This Isn't Their First Rodeo.

Why this page exists

In the federal case Garcia et al. v. Bayport Laboratories, LLC et al. (S.D. Tex. Case No. 4:25-cv-03676), Bayport has placed its own character squarely at issue — describing itself in court filings as a small, family-led, founder-driven Houston manufacturer simply trying to protect its trade secrets.

That self-portrait deserves to be tested against the public record. This page collects what the public record says. Every fact below is sourced. Nothing here is alleged. Everything here is recorded.

I. HCT v. Gardner (Los Angeles Superior Court, 2017)

Case: HCT Group Holdings Limited et al. v. Nicholas Gardner et al., Case No. BC645615
Court: Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles
Status: Closed / Dismissed
Pleading cited: Second Amended Complaint, filed June 26, 2017

Bayport was not a defendant. Bayport was not charged.

Bayport Laboratories, LLC was not a party to this case. Angle Camacho was not a party to this case. Neither was charged with wrongdoing by HCT in this lawsuit. What is true — and the only thing claimed here — is narrower: Bayport and Angle Camacho appear by name in HCT's Second Amended Complaint, including in passages that quote Angle Camacho's own emails to a then-HCT executive named Nicholas Gardner.

What HCT's pleading says — verbatim

¶ 60. "Gardner approached Bayport regarding a project with AM under the false pretense that he was acting as a representative of HCT and on HCT's behalf or at least acting with HCT's consent. In fact, Gardner communicated with Bayport using his HCT issued e-mail account and set up meetings with Bayport at HCT locations."

¶ 63. "On August 16, 2016, the owner of Bayport, Angle Camacho ('Angle') emailed Gardner and indicated that Bayport had evaluated the possibility of Gardner's investment in the project, knowing that it serves a 'common purpose, making the project profitable to all of us.' Angle states that a rough estimate of Gardner's investment in the project is $150,000."

¶ 65 — Gardner's August 25, 2016 email TO Angle Camacho: "What we are hopefully going to do is having an entity that I control called Cognisant invest in your filling machinery… If we were to do this through HCT I would have to apply HCT's markups on the filling and then the project becomes a non-starter."

¶ (h) — RICO predicate-act allegations: "Gardner sent monies to Bayport, via a wire transaction on or around September 6, 2016 to invest $150,000 in Bayport… Defendants concealed this investment in Bayport from HCT."

How HCT itself characterized Bayport's role

HCT's complaint describes Bayport as having "mistakenly believed that it was an HCT approved investment." That is HCT's characterization, included here verbatim — Bayport was treated by HCT as a vendor that may have been misled by Gardner, not as a co-conspirator. What HCT alleged, what HCT proved, and what a reader can take away from Angle Camacho's own quoted words are three different things. Each reader can draw their own conclusion from the public record.

The 2016 timeline (from HCT's pleading)

The follow-up no one was told about

Years after the Gardner case wrapped, Bayport's ownership changed in a way most consumers and retailers have never been told. The 2024 Texas Franchise Tax Public Information Report for Bayport Laboratories, LLC — on file with the Texas Comptroller and publicly available — identifies HCT Packaging, Inc. as a member of Bayport Laboratories, LLC.

The same New Jersey company whose own court filing put Angle Camacho's emails into the public record in 2017 is, today, a part-owner of the company Angle founded.

II. Aldine ISD sued Bayport twice for unpaid taxes

The Aldine Independent School District — the school district that covers Bayport's neighborhood in north Harris County — has filed two separate delinquent-tax lawsuits against Bayport Laboratories, LLC. Both are public-record cases on the docket of the District Courts of Harris County, Texas.

The records show Bayport failing to pay the property taxes that fund the public schools next to its facility for at least five different tax years. The school district had to sue twice to collect.

Lawsuit #1 — Cause No. 2021-08576 (157th District Court)

Caption: Aldine Independent School District v. Bayport Laboratories, LLC
Petition filed: February 11, 2021
Defendant served: Bayport Laboratories, LLC, by serving its registered agent Yaumara Camacho.

Property at issue (Account 2225837): "Machinery & Equipment, Furniture & Fixtures, Inventory, Raw Materials, Computers and Work in Progress; and Light Manufacturing @ Greenbriar North Business Center, in Harris County, Texas." — i.e., the actual cosmetic-manufacturing operation.

Lawsuit #2 — Cause No. 2022-09503 (80th District Court)

Filed: 2022
Affidavit of delinquency: Sworn by Julie Gazelas, Tax Assessor-Collector for Aldine ISD, on July 11, 2022.

A separate Aldine ISD vehicle-tax assessment on Bayport's vehicles (Account 2333779) added an additional $433.47 for tax year 2020.

What this adds up to

• Five separate tax years of delinquencies: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021.
• Two separate Harris County lawsuits required to collect.
• Two rendition penalties — Aldine ISD's own tax assessor had to chase Bayport not just for payment, but for the basic statutory paperwork.

And while Bayport was being sued for unpaid taxes, the business was tripling

The Harris County Appraisal District's Business Personal Property records for Bayport's manufacturing operation (Account 2352994) show the value of the equipment, inventory, and machinery at the lab over the same period:

The lab's reported value tripled. The school district was still in court collecting on prior years.

These are not allegations of fraud. They are public-record collection actions. The factual point that matters: the school district that serves the neighborhood where Bayport's lab sits had to sue Bayport twice to collect property taxes on the lab itself — while the same lab's reported business value was tripling.

III. The 2020 property transfer — and the 2021 mechanic's lien that followed

Two recordings in the Harris County Real Property records — both publicly filed — tell a story most consumers, retailers, and journalists have never heard about Bayport's manufacturing facility at 4601 Interwood North Parkway.

A. July 29, 2020: Bayport sells the property to itself, through a new affiliate

Recording No.: RP-2020-360988 (Harris County Clerk, recorded August 7, 2020)
Instrument: Special Warranty Deed with Vendor's Lien

In July 2020 — about a year after Bayport Laboratories, LLC was formed in Delaware — the Camachos transferred the 4601 Interwood real-estate parcel out of the operating company and into a new insider-controlled holding company.

• Grantor (seller): Bayport Laboratories, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
• Grantee (buyer): Interwood Holdings GP, LLC, a Texas limited liability company.
• Both parties' mailing address: 4601 Interwood North Parkway, Houston, Texas 77032 — i.e., the same building.
• Consideration: "Cash and a note of even date executed by Grantee and payable to the order of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in the principal amount of Four Million One Hundred Sixty Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($4,160,000.00)."
• Lender's security: First-lien vendor's lien retained for JPMorgan Chase, plus a deed of trust to David R. Boruff, Trustee.
• Signatures (all as Manager of Bayport Laboratories, LLC): Yaumara Camacho, Angle D. Camacho, Jim Illson.

In plain language: the same management team sold the building from one Camacho-controlled entity to another Camacho-controlled entity, took on $4.16 million in JPMorgan Chase mortgage debt at the new entity, and kept operating in the same physical space. The 2024 Texas Franchise Tax PIR for Interwood Holdings GP, LLC — signed by Angle D. Camacho on August 6, 2024 — confirms that Bayport Laboratories, LLC owns 100% of the entity that now holds the property.

B. April 13, 2021: A fire-sprinkler contractor goes unpaid — and calls the whole arrangement a "sham"

Recording No.: RP-2021-197747 (Harris County Clerk, recorded April 13, 2021)
Instrument: Affidavit for Texas Constitutional Lien
Affiant: Michael Bilski, Chief Financial Officer of AFP-SLP, LLC, General Partner of Allied Fire Protection, LP

Allied Fire Protection installed or remodeled the fire sprinkler system at Bayport's manufacturing facility. The contractor went unpaid. The amount listed in the recorded affidavit:

"$18,186.00 remains due and owing to Claimant."

What makes this lien filing unusual is what the contractor's CFO swore to under oath in paragraph 7:

"In the alternative, based on information and belief, a 'sham contract' exists between Bayport Laboratories, LLC, and Interwood Holdings GP, LLC, as defined in Section 53.026 of the Texas Property Code. Therefore, Claimant is to be considered in direct contractual relationship with Interwood Holdings GP, LLC and have a lien as an original contractor against the real property, improvements and removables of the above-described Property."

Section 53.026 of the Texas Property Code is the statute that lets a contractor pierce a contracting structure when the named contracting party and the property owner are operated together as one. Allied Fire Protection's CFO did not have to make that allegation. He chose to — and signed it under oath.

A third-party contractor — with no stake in Garcia, no relationship to Milagros or Giselle, and no reason to be drawn into anyone's narrative — used a public lien filing to tell Harris County, on paper, under oath, that Bayport Laboratories, LLC and Interwood Holdings GP, LLC are operated as a single enterprise.

IV. The mortgage that got paid off seven weeks after the federal complaint

Some facts only acquire meaning when placed next to each other on a calendar.

The public record does not say why the Camachos chose to pay off a $548,250 home loan in a lump sum seven weeks after a federal lawsuit was filed against them. The public record does say that they did. The public record says when. And Texas law says what that combination protects.

Read the source

• Second Amended Complaint, HCT Group Holdings Ltd. et al. v. Gardner et al., LA Superior Court Case No. BC645615 (filed June 26, 2017)
• Trellis Public Docket — Case BC645615
• Aldine Independent School District v. Bayport Laboratories, LLC, Cause No. 2021-08576 (157th D.C. Harris Co. Tex.) — Office of Marilyn Burgess, Harris County District Clerk
• Aldine Independent School District v. Bayport Laboratories, LLC, Cause No. 2022-09503 (80th D.C. Harris Co. Tex.) — Office of Marilyn Burgess, Harris County District Clerk
• Special Warranty Deed with Vendor's Lien, July 29, 2020 — Harris County Real Property Recording No. RP-2020-360988
• Affidavit for Texas Constitutional Lien, April 13, 2021 — Harris County Real Property Recording No. RP-2021-197747
• Release of Lien, September 24, 2025 — Montgomery County Real Property Records (recorded against File No. 2021029021)
• 2024 Texas Franchise Tax Public Information Report, Interwood Holdings GP, LLC — Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
• 2024 Texas Franchise Tax Public Information Report, Bayport Laboratories, LLC — Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
• HCAD Business Personal Property Account 2352994 — Harris County Appraisal District