lou pearlman was a strong name to say, and a powerful name to say. they took me in this house. it was beautiful. it's a $1.6 million house in hollywood. my mortgage was $8,000 a month. i lived there for two years. the company never made one payment on it, and i had no idea. so when that house -- yeah. so, yeah. there was a lot. so everything was just fake in a way. >> one month we didn't get our check, so i had called trans continental and spoke with the woman who is in the accounts, and she said that something happened to the checks, they got shredded by mistake. and then the following month there was no check again. and that's how it started crumbling. >> i got a call from one of the investors who had given money to pearlman, and they asked me about, what do i know about lou pearlman and trans continental airlines, and the answer at that time was nothing. i immediately thought, this is one of those unregistered securities that somebody is selling. so i decided that i would look into it some and find out more. there was an office number, and somebod