Kidnapped CEO Was Found Slain in the Mountains. His Ex-Employee on Trial Claims He Made Them Do 500 Pushups for Paychecks

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Tushar Atre, 50, was killed after being kidnapped from his upscale California home

Authorities promptly arrested four people, including two of his ex-employees Kaleb Charters and Stephen Lindsay

Lindsay was convicted of first-degree murder following a jury trial earlier this year; the trial against Kaleb Charters remains ongoing

A tech CEO and cannabis entrepreneur who was killed in 2019 allegedly made his employees work grueling hours, chided them for wasting his time and made them do 500 pushups for their paychecks, a jury heard last week from one of his suspected killers, per local reports.

Tushar Atre, 50, was kidnapped from his upscale Santa Cruz County, Calif. home and found murdered on a property in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Oct. 2019, the Santa Cruz County Sher