Investigation Into Newsom's Former Chief Of Staff (11/14)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (11/14) - Katy Grimes comes on the show to talk about Gov. Newsom’s former chief of staff Dana Williamson being arrested on corruption charges & the feds asking her to wear a wire around Gov. Newsom. More on this possible 2nd federal investigation into Gov. Newsom. Jerry Brown's former Press Secretary Gil Duran talked about what it was like working with Dana Williamson. The man accused of killing an American Idol executive and her husband was deemed not mentally fit to stand trial.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. KFI AM-640. You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the I-Hart Radio app. We're on every day from one until 4 o'clock. And then after 4 o'clock, John Cobalt's show on Demand on the I-Hart app. And you get to listen to what you missed. same as the radio show. Welcome to the program, |
| 0:21.5 | and we're going to pick up now right where we left off yesterday with this stunning indictment |
| 0:27.8 | of Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff, Dana Williamson, and she is a piece of work by herself. |
| 0:34.3 | And we're getting to a lot more details about this woman, and it really has affected your personal lives. You may think this is inside baseball stuff. It's not. |
| 0:43.4 | Dana Williamson had a lot of power, and she was involved in a lot of issues that we've all |
| 0:49.5 | been fighting over the last few years. She was indicted 23 counts. So she's the former Newsom Chief of Staff, |
| 0:58.7 | the former Xavier Bacera Chief of Staff. Sean McCluskey also indicted. And you know, |
| 1:03.8 | Bissera used to be the Attorney General, used to be in the Biden administration. Well, |
| 1:08.2 | Williamson and McCluskey conspired with other people to steal $225,000. |
| 1:16.1 | It was a political account that wasn't being used that I guess nobody was watching. |
| 1:20.5 | And on top of that, Williamson also got a million-dollar COVID loan. |
| 1:26.1 | And she was blowing money on all kinds of stuff. |
| 1:28.8 | I mean, we're talking luxury trips, hotel stays, amusement park visits, |
| 1:34.2 | Chanel bags, Chanel earrings, fendi bags, apparently a lot of food from the looks of her. |
| 1:41.5 | We'll get into all those details. But here's the thing that hooked my interest, |
| 1:49.1 | and we're going to have Katie Grimes on from California globe.com in just seconds to talk about it. |
| 1:54.1 | In the New York Times and in the LA Times, they had this tantalizing detail that when she was |
| 1:59.7 | first approached by the feds, they wanted to know |
| 2:02.6 | if she had any information about a potential second investigation targeting Newsom. |
| 2:09.8 | And in fact, the Times printed a line from Williamson's attorney saying they wanted her to wear |
| 2:15.1 | a wire. |
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