John & Ken Show Hour 1 (01/20)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | For a moment, honestly, this hurt the El Salvador Times so much that their two writers, Michael Finnegan and David Zanheiser, described Jose Wiesar this way in their story. |
| 0:11.0 | Wiesar's unexpected capitulation caps of brutal downfall for a man who was born into poverty at a Mexican ranch, grew up in Boyle Heights, and went on to earn a master's at Princeton |
| 0:22.4 | and a law degree at UCLA |
| 0:24.0 | before serving 15 years |
| 0:26.0 | on the L.A. City Council. |
| 0:29.1 | It was like a salute |
| 0:30.4 | within the fact that he's a crook. |
| 0:32.8 | He was such... |
| 0:33.7 | Raceteering and tax evasion |
| 0:35.3 | embezzled, |
| 0:35.9 | I'm not embezement corruption. |
| 0:37.1 | He took a million |
| 0:37.8 | and a half dollars in bribes. |
| 0:39.0 | He was such an immigrant success story, the American dream. |
| 0:43.6 | Yes. |
| 0:44.3 | And look at the education he had. |
| 0:46.7 | This man was someone we should have looked up to. |
| 0:48.8 | And unexpected, we've been following this story for some time with all of the cards |
| 0:52.9 | falling around him, even his own family members were testifying about the corruption. |
| 0:57.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.8 | He had to make a deal. |
| 0:59.5 | He was just acting like he was going to fight this and win. |
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