Insane story. Great time to get into it as updates are happening rapidly.

A used lego reseller (not directly affiliated with the lego corporation) named Bricks and Minifigs stole $200,000 from a dying elderly man.

A youtuber named Reckless Ben got involved to try and help the family out. But the CEO of BAM called the police on him and lied to the police repeatedly, saying Ben was threatening to hurt him and threatening to burn the store down. He called police in Ben’s home state pretending to be Ben and made false bomb threats. He broke his own window and said Ben hired a sniper to try and assassinate him. This is barely the half of it. Ended up getting him arrested multiple times.

All on camera and 100% proven false, but the crazy thing is the CEO is Mormon, along with the entire police department (BAM is in Utah, which is essentially controlled by a Mormon mafia). So in all the bodycam footage released (that they were illegally withholding, but has all come out now) it’s completely plain as day that they’re all actively conspiring together to cover for their fellow Mormons.

Anyway, as part of their attempt to lock this innocent kid in jail for the rest of his life over literally nothing, they sent a legal order to Patreon demanding they shut down Ben’s page. To which the CEO of patreon publicly responded “we’re keeping his page up. If you don’t like it, sue us.”