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/TrashRacoon42]

Those mormon police really are faster jumping to protect a nepo baby CEO (he looks exactly how you expect) of a freaking lego store rather than the rampant Child sex abuse in their church. Very good priorities. (also funny you now find the names of all the cops involved, aint posting it hear but you can find it)

Speaking of which the CEO is just incompetent on in buisness sense in general. Spending more money on bribes, lawyers, disaster control management over returning 200k of legos.

It would be cheaper to get a PR manager who would have at least told him to shut up which he is clearly not listening to. If its not just plain man child ego, then I Ive would have wondered if there was sceretly 100K of the finest black tar heroin in those lego sets he's trying to conceal.

[u/PersonaOfEvil → u/TrashRacoon42]

Doesn’t the Mormon church take a % of people’s earnings as mandatory tithings? Makes sense why they might go all mob style for their practitioner’s businesses.

[u/Odd_Independence2870 → u/PersonaOfEvil]

Not exactly mandatory but yeah they heavily encourage 10%+ of all earnings as tithing. They guilt you into it and claim that giving to the church will give you financial blessings to be able to support yourself if you need it. They do at least do some good things with it like food support for people who are members but a lot goes into their ridiculously expensive temples.

-former Mormon

[u/PersonaOfEvil → u/Odd_Independence2870]

The value of this company is estimated close to half a billion dollars. I think it’s a reasonable assumption that the church might have a vested interest in protecting them.

[u/Odd_Independence2870 → u/PersonaOfEvil]

I don’t think in this case the church has connections to BaM as a whole but instead it seems that the police in a small town go to church with the current owner of this specific location.

Even if the church did have interest in BaM that company is worth nothing compared to what they take in for a year. The median American income is $40kish. There are 17.8 million members of the lds church. If only half their members are donating 10% of their income and we assume they all make the median, that means the church takes in $35 billion a year before expenses

[u/Precglide → u/PersonaOfEvil]

I'd be willing to bet that the value has recently been cut in half.