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The John Kobylt Show

Best of the John & Ken Show Hour 1 (12/30)

The John Kobylt Show

Premiere Networks

News

4.3800 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Best of John & Ken. Irene Lee comes on the show to talk about when she was attacked. A rep from the Kevin De Leon Recall comes on the show. Sam Quinones comes on the show to talk about the fentanyl crisis.

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0:00.0

All right, we have a chance now to talk to a woman by the name of Irene Lee.

0:03.6

She's agreed to come on our show and talk about what happened to her in August of 2020.

0:08.5

She was attacked by the same man that attacked the Olympian volleyball player and model Kim Glass.

0:15.7

Kim got a lot of media attention because she went very public with the attack.

0:20.4

Apparently, a construction bolt was hurled at her.

0:25.0

And if you've seen the video, she got some real injuries to her face. Almost blinded her. Yep.

0:31.0

51-year-old Simeon Tasfamarian is the person that did this. and we've come to find out since this attack happened.

0:39.6

He's done this to numerous other women, including our next guest.

0:43.5

In 2018, he chased down two women with a golf club and a hammer.

0:47.9

In January 2020, he bleated guilty to striking a 19-year-old with a metal pole.

0:54.5

And even after that big, even after multiple incidents, he was only given probation.

1:01.5

He did go to jail for attacking our guest, Irene Lee, who at the time was an LA County

1:06.2

Deputy DA.

1:07.1

She now works for the LA County Council.

1:09.5

Let's get her on the show and talk about her ordeal.

1:12.7

And she's speaking out because this guy should not be in the streets, obviously. Irene, welcome.

1:18.8

Hi, thanks for having me. First of all, I just want to say that I'm here in my personal capacity.

1:24.3

I don't represent the opinions of my current office or any entity that I worked for

1:28.8

in the past. All right. Understood. So it was August of 2020 that you were attacked. Can you tell people

1:34.6

how it went down? Sure. I was walking to Starbucks in Little Tokyo by first in Los Angeles,

1:41.7

and that's one of the Starbucks that's being closed down

1:44.3

that I'm sure that everyone knows about. Oh, yeah. I was, it was a weekday. I believe it was a

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