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Sick old man gives $100-250k worth of legos to franchise for consignment.
Franchise takes over franchisee's store due to bad numbers.
A mix of imperfect paperwork from franchisee and fuck ton of missing legos with franchise has lego owner, franchisee, and franchise pointing fingers. Franchise had 2 dudes take over store. They look shady. Franchise looks shady. Franchisee looks minimally shady, disorganized.
Lego owner is missing ~$50-90k in payment/product.
Youtuber takes on the case. The police in the town seem like they're protecting the new franchise dudes.
New franchise dudes are prominent in local Mormon church...
Local cops are involved in local Mormon church...
Now it looks like an entire police precinct and an entire corporation are both in ridiculous PR damage control mode but also aggressively suing the YouTuber, Lego owner.
Youtuber successfully sued corporation for Lego owner. They closed the store instead of paying. Now youtuber is suing individuals who took over franchise for Lego owner.
It's a whole mess. This whole situation will be in law classes for decades.