Lauren Chen

We were not allowed to do that.

Not only were we not allowed to do that, but any money that we had kind of outside the accounts that was taken, we quickly found out that there were a bunch of our actual employees for Tenet that had not gotten paid for the month because of when they had frozen the accounts at the beginning of the month.

So not wanting our employees to not be paid, we had to come up with that money ourselves.

We also had our corporate card that, again, the charge card payment hadn't gone through beginning of the month.

So now we also owe that.

It was...

I don't know how to explain how much of a bad month September was.

So from...

Yeah, well, the administration is definitely more friendly.

We are no longer being treated like we're active criminals, which is a very, very refreshing change.

Because I can say that the people who were basically in charge of our case at the time, they did everything that they could essentially to ruin our lives extra judicially.

Because everything that happened to us, the smearing of us, the seizing of our property,

We never went to court.

We were never charged with anything.

There was like no, I guess, no ability for us to say like, hey, clear our names because we were never taken to court.

And don't get me wrong.

I didn't want to get taken to court.

But at the same time, it kind of left us in a frustrating position because

We used to be a society that believed that, hey, charges don't necessarily mean you're guilty, right?

Because you have to have your day in court and prove you're innocent.