director weiland, the next item. >> okay. next on the agenda is another limited live performance permit. this is for rock bar, located at 8020 9th street, and this is an area where we're seeing a lot of limited live performance permits coming up, which is exciting. the only reason this is on regular agenda is again, because of one complaint that we received at the end of last week as a part of the extensive neighborhood outreach that the owners were doing in the area. a nearby resident reached out, saying that they, you know, took issue with sound coming from patrons exiting the venue, and to the owners immediately addressed that complaint with the complainants and are working with them, but again, since there is a complaint, i wanted to put it on regular and let them speak to that. so without further adieu, i'm going to bring up the two owners. and this is josephine and kevin. >> hello, commissioners. how are you? we're from rock bar. we are on the corner of tiffany and -- is that -- okay. we're from rock bar. don't let the

please follow up with director weiland with your next steps. thank you. and that -- all right, and the next item is number eight, which is the review and possible action to change the conditions on place of entertainment permit ec-953, dba hue. >> okay, everyone. so, if you pull out your -- this item in your binder, it begins with a notice to appear. that's just how i formalized the permit holder's request to come to hearing this evening to present to you on why they would like you to consider a potential change in their permit conditions. specifically, the purpose of this hearing is for you to consider revising the conditions listed on their permit as hours of entertainment are limited currently until 12:00 a.m. sundays through thursdays and 1:00 a.m. on fridays and saturdays. and so in your packet, as well, you will see a letter from mr. bloom, who is the attorney for permit holder bennett montoya, who's here this evening, as well as documents from central station permit officer steve matthias. he has included two cad reports here and one arrest report

the next item agenda -- the next -- i'm sorry, the next permit application, director weiland will help us with. >> okay. thank you. good-bye. all right. so the next application on agenda tonight is for paramount superstars. this is at 939 clements street. this is a limited live performance permit, and the only reason why i have this on regular agenda is because i did receive one complaint about the venue at the very beginning when they were applying to us. the complainant wrote a letter and you'll see it in the files. i have not seen or heard from this person since, and this -- especially since we've had to continue the hearing, they've done almost two months of neighborhood outreach. you'll see a lot of support in the files. we don't have any concerns from the police department about the venue. they haven't been receiving calls for service or anything like that. so without further adieu, i will bring up the venue owner, wesley li, just to speak a little bit more about his application. >> good evening, commissioners, i'm with wesley li. just want to say this, after he did apply, he did

weiland has indicated that mr. and mrs. diamond have a complaint about noise. first thing i want to say about that is, when you move to a venue, when you move to a condo, which is the busiest entertainment block in the city, you're going to expect there's going to be noise. the people who sold them that should have told them that, they should have known that, and here they are. nobody wants noise, but mr. montoya has given them, the diamonds, his cell phone number, and he's given them the cell phone numbers of several staff members. on four or five occasions, i want to make this clear, every time there's been a noise problem, mr. and mrs. diamond has called. they have turned down the volume. but let me say this, never, never once, has there been a violation of the decibels, the level of decibels that have been mandated. never once. never once. never once. now, yeah, the thumping, the bass is a problem. so call. and mr. montoya, every single time he's gotten a call, he has turned down the bass and there's not been a problem. that's what you do. police code, arti

or decrease he said looks like that it has increased because it became obvious quite a bit of gang weiland in particular in some of the suburbs in the big cities so just a call from birth moment and some of you saw the pictures of car tortures recently but actually the real numbers really said not so much has changed in the last twenty years that the numbers of murders for example have not really gone up that much so why are we seeing such a backlash now. well because it became a big political topic as i said because it became more obvious that there is still the appropriate in particular in the some suburbs but there are many people that don't have a real good perspective there and it is used politically by some of the politics and i want by the sweden democrats for example certainly tell us about them you know this is an anti-establishment party how if they want to or so many voters what are they promising well the democrats they can actually form a neo nazi background they have changed to be the became a moderate you know and they really try to put it as a as an alternative to speed in

for the government and with me is greg andres, kyle freeny, jeannie rhee and omer meisel and jeff weiland from the fbi. the judge, all right, good morning. and good morning, your honor, richard westling, thomas zehnle and kevin downing on behalf of mr. manafort. good morning. and i note that mr. manafort is president. the judge. i understand the defendant wishes to enter a plea of guilty, is that correct? that's correct, your honor. all right, before we proceed any further, he can join you at the lectern. and the courtroom deputy says, are you paul j. manafort, jr.? >> i am. are you the person named in the superseding proceeding? i am. this starts with the good mornings, right? at this very early point in the proceeding, everybody there in the courtroom knows at least one important part of what's going to happen, right? the judge has said right off the bat he is here to plead guilty, right? yes, yes, your honor. and then the reason there is a superseding information, which is what the courtroom deputy just asked there to paul manafort, superseding information, i know it's a weird phrase.

. >> ed weiland who is a i guess long-time conservative judicial activist. >> the troll person. >> okay. >> he released a tweet storm and this was after -- i want to say it was orrin hatch, watch the tweets. >> she might be mixed up. >> might be mixed up. then he releases this tweet where he says to be clear, where he said another guy did it. >> yes. >> and put a picture of the guy's house, floor plans. >> they look alike and that this other person who is now a middle schoolteacher may have been the one. have you ever seen anything like that? >> yeah. like "law and order" and "the practice" this was a strategy on "the practice" called plan b. if you have a client you say my client didn't do it, this other guy who is not in the courtroom did it. it's a common strategy they execute it like keystone cops here. >> aren't they stipulating they know what happened? >> yes. what they want to be able to say and what they desperately want to be able to say is that christine blasey ford is not lying, but brett kavanaugh didn't do it. like that's their actual strategy. the problem with ed whelen it