RICK CARUSO is a name you need to know if you want to understand the disinfo surrounding the LA wildfires.

He's a billionaire real estate developer who lost his bid to be mayor of Los Angeles to Karen Bass.

He saved his shopping mall in the Palisades by hiring a private fire fighting company, and by buying up a private source of water. His daughter, meanwhile, lost her house.

It took him 3 or 4 seconds after the fire before he began calling up local news stations to blame everything on Bass. It took 4 or 5 seconds for me to figure out he's a source assed loser.