r/PacificPalisades

Son. I'm Crine.

An undercover sting turned up roughly $1.2M in illegal bids. It's the second such case since the Jan. 2025 fires.

The sting included looking for online ads for construction work that listed no license number, then invited the contractors to a Pacific Palisades home to bid on building an ADU and demolition. None were licensed, prosecutors allege, and together they bid as much as $1.27 million.

Contracting without a license is usually a misdemeanor. In a declared disaster zone, it is a felony. Five defendants face up to three years; one faces up to six because of a prior strike. All are presumed innocent.

Per: https://probablynews.org/story/local-news/pacific-palisades/palisades-fire/stay-out-of-la-county-six-charged-in-palisades-fire-contractor-sting

I guess all that money Chevron spent on her reelection campaign paid off. Somehow she always finds a way to be absent for things that she doesn’t want to be on the record voting for. It was the same with the sanctuary city ordinance.

Question 2. Did he do it?

A federal judge declared a mistrial in the Jonathan Rinderknecht case on Friday, June 26, after jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict. Rinderknecht is accused of setting the brush fire that led to the Palisades Fire, which killed 12 people and destroyed thousands of structures. Prosecutors said they intend to retry the case, with a retrial date set for October 19, 2026.

Full story: https://www.canyon-news.com/palisades-fire-arson-trial-ends-in-mistrial/

Bruce Alred Lion, 64, one of the heirs to Lion’s Raisin, has been charged by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office following his June 13 arrest. Lion faces three felony hate crime charges, including two counts of making criminal threats and one count of violating civil rights, after allegedly threatening Rabbi Zushe Cunin of Chabad of Pacific Palisades during Shabbat prayers on June 5. His bail was set at $225,000, and if convicted, he could face up to 9 years and 4 months in state prison.

Full story: https://www.canyon-news.com/lions-raisin-company-heir-charged-by-district-attorney/

With Prime Day deals dropping throughout the week, did you know buying items from our Amazon wish lists is super helpful in carrying out our mission of helping homebound neighbors?

We have two wish lists - our general items and our wish list dedicated to our “100% run off item donations” pet pantry.

Our team will be keeping an eye on and updating our wish list for the best deals as they drop.

As an organization fueled completely by donation support, donating items we need for everyday office use or to feel the pets of our clients is a great way to ensure the dollars donated to the organization are funding the fully prepared meals we provide. hundreds of clients each delivery day.

Some highlights -
* We operate out of a refinished attachment of a local church. Space is tight for the team, so we’re looking to maximize the four rooms we have by replacing some larger desks (there’s a standing desk on the list with a steep discount right now). We also added a sump pump - remember the downpour we had over Christmas holidays last year? Our whole food delivery zone was inches deep in water. We hope to minimize soaking holidays by having a sump pump handy for those major storms.

* Just today, we received multiple requests for dry cat food for a total of nine client pets. We’re out of cat dry food (we went months with asks for only wet food) so we added a few affordable cat dry food options ton our pet pantry list.

* Are you a practical gifter? Many of the items are everyday use items for us - think trash bags and notepads and disinfectant for our food delivery equipment. What’s not exciting to the every day shopper is thrilling to us to receive.

We’ll add more in the comments as Prime Days goes on. Appreciate this community 🫶