Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about the owner of a Mexican restaurant chain in California who is in trouble after enlisting a fake priest to get confessions from his employees about being late, stealing, and other "sins".
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00:00Let's break for a Mexican Minute.
00:09The owner of a Mexican restaurant chain in California
00:15enlisted a fake priest
00:20to take confessions from workers
00:24with the father urging them to get their sins out.
00:30By telling him if they'd been late for work
00:33or had ever stolen from their employer.
00:37Have you ever taken any money?
00:39No.
00:41Okay, how much money?
00:45Like $100?
00:47$100, ooh.
00:49That's a five of Hail Mary.
00:50Okay.
00:51That's good.
00:52Not getting fired.
00:54No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:56I would have never get you fired.
00:58Okay, good.
00:58I am a priest.
01:00I was late today.
01:00You can trust me.
01:01I was late today.
01:02You were late today.
01:04How many times have you been late?
01:06I say I've been late probably like once a month
01:10for like, I don't know, like two years.
01:13You have a rosary, right?
01:15I do, yes.
01:16I would do like probably three rosaries for that.
01:20But telling you this is not going to give me a fire?
01:23Not in any way.
01:24Okay.
01:24You feel free to just let me know.
01:26Anyone else?
01:27All right.
01:28How about any of your friends at work?
01:30They ever get up to some kind of crazy?
01:32Oh, they do all kinds of stuff.
01:33They're always stealing and being late too, so.
01:35And their names are?
01:36Like that's, that's diabolical.
01:42That's crazy.
01:43I mean, I've never thought of anything like that.
01:47Confessional at work.
01:48The restaurant owner, Che Garibaldi, operates Taqueria Garibaldi,
01:53the restaurants throughout California.
01:55According to a statement from the Labor Department,
01:58the alleged priest also asked workers if they harbored bad intentions
02:02toward their boss.
02:04Do you hate the shade?
02:05I do not like the owner.
02:07Oh, you don't like him?
02:07I don't like him.
02:08You don't like the shade?
02:09No, I don't like him very much at all.
02:11You don't?
02:11I like him.
02:12You steal from him.
02:13If they've done anything to harm the company.
02:17Uh-huh.
02:19And if they'd ever taken anything,
02:21they should not have from the company.
02:24You took the work van the other day.
02:26I did.
02:26I took it before I spin.
02:28I just drove it around for a while.
02:30Did you put a new gas in it?
02:32No, no, no.
02:33I returned it on empty.
02:34Okay.
02:36Okay.
02:37No problem.
02:38It's two more our fathers and one more helmet.
02:41Okay.
02:42I'm just so glad I am not getting a fire.
02:44No, not a fire.
02:45No, please.
02:46They call it one of the most shameless scams their labor department has ever seen.
02:53The Diocese of Sacramento, where one of the restaurants is, said there's no connection between the alleged priest they claimed to have used in its jurisdiction.
03:06Hiring a fake priest to solicit confessions wasn't the restaurant chain's only wrongdoing.
03:11A court last month ordered the owner to pay $140,000 in back wages and damages to 35 employees.
03:20Yeah.
03:22Not a good guy.
03:23Had a feeling there was reasons not to like him.
03:25Yeah.
03:25And that's apparently what made the owner bring in the fake priest to see who had complained to the labor department about it.
03:32Oh, my God.
03:34They had found that the company had denied overtime pay to workers, paid managers from money customers had left as employee tips,
03:42and threatened workers with retaliation if they reported it.
03:47I'm a local priest from a local church.
03:52Oh, very cool.
03:54Just down the road.
03:55Okay.
03:56Somewhere on the road.
03:57Yeah, just here to take my confession at the workplace.
03:59Yes.
04:00One worker testified she thought it was very strange.
04:03They were unlike normal confessions.
04:04The priest kept telling her you had to ask her questions so he could help get the sins out of her.
04:09That's what I mean.
04:09I have to do a little bit of a probing to see if I can find out anymore.
04:13If I ever drank alcohol at work.
04:15You ever do any drugs?
04:17All kinds of drugs all the time.
04:18Oh, good.
04:19This is only between...
04:20I want drugs right now.
04:21Lisa, I am basically God right now.
04:25So this is just a conversation between you and a God, and that's it.
04:29I am so glad that it's a private conversation.
04:32You said cocaine?
04:34Cocaine.
04:35Cocaine.
04:36Marijuana.
04:37Marijuana, yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:39I've been drinking on the job, too.
04:40Oh, drinking on the job.
04:43Drinking on the job.
04:43I drank a little bit when I took the van for a spin.
04:46Oh, drinking, driving.
04:48There's going to be another Hail Mary.
04:50Okay.
04:51Asked if they'd ever eaten any food at work without paying for it.
04:55You ever take any of the food from Mr. Shea's truck?
04:58I just had a burrito.
05:00Just a burrito?
05:01Just a burrito.
05:01That's not a big idea.
05:02That's not a big deal.
05:03That's a half a Hail Mary.
05:04Yeah, that's not a big deal at all.
05:06No.
05:07I'm going to write it down.
05:08Okay.
05:11They say that the employer sought to retaliate against workers and silence them, as well as
05:17obstruct an investigation by using this fake priest.
05:21I mean...
05:21That's crazy.
05:22It's ingenious in a way.
05:24It is custom because there would be this trust there that they wouldn't have with anyone
05:28else, right?
05:29Right.
05:29Especially if they were religious people.
05:30Yes.
05:31They'd be like, well, the priest can't say anything, so I can tell him everything.
05:34But that's not.
05:35That's just some dude in a fake priest costume.
05:37Yeah.
05:37Which you can buy.
05:38Anywhere.
05:39Almost anywhere.
05:40Yeah, I have one.
05:41Yeah.
05:41Yeah.
05:42That tells you everything.
05:43Yep.
05:43The guy, like, James comes in, is like, hey, how you doing?
05:47Yeah.
05:47What's up?
05:48Hi.
05:48I'm Father James.
05:49I'm Father Gout.
05:50I'm here today to walk you through this line of questioning.
05:54Yes, they call me Father Gout because I have gout.
05:57So my left foot, it's very hard.
05:59It's very bad.
06:01So have you done anything wrong that you would like to confess to me?
06:03Yeah, that's how it is.
06:05That's crazy.
06:06I know.
06:07But it worked, probably.
06:09It probably did.
06:10It probably did.
06:12Got in big trouble now, the owner.
06:14Oh, absolutely.
06:14Oh, my God.
06:15Like, especially after all the other stuff that you got in trouble for.
06:19Whoa.
06:20No, I don't think I.
06:21This guy is intense.
06:23He's got a sword.
06:24Yeah.
06:25There's someone from history that shares this man's name.
06:27Yes.
06:28Similar name.
06:30Shady.
06:31Shady person.
06:31Yeah.