California Underground: Your Sane Insight into California Politics
Sep 23, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min · 10 segments
Three stories this week, one pattern: public money and public land moving to insiders through systems with almost no oversight. First — a Los Angeles nonprofit took in $118 million in public funds to…
Let's get into our first story.
It's the top headline story of the show.
It is about L.A. and homelessness.
We've covered L.A. homelessness a lot on this channel.
We've covered plenty of stories.
We've covered numerous breaking news stories in terms of fraud, waste and abuse, criminal allegations, all of that stuff.
And if you've been watching long enough...
if you've been watching long enough, you can see sort of the, how do you say, the thread.
And we talk about a lot of these stories, and that's why... you know, subtle buggy, you got to kind of tune into this because we bring up these stories and then we come back to these stories because they all kind of connect after a while.
There was news that three individuals were arrested by the DOJ, so federal law enforcement, not California.
And, well, they put their hands in the cookie jar in terms of how much homeless money.
So let's watch that clip and we'll comment and we'll discuss how deep this rabbit hole really goes.
Also tonight, federal agents arrested three LA homelessness nonprofit figures in a multimillion dollar corruption sweep.
The region's embattled homelessness agency Lhasa is also under scrutiny.
Fox 11's Rachel Aragon live now in Eaglewood with the details.
Rachel.
Hey, Glenn.
Yeah, federal officials announcing today three big arrests, and it comes, as you mentioned, Lhasa facing growing scrutiny over how they handle taxpayer money.
In the meantime, though, homelessness crisis and Lhasa itself both becoming major topics in the L.A. mayor's race.
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, better known as Lhasa, back in the spotlight Wednesday after federal officials announced three people were arrested in connection to separate federal homelessness corruption and fraud cases.
One of the defendants is 46-year-old Michael Young, a founder of the Culver City-based nonprofit Home at Last.
According to the complaint, Young misappropriated millions of dollars in taxpayer funds earmarked for homeless housing, including through programs administered by LAHSA.
Among other gross misuses of taxpayer money, Young allegedly spent more than $1 million to open and operate a high-end restaurant and nightclub in Englewood called 675 Lounge.
Your tax dollars, your tax dollars, ladies and gentlemen, are going to fund new lounges and bingo halls in Inglewood.
Let's get into our first story.
It's the top headline story of the show.
It is about L.A. and homelessness.
We've covered L.A. homelessness a lot on this channel.
We've covered plenty of stories.
We've covered numerous breaking news stories in terms of fraud, waste and abuse, criminal allegations, all of that stuff.
And if you've been watching long enough...
if you've been watching long enough, you can see sort of the, how do you say, the thread.
And we talk about a lot of these stories, and that's why... you know, subtle buggy, you got to kind of tune into this because we bring up these stories and then we come back to these stories because they all kind of connect after a while.
There was news that three individuals were arrested by the DOJ, so federal law enforcement, not California.
And, well, they put their hands in the cookie jar in terms of how much homeless money.
So let's watch that clip and we'll comment and we'll discuss how deep this rabbit hole really goes.
Also tonight, federal agents arrested three LA homelessness nonprofit figures in a multimillion dollar corruption sweep.
The region's embattled homelessness agency Lhasa is also under scrutiny.
Fox 11's Rachel Aragon live now in Eaglewood with the details.
Rachel.
Hey, Glenn.
Yeah, federal officials announcing today three big arrests, and it comes, as you mentioned, Lhasa facing growing scrutiny over how they handle taxpayer money.
In the meantime, though, homelessness crisis and Lhasa itself both becoming major topics in the L.A. mayor's race.
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, better known as Lhasa, back in the spotlight Wednesday after federal officials announced three people were arrested in connection to separate federal homelessness corruption and fraud cases.
One of the defendants is 46-year-old Michael Young, a founder of the Culver City-based nonprofit Home at Last.
According to the complaint, Young misappropriated millions of dollars in taxpayer funds earmarked for homeless housing, including through programs administered by LAHSA.
Among other gross misuses of taxpayer money, Young allegedly spent more than $1 million to open and operate a high-end restaurant and nightclub in Englewood called 675 Lounge.
Your tax dollars, your tax dollars, ladies and gentlemen, are going to fund new lounges and bingo halls in Inglewood.
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