In 2015, Kamala Harris, then the Attorney General of California, filed second-degree murder charges against Jerrod Menz, the president of an accredited in-patient drug treatment center. Five years earlier, a client died only hours after being admitted to a company facility. 

The local coroner ruled the untimely death occurred from natural causes. However, a spiteful local competitor found an ally in an employee of a San Francisco area hedge fund shorting the company's publicly traded stock. Were the major players in the case misusing inside information to profit from the stock's rapid decline? Did Kamala Harris or her husband, whose law firm performed legal work for a potential acquisition target of the company, profit in any way? 

Jerrod Menz reveals how he believes Kamala Harris played a role in murdering an American success story.

Jerrod Menz started a drug addiction treatment center in 2004. Eleven years later, his company had merged with another, forming American Addiction Centers. In 2015, then California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed second-degree murder charges against Menz and his former company over a client's untimely death. Here's the story of how a competitor, a hedge fund company, and a rising political figure targeted and damaged a publically traded company.

Like his mother, at an early age Jerrod Menz found himself going down the slippery slope of drug and alcohol addiction. Fortunately, he participated in a 12-step program and was sober by the age of 21.

Menz arrived in California to work alongside his mother in her drug treatment program. After working for other treatment facilities, he opened A Better Tomorrow Treatment Centers, a drug addiction treatment center in Temecula, California. During the early years, Menz encountered a local competitor, Charles "Rocky" Hill, who sought to put Menz and his company out of business.