Guess Where The Billions Spent On Fixing Homelessness Are Going?!? w/ Keith McHenry

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🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

L.A.’s top homeless services official Va Lecia Adams Kellum engaged in major misconduct, including hiring unqualified friends into powerful positions, trying to destroy public records and behaving inappropriately at a conference, according to two whistleblower claim letters.

The letters were written by an attorney on behalf of two former L.A. Homeless Services Authority employees who alleged they were wrongfully fired for speaking up against wrongdoing by Adams Kellum.

Jimmy speaks with Food Not Bombs founder Keith McHenry about the persistent problem of homelessness in American cities and how institutionalized graft and self-dealing ensure that no solution will make a dent in the ongoing crisis.

Plus segments on the Biden administration doling out $93 billion to suspicious recipients after Kamala’s loss, CNN’s unhinged freakout over “Free Palestine” and Tim Dillon schooling a CNN host about the comedy climate today.

Also featuring Kurt Metzger and Stef Zamorano!

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0:00.0	Come see us live in Los Angeles, Buffalo, Toledo, Montreal, Ottawa, Glasgow,
0:07.6	Manchester, Belfast, Dublin, London, Liverpool, Birmingham.
0:12.8	Go to jimmie door.com for a link for tickets.
0:19.8	Establishment media sucks. All gets lightened, so good luck, bullshit we can't afford why he's fomenting this.
0:26.8	Oh, watch and see as a jackdoll, the medium speeds and jumps the medium and hits them head on.
0:34.7	It's the Chimmy Tor show.
0:42.7	There is a corrupt homeless industrial complex.
0:47.4	And so it's because whenever, because people want to help homeless people.
0:50.8	Like in I live in Los Angeles, whenever they put it on the ballot, hey, do you want to raise your taxes by half a penny a sales tax? And that money
0:55.3	will go to fix the homeless problem. They always vote yes. But that money never makes its way
1:00.8	to the homeless people. And James Lee came up, he's been uncovering, he's been doing a great job
1:05.7	uncovering this. It's turned into a scam that people are doing. And here he's going to tell you all about it.
1:12.2	I hope this woman enjoyed herself with their beautiful necklace, dress, photo shoot,
1:17.1	because she about to go to jail.
1:18.9	You don't know who that was.
1:19.9	Her name is Dr. Valicia Adams Kellam.
1:22.5	She's the former CEO of the LA Homeless Services Authority.
1:26.5	Yes, this is a person who supposedly administers
1:30.0	homeless services in California. She was recently forced to resign, though, after her mega
1:34.3	agency failed multiple audits. She says, I don't know where or how we spent billions of dollars.
1:40.8	Oh, trust me, we know. It's going right here.
1:45.0	This necklace is obscene.
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