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The John Kobylt Show

U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli On Homeless Fraud (10/16)

The John Kobylt Show

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4.3799 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (10/16) - Lou Penrose fills in for John. Michael Monks joins the show. Lou explains the only way forward for homeless. Also, there is now a Long Beach grocery law because shoplifting is at a high.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.8

KFI AM-640.

0:06.5

You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the I-Heart Radio app.

0:11.0

Lou Penrose sitting in for Cobalt this week.

0:13.3

John will be back next week.

0:14.8

Well, what a story.

0:16.3

U.S. Attorney Billy Assailing has announced an arrest and criminal charges in two separate cases misuse of public funds

0:24.9

this is a good example of the good guys getting the bad guys but the fact that so much public

0:33.2

money was open for theft and fraud through the state's project home key is truly,

0:40.8

truly concerning.

0:41.7

KFI's Michael Monks was there at the press conference.

0:46.1

So what do we know about these individuals and how hard did they have to try to steal

0:51.1

this homeless money?

0:52.5

Apparently, Lou, they didn't have to try quite as hard

0:55.4

as the U.S. Attorney's Office would like to see. In fact, that was noted. I'll have a clip for you

1:01.1

here momentarily from one of the investigators at the IRS who points out that the system is sort of

1:06.3

designed, unfortunately, to be preyed upon. But what we know so far is that a couple of guys

1:12.8

now face charges over allegedly misusing public funds for their own personal benefit. And

1:20.5

one of those guys is Cody Holmes. We learned about this guy last year because the development

1:25.2

company where he served as chief financial officer sued him

1:28.7

over the misappropriation of funds. But it doesn't look like that development company is

1:32.4

completely off the hook themselves. They're called Shangri Law Industries. Cody Holmes lives

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