One day three years ago, Rose Jasso and her husband, Bryan Rodriguez, were about to break for lunch at Five Star Barbershop on Plaza Boulevard in National City when a man introducing himself as Greg Moreno walked in and asked for a haircut.
"I remember it as if it were yesterday," Jasso said of the day she met Moreno. "He walks toward us with a big old smile on his face and I got the feeling of a used car salesman. The first comment he made was, 'What do you all think about medicinal marijuana?'"
Late last year, in a shaky voice, Jasso told a shortened version of that story to the five assembled members of the National City Council. It was the evening of Dec. 3, and Jasso, accompanied by a phalanx of friends and family members, stood behind a lectern during public comment at a regularly scheduled City Council meeting.
Speaking rapidly because of a two-minute time limit, Jasso accused Moreno, along with other key employees of Element 7, of using false claims of a charitable giveback program to trick her into signing forms that made her the unwitting owner on paper of the company's planned National City cannabis business.
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