The Reckoning
California City
LAist Studios
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Silver Saddle gets shut down and accused of fraud. Will the company - and the dream Ben Perez believed - survive?
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| 0:00.0 | Support for LAST comes from Pasadena Playhouse presenting Eureka Day. |
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| 0:40.3 | Previously on California City. |
| 0:43.3 | Oh, wait a minute. I am in business. I don't want to see anything about suicidal, okay? |
| 0:47.9 | What do I want to say? In Kern County, you know, this is not really a secret. |
| 0:53.7 | But the thing is, is what they're doing is, as far as we know, is not illegal. |
| 1:07.2 | At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, September 25th, 2019, 11 people gathered in the parking lot of an industrial office park next to the airport runway in Burbank, California. There were four employees of a company called Regulatory Resolutions, all wearing suits. Three California Highway Patrol officers in beige uniforms with guns on their hips. |
| 1:31.0 | Two investigators for the California Department of Business Oversight. One locksmith and one |
| 1:37.4 | computer forensic specialist named Joe. They opened the door to a long hallway and all 11 of them walked up a flight of carpeted |
| 1:46.2 | stairs. |
| 1:47.5 | They stopped right outside a cheap-looking wooden door. |
| 1:50.7 | There were two pieces of paper taped to it. |
| 1:53.5 | One had a Microsoft Word clip art smiley face, giving a disembodied thumbs up. |
| 1:58.5 | It read, Ah, you made it. See, that wasn't so bad now, was it? |
| 2:03.6 | The other sign said, welcome to Silver Saddle. It was the company's headquarters. |
| 2:10.6 | Meanwhile, managers at three different banks received an email from regulatory resolutions, |
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