A wave of city hall Corruption Cases that expose americas pay to play problem here in california Los Angeles City councilman jose was are has been charged with one count of conspiring to violate the racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act for allegedly selling the city to several Real Estate Developers including the wealthy head of a Chinese Company seeking to build a 77 story skyscraper downtown now in exchange for approving or stalling large building projects which are reportedly received more than one and a half 1000000. 00 in bribes including Campaign Contributions lavish dinners and even stacks of casino chips jesse many people think political corruption like this only happens in nonnative member countries which we refer to as the 3rd world but this right here is an example of perfect and good Old Fashioned homegrown corruption yes it is brigitta and i think there is something we need as the United States people need to understand. We are no longer exceptional in the Un
Today we discussed political corruption in several states across the country and a new partnership between iran and china sit tight the show starts now. The war. I am bridgie to santos for our top story today we look at a wave of city hall Corruption Cases that expose americas pay to play problem here in california Los Angeles City councilman jose was are has been charged with one count of conspiring to violate the racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act for allegedly selling the city to several Real Estate Developers including the wealthy head of a Chinese Company seeking to build a 77 story skyscraper downtown now in exchange for approving or stalling large building projects. Weezer reportedly received more than one and a half 1000000. 00 in bribes including Campaign Contributions lavish dinners and even stacks of casino chips jesse many people think political corruption like this only happens in nonnative member countries which we refer to as the 3rd world but this right
Happening tonio and this is america as well where your businesses were quick to line up to get their hands on the Small Business loans from the federal government but the data released last week shows that the entire fund just came a free money for corrupt organizations and for the Friends Family and politicians. Will tell you about the businesses the took advantage of the p. P. The funds and also the City Council Members and other officials across the country have been found guilty of accepting bribes to pad their own pockets later in the show the house and Senate Unanimously approved a bill that eliminates the statute of limitations for child Sexual Assault giving survivors or seeking justice dont go anywhere americas war starts right now. Many businesses connected to lawmakers to queued sums of money from the p. P. P. Fund set up by congress and so did the Catholic Church and theres plenty of corruption to go around and were going to talk about of get fair and cousins from the trial
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And the others and what we want people running thats thats hundreds of 1000000. 00 so far just this year yes didnt want to yes and so then you know once the pandemic hit churches had to close down and so the Catholic Church sent its lobbyists to washington d. C. Something that i didnt even know they had or that they needed but the Catholic Church puts their army of lobbyists millions of dollars worth since im to d. C. Before the 1st relief package gets passed and they said make sure we can get some of this money everybody knew lots of money was coming Catholic Church wanted it because they needed it as you said because they had to pay off all of these assault and continue to pay right so basically taxpayers gave them money to pay off their assault cases from these from these d bishops and such that are still in the business either still doing business what was a pope for pope francis says to to to whatever he says listen you just need to go in for 20 years you need to make amends with