The boss of a missing California accountant who vanished without a trace on October 17 was seen on surveillance camera footage reportedly dropping off muffins at her home 'a day or two' after she disappeared.
Heidi Planck, 39, (pictured) was last seen at her 10-year-old son's football game in Los Angeles, on October 17. She was reported missing on October 20 when she failed to pick him up from school
Heidi Planck, a 39-year-old mother of one, works as a financial controller, overseeing all employees involved in the accounting process at Camden Capital Partners, where Jason Sugarman is a managing partner.
Sugarman is currently under investigation for a $43 million fraud scheme.
'Heidi knows all of Jason's and the company's secrets. She knows where the bones are buried,' said Planck's ex-husband, Jim Wayne.
Sugarman was caught on camera casually dressed, leaving a gift at Planck's home in the Reynier Village district of Los Angeles.
He rings the doorbell of the modern home and, receiving no answer, leaves the box on the doorstep and drives away.
CBS News, which obtained the footage, said Sugarman dropped off a box of muffins 'a day or two' after Planck vanished.
Jason Sugarman's car pulls up to his employee Heidi Planck's house, and he rings the bell
With no one answering the door, he leaves the box of muffins on the doorstep
The mother-of-one left her home on October 17 Reynier Village district was last seen at her son's football game in Downey. Her dog was found later that day in downtown LA. The alarm was raised when Planck failed to pick her son up from school in Westwood, on October 20
The owners of the apartment building (pictured) in downtown LA where Planck's dog was found initially refused to cooperate with investigators and hand over footage without a warrant. According to Wayne, they started to cooperate after a warrant was issued
She has not been seen since she left her son's football game with her dog, Seven, at a sports field in Downey, Los Angeles, on October 17.
Wayne called police to report her missing after she failed to collect their son from school on October 20.
A couple who lived in the apartment block looked after the dog for a week as they were unable to get in touch with the owner, before Planck's ex-husband eventually tracked it down
Seven the dog was found wandering alone on the 28th floor of an apartment block in downtown Los Angeles, perplexing investigators. Planck has no known connection to the building, friends and family said.
Wayne told DailyMail.com he believes 'the answer to Heidi's whereabouts lies with her boss, Jason Sugarman, and his company.'
Wayne said he received a phone call from a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigator on October 21 asking him about Sugarman and the firm.
'They were interested in Sugarman and his company. They wanted to know what I know about them, and just generally asked me what I thought about Sugarman,' he said.
Sugarman was charged by the SEC in 2019 with hatching a fraudulent scheme that swindled $43million out of pension funds and left a Native American tribe $60million in debt.
His business partner, Jason Galanis, was sentenced to 189 months in prison for his participation in multiple fraudulent schemes including the tribal bond scheme last year.
Wayne said he had spoken to Sugarman's assistant shortly after Planck disappeared and noted that her boss 'didn't appear to be too concerned that she had gone missing.'
According to Wayne, he received a phone call from an official with the Securities and Exchange Commission asking about Jason Sugarman (left), the managing partner at Camden Capital Partners LLC, the company that employs Planck. Pictured right: Jason with his wife Elizabeth Guber-Sugarman and their son in May 2014
He claimed Sugarman seemed more interested in making sure that her work computer was returned.
'While I was on the phone with his assistant, I heard Sugarman in the background barking at his assistant to tell me, "make sure he knows I want my laptop",' Wayne said.
'There was no concern at all from my ex-wife's employer. It's a multimillion-dollar company, they didn't offer to hire a private investigator or put up a reward.
'The only thing they really seemed concerned about was Heidi's computer,' he added.
Wayne said he never returned the laptop and instead turned it over to the police.
He then spoke with the assistant again a few days later, but claimed this time the employee accused Planck of 'siphoning off money from the company.'
When Wayne said he
