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You Won’t BELIEVE What the FBI Just Found on Gavin Newsom!!!
Dr. Steve Turley
If you thought the corruption in Minneapolis was bad, wait until you see what the FBI is finding in the state of California with their own governor's fingerprints all over it. $24 billion squandered, wasted, and no one seems to know where all the money went. Federal investigators want answers, most especially from the governor himself. Here's what they found, and it's worse than you think.
Hey gang, it's me, Dr. Steve, your patron professor here to help you make sense of the madness as the far left desperately tries to stop the unstoppable rise of a new conservative age that you are making happen all over the world. So if you want a front row seat on how you're changing the world in ways you never even imagined, you know what to do. Make sure to smack that bell and subscribe button. California is home to 187,000 homeless people.
That's 30% of America's homeless population, despite being just 10% of the country. Half of America's unsheltered homeless sleep on California streets. Since 2013, homelessness in California has exploded by 53%. The out of control homeless population has been such a problem that Gavin Newsom,
starting in 2008, repeatedly pledged to solve the homelessness problem once and for all.
What we call a 10-year plan to end chronic homeless in San Francisco. How are you going to solve homelessness? What are you going to do as a new mayor? And I say, well, what are you going to do? Focus on a housing first model, direct access to housing. Shelter, solve sleep, housing with wraparound and support services solve homelessness.
Homelessness absolutely can be solved. Laid out a detailed homeless strategy. There's been no intentionality on homelessness in this state for decades. It's not been a focus. I don't think we can solve homelessness. I know we can solve homelessness.
We will reduce street homelessness quickly and humanely through emergency action. The highest investment the state's ever made is $1 billion on homelessness. We are poised to pass a budget in the next few hours that will provide $12 billion of investment. I can literally quantify 58,000 people that we got off the streets last year and none of you would believe it. The state has not made progress in the last two decades as it relates to homelessness.
Why? We're not interested in funding failure. We're not interested in failing more efficiently when it comes to the issue of homelessness and the crisis on the street.
So as you can see from that rather mocking montage, California's homelessness is a mess precisely because their politics is a mess. And it's worse than you can imagine. The California State Auditor dropped a bombshell back in 2024. The state spent $24 billion on homelessness programs,
but they stopped tracking where the money went in 2021. They literally have no idea where the money went. No accountability measures, no tracking system, no way to measure if any of it actually worked. The California Interagency Council on Homelessness, the agency responsible for coordinating all these programs,
they simply ceased data collection and all key initiatives that the money was supposed to go to. There's a rather simple translation in all of this. $24 billion in California taxpayer money disappeared into a black hole.
And to add insult to injury, the state government in Sacramento has no idea if it helped a single homeless person But we are getting some sense of where at least some of the money went and it ain't good get this Los Angeles spent over $800,000 per 800 grand for a single homeless housing unit.
If you don't know, a single homeless housing unit houses one person. It's an individual studio or a one bedroom apartment designed for single occupancy and permanent supportive housing developments.
This isn't a house, right? How much house can you buy where you are for 800,000? I bet it'd be pretty sweet. You could buy a lot of house in many parts of America for 800 grand. But in LA, that's what it costs to build a studio apartment to house a single homeless person. And again, to add insult to injury, the homeless population still went up.
It didn't solve anything. Now there was a measure, Proposition HHH, which promised voters 10,000 homeless housing units. Five years later, fewer than 2,000 homeless housing units. Five years later, fewer than 2000 units were completed. The average cost per unit across California skyrocketed from an estimated 375,000 to nearly 600,000, nearly double. One project in pre-development hit $837,000 per unit.
But the real story isn't just the price tag, it's where the money actually went. Former LA City Councilman Jose Huizar is now serving 13 years in federal prison for running a massive pay-to-play corruption scheme. FBI agents found $200,000 in bribery money stuffed in a Johnny Walker blue label whiskey box. Guizar admitted to accepting $1.5 million in cash, casino chips, prostitutes, private jets,
and luxury hotel stays from real estate developers in exchange for pushing their projects through City Hall. His longtime assistant, George Esparza, delivered hundreds of thousands of dollars in developer bribe money tucked away in liquor boxes to Wezar's Boyle Heights home. Another LA official, former Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan, got 12 years in
prison for conspiracy, wire fraud, bribery, and lying to federal investigators. He abused his public office to deepen corruption for his own business interests. If Minneapolis was the pandemic industrial complex, California has become the homeless industrial complex. The money flows from the state to counties, from counties to cities, from cities to these NGOs and nonprofits, from nonprofits to subcontractors, and somewhere along the way, it disappears.
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across seven Southern California counties. A court-ordered audit discovered that homeless services provided by the city and county of Los Angeles completely lack financial controls or indications of how funded non-profits performed. Again, we're talking the basic disappearance of billions upon billions of dollars. Just weeks ago in October, the DOJ announced fraud charges against two LA real estate developers tied to homeless housing funding. But the investigation is far from over. In fact, it's just getting started. And it's Gavin Newsom who's the one who should be most nervous in all
of this. Governor Newsom bears direct personal responsibility for what is shaping up to be one of the largest public corruption scandals in California history. The FBI's investigation into missing homeless funding reveals a pattern of deliberate obstruction, political cronyism, and accountability avoidance that starts at the highest levels of state government. Based on the evidence, Newsom faces serious questions about a number of credible accusations.
First and foremost, there's the appearance of criminal negligence on his part. So Newsom is basically being accused of repeatedly appointing unqualified officials who failed to verify basic financial documents. So, for example, Newsom appointed Gustavo Velasquez as director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development in May of 2020, placing him in charge of the $4 billion Home Key program.
Under Velasquez's leadership, the department failed to perform basic verification of financial documents which allowed fraudsters to steal tens of millions of dollars in Homekey grants. Again, very similar to what we were seeing in Minneapolis with the Feeding the Future fraud. And the key here is that this wasn't a sophisticated scheme that fooled experienced regulators. It was crude fraud that succeeded only because Newsom's appointees were either too unqualified or
too negligent to spot obvious red flags resulting in millions meant for homeless housing disappearing. Secondly, there's a pattern of Newsom deliberately obstructing oversight. So he routinely vetoed bipartisan transparency legislation that would have exposed the fraud much, much earlier. He vetoed, I should say, Assembly Bill 2903, which was a bipartisan legislation that would have required systematic tracking of California's $24 billion in homelessness spending.
The bill had unanimous support from accountability advocates. It would have created the transparency needed to catch fraudsters. Newsom didn't want it. He didn't want it. And by blocking that legislation, he ensured that fake bank statements and fraudulent applications would continue to slip through the cracks.
Thirdly, Newsom appears to be guilty of blatant political cronyism. He created a $4 billion Homekey program grant that became a feeding trough for politically connected developers. Again, very similar to what we've been seeing in Minneapolis. The program structure allowed developers to secure millions of grants through relationships rather than merit. So we're talking dozens upon dozens of multi-million dollar contracts
going to firms favored by Democrat politicians throughout the state. It just became a huge cash grab among politically connected developers. Even the LA mayor, Karen Bass apparently was in on it. And we could go on and on and on. So as I noted, the FBI is on the case
and agents are openly saying if they discover federal laws were violated, they're going to be making arrests even at the highest levels in California politics. But in the meantime, I think the real lesson from both Minnesota and California is that left-wing socialism always ends up breeding corruption.
Left-wing socialism always ends up breeding corruption. Socialist systems, like we're seeing in blue states, amass and concentrate an unprecedented amount of wealth in the hands of very, very few. And the ones who are collecting the taxpayer wealth are the same ones who are ironically entrusted
with exercising oversight over how the wealth is going to be used. And inevitably, the extent of the corruption and fraud and theft that comes out of such a system intimidates most people from trying to fix the system. And it just perpetuates and spins completely out of control. You take any major Democrat urban area, like the Baltimore school system, for example, or the whole of Chicago.
And you'll find that billions upon billions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse. This isn't a one off. It's baked into the cake of the very urban socialism and blue state politics that these cities and states enact. The good news is that the more voters see the corruption and fraud entailed in these systems,
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Get started freethe more they are rejecting politicians like Grease Monkey Newsom who oversee such systems, which means that whatever prospects Newsom has for 2028 which means that whatever prospects Newsom has for 2028 may have just disappeared right along with the 24 billion. one of my exclusive weekly series, head on over to turley.pub.com.
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