Matthew Cox

Well, I know it's funny.

Uh,

It's hard to say whether they care or I can give you this is my personal feet in the trenches.

And again, we're kind of going through time back from the 90s through the 2000s.

But, you know, as something you're very aware of, you know, the housing crisis before before the housing crisis, these companies had.

millions and millions of dollars to spend on enforcement.

Like you would not believe because retail was going crazy.

I mean, just like mortgages, you know, everything, everybody was spending money like you wouldn't believe.

So once when the retail budgets were up, we were out doing raids.

I was flying all over the country.

I mean, we were doing raids everywhere.

And then one day I was 2008 or nine.

I remember the paralegal who was my point person at Chanel.

called me up and said, hey, I just want to let you know, the budget's been cut.

They're moving our office from 57th Street to Jersey, the legal department.

And she said, we have to pay for our own tea in the break room now.

So from that point, the enforcement, the budget for enforcement went to almost like really very little, very little.

So since then, uh, and I'm not joking.

I mean, since then, like the last 14, 15 years, they just been cherry picking targets, trying to find targets that they can, you know, use to set people, set examples for people and stuff.

But scorched earth is over.