1 Kristina Santana
From: jonathan hawes <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 7:29 AM
To: Kristina Santana
Subject: General public comment to be read at the next city council meeting Follow Up Flag: Follow up
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Good evening. My name is Jonathan Hawes. I served as El Monte City Clerk from 2013 to 2018.
Since 2015 I have been a whistleblower on Andre Quintero and Team El Monte’s embezzlement of $10 million from the El Monte Promise Foundation scholarship fund. I have interviewed dozens of El Monte residents who have privately confirmed that Promise funds were used for fraudulent trips to Vietnam and Haiti, a bogus consultant in Salt Lake City, house repairs, and other unlawful expenditures. I have myself been interviewed by the FBI about two dozen times. Documents proving the embezzlement have been submitted to the FBI and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
A week ago, an El Monte resident with a documented history of harassing and fabricating lies about other residents, Gabby Leos, told a string of lies on cable news about El Monte Mayor Jessica Ancona. These lies were spoon-fed to her by City Manager Alma Martinez. El Monte Police Chief Jake Fisher, who went on record confirming one of Leos/Martinez’s lies, needs to be fired for interfering in ongoing litigation by commenting publicly on said litigation, and for lying in his official capacity. Both Martinez and Fisher dislike Mayor Ancona due to her efforts to rid our city of the baleful influence of Andre Quintero and his Team El Monte minions, of which Martinez and Fisher are two. Martinez and Fisher have frequently made significant decisions without a vote from the council, which is unlawful, and Ancona has called out such improprieties, furthering their animosity towards her and her anti-corruption efforts.
I am asking the Diamond Bar City Council to pass a resolution condemning these crimes and schemes in order to protect the greatest mayor El Monte has ever had, Mayor Jessica Ancona, and the vulnerable residents of one of the poorest cities in Southern California. If this criminal, FBIinvestigated cabal succeeds in removing her from office via well-orchestrated, mendacious smear campaigns, we will be back to full dictatorship under Andre Quintero or one of his puppets. El Monte children, who should’ve been provided with college scholarships, were robbed by his embezzlement.
Andre Quintero and Team El Monte members must go to prison. If you have any questions, please call or text me at (626) 863-2149. Thank you.