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on the IHeart app. We open with the latest chapter in this bewildering government response to the fire

the palisades uh karen bass just uh just astounds me every day with with bad decisions

and and just strange situations and the latest is is the company that she hired ha Haggerty Consulting, out of Illinois, to take over the recovery, has a lot of questionable characters have worked for it in recent years.

And this is what everybody worries about is that with all the federal money coming in, you know, billions and billions of dollars, it's in real danger of getting siphoned off.

I mean, just look at the history in California.

It turns out two guys named Walter Melnick and Mark O'Mara, they were accused of uh... basically stealing money

from new york city's relief funds for hurricane sandy a super storm sandy if you

remember some years ago and uh...

joel pollock

with brightbart dot com had the story and we're gonna talk to him now joel how are

you i'm great how are you

i'm doing all right uh how are you doing because i you mentioned last time you lost your house

and oh well you didn't lose your house did you uh just got badly damaged well we don't know the

extent of the damage i mean if you look at it from the outside it looks pretty good but

the fence burned down and the back wall is charred. There may be some structural damage due to the fence burning down, and there's definitely smoke damage. But the roof did okay. And we feel lucky. We have our house still standing. It's one of the only ones in

Marquez Knowles, which almost entirely burned down.

Yeah, yeah. It's on my mind. I was just talking with a close friend last night for about

a half an hour, and he and his family lost everything, I mean, in every single bit that they owned.

Haggerty Consulting, what is this?

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