00:01The plaintiffs are two women, Brenda and Marsha.
00:05Marsha runs a catering business.
00:08Brenda works at a credit union.
00:09They wanted to go into business together.
00:12The defendant is a man named Amir Zakharali.
00:15He owned a restaurant called Al Miraj.
00:18Here's what happened.
00:20Amir told Brenda and Marsha he needed a business partner.
00:23He said they could use his restaurant's kitchen for Marsha's catering.
00:27The plan grew into a full partnership.
00:30Amir said he'd stay in the business too.
00:32So Brenda took out $10,000 of her own money.
00:36She gave Amir $1,500 on May 29th and another $8,500 on May 30th.
00:42That's $10,000 total.
00:45Right after handing over the money, Amir gave them the keys.
00:48They started looking around the place.
00:50And that's when they found it.
00:52An eviction notice.
00:53But not just any eviction notice.
00:56A closure order from the health department dated May 19th.
01:00That was 11 days before they gave him the money.
01:03Judge Judy reads the notice out loud.
01:05It says Amir's permit to operate a food establishment is, quote,
01:09permanently revoked for a minimum of one year because of repeated violations causing gross unsanitary conditions and a potential imminent
01:19threat to public health.
01:20The judge turns to Amir and asks him straight, did you tell them?
01:25Amir says yes, he told them both.
01:28He claims he explained they would need to get their own food permits.
01:31Judge Judy doesn't buy it.
01:34She says, don't be a hustler with me.
01:37She asks him, when did you tell him your license was taken away because of unsanitary conditions?
01:42Tell me the exact conversation.
01:44He says May 30th, but he can't repeat the conversation.
01:48He just keeps talking about permits.
01:50So the judge asks Brenda and Marsha directly.
01:54Brenda says he never told her.
01:56Marsha says the same thing.
01:57He never told them.
01:59That's the moment Judge Judy sees the truth.
02:02Amir took their money knowing the food part of his business was shut down for at least a year.
02:08And food was the whole reason these women were interested.
02:11Not a hookah lounge.
02:12Not anything else.
02:14Food.
02:14The judge calls him a hustler.
02:16She says there's no way these women would have handed over 10 grand if he had been honest.
02:22The punishment?
02:23Judgment for the plaintiffs for $5,000.
02:26That's the max the court allows.
02:28And Amir's counterclaim?
02:30Thrown out.
02:31Dismissed.
02:32Distinguished.
02:33The day he gets.
02:33How effectively you can't be tested?
02:34And I think we can originally find an aucune point.
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