"Late one October night on the Opal Cliffs of California, a gang of armed intruders forced their way into the oceanside estate of tech millionaire and weed tycoon Tushar Atre. A witness reported the CEO was forced into his white BMW at gunpoint - and hours later, his body was discovered at his rural compound in the Santa Cruz Mountains."
"During the trial of Kaleb Charters, a manual laborer at one of Atre's marijuana farms, a former manager named Sam Borghese testified that Atre maintained a "hostile, fear-based" working culture. Borghese told the court that Atre - who had a net worth of some $16 million - regularly withheld his worker's paychecks, dangling petty grievances over their heads at random."
"Borghese reportedly answered over 100 questions related to Atre's cruelty, adding that his workers made a habit of "joking" about teaming up to rob and hurt the CEO. Borghese recalled one particularly striking incident involving a struggle over a $1,400 paycheck. Kaleb, along with another defendant named Stephen Nicholas Lindsay, had spent the past two weeks working "from sunrise to sunset" without pay, according to local reporting, only to finally discover their long-delayed checks had been bounced by Atre."
Tushar Atre, a tech millionaire and cannabis entrepreneur, was abducted from his Opal Cliffs estate and later found dead at his Santa Cruz Mountains compound. A six-year investigation implicated several former employees, resulting in two life-without-parole convictions, an ongoing trial for another worker, and a forthcoming court appearance for a fourth. Witness testimony described a hostile, fear-based workplace in which Atre withheld paychecks, berated workers, and fired employees over disrespect. Workers joked about retaliating and recalled a disputed $1,400 paycheck after two weeks of unpaid labor and bounced checks, which contributed to tensions that help explain the killing.
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