Topic: Stephen Colbert; In CA law to prohibit citizen journalism proposed

What this episode covers

00:00 All right. Last hour of the show for this Tuesday, uh April the 14th. Tomorrow is tax day. Let's go to Ralph and Gaffney. How you doing, Ralph? Oh, I'm doing better than I deserve. Sorry. You mentioned Stephen Colbert. Would that Prius happen to be pink? It probably would be. Yeah. It'd be one of them wussy pinks. Yeah. You it's faded. You know what gets me? It goes just, you know how they say sell your soul. 00:29 Yeah, he did because he did anything political against Trump. Yeah. And they kept them on. What's his name? Who was suspended from ABC? He was at least funny sometime. Yeah, it's not funny. No, you're right about that. Well, that's why they're not renewing his his contract. Yeah, he'll be gone soon. We had Johnny Carson was funnier in one night than Colbert has been in his old 00:57 Exactly right. What happened to that? What happened to actual late night television where you can just watch that? until he Bill Clinton on. him and Bill were competing for the same women. uh You are exactly right. I appreciate it Ralph. Thank you. What has happened to late night television? It's gotten horrible. 01:26 All right, listen to this. In Minnesota, we all know Nick Shirley, and by the way, in California, they're trying to pass a law that would prohibit, I don't know how they're gonna do it, but I think I know, I do think I know how. In California, they're trying to pass a law that would prohibit citizen journalists from doing investigative work. 01:54 And I had some people I told you about this little earlier in the program. And some people said, how they're going to do that? It's going to violate the First Amendment, freedom of the press. Well, here's what they're going to try to do. They're going to try to come up and define what the press is. What is the press? 02:15 who is a member of the press, they're going to try to get some sort of a definition of the word press. And if you don't fit into that definition, like you have to work at a major network or a local network or a local television station, they're going to come up with some regulations to try to prevent citizen journalists. And in fact, you know what? They're calling it literally the Stop Nick Shirley Act. 02:45 That's what they're calling it. anyway, Nick Shirley exposed all of this fraud in Minnesota. So because the judges are so lax, 03:01 They let this Minnesota fraudster free. 03:06 On his own recognizance with a very small, you know, bail, just days before his fine, listen to this. Searching for Abdi Rashid Saeed charged for his role in an $11 million scheme. And as Lou Raguse is here to explain, all it took was $150,000 to avoid the consequences. It was a bail amount lower than prosecutors wanted, and it came with no guardrails. Abdi Rashid Saeed had his passport and technically 03:35 no travel restrictions. Abdi Rashid Saeed is the original personal care assistant company fraudster who stole taxpayer money while claiming to operate out of this mailbox at an office on Central Avenue in Northeast Minneapolis. After he was convicted in 2021 in order to have nothing to do with companies that receive Medicaid money, other PCA companies took his place at the Central Avenue office and Saeed started receiving checks from them. Were those checks for employment for you? 04:05 Mr. Sayed? No. What were they for? Loans. At a probation violation hearing, Sayed claimed the checks were loans, including to pay back his restitution in the first fraud case. Investigators didn't buy it. they... Okay, so long story short, he's left the country. 04:24 He's left the country. He's out of here. Anybody, anybody see that coming? No, of course not. Now let's go up to Charlotte. Let's go up to Charlotte. A judge in Charlotte has dropped the bond of a known at Trin day Aragwa gang member. Listen to this officers arrested Luis Marcano saying that he had fired that gun while under the influence of alcohol and narcotics. 04:50 Investigators say hi ...

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