[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The problem — and this is a significant one — was that the company’s owners never received the proper permits from the California Coastal Commission or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which turned that “perfect environment” into an illegal one.

No.

There are three types of crime. Crimes against another human, crimes against property and what this is which is a process crime.

Unless they can show how this did actual damage to the area they need to have, at most, given them some paperwork to fill out and what ever fee they would have charged.

[dfwgator]

The crime was not paying off the right officials.