Jonathan Rinderknecht, now 30, is on trial for allegedly setting the fire that grew into the Palisades fire. (Handout / U.S. Attorney’s Office in L.A.)
THE PALISADES FIRE WAS still burning on the morning of January 24 when two investigators knocked on the door of a small studio apartment in a midcentury building just off Hollywood Boulevard.
On the other side of the door that Friday morning was Jonathan Rinderknecht, a 29-year-old Uber driver with a penchant for raging about the rich. Rinderknecht didn’t know it, but he had been subject of covert surveillance for days.
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