This Dec. 19, 2016 photo shows Donald Cassel, 56, the proprietor of an underground music club known as Purple 33 in a Playa Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles. Cassel acknowledges he ran Purple 33 without proper authorization, but says it's not because he didn't try. The businessman-contractor-inventor who once sold skateboard parts claims he spent $70,000 on licensing and other fees to try to get the city to green-light his club, whose patrons he calls "a family." (AP Photo/Christine Armario)
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