[discostu]

I didn’t make that up. Read your own article:
“ and aiding and abetting investor fraud. (Azzaretto and Hahn have also been required to pay $50,000 in restitution to that investor.) “

A water way is a water way is a water way. If you’re putting hazards in it you have to chart it. That way everybody knows how to avoid it. The only thing that changes with it being a channel and not the ocean is HOW you chart it.

They put things in the Santa Barbara Channel! That IS a shipping zone AND it gets dredged twice a year. Now they might have found a nice corner that wasn’t in the shipping and dredging lane. But given how little of their homework they did, I think if they did that it was luck more than planning.

[Lazamataz]

I didn’t make that up. Read your own article: “ and aiding and abetting investor fraud. (Azzaretto and Hahn have also been required to pay $50,000 in restitution to that investor.) “

Yeeeeahhh... while I concede you didn't make that up, I would also note that in today's legal climate (c.f. Donald Trump), the 'fraud' could be that they cannot deliver on the wine they promised, BECAUSE the authorities seized it.

Things are THAT effed up these days.