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Kelli Peters was the heart of Plaza Vista School in Irvine, California. She was the PTA president and the volunteer director of the after school program. But then, one day, as she was filling in for a teacher, a police officer said he needed to speak with her. He took her out to the parking lot and asked for her car keys. Kelli was puzzled, but she handed them over. The officer dug through her car, and eventually pulled out a bag of pot, a pipe, some Percocet and some Vicodin. Kelli dropped to her knees. She sobbed. She pleaded with the officer. The drugs weren\\u2019t hers, she said. But if they weren\\u2019t hers, then why the hell were they in Kelli\\u2019s car? \\xa0

Then Kristin talks about two things she knows inside and out: fine wine, and the perils of having millions of dollars in spending money. In the early 2000\\u2019s, Rudy Kurniawan was just a young, geeky-looking guy bidding on California wines at high-end wine auctions. Hardly anyone paid attention to him. But then his bids got bigger. And bigger. He spent millions on wine, and then began selling it. But over time, the people who bought his wines got suspicious. The wines didn\\u2019t taste quite right. And some of the labels looked a little funny. Had they been duped?

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\\n\\n\\u201cChateau Sucker,\\u201d by Benjamin Wallace for New York Magazine
\\n\\nThe documentary \\u201cSour Grapes\\u201d
\\n\\n\\u201cProsecutors reveal evidence against accused wine counterfeiter,\\u201d Wine Spectator
\\n\\n\\u201cCounterfeit fine-wine dealer sentenced to 10 years,\\u201d Wall Street Journal
\\n\\n\\u201cKurniawan to tell all in $3M settlement with billionaire Koch, as sentencing is delayed,\\u201d Decanter
\\n\\n\\u201cRudy Kurniawan\\u2019s court date is set,\\u201d Wine Spectator
\\n\\n\\u201cAlleged counterfeit wines go on trial,\\u201d Wine Spectator

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\\n\\n\\u201cFramed: A Mystery in Six Parts\\u201d by Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times
\\n\\n\\u201cFormer Irvine attorney convicted of planting drugs in the car of PTA volunteer disbarred\\u201d by Sean Emery, The Orange County Register
\\n\\n\\u201cJury awards $5.7 million to Irvine PTA mom in drug-planting case\\u201d by Kelly Puente and Sean Emery, The Orange County Register
\\n\\n\\u201cIrvine mom Kelli Peters writes book about drugs being planted in her car\\u201d by Kelly Puente, The Orange County Register

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