Best of the John & Ken Show Hour 2 (07/04)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Best of John & Ken. Bob Westbrooks comes on the show to talk about how much COVID-19 aid fraud was committed during the pandemic. Steve Gregory comes on the show to talk about SB2. Janice Celeste comes on the show to talk about the fentanyl crisis. Lulu Lemon fired employees after they went after shoplifters.
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| 0:00.0 | KFI AM 640. You're listening to the John and Ken Show on demand on the Iheart Radio app. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to the John and Ken show. We have another one of these reports out. The Associated Press has done a long story about fraud. |
| 0:17.6 | And in particular, a pandemic relief money that started in 2020 under President Trump and |
| 0:23.4 | continued into Joe Biden's administration. This new number, we're going to get into the |
| 0:28.5 | details of it because the headlines are talking about more than $200 billion from two major |
| 0:34.2 | pandemic relief programs. My guest is Bob Westbrooks, |
| 0:38.1 | a former executive director of the Federal Pandemic Response Accountability Committee. |
| 0:43.1 | It's a watchdog group. |
| 0:44.5 | And he also has a new book, Left Holding the Bag, |
| 0:48.0 | a watchdog's account of how Washington fumbled its COVID test. |
| 0:52.0 | Bob Westbrooks, welcome to the John and Ken show. |
| 0:55.0 | Hey, Ken. |
| 0:55.5 | Thank you for having me on. |
| 0:56.9 | Now, let's start with this, because it looks, it's confusing to me. |
| 1:00.5 | There were so many programs, especially when it came to COVID relief, that can we really |
| 1:05.6 | get a handle on the number? |
| 1:07.2 | And what is this more than 200 billion represent in fraud? |
| 1:11.7 | Well, yeah, there were a lot of programs. |
| 1:13.6 | There were about 420 different federal programs that distributed pandemic aid. |
| 1:19.8 | So the report that was out today is from the Small Business Administration Office of Inspector General. |
| 1:24.9 | They had oversight over one of the largest portfolios in the federal |
| 1:28.6 | government. A lot of people know about the paycheck protection program. And then there was a |
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