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Rick Caruso

Founder and Executive Chairman, Caruso · 1 appearance on the record.

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Rick Caruso is an American developer and the founder of Caruso, creating Southern California retail and mixed-use properties such as The Grove and Palisades Village. A Los Angeles civic leader, he formerly chaired the Los Angeles Police Commission and was the runner-up in the 2022 Los Angeles mayoral election.

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1 prediction · 7 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 7 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Rick argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Caruso: Mayor Bass cut LAFD budget, leaving equipment mothballed in lots
“The city didn't even have enough equipment because they've underfunded the fire department for so long, and Mayor Bass cut even more out this last budget cycle That they had equipment mothballed in parking lots.”
Rick Caruso Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 7:48 No Priors Ep. 99 | With Rick Caruso

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Caruso: Palisades hydrant failure was caused by empty reservoir, not broken pipes
“The hydrants are empty. We're not getting water. It had nothing to do with broken pipes. It had everything to do with the reservoirs not being filled. Everything up there is gravity flow. So those reservoirs draining are coming into the hydrants, and there's p…”
Rick Caruso Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 9:19 No Priors Ep. 99 | With Rick Caruso

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Rick Caruso on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Rick Caruso said on No Priors that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Caruso: Mayor Bass cut LAFD budget, leaving equipment mothballed in lots
“The city didn't even have enough equipment because they've underfunded the fire department for so long, and Mayor Bass cut even more out this last budget cycle That they had equipment mothballed in parking lots.”
Rick Caruso Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 7:48 No Priors Ep. 99 | With Rick Caruso
Assertion Supported
Caruso: LA reservoir was drained for repairs despite high fire risk
“There's a whole reservoir that was empty. That was drained because they wanted to have repairs on it. Well, we had a fire in Malibu, 10 minutes from the Palisades fire, three weeks before. That's probably a pretty good sign that we needed to be prepared, and w…”
Rick Caruso Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 5:17 No Priors Ep. 99 | With Rick Caruso
Assertion Contradicted
Caruso: Palisades hydrant failure was caused by empty reservoir, not broken pipes
“The hydrants are empty. We're not getting water. It had nothing to do with broken pipes. It had everything to do with the reservoirs not being filled. Everything up there is gravity flow. So those reservoirs draining are coming into the hydrants, and there's p…”
Rick Caruso Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 9:19 No Priors Ep. 99 | With Rick Caruso
Assertion Supported
Caruso: Palisades fire was fueled by 40 years of unmanaged brush
“The Palisades fire was fueled by 40 years of brush that was never managed, and so you have an enormous amount of brush in those hills behind the Palisades, and when you had the winds coming up the city was not prepared adequately to deal with it.”
Rick Caruso Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 4:33 No Priors Ep. 99 | With Rick Caruso
Disclosure
Caruso: Palisades Village deployed private firefighters, water systems, and fire retardant
“For fires, we immediately engage with companies that can pour retardant on the building, which we had out there. We had backup water systems out there, and we had a private firefighting department out there because we had been through this about six years prio…”
Rick Caruso Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 6:56 No Priors Ep. 99 | With Rick Caruso
Assertion Supported
Caruso: Governor Newsom suspended Coastal Commission rules for fire rebuilding
“The good news is Gavin suspended Coastal Commission and whatnot in order to pull a permit.”
Rick Caruso Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 17:35 No Priors Ep. 99 | With Rick Caruso
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Caruso: Fire-damaged LA areas should begin rebuilding within a year
“Shouldn't be past a year. Maybe the hazardous cleanup is three, four months. The infrastructure is going in right after that.”
Rick Caruso Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 19:30 No Priors Ep. 99 | With Rick Caruso
Assertion Contradicted
Caruso: MacArthur Park fire station is America's busiest due to overdoses
“The most active fire station in the United States is in an area around MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. It's the most active because of the amount of people dying on the streets from overdoses.”
Rick Caruso Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 13:47 No Priors Ep. 99 | With Rick Caruso
Assertion Partly supported
Caruso: Palisades Village was built with zero combustible materials
“Knowing that we were building in an area that was prone to fires. We did not build with any combustible materials. There's no combustible materials. Even what looks like wood is concrete formed to look like wood”
Rick Caruso Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 6:28 No Priors Ep. 99 | With Rick Caruso

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
No Priors Ep. 99 | With Rick Caruso Jan 30, 2025 17m
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