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Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio is being forced to dedicate a $2 million beachfront property for public use after his company allegedly used heavy machinery to rip sand and rocks from a protected California beach to shore up his Malibu mansion.

The California Coastal Commission voted unanimously Thursday to approve a settlement requiring Attanasio's company, 2XMD Partners LLC, to restore the damaged shoreline and dedicate the multimillion-dollar property for public use in eastern Malibu.

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[–] AviAdi@lemmy.world 63 points 6 days ago (2 children)

"The beach battle erupted two years ago when Attanasio's next-door neighbor, billionaire James Kohlberg, sued him over the work. Kohlberg's father co-founded global investment giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR)."

So he would have gotten away with it if his neighbor didn't sue him. Just goes to show you how much these fucks do get away with and sometimes we get lucky and they snitch on each other. Billionaires are a fucking scourge on this country.

[–] TownhouseGloryHole@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A fucking scourge on the entirety of the planet.

[–] AviAdi@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Let's keep it local, don't forget these fucks including the Democrats in power hate the idea of getting taxed more. They'd rather Californians suffer with ever decreasing quality of life before their wealth ever gets touched. This state will be better if they fucking left.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As far as I know, every billionaire is a shit eating pedo. Until proven otherwise, they're all Epstein class.

[–] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Ehh, they aren't all pedophelis

They are all horrible beings, but they can be horrible in their own special ways. There's so many other moral laws that they pervert beyond just that one!

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

That they went all pedopiles, or that they are all horrible?

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Millionaires maybe just lucky, billionaires need to make those connections somehow tho. They all either directly participated, or knew someone who does and didn't tell anyone.

[–] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

yea, strongly agree.

You can be a millionaire, maybe even worth 10's of millions and be entirely ethical, but to become a billionaire, let alone a multi-billionaire...

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 30 points 6 days ago (3 children)

You cannot fight the ocean. The ocean will always win. Erosion will always win. No matter how many billions of dollars you have.

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago

He only needs it to work about 30-40 years, then it's not his problem anymore. Fuck everyone else ~the rich

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The Netherlands would like to have a word

[–] Sparhawk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They're fighting swamps and large lakes more than a sea. And when windmills breakdown they will eventually lose again. They may not be around more more by than thou.

[–] fake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Oosterscheldekering

I guess you could call the north sea a large lake?

[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 6 points 6 days ago

Kansai International Airport - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansai_International_Airport

List of artificial islands - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_islands

So many examples of land reclamation, it is just a question of how much effort you are willing to expend. Kind of like mowing a lawn nature is always there, how willing are you to deal with it.

The origional post is hillarious though, glad to see the guy lost his property after stealing from public land.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Another "cost of doing business" rape by the billionaire class. Why get permission when you can pay a relative pittance of a fine?

[–] fake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

and dedicate the multimillion-dollar property for public use

is the real news here.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

just the cost of business.

stop allowing them to pay damages and start making them serve hard time.

[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why is Stole in quotes? It implies he didn't steal sand from a public beach for his own piece of shit house in Malibu.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

That's what I was thinking. Like, does OP think sand can't be stolen?