Another Child Predator Up For Parole In CA (03/12)

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Now we switch over to this unbelievable.

We talked about David Allen Funston getting elderly parole after all the little girls that

he raped and beat up and kidnapped.

Well, we got another one here.

We got Gregory Vogel saying 57 years old.

He was sentenced to 355 years to life for sexually assaulting five young children.

And the parole board is letting him out in a week on March 18th, elderly parole again.

He's only 57.

Let's get Anne Marie Schubert on former Sacramento district attorney and she broke this news

online yesterday.

It's the first I saw it Anne Marie.

How are you?

I'm good.

Thanks so much for having me again.

I appreciate it, John.

Tell us about Gregory Vogel saying.

He was convicted out of Sacramento County.

I think around 1998 he had multiple victims as he mentioned.

They're almost exclusively young boys.

I think his young is five years old.

You know, he's a pedophile.

That's the bottom line.

He sexually attracted to children.

So he goes to prison.

You know, he was he was sentenced by a judge in Sacramento County to 355 years to life.

So any rational human being would believe that man is never going to get out because

he shouldn't.

And so, you know, here comes the elderly parole law.

I call it the golden ticket to getting out of prison.

And all of a sudden, you know, he's decided he wants to get out.

So he goes in front of a parole board.

He was denied a couple times.

And then just last November, he comes up again and two commissioners thought that it would

be a good decision to let a 56-year-old man out of prison that is a diagnosed pedophile

and sexually attracted to children.

So it's an insane decision, hopefully next week the full board decides to reverse it.

But that's why we're trying to get a call to action here for folks to call in, write

in, send emails.

And you know, maybe the governor would step up and say, you know, maybe it's just time

for these people to resign.

And maybe they should repeal the law that allows this to happen to begin with.

I would have thought there are some limits on this elderly parole.

He's only 57.

He got 355 years to life.

It's 23 counts of forcible loot acts on young boys.

One of them is youngest three years old.

I mean, there's no standards anymore for this parole.

Well, the standards in my opinion, when you read the transcripts, the standards are,

let's do everything in our power to find a reason to let the guy out.

I mean, one of the things that's concerning about him, you know, he gets denied parole,

I think, in 2022, 2024.

He sat in prison for 23 years before he decided to actually say, well, maybe I should

start understanding why I commit these crimes.

So he starts a workbook program, it's called The Road to Freedom.

He's never had clinical treatment as far as I could tell for reading the transcripts.

He's done a workbook, a self-help program.

What do you mean a workbook?

Stop, stop.

What do you mean a workbook?

It's called The Road to Freedom.

If you start reading these transcripts on sex offenders, they read The Road to Freedom.

It's a book.

It's about how do I control, you know, my urges and things like that.

But there's no, as far as I can tell, he's never availed himself of any kind of clinical

psychiatric treatment while he's been in prison.

He is a diagnosed pedophile.

And so the question becomes, what are we doing here?

You can't control that.

You can't change that.

If you're a pedophile, you're attracted to little children the rest of your life.

It never goes away.

Well, look, well, look at Mr. Funston, his, his plan was I have an urge control plan.

So when I think about children, I'm just going to stop taking about it.

But let's be honest.

Come on.

These are the most dangerous people.

They should be excluded from the law and they should not be getting out of prison.

Why do they want to release these people?

Why?

You would think that anybody in office, regardless of what party or what ideology they subscribe

to, just as a basic human being, most of these people have children.

You see what what Gregory Vogel saying or David Allen Funston did and it would, it would

stop you dead.

It would make you sick and you wouldn't want your fingerprints on releasing him.

You'd have to ask the parole board, but you know, for me, it's just what do we do?

Again, like you say, John, what are we doing?

We have, they're not one offs, as I would say.

They are multiple acts against multiple children.

These are serial predators that when they get out, we'll most likely reoffend.

The Funston case was almost conical because he said, I'm sure you read this, that he'll

just tell himself, no, and splash water in his face to it, distract him.

And the commissioners thought that was a great idea.

I thought I was reading a parody.

I think that they look for reasons, if you really dive into these transcripts, you know,

they look for reasons to say, oh yes, that's a good reason.

You've got yourself under control, now let's let you out.

It's really quite disturbing, particularly because, as I said, judges, you know, juries

have made decisions, Californians voted it and we passed laws to make what we call one

strike for sex offenders, meaning we should be harsh, which we should be.

And that's all proof gone because Governor Newsom thought it was a good idea to reduce

the age to 50 and only serve 20.

There is no truth in sentencing in the state of California at all anymore.

There just isn't.

If people want to write to somebody and try to convince Newsom or the parole, full parole

board to reverse this decision, who do they contact?

They can email bph.correspondent unit at cdcr.ca.gov.

That is the place.

They can go on that site, they can email, they can call in next week on March 18th.

There is a hearing for all of these people, these are, this is not the only one that's

on next week.

There's another guy that is a convicted child molester that they want to let out again.

Another well, another one.

Now there's a guy named Tyrell Martin at a San Bernardino who molested a child that

was, I think, very, very young, went to prison, got out, failed a register, cut off an

ankle monitor, they sent him back to prison, and now they want to grant that guy parole

as well.

So to me, you have to be very, I mean, this is a lot of work to be, you got to be vigilant.

But people are just living their lives, John.

No, but because they didn't know that it was just a system was designed this way.

Nobody knows this.

If you went to like 100 people on the street and told them what's going on, all 100 would

be crazy angry because how would they know?

Well, that's why we're raising the alarms because this is what will change the law.

People are so outraged at these decisions that I am hopeful that this, our legislature

as the blue as the state is has realized this is not good policy.

That's a sec.

This is perverse.

All right.

I know you got to run.

Thank you for coming on with us.

And I'm going to give out that email address again.

All right.

All right.

Thanks so much for having me.

Appreciate it.

All right.

Emory Schubert, former Sacramento County District Attorney, when we come back, I will give

you that email address.

I know she, she mentioned it, but probably you weren't ready to write it down.

This is something important to write about because this is, this is the third one this

week.

And then there's a fourth one coming.

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All right.

Now in a minute, I'm going to give you the email address.

This is really important if you have just five minutes to bang something out.

And this is to appeal to the the border, I'm sorry, the parole board, not to release

Gregory Vogel saying Gregory Vogel saying is one of the most disgusting, one of the most

vile prisoners we have.

He'd lured kidnapped and sexually attacked five young boys.

One of them three years old.

It was so awful that a jury and a judge found him guilty and he was sentenced to 355 years

to life.

355 years was the minimum to life.

There was 23 counts of forcible loot acts on these five young boys.

The parole board is letting Gregory Vogel saying out on March 18th to parole commissioners.

It's going before the full board.

Newsom can get in the way of this one.

He can reverse this decision.

This is so sick and perverse.

The legislature and the parole board is filled with sex perverts.

They have to be.

I don't know of any normal person that would want this.

It's the third one this week.

So here's the email address.

It's long.

It's a write it down, bph.correspondence unit at cdcr.ca.gov, I give it again, bph.correspondence

unit at cdcr.ca.gov and tell them not to do this.

This is horrific.

That's Gregory Vogel saying now, just a couple of weeks ago, we had David Allen Funston 68

years to life for kidnapping and raping eight children, seven of them young girls, one

girl he threw on the side of the road, he beat up some of these kids.

He would kidnap them, kidnap them, rape them, beat them up.

As late as 2021, he admitted he was pleasuring himself in prison, fantasizing about young

girls.

In fact, he had a specific young girl who used to live across the street when she was

eight.

They told the parole board, oh, I have an urge control plan and I'm not making this

up.

You could read the transcript.

He told himself no, and he'll splash water in his face.

And the parole board said, yeah, it's good.

They really did.

So Gregory Vogel saying, David Allen Funston, and here's the third guy we mentioned earlier

this week, Roberto de Trinidad, a home invasion rapist, HIV positive, breaks into a woman's

home in San Francisco, and Saddamizer, Saddamizer, rapes her, and he's supposed to, he's

getting out after 11 years, that's three in a week.

And if you heard former Sacramento D.A., Henry Schubert shoes on my segment, he's getting

out.

Well, there's a fourth one coming.

There's a fourth guy that's going to be getting out.

So we got David Allen Funston.

We got Gregory Vogel saying we have Roberto de Trinidad, now with Funston, he's been pulled

back into jail because there is another child molestation charge that he was not prosecuted

for.

And Placer County, this is the sickest thing I ever heard, and the legislature gave

the parole board the power to do this.

Gavin Newsom, he appointed all the members of the parole board.

I looked up everyone, he appointed every single member.

These are all sex perverts, they're all psycho, they're all psychotic.

I say no to myself and I splash water in my face.

And by the way, they didn't get like, you know, five to 10 years, they got, what some

Vogel sings, 355 years to life, all right, do something, gotta vote differently.

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the people in West Althedena in 19 died.

And then we all got fire warnings in LA County, false fire warnings, what was their story

of that?

Well, according to public radio here in LA, the guy running the evacuation alerts, the

guy in charge of emergency workers has a long history of sleeping on the job.

Tell you who he is, tell you how much he sleeps.

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He's the only hope running for marijuana Los Angeles against Karen Bass.

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He's wildly unpopular, only a 24% approval rating.

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I'm not making this up.

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And a whistleblower, well, let's go back while the panel says fire was burning.

We had the out to Dina fire, also known as the Eton fire.

And that destroyed over 6,000 homes and that killed 19 people, mostly in West out to

Dina, which is the historic black neighborhoods in Al-Tedina.

And in that section of town, they never got a warning about the fire until almost 3.30

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the night before.

And everybody's going, why is this, how did this happen, they let people burn to death.

They didn't even warn them, yeah, they got, they got the lead, they got the phone buzzing

at 3.30 in the morning, everyone slept through it.

Oh, remember all the phony, county, fire warnings, we got them here, right?

Remember that day?

I think I was driving home from work.

And suddenly my phone is buzzing in my car, telling me to evacuate.

I'm looking down, it's like I'm in Burbank, what are you talking about?

So they didn't send out warnings to the people who burned to death, but they sent out warnings

to everybody else in the county who were nowhere near the fire.

And it's the office of emergency management.

So according to LA Public Radio, we have a whistleblower who's filed a complaint.

His name, we have his name Nick Vicaro, associate director in the county office of emergency

management.

And the guy in charge of emergency workers, according to Nick Vicaro, the guy in charge

of the workers who sent out the evacuation warnings, has quote a long history of sleeping

on the job.

And he named him, Vicaro said he saw Steve Lieberman, a nearly 40 year county employee,

a sleep at work more than a dozen times in the two years prior to Lieberman supervising

the overnight shift on the evening of January 7th into the morning of January 8th.

The whistleblower says Lieberman was sleeping in his office during the overnight shift.

Although Lieberman's denying he was sleeping the night of the fire.

LA is public radio spoke with several witnesses to Lieberman's on the job sleeping who

corroborated Vicaro's account about Lieberman's history.

LAS is not naming these sources.

They fear their careers and reputations could be seriously harmed by speaking up public.

We got to get a, that's a whole nother lawn rant.

I want to give the firefighters are afraid to speak out.

Everybody works for bass is afraid to speak out.

They're afraid to speak out.

The county emergency management workers, nobody wants to, nobody wants to be retaliated

against and lose their jobs or be demoted and look what's happened.

Look what's happened because everybody's afraid.

Lieberman when presented with these complaints says, well, I'm not going to say that never

happened in 38 years.

I'm 63 years old.

I've got some health issues.

We work a lot of overtime.

I think the answer to that is retirement.

If you can't stay awake for your shift and you're in charge of emergency workers and

you're falling asleep every night, I mean, it's one thing when I yawn, you know, a million

times during this show, right?

I mean, I'm not, plus we're not, we're not that stimulating for you.

I understand.

I mean, you're a one woman person to review every afternoon.

Life depends on me, you know, being tired.

And you're up, when you have warnings to give, you're awake, you're awake during those

news.

Absolutely.

It's just in between.

But the guy is in charge of making your phone buzz to tell you to pack up your car and

get out or you're going to die.

Everybody's human, John.

And I work the overnight shift for a year and a half.

No, I've done a few overnight shifts and I, no, I'm not made for that.

I know I'm not.

But you stay, I stayed awake.

Well, I drank four cups of coffee and I don't drink, well, at that time, I didn't drink

coffee.

That's it.

Vicaro, get this.

The county emergency management office had only 37 people in it and a $14 million budget.

Compare that, and we got 10 million people, right?

We got 10 million residents, 37 people.

New York City has fewer people than LA County, eight and a half million.

But they have 200 staffers in their emergency management department, five times the staff

LA County has.

We have more people than New York City and one fifth the staff, they have 88 million

they spend.

We have 14 million.

What are the LA County supervisors and what are those five women doing?

They can't fund the emergency management office with the earthquake potential here.

I'm talking to you.

Tell us a lease.

Let me see, I remember the names.

Lindsay Horvath, he'll just at the lease, Katherine barger, Holly Mitchell and Janice

Han.

Did it this time?

What's with you five ladies on that non-diverse board.

Why would you want to give it $14 million?

San Diego has one third our population.

They have more people in their department.

They have 43, we have 37.

They have a budget almost as much as L.A. 12 million. We have 14. One third, the population.

Oh, quickly. And the other thing Vicaro told L.A. East, they don't have that many people.

He said, everything was lining up that showed this was going to be the most catastrophic wind storm we'd ever had.

Worse than the 2011 wind storm. And we were going back and forth saying, well, who's available?

They hardly had anyone available because coming out of the holidays, a lot of people had taken

time off. It's like, so who's around? It's going to be the worst storm in the worst fire danger ever

in the history of L.A. County. Who's around to work in emergency services? Anybody?

He says every party should have been available. All right, more coming up.

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All right. We just told you about how the Altadena fire, the guy in charge of

the guy who oversaw the staff that sent out the emergency alerts.

He apparently compulsively falls asleep on the job according to a whistleblower report.

And you may remember that most of those alerts never reached West Altadena, 19 people died.

Not to mention that nearly all of us in LA County got phony alerts. Now we find out one of the guys

in charge of the unit sleeps a lot on the job. Now in Malibu, because you had fires in the

palisades, that same fire also burned a significant part of Malibu.

So hardly any permits have been issued. And Fox 11 reporter Matthew Seedorf has the story.

We're along PCH tonight and take a look at this. This is where all those homes were.

It almost looks like a time capsule. Not a lot has changed since last year. You can understand why

some residents are angry. This is the family home that I was raised in. Then I was raising my

daughter in. But you were here the night of the palisades fire. What was it like? Everything was

on fire. And no one was doing anything. Wade, you know, his face covered in a

suit. I couldn't stop the fire saying I'm sorry, man. I couldn't stop the fire. It was horrible.

They're family to me. There was no water. Looking back at that, did you imagine that we'd still be

looking like this 14, 15 months later? No, this is an absolute abuse. I mean, this is this is where

we're at today. It is slow and it is frustrating. And there's no excuse for this.

37 single-family homes have had the permits approved. More than 600 burned. We're talking about

5% runs. We're talking about 5% in a city that has country been not very favorable to growth.

We just need the city and its consultants to understand the urgency. We're on pace for

Malibu to rebuild in 20 years. How do we speed this up? At the current pace, that number could

well be a reality. In this hill, if you have to construct a property, you need to undergo

soil testing and geo-reports and so on and so forth. They're basically saying, well,

we don't trust the geology from 65 years ago. We're going to as long as we're going to hold you

to other code for the fire, we're going to hold you to other code that's unrelated to the fire.

I think we need to take a completely sort of a zero-based budgeting approach, which is if we

have 10 days to issue a permit, what does the process need to look like? You can hear the anger,

they're just demanding urgency tonight. You could preach urgency. We're trying to get them to

understand the urgency. They understand whoever's running Malibu get this. They don't care.

14 months and there's 37 permits and 600 burned out homes. Yeah, it's going to take you 20 years

at the rate of this permit approval. They wanted this way. It's by design. All of this is by design.

People go, why don't they understand? No, they understand. This is what they want. They're

tyrants. They want control. I don't think the people in Iran go, why doesn't the Iatola understand?

Why doesn't he have a sense of urgency? No, the Iatola understand or understood perfectly.

All dictators and rulers, they understand perfectly what they're doing.

They know you're upset. They know it's unfair. They know you're pissed off. They don't care. The only

difference here, different than Russia or Cuba or Iran is, we can vote all these bastards out.

And get new people in, forced into change, existing laws and regulations. But we don't do that.

We let them be tyrants. Seeing the other countries, short of an armed coup, you can't get rid of

the dictators or the Iatolis. But here we can peacefully just go vote vote for somebody different.

But for somebody who cares, but we don't. Everybody votes for the same garbage over and over and

over again. And then yeah, they let your house burn and then they will let you build it.

And I bet you all these people get reelected.

All right, when we come back along these same lines,

Dr. Oz, we played his clip again yesterday, came to

Van Eyes and said, hey, there's millions and millions of dollars of hospice fraud going on

here. And our narcissistic psychopath, Jackass governor, Newsom, started taunting Oz saying,

oh, this racism here, insulting Armenians. And then CBS did a huge investigation this week,

finding hundreds of phony hospice providers here in LA. And now Christian Hartsock, an investigative

reporter, is collaborated with California State Assemblywoman Alexandria Macito to find hundreds

of phony hospices wasting millions, maybe billions of dollars. We'll talk with Alexandria Macito.

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