you need your proof.
Do you understand?
>> I understand.
>> Judge Judy: Very good.
I need checks, I need canceled
checks.
Do you have that with you?
It doesn't look like you have
anything.
>> I have some, but can I
explain it --
>> Judge Judy: No.
The answer is no.
>> Because he was, most of the
time, asking for cash.
I have proof that he was asking
for cash only.
>> Judge Judy: Did you ask for
cash? >> Never.
>> Judge Judy: Let me see the
proof that they asked for cash.
>> Can I count the cash money?
I have check, as well.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
>> Here's the cash money.
>> Judge Judy: All I want to
know is --
>> That's $1,450.
>> Judge Judy: Ehp!
Did you ask for cash?
>> I asked for however we could
get the money, check or cash.
>> That's $1,450 -- and that, in
the cellphone, every couple
days, he ask for $200, $300.
Show it to her.
>> Judge Judy: Can I just see
the phone?
>> Yes.
My son will get it out.
>> Judge Judy: Okay. Here we go.
So, at some point, your contract
was modified, because this
says -- from you, this is from
you -- "All that we are looking
to get is the last $3,200."
>> Right.
>> Judge Judy: "Not a penny
more.
And this is three weekends in a
row that you had planned on
meeting with me and I haven't so
much as gotten a text."
So now, now, it's not $18,000.
It's $3,200 that they owe you --
that you acknowledged that they
owe you.
>> Right.
But we do have --
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
"What can you give me tomorrow
in cash?
Can you give me $200?"
>> And, Your Honor, the reason
why I was asking for cash was
because he began to write us bad
checks.
>> And we also have audio of him
confirming that he did write us
a bad check.
So when I went to my bank to --
>> Judge Judy: Okay, sir.
Did you ever give him any more
money -- listen to me -- did you
ever give him any more money
after he asked for the $200 in
cash?
Did you give him the $200?
>> Only $200 and that's it.
>> Judge Judy: And that was
that?
>> That's it.
>> Judge Judy: So you gave him
the $200.
>> $200, he came and --
>> Judge Judy: Just a sec.
So you gave him the $200.
>> And that's it.
>> Judge Judy: That was
September.
So now he only --
>> No, it was July, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy: So now you only
owe them $3,000.
>> I don't.
>> Judge Judy: Did you pay them
the $3,000?
>> No.
>> Judge Judy: Well, you don't
say here that "I don't owe you
$3,200."
>> I didn't.
I just ignore him, I block him,
I don't answer him anymore.
>> We actually have a tape of
him --
>> Judge Judy: Shh.
Just a second.
Well, you owe him $3,000.
>> No.
I'm sorry, Your Honor, let me
explain.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
Then you tell me -- so far, I
have you owe him $3,000.
You tell me why not.
>> First of all, I just want to
clarify something.
He said I give him bad check.
I never.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
>> Okay, that's why I don't owe
him bad check.
When I bought the business from
Adam and his wife, they make the
whole -- as you say, it's
bluffing.
"It's $1 million a week, I
have 100 customer" --
Okay, it's fine.
We hire his wife to work for us,
and I pay her.
>> Judge Judy: Right from the
beginning?
>> From the beginning.nning.rk d
she get four, five girls, her
own people.
And one day, she stopped answer.
We asking her, "Do you make
any money?"
"No."
So my wife called her.
My wife, she never deal with
this --
>> Judge Judy: You can't tell me
anything your wife said or did.
>> Okay, I understand. Okay.
I asked Adam, "Your wife didn't
bring any money for us."
She text my wife very nasty
text, and me.
Both of us, with a nasty
attitude.
So I tell my wife, "We don't
need that.
Go close this business and fire
her."
My wife went to Starbucks and
she asked her a question, and
whatever happened, she went
there and she closed the place,
tell her, "I don't want you.
We're closing up."
And that -- we're closed.
>> Judge Judy: So you closed.
>> We're closed.
No, right now we're open, but we
closed at time.
[ Laughter ]
We close it because we didn't
have anybody to work and my wife
is not going to work.
And she have four years working
for hair -- all her group, her
people.
She text me, she say, "If you
fire me, nobody will work."
I said, "Okay, I'll close it.
I don't need this business."
So we close the business three,
four months.
And when we come, we look at how
many parties she'd done -- and
you can ask her -- she never
gave me one dime and she make
10 party.
>> Judge Judy: I don't know any
of that, sir, and you have no
proof of that because there's
very little -- you have no proof
'cause I see there's nothing on
your table.
So far, you owe them $3,000.
>> I paid him $1,450.
He was hiding from his wife
because she was very tough with
him.
"Here is the $1,450."
She don't know nothing about it.
He was coming to me --
>> Judge Judy: All I'm asking
you for, sir, is the proof.
>> I gave you...
>> Judge Judy: No, you didn't.
>> I gave you the check, his
signature.
>> Judge Judy: You gave me a
check.
>> For $1,450.
I know what I'm saying.
>> Judge Judy: Do you see what
this is?
I cannot see what this is.
>> That's his signature, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: So what?
>> He sign receipt for $1,450.
>> Judge Judy: So what?
That's in December.
>> Yes, but she didn't know
about it.
>> Judge Judy: [ Sighs ]
You owe them $3,000.
Judgment for the plaintiff.
We're done.