Les Amis Days of Squatting On Our Property Are Over
So it looks as if the City of Fullerton has finally decided to quit playing patty cake with Jinan and young Oliver Montecristo. The owners of the restaurant Les Amis who kept encroaching on public property without approval or permits, and who serially dodged paying tens of thousands of dollars to the City in rent, are having their “improvements” on public property removed by the City.
Here’s the notification to the City Council from acting City Manager, Eddie Manfro:
Mayor Jung and City Council Members,
I was informed this morning that Public Works crews have removed the outdoor dining encroachments at Les Amis restaurant this morning. This follows the 90 day extension that she was granted by City Manager Eric Levitt. Following her payment of $3,900 on July 23, 2025, no further payments have been received.
According to Director Bise, Les Amis was provided with a 48 hour notice prior to removal of the encroachments. Public Works will hold it for 30 days in case they wish to keep it for their future use (but not for installation in the public space).
A copy of Mr. Levitt’s 90 day extension is attached for reference. Thank you.
Eddie
No doubt the suddenly “pro-business” folks at the Fullerton Observer, and “doctors” Zahra and Charles will try to turn this into a David and Goliath story: little David being the scofflaws who have paid almost nothing to the City in rent for 15 years and who blatantly refused to follow City rules about squatting on public premises.
The last City Manager, Eric Leavitt actually gave the Montecristo mob yet another 90 days to make good on their debts and encroachments. Les Amis got a two day notice and still refused to do anything. So Public Works did. And the City has generously volunteered to keep the Montecristo junk on hand for a month in case they want it for some reason.
I really hope Jinan and Oliver get a bill for cost of removing their junk from the public right-of-way, although I doubt if they’d pay it.
And speaking of ever so earnest Oliver, I look forward to his appearance at the next City Council meeting blaming Mayor Jung for his own mother’s failure to pay her bills and play by the rules.
Yes, Zahra will ty to manipulate this with his tender young acolytes. I hope Jung or Dunlap will explain to the public the facts of this long, pathetic look-the-other-wayism.
As a matter of fact, If Jung were me, he’d start off the next meeting with a detailed report – the whole sad truth. That oughta shut ’em up. But I doubt if he will. In Fullerton confrontation with the truth is just so mean.
You seem drunk
Cry harder.
Drunk with joy for not having to subsidize a place that should have folded years ago. Adios and vaya con Dios.
Can someone please send in get an “after” picture?
You also seem drunk. Why are you guys so bad at basic sentence structure?
Cry harder, Oliver/Elijah/Zahra!
Yay! Now we have a massive slab of concrete with nothing on it. Man you guys have such great ideas for this city.
Curious, how much does Bushala (your boss) pay for his encroachment agreement?
Too bad Les Amis couldn’t pony up the dimes to pay for the slab of concrete!
I think it’s spelled Public Works*. Would it pain you guys that much to write these articles sober? Even the comments seem like the ramblings of one drunk individual
Would it pain you Elijah/Oliver/Zahra to get a job?
What the hell are you babbling about?
It’s about damn time. Downtown Fullerton has been a teat to suck for con men, deadbeats, scofflaws, etc, for 25 years.
Jinan and Oliver could have played it straight but they were enabled by a culture of corruption that helped the Florentines, Jack the Dwarf, Jeremy Popoff, and now Mario Marovic. Shove in the various bar owners and fake restaurants who get US to pay their clean up and who fake booze sales to the ABC.