A former executive of several marijuana businesses in California has been ousted and ordered by a judge to pay $2.4 million in fines for unlicensed cultivation.
According to Salinas TV station KION, now-former CEO Paul King of Monterey County-based California New Wave – a licensed distributor and cultivator – has been found liable for penalties levied against two other marijuana companies he ran in 2018 and 2019.
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Those two businesses – Fuji Farms and Hands on Faith Association – were found to have been growing marijuana without the proper permits.
Fuji Farms was fined $375,760 and Hands on Faith was fined $2,038,424.
Fuji Farms did not have any local or state cultivation licenses. Hands on Faith had obtained cultivation licenses, but they expired in 2019.
Yet the companies kept growing and selling cannabis under King’s leadership, the Monterey County district attorney’s office told KION.
King sold at least
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