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john cobelts show on demand on the i heart app um i want to talk to you about all the fraudsters

that are now already here in the los angeles area we're going to try to get a hold of the billions and

billions of state and federal dollars that are going to be spent to try to rebuild

Pacific Pacific Palisades and Altadena after the fires.

The LA Daily News, the headline was, expect Los Angeles's multi-billion dollar fire recovery to bring fraud, abuse, and more misfortune.

The amount of money that is blown on criminals by the government in these circumstances is truly astonishing.

The GAO, which is the U.S. Government Accountability Office in Washington, D.C., in July of

2023, they analyzed how much money the federal government had paid out in emergency assistance in the last 20 years.

So from 2003, the U.S. government paid $2.4 trillion in fraudulent payments. 2.4 trillion. You know, when you hear Elon Musk say he wants

to squeeze $2 trillion out of the budget. How are you going to do that?

Here's a great start.

These are criminals very often from foreign countries.

Like I said, 85% of the $50 billion stolen by criminals in the COVID unemployment scandal from 2020,

85% were paid to people living out of the United States.

And I imagine I've read stories.

It's like people around the world find the U.S., and especially

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