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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 lawyer magazine fare and i suppose the most agonizing thing about this to me with the Catholic Church taking in more than 3000000000. 00 ok more than 3000000000. 00 is because they brought it on themselves with if they if theres another abuse scandal you know its never surprise you hear about it every day and i think theyve paid someone godly im almost 600 i mean the numbers are stacked 600000000. 00 and just in payoffs to people who have been victims of abuse and others and what we want the people running thats thats hundreds of 1000000. 00 so far just this year yes in 20 and 20 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 and 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 whatever he says listen you just need to go in for 20 years you need to make amends with god not you need to go to prison for what youve done you just need to make amends weve got i mean thats still the mentality and we pay them. 3000000000. 00 probably more right that we know of and thats the thats the scariest part of it is that thats all that we know of the reports say that the real number is likely much much higher than that but it is very important understand that they spent millions to get these billions and they are the ones the Catholic Churches lobbyists who made it to where they were eligible and other religious organizations in this country were eligible for these p. 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Loans you were supposed to not get him if you had more than 500 employees they created the exception for religious institutions they should not have gotten any of this they didnt need it you have some churches that got their hands on this money one of them particularly that just spent 70000000 on a new glass cathedral and they waste money this money is not going to be spent on helping the homeless or helping the poor or feeding the hungry this is for their own greed their own selfishness and their own corruption is what theyre using it for well when you go to italy and you see these monstrosity buildings that theyve built there in the vatican and you realize thats been paid for by 20. 00 here and 20. 00 or people all over the world its its really kind of a sad story i mean it all and honestly as you walk through those buildings there in the vatican and you see gold everywhere d and you know pictures a little male naked sheriffs everywhere i mean you know you go whats what is that theyre not connecting with that the rest of the American Public thinks this is wrong and i think that is this story gets out there on the think this is wrong what why are we giving this why are taxpayers paying for Church Business anyway you say yeah at a time when we have real Small Businesses that needed this money that are having to close their doors for good you know they were employing people in the community providing a good or a service to that community the real you know politicians always tell Small Businesses are the backbone of this country they let them die because they. Not influenced by these lobbyist gave billions to pay off Sexual Assault lawsuit. Retired military generals pleaded guilty to molesting his daughter throughout her child to face any consequences until 30 years after having you know the reason this story seems seems important so many levels but i mean here was a retired 2 Star Army General that made it through the system participated in the system for 30 years ok and they slapped him they didnt even slap him on the hand medivac they in military court he was given a free pass saying theres a 5 year statute of limitations on this because it for their right to this story kind of represents everything wrong with not just the military court system on this issue but with the federal court system on the issue of assault this mans daughter had been molested all through the eightys all through the i think their early 70 or late seventies as well all through her childhood and this man in the military 2 star general nobody ever suspected a thing but he would go home and he was an absolute monster an abuser to this young woman who is now 49 years old she brought the case and said listen i cannot keep silent anymore we need to do this as you said military court says no you cant im sorry but there was a 5 year statute of limitations you should have filed this lawsuit when you were over 10 years old or welding of unripe overwhelming of and the other thing that so probably his wife said his wife knew it happened well this wife knew it happened and you know the real zinger his wife is still with him yeah theyre still married and if you look at all you know most all the time on these abuse cases and all the time but id say the vast majority of you will have a wife that knows somethings going on but she has an inability to almost think for herself and say weve got to get out of here not for me but for the child but i suppose she found the status of being a 2 star generals wife so. Oh inviting that she stayed with this guy even though it was very clear had been molesting this child since she was 3 years old and you know so. To me the military this idea of a 5 year statute of limitations on this type of case in the military is ridiculous and said theres obviously you can go to non military court which theyve done in virginia but the very very idea that the military gives passed to this cat well and he he ended up i think spending only 18 months running prison he as soon as they actually sentenced him when he pleaded guilty and said ok yes i did it he was released from prison on parole or not parole but basically under supervision but allowed to go back to his home you know hes going to have this supervised release whatever it is they want to call it but essentially youre free youre free to a certain extent for years and years of abuse that this woman had to live with and still has to live with and now she gets to live with the added fact of knowing that theres rarely any justice for women in her situation you know wife wife is still with me and thats without phones so remarkable working americans are struggling to pay their bills during the pandemic but Congress Just opened up their checkbooks to give the military Industrial Complex another 740000000000. 00 and at the same time they did it the war pimps the war pigs i like to call them the they want to war all the time the liz cheney the dick cheney crowd who now has become a democrat crowd where you have democrats buying into this whole story we have to stay in afghanistan forever and why because the same democrats that voted the were not going to pull out of afghanistan follow the money on those democrats go ahead pick it up right we have this democrat controlled House Armed Services Committee Last week came up with a new budget for the military that they want to get passed 740000000000. 00. Years at a time when 31 percent of americans werent able to pay their mortgages this month 30 percent last month couldnt pay because were in a pandemic they keep telling us theres not enough relief funds we cant give you another stimulus check we cant keep increasing unemployment itll make you needy but were going to write a 740000000000. 00 blank check to the military Industrial Complex to the pentagon because when it comes to war when it comes to the military there is always money to be found when it comes to helping people you know sorry terry really lands the media the media is so much a part of the story its almost like we have a whole generation of people of these young journalists coming out of Journalism School i suppose well i dont know if they do they have Journalism School anymore but theyre coming out of Journalism School and you know theyve been raised on an entire generation of news that surrounds glee whats happening to the actors in glee who is who is Justin Bieber marrying today whos you hang around with so you have these jerks i call them journalists like they are journalists these are kids i promise you would not have made it through Journalism School 25 years ago and its their lack of their lack of being able to look at a case like this in say this is what we should be reporting the military has 740000000000. 00 that theyre given away that oh by the way is 15 times higher than the Russia Military its what half a dozen times higher than the Chinese Military theres nothing even close we cant even use the weapons we have we have a 1000 of everything and the military at one point was saying we got too much here but the democrats the democrats i love this they used to be you and i would talk about a story like this we talk about republicans now its the democrats the democrats have bought into this war forever. Or you know. Look were going to get out of germany were taken 10000. 00 troops out of germany which seems like a good idea were taking our troops out of afghanistan which seems like a good idea but the weapons industry they dont like it and now the democrats who make big money from them they dont like it either one no and as you pointed out a lot of it is because the media gets this money too you know these checks may not all go directly to the media some of them do by the way oh yeah pentagon does pay hollywood they Pay Television producers to make these promilitary seems but thats a story for another day but this is a good story by the way we need to do absolutely but this money goes to these defense contractors who then as weve talked about a 100 times turn that money to investment b. C. To c. N. N. And say were going to advertise products that your viewers can even purchase stuff but were buying your loyalty with this model laris missile ok so you have boeing Mcdonnell Douglas advertising missiles are you going to go up by a missile no the reason m s n a b c is covering the story the reason theyre doing the advertisement theyre getting a ton of money from the ad business c. N. N. Making a ton of money from the military complex thats why these idiots wont even cover a story as important as Glenn Greenwald but hes on their track yes hes going i think its the best coverage ive seen of this problem so you know we cant expect anything from the media we have to go other places to get stories like this dont we absolutely fair and cousins thank you for joining me thank you for coming up local officials are supposed to address the needs of their districts yet many elected members theyve been found guilty of using their political influence for sheer profit and thats making its way throughout the United States at a pretty good rate that more we come back. I. We go to work you straight old. Man fathers financial Survival Guide i dont buy a i have cars common features. The color of fire as less of a financial the future trucker watch kaiser. When i want to show fame the wrong one all holds just dont hold. Me to the world belief yet to shape our disdain for the conflict as a kid and in danger of an equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart. Just to look for common ground. Join me every thursday on the alec simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business im show business ill see you then. A wave of city hall Corruption Cases across the country exposed americas pay to play problem ortiz brazil joins me to talk about how politicians sell out taxpayers for personal gain no surprise there brazil you know weve seen thats an age old story but it seems to be getting worse youre based in los angeles where city officials have been charged with federal crimes what can you tell me about whats going on out there. Well l. A. City councilman jose was are has been charged with one count of conspiring to violate the racketeer influenced and corrupt Organization Act better known as rico for allegedly selling the city to several Real Estate Developers including the wealthy head of a Chinese Company seeking to build a 77. 00 story skyscraper downtown in exchange for approving or stalling large building projects we saw reportedly received more than one and a half 1000000. 00 in bribes and perks including Campaign Contributions lavish dinners and stacks of casino chips the city councilman has represented the 14th district covering East Los Angeles and downtown l. A. Since 2005 and has chaired the planning and Land Use Management Committee which he was forced to step down from in the wake of this investigation if convicted wiese are faces up to 20 years in federal prison you know to me this this is a broader involvement than just this one case for example when when you had the russians start spending money in the u. K. This started spreading money everywhere around the u. K. And you started seeing these types of corruption. Cases evolve youre now seeing studies where the Mexican Cartel is starting to spread out money through parts of california and you know if you take a look at whats happened in mexico with their influence with that money look these are politicians that gets sucked into that more and more were going to see this is a good example chinese came in they wanted to build d they you know they dont follow the whole need to follow our laws theyll spread money around where they want to spread money around and thats what were seeing a big big way it seems like in california right now were in the other l. A. Officials involved in this this case. Yeah well councilman ways are is accused by the f. B. I. Of being the mastermind mind behind this scheme at least 4 other people have agreed to plead guilty in connection with the case including former l. A. City council men Mitchell Englander who stepped down from the citys governing body during the investigation now englander has been accused of obstructing the inquiry accepting a paper cup filled with 10000. 00 in cash from a real estate business person taking thousands more in cash and of accepting as Court Services a lender also sat on the City Councils Planning Committee and served as a reserve officer with the l. A. P. D. He faces up to 5 years in prison so you can see how widespread this problem is. Yeah well its widespread i cant again youre seeing more and more stories where theyre drawing parallels and for example there are 3rd world countries where there is there is no Police Department thats not true of there is no politician thats not the judiciary is corrupt the media is corrupt thats what money does when it starts being spread around in a big way thats whats getting ready to happen in california with some of the cartel money being spread around and i got to tell you the same things happen in places like new jersey and atlanta in recent weeks similar city hall Corruption Cases have popped up in those places new jersey and atlanta how are politicians peddling influence in exchange for money whats their new game. Yes thats the end of june current and former Public Officials at opposite ends of the country have been charged in sweeping Corruption Cases exposing the willingness of politicians to sell the authority of their Public Office for personal game these cases in San Francisco atlanta and new jersey involved shady back door deals with envelopes paper bags and cups of money delivered in restaurants parking lots political fundraisers Campaign Headquarters and even in Hotel Bathrooms and its on both sides of the aisle you have republican and democratic Public Officials taking bribes and engaging in fraud Money Laundering tax evasion and more in exchange for granting contracts and jobs to those who pay to play these cases are very similar government contracts are supposed to go to the companies that do the best work for the lowest price since taxpayers are the ones footing the bill but there is not enough oversight and there are far too many loopholes that give way to this ramping corruption. Politics and corruption has long been a story in l. A. But i just think theres another aspect to it to where its almost reaching that level d where when we analyze the lack of law in the 3rd world country were kind of seen similarities right now here in the u. S. Thank you for joining me ok. Thanks frank. One of the few unanimous decisions by the house incident recent passage of the ms law here in florida its going to seek justice for survivors of child sex abuse for years to come legal journalist molly barrows is with me to talk about it tell us 1st of all who is done and why the call is done is low how does all fit together she spearheaded this stunning hedrick is from orlando and she said she was abused by her choir teacher 2 weeks after her 15th birthday and this was in the early 1970 s. She didnt tell anybody about it for 40 years and when she finally came forward she suspected that there were other victims of this teacher up to 5 of the victims and she couldnt do anything with her allegations or accusations because the statute of limitations had passed and then she started a petition and basically got 30000 signatures that got the attention of victims advocacy groups as well as as you saw the state legislature and they went ahead and move forward with bipartisan support and passed this law and a bill rather than the owners led them on yet similar to other statutes than passed that country and its just the logical solution to it but what does what is law what does this law do for survivors of sexual abuse but what gives them an option and a voice because it is such a common tragedy actually to happen in this country and sadly most of them never really even reported it all or when they do finally report it other states like florida until recently had statute of limitations that kept them from being able to come forward and what we do know also about predators have used children is that they continue to do it and if you have one child that contention reported or a person thats grown up and could report it you could be part of it preventing this person from abusing other children as well so this is going to give victims of voice an option when and if they are abused and are ready to come forward when this opened up in other states the Catholic Church got a new 4400 cases of sexual abuse because it got you know it empowered people say yeah. Im going to im going to go ahead and do something about it and the impact was startling so this is a great this is a big victory isnt it well it is a big victory itll be interesting though because the law only applies to often says that have been committed since july 1st when this new law went into effect so you know those kids that have been abused as minors up until then are still subject to the statute of limitations but from here on out its going to give victims and victim advocacy groups a lot more power you know theyre going to have some some some meat behind what they their threats the few other to be able to pursue charges against these predators and perhaps take them off the streets for good but theres still a long way to go and its just unbelievable as you know our own ken lambert is handle and Human Trafficking cases and it is just pervasive worldwide but the vast majority of children that are abused it happens before the age of 18 most of them are girls and it happens but that theyre being a molested or abused by someone that they know either an acquaintance or a Family Member that Human Trafficking cases that were cases that were working all over the country now its an eye opener because you start realizing that theres so much its so organized that you start seeing the internet sites that know exactly what theyre doing exactly that theyre part of trafficking the big hotels they know theyre part of the trafficking the airport if you go to Atlanta Airport now finally they were busted they understood exactly what was going when they saw people coming through traffic so now you hear the announcements if you suspect trafficking is taken place report something but this is i think these these Human Trafficking cases that were working are going to open up a whole a whole new consciousness of how this takes place its not just isolated abuse most of its not and what youre seeing is perpetuation of more cases of isolated abuse as well as the trafficking because it starts on an individual basis as. Wow a lot of these victims of Human Trafficking were groomed for it either by their current abuser or maybe by a previous cities or again somebody in their family just. You know exactly who is now saying ive seen the state pay her legal bell so thats why abstain victims if theyre potentially are more in the state of florida cant come forward but isnt that an example of how badly we drop the ball we take this animal predator epstein hes an animal predator theres no question hes got all the animal predator qualities of the outing and so the the judge has the right to put him away forever instead he does nothing to to abstain he literally lets him go to jail when he wants to go to jail for a period of you know several months and everybody around him got away with it everybody around him just walked away because of the way that we see political influence im sure was part of the story too you know theres part of the reason that she didnt have the right to do a lot of things she did to now was because of the political influence we just dont see the importance of whats happening here right in front of our eyes molly thank you for joining me ok thanks pat. Finally and some good news the generic drug cartel in america is beginning to face justice finally as the d. O. J. Has started to crack down on price gouging and collusion between these drug makers theyre all working together to inflate prices weve known that but finally were seeing the d. O. J. Actually do something about it last week the d. O. J. Filed charges against generic drug maker glynn Mark Pharmaceuticals for conspiring to fix drug prices and keep them artificially high for american patients for years reporters have been writing about the collusion and price fixing taken place between generic drug makers in america but the Justice Department has been slow to bring charges against these companies and we know why because its political influence its money that theyve spread. Around but now the public is hyper focused on the cost of prescription drugs its become an issue that cant be ignored anymore ringback by the department of justice or the white house or congress glenn mark isnt alone in their scheme to keep their prices high and they certainly arent going to be the only company that the d. O. J. Files charges against but if the d. O. J. Really wanted to do something to stop the process theyd be looking to name brand drugs in the big pharma giants whove been ripping off consumers for decades just because they can because they can get away with it because nobody goes to jail because they dont look like criminals they look like businessmen and we treat them differently thats often find us on twitter and facebook at facebook dot com slash r t americas lawyer you can watch all our t. American programs and direct t. V. 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Until our so much that is officially the mouse can rebound country per capita all Human History millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this Small Agricultural country Jordyn Wieber went on to another topic that even today kids in laos full victim to bombs dropped decades ago is the us making amends for the tragedy in laos what help do the people need in that little land on. Odd note no crowd. No shots no. Action felt odd. When i was struck no one. Points your thirst for action. This is boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss bridgeboro in washington coming up and aside legislation. And an executive order to hold china accountable for its oppressive actions against the people of hong kong the United States has its hong kong autonomy act and did trade privileges for the special Administrative Region straight ahead we analyze the move of chinas response and how the tensions between the 2 superpowers are spilling over on the world stage and coping 1000 cases continue to surge in the u. S. But how do the states stack up against the rest of the globe well take a look around the world but amid the surgeon