Benny Johnson reports on James O’Keefe’s explosive undercover investigation exposing alleged election fraud in California, specifically on Los Angeles’ Skid Row. According to Johnson, O’Keefe and his OMG team went undercover posing as homeless individuals and captured hidden camera footage of petitioners allegedly paying homeless people cash for signatures on ballot initiatives and voter registrations.
The investigation reportedly took place in downtown Los Angeles’ Skid Row area, which Johnson describes as looking “worse than any third world country you’ve ever seen.” He states that it “smells like piss and human flesh rotting” and is filled with “homelessness everywhere” and “rampant filth.” The alleged fraud was documented occurring outside the Weingart Center, which Johnson reports has “received hundreds of millions of dollars in government money.”
According to Johnson’s reporting, the undercover footage shows petitioner Brenda Brown allegedly “hands cash money to the homeless person, not only for signing the California ballot initiative, but also as payment for them to register to vote.” Johnson states that O’Keefe’s team “personally witnessed and covertly filmed this happening at least 28 times over the span of our investigation, and that is just in Los Angeles.”
The alleged scheme involves petitioners paying “$7 to $10 per signature from homeless people, sometimes earning $1,000 a day collecting signatures,” according to Johnson. He reports that many homeless individuals have “zero understanding of what it is that they’re actually signing” and that petitioners allegedly instruct them to “enter made-up addresses like Pinocchio Lane.”
Johnson reveals that the investigation captured Weingart Center employees allegedly facilitating the scheme. One employee reportedly tells undercover journalists “when and where to find the illegal cash exchanges for signatures” and indicates “the cash being given out is coming from a higher source.” Another Weingart employee allegedly advises the homeless on practicing “plausible deniability and ignorance of the law.”
The alleged operation appears to involve what Johnson describes as “an elaborate pyramid scheme of unregistered petition circulators.” One petitioner reportedly explained: “If I were to hire you, you’ll be under me. I’m under my son. I’m under him and you under me. So, it’s like a pyramid game.”
Johnson reports that the expose has prompted immediate reactions from California officials. Governor Gavin Newsom’s office responded by stating: “This alleged activity is a felony in California. Anybody caught engaging in this activity should be investigated and prosecuted the fullest extent of the law.” The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office has confirmed they “received our election footage and the review is underway,” according to Johnson.
Johnson connects this alleged fraud to broader concerns about election integrity and the “homeless industrial complex” in California. He states: “This is what all of the homeless industrial complex is intended to deliver and to create is systems of fraud. Fraudulence of federal dollars into Democrat supermajority areas. Fraudulence of petitions and people to sign the petitions for cash.”
The timing of this investigation is particularly significant as California prepares to vote on a voter ID initiative. Johnson reports that Carl DeMaio successfully gathered “1,368,000 signatures of Californians verified in order to put voter ID initiative on the ballot.” Johnson suggests the alleged cash-for-signature scheme might be “how they’re going to try and defeat it by using the homeless votes fraudulently.”
O’Keefe has reportedly sent the footage to the Department of Justice and promises “there will be a new tape dropping every day until someone is arrested or indicted.” Johnson emphasizes that under California law, “it is illegal to give money or other valuable consideration exchange for their signature or initiative petition” and that it’s “also criminal to circulate or file these petitions.”
Key Facts — All Alleged
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| Who | James O’Keefe, OMG team, Brenda Brown (petitioner), Weingart Center employees, Governor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles District Attorney, Mayor Karen Bass, Carl DeMaio |
| Amount | $7 to $10 per signature, $1,000 a day, hundreds of millions of dollars (to Weingart Center) |
| Location | Los Angeles, California - Skid Row area, Weingart Center |
| Program | California ballot initiative process, Weingart Center (received government money) |
| Status | Under Investigation |
In Benny Johnson’s Words
“Now, because you haven’t registered, I need to register you so I can get paid, too.”
— Benny Johnson
“Petitioners admitted they are paying $7 to $10 per signature from homeless people, sometimes earning $1,000 a day collecting signatures from individuals with minimal knowledge of what they’re signing.”
— Benny Johnson
“This is what all of the homeless industrial complex is intended to deliver and to create is systems of fraud. Fraudulence of federal dollars into Democrat supermajority areas. Fraudulence of petitions and people to sign the petitions for cash.”
— Benny Johnson
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Welcome to my borrowed fa tree. » What’s up guys? It’s Penny. You knew it would come to this. James O’Keefe has exposed election fraud in California. And now Gavin Newsome is suing him or at the very least planning on it. We’ll see if Gavin Newsome has the balls to go through with it based on how Gavin Newsome sits in a chair. I doubt he has the balls. What did James O’Keeffe do? He’s gone thermonuclear for exposing election fraud. Cash for ballots. Homeless bribed with cash and drugs in exchange for registering votes, signing election petitions, caught on tape in undercover Skid Row sting. Skidro, if you’re not familiar, is a area of downtown Los Angeles that looks worse than any third world country you’ve ever seen. You can go through the streets of Moadishu. Doesn’t look as bad as this. Homelessness everywhere. rampant filth, smells like piss and human flesh rotting. It’s awful. It’s grotesque. I’ve been there a couple times just to expose like how is it possible that this can be America. Anyway, the point is that James O’Keefe is is taking advantage of California rules that say you can just use a fake address. And by the way, this is something that’s completely true. I I found this out myself when I discovered that there were 30 people registered at a toilet in an empty parking lot. Anyway, uh O’Keefe and the OMG team went undercover on Skid Row posing as homeless individuals on hidden camera. Petitioners admitted they are paying $7 to $10 per signature from homeless people, sometimes earning earning $1,000 a day collecting signatures from individuals with minimal knowledge of what they’re signing. Seven 10 bucks a signature. we’re going to give you $2. Uh wow. A political consulting uh firm was circulating petitions by various large uh corporations in America. Uh we have one on taxes and so on and so forth. This is how we’re we’re using the homeless people in order to get our petition signed in California. The petition signature stuff is really important. If you get enough signatures uh on the petitions, then you know you can get stuff placed on the ballot. This is California law. Paying per signature encouraging fake addresses violates federal and state law. Proof of the fraud happening in California. If they can do it here, they can do it in the elections. Of course, uh Weineart employees, there’s a huge homeless center in California. Weart employees are caught directing the homeless to the location and the petitioners are coaching them on plausible deniability. Paying per signature violates state election law as an evidence of fraud in California. Oh boy. Okay. So, what’s going on here? Well, let’s watch the top line here from James. » Now, we going to give you $2. » We can’t need 14 signatures. » The petitioner, Brenda Brown, hands cash money to the homeless person, not only for signing the California ballot initiative, but also as payment for them to register to vote. Now, because you haven’t registered, I need to register you so I can get paid, too. » I’m paying you guys. I need to get paid. » That is a federal felony. And it didn’t just happen once. It happened over and over and over again. We personally witnessed and covertly filmed this happening at least 28 times over the span of our investigation, and that is just in Los Angeles. Many of the homeless have zero understanding of what it is that they’re actually signing. » But what what is that petition for? You know the petition for » I do not know what to say. » The petitioners instruct the homeless to enter madeup addresses like Pinocchio Lane. » What do I put in my address? » Yeah. You live on Pinocchio Lane? » Oh, good. And all of this occurring just outside the front doors of shelters and NOS’s such as Wine Guard Center, which have received hundreds of millions of dollars in government money. One Weine Guard employee tells us when and where to find the illegal cash exchanges for signatures outside and says the cash being given out is coming from a higher source. » Do you know if they provide the money that they’re handing out? » Yeah, they give up. when they give the money up, they got to go back and tally up if they stealing the money or not. So, they got to have six. Most time be right across the street under that tree. You can check with your mother to Friday. » While another Weine Guard employee advises the homeless on how to practice plausible deniability and ignorance of the law. » See, they said ignorance is not excuse of the law, but a lot of times I have to say I didn’t know. I have no idea. » Oh, that would be what he should say. The petitioners orchestrate an elaborate pyramid scheme of unregistered petition circulators. » If I were to hire you, you’ll be under me. I’m under my son. I’m under him and you under me. So, it’s like a pyramid game. And really, I don’t need you. You need me. I don’t need you. » One of the petitioners threatens to attack one of our journalists. » Going down the street, bro, before we move you down the street. I’ll knock you out. Looking right at me, » bro. Why you trying to be like that, bro? I won’t knock your ass out. Get your ass [ __ ] Don’t come over here again. I’mma beat your ass. » And an employee of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority records not the fraud, but the people exposing it. » That you don’t care. » Why are you filming? » Why you filming us? I’m with the LAPD. » You You know it’s a crime to say you’re with the police or you’re not. » No, I’m not with the LA. » Well, that’s what you just said 2 minutes ago. » Why did you lie? As the NOS’s pretended to be the police in order to intimidate us, I began to wonder whether we’re still living in America. The Department of Justice has been sent these tapes of election fraud cash exchange for voter registration happening in broad daylight. And we have informed the Department of Justice there are more tapes coming. There will be a new tape dropping every day until someone is arrested or indicted. » Whoa. Okay. So, you have a 30 minute documentary here. Please go to James O’Keefe’s page or YouTube channel to see the full thing. But to get a hold of this, uh, it’s been seen by millions of people. It’s gotten uh uh 32,000 likes, 12,000 reposts. So, it’s gone properly viral. Look at this. Governor Nuome demands prosecutions for James O’Keeffe undercover video expose 28 cash for ballot deals in California. Look at this. This alleged activity is a felony in California. Anybody caught uh engaging in this activity should be investigated and prosecuted the fullest extent of the law. Huh. Well, look at that. The governor’s office saying like in in in panic signals prosecutions after our cash for signatures video. Look at this. District district attorney LA district attorney confirms they have received our election footage and the review is underway. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is saying the video of ballot bribery happening in LA. Question is uh obviously Mayor Bass has no tolerance for fraud of any kind. So everybody now is running away from this system under California law. It is illegal to give money or other valuable consideration exchange for their signature or initiative petition. It’s also criminal to circulate or file these petitions. The California initiative process is important to the part of our democracy and those who abuse the system will be held accountable. Remarkable. So now they’re saying they may actually enforce the law in California. I doubt it, but guess we’ll wait and see. Our office has received your complaint and will open a file of preliminary review. You will receive confirmation from the public integrity division. James O’Keeffe nail dead fraud cash for ballots and votes. That’s what the homeless crisis was always about in California. This is what all of the homeless industrial complex is intended to deliver and to create is systems of fraud. Fraudulence of federal dollars into Democrat uh supermajority areas. Fraudulence of petitions and people to sign the petitions for cash. Registering voters to empty parking lots. We saw it all. This is what James is uncovering. California in panic. And now now they have the petitions the the petitions to bring voter ID to California. So I bet they’re ramping this up this operation up like crazy. We had Carl Deayo on the show who delivered finally uh voter ID for California. It’s going to be on the ballot. This is probably how they’re going to try and defeat it uh by using the homeless votes fraudulently. But good news for California on that front. And here here’s Carl Deio explaining. Carl, you absolute madman. You’ve done it. You total legend. You 1,368,000 signatures of Californians verified in order to put voter ID initiative on the ballot. We have a massive cheer actually for you right now from the chat. You actually delivered on your California, your own California version of the Save America Act. Of course, it gets put up to a vote next. Um, congratulations, Carl. » Thanks, Benny. But the credit goes to all of the grassroots volunteers who collected signatures. Uh, to all of our coalition partners who helped us raise funds, including Julie Lucky, uh, in her committee, the Californians for Voter ID, which include Nicole Shanahan, who you had on your podcast. You brought a lot of national attention to this. So, this was a real team effort. And it goes to show that even in the blue state of California when everything is stacked against us, all the money, all the media, all the infrastructure, that the conservatives can actually work together, rise up, and do something uh to move the needle. And and so part of what I’m trying to do by moving voter ID forward in the state of California is send the message to the red and purple states out there. If we can do this in California, then what the hell are you waiting for? enact your own voter ID initiative at the state level. Don’t wait for those sellouts in the Senate to do their damn job. They never will. Let’s rise up. Make this a grassroots rebellion state by state by state. Uh now we got the signatures, but we’re not out of the woods yet. We still have to pass it in November. The polling shows 70% of Californians are in favor of voter ID, but there’s a lot of dirty tricks that the Democrats and their friends in the liberal media will pull. So, we’ve got to work hard between now and November to actually win the vote uh on election day.