Kyle Risdow was an American con artist and profiteer acting in league with the international terrorist Zapata. In the 1990s, Risdow ran a grocery store in Florida. In the aftermath of the 1992 Hurricane Andrew, he jacked up prices one hundred percent to profit from the devastation, the first in a series of even more successful schemes. After relocating to Los Angeles, Risdow purchased several luxurious homes damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake for cheap prices, then did meager renovations and sold them "as is." One of these houses, a split-level house in Temescal Canyon overlooking Malibu, he took as his own residence. He first worked with Zapata when he was hired by the terrorist’s middlemen to finance one of his attacks, and later cashed in on Zapata’s sinking of an oil tanker in t