Residents in Rio Linda, California, have voiced anger after plans for a large halal slaughterhouse were allowed to advance because of a procedural technicality.

Bahadur Amiri submitted an application to the Sacramento County Planning Commission last year seeking to convert a 20-acre property on Palladay Road in Rio Linda into what he called a “small-scale slaughterhouse.”

The proposed facility drew fierce opposition almost immediately, with nearby residents objecting to an unrestricted “kill floor” being built close to their homes.

Opponents have repeatedly raised concerns about the project’s potential environmental effects. Some residents also said they fear they could hear animals being slaughtered at the site.

Despite the backlash, the Sacramento County Planning Commission approved the halal slaughterhouse project in July. On August 24, commissioners narrowly rejected an appeal filed by members of the Rio Linda–Elverta community, Fox 40 reported.

Commissioners split 2-2 on the appeal. Under Sacramento County code, however, the tie meant the appeal was denied, allowing the project to proceed.

The decision went against a recommendation from the planning advisory council, giving some local residents hope that the dispute may not yet be settled.

Still, the rejected appeal clears the way for Amiri to begin the licensing process without additional public hearings.

In his application, viewed by the Daily Mail, Amiri argued the slaughterhouse, which he is naming ‘Greenfarm,’ is ‘specifically designed to meet the cultural and religious needs of the Afghan and broader Muslim communities in the area, who currently lack a local space for ritual animal slaughter in accordance with Islamic law.

‘The facility will allow for humane, halal slaughter within a fully-enclosed, fenced covered building, ensuring that all activities remain private and discreet.

‘The facility will also include appropriate waste management and sanitation measures, fully complying with all relevant laws and regulations to ensure environmental safety and animal welfare,’ the application reads.

If approved, the site, which currently houses an abandoned single-family home as well as several barns and animal enclosures, would house livestock and accept customers for up to 30 custom slaughter services each week.

But community members spoke out against the proposal one-by-one at the hearing on August 24.

‘We live about 600 feet from the back of their property and we see it all,’ one woman claimed. ‘My kids play in a seasonal pond that we have in our backyard, and it flows directly from their property. Are they still safe to play there?’

She then went on to claim she would be able to hear the animals being killed at the property.

Michelle Anderson, who said she lives catty-corner to the site, also noted she has a well on her property.

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‘I’m really concerned about the water and what it will do to my water, and I won’t know until it’s too late,’ she bemoaned. 

Anderson also worried about peace of mind in the home she had hoped to retire in.

‘Let’s talk about the smells and the fact that we have a nice breeze out there,’ she said.

One man who spoke at the hearing further said he is a ‘strong believer in personal property rights.

‘I believe you should be able to do whatever you want on your property as long as it’s legal, and that it doesn’t have a substantial negative effect on neighbors in your community – which I believe this project does,’ he argued.

Others also expressed their concerns over traffic increases, reduced property values and animal exploitation.

But the planning board also heard from Amiri, who defended his proposal as he lamented: ‘It’s not easy when you’re just by yourself and the whole community comes against you.’

He noted that he addressed many of the issues residents raised in the past.

‘It’s going to be [a] sealed tank,’ Amiri said. ‘This operation is not going to happen in the middle of the yard, [it] is going to be inside the building and that building will be inspected by the building department.’ 

In the end, Planning Commissioner Joseph Devlin agreed that the business could promote a more sustainable food system for the region.

‘We are, and have claimed to be, the Farm to Fork capital of the world,’ he noted. ‘However, one of the probably biggest gaps within that Farm to Fork is the actual acquiring and harvesting of meat that is locally sourced.’ 

The Daily Mail has reached out to the Planning Commission and Amiri for comment. 

Nick Reiner says he has been unable to access “even $5” from his multimillion-dollar family trust while jailed on accusations that he murdered his parents, Hollywood figures Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.

Reiner, who has been held in a Los Angeles jail since December 2025, is intensifying an unusual legal dispute over a trust estimated to be worth about $1.6 million.

The 33-year-old contends that funds he believes are legally his remain out of reach as he awaits trial in the deaths of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.

His siblings, however, remain strongly opposed to allowing the trust money to be used toward his legal defense.

In two court filings submitted Thursday, Reiner’s attorneys said their client cannot use any of the money for everyday purchases at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility commissary.

“In the meantime, Nick still has not been able to access even $5 from his trust to buy basic subsistence items from the jail commissary,” lawyers Anita P. Wu and Geoffrey A. Neri wrote.

The latest filing underscores a deepening family rift over the trust, which Rob and Michele Reiner created for their son during his infancy.

Sources previously told the Daily Mail that Reiner’s brother and sister, Jake and Romy Reiner, are aligned in their refusal to help him use his inheritance as a financial reserve in defending against allegations that he brutally killed their parents.

‘It’s not an issue of love or not, it’s an issue of how much do you allow someone to take from you,’ a longtime Reiner family friend said.

‘Knowing that he’s using their inheritance for his defense is just too much. They won’t allow that if they can help it.’

Sources previously told the Daily Mail that Jake, 34, and Romy, 28, have felt the need to establish strict boundaries as they grieve their parents.

‘I wouldn’t say [they] abandoned him for good,’ one family friend said. ‘I’d say that they are setting boundaries that are appropriate for their healing, and Nick is not a part of their healing.’

Another source said the siblings were ‘not budging’ over the trust dispute.

Their older half-sister Tracy Reiner, 61, Rob’s adopted daughter from his marriage to Penny Marshall, was also said to support keeping Nick from accessing the inheritance.

Nick’s attorneys insist, however, that the dispute is fundamentally about his right to use money that already belongs to him while he is still presumed innocent.

‘What the Successor Trustee asks this Court to do is enter an order freezing a presumed-innocent man’s own untainted money until after the trial at which his liberty will be decided,’ they wrote.

Reiner has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder over the December 14, 2025 deaths of his father, acclaimed filmmaker Rob Reiner, 78, and his photographer-producer mother Michele, 70, at their Brentwood home.

Prosecutors allege the couple were stabbed to death and Reiner was indicted in July with special circumstances including lying in wait, along with an allegation that he used a knife.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced this week that prosecutors would not seek the death penalty. Reiner could still face life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted.

But while that criminal case advances, an increasingly acrimonious second battle is raging over the money Reiner wants to spend defending himself.

The Nick Reiner Children’s Trust was created by Rob and Michele in 1993 and names Nick as its sole beneficiary.

His lawyers say the trust contains approximately $1.6 million and argue that at least $558,000 should have been handed to him when he turned 30 on September 14, 2023 – more than two years before his parents were killed.

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‘Nick turned 30 on September 14, 2023,’ his attorneys wrote. ‘By the Successor Trustee’s own calculation, at least $558,000 became due and payable to him that day. His parents were alive. No one had accused him of anything.’

That timing is now at the heart of his legal argument.

Those overseeing the trust have cited California’s so-called Slayer Statute, which can prevent someone who unlawfully kills another person from financially benefiting from that death.

But Reiner’s attorneys contend that the disputed $558,000 became his years before Rob and Michele died.

‘The Slayer Statute, the sole remaining basis for withholding this money, takes away what a person receives as a result of someone’s death,’ they argued. ‘It does not implicate money that became Nick’s years earlier.’

His attorneys also claim at least $325,017.49 of the trust originated with his grandfather, comedy legend Carl Reiner, who died in 2020.

‘Nick is not accused of causing his death,’ they wrote. ‘Money that was left to Nick by his grandfather is not money received by Nick from or through his parents.’

Reiner’s legal team has also launched an attack on the amount being spent fighting his attempts to access the money.

They claim attorneys representing the trustees have already racked up more than $250,000 in legal fees – paid from the very trust Reiner is trying to unlock.

‘Third, it is Nick who is paying for the fight to keep his money from him,’ his attorneys complained.

They warned: ‘Every month this continues, there is less left – for Nick, and for anyone who might ever claim it.’

The filings also allege that former trustee Paul R Kanin agreed in April to put money into Reiner’s jail commissary account but never followed through.

According to Reiner’s lawyers, Kanin’s attorney requested instructions for making the deposits, which were provided on April 21.

‘No deposit was ever made,’ they claimed. ‘Kanin never withdrew the commitment; it was simply never honored.’

Kanin, who resigned as trustee in May after serving for approximately 15 weeks, has denied breaching his fiduciary duties and maintains that he acted prudently.

Successor trustee Jodi Pais Montgomery has also opposed releasing the money while the murder prosecution remains unresolved, arguing that the trust should be preserved until it is clear whether the Slayer Statute applies.

Reiner’s attorneys say the financial freeze has far more serious consequences than leaving him unable to buy commissary items.

High-powered attorney Alan Jackson initially represented Reiner following his arrest but withdrew from the criminal case in January, citing ‘circumstances beyond our control.’

Reiner is now represented by a public defender at taxpayer expense, but has said he wants to rehire Jackson if he gains access to his trust.

‘The harm here is severe and ongoing,’ his attorneys wrote. 

‘Nick has been deprived of the use of his own money and has been unable to pay for criminal defense counsel and experts since January 2026, prejudicing his ability to defend against double homicide charges with special circumstances.’

Jackson has indicated he could return if the funding dispute is resolved.

‘He’s made a determination that he wants to be able to use his funds that are in his trust account to decide on his criminal counsel,’ Jackson previously said.

Here is one sizeable, unbudgeted gap in Britain’s public finances: a potential £1billion loss between now and the next general election.

It is only one of a growing number of such gaps, which together are beginning to resemble a sieve. This particular hole has a name: Chris Rokos.

The 55-year-old hedge fund manager has chosen to leave the UK before the Government unveils any further measures that could increase the tax taken from his wealth.

Some on the tribal Left may respond with cries of “good riddance” and offer Andy Burnham a thumbs-up.

But anyone armed with basic arithmetic will recognise the scale of the problem. This is seriously bad news for the public finances.

Until now, Mr Rokos has regularly featured near the top of the list of Britain’s biggest taxpayers, reportedly paying the Treasury an annual sum of around £330million.

Over the course of this five-year Parliament, that could have amounted to nearly £2billion — enough to fund six Royal Navy frigates, 20 RAF F-35 jets, or the yearly salaries of at least 40,000 nurses. Instead, he has quietly moved to a country that, in his view, does not take him or his fortune for granted.

Indeed, as I discovered this week, his new host country is delighted to welcome this particular economic migrant.

Britain has not just lost Mr Rokos’s whopping contribution to the Treasury coffers. Up to now, he has been a very remarkable philanthropist, funding many scholarships at his alma mater, Oxford University, and handing £190million to its arch rival, Cambridge. 

There is a vital Chris Rokos Fellowship at the London Institute of Cancer Research and similarly important orthopaedic research going on thanks to him at Imperial College, London. Nor is he a transient non-dom, simply shifting from one international jurisdiction to another. He is home-grown.

The former state school whizz-kid from Hammersmith, West London, has also paid millions into a scholarship fund so that, every year, four boys from modest backgrounds, can, as he himself did, enjoy a fully-funded free education at Eton.

At the same time, he has rescued one of the West country’s finest homes from ruin and decay. At the last count, hundreds of local jobs were dependent on restoration work at Tottenham House in Wiltshire.

It is understood Mr Rokos will still complete the project. But what next? Will he continue to pump money into a country which is no longer home? The media-shy father-of-five is not saying.

However, well-placed sources have confirmed that his departure is not some cunning exercise in acrobatic accountancy. Mr Rokos is moving his whole life and his business, too. That means that we will lose a whole cluster of higher-rate taxpayers. This month’s news was swiftly followed by the disclosure that the UK-based senior portfolio manager of global hedge fund giant Millennium and his team will be following suit.

What should (but won’t) give Chancellor John Healey even more food for thought is their destination: Greece. Just ten years ago, Mr Rokos’s new home was an economic basket case run by a bunch of Left-wing loonies lauded by the British Left.

Now, after taking a scythe to a bloated, corrupt public sector, Greece is surging ahead economically. Instead of just talking vaguely about ‘growth’ over pints and pork scratchings, as the Burnham administration prefers, the Greeks are continuing to deliver the real thing.

Last year, the centre-right New Democracy government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis grew the economy by 2.1 per cent (we managed 1.3). While we rack up ever greater national debt, the Greeks are overpaying on the debt schedule to bring theirs down.

It is money owed from the days when the country was haemorrhaging cash through years of socialist incompetence, not least a farcical benefits system (full-salary state pensions for hundreds of jobs ranging from train drivers to hairdressers, with a retirement age of 53).

Greece avoided bankruptcy, if not anarchy, only thanks to vast loans from the EU – in return for draconian cost-cutting.

Fast forward a decade and the country has undergone a Thatcherite process of national rejuvenation while it is Britain which is being dragged down by a benefits behemoth. And that problem is only going to get worse as other wealthy Brits look at ‘doing a Rokos’.

As every day brings word of another Labour tax on wealth, while our £350billion welfare budget goes undisturbed, so more of ‘those with the broadest shoulders’ (as the Left like to call the rich) may think about slinging their bags over those shoulders and looking elsewhere. Greece is now a prime candidate.

As of June, the Greeks have revised an extensive new system of residency arrangements and tax incentives (known as Law 5313) which have propelled Greece to the top of the preferred destinations for expat Brits.

Sir Keir Starmer’s 2024 election win had already triggered a dash for the exit among the super-rich, with four main options: the United Arab Emirates (including Dubai) and Italy, plus those tax-averse stalwarts, Switzerland and Monaco.

Since then, regional war has made the UAE significantly less appealing while Italy has tightened up some of its thresholds. According to the relocation experts Henley & Partners, Greece is now at number one on its list of 2026 global residency destinations. 

UK boss Stuart Wakeling explains to me that every would-be expat has a unique set of requirements, though most are not merely individual but family applications.

And those wanting sea, space, sun plus good schools and good connections with their former homeland are now increasingly plumping for Greece.

A five-year renewable ‘golden visa’ scheme offers residency in exchange for buying a home for more than €250,000. Further up the scale, there is the option of an annual flat tax fee of €100,000 for all global – i.e. non-Greece sourced – income (for up to 15 years). Though you are still liable for Greek income tax on purely Greece-sourced income (plus a 50 per cent discount for the self-employed), the tax on all dividends and bank bonuses is just 5 per cent.

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There is also a deal for UK pensioners, who can stay for up to 15 years and just pay a flat tax rate of seven per cent on all income. Even what we might call the ‘entry-level’ wealthy are doing their sums. For someone earning upwards of £250,000, already clobbered on their second home and facing a mansion tax on the main home, then a diet of olive, feta and calamari starts to appeal.

‘Let’s be realistic. We are not about to see the entire hedge fund community move from London,’ says Thanassis Drogossis of Pantelakis Securities, a leading Athens stockbroker. ‘But Chris Rokos has stirred a lot of interest and it is a signal that there are great opportunities.’

He points to a conference of institutional investors earlier this month here in Athens. Many were traders from London. ‘They were cheering what Chris Rokos has done and talking about doing the same.’

Mr Drogossis explains Greece has undergone a remarkable recovery in the past seven years, to the point where the country’s stock market has seen a ten-fold rise in daily trading. 

Previously stagnating banks now have billions to invest. The national economic crisis – which followed the global banking crisis of 2009 – has seen a wholesale change in Greek attitudes. People no longer expect the state to provide everything, nor does it offer comfy non-jobs for life.

Vassilis Karatzas, senior adviser to finance minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis – who was in direct contact with the Rokos team prior to his move here – emphasises that this is not about wooing gazillionaires for show.

‘It’s about jobs. We want to create high-level jobs. We want the well-schooled graduate of the Athens School of Economics to stay and work in Greece. These new investors will want to employ local talent and that talent is being under-utilised,’ he says.

The other priority, he adds, is reassuring would-be investors that Greece is not going to return to its old ways. ‘We have a sound macro-economic regime with a clear path. It’s about ability and predictability.’

I well remember reporting from Athens in the dark days of the recent past – the furious protests descending into riots; the graffiti; the filthy streets and restaurant owners desperate for cash rather than risk money in a bank which might go under at any minute.

It’s a very different Greece which I encounter when I go in search of the sort of life Mr Rokos and fellow expats will now enjoy.

Take the vast Flisvos Marina on the southern end of the Athenian riviera. Ten years ago, most of these quaysides were empty, many foreign yacht-owners having moved their vessels to other jurisdictions.

Today, it is absolutely packed with some of the grandest superyachts I have ever seen. There are 300 in total, with a combined value of £2.5billion. What’s more, there is a waiting list of 60 owners wanting to berth a yacht here (average price; £1,000-a-night, not including electricity – which can top £15,000 a month if all the lights and air conditioning are running).

There is no shortage of people, either, wanting to spend £50million on buying one of these things, or anywhere between £300,000 and £1million a week chartering one for a holiday plus the mandatory 15 per cent tip for the crew.

‘Many of our clients are British and, in the last couple of years, that number has gone up from 20 to 30 per cent,’ says Dimitris Angelakos who has just placed a £250million order for three new yachts, each of them well over 200ft in length.

He and his brothers are the fifth generation of a prominent Greek shipping family. Until five years ago, they focused entirely on merchant shipping, but now Mr Angelakos, 43, has started two new companies, Angel Yachts and Angel Development, devoted to superyachts and real estate.

‘Greece is rebranding itself. Our people have evolved,’ he explains over gourmet sushi at the Matsuhisa restaurant, looking down on half a dozen superyachts out at anchor in the bay at Vouliagmeni.

‘The levels of service and efficiency you used to see in the UK and Germany and the US – well now people are finding that here. We call it ‘philoxenia’, friendship towards foreigners. The difference here is that they can jump on a yacht and be within one hour of 20 islands and two hours of 40.’ With us at dinner is his real estate consultant, Christoforos Christofidis of CCRE, a leading Athens estate agency, which has seen a surge in interest from British wealth creators.

One prime destination is the new Ellinikon development, a £9billion Dubai-style waterside mix of villas and apartments rapidly taking shape on the site of the former Athens airport.

It includes the tallest building in Greece, the 48-floor Riviera Tower. Mr Angelakos has already bought the penthouse apartment – ‘it has to belong to a Greek,’ he laughs.

Many of those Brits who are ‘doing a Rokos’ are looking at the various options in what is being marketed as an entire new city. Ellinikon will have 10,000 separate residential units, ranging from £500,000 to £70 million in price.

Mr Christofidis points out that others are looking to quiet, discreet northern suburbs of Athens like Ekali, to be close to the top schools, including St Catherine’s. Otherwise known as ‘the British school’, it has now expanded to accommodate 1,300 pupils.

I drop in at the ultra-chic Ekali Club, with its huge pool and tennis courts. Another attraction up here, among the trees and low-lying villas, is that the temperature is on average four degrees lower than in the city centre.

CCRE’s Stelios Kallioras shows me round a typical Ekali residence, a sprawling, angular modern villa with indoor and outdoor pool, gym, cinema, office wing, double-height library and staff quarters. Currently rented out at £15,000 a month, it is on the market for £7million.

The one downside, it must be said, is the traffic. Getting around Athens is dreadful. From this leafy suburb to the city centre or the mighty Acropolis is only ten miles, but it is an hour’s drive at rush hour.

Other factors which account for the rise in British interest are relatively simple paperwork and what Henley & Partners call ‘residence optionality’. Greece has a strong second home culture (most ordinary Athenian families have their place in town and a family-owned place on an island). Henley’s southern Europe expert, Marios Rafail, explains that expats like to do the same.

I talk to John (not his real name), an investment banker and Henley client who left London for Singapore some years ago. He wants to return to Europe because his university-age children are based there. Having ruled out tax-grab Britain, he has looked at other options, including Spain, Portugal and Italy.

‘Greece was so much easier. It took a few meetings and within two months, I have already sorted out residency,’ he tells me. ‘We haven’t moved yet – and haven’t even decided what sort of property to buy or where. 

‘We’ll rent for a bit and check out a few islands and a few places in Athens. But there is no rush. The main thing is we have done it.’ 

Now that Mr Rokos has done it too, Labour needs to acknowledge a simple truth: there will be no ‘growth’ if you won’t curb your spending – and if your growers, like Homer’s hero, have already left on an odyssey of their own. 

Carrot Top was hospitalized in Las Vegas, Nevada, after an incident that TMZ described as a suicide attempt.

The 61-year-old comedian, whose real name is Scott Christopher Thompson, reportedly attempted to take his own life on Friday, only hours before he was due to perform at the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Sources told TMZ the incident occurred in the Las Vegas area and that Thompson was taken to a nearby hospital. His planned comedy show was later called off.

Jami Schlicher, a representative for Thompson, did not verify the reported circumstances behind his hospitalization, saying only that the entertainer is receiving “the care and support he needs.”

“Mr. Thompson is recovering in the hospital and is receiving the care and support he needs. His family and those closest to him are deeply grateful for the concern, prayers and respectfully ask for privacy,” Schlicher told TMZ.

The Daily Mail has contacted Thompson’s representatives for additional comment as the situation continues to develop.

Thompson’s most recent social media update came Thursday, when he promoted his scheduled Friday night appearance.

He shared a 2018 image of himself beside an orange utility terrain vehicle, writing: “Just your average Thursday commute to the Luxor. TBT.”

Amid news of his hospitalization, fans took to the comments of the post to send their well wishes.

‘You’re loved more than you know. You’re special & the world is more beautiful with you in it. Sending love & hope your way,’ one person wrote.

Another said, ‘Scott we love you dude. Praying for you. ❤️’

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Someone else added, ‘Just heard sad news. Hope you’re gonna be OK dude. Saw you last December and plan on bringing another friend next trip to LV to see you again. You are hella adored and hope you really know that. Truth.’ 

Thompson, known for his high-energy prop routines, rose to prominence in the 90s. 

Nearly on year ago, in November 2025, he sparked concern from fans when he was spotted looking disheveled while at a LasVegas grocery store.

An insider later commented to the Daily Mail, ‘He didn’t ever think he was going to be photographed shopping, so he let his guard down – [he was] not in any makeup or anything.’ 

In a 2022 interview with Metal Life Magazine, Thompson spoke about his clean lifestyle. 

He insisted, ‘I’m completely sober. I don’t smoke marijuana and I never have. I don’t think I have been drunk since high school, literally.

‘I have friends like Gene Simmons, he’s never had a drop of booze – zero. I’m not that pure. I definitely have a little Crown on the rocks right before a show.’ 

After a show, he said he comes home, watches TV and has a ‘glass of red wine.’ 

‘I’m definitely not the drug guy. I’m actually more of a nerd than anything else,’ he told the outlet.