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The judge’s order involves three companies in the San Gabriel Valley — L & Y Food, Moon Poultry and JRC Culinary Group — that are all either owned, operated or managed by Fu Qian Chen Lu, who is also named in the lawsuit.

The best part of the JRC position is that it doesn’t cost taxpayers a dime.

U Hall’s problems have been compounded by a long-running and complicated dispute with its landlord, JRC Group owner Hanny Chan, over the club’s lease, a conflict has saddled Eastman with legal bills on top of his other expenses, while illustrating how local attempts to protect small-business owners during the pandemic haven’t necessarily panned out as intended.

U Street Music Hall’s landlord is Hanny Chan, owner of JRC Standard Properties, a small commercial real estate company in Washington.

JRC, as the landlord of music hall, “has not received any mortgage relief from its lender. After the public health emergency was declared and U Street Music Hall was shuttered, it withheld rent for April and May without any request for any rent relief,” said Ian Thomas, a lawyer at Offit Kurman who represents JRC.