“Shocking Twist: LA Wildfire Lawsuit Erupts as Politician’s Own Brother Sues Her City Over Devastating Palisades Fire”

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**Patrick Bet-David** (0:30)
Vinny, what is the story with Karen Bass's brother, who is suing the city LA, who her brother is the mayor of?

**Vinny Lingham** (0:37)
Okay.

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:37)
To get my, what's the story about?

**Vinny Lingham** (0:39)
There's a massive lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles after her brother's home, Malibu home burned down in the Palisades.
Thousands obviously are suing the city, claiming leadership failed to prepare for the response to the disaster. And the irony, it's brutal. She was already getting hammered for leaving to Ghana while the warning. Remember the leaked audio, Pat, that that guy put out? That the dangerous winds were coming, the fire conditions were coming in, and then people were asking why the city looks so unprepared. The dry fire hydrants, the lack of resources, the confusion everywhere. And now her brother is suing the city that his sister runs. And like this tells you everything, even her own family, Pat. This is the irony of everything. Gets burned by the city's incompetence, okay? And imagine being the mayor of Los Angeles. You leave the country while you know everything bad is going to come, and then your own brother does this, okay? And honestly, you know what I would say? Like, your sister is the mayor.
Skip the lawsuit, go to her office, and tell her this is next level failed leadership in the crazy part, Pat. She'll probably still going to be mayor. She's still in first place. And that's California politics in a nutshell. The city can burn down, leadership can fail completely in front of the freaking entire country, and your own brother can end up suing the very city that...

**Patrick Bet-David** (1:54)
Is this the video? Go for it.

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We are learning LA Mayor Karen Bass' own brother is part of a massive lawsuit against the city over the Palisades fire. We're diving into the court documents, naming him as one of the plaintiffs. Thanks again for joining us live at ABC 7 Disney Plus and everywhere you stream. I'm David Ono. I'm Liz Naguian for Jovana Lara.

**Vinny Lingham** (2:14)
Thousands of property owners who saw their homes burned to the ground in the past. Is it wild, Tom? Like, does it boggle your mind that the brother of the mayor, who some would say is one of the main reasons why she wasn't even here when it happened, and you're trying to get money now from that city, now taxpayers have to pay for it? Is that ridiculous?

**Tom Ellsworth** (2:33)
Yeah, I have an idea.

**Vinny Lingham** (2:35)
I have a thought. Go ahead.

**Tom Ellsworth** (2:36)
Okay. Karen Bass, is she going to win in November?

**Vinny Lingham** (2:41)
I'm very, very highly likely.

**Tom Ellsworth** (2:43)
Yeah, it's up above 80% because the social...

**Vinny Lingham** (2:46)
People love that. People love her.

**Tom Ellsworth** (2:47)
Unless something weird happens, Nithya Raman, if you take the moderate Spencer Pratt voters who have been shut out, disenfranchised, whatever you want to say, and I think there's funny business, but I'll just say that that's what Tom Ellsworth thinks.
So okay, who are they going to vote for? They're going to vote for Karen Bass because they're not going to take Nithya Raman. No, this what they would say, crazy socialist Marxist. So therefore Karen Bass can be re-elected. Karen Bass will then turn limit out. Her 2026, 2030 will be it. She's out of term limits.
I happen to think that she's turning a blind eye to this and she's allowing her brother to get a settlement from the city.
I don't think she cares. I think she's going to let it happen. And it's a way that that graft is going to go to her brother. I don't think they got together at the dinner table and says, Hey, I got an idea, sis. I'll sue you. I'll sue this. But he's not suing her. He's suing the city. And remember her position is going to be the same thing. It was she fired that police chief. Remember the, the, the self-identified lesbian.

**Vinny Lingham** (3:58)
Yes.

**Tom Ellsworth** (4:00)
Remember her. And I'm describing her the way she described herself. And they tried to, and they tried to, you know, really paint that fire chief as having let the mayor down.