Ruben Garcia: The Downfall

“Not long after Trutanich’s loss, Advanced Cleanup sued BP America, alleging that it had only paid a small fraction of the $4 million it said it was owed, according to court documents filed in 2014. Both companies eventually settled two years later. This was the high point for Garcia. After considerable testing and evaluation, the […]

Who is Ruben Garcia? A Case Study in Progress

A prominent man based in Southern California, there isn’t much information pertaining to him since 2016. However, digging much deeper, there has been a cached page provided by Google which startling facts and images from a now defunct and non-operational website by the name of crookandliar.com. With a plethora of lawsuits attached to his name, […]

Promises That Ultimately Fell Too Short

“Clinical laboratory leaders have watched with keen interest the federal criminal proceedings against disgraced Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes, whose blood-testing company lost nearly $1 billion of investors’ money before dissolving in 2018. In a recent CNBC interview, John Carreyrou, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) investigative journalist who first broke the Theranos story in 2015, contended that the once-high-flying Silicon Valley startup could […]

ZZZZ Best, Is Actually Not Ze Best

“What Happened? On this day in 1987, the assets of infamous corporate fraud ZZZZ Best were liquidated at a bankruptcy auction for just $64,000. Where The Market Was: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed the day at 2,485.33 and the S&P 500 traded at 309.27. What Else Was Going On In The World? In 1987, President Ronald Reagan […]