No BS Newshour Episode #400
Skanks, Skunks & Scumbags
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(13:18) What an Ash-Hole- Traci Kornak, the beleaguered and bedraggled former treasurer of the Michigan Democratic Party, keeps digging herself deeper.
(20:22) Run for the Border- Issam Bazzi was swept up by ICE last July and deported back to Venezuela. Now DHS sources tell me Bazzi has hit on their radar again.
(30:55) Kwame Accounting- Kilpatrick is long gone, but the Detroit Police Department still uses his accounting practices.
(0:14) Detroit’s Oldest Family Business is done- Dittrich Furs is closing its door.
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Transcript:
Welcome to the no bullshit news hour episode 400. I mean like we are the news and what’s in the news Dietrich first closing and I don’t know what Karen Duman is gonna do. Oh, no, we got a little something we do roll it getting cold.
So a sweatshirt won’t last much longer. So we’re gonna have to go get something a little heavier. And it’s time to get our coats out of storage.
What are they made out of? Animals. Just animals. You’re good.
Yeah. So we’re gonna go back to your place. You can try all these on for me.
Have you told me? Sure. Hey, I’m gonna put those in the backseat. It’ll probably be the only time she wears overflowing with very hard trunks overflowing with fruits.
And I work constantly all day. I try to do a good job. You know, and at some point I want to enjoy the benefits of my work.
And if nothing else, I want to be warm. Oh, Dietrich first by the Dietrich family. Well, we tried to get carried in but we have technical difficulties.
So I just call you there, Karen. Yes, I am, Charlie. Congratulations and happy 400th birthday.
You don’t look a day over 23. I am feeling for a hundred girl. I’m feeling like one of them mangy raccoon coats of yours.
Oh, don’t be jealous, Charlie. Come on. You know, my mom used to wear a raccoon coat.
Yeah. She’d go get my sister out of the dope house. She’d be on the porch in a raccoon coat.
Get my brother out of the crack house on the lawn and the raccoon cup. God bless. But I don’t know what my mom’s going to do with that coat, Karen.
She should keep it, you know, I mean, but you know what, Charlie, in all honesty, you know, climate change, just social and cultural norms have changed. It’s not the same. Once upon a time, you know, you could put on a fur coat and it was great.
Now, where are you going? It doesn’t even get cold like that anymore. I don’t know. I saw the mad dash on the news yesterday.
People getting those 70% off coats, man. There’s a demand for fur out there. And you can’t blame them.
You know, there are people that still like and enjoy fur. And maybe for some, this is what they’ve always wanted. And this is an opportunity for them to get it.
So, you know, enjoy. Hey Grok, put me in a fur. I got a couple if you want to buy one.
Are things that tough? No, they’re not tough at all. I’m just not. Charlie, my salesman says all the time, Karen, you store these coats all the time.
Do you even wear them? And I don’t. She got a fur dealer. I know.
She’s got her own salesman. But only here could you get that expert analysis, which it actually really was. Like, how old is Dietrich first, Karen? Like a hundred? 132 years.
You’re kidding. No, they’ve been around 132 years, but that also speaks to Charlie. Well, I’ll tell you, I saw this morning in the New York Times, Sachs, Neiman Marcus and Burdolph Goodman have filed for bankruptcy.
So look for a 70% off sale to them. Luxury market is not what it used to be at all. Wow.
Getting your fur coats from Timu soon. You see that? You didn’t see that. You didn’t see that in the local news last night.
Not only did you not see Karen on horseback, you didn’t get the analysis of what’s happening in luxury goods market. I haven’t seen that either. So I need to take a closer look at it.
Oh, I’m sure you’re going to hear about it. Oh boy. I’m going to have to come and get Ken on that one.
So where are you going to store them in the summer? Well, I’m going to have to find another furrier to store them or, you know, if I could sell a couple, I probably would or get rid of them. I don’t wear them anymore, Charlie. I mean, even the accessories, you know, like we had, I had Dietrich, they made a, I hate saying all this sounds awkward, but they made a, like a fur bag for me or crossbody and earmuffs and you know, all that kind of stuff.
Just because I said, well, maybe I don’t wear the coats, but I can wear some of this. I don’t wear that either. Well, next time you come in, she better be decked out all in fur.
Yeah. Head to toe. I just want to say it like chinchilla, chinchilla, like the way my lip curls when I say chinchilla.
Well, instead of finding a furrier, have you considered converting your wine cellar into a fur storage unit? No, uh, Ken, thank you for that recommendation. How about the atelier in the back of your estate there? You could put, humidify. You guys are misleading the public, so don’t do that.
This is a no BS news hour, so let’s keep it straight and honest. It’s not that big of a deal. Okay.
Now, um, an old friend of mine is now, uh, the editor of like, you know, race and, uh, culture at the Associated Press, uh, Kat Stafford. And she, I wonder about this. So here you are.
She said, uh, and I don’t know why she doesn’t do it. She’s the editor of the Associated Press, but she said, I’d love somebody to do a story about Dietrich for the culture of it and what it means to black women of the city. So what’s she getting at and what does that mean? Go ahead and write, write us a little picture.
Well, I can’t speak for every black person, Charlie, this is media. You got to understand too, fur for women in general has always been a luxury item. You know, when they ask for men, you know, I mean, men want men to buy you furs and diamonds and now women buy furs and diamonds for themselves, but clothes and luxury items in the, in the, in the clothing vein of Detroit has always been, you know, pretty strong, um, you know, furs and style and Detroit has always been over the top, you know, gator shoes for people, you know, they like those.
And I mean, that’s just who Detroit, Detroit has always been a trendsetter. So, but I think that, you know, how it’s been entrenched, you know, people, um, Aretha Franklin and, you know, our local celebrities, that’s always been a big deal. So it’s a sign of splendor and wealth.
Yeah. Well, I think it’s just, you know, for some people have different things that represent arriving to them. And so I think, you know, a fur coat is not a bad thing, you know, to have.
And if you, I don’t know, I mean, if you didn’t get one, now you can get one for 70% off. But again, um, it’s like somebody wearing a fur, like that old nasty thing. You get that Detroit 70% off.
It’s not Fashion Nova, Charlie. So no, I wouldn’t say that, but you know, I mean, people like nice things and there’s nothing, even though people think about animal cruelty and that, I mean, but hell, you know, do people that support PETA wear leather shoes? That’s animal cruelty too. Um, so where do you draw the line? But I like a good fur.
I love a good leather and a good piece of suede. Um, and you know, I do think that it’s been part of the culture in the, in the, in the black community. And certainly here in Detroit, Detroit has always been a style, a trendsetter.
I mean, they just, they have, and maybe some of it is a little aggressive or progressive, um, but it’s always been there. Yeah. I’d like to see somebody, but they really have to dig deep and I don’t think they do it that, that, that deeply.
Um, speaking of what, what is that they have in Manhattan? It’s like a half off shoe weekend. You know what I’m talking about? What is that? What is it? Not, um, God, what is it called? There’s, um, I know what you’re talking about, Charlie, but then there’s also a place, uh, in New York that I cannot think the name of it. And it’s got like seven, eight floors.
Um, it’s like, it’s like TJ, no, not felines basement. It’s God, I can’t think of it, but it’s, it’s got, it’s like a TJ max on steroids, but it’s all super high end stuff. Uh, and you could literally spend all day in there, but then, you know, you have, um, the, the market area where you can go and buy samples in New York.
So, you know, but you look at how people are thrifting these days, people are going to Goodwills and, uh, places where people donate luxury items and then they’re selling them on eBay and Poshmark. So that’s a whole nother economic cycle. Well, whatever that was in Manhattan, it’s like, like a three day half off sales.
Like every Bergdorf does it. Macy’s the, so it’s, it’s mayhem. And I, I wandered into that one weekend, like getting a special gift from my wife, some nice Italian, you know, like pumps with the square toe, just real elegant work a day shoes.
And I got mauled. I got elbowed. I got pushed.
I mean, you, you people, you women type of people. Yeah. Yeah.
Animals. So long story short, I get them beautiful, but I had a fight. I had a fight, man.
Well, I’ll tell you what, hold on now. Hold on. Hold on.
And I, and I, I give them to my wife and she says, uh, they’re too small. And I said, they’re too small. That’s the size of your foot.
You told me. And she said, I lied. I’ll tell you what was really interesting, Charlie.
I ended up, I was in New York and I look, I was looking for a pair of shorts and I believe they were maybe at Nordstrom or something, but I ended up in the middle of the gay parade trying to get across the street. Now you want to talk about something interesting. Yeah.
It was, it was, it was so crowded. The subway, just everybody was having a good time. And there were a ton of people.
Well, if you were in your first sash, you would have fit right in there. Croc put me in a bikini, something like that. I mean a fur bikini.
All right. Well, I know you get, you got stuff to do. Uh, hopefully we can get you in here next week.
Have a happy 400. Congratulations to you guys. Now, ladies and gentlemen, after you hear from our sponsor, we have, as you know, an update on all original news, all originals, roll the mic.
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I thought you meant me. How’s your Bitcoin doing? I don’t, I don’t have much Bitcoin anymore. I gambled it away.
You gambled it away. Fake football. No unreal football, fake money on real football.
And it feels stupid. What? It’s just infected with, it is. Okay.
So the, the Rams are up 14, nothing, right? First half Carolina’s got the balls third down and long, and there’s a 34 yard pass interference. And it really, yeah. Oh, come on.
I was entertained. I, I, there’s some good games on there, man. Because they manipulate it.
I don’t know, but like that, well, there are certain plays like there was one, uh, that’s where they let them score. I know that there was, I forget what game it was, but they did let them score because it was a strategy. Yeah.
They had to get the ball back. And that was the only way to do it. But thanks for that expert analysis.
Amazing. 97, one, the tickets calling. All right, look, uh, this is a big story.
Uh, Tracy Kornack, former treasurer of the state democratic party hauled in a probate court, accused of embezzling. This thing went everywhere. Yeah.
This thing went overseas, right? It went everywhere, but Michigan. Yeah. You notice like none of the papers are doing it.
None of the TVs. It’s that’s why they’re dying. And we’re growing.
I hate to put it that way, but you got to inform people what’s happening. That’s despite, despite there were, there was other media, at least one other media at that hearing. Yeah.
They better figure it out. They better catch up, but okay. Let’s, we got an update for you, but let’s just remind everybody with this clip here.
And here comes the suspect. Ms. Kornack sounds to me like the judge thinks you embezzled from a brain damaged old lady. You have any comment on that? Did you collude with the attorney general to make this case go away? Do you think she should be impeached? So what do you think this ranks in terms of skullduggery, pedophiles, puppy abusers, and people who steal old people’s money? The sheriff of Kent County’s investigated.
June is recommending 20 years in prison for identity theft and embezzlement. Any comment on that? Who was using her, the old woman’s debit card the day after she died? Was that you going down? Okay. Obviously she wasn’t using the money for a comb.
No. Wow. Maybe on that nice fuchsia coat she had on though.
Because there are withdrawals from the old woman’s account to high-end stores, according to sources. It gets worse here. You can go to the enjoyer.com, revisit all this if you would like, but I’m going to tell you right now that Tracy Kornack, the beleaguered and bedraggled former treasurer of the Michigan Democratic Party, as I told you, keeps digging herself deeper.
Kornack is the subject of multiple investigations into the alleged, alleged looting of her court-appointed ward, a brain-damaged old lady. That old lady, Rose Byrd, died last April. Rose’s sister wants to know where her sister’s monies went, but she also wants to know what happened to Rose’s remains.
Her sister, Debbie Valenti, told me by telephone that Rose wanted a Catholic funeral. She wanted to be buried in the cemetery next to her first husband. Her name is already engraved on the headstone.
Kornack was supposed to manage Rose’s finances in her capacity as legal conservator. Kornack showed up to the funeral services with a box full of ashes. Rose had been cremated, a much cheaper and less religious alternative to a casket.
Kornack told the family they’d have to pay for the burial because there was no more money in Rose’s account, Valenti told me. Then she took the ashes with her. Typically, burying ashes on a family plot costs no more than a few hundred dollars.
Kornack did not return phone calls seeking comment. The family has since retrieved the remains of their sister, Rose Byrd. Stunned by the scope of the Kornack scandal, the family is discussing their next steps.
Wow. Amazing. It’s like the final, there’s probably more insults to come.
So I don’t want to say the final insult, but it just feels like just one more for this poor woman’s family and her just can’t even, can’t even get her buried. Stole all her money. Allegedly.
Allegedly. Uh, you know, hid from the scandal with your political connected buddies and then, you know, can’t even bury the woman. Right.
Can’t even have the decency to bury this woman. Right. I’m sorry.
This person is a scumbag. It’s just a real, no, I’m not a legend. She is a scumbag because that’s not a criminal allegation.
She’s a scumbag. She’s a dirty scumbag. That’s it.
The fact that she kept the ashes. Why, why would you keep the ashes? You’re doing that just to be a scumbag probably. Well then you, you know, there’s no money left is according to the family.
They were told there’s no money left. Then how are charges being made to a debit card after she died? Yeah. It’s like, that’s why there’s no money left.
Why was she cremated? She wanted a Catholic funeral, cheaper Catholics do cremate, but her husband’s in a casket and caskets cost a lot. Mm. Man said awful.
Okay. So, you know, some news is Dana Nessel who helped make that case go away and the case against her wife or campaign finance fraud. Dana Nessel, uh, has been referred to the Michigan bar association for ethics violations.
It’s a watchdog group wants her law license. What I want, and we were there. What I want to know is when is the house of representatives in the great state of Michigan going to vote on the contrip criminal contempt charges referred to them from the oversight committee for Nessel, just like bill and Hillary Clinton, not showing up, not answering a subpoena, right? The most powerful law enforcement officer of the state of Michigan decided she was ignoring a subpoena and all of this as well.
Let’s get that house vote going. I mean, let’s have some courage here. Am I right? Yeah.
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If you know what I’m saying. All right. What’s our next one? Where’s my, Oh, this man, Minneapolis, my ass.
You remember terror watch list guy. Oh yeah. All right.
Let’s remind him. Hi. Hello.
Is this one working? Yeah. He’s not here today though. He’s not coming back.
Immigration picked him up. He’s a wanted terrorist. Allegedly.
Trippy, right? Okay. Nothing. Just tell the boss he won’t be coming back.
Okay. Okay. Normally when I go to a diner, I leave a tip.
This time the angry owner gave me the tip of his middle finger. Here, take this out. Thank you.
Did he wash dishes? Maybe he’s the lawyer. Thank you. Now the food at Leo’s Coney Island in Ypsilanti, Michigan is so tasty that a man might find himself wandering 2,500 miles through thicket and dust to quench his hankering for the famed tuna on rye pickle on the side.
Tasty. And so it seems with the Sambazi who used to work at Leo’s until he was swept up by ice last July and deported back to Venezuela. Bazzi 53 is a Hezbollah linked financier who crossed the Southern border in 2021 while detained in Texas.
Bazzi’s name came back as a positive hit on the FBI terror watch list. Biden let him move the Dearborn anyway. The first known instance of a terror watch list resident knowingly being led into the United States.
Bazzi was given a social security number, a driver’s license and permission to work at Leo’s. Then Trump got elected and Bazzi got a one-way ticket back to Caracas. Now DHS sources tell me Bazzi has hit on the radar again.
He was pinged last week as being in Chiapas, Mexico. Apparently Bazzi might be making his way back to Michigan, said a US security official. That guy said to me, quote, somebody should tell the guy that even if he makes a pass mosquitoes and the cartels, he’s not getting back in.
Somebody should save senior Bazzi the trouble of the trip and inform him about door dashes. So he’s coming back, trying to the balls on this guy. Wow.
Maybe, but he’s on the radar now. You know what I mean? Yeah. And he’s not in the United States, if you know what I’m saying.
And he’s not in Venezuela. Yeah. And so, you know, our immigration standards and the due process and everything, it’s quite likely that he wasn’t interrogated, right? You got, you got links to Hezbollah, the Maduro regime said it won’t the former, the Rodriguez regime.
Now they can pick them up. You’re not in the United States now, not now you can be interrogated. So I do it.
I would say he’s probably headed in the wrong direction. He should probably go south. Something tells me, I’m just going to guess maybe he was moving.
He ain’t moving now. Something tells me he’s got a cop somewhere, if you know what I’m saying. And I ain’t saying see interesting.
Yeah, it’s totally is. What do you guys make it as shit that went on in Minneapolis? Oh man. With the, what’s her name? Renee good.
Yes. And the ice agent who shot her. You know, I don’t, I think everybody knows about what you’re, what are you guys making? I find it fascinating.
You can see the video and come to the conclusion. Anything other than that officer was defending his life. I mean, the car hit that’s on video.
The car hit him. It did hit him. It hit him.
Where are you at Mark? I disagree. Well, two, a couple of things. Number one, what I hate about it is everybody’s mind was made up like that.
And there’s no nuance allowed whatsoever as to, well, maybe this, maybe that this is a situation, you know, granted I wasn’t dragged by a car six months prior, but I’ve been hit by a car in a similar manner like that. Didn’t fear for my life. Right.
That’s just me. I don’t, of course, is he going to be, is he going to be justified legally? Yes. Did he need to do it? I don’t think so.
I don’t think, of course you weren’t dragged a hundred meters. Yeah. Previous years hospitalized.
I, I, I think I like agree with you both. I look at it simply. She was there fucking around obstructing justice.
You were, you, you know, without a doubt, which is a crime and you’re told to get out of the car. That’s upheld by the Supreme court, right? The officer feels concerned for his own safety. You got, you have to get out of car.
That’s the law. You didn’t get out of the car. Now you were, this officer was, this agent was dragged a hundred meters a year before.
So you know how deadly cars can be. I think it was just this summer. Well, maybe it was last year.
Did he have to shoot her? I’m just, I’m just going to, no, no. You simply could have got out of the way. You know, I don’t think that’s appropriate training.
Was he justified? He was, I think we agree. He was, he was justified. Was he justified to come around the side and put two more in her? Is that protocol? Well, it was the car moving.
I mean, you saw, you see the first car was moving. You see the first person with the cell phone video and that’s fast. You don’t even hear three shots.
It’s and it’s over. So, you know, he was, I’m, I’m thinking, you know, the gun was up in front of him and while he was aiming, the car was coming toward him. You didn’t.
So, I mean, he, he didn’t need to shoot her. Like, you know, I mean, was, was justified. If I was on a jury, would I convict this man? I would not, I would not, you know, but you don’t know, you don’t know how fast that car is going to come at you.
I’m just saying, you know what I mean? It’s the cars in front of you coming toward you. Why are you standing in front of a car? That’s who’s going around the car at that point. Why was he filming with his cell phone? I thought that was kind of intriguing.
Well, I, why I think they’re supposed to document that because he went around, got the license plate and he was coming back around and that’s when the other agents said, get out of the car. And then she’s hit him. So they have body cams, not a thing.
I think every, every lawn for it’s for their benefit. Yeah. I think, I think body cams would probably significantly change a lot of things because what happened when we put body cams on cops, everybody thought, Oh, we’re going to catch a million racist police officers.
All these cops are going to get what happened. We see what the cops deal with every day and people empathize more with the cops seeing the body cam. So yeah, I agree.
We should be putting body cam on ice because the videos you see of the abuse, these ice officers take, it’s just the tip of the iceberg. You have people screaming in their face. I’m going to kill your children.
Yada, yada. We went out with him. This, this shit is abnormal because most of it’s done quietly.
Like, you know, we brought your footage of getting a bunch of people in, in Westland, Michigan, right? And they were debriefed. You guys were debriefed before he left. It was very targeted.
Yeah. I waited for him to come out. Yes.
And they’re, you know, they got their eyes on him for a while. It was good. Yeah, it was good.
But you know, what’s, what’s her name? Read. What’s her name? The chick that got kicked off of, uh, MSNBC. Oh, joy.
Joy. Where she’s talking about. They put white women out front because of their white privilege.
That’s an actual thing. It’s true. And you know what? There’s your white privilege because we got to say, and in Westland, Michigan, don’t fuck around with a guy with a badge and a gun.
Cause this shit happens. You get pulled over, you cooperate. You have to get out of the car.
I mean, I’m going home. That, that’s why I don’t fuck with police. Yeah.
Well, these people would never tell their kid. If you get pulled over by a cop or a broken taillight, you should speed off or ram them. They would never tell their own child this yet.
They’re telling these people, no, it’s okay. Get in front of them, ram them, you know, impede them, yell abuse at them, you know, hit them, throw water, throw frozen water bottles. My young woman daughter is sitting here off camera.
I don’t think we’ve ever had the talk. You know, the talk Claude don’t, um, throw water bottles at cops and stuff and try to hit them and stuff. Cause it doesn’t turn out well.
Okay. Just so that’s it. And, um, are you having sex yet? Have we had that talk? Were you having sex then? Comes from a stork, sweetheart.
And if a stork pulls you over, don’t hit it with water bottles. Um, yeah, the, the whole situation out there sucks, but it doesn’t have to stink if you.
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Now you’ve been, here’s the headlines again. Seven years in a row. Detroit murder.
Lowest since the sixties. We got a little clip. We we’ve been covering this.
We’ve been doing everything. Yeah. I had an officer tell me one day that if you want to commit homicide, move to Detroit.
He told me that out of his own mouth. I just felt like y’all are never fired. My son is murdering.
Under your leadership, sir, the police made 10% of the homicides disappear over the course of a decade. Simply by reclassifying. And now we found out that half those murders never even get charged.
I look at murder victims like emails. You just delete them. There’s genius.
If you think about it. And in Detroit, if a white guy says it, the media snaps it up like a sardine. All right.
Yeah. Okay. Look, this is all Kwame Kilpatrick accounting.
Let me explain to you. Kwame Kilpatrick is long gone, but the Detroit police department still uses his accounting practices. For the seventh year in a row, Detroit City Hall and police brass held an event to push the glorious headline.
Fewest homicides in Detroit since the 60s. And the audience erupts in applause. 165 people killed.
What the fuck are you applauding? Oh, by the way, Detroit, even with that bunk number, still has one of the highest murder rates in the United States. I think I’m just going off memory here. Los Angeles.
Population north of 4 million. Had 220 murders. Detroit had 165.
Population 640. So they say. But it is the Wayne County medical examiner’s office that determines the cause of death.
Not the police, not the mayor, not the prosecutor. And the medical examiner put the 2025 homicide count at 186. The cops took a 10% death discount.
Since Kilpatrick became mayor in the early 2000s, the police department, hungry for headlines, has backed out homicide victims whose deaths were determined to be justified. The FBI allows this, but it requires those homicides to be counted and reported. Since the FBI began collecting crime data in 1930, the DPD never engaged in this justifiable data slate of hand.
They didn’t report any in 1965 in reporting in 1985. Not until the qualmster came to power and then they went berserk. They do it more than anybody.
So what gives? The answer is real simple. It’s as simple as 2 plus 2 equals 3. I mean, there’s a difference between homicide and murder. I think people.
Maybe people don’t know that, but. Well, even somebody’s dead. Somebody killed somebody else.
Still count on the stat sheet, no matter if it’s justified or not. Most like New York, like they’ll have one justifiable to maybe right? Like one jurisdiction that really has a lot of. People bleeding to death in the street is Memphis.
And when Memphis puts out its numbers, it says we had 235 homicides and of those 185 were murders and the other 50 were justifiable. You came into my liquor store, pointed gun at me, so I blasted you right. Or I decided to kill you with the car.
We know what I mean. What’s odd to me about it is even if it’s justified, it’s still the result of a crime. Typically pretty violent crime.
If it’s like a breaking and entering or somebody was committing a committing a crime and then the murder, I mean, justifiable or not. Still paints a picture. You’re splitting the situation that you need to have.
It’s still happening info you need to have, and it’s happening because of crime. Yeah, fewer people are murdered, but people are trying to murder other people are getting blasted in the street. That’s still some information as law enforcement or as a government.
I gotta take the law into my own hands. OK, for significant. You remember the Lions Tailgate two seasons ago? Yeah, in Eastern Market and Eastern Market and they’re drinking and they’re beefing.
One dude pulls a gun. The other dude pulls his gun, shoots him in the head. It ricochets and kills the other guy trying to break him up.
Justifiable, terrible. You might want to know that that’s what’s going on in the city. They were never counted.
That’s great. That’s a homicide. None of the numbers here are real.
OK, I got it. Oh, I got one. Can’t mention his name, but friend of mine.
His car is blocked in by another guy and they start arguing. The other guy stabbed my friend eight times, eight times downtown here. The dude that stabbed my friend got a rap sheet like you wouldn’t believe, like assault, concealed weapon, dope dealing, probation violation.
He’s done time. They decided they’re not charging him because it was two dudes beefing. So like you’re equally to blame.
One had a knife. But one stabbed the guy. Yeah, it wasn’t two guys stabbing.
It was one person stabbing. That’s the crime. Fighting, like arguing is not a crime.
Right. That’s insanity. So I’m going to tell you how the police work here.
They’re keeping an eye on it, right? And since there’s no charges, there was no stabbing. And you want to know downtown, you get you arguing over a space and you get stabbed eight times. You get no justice.
How’s he doing? Is he all right? Yeah, he’s all right. Considering it was stabbing questions. Yeah, he’s all right.
Wasn’t mortally wounded or anything. Still stabbed eight times. Yeah.
And he’s still beside himself. He can’t believe it. He’s stabbed where there was no stabbing.
So he’s got to get a lawyer. He’s paying for a lawyer. To go to the prosecutor’s office, to compel them to charge a guy.
You got to pay. Oh, my God. Buy your own justice.
That’s awful. You got to buy your own justice. What the fuck? Don’t forget the fact that it doesn’t sound like he should have been out in the first place.
Yeah, he was, he had violated probation. Yeah. Yeah.
Wow. He doesn’t know what to say about it all, but it sucks. That’s the real news.
Yeah. I’m not a chipmunk at the press conference. Whatever you said, I’m writing.
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Now, see, now we’re getting into the midterms, the statewide offices. Let’s focus on the governor’s race for a minute, right? Okay, we got Jocelyn Benson just getting hit with a lawsuit, calling her a racist, giving preferential treatment to white employees at the Secretary of State, letting them drive a car and firing a black woman for driving a company car, et cetera, et cetera. I didn’t know that.
Now, I’m not going to dismiss anybody’s claims or gripes, right? Let’s assume, let’s assume- We’ll let the jury decide. We’ll let the jury decide. Let’s assume the people’s complaints are legitimate in their mind.
But it does smell a little like politics, doesn’t it? I love that. All of a sudden, Cankle Benson is, you know what I mean, getting rung up here because Duggan’s so unpopular, she’s tied with him in Detroit. Wow.
Yeah. You know, the mayor, he’s freaking screwed and he knows it because that dirt scandal is widening. It’s on the front page of the free press now.
But it began here. Let’s take a look at it and we’ll come back and talk about that. Northland Mall was America’s first.
It stood in Southfield, Michigan until it was demolished a few years ago. But you’ll never have to say goodbye, dear viewer. The mall can now be found in Detroit, buried two feet under in the vacant lot right next to your home.
You don’t want your face shown, but, you know, you’re taking a chance here. You’ll get blackballed. I’ll tell you, listen, for real, for real, this is a really, this is like some really touchy shit.
You know what I’m saying? So say three whistleblowers, one who offered his real name. Somebody got to stop saying they’re standing up and stand up and do what’s right. What’s your name? Barbara Howard.
And two others who did not, fearing they’d never work again, exposing Mike Duggan’s Detroit demolition debacle. That’s just trying to survive out here. My name is put in anything like this.
We won’t work no more. Change the voice. He’s very, he’s very good.
Every fucking body knows. City Hall has ignored the demo hose being filled with crappy dirt for years. How many holes have not been properly filled? You all went on the record, on camera, told the people of Detroit, Charlotte, that’s all that your noise isn’t right because you put dirt in.
And I’ll answer why. You didn’t put dirt in there. What’s up with the dirt? Put it in writing and deliver it.
What’s up with the dirt? Oh, come on. The feds came in. The state came in.
Duggan said he’d fix it. But he hasn’t. I would say roughly at least 500.
500 houses. At least 500. And here’s how the Northland scam worked.
It was supposed to all be diverted directly to the landfill. But they diverted it into the city. To backfill the residential properties that was part of when they were tearing down all the houses.
We used other addresses, other residential addresses on our tickets sometimes. We never put down that it came from Northland. It was an address around Grand River somewhere.
I remember all in all, the dirt was coming from Northland the whole time. You get a dirt inspection where they dump approved material. And once they get approved, man, here comes all the bullshit.
Okay, there’s a hole and the first truck shows up. Yes. And the city inspects it.
Yep, that looks good. Yep. Let’s get lunch.
And he splits. He leaves. And then all of that… Bullshit.
Northland mall shit, all the bullshit starts coming in. Yes, sir. Gets dumped in there and then they put a nice layer on top.
They don’t even do that. They just fill the motherfucker right up and try to pick the bullshit out. Look at that fucking… It’s like a parking lot.
Lounge. Reached by phone, the Northland developer said he knew nothing about it. And the mayor? With the city in the red and the dirt red hot, Duggan’s getting gone and now running for governor of Michigan.
I called Eagle. I called the city of Budsman. I called everybody that I can call to tell them about the level of dirty dirt that’s been coming into our city.
If the public’s watching this, what is it? Why is it? Should it be important to them? It’s what your kids playing on. The little kids, they playing in the dirt. They making mud pies.
And that is our story, dear viewer. Proving once again that Detroit City Hall is a lot like the old Northland mall. They both got men’s pants half off.
So that’s the origin of this. We did this story. The Office of the Inspector General opened an investigation.
Now it’s gotten up to 500 holes. But this is just one contractor with one dirty dirt site. You know what I mean? This guy did 2500 homes or demo jobs.
Guyanga. Okay. So what City Hall’s trying to do, what Duggan’s trying to do, hold the press conference, say that’s it.
There’s no reason to suspect anything else. They’re not even testing the topsoil. They’re driving into the ground a foot below down to six feet.
You heard the guy. They’re filling it with shit right to the top. Why aren’t you touching the top? Because this is really fucking bad.
You know you’re involved in it now. Show 400. I’ve been doing this for a fucking better part of a decade.
Nobody listened. Well, now it makes the free press. And it’s good because the paper’s asking why are you trying to limit it to 500 holes and 80% are coming back hot.
We did 30,000 of these fuckers. This would bankrupt the city. They want it to go away.
They’re afraid of a grand jury. I’m waiting for the OIG report. I’m just going to sit tight.
But I did text the reporter on it and go, the free press incorrectly says, because they went to the press conference and wrote it down. Duggan said, we acted on it on a tip, right? And we ordered the testing and we ordered a criminal investigation. You didn’t.
The OIG asked for the criminal investigation. There was no tip. It was that fucking story, Mike.
And then Mary Sheffield can’t do anything about it because she slept with the contractor. Just one. Were they all doing it? Don’t we deserve a mask? What do you think, man? I definitely think you need to test every hole that you suspect is dirty because people are going to be building on those if they’re not already have already built.
And it’s going to be more expensive to clean it up after they built something on it. So you want to get it now and you just want to bite the bullet and do it. You got to own up to it.
This is environmental racism on a huge scale. And somebody’s got to somebody’s got to clean it up. Somebody’s got to be the adult, take charge, bite the bullet, take responsibility and clean it up.
But that’s that never happens. That’s never going to happen, but it needs to happen. I mean, you know, you just said something, which is I want to clarify this.
Any hole you suspect of being dirty. What is that I suspect? Yeah, like 20,000 of them could be dirty if you got caught, you know, like they tested 50 of them and 40 of them are red hot and you did 2500. Don’t you think you should test 2000? Yeah, yeah.
Absolutely. And what does that cost? Just to test it. Oh, they want to go away.
They shitting themselves. They have to make they have to make it go away because they can’t afford to do anything about it. It’s not going to go away, dude.
I know it’s not going to go away. It’s not going to go away. I mean, they’ve been trying to get it to go away for a decade now, right? They want you to look the other way.
And there are clips in there in that video. I didn’t shoot all of it. There are some clips in there from 2015.
When you’re boxed to doing the same story. Yeah. So it’s seen.
It also used to be. And this was on record used to be the whole thing had to be filled with dirt. All eight feet, right? The whole then Duggan got the law changed because he wanted by the time he was done to say I got rid of it all.
Retroactively too. Yeah. Then they said, no, you could, you could.
What was it up? The last three feet. You could fill five feet of it would crush concrete and shit and whatever. Like you’re saying.
Yeah. Now you want to redevelop it. We’re going to do it at.
Right. You know what it costs just to dump that. And we caught them.
They weren’t even doing three feet to the top. They were doing one foot. They said.
And in many cases, like that guy was saying, you saw me with the shovel. They went right to the top with it. It’s it’s got arsenic, lead PCBs.
Like it’s dangerous to the human touch. Yeah. Now you’ve got people gardening in it.
Kids playing in it. And it’s like, you know, I tried to tell him. I tried to tell him at the beginning, don’t do it.
You know what I mean? And you kept doing it and I didn’t go away, even though Mike. Try to get me fired on many occasions. Motherfucker.
Like, you know, he’s running his packs, super packs. JPMorgan Chase. Oh, that’s not a terrible surprise.
Big banker. Like, yeah. Big New York bankers.
Not a person of the people. A billboard is two dimensional, just like he is. That’s all the people out West and up North.
All they know about Doug and his billboards. Really? That’s just the, you know, there was one we saw when we were out in Allegan. It says he cut taxes three times, three years in a row, three years in a row.
Like, what are you talking about? As people in Detroit, did you get a, did you get a tax cut three times? Like, what the hell are you talking about? I got a call for Pastor Brooks, you know, on the East side. The one that’s got the castle. Tried taking his house again.
Some nefarious shit going on. Oh my God. So I’m working on that.
I’ll bring that to you because, you know, for the next 400, we keep rolling. And before we go, first of all, thanks for the support, everybody. And please support our sponsors.
It keeps us going. Finally, I mean, and just, just toss this out there. Where’s Taron Asher? Oh, you know, the lead anchor for Fox 2 News? I haven’t seen her in a while.
Haven’t been on the news in months. Yeah. What’s going on with that? I don’t know.
Anybody want to look at that? Do you know something? Do you hear something? You know, is there a media reporter in town? We sure. There’s not. We heard a lot about Hank Winchester.
We heard a lot about me. We heard a lot of them. So what’s going on? You know, I haven’t seen her well.
I haven’t seen her since the election coverage. So it’s been that long. It’s been, yeah, it’s been a couple months.
Your lead anchor is not there. I’m told that she does not experience any health issues or vacation issues. So.
Oh, you’ve been working on this. I’m told. Yeah.
Why don’t you dig a little deeper? Maybe dig a little. Yeah. It’s, it’s, it’s interesting.
Maybe. Who knows? There’s a tease. Yeah.
All right. We’ll see you for show 401.
