Matt Murphy

Christianity, he decided to give him this very almost outsized responsibility in his company.

And Ed was doing very well there.

And that's really where he learned that the lead business and where he met Chris.

So Chris also had had some religious leanings, although I don't think he was as devout as as Ed was.

But Chris was just Chris was he's just this really good leader.

He's a good guy.

You know, he loved his family.

His parents are still together.

Devoted to his brother.

Just very loved his girlfriend.

I'm sorry.

Paul.

Yeah.

He's also just a great guy.

So this kind of like quintessential California kid is Chris Smith.

Well, so great question.

So nothing actually, or at least they didn't know anything had happened before they formed the partnership.

But almost right after the ink is dry and they both leave their companies, there was what appeared originally to be an accounting irregularity, which I think is how it was first put, an accounting irregularity with LeadPoint.

And what that turned into is the owner got into the books and realized that there was not only a whole bunch of

clients that went with ed you know and that that's a common thing and that sparks more than one dispute out there but there's also a bunch of missing money and in fact the money um at the more the closer they look the more money they found was missing and it wound up um totaling about seven hundred thousand dollars so right after chris essentially attaches himself to ed there are these financial problems that started arising in riverside county so they get in there and um