39-year-old Heidi Planck was your typical all-American soccer mom - until she disappeared, and her dog was found abandoned in downtown Los Angeles. Police began to investigate ties to a shady boss, a $43 million dollar fraud scheme, money laundering, and a possible murder.
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Robbery-Homicide Division Missing Woman Investigation NR21336bb - LAPD Online
https://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/2020-09/19-cv-5998.pdf
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Sunday October 17 2021 seemed to start out as just another average day for 39 year old Heidi plank. It was early afternoon. Another beautiful sunny day in West Los Angeles. When Heidi left her rented townhouse located in the palms area of town and neighborhood on the westside of Los Angeles near Culver City. We know she did this because Heidi had a surveillance camera outside her house. The camera captured her pulling out of her driveway and driving away. Heidi was dressed in jeans and a white t-shirt with a smiley face print on it. She had a gray sweater wrapped around her waist and was carrying a black purse over her shoulder. You can see her dog, a Labradoodle. His name is Seven, walking behind her with his leash trailing behind him. According to Los Angeles magazine, seven went pretty much everywhere with Heidi. You can clearly see Heidi climbing into her silver Range Rover with a license plate you 840 XO, holding a cup of coffee and her keys. Then she drove away. She was headed to watch her 10 year old son Bond playing a football game. By the way, Heidi was a big James Bond fan. That's why her dog was seven, like double oh seven and her son's name was bond. But that day was not an average day for Heidi plank. Because at some point after the game, Heidi plank vanished. She was never seen alive again by her friends and family. And it didn't take long for the rumors to start flying about her ex husband, her boss, Jason Sugarman and his links to big money and powerful people in Los Angeles. This was a real life detective noir mystery that seemed to be playing out like the maybe Chinatown complete with allegations of murder, corruption by people in power, and a lot of shady people in sunny places. Other than the occasional update. press coverage of Heidi's case has gone radio silent until now.
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At first after Heidi plank went missing, the local news stations in Los Angeles jumped all over the story. There were missing posters with Heidi's face on them on the news pretty much constantly. She was described as blonde, 120 pounds, five foot three. All of a sudden in Los Angeles, photos of Heidi and her dog seven were everywhere. Suddenly, everyone in California wanted to know more about Heidi plank. Heidi was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. Her mom talked to the Daily Mail after she went missing. She said that Heidi moved to California in 2001 and went to California State University. But Heidi regularly came back to visit her family. In fact, just before she went missing, she recently called her mom to talk to her about coming back to New York for Thanksgiving. According to her LinkedIn page, Heidi worked in real estate. First, she worked at Coldwell Banker between 2005 and 2015. Then she was an executive assistant at Douglas element before moving on to her current job at a company called Camden Capital Partners. Her boss there was 48 year old Jason Sugarman. Jason Sugarman has been linked to a lot of controversy, which we'll get back to in a minute. Heidi's ex husband, a 63 year old hairstylist named Jim Wayne, owned a salon in Beverly Hills. They married in 2008. But Heidi and Jim divorce four years later, after their son Vaughn was born. At the time Heidi went missing, they shared custody of bond. Everyone who knew Heidi said that she was a devoted mother. Jim Wayne told police that the last time he saw Heidi was when she showed up to bonds football game that afternoon. Now, that game was in Downey, which was around 70 miles away from Heidi's home. So it would have taken her around half an hour to get there. Several witnesses saw Heidi at the game. They interacted with her, but they said she seemed as if something could be wrong. She seemed a little bit on edge. Heidi left the game pretty suddenly at halftime, which was around 430. Now early media report said that Heidi and Jim had a good relationship. But a deeper dive into the case shows that this may not have been quite true. They definitely had their ups and downs over the years. Court filings show that they had had a battle for custody in the past. And at one point Jim had full custody of Bond. He had accused Heidi of drug abuse. He also made some comments to the media after she went missing about how they had different parenting styles. How Heidi was the more permissive parent. But all that was years in the past. And at the time when hiding went missing. They seem to be co parenting in a pretty amicable way. According to text messages and court filings Heidi had recently sent Jim flowers and a text thanking him, quote, for all you do for Bond, he adores you, and you're a very special person to him, and quote, Jim later told reporters that the last time he and his son heard anything from Heidi was at around 7pm. That same night, when she responded to one of Bond's texts about the game. Bond sent another text after that one talking about a play he made. But Heidi didn't respond. After that bond kept texting his mother, he was asking why she hadn't been in touch. Something that Jim said was totally out of character for her. He said, even if she was annoyed with him, or she was busy with something, or she was having issues, whatever the situation, Heidi always responded to her son, on October 18, at 7:31pm vond wrote in a text message, can you please call me back? I called you two days in a row and you haven't picked up on Monday morning, October 19. Jim dropped bond off at the private school he attended. By that afternoon Bond was getting more and more worried he still had not heard from his mother. So he texted again, please call or just text me because I want to make sure you're okay. And I'm worried about you. Then you send another text. Please call mom. I miss you. And I'm worried about you. The next day, October 20. Heidi was supposed to pick bond up at school to start her custody time. But she never showed up. And according to Jim Wayne, this had never happened before. By now Jim knew something was very wrong. According to court documents. When he picked bond up that afternoon, they drove straight from the school to the police station, and they reported Heidi missing. Then Jim said he started calling Heidi's friends. And when he did, he realized no one had heard from her since that football game on October 17. An officer went to Heidi's townhouse to do a welfare check and went through with the body camera. But they said there was nothing out of place. So there wasn't much that they could do. Jim told the police something else. Heidi had a boyfriend. His name was nayeem Salam and he was a Silicon Alley executive who worked for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which is the philanthropic arm of Facebook. Now Mehta while police were tracking down name, Jim told them that he talked to someone else who he believed could have crucial information. Heidi's boss, Jason Sugarman, Jim also went behind his house to look around. Heidi had two phones, a regular phone and a work phone. Her cell phone was missing. But her work laptop and work phone were there in the house. Jim ended up taking the work laptop and work phone. According to media reports, he did turn those items over to the police. But it took him a few days to do that. And this caused a lot of people to question. If he was so worried about Heidi, why would he wait, of course in a missing person investigation, every single decision that anyone makes is scrutinized afterwards. Jim was Heidi's ex husband. And obviously there had been this conflict in the past. Sometimes people being silent can make the public suspicious. And other times it seems like they're speaking up too much and trying to point their finger at people. And that kind of seems to be what was happening in this case. But honestly, from everything that I've read and investigated, it seems like Jim Wayne was behaving pretty normally. How I would expect a person to behave if an ex spouse went missing. He was the one who raised the alarm. He was the one who reported Heidi missing, it would have been very easy for him to claim that Heidi had mental issues in the past or claim that she was probably voluntarily missing. But he didn't do that. He insisted from the beginning she would never leave her son and there was something very wrong here. In a lot of potential white collar and red collar crime cases, it's the co-workers who report people missing. But that also did not happen in Heidi's case. So if it wasn't for Jim, it could have been weeks before she was reported missing. And as for Jim taking those items from the house. In a perfect world they would have been handed over to the police immediately and thoroughly investigated. But working in true crime as so many of us know. Sometimes police do not immediately search for missing adults, they may assume they went missing voluntarily. So honestly, Jim did what I think I would have done. He started playing detective and doing some of his own tracking down of leads. Jim told the authorities he got the VIN number for Heidi's Range Rover. But according to court documents, he found out her location services was not turned on. He also said that he did try to find my phone feature on her iPhone and her Apple Watch. But he said those features were turned off as well. At this point, Jim told the media he was starting to suspect this could be something that was planned. He believed this was not a random disappearance and he told police something else. He said there was someone who he believed could have crucial information about Heidi's disappearance. Herb Boss 48 year old Jason Sugarman after Jim Wayne called everyone you could think of Heidi's boyfriend, her landlord and her friends. Jim said he thought about something else that could help the dog seven. He remembered that seven was microchipped. Jim said that right around the time he thought of that he checked the message on Heidi's phone, the one that he had access to. He said he found voicemails from a stranger, someone who said they had Heidi's dog. The people who found seven were a young couple. They lived in the hope and flower building in downtown Los Angeles at 1201 South Hope Street. The couple said that at around 7pm On the evening of October 17. Just a few hours after that game, they found seven roaming the hallways. Some reports said on the 29th while others said the 28th but there was no sign of Heidi there. Jim went to pick up the dog and brought seven home with him. Meanwhile, police spoke to Heidi's boyfriend Na-Eem El Salaam. They verified that he had been in San Francisco at the time Heidi disappeared. He told him something else. He said that lately, Heidi had seemed like she was worried about something. Apparently nayeem told law enforcement. Heidi sent him a text asking him to come down to LA because she was afraid of something. But nayeem said he couldn't come to LA. And at first when Heidi wasn't calling him back. He thought she might have been annoyed with him for not coming to see her that weekend. He thought maybe she was ghosting him. With Na’eem ruled out seven the dog seemed to be law enforcement's best lead. All roads seem to lead to the hope and flower building. So what was Heidi doing there? Jim and her friend said they had no idea. According to news reports, the buildings management on the property did not seem to want to cooperate with the investigation. But police got a search warrant. And after that, Jim and the police said the building had given them what they needed and become a lot more helpful. Meanwhile, Heidi's friends and family were still getting the word out. They were appearing more and more on local news stations in Los Angeles, and they were papering downtown neighborhoods with her poster. They were also wondering if the thing she was afraid of the source of her stress on that day could have been connected to her job. And her boss, Jason Sugarman. Jason Sugarman is connected to a lot of people in powerful positions in Los Angeles. His father in law is Peter Guber, the owner of the Dodgers, and Jason Sugarman had also made headlines for other reasons. He was under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the indictment, starting in 2013, Jason and his business partner Jason GLONASS, stole $43 million from pension funds of a Native American tribe of the Sioux Nation. These guys, Jason GLONASS, and Jason Sugarman, known as the two Jason's were trying to acquire this global financial conglomerate. It was made up of insurers from Europe and Bermuda, and also some investment advisors based in Virginia and Connecticut. It started back in 2014, when Jason GLONASS, and his father John GLONASS, obtained tribal bonds, they convinced the tribe they would sell them and use the proceeds to invest for the tribe. But instead, they straight up stole that money. And what's worse, this wasn't one of those Bernie Madoff type of scenarios that started out as a legitimate investment. And then these guys just got in over their heads. According to the SEC, from the beginning, Jason and Jason knew they were planning to do this to that tribe, Jason Calacanis and Jason Sugarman bought a bunch of companies, including Hughes Capital Management, LLC, and Atlantic Asset Management LLC. They installed their co-defendants and management roles in those companies. But really, the two Jason's remained in control of everything. And they started laundering money. Through a series of fraudulent transactions. The to Jason and their CO defendants stole millions from the Native American Tribal Corporation. They also stole money from the companies they acquired in January 2017. Jason Golan has pled guilty to criminal charges in connection with a fraud. He is currently serving a Senate of 173 months in federal prison, not only did Sugarman and galana screw over their investors. In addition to the Native American Tribal Corporation being $60 million dollars in debt, the Bermuda insurance holding company ended up being delisted from the Bermuda Stock Exchange. The indictment read, Sugarman, however, benefited immensely from this game. Indeed, to a large extent. He was the biggest winner from the fraud, ending up with voting control over corporate assets that were acquired with bond proceeds, and from which he ultimately siphoned almost $9 million in cash for his direct and personal benefit. In quote, Jason Sugarman also has ties to Hunter Biden He and his now notorious laptop of shame. Emails met laptop reportedly show that Jason was a director and key shareholder of a company called Burnham financial group. That group pitched a major deal to his Chinese business partners in 2015. There are a lot of links between these two guys. One of Jason Sherman's partners, who is also mentioned in the SEC indictment is Devin Archer, a longtime friend and business partner of Hunter Biden. Devon Archer was convicted for his involvement in the tribal scam in 2018. Jason Golan as his brother Derek galanis, has also weighed in on this. He's openly talked about his family history of white collar crime and the family's connections to the Gambino crime family. Now it's important to say Hunter Biden's lawyer has said Hunter had nothing to do with the Native American bonds scheme. He said that it was just an unfortunate coincidence that that deal was happening at the same time as the negotiations with the Chinese investors were happening. According to the sun, hunters lawyer said hunters name was used without his knowledge. And then Hunter took steps to assure that his business interests were not associated with the Burnham group, or with the defendants and the tribal bond case. Jim Wayne has made no secret of the fact that he considers Jason Sugarman to be the prime suspect in Heidi's disappearance. He said that on October 21, the day after he reported Heidi missing, he got a phone call from someone saying they were an SEC executive. And they were asking questions about Jason Sugarman. Then something else very weird happened. CBS Los Angeles ran some footage they had. It was a video and it showed Jason Sugarman ringing Heidi's doorbell, and then leaving muffins on her doorstep and walking away. They say this video was captured a day or two after hiding went missing. And if you look at the footage, which is available online, it is so weird, because Jason Sugarman walks up to the door rings, the bell drops the muffins and leaves, he doesn't hesitate at all or try to look inside. So now I'm wondering, was he expressing concern? Was he looking for Heidi? Or was he trying to make it look like he was looking for Heidi, just going through the motions so that he would appear on camera. Heidi reportedly told friends and family that she was stressed about work. She said the company had some tax filings that were due, she had complained that her boss meaning Jason had her name on so much of the corporate paperwork. Now if this is true, this is a major red flag for fraud investigators. In fact, this whole case has a lot of red flags that anyone who investigates white collar and red collar crime would be alarmed by, including the fact that Heidi, someone with very little experience was asked to sign off on these complex transactions. Jim Wayne threw more shade on Jason Sugarman when he said that shortly after Heidi disappeared, he called her office. Jim said Jason wasn't worried about the fact that Heidi was missing. But he did say Jason was very worried about something else. Heidi's work laptop, the laptop that had been inside Heidi's house, the one that Jim had taken out of there and later handed over to the police. Jim Wayne told the Daily Mail quote, while I was on the phone with his assistant, I heard Sugarman in the background barking at his assistant to tell me to make sure he knows I want my laptop. There was no concern at all for my ex wife's employer. It's a multimillion dollar company. They didn't offer to hire a private investigator or put up a reward. The only thing they really seem concerned about was Heidi's computer. And quote, people have been asking a lot of questions about Heidi's job, including how Heidi could afford her lifestyle. She was renting a $1.7 million townhouse and she had bought a $90,000 Fully Loaded Land Rover. Heidi's job at Camden Capital Partners was financial controller. This reportedly meant that her salary was $145,000 a year plus generous bonuses, and Jim said she always seemed to have a lot of cash lying around. Jim said that someone at Jason Sherman's office had told him they believed they had identified Heidi's source of funds. They said that Heidi was, quote, siphoning off money from the company and quote, they basically Loki accused her of embezzlement. The assistant then sent Jim some of Heidi's bank statements, which Jim has said he gave to the police. He said police told him that Heidi did not have a lot of money in those personal accounts. Jim told the Daily Mail quote, Heidi knows all of Jason's and the company secrets. She knows where the bones are buried. This whole thing just stinks. Something just isn't right. And I can't put my finger on it. And quote, I really doubt that Heidi could take significant amounts of money from that company without Jason Sugarman knowing about it. I think it's far more likely, Jason Sugarman could have asked Heidi to sign off on some questionable transactions. And Heidi may or may not have been aware of the implications of what she was doing. I also think it's very possible that Jason paid Heidi extra money to ensure that she stayed happy. On October 29. Police and federal agents stormed Heidi planks townhouse. They made this really dramatic entry. It was shown all over LA news stations. You could see there was what looked like a SWAT team and federal agents with guns drawn. Rumors were flying by this point. Was this a hostage situation, Heidi being held against her will. But according to media reports, police found nothing, no real evidence and no sign of Heidi. In the period after hiding went missing. Jim filed a petition with the court for temporary emergency custody of bond. According to court papers, he wrote, quote, son is beside himself and uncontrollably crying, worried and desperate to find his mother. We're at the point where we have to expect the worst. And accordingly, I am requesting full legal and full physical custody so that I can legally enroll him into therapy immediately. This is an emergency. If we hear from authorities that Heidi has been kidnapped or has died. I fear that he will be extremely distressed and inconsolable beyond his current mental state and quote. Now of course police had to take a hard look at Jim Wayne. We know that in every red collar case, we have to ask, did Jim Wayne have anything to gain by Heidi's death? The answer, at least financial aid is no. Media reports describe Jim Wayne as this Beverly Hills hairdresser to the stars, kind of suggesting he might be loaded. But according to court filings, Jim's business, like so many others, closed during COVID. In fact, he had recently asked the court to have Heidi pay him child support. And Heidi was not being bankrolled by Jim, they shared custody of their son. He did not pay Heidi any alimony or child support. He had paid her a lump sum in 2012 after they split up, but since then, he had not paid her any money. So Jim Wayne had no obvious financial motive to do anything to Heidi. In fact, killing her would ensure he would never get the support he was asking the court for also Jim Wayne seem to be cooperating with police. Again, he was the one who called them and reported Heidi missing. He continued to keep her case in the media. Some people suggested that Heidi might have disappeared voluntarily. And Jim admitted she had had mental health issues in the past. Heidi had reportedly battled an addiction to Adderall and other types of pills. And at one point, she had a breakdown. Jim told Los Angeles magazine that in late 2015, Heidi had what he described as a full psychotic break. He said that he took Heidi and bond home with him. But that after they all got back to his place. Heidi freaked out. She trashed Bond's room and then crawled out a window and started running through the neighborhood climbing over fences. When the police got there, they found Heidi switching an electrical circuit breaker on and off. According to court records, Heidi agreed to check herself into a psychiatric hospital, but she left after only a day. And she was asking some strange questions like, Why do I have a C section scar? Apparently she couldn't remember they had a child. But after that incident, Heidi got better. She started working for Camden Capital Partners, first as an assistant. By 2017. She was the company's financial controller. So again, when Jim had the opportunity to blame the disappearance on mental issues. He continued in CES No, there's no way Heidi would ever have left her son. Then on November 4 2021. Police found Heidi's Range Rover. It was in the parking garage of a residential building that was a few blocks away from the hope and flower building, the place where seven was found. Then they got another break more video of Heidi footage that was taken on October 17. At around 6:30pm hours after she left her house and her son's game. She was in downtown LA walking down an alley between 11 and 12 streets, the alley that runs behind the open flower building. Heidi appeared to be wearing the same clothes that she was wearing earlier that morning. It looked like she had the sweater that she had had tied around her waist on. One of her friends told a local news station KTLA that she looked like she was taking her dog for a quick walk. A lot of people have commented online that the person in the video while they do appear to be wearing the same clothes that Heidi was wearing. They've said this person does not look like Heidi, the hair looks darker, almost like it's brown or the person's wearing a wig. But some of Heidi's close friends have stated that it was her; it was just dark and the lighting was off. High use friends told local news stations this was a major break in the case, because if the couple's timeline was correct, and they found the dog roaming the halls at around 7pm That narrowed down the window time when Heidi went missing out around half an hour or so, her friends also pointed out that in that video, Heidi didn't have her purse or keys visible, which probably meant she either left them in her car, or she went to visit someone in a nearby building and just ducked out for a few minutes to walk her dog. A lot of people online made the same comment that I was thinking, I wouldn't leave my purse with anyone I did not fully trust. And again, none of Heidi's friends nor Jim had any idea if Heidi had friends who lived in that building, or what she was doing there. But another one of Heidi's friends told reporters that they had talked to building staff. And apparently when they did, the building staff told that friend they recognized Heidi and her dog seven. So attention started to focus more and more on the hope and flower building, the last place where Heidi was staying alive. And the hope and flower building was attracting a lot of controversy. According to an article in the sun, there were a lot of horrible reviews of that building. One Yelp review reads quote, do not move here. resident of 18 months, plenty of other buildings in the area to choose from rent at your own risk and quote, When I checked there were dozens of one star reviews like this. The Residences claimed that there had been theft drug use dogs defecating on their terraces, piles of trash left in the hallway. Some of them claimed their secured parking spaces were broken into and vandalized. One review reads quote, I have lived here seven months, and I've had at least one issue weekly. Management won't be transparent about anything, including hidden fees and a murder and quote, after Heidi disappeared, I got several messages from people who were friends of hers. They knew that I was in LA, and that I worked on white collar and red collar crime cases. And also cold case investigations. I went downtown to a prayer vigil for Heidi that was held at the open flower building. I met some of the residents there. And when I saw the scene unfolding there, it shed a lot of light on why I think mainstream media doesn't cover the nuances of white collar and white collar crime. There were as many reporters there as there were people. And while the cameras were all focused on getting footage, mainly of Heidi's distraught friends and family and candles and posters, another local reporter did a stand up outside of Jason Sugarman home. They put a microphone in his face and asked him questions and of course he drove away. But no one seemed to be focusing on what I call the less sexy details of the case. Mainly papers filed in court and the SEC indictment when you're an investigative journalist, especially if you're looking into red collar and white collar fraud cases, you have to look where no one else looks. I worried about this case, because I was thinking to myself if this case does have white collar elements to it, because robbery homicide police in general are not as experienced at investigating these types of cases. I worried that Heidi's case might go cold. I was really hoping that I was wrong. But several months later, there have been no new announcements. I continue to get messages on Instagram from several residents. They told me that the LAPD had been there. They said residents had been smelling foul stench from the trash chute. This resident said they believed that a bloody mattress or possibly even a body had been taken from the building. Then the news broke that the LAPD was searching Chiquita Canyon landfill, which is about 40 miles northwest of the last location where Heidi was saying the LAPD released a statement they said they were looking in a specific area of the landfill for human remains. The Sun newspaper reported that landfill the Chiquita Canyon landfill is where the waste disposal company that takes trash from the hope and flowers apartment building dumps its waste. Now the LAPD has not revealed much about what they found inside the hope and flowers building. But on their website they did state quote, forensic evidence was located inside the building, which has led detectives to believe an incident occurred resulting in Planck's death in quote. So in my mind, this completely backs up the sources he contacted me on social media. In December, the LAPD stated they believe something happened to Heidi, that there was what they described as an incident on October 17. in that building, and that Heidi is now dead. They believe whatever bad thing happened to her happened at the hope and flower building. But other than that they haven't released many details to the public. Jim Wayne told the son that he has talked to the LAPD. He says police have told him they believe up to five people were involved and what happened so it's clear that law enforcement aren't just closing everything. A person saying they were a cousin of Heidi's posted several times on social media. This person said they were asked by the police to basically stop talking to the media and let police do their jobs. Which I can understand up to a point I understand police not wanting the media to be involved in the first A few weeks or months I'm an investigation. But it's been over six months now and Heidi's family and friends need answers. Dateline covered the story. Police said there were still no leads on a suspect and what they described then as a robbery homicide case. So after that initial flurry of activity, there was radio silence. Los Angeles Magazine did a six month update, Jim Wayne said that he and his son were both missing Heidi and still searching for answers. There have been a few theories put forward by armchair detectives. A lot of people asked if maybe Heidi could have been in trouble because she did something at work, or because she knew too much. So she voluntarily went missing. When Los Angeles Magazine did that follow up article where they interviewed Jim again and went through some of the theories. They asked if this could have been a possibility, or if Heidi, who was this huge James Bond fan, could have gotten caught up in what the magazine described as some kind of international intrigue. I think this can be rolled out. First of all, sec investigations are not the same as criminal prosecutions they can drag on for years. And Heidi wasn't the person in the crosshairs, Jason Sugarman was, I do think there could be a lot more going on behind the scenes at Heidi's job. I think Heidi could have had access to information that could have put her in danger. Another theory that people discussed was given her erratic behavior at the game and her alleged past history of drug use. Could she have had some sort of mental breakdown, or maybe done drugs and gone off the grid? I'm not buying either of those explanations? I do not think Heidi went missing voluntarily. That would not explain while her tracking devices were shut off, or why the police are scouring a landfill for her remains. And I'm not saying that I believe this. But even if Heidi did steal money from work or do some drugs, again, from everything that I've read and heard about her, she never would have left her son for this long or the dog. Why would anyone ditch their dog in a building like that? Seven was her constant companion, there's no way she would just leave him without a second thought, at least not by choice. For a while after Heidi's disappearance, Jason Sugarman seemed to vanish as well, but I've recently seen his back on Twitter. I've also seen that Jason Sugarman was speaking at an anti white collar conference in 2018. If you listen to this podcast, you'll know that white collar and red collar criminals claiming to be experts in this area is turning into something of a trend. It's bizarre because it would be like drug dealers speaking at a DEA conference, but it does go to show how these criminals, unlike almost every other type of criminal, are able to operate with absolute impunity for so long. It also explains why they feel untouchable. Jason Sugarman has not been charged with any wrongdoing in connection with Heidi's disappearance. He is still dealing with the SEC charges and awaiting trial. The other Jason Jason GLONASS is still behind bars. Their co defendant Devon Archer has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison, and he's appealed. Ever since Jim Wayne temporary emergency custody of bond After hiding went missing. Bond and seven are still living with Jim Wayne. He told Los Angeles magazine quote, six months later, there's still more questions than answers. Our son wants to know what happened to his Mother, I want to know what happened to Heidi. I still think her boss has something to do with this in one way or another. In quote, Heidi's family and friends have launched a website buying Heidi plank.com It reads quote, Heidi is a loving mother to her 11 year old son. Nothing in this world is more important to her than the safety and well being of her son. Heidi is a loyal friend. Anyone lucky enough to call her friend can attest to the unconditional love support and encouragement she offers. Heidi is a hard worker. She prides herself on doing her job well and sets a great example of how drive and ambition equals success. Heidi is missed. She has family and friends who are praying for a safe return. In quote. On that website, they have an email address. Heidi plank@protonmail.com the Los Angeles Police Department has asked anyone with information call their Missing Persons Unit at 213996 1800