] Speaker 6: They are just as much a criminal as a bank robber.
[5:17] Speaker 1: In fact, they're worse.
[5:18] Speaker 3: First Assistant US Attorney Bill Sandley is talking about this man,
[5:21] Speaker 3: 61 year old chiropractor Dr. Haney Malek. Malek arrested Thursday
[5:25] Speaker 3: morning in Tarzana for his alleged involvement in a $ 135
[5:29] Speaker 3: million Medicare fraud scheme. He and surgeon Dr. Hill to
[5:33] Speaker 3: be both accused of learning patients and subjecting them to
[5:36] Speaker 3: unnecessary invasive procedures across several LA based clinics.
[5:41] Speaker 1: There's always been this talk of you assume that if
[5:45] Speaker 1: you go to the dentist, And there are plenty of
[5:49] Speaker 1: reputable dentists out there. I love my dentist. But you
[5:53] Speaker 1: always are under the assumption, or I've had it once before,
[5:56] Speaker 1: I'd switch dentists because one dentist said I had to
[5:58] Speaker 1: have my wisdom teeth out and it was going to
[6:00] Speaker 1: be an expensive procedure and cost a lot of money
[6:03] Speaker 1: and bill my insurance. I got a second opinion and
[6:05] Speaker 1: he said, no, you don't. And my teeth are much
[6:08] Speaker 1: better now. But think of that on the much more
[6:12] Speaker 1: invasive scale of doctors claiming that you need surgery when
[6:16] Speaker 1: you don't because if they cut you open, they can
[6:20] Speaker 1: bill millions and millions of dollars. Look, I've said it
[6:24] Speaker 1: before and I'll say it again. Our healthcare system is
[6:28] Speaker 1: is terrible. And anyone who says they like our system
[6:33] Speaker 1: is full of it.
[6:34] Speaker 6: This is the worst type of healthcare fraud because you
[6:36] Speaker 6: have doctors who are supposed to.
[6:38] Speaker 3: Be doing no harm.
[6:39] Speaker 6: They are putting their financial interests against over the interest
[6:43] Speaker 6: of their patients.
[6:44] Speaker 3: Neighbors in Tarzana reacting to the fraud allegations.
[6:47] Speaker 1: Was not shocked at all because of all the Medicare
[6:51] Speaker 1: fraud that I'm hearing about right now.
[6:53] Speaker 3: It's really bad. Thursday's federal rate in Tarzana, part of
[6:57] Speaker 3: a larger takedown. The DOJ charging 15- Hey.
[7:00] Speaker 1: One of those was a hospice. We know about all
[7:02] Speaker 1: those kinds of frauds.
[7:03] Speaker 3: People for a variety of healthcare fraud schemes.
[7:05] Speaker 1: California takes fraud seriously. Oh yeah, this was the funniest
[7:09] Speaker 1: thing yesterday. So- The feds make this big bust, some
[7:15] Speaker 1: huge cases, including that chiropractor in Tarzana. And then our
[7:21] Speaker 1: attorney general, who is usually asleep at the wheel on
[7:24] Speaker 1: stuff like this, Babathi Banta, throws together a hastily put
[7:30] Speaker 1: together press conference, say, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, we're
[7:34] Speaker 1: going after fraud all the time. We just don't make
[7:38] Speaker 1: a big deal about it. And no, they're not. You
[7:43] Speaker 1: have to wonder how much of our costs, all the
[7:47] Speaker 1: money that we spend, all the money we put into
[7:49] Speaker 1: health care, whether it's the private plans, it's Medi-Cal, it's Medicare,
[7:53] Speaker 1: it's Medicaid, what have you. How much does all of
[7:55] Speaker 1: this really cost if you got rid of all the
[7:58] Speaker 1: fraud that is out there?
[8:01] Speaker 3: About an hour after the federal officials held their press conference,
[8:04] Speaker 3: California Attorney General Rob Bonta held a separate press conference
[8:07] Speaker 3: announcing results of a statewide Medi-Cal fraud sweep.
[8:11] Speaker 1: Notice how Bobathee and Bill Asseli are never in the
[8:14] Speaker 1: same room together, and Bobathee is always playing catch-up, saying, no,
[8:18] Speaker 1: we're doing our job, what are you talking about?
[8:21] Speaker 3: Bonta claiming that the state was not giving credit for
[8:23] Speaker 3: their involvement in the federal government's crackdown on Thursday.
[8:26] Speaker 1: While the White House spreads myths about rampant fraud... It's
[8:31] Speaker 1: not a myth. We literally have all these arrests and
[8:34] Speaker 1: the fraud is pretty rampant if doctors can make billions
[8:38] Speaker 1: of dollars off of it. But this is Bob Bonta. Oh,
[8:41] Speaker 1: there's people that are being arrested for voting illegally? Well,
[8:44] Speaker 1: that shows there's no proof of it. Oh, there's people
[8:46] Speaker 1: being arrested for fraud? Well, that shows that the fraud
[8:48] Speaker 1: is a myth. And look, Bob Bonta is not going
[8:52] Speaker 1: to go after fraud aggressively because Bob Bonta is compromised.
[8:56] Speaker 1: He is one of several very corrupt attorney generals. He
[9:04] Speaker 1: has been doing all kinds of self-dealing and pay for
[9:08] Speaker 1: play politics. And of course, he's not going to go
[9:12] Speaker 1: after the real problem here. We'll keep dispelling them, not
[9:16] Speaker 1: with words, but with work.
[9:18] Speaker 3: Asaley claimed the state should not be allowing this elect
[9:21] Speaker 3: for medical fraud in the first place.
[9:23] Speaker 1: California regulates doctors.
[9:26] Speaker 6: These doctors should never have been in practice this long.
[9:29] Speaker 1: Well, I got, I got some news for you. You
[9:32] Speaker 1: want to know how the medical board actually works? We've
[9:35] Speaker 1: done plenty of stories of corrupt crooked doctors, including that
[9:39] Speaker 1: woman that got convicted for the fake butt implants and
[9:43] Speaker 1: she still kept her medical license.
[9:48] Speaker 3: Now, we can tell you, though, federal officials, though, have
[9:50] Speaker 3: not disclosed number of patients that underwent those unnecessary procedures,
[9:53] Speaker 3: according to prosecutors. But they did tell us that some
[9:55] Speaker 3: are still in pain and underwent more than one of
[9:58] Speaker 3: those kind of procedures. Pretty Life in Tarzana tonight. I'm
[10:01] Speaker 3: Rachel Aragon. I'll send it back to you.
[10:04] Speaker 1: And these weren't just like simple procedures. We're talking about
[10:07] Speaker 1: like different kinds of heart procedures, like cutting people open
[10:11] Speaker 1: and doing all kinds of things that they didn't need
[10:13] Speaker 1: to do because they could bill Medicare for it or
[10:16] Speaker 1: they could bill Medi-Cal for it. Our healthcare system is garbage.
[10:22] Speaker 1: I don't know if any it's better anywhere else. Maybe
[10:24] Speaker 1: it's awful everywhere, but our system is terrible. People pay
[10:29] Speaker 1: through the nose for insurance and are afraid to use it.
[10:32] Speaker 1: The fraudsters are able to bill for millions and millions
[10:35] Speaker 1: and millions of dollars. If you make no money, you
[10:38] Speaker 1: have better coverage than people that are working for a living.
[10:42] Speaker 1: It is just an insane system that we have here.
[10:46] Speaker 1: And the fact that we don't crack down on the fraud,
[10:48] Speaker 1: the fact that we have, thanks to reports from Nick Shirley,
[10:52] Speaker 1: thanks to reports from CBS news investigates, the fact that
[10:56] Speaker 1: you have a section of van eyes on victory Boulevard
[11:02] Speaker 1: that houses 70 different hospice facilities, most of them with
[11:08] Speaker 1: non-existent phone numbers, not actually taking patients. You have nobody watching.
[11:14] Speaker 1: And you know what? For a long time, the feds
[11:16] Speaker 1: weren't paying attention as well. It was just rubber stamping
[11:19] Speaker 1: all this money going out the door. The state has
[11:22] Speaker 1: done this themselves as well. Whether you want to talk
[11:24] Speaker 1: about the fraud that's at Medi-Cal, you want to talk
[11:27] Speaker 1: about the rampant fraud that we saw during COVID when
[11:31] Speaker 1: EDD was given out ridiculous amounts of money to criminals
[11:35] Speaker 1: and not giving it to the people who legitimately needed it.
[11:39] Speaker 1: And that, of course, was something that was brought up
[11:42] Speaker 1: years before COVID in an audit that, hey, our system
[11:45] Speaker 1: is ripe for fraud and nobody cares. Nobody cares because
[11:50] Speaker 1: it's not their money. So who cares if it's just
[11:53] Speaker 1: all going out the door, even though this is one
[11:55] Speaker 1: of the reason that it gets more and more expensive
[11:59] Speaker 1: every single day. And I just love the idea of
[12:03] Speaker 1: Bob Bonta getting so offended that nobody thinks he's doing
[12:07] Speaker 1: his job. even though he'll still probably win for reelection,
[12:11] Speaker 1: that he has to put together his own press conference
[12:14] Speaker 1: to say, no, no, no, we're going after this all
[12:18] Speaker 1: the time. I just don't talk about it as much
[12:20] Speaker 1: as me suing the federal government a hundred times or
[12:24] Speaker 1: my pathetic attempt to derail the Skydance merger.
[12:27] Speaker 7: Bob Bonta.
[12:29] Speaker 1: Rob Bonta, you know, he, I didn't want to play it.
[12:34] Speaker 1: I really, really didn't because I've had enough of him
[12:37] Speaker 1: this week. But he sat down for a 10-minute interview
[12:40] Speaker 1: on KTLA. And for 10 minutes, he went there and
[12:46] Speaker 1: talked about how great he is at his job and
[12:48] Speaker 1: was asked, well, why didn't you run for governor? I
[12:51] Speaker 1: know why he didn't run for governor. In case you're
[12:53] Speaker 1: wondering why Bob Bonta didn't run for governor, he was
[12:57] Speaker 1: thinking about it. He was telling donors, hey, I'm running
[13:00] Speaker 1: for governor. He was lining everything up. And then Oakland
[13:05] Speaker 1: Mayor Sheng Tao got indicted. Well, at that point, she
[13:08] Speaker 1: was former Oakland mayor, Shang Tao and Bob Bonta spent
[13:14] Speaker 1: $ 500, 000 of his campaign money on high priced private attorneys
[13:19] Speaker 1: to help him while he was being deposed. First, he
[13:22] Speaker 1: lied about it and said that he hired those attorneys
[13:24] Speaker 1: to assist the feds in their investigation. Then he backed
[13:28] Speaker 1: away and said, no, it's because I was being deposed.
[13:32] Speaker 1: And he knew that that while there's a certain amount
[13:34] Speaker 1: of attention paid on you if you're running for statewide office,
[13:39] Speaker 1: it's nothing compared to what happens when you're running for governor,
[13:42] Speaker 1: especially going through a brutal primary. I mean, look how
[13:46] Speaker 1: long Eric Swalwell was able to operate doing all the
[13:49] Speaker 1: horrific things he had done to staffers and other women
[13:52] Speaker 1: for years and years and years as a sitting member
[13:55] Speaker 1: of Congress. He could have probably kept doing that for
[13:57] Speaker 1: another two decades, but he ran for governor. And then
[14:01] Speaker 1: all of a sudden, a lot more attention is being
[14:04] Speaker 1: paid to him. And then it all came out. The
[14:06] Speaker 1: things that people knew for years and years and years.
[14:09] Speaker 1: And while we do make a joke about it, there
[14:12] Speaker 1: really is something going on with Bob Bonta's hair. I mean,
[14:16] Speaker 1: I rewind it in the piece where I have Bonta
[14:18] Speaker 1: on the screen. Let me see where I have it.
[14:20] Speaker 1: Let me see where I have Bonta in here.
[14:23] Speaker 7: Yeah.
[14:24] Speaker 1: Look at Bonta's hair. Look how white it has gotten
[14:28] Speaker 1: in just the last two years. That is straight up guilt.
[14:33] Speaker 1: That is him knowing that at some point, maybe during
[14:36] Speaker 1: this five week trial in the city of Oakland, that
[14:40] Speaker 1: the other shoe was going to drop because don't forget.
[14:44] Speaker 1: The two people that are on trial next to Shang-Yi
[14:46] Speaker 1: and her boyfriend are David and Andy Dong, who are
[14:51] Speaker 1: the biggest benefactors of Bob Bonta. They've donated more money
[14:55] Speaker 1: to him than anybody else. And he, when he was
[14:58] Speaker 1: in the assembly, crafted legislation to specifically help the Dong family.
[15:04] Speaker 7: Bob Bonta.
[15:05] Speaker 1: It's Randy Wang on The John Phillips Show. It's The
[15:10] Speaker 1: John Phillips Show. Johnny's on vacation and he'll be back
[15:15] Speaker 1: on Monday. And we have such a busy couple of
[15:19] Speaker 1: weeks for you here because Johnny will be back on Monday.
[15:23] Speaker 1: There's going to be lots of updates of the Shangi
[15:25] Speaker 1: trial by then. And then Thursday night, we both fly
[15:29] Speaker 1: up to the Bay Area so we can be in
[15:34] Speaker 1: San Francisco for our first big live remote in the
[15:40] Speaker 1: Bay Area. We're going to Johnny Foley's Irish Pub in
[15:45] Speaker 1: Union Square next Friday from noon to three, a week
[15:50] Speaker 1: from today. And if you're in the Bay Area, we
[15:53] Speaker 1: really want to see you. Johnny Foley's easily accessible by BART, Muni.
[15:57] Speaker 1: You could take the ferry to the Embarcadero and then
[15:59] Speaker 1: take Muni down from there. You could take a Waymo.
[16:02] Speaker 1: We just, we would love to have you. It's going
[16:05] Speaker 1: to be an exciting time. We've got a lot of guests,
[16:07] Speaker 1: a lot of Bay Area guests who I'm excited because
[16:10] Speaker 1: I don't think I've met any of these people in
[16:12] Speaker 1: person before. But one person who's going to be there
[16:16] Speaker 1: that I've met in person many, many, many times is
[16:18] Speaker 1: our friend Susan Shelley from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association.
[16:23] Speaker 1: We're going to be spreading the word about Proposition 43.
[16:27] Speaker 1: You know it as the Local Taxpayer Protection Act. The
[16:31] Speaker 1: courts have made it a lot easier to raise your taxes.
[16:34] Speaker 1: It has led to devastating tax increases like Measure ULA
[16:38] Speaker 1: in the city of Los Angeles. And we are going
[16:42] Speaker 1: to get rid of those loopholes. Prop 43 makes it
[16:46] Speaker 1: harder to raise your taxes. A yes on 43 makes
[16:50] Speaker 1: it harder to raise your taxes. It's as simple as that. So...
[16:55] Speaker 1: We're very excited for y'all to come down and join us.
[16:59] Speaker 1: If you want to get a free yard sign, you
[17:01] Speaker 1: can get one in person. I also, I have a
[17:03] Speaker 1: stack of those Johnny don't like.com bumper stickers that I'm
[17:07] Speaker 1: going to bring to San Francisco. So you can get
[17:09] Speaker 1: one of those. One of our listeners made those for
[17:11] Speaker 1: us because we don't actually have a marketing department here
[17:15] Speaker 1: or a budget to do anything, but I'm very excited
[17:20] Speaker 1: to be down there. So Johnny Foley's Irish pub from
[17:23] Speaker 1: noon to three next Friday. We would love to see you.
[17:27] Speaker 1: And then we have a weekend. I'll be partying around
[17:29] Speaker 1: San Francisco. I already, I already have like all the
[17:33] Speaker 1: list of all the places we need to go eat
[17:34] Speaker 1: while we're there. Lovely's burgers in coal Valley. They also
[17:38] Speaker 1: have a location in Oakland, Tony's pizza in a Polo Donna.
[17:41] Speaker 1: I really like that. Otherwise brewing in North beach. That
[17:44] Speaker 1: place is really good. El Lopo is this great tapas
[17:48] Speaker 1: bar in knob Hill. That place is so much fun
[17:51] Speaker 1: and they have legit better modes. And I do love
[17:54] Speaker 1: me some for mood. I, I looked it up because
[17:56] Speaker 1: we went to Madrid over last winter and we were
[17:59] Speaker 1: on such a Vermouth kick that I was like, I
[18:02] Speaker 1: wonder if there are any Vermouth bars in San Francisco
[18:04] Speaker 1: and El Lopo. Fantastic one. Um, go into the ferry
[18:09] Speaker 1: building for sure. Because, There's a great little wine shop
[18:13] Speaker 1: where you can get a wine or a beer while
[18:15] Speaker 1: you're just sitting there in the Ferry Building. But there's
[18:17] Speaker 1: also a great bakery, a gluten-free bakery. My wife is gluten-free,
[18:21] Speaker 1: so we're excited about that. It is a great food city,
[18:26] Speaker 1: and we love being able to get around. Maybe it's
[18:27] Speaker 1: because I'm from Los Angeles, and L.A. is the antithesis
[18:32] Speaker 1: of a walkable city that I get so enchanted by
[18:37] Speaker 1: a walkable city. And a walkable city that's much safer.
[18:40] Speaker 1: I've got to tell you a true story. I was
[18:43] Speaker 1: at Pilates this morning and I had mentioned to my
[18:47] Speaker 1: Friday trainer, Daniela, that I wasn't going to be there
[18:49] Speaker 1: next Friday because I had to go to San Francisco.
[18:54] Speaker 1: And she said, San Francisco, is that safe? I heard
[18:57] Speaker 1: everyone's car gets broken into. And I had to tell
[19:01] Speaker 1: her at one point it was like that during the
[19:05] Speaker 1: London breed years. Yeah, it was definitely like that, but
[19:09] Speaker 1: it has greatly improved. Union Square specifically was like the
[19:13] Speaker 1: epicenter of all the car break-ins. They're way down. I
[19:16] Speaker 1: stayed in Union Square in May, and I was shocked
[19:20] Speaker 1: how clean it was. You know, the business improvement districts
[19:23] Speaker 1: down there, they literally hire people to just sweep and
[19:26] Speaker 1: pick up the trash, something that I see in other
[19:29] Speaker 1: cities around the world, like Madrid, like Dublin, like Amsterdam.
[19:34] Speaker 1: And they really, the city is clean, as long as
[19:38] Speaker 1: you don't go to the Tenderloin, the Mission, or SOMA.
[19:40] Speaker 1: The rest of the city looks great, and I think
[19:43] Speaker 1: it is a heck of a lot of fun. So
[19:46] Speaker 1: join us. And if you have, you're in the Southern
[19:48] Speaker 1: California area, it's cheap to fly up there. You can
[19:51] Speaker 1: even drive, go and joke, go see what San Francisco
[19:54] Speaker 1: is like. San Francisco to me is one of the
[19:57] Speaker 1: best food cities in the entire state of California and
[20:01] Speaker 1: explore it for yourself. It's also got great walking, great hiking.
[20:05] Speaker 1: You want to really challenge yourself. Try walking up Leavenworth.
[20:10] Speaker 1: Some of the steepest streets I've ever walked up my
[20:12] Speaker 1: entire life. We did it. And then we felt like
[20:16] Speaker 1: we earned a giant breakfast burrito and it was great.
[20:19] Speaker 1: We got an hour and a half to go. So
[20:20] Speaker 1: keep it right here. It's Randy Wang on the John
[20:23] Speaker 1: Phillips show. It's the John Phillips show. It's Randy Wang here.
[20:28] Speaker 1: And oh boy, have we got an exciting week and
[20:33] Speaker 1: a half ahead for you. Going to San Francisco next Friday.
[20:36] Speaker 1: Got our big, exciting election special a week from Tuesday.
[20:40] Speaker 1: We're going to be on KABC, KSFO, and KMJ from
[20:45] Speaker 1: 7 to 9 p.m. We'll also be doing it live
[20:48] Speaker 1: on video, johnnydontlike.com from 7 to at least 10 p.m.
[20:52] Speaker 1: That's right. We'll keep going. If the results get really interesting,
[20:56] Speaker 1: I will make everyone stay awake because I'll be doing
[20:58] Speaker 1: it from home, so it's not like I have to
[21:00] Speaker 1: go anywhere. So election night. Spend it with us at johnnydontlike.com.
[21:05] Speaker 1: And this weekend, if you haven't had a chance to
[21:07] Speaker 1: watch it yet, we highly recommend you check out our
[21:10] Speaker 1: latest episode of the Accountability Podcast, where John Phillips and
[21:14] Speaker 1: myself went down to the Tijuana River Valley.
[21:18] Speaker 7: You can smell it right here.
[21:20] Speaker 1: We smelled it. And we were lucky it hadn't rained
[21:24] Speaker 1: in a while because it would have smelled way worse.
[21:27] Speaker 1: I bet you it smells real bad this week. The
[21:32] Speaker 1: city of Los Angeles... likes to study things over and
[21:38] Speaker 1: over and over and over again. And one of the
[21:42] Speaker 1: things the city of Los Angeles wants to always study is,
[21:46] Speaker 1: should we have our own public bank? Because, you know,
[21:52] Speaker 1: banking is so out of reach for certain people. This
[21:56] Speaker 1: city should be the one to loan people money. Maybe
[21:59] Speaker 1: even help people get a mortgage at a lower rate.
[22:03] Speaker 1: Let's see... Why this is a terrible idea, here is
[22:08] Speaker 1: Fox 11.
[22:10] Speaker 5: Tonight, a debate over a proposed city-owned bank controversy. A
[22:14] Speaker 5: study on it would cost nearly half a million dollars
[22:17] Speaker 5: for the study.
[22:19] Speaker 1: Do you think the L.A. city-owned bank would be FDIC insured? No,
[22:23] Speaker 1: I don't, because it's definitely going belly up.
[22:26] Speaker 5: Bank passes, we could be the first U.S. city with
[22:29] Speaker 5: a public bank. Fox 11's Matthew Seedorf has more.
[22:33] Speaker 3: We can't even manage our own damn finances.
[22:37] Speaker 1: You're not wrong. Tracy park.
[22:40] Speaker 2: He did emotions at LA city hall, 11 eyes, three,
[22:43] Speaker 2: no council members approving $ 460, 000 to study whether the city
[22:48] Speaker 2: should open its own public bank.
[22:50] Speaker 1: And this is the crux of everything that's wrong with
[22:53] Speaker 1: the city of Los Angeles. Even just studying the idea,
[22:57] Speaker 1: which again, we've done before. I believe we've studied this
[23:00] Speaker 1: issue several times. We're going to spend, uh, of your
[23:04] Speaker 1: money of literally my money, because I live in the
[23:07] Speaker 1: city of Los Angeles. So my tax dollars go to
[23:09] Speaker 1: fund this. We're not even talking about creating a bank.
[23:14] Speaker 1: We're talking about spending $ 400, 000 to study creating a bank.
[23:22] Speaker 1: We spend so much money studying ideas, hiring consultants. You know,
[23:28] Speaker 1: there's a lot of talk right now about one of
[23:30] Speaker 1: the big divides in the LA mayor's race is that
[23:33] Speaker 1: Karen Bass got the city council to go through with
[23:36] Speaker 1: the overhaul of the LA Convention Center, and Nithya said
[23:39] Speaker 1: that's a waste of money. Well, one of the reasons
[23:43] Speaker 1: that certain members of the LA City Council, I believe
[23:45] Speaker 1: Tracy Park was the one to make this point, said, well,
[23:47] Speaker 1: we just should go ahead and put the shovel in
[23:49] Speaker 1: the ground, is because they've been talking about redoing the
[23:53] Speaker 1: convention center for over a decade. And in 10 years,
[23:56] Speaker 1: from 2016 to 2026, they had spent... $ 60 million on
[24:02] Speaker 1: consultants Even though not one shovel ever got in the
[24:06] Speaker 1: ground There is so much grifting at so many different
[24:10] Speaker 1: levels Tell me why it costs $ 400, 000 To do a
[24:16] Speaker 1: study On if having a public bank makes any sense
[24:21] Speaker 1: This is the insanity that we live with And these
[24:24] Speaker 1: are also the fiscal wizards That are constantly in budget
[24:27] Speaker 1: deficits That now want to be in charge of banking A.
[24:31] Speaker 8: Public bank has the potential to help finance affordable housing.
[24:34] Speaker 1: Isabel Jurado is quickly on track to be the worst
[24:37] Speaker 1: member of the L.A. City Council. I know for many
[24:40] Speaker 1: years we thought it was Eunice.
[24:42] Speaker 7: Yes!
[24:43] Speaker 1: Or we thought it was Hugo Soto Martinez.
[24:45] Speaker 7: You know, let's criminalize catalystic converters. Let's criminalize copper.
[24:49] Speaker 1: But all the stories that I've heard about her, whether
[24:51] Speaker 1: it's her non-reaction to what happened in Boyle Heights or
[24:56] Speaker 1: what happened in the daily destruction that we see in
[25:00] Speaker 1: Skid Row, She is uniquely terrible. And what does it
[25:04] Speaker 1: say when all the people who are worried about the
[25:07] Speaker 1: DSA have no issue with the fact that the most
[25:12] Speaker 1: destructive DSA people on the city council all have their
[25:17] Speaker 1: hands on Bass? They've all said yes to Bass, and
[25:21] Speaker 1: they all got something for it. Eunice's got needles and
[25:26] Speaker 1: pipes to get passed out at MacArthur Park. You had
[25:32] Speaker 1: Hugo Soto Martinez. What did he get for his endorsement
[25:35] Speaker 1: of Karen Bass? He doesn't have to enforce homeless encampment
[25:39] Speaker 1: ordinances anymore in his district. And Isabel Gerardo is now
[25:43] Speaker 1: in charge of the homelessness department, despite being the worst
[25:47] Speaker 1: representation of homelessness in the entire city because she's got
[25:51] Speaker 1: Skid Row.
[25:52] Speaker 8: Support small businesses and invest in infrastructure that serves communities
[25:56] Speaker 8: instead of private profit.
[25:58] Speaker 9: Who in their right mind would do their financial business
[26:02] Speaker 9: and banking with the bank of the city of LA.
[26:06] Speaker 1: Why didn't she run for maybe in 2030, she's going
[26:09] Speaker 1: to run for mayor. And Tracy park is doing this
[26:11] Speaker 1: thing that a lot of other people did where they're
[26:14] Speaker 1: not endorsing bass, but they're like, yeah, you should vote
[26:16] Speaker 1: for bass. But I really wish that And I understand it.
[26:21] Speaker 1: The odds are stacked against her, whether it's the unions
[26:24] Speaker 1: or the other special interests. But she really would be
[26:29] Speaker 1: a lone voice of common sense that would make a
[26:32] Speaker 1: much better mayor than what we have right now. Either option.
[26:37] Speaker 7: Absolutely no one.
[26:38] Speaker 2: Three years ago, city council member and now mayoral candidate
[26:41] Speaker 2: Nithya Raman pushed for the same study and it passed.
[26:44] Speaker 1: So again, explain this to me. Three years ago, the
[26:51] Speaker 1: LA City Council voted to study this issue. So why
[26:55] Speaker 1: is it that three years later, we are now voting
[26:58] Speaker 1: to spend even more money to study this issue? There
[27:02] Speaker 1: is a massive, massive corrupt world out there that all
[27:07] Speaker 1: it's about is doing different kinds of studies. Do you
[27:10] Speaker 1: know how many years we studied? And this is something
[27:13] Speaker 1: that I know way too much about. Going back to 2020,
[27:17] Speaker 1: Then City Councilman Meth Bonin got the City Council to
[27:21] Speaker 1: spend money to study if we should stop having law
[27:24] Speaker 1: enforcement do traffic stops. And they studied this idea for
[27:29] Speaker 1: five years, made all kinds of money studying it before
[27:34] Speaker 1: finally recommending that they implement it.
[27:37] Speaker 7: It's really exciting is that.
[27:40] Speaker 10: We have a potential to fill the gaps that a
[27:42] Speaker 10: reliance on commercial banking has left us.
[27:45] Speaker 1: With, but with city budget issues, the half, how hard
[27:48] Speaker 1: is it to get a bank account? I mean, I
[27:51] Speaker 1: guess if you have no money, Then they're going to
[27:53] Speaker 1: charge you all kinds of fees. I remember what it
[27:56] Speaker 1: was like being broke and having to deal with overdraft fees.
[27:59] Speaker 1: But is it really hard to get a bank account?
[28:02] Speaker 2: Million dollar funding was eventually swept back into reserves.
[28:07] Speaker 3: I just wanted to say, you know, that I am
[28:09] Speaker 3: in support of this study.
[28:10] Speaker 2: Now with L.A. still facing a projected $ 100 million budget gap,
[28:14] Speaker 2: council members approved the $ 460, 000 study again. We're spending $ 400, 000
[28:16] Speaker 2: of your money.
[28:23] Speaker 1: To study something we've already studied. And these people are
[28:27] Speaker 1: the financial ad wizards that would like to be in
[28:30] Speaker 1: charge of banking. What would this public bank look like?
[28:34] Speaker 11: A public bank is a financial institution owned by us,
[28:37] Speaker 11: the people, through the city of L.A. It holds public
[28:40] Speaker 11: revenues like taxes and fees. There are no shareholders. You
[28:44] Speaker 11: can't go to an ATM. You can't open a checking account.
[28:47] Speaker 1: Wait, so then how do you get cash out of
[28:50] Speaker 1: the L.A. public bank? I'm sorry, what is the point
[28:53] Speaker 1: of this? I'm very confused.
[28:57] Speaker 2: I don't think it's a good idea. Well, some banking
[29:00] Speaker 2: experts warn it comes with risk. The use of taxpayer money,
[29:05] Speaker 2: the potential for political influence.
[29:08] Speaker 9: I hope that you'll all join me in enthusiastically voting
[29:11] Speaker 9: yes on this thing.
[29:12] Speaker 1: Yes, with all the corrupt dealings that we know the L.A.
[29:15] Speaker 1: City Council has done for years and years and years...
[29:22] Speaker 1: Do we really trust that if the city now has
[29:25] Speaker 1: ways that they can loan money to different projects, give
[29:28] Speaker 1: money to this interest, give money to this interest, that
[29:30] Speaker 1: it's really going to all be on the up and up?
[29:33] Speaker 1: How many members of this council have been indicted by
[29:36] Speaker 1: the FBI? Thank you.
[29:36] Speaker 8: How?
[29:37] Speaker 2: We're going to borrow money from ourselves?
[29:59] Speaker 9: A million dollars for another consultant when we have streetlights
[30:03] Speaker 9: out across the city is ridiculous. Now, L.A.
[30:06] Speaker 2: 's mayor isn't part of city council votes, so we
[30:09] Speaker 2: reached out to her to see her opinion on this issue.
[30:12] Speaker 2: So far, we're still waiting to hear back. Matthew Cito reporting,
[30:15] Speaker 2: Fox 11 News.
[30:17] Speaker 1: So there you go. The city of L.A. doing what
[30:20] Speaker 1: they do best, wasting even more of your money to
[30:24] Speaker 1: study something that they have already studied. This is why
[30:31] Speaker 1: nothing works in the city of Los Angeles, why the
[30:34] Speaker 1: city is filthy. Again, Tracy Park put it in very
[30:38] Speaker 1: simple terms. We cannot fix streetlights, but we have $ 400, 000
[30:45] Speaker 1: to study this stupid idea. I've said it before. I'll
[30:49] Speaker 1: say it again. The only vote you can do is
[30:53] Speaker 1: to vote with your feet and stop supporting this insanity.
[30:58] Speaker 1: And that is what I would really like to do.
[31:01] Speaker 1: It's Randy Wang on The John Phillips Show. It's The
[31:04] Speaker 1: John Phillips Show. It's Randy Wang here. Johnny's back on Monday,
[31:09] Speaker 1: and you can join us and play around in the
[31:11] Speaker 1: chat room and react to the insanity that we deal
[31:14] Speaker 1: with every single day at johnnydontlike.com. That's Johnny with a Y, johnnydontlike.com.
[31:22] Speaker 1: You know, I think we need a little Sheng Tao update.
[31:27] Speaker 7: That's right.
[31:28] Speaker 1: I like that.
[31:29] Speaker 4: That was amazing.
[31:30] Speaker 1: Shang-Yi's trial has resumed, and an FBI agent had a
[31:38] Speaker 1: little more nuggets of knowledge of what was going on
[31:43] Speaker 1: with this crooked deal between Shang-Yi Tao and the Dong family.
[31:49] Speaker 10: Oakland bees!
[31:52] Speaker 1: For more on this, we go to NBC in the Bay.
[31:56] Speaker 10: Specific, detailed, and intentional. That may be the best way
[32:00] Speaker 10: to describe today's developments in the ongoing federal corruption trial
[32:04] Speaker 10: for former Oakland Mayor Shang Tao. Today, an FBI agent
[32:08] Speaker 10: is back on the stand laying out evidence prosecutors say
[32:11] Speaker 10: connects Tao and her co-defendants to a bribery and wire
[32:16] Speaker 10: fraud scheme. Tao, her longtime partner Andre Jones, and businessman
[32:21] Speaker 10: David and Andy Duong are accused in this case. NBC
[32:24] Speaker 10: Bay Area's Lena Jones has been inside the courtroom all day.
[32:29] Speaker 1: There is just a little part of me that wishes
[32:31] Speaker 1: I could go up to the Bay Area early so
[32:34] Speaker 1: Johnny and I could go hang out in that courtroom
[32:37] Speaker 1: and just get a glimpse of Shangi.
[32:40] Speaker 9: Slow and methodical, that's how the prosecution is approaching this case.
[32:45] Speaker 7: Today was day two of.
[32:47] Speaker 9: Testimony by FBI Special Agent Catherine Barclay. Prosecutors are outlining
[32:52] Speaker 9: digital and financial evidence they believe directly connects the dots
[32:56] Speaker 9: between the defendants and a fraud scheme.
[32:59] Speaker 7: Prosecutors say phone records.
[33:00] Speaker 9: Show Tao and Jones communicated with businessman Mario Juarez on
[33:05] Speaker 9: the same day Juarez requested negative campaign mailers targeting Tao's
[33:10] Speaker 9: mayoral opponent.
[33:11] Speaker 1: What shows you that this really is the dumb mafia
[33:15] Speaker 1: is that every single one of these idiotic schemes they
[33:18] Speaker 1: had in writing... It wasn't like they would go meet
[33:22] Speaker 1: somewhere and discuss this. They would text each other, here's
[33:26] Speaker 1: what we want, here's the crooked stuff that we're going
[33:29] Speaker 1: to get. And Andy happened to have a habit of
[33:32] Speaker 1: filming everything that was going on, including filming when Mario
[33:37] Speaker 1: Juarez is straight up admitting how they bribed the entire
[33:41] Speaker 1: city council to get that original contract for California Waste Solutions.
[33:46] Speaker 1: I want to make a movie about this whole thing
[33:48] Speaker 1: and I want to call it Dumb Mafia.
[33:50] Speaker 7: Lauren Taylor.
[33:52] Speaker 9: FBI Special Agent Catherine Barclay also testified that texts between
[33:55] Speaker 9: Juarez and another defendant, Andy Duong, included drafts of the
[34:00] Speaker 9: mailers and Juarez, confirming.
[34:02] Speaker 7: He bought the website called taylorfraud.com.
[34:06] Speaker 9: Special Agent Barclay also pointed to a financial trail showing
[34:10] Speaker 9: California Waste Solutions, which is owned by the Duong family,
[34:14] Speaker 9: paid Juarez $ 75, 000.
[34:20] Speaker 1: And don't forget, this whole case started because the Dongs
[34:26] Speaker 1: gave Mario Juarez $ 75, 000 for these racist mailers going after
[34:32] Speaker 1: Lauren Taylor. And Mario Juarez hired a print shop to
[34:38] Speaker 1: make those mailers. And then Mario Juarez stiffed the contractor
[34:45] Speaker 1: for $ 25, 000. He got $ 75, 000. He was supposed to give
[34:49] Speaker 1: the printer $ 25, 000, and he didn't. And it was the
[34:53] Speaker 1: printer that filed a complaint with the Oakland Ethics Commission
[34:59] Speaker 1: that eventually made its way to the attention of the
[35:03] Speaker 1: federal government. It all goes back to that. And now
[35:08] Speaker 1: Mario Juarez... after the Fed started sniffing around and the
[35:13] Speaker 1: Dongs allegedly mugged him and then stole his property that
[35:16] Speaker 1: was at Andy Dong's house and then allegedly, allegedly hired
[35:20] Speaker 1: a hitman named Hermolindo Ramos Ramos to have a shootout
[35:24] Speaker 1: with him, he's now flipped and he's the star witness.
[35:28] Speaker 1: But it all starts with Mario Juarez.
[35:31] Speaker 7: That's the amount linked to the mailer campaign.
[35:34] Speaker 9: Text messages also appear to outline what prosecutors say was
[35:37] Speaker 9: the broader deal.
[35:38] Speaker 7: Cash and help getting Tao elected.
[35:41] Speaker 9: In exchange for 300 modular housing units, a 10-year city
[35:45] Speaker 9: contract extension for California Waste Solutions.
[35:48] Speaker 1: And this is again why I think we need a
[35:51] Speaker 1: full-on audit of every single city and county in the
[35:55] Speaker 1: state for who gets these contracts. For tiny homes? Who
[36:00] Speaker 1: gets these contracts for homeless shelters? Who gets these contracts
[36:04] Speaker 1: for all these kinds of things that we waste money
[36:07] Speaker 1: to help the homeless? Because Oakland almost did this. San
[36:11] Speaker 1: Leandro almost did this. Where they were going to spend
[36:16] Speaker 1: $ 300, 000 a pop for shipping containers. It was going to
[36:21] Speaker 1: be an incredibly lucrative venture for this very corrupt family.
[36:28] Speaker 9: And influence over city department appointments. In one message, Juarez
[36:32] Speaker 9: describes those terms to Andy Duong, who responds that nothing
[36:35] Speaker 9: is missing.
[36:36] Speaker 7: In another message.
[36:37] Speaker 1: They literally are texting contracts to each other of all
[36:40] Speaker 1: the things that they're going to eventually get indicted for.
[36:44] Speaker 7: Andy tells Juarez.
[36:45] Speaker 9: ain't nothing free or front because we did all that
[36:48] Speaker 9: to help her win. Prosecutors say digital data from Andy
[36:52] Speaker 9: Duong's phone include pictures and videos showing meetings with Tao
[36:56] Speaker 9: and the Duongs, a speech by Mario Juarez celebrating the
[37:00] Speaker 9: alleged deal.
[37:02] Speaker 1: How dumb do you have to be to videotape the
[37:07] Speaker 1: person saying all the things that you're doing criminally? I mean,
[37:12] Speaker 1: the FBI had a case here. But I'm sure before
[37:15] Speaker 1: they confiscated Andy Dong's phone, it was mostly circumstantial. There
[37:21] Speaker 1: is just a treasure trove of evidence on that phone,
[37:24] Speaker 1: including all the stuff that they're not admitting into the trial,
[37:26] Speaker 1: which is most of the blackmail that Andy Dong was
[37:30] Speaker 1: doing to other Bay Area politicians at the Dong family's
[37:34] Speaker 1: karaoke bar in Oakland.
[37:36] Speaker 9: And photos of that alleged agreement. Tao Jones and the
[37:40] Speaker 9: Duongs have pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, bribery, and wire
[37:44] Speaker 9: fraud charges. Prosecutors are still questioning Special Agent Barclay. Defense
[37:49] Speaker 9: is expected to be able to cross-examine the FBI agent tomorrow.
[37:54] Speaker 9: In Oakland, Valina Jones, NBC Bay Area News.
[37:57] Speaker 1: Meanwhile, in the city of Oakland, there is always the
[38:01] Speaker 1: question of, hey, what are we ever going to do
[38:04] Speaker 1: with the Coliseum?
[38:05] Speaker 4: You know.
[38:06] Speaker 1: The area that lost the Warriors, the area that lost
[38:11] Speaker 1: the Raiders, and the area that lost the A's.
[38:14] Speaker 9: And we still got our Oakland A's, baby.
[38:17] Speaker 1: And don't forget that before she was recalled and then indicted,
[38:20] Speaker 1: Sheng Tao was instrumental in this deal to sell the
[38:24] Speaker 1: Coliseum from the city to a company that had no money. Well...
[38:30] Speaker 1: There's still talk of what they're going to do to
[38:32] Speaker 1: the Coliseum. Here is Kron 4.
[38:35] Speaker 6: The venture to redevelop Oakland's Coliseum property say they're on
[38:39] Speaker 6: track to get the deal done before year's end.
[38:42] Speaker 5: All right, our Kron 4's Dan Kerbin spoke with them
[38:44] Speaker 5: this afternoon.
[38:45] Speaker 1: Wasn't that deal supposed to be done in 2024?
[38:47] Speaker 5: Afternoon and brings us the story.
[38:50] Speaker 1: Here's what we expect to do in Oakland.
[38:54] Speaker 8: Create a world class venue for people that want to
[39:00] Speaker 8: come and partake in the wonderful things that are available
[39:04] Speaker 8: in this city.
[39:06] Speaker 1: With what team? Oakland doesn't have a baseball team. Oakland
[39:11] Speaker 1: doesn't have a basketball team. They don't have a WNBA team.
[39:14] Speaker 1: They don't have a football team and their soccer team
[39:17] Speaker 1: just left. So who's playing there? Are you going to
[39:21] Speaker 1: put the Oakland Bees there?
[39:26] Speaker 6: This is loop capital CEO, Jim Reynolds speaking Thursday before
[39:30] Speaker 6: the Oakland African-American chamber of commerce about his vision for
[39:34] Speaker 6: the Oakland Coliseum complex.
[39:36] Speaker 8: We're all committed to getting this done by 1231. And so,
[39:41] Speaker 8: and as we sit here today, the pieces are in
[39:43] Speaker 8: place to actually get us there.
[39:44] Speaker 6: Reynolds spoke to Kron 4 along with Ray Bobbitt.
[39:47] Speaker 1: Oh, there you go. That's the guy, A-A-S-E-G, the one
[39:50] Speaker 1: that Sheng Tao would always talk like she was working
[39:53] Speaker 1: for him because I think her original idea was that
[39:56] Speaker 1: after she got recalled, she would go work for him.
[39:59] Speaker 1: This was the guy that was going to buy the
[40:01] Speaker 1: Coliseum but didn't actually have any money. And after they
[40:05] Speaker 1: signed the contract, said, oh, we don't have any money
[40:07] Speaker 1: to even pay you up front.
[40:09] Speaker 6: Bill Duffy, two members of the African-American Sports and Entertainment Group.
[40:14] Speaker 1: We're definitely in position to take on the financial responsibility
[40:20] Speaker 1: of the site. I'm telling you right now, when this
[40:24] Speaker 1: FBI story is all done with the corruption scandal between
[40:27] Speaker 1: Shang and the Dongs, Something tells me she's going to
[40:30] Speaker 1: get indicted again for all of this corrupt dealings that's
[40:33] Speaker 1: been going on for years and years and years with
[40:35] Speaker 1: the Oakland Coliseum. Hey, we got one more hour to go.
[40:38] Speaker 1: It's Randy Wang on The John Phillips Show.

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