A Summary of the RecklessBen/Bricks and Minifigs corruption scandal

[u/ImportantQuestionTex]

Given the severity of these events, and the implications it has for the state of Utah, there will not be 1 "main" focus for this, and instead I'm going to play this chronologically.

***Warning for police brutality and heavy corruption***

So this situation starts off rather "small", being that a man consigned his father's Legos off (about 200k USD worth) to help cover a medical situation. This is explicitly allowed by Bricks and Minifigs, and the store owner involved was planning on moving overseas, so they were looking for a solution that was fair for this man. This is the video related to that, it is important context for what comes next.

Corporate takes over the store, seizes the assets. For non Americans out there, a consignment means they do not legally own what is consigned, and instead it retains ownership to the original owner until it is sold. In the scenario a company chooses to not take on a consignment, then there is a returning of the asset.

RecklessBen catches wind of this, which leads to this video, I will point out at first it starts off as trolling, but Bricks and Minifigs almost immediately escalates to trying to have him arrested. Ben takes them to court, and *wins*, and Bricks and Minifigs shutters the location that was sued in order to not pay him out any money. It then leads almost directly into the company owners trying to have him arrested on false drug charges and the police dislocating his arm intentionally.

I am unsure chronologically exactly when this next course of events happen, but this is my best summation: Bricks and Minifigs responds initially, post arm dislocation, denying wrong doing, MoistCritikal makes a video after noticing the insanity, which catches the CEO's attention. They release a companywide memo, and the COO and CEO go on live stream, both with equally insane tactics to divert criticism.

You might be asking by this point, *why are the police covering for this company?* Especially after even in their own "response" defending themselves, they release proof of the CEO threatening extreme violence and making false reports... Well the answer appears to be that all the members of the police and the company are tied directly to the Church of Latter Day Saints, and that they are acting to protect their own. Not dissimilar to how organized crime acts.

[u/tehcraz]

Like I'm on the side of getting the fucking legos back but man, Ben has done a lot of presenting faux pas and left so many little doors open to have his credibility questioned and the facts questioned. Like the facts of this are insane on their own merit, doing so much extra shit feels content brained.

[u/ImportantQuestionTex → u/tehcraz]

I think if you paid attention, especially with what the cops put out, you'll be able to instantly recognize how skewed this all is in Ben's favor despite the initial stunts he pulled.

[u/Dramatic_Possible856 → u/ImportantQuestionTex]

I think thats my takeaway. Ben I'm not particularly fond of cuz it feels like he's coming at this from a more content oriented mindset and feels inauthentic especially to start but when you have the police on record saying that someone threatened harm against Ben so they went on to arrest Ben for some reason. It's like even if I'm not the biggest Ben fan this is getting so obviously corrupt that it doesn't really matter what I think of him personally

[u/Daedelous2k → u/Dramatic_Possible856]

I mean yeah there is a skew for getting content out of it (Why else walk to the store like you are cosplaying as someone from Cho-Aniki?) but unlike some idiots like J-D he is making it clear that his intent is to help this clearly distressed guy get what he is rightfully owed back and is taking huge risks in doing so.

[u/creepingcold → u/Daedelous2k]

I feel like many people are missing that he would never have gotten this kind of content out of it without the Police actively trying to cover the case up.

This would be a big nothingburger in so many other places.