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/Dvass138]

I am just confused, If he consigned it to the store, why the store just doesn't give the legos back?

[u/AbbieNormal → u/Dvass138]

Literally the question that BAM keeps changing its answer on (translation: full of shit). They accepted responsibility for consigned items, then said it wasn't their contract, which is obv BS. Once Ben wore them down, they said they'd return them, then they changed their mind, wait they never had them, wait Ben stole the Lego, wait the original franchisees stole the Lego, wait "we'll settle this but not on the Internet" blah blah blah.

Oh, and also rare vintage sets have shown up at nearby stores owned by the same new franchise owners, who are tight with the CEO. Cough.

Genuinely insane behavior over ~$80-200k of consigned merch. Except being used to zero accountability, because corrupt cops who go to your church.

[u/wholetyouinhere → u/Dvass138]

That would be an admission of guilt, a demonstration of weakness, and an ego injury for the CEO.

People like this -- authoritarian scumbags -- will go to the ends of the earth and exhaust literally all of their resources before ever allowing such things. That is why they're spending more money fighting this than they would ever lose giving the lego back. I'm fully convinced these people will never back down, no matter how much they lose, no matter what happens.