The exhibits to his own sworn declaration: a Los Angeles police report recording the bail, the flight, and a plan to fire the whistleblower the day after she wrote to human resources; her email itself; and the anonymous campaign’s price line.
Earlier today this site hosted Peter Spiegel’s sworn declaration from the extortion case he, Katie Williams, and Ideal Living brought against David Najar. The declaration itself runs six pages. The other twenty-five are exhibits, and the exhibits are where the record is. Three of them are read here.
Under penalty of perjury, Spiegel describes himself and Williams as practicing Hindus of more than forty years and “members and active supporters of an international Hindu organization which has its North American headquarters in Austin, Texas.” He does not name it. The denial that follows is scoped to the company: Ideal Living “has no affiliation with any religious organization, nor does it make any donations to any religious institution, except in connection with disaster and emergency relief.” It says nothing about personal giving, about temple members on the payroll, or about housing.
Exhibit 2 is a Los Angeles Police Department investigative report, Van Nuys Division, classified “Attempt Extortion,” taken the night of February 8, 2023, when Spiegel flagged down a patrol unit. In the officers’ paraphrase it records what he told them: that he had paid bail for “a member of clergy from the Temple” accused of a sexual crime, that the man then “chose to flee the country,” that the temple is in Texas and he supports it, that he “does not claim to be of any leadership position within that Temple,” that he valued his company “in excess of $100 million,” and that he “planned to” terminate the employee “the next day.” Her written complaint had reached the company’s head of human resources, with Spiegel and Williams copied, at 4:56 that morning. Three weeks after the interview, a California filing listed Spiegel as chief executive of the same sect’s new Los Angeles temple.
Exhibit 1 is the employee’s own email, sent by Myra Nishizaki to the head of human resources the morning after her meeting with Spiegel. Its “false, misleading, and fraudulent misrepresentation” is not about air or water purifiers. It is about who owns the company and what it funds: that she was hired without being told that, in her words, “the non-profit organization and temple that Peter and Katie run (currently Radha Madhav Dham, but previously known as Barsana Dham)” is a cult, and that the owners and many employees are its members. She writes that Spiegel paid $1 million bail and put up a $10 million bond for the guru, that temple members work at the company and rent housing from the owners, that reports said the earlier Sylmark infomercials funded the temple, and that she once saw a reference to an offshore account. She says she is “not quitting,” that Spiegel proposed the exit plan, and that she never named a figure.
The anonymous emails Spiegel attributes to Najar run from September 18 to October 10, 2023, under three pseudonymous accounts. They lay out a seven-part “documentary,” name the company’s influencers to be called one by one, set deadlines by the hour, and state the price and the off-switch in a single message: “Think double the Bond… NDA. Everything will go away.” A callback number in one email matches the number left in a voicemail from a caller identifying himself as “David.” The campaign continued two weeks after the extortion complaint was filed.
The record holds three versions of the money and settles none. It holds four versions of what happened at Spiegel’s office door on February 7, 2023. It holds a complaint that pleaded the campaign began in July 2023 and a declaration that swears it began in September. And it holds a background allegation about Najar in the 2023 complaint that the 2025 sworn account silently drops; this site does not repeat it.
Why read a settled case’s exhibits this closely? Because a police report is the one document in the file that neither side drafted for the lawsuit, and because the whistleblower’s email, attached by the man she accused, is the plainest statement of what the fight was about: not purifiers, but who owns the company and what it funds.
This update reads the exhibits to the declaration hosted in Peter Spiegel’s Sworn Account of the Extortion Case. The docket is laid out in The Record Does Not Need the Witnesses; every hosted filing is indexed in the evidence vault.
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