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on your favorite podcasting platform. Hello everyone this is Monica Perez joined by our old friend Anthony Raimondo

who is a fantastic lawyer of the utmost integrity who saved a lot of businesses during lockdown.

We've talked about that before. We've also talked about farm labor, labor efforts,

what's happening with water in California.

He's an expert, I really will, I don't know if he'll own that,

but it's very clear to me he is the most knowledgeable person

I've ever heard on some of these subjects.

And in the news last week was an interesting article that

is kind of a continuation of what we were talking about before so we thought we

would share this with you hello Anthony thank you for being here. Good morning. Thank you for having me.

So let's say, let me just read the headline of the latest article and tell you that I really

can't begin to understand the significance as you can.

So there's an article in the Wall Street Journal just the other day, three days ago.

Prima Wawona, collapse, shines harsh light on private equity owner.

The fruit growers bankruptcy tops a series of setbacks for the agribusiness strategy of Payne-Schwar

partners and a lot of different implications about not just

this company but about the industry and labor are in that. So why don't you get us

back up the speed of why this is part of a bigger conversation.

Well, one of the reasons I said this to you is because you and I had a conversation

some time ago about the what I call the agricultural land grab in

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