California and Learning the Drug & Alcohol Treatment Industry

10/19/20 • 22 min

How Kamala Harris Murdered An American Success Story

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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The Making of Jerrod Menz and Kamala Harris

Jerrod Menz started a drug addiction treatment center in 2004. Eleven years later, his company had merged with another, forming American Addiction Centers. In 2015, then California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed second-degree murder charges against Menz and his former company over a client's untimely death. Here's the story of how a competitor, a hedge fund company, and a rising political figure targeted and damaged a publically traded company.

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A Competitor Solicits the AG's Help

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.