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Well, the Diddy Trial is prosecuting the wrong case, and there's something fishy going on with Red Lobster's bankruptcy. Also, some of you might be wondering who the hell I am. So today we're going to take you all the way back to the first story I ever covered on TikTok, where I exposed that there's poison in the baby food. We'll also respond to some of your comments. Welcome back to Candace.
Our first story today is about food. A specific kind of food that most of you probably eat, but you probably never realize that this food has a serious dark side. And I'm speaking, obviously, about shrimp. Endless shrimp, to be exact. Last May, Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy.
And at the time, I had mistakenly assumed that it was because of mismanagement in some sort of private equity buyout, like all the other cool kids these days. But it turns out that that's old news. Private equity had already been there and done that way back in 2014, when Red Lobster had been bought out by Golden Gate Capital. And what did they immediately do?
Well, if you watched our show yesterday, you would know that they sold off all of Red Lobster's real estate in a leaseback scheme, much like Toys R Us and all sorts of other brands before them. They actually used this leaseback scheme to finance their initial purchase of Red Lobster like a leverage buyout that we already talked about.
But color me surprised when I looked up who owns Golden Gate Capital. It was founded by former professionals from private equity firm Bain Capital and its affiliate Bain & Company, led by former Bain Capital partner David Dominick.
So you remember how last time we talked about how Bain Capital was the private equity arm and Bain & Company was the consulting arm and they would never work together, right? But not only that, when you look up the real estate company that they partnered with in the deal, later that same year, 2014, they got busted for a little $23 million accounting error.
This is coming from a couple of different sources online, as well as Wikipedia to summarize it all for us. The company was formerly known as American Realty Capital Properties, Inc. And it changed its name after an accounting scandal. Its name was derived from the Latin word veritas, meaning truth.
In October 2014, the company admitted to $23 million accounting error and fired Chief Financial Officer Brian Block. Lawsuits allege that insiders received over $900 million in fees from the company. In December 2014, Schorsch resigned as chairman.
Remember, 2014, right around the time that they had just bought back all these properties from Red Lobster, that's when they were doing this whole accounting error. In July 2015, the company changed its name to V-E-R-E-I-T, Verite, Verite. In September 2019, certain defendants agreed to pay $1.025 billion. So that's a little bit of a whoopsies. But anyways, we're getting distracted.
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