New Solar Street Lights Program (03/25)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (03/25) - Former LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva comes on the show to talk about how the deputy gangs he was accused of protecting never existed. The city of LA is going to raise property taxes to support a solar program for street lights. More on the arsonist who is accused of starting the Lachman Fire.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.8 | KFI AM-640. |
| 0:06.6 | You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the I-Heart Radio app. |
| 0:10.3 | And we are going to talk now with Alex Viannaueva. |
| 0:13.9 | He wrote a piece for the California Post. |
| 0:16.7 | Quite stunning. |
| 0:17.4 | For years and years, |
| 0:21.1 | LA County supervisors and the media and the DA's office years ago, |
| 0:29.1 | the Attorney General's office years ago, |
| 0:30.9 | they kept insisting that there were sheriff's deputy gangs running amok and that maybe 1,500 deputies belonged in these deputy |
| 0:42.6 | gangs. And now the office of Inspector General in a report February 26th of this year |
| 0:51.8 | states plainly that there are none, zero. |
| 0:56.5 | There is no group that meets the legal definition of a law enforcement gang under California law. |
| 1:02.2 | The whole thing was a hoax primarily to smear Alex Vienueva, who is the sheriff at the time. And he lost a re-election bid. He's now |
| 1:15.6 | running for the office again. And we're going to talk with Alex Vianueva, former L.A. County |
| 1:22.1 | Sheriff and current candidate. Alex, how are you? |
| 1:26.2 | Not too bad, John. How are you doing? I am doing great. And I heard the charges that there were |
| 1:33.0 | so many gangs in the LA County Sheriff's Department that I assumed that there must have been |
| 1:40.3 | because the reports just kept coming up and coming up and from all different quarters |
| 1:45.6 | and now you tell me or you tell the world in this piece that you wrote for the post |
| 1:50.7 | uh there's apparently no such thing at all was this whole thing a hoax just to destroy you |
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