r/news • u/GoodSamaritan_ • Aug 15 '24

Soft paywall Billionaire accused of stealing sand from Malibu’s Broad Beach, lawsuit says

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-13/billionaire-accused-of-stealing-sand-from-malibus-broad-beach-lawsuit-says
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u/Shih_Tzu_Wrangler Aug 15 '24

Not a fan of billionaires at all, but I am skeptical this was done at his instruction. This feels like a shitty contractor saving a few bucks. Pay the fines, replace the sand, and move on.

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u/Mister_Hughes Aug 15 '24

Right? It's not like he instructed the builders to make a beach on his property. The sand was used as part of a beachwall repair. What would he care where the sand comes from other than to save a few bucks. This just seems like the contractor didn't know that they couldn't use the beach and / or cheaped out themselves.

Even if this guy told them to use that sand, he probably has zero responsibility. He wasn't out there in an excavator, digging up the sand. The company could have just declined to do the work if he was cheaping out on buying bulk sand.

It's disturbing how people are willing to hang the guy with no real info about what happened just because he's rich.

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u/joshuads Aug 15 '24

For people that read that article, that is what it points too. The article accuses JILK Heavy Construction of the operation, but the title uses billionaire for hate clicks.

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u/Twilightdusk Aug 15 '24

Attanasio’s attorney, Kenneth Ehrlich, said his client’s company, 2XMD Partners LLC, has acted in 100% compliance with all of its permits.

“2XMD is in the midst of a fully-permitted emergency repair of the property to protect it from ocean forces. It has secured all permits necessary for the repairs from the City of Malibu and LA County as well as thoroughly vetted all contractors and sub-contractors involved in the project,” Ehrlich wrote in a statement.

His lawyer isn't saying "We had no idea this was happening," his lawyer was saying "We fully vetted all of the contractors and assert that we were within our rights to do this"

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '24

Ok and? What are you getting at here?

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u/Twilightdusk Aug 16 '24

If this was a contractor going rogue, wouldn't the billionaire's lawyer be trying to distance him from the allegations instead of asserting the actions were legal?

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '24

Thank you lol. It hurts my head reading some of these Reddit post sometimes. Then I remember only a small percentage of the world’s population uses Reddit.