Ava Kaufman
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431 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 4d ago
Ava Kaufman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's how I'd found Tina, actually.
I'd been searching through court records in L.A.
County.
And it's here, in the courts, that the document trail on Sylvia and Guojun becomes a lot more substantial.
It turned out, Tina was far from the only person to have filed a lawsuit against the couple.
I found that workers and tenants had sued Sylvia, Guojun, and their LLCs at least nine times in the past five years.
A lot of these complaints involved working conditions, but there were also allegations that Guojun could be violent.
Some plaintiffs claimed Guojun had beaten them up.
One contractor told me Guojun had pushed him so hard he couldn't raise his right arm.
In a particularly memorable case that settled last year, a manager alleged that Guojun retaliated against him after he objected to Guojun's aggressive eviction tactics.
He'd seen Guojun attempt to kick down the door to a rental property and fire a taser at a tenant's dog.
After the manager raised concerns, Guojun allegedly hit him in the arm, threw rocks at him, and took an assault rifle out from the trunk of his car.
When police arrived, Guojun told them it was a BB gun.
I kept encountering Guojun's fearsome reputation,
When I visited the house of his former driver, the driver told me his old boss had a lot of powerful connections and warned me, don't fuck with him.
Be careful.
Hello, this is Ava.
One day, I got a call from Frank Acuna, yet another former employee suing Guojun for labor violations.
Yes, very much so.
an open book.
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