Hard working entrepreneurs?
The reality is a good percentage of biz in LA are from cartel money. They put straw buyers up and have their friends and relatives run these places. Many others are owned/run by mideastern oil money.
If you read the whole article you will get to where the two women-embezzlers refuse to transfer the bakery intact to the lawyer they ripped off. Instead the bakery is going to be liquidated, assets sold off and the proceeds go to the lawyer.
So as far as I can see the thieves are still making money daily running the bakery. Plus I don’t get where they can refuse to hand over a functioning business (bakery) as part of the 5 million dollar restitution they must make