A Competitor Solicits the AG's Help

10/21/20 • 25 min

How Kamala Harris Murdered An American Success Story

Jerrod Menz started A Better Tomorrow Treatment Centers in 2004 with one facility and 12 beds in Temecula, California.

Like his mother, Menz was able to walk away from his own addiction to alcohol and drugs to help others. In a few short years, the company had multiple drug and alcohol in-patient centers with about 70 beds.

However, Menz's aggressive business tactics and desire to grow his company attracted the ire of a neighboring competitor, Charles "Rocky" Hill.

Hill had tried for years to draw attention to Menz and A Better Tomorrow Treatment Centers. Following the untimely and sudden death of a client in 2010, Hill connected with Deputy Attorney General Hardy Gold, who served under the California Attorney General, Kamala Harris.

For the next few years, these two men would conspire to build a murder case against Menz and destroy his company.

Jerrod Menz started A Better Tomorrow Treatment Centers in 2004 with one facility and 12 beds in Temecula, California.

However, Menz's aggressive business tactics and desire to grow his company attracted the ire of a neighboring competitor, Charles "Rocky" Hill.

For the next few years, these two men would conspire to build a murder case against Menz and destroy his company.

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California and Learning the Drug & Alcohol Treatment Industry

Like his mother, at an early age Jerrod Menz found himself going down the slippery slope of drug and alcohol addiction. Fortunately, he participated in a 12-step program and was sober by the age of 21.

Menz arrived in California to work alongside his mother in her drug treatment program. After working for other treatment facilities, he opened A Better Tomorrow Treatment Centers, a drug addiction treatment center in Temecula, California. During the early years, Menz encountered a local competitor, Charles "Rocky" Hill, who sought to put Menz and his company out of business.

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A Trio Emerges to Kill a Company

Charles "Rocky" Hill, a local competitor, had spent years trying to put Jerrod Menz and his drug addiction treatment companies out of business. After a client died soon after checking themselves into one of Menz's facilities in July of 2010, Hill developed a close relationship with California Deputy Attorney General Hardy Gold. Five years later, when a San Francisco area hedge fund started shorting the company's publically traded shares and publishing information critical of company practices, a trio waging war against Menz emerged. Attorney General Kamala Harris and her office charged Menz and others with second-degree murder over the client's death. Although Harris was unsuccessful in prosecuting the case, Menz and American Addiction Centers would suffer financially while Kingsford Capital made millions watching the company's stock plummet. The question remains, did anyone associated with the Attorney General's office profit from the fall of the company's stock?