Reckless Ben is in LEGAL trouble..

Ben has got some big wins in the bricks and mini figs case, but as he's got those wins, he's also facing some huge liability. We're going to talk about that today on the Legal Mindset, where we teach you to be your own judge. I'm Andrew Esquire, American Attorney. Now, let's jump right into this. We've been providing kind of playbyplay, dayby-day updates as this thing develops. So, one of the first things and perhaps the most humorous things is the fails by the police. And there was an absolutely glorious fail that happened after our last video. So, the unredacted body cam footage came out. I covered it on my channel. Almost half a million of you watch that here on my channel. Thank you for that, by the way, leaving likes and comments on that video. It really helps out. And got that information out there to everybody. And they had to issue an official statement from the America Fork Police Department. The American Fork Police Department recently discovered that files not intended for public release were uploaded to a public folder. Upon identifying the issue, the police department promptly removed those files and conducted a review of the records associated with this matter. I'm sure something's going on. Following that review, under the applicable records laws, we'll get into that cuz I am a master of public records laws. The department removed all previously posted files and replaced them with the files approved for public release. The files currently available are the files approved for public release and the members of the public and media are asked to use those files. This is Please don't show Please don't show us conspiring against him. Please don't show us trying to rig it. Please don't show us having a conversation with the CEO and trying to conspiracy of inventing charges against this guy to get him to leave. Please don't show this, guys. Absolute egg on the face of the PD. Number one, very sloppy. It shows they really don't have attention to detail and they're going through this gung-ho because they're mad, because they're emotional. They're not thinking procedurally, rationally. They just really want to get this guy and they're trying to do anything to present their side of the story and try to make Ben Reckless Ben look bad, hide whatever they can hide. You really can't make stuff like this up. I dealt with in Florida many public records requests working with communities. I work with small communities all across Florida and occasionally there would be a typo that got out there or some small mistake. But whenever you have a big file, something that's important, you triple check. You pay a lawyer to make sure that all that's released is what needs to be released. And in this case, whoever was reviewing this did not do a good job and absolutely mess this one up. Yeah, they were panicked and they made mistakes in the process. That's what I think happened. And when you look at the footage itself, which is the second big thing here, and you say, why were you trying to hide anything that was unredacted, right? That first half when they're there on the stoop of the house. exactly was in that that you thought couldn't come out. It's sounding kind of ridiculous and it's sounding like you're hiding more than you need to hide in these cases as the government. Being more transparent works better. Trying to hide stuff doesn't work. And I say that as somebody who has represented governments. Because if you try to hide things, this is what happened with the Epstein files, too, is that if they had just released everything without as many redactions, I think that it would have come and gone from the news cycle faster. But the moment that you start trying to hide information and you start trying to fool people, I think that the more people try to not get fooled because now their guard is up because they realize that they're trying to be like, you know, they're being manipulated. Does not look good when you hold back information unnecessarily. And that's what America Forks keeps trying to do. Also, as soon as people find out that one piece of information that was held back was uh damaging or it was not confidential, it was not private, it was not police, you know, like only important. It was literally just them conspiring with the person that was there at the house and the CEO on the phone. The moment that people see that, they will assume everything else is [ __ ] too. Just because obviously that's what you would logically assume. Of course, that's an absolute L foul play as evidence. Before we get to another L that bricks and Miniigs takes, I'm gonna follow up because today's sponsor is once again freecash.com. If you're like extra money, lawyers like that money, click on the link in my description as well as in the pinned comments to sign up for free cash. You can go do some games on there if you're already playing games. They put World of Warcraft or or how about how about they put Marathon on this? Maybe then they can get back up to 50K players. Hey, might as well get some cash back from that or do some surveys. It's not a get-rich quick thing, but it's also not a scam. It's a registered driven company. Check that out with the QR code on the screen or the link below, freecash.com. All right, back to the screw-ups. So, we've got here Bricks and Mini Figs Spin. So, they tried to spin to the mainstream media here out. And you see this with KSL News Radio 102.7 uh as Utah based reseller parts ways with owners involved in viral Lego theft allegations. So trying to say that hey we as corporate have distanced ourselves from all that these all these bad people. We've gotten rid of the bad guys. That's their corporate position now. Well, it turns out that was a lie, right? The lie detector said what a surprise. Uh, you look at the filings here and you see that Bricks and Minigs with Brandon Best, who was one of these bad characters involved here that they came out and publicly said they parted ways with, well, he's still on a store in Eugene, Oregon. Wamp wamp. And this is So they tried to roach out of the one that was public, but then people looked into the paperwork and they found out that he owned another store as well. It's crazy how corrupt these people are. The sort of thing that internet detectives on X, on other platforms, on YouTube, as soon as people think that you're trying to lie, they will try to go through everything to prove it. Are finding people in finding. So, shout out to all those people. Forums all over the place. This thing is getting out there and the internet uh the internet slleuth, you know who you are, are doing an excellent job of logging this and not allowing them to get away with these corporate shenanigans. And I know these are corporate shenanigans because I used to pull certain tactics like this back when I was working on the corporate side trying to do an old switcheroo. Another switcheroo they're trying to do here is changing and filing for a new LLC in Oregon. And so they're trying to file a new one here. The William at Forest Ops, you know, trying to switch out LLC's, play a little games there. But now people are spotting this and calling this out. And that's just not going to work. The other thing, yeah, the moment people feel like you're trying to hide, they try twice as hard to find you, which is on the side. It It's just basic human nature. It's the same as like a dog. You know, you try and pull a a toy out of a dog's mouth, it'll bite down on the toy. It's the same same Ben really had a huge W here which he can celebrate is he's gotten to almost 450K in his GoFundMe. Now it's excellent. Obviously that is looking to go towards the man cells or cover the cost some of the legal defense etc stuff going on with this. That's absolutely fantastic. But what that also creates is a giant target on his back. Now, we saw in the footage how they were very acutely interested in those Goofundme funds and Exactly. Yeah. And so that's the reason why that's one of the ways that they're trying to hold it hostage is that they're trying to say that well, you know, we we're not going to distribute the funds or they're going to take the funds away from I forgot what Ben said specifically, right? They're not going to do that until uh this lawsuit is over. And I think that's what's really really [ __ ] up, right? Going after the $400,000. Exactly. And let me see if I can pull this up. And uh Goofund me uh Lego. Yeah. Uh Lego Brian. Okay. Yeah. Can I Okay, so the GoFundMe is back up. You can see right here. It was taken down yesterday and it has now been updated once again. I think this is a great thing. Obviously, it's a good thing. So, yeah, I don't know really why that happened for a day, but it obviously makes, by the way, this is another big thing is that it makes GoFundMe look really bad. Whenever you have a third-party actor that's able to affect the way your website functions, it makes people lose trust in your website. I mean, duh, of course. That's because they want some of that money. If they can get that money, they are going to do anything they can to try to get that money. Because if you thought they were interested in 200K worth of Legos, which they say debatably is 100k, whatever, 100 200k of Legos, they're more interested in 450k almost, it'll get there, of cold hard cash. You better believe they want some of that cold hard cash. And look, there's nothing wrong with being interested in money, but there's one thing about how you go about it, right? And being blindsided by a Everybody's okay with you wanting money. Everybody's not okay with you stealing money. It's actually super simple. It's okay for you to want to make a lot of money and to want to be rich. It's not okay for you to take other people's money and then say, "Now it's my money." It's really obvious. corporation that may not have your best interests here and also failing to prepare for this and take this seriously is a problem for Ben. And one of the things as we're going to see in a clip right now is that Ben doesn't necessarily take these legal threats seriously and hasn't gone to lawyers as aggressively and as much as he should. Let's take a look at the clip. We can thank him, but we should also write him a written apology as well. Exactly. And what's so interesting in that, dude, did you hear this where he's like, "We are willing to drop the lawsuit against you." So, are you aware of the lawsuit that they have against Brian, or is it the same one that you're lumped into? It's It's one lawsuit on all of us, and they're getting us for RICO charges. I don't really know what that is, but I heard it's a big deal. Um, yeah, I just saw a couple lawyers. I It's a big deal. And he's gonna talk I'll rewind here because he's gonna talk about what the lawyers say. It is indeed a big deal. That's something you should take seriously. When you hear RICO charges, whether they're civil RICO charges or criminal, there is a difference there. We'll get into it when we do some more analysis down the line on that to see whether or not that case sticks, which we'll talk about in a second. But this is a big deal for him. This could be crushing, like lifec crushing liability. And it also can go for those GoFundMe funds. So, if he doesn't take this seriously, if he doesn't actually go and lawyer up and and try to fight back on this, he does risk that. That absolutely is at risk. Yeah. I just saw a couple like lawyers like briefly react to. They're like Rico charges, you know? They're like, "Oh, this is insane." Like, that's used for the mafia and stuff, you know? So, like insane motion. If you get a re if you get a Rico charge, that's like How about they're reframing it, bro? That's crazy motion, dude. What? Rico charge. What does that mean? A RICO charge is a criminal accusation under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a federal law designed to prosecute leaders of organized crime. Give me a [ __ ] break. Are you kidding me? Oh my god. Yeah. What? You know who's beginning a Rico charge is bricks and mini fix really honor but and and these guys are taking it in stride and kind of taking it and okay it's it's a badge of pride but take it seriously don't just say okay now I've got this on me I've got this sort of clout of being sued for RICO I'm now this bad boy no you've actually got to fight this you've actually got to step up and fight it you've got to go to court you've got to push back against this right because we're at that stage now This is why it's so important that you don't let these guys get away from this. You don't let them get away with it. The reason why is that they are literally trying to destroy this guy's life and the people that are around him. Not to mention uh Brian's life and the father's life. Like this is it. It's not like it's just them stealing the money. It's like this is them going for the throat. They're trying to get them charged on felonies. They're trying to bring up organized crime charges. Like this is something very serious. There's enough and we'll get into, you know, the legal defense. There's enough for him to go back and actually do that. He actually has the resources to do that right now. Emotion right there. What they're claiming is that Brian hired me to harass Bricks and Minigs when it couldn't be more the opposite. I saw this story and I was like, "Let me help you." And he's like, "I've tried everything at this point. If you want to go for it, like go for it." You know, like I've already declared these Legos is a total loss, so you can't make this situ. He's like, "Maybe if Reckless Ben gets on it, he'll help a little bit." Okay, so let's stop there. I think that is what exactly happened here. So Bricks and Minig wants to frame this as an extortion attempt, as something where they were going in from the beginning to extort them. Well, they're they're going in from the beginning to get what was justly theirs. And we've kind of expo It's extortion when you ask for your stuff. Yeah. No, no, we have your stuff. Give it back. Oh. Oh, I'm being extorted. That yes, they were indeed owed something. Bricks and Minigs has admitted they were owed something. So, if you are actually trying to be made whole, Bricks and Minigs, the franchise owner, were unjustly enriched. They were enriched by in a way by the Star Wars collection in which they should not have been. They admitted that he was not paying out the franchise owner was not paying out the man cells what they should have been paying them out. That's a wrong there. That's not extortion. This was not something where they're saying let's just shake down these people without any reason at all whatsoever. There's a very valid reason behind that. But the point here beyond all of that is once again they are do face risk here and they also face risk of the man cells and Ben being separated in negotiations because what bricks and mini figs may try to do here is separate them out. They may try to say okay manels we will pay you out. We will make you whole but you've got a turn on Breckless Ben. So now Breckless Ben needs to be very careful. Needs to make sure he's he's got his interests in line and make sure he's saying, "Hey, listen. We're going in this together. We're going to come to a resolution that works for all part." These people are such [ __ ] freaks, man. They are parties, right? Works for the manels, works for Ben, works for Bricks and Minigs, and we're going to settle this and get this done. Bricks and Minigs wants to make the settlement just with the manels, but they want vengeance on Ben. Now, we'll get into his psychology. I I think I understand him and why he doesn't want to do this or why he hasn't done this so far, but let's listen to the rest of the video. But that's how the situation actually went down. Like, we have all the video to prove it. So, like if they sue him, they're just like stupid. You know, cuz like I have the video of our first initial conversation where he tells me the story and I'm like, "Huh, this is an interesting story." The reason why they're doing it isn't because they think that they can get the charge through. The reason why they're doing it is that they're leveraging really heavy charges so they can create the worry and then shut down conversation. That's the reason why I could do a video on this, you know, but like it's my decision to make. He didn't tell me to make the video. His friend is the one that reached out to me. He's like, "Hey, this is an interesting situation." You know, and Brian was like, "I just want the Legos back, you know, take his B." Now they're suing him just for wanting his own property back, which makes no sense. Like what the heck? So it it does make sense cuz they're trying to reframe the narrative. They're trying to reframe it as a corporation. Oh, we're hurt here. And they're also trying to frame him in the worst possible light. Look, everybody is out there trying to trying to get what is theirs and trying to see what they in term of a benefit, right? So everybody can benefit from a situation. Obviously, let's be real. Let's be honest and objective as I always am on this channel. Obviously, Reckless Ben is a YouTuber. He does want attention. He does want clicks. He does obviously want monetization. That's normal. There's nothing wrong with that. There's that's not a sin uh to want that. But at the same time, he's able to actually do something good. Bring publicity to this issue. That's not a huge conflict there. And often times, if you're able to do good and profit, that's great. That's something that's very um I think positive and that brings a lot of benefits to the world. But Bricks and Minigs wants to take this and turn this around to him being an evil malicious person. So he'll act like the mafia. Shouldn't they get the mafia treatment? I I hate the legal system. I do. And look look my every people everybody knows the way I feel about this stuff. Okay. I think that we all we all know the way I feel. That's why he needs to do this differently. So let's go to my judgment. So the first thing that he needs to look at is to fund legal defense. And I think he can do this. If you look at the terms here in the GoFundMe, it does talk about legal costs. And I think that this legal defense a legal defense of the RICO could use some of those funds. He's g he's gathered more than enough more than enough to get the Legos back to buy all the Legos and fund a legal defense here. So he's got enough for a real lawyer now. So that part is covered. But I understand Ben and I know why he's skeptical of lawyers. He's skeptical of lawyers because a lawyer, if a lawyer was part of his team in the beginning of this, they would have told him to not do certain things, they might have told him to stop. They would have told him not to do any of this and they would have had him go through the legal process completely and then had it been done. Like I mean, Reckless Ben does live up to his name. He does. But the problem is that him using guerrilla warfare basically to do the right thing. Like this is always this is always my perspective. I look at who's trying to do the right thing and who's trying to do the wrong thing. If someone uses the right pro the wrong process for the right thing versus somebody that uses the right process for the wrong thing, I'm going to end up on the side of the guy that used the wrong process for the right thing every single time. Duh. Who wouldn't? A bureaucratic Karen wouldn't. And that's what they're relying on. Listen, lawyers, we can be funk killers here. We can be riskadverse. We're aware of that. We know that. And sometimes YouTubers, particularly YouTubers trying to create dramatic content, are going to want to push the boundaries. I get that. I understand that. But there's a point at which you absolutely do need to get a lawyer involved, especially if the stakes have gotten this high once the stakes have escalated. Yeah. I mean, like I think Ben's already coordinating with legal teams. Like I I know a few different groups of people that might be able to help, but I don't know where their competency is. I don't know like I mean RICO charges is something that's like very unique and so I don't really know a lot about that. But yeah, I'd have to say legal legal. I mean, need to have rid of that tendency to not talk to lawyers or that lawyers are joy killers and come back and get one on your team, especially when you have more than enough resources for it. Now, he also faces some very serious liability. This is not a joke. And he risked those GoFundMe funds being targeted by bricks and minigs, which we don't want them to get. I also think negotiations with all parties, the man sells bricks and mini figs and Ben, right? and he can do that with an a representative so he can send a lawyer there or a mediator. I think that no matter what happens with the negotiations, nobody should ever forgive Bricks and Miniigs for what they did. There should never no amount of apologies like no amount of um you know like oh we changed no amount of money or anything like that. There is nothing that they can do and nothing that they can do to ever get rid of this. You tried to destroy a man's life in order to protect ste yourself from stealing another man's life. It's outrageous. It's undefensible, indefensible. And and there's there's no denying this. It it's just plain and simple. on his behalf, right? Somebody who is at his legal representative to engage in those negotiations because maybe, you know, he's too in this personally, maybe he needs a neutral party. Get a lawyer in there, get somebody in there to negotiate for you, sit at that table, come to a resolution, sign that off. I think that is the best one. And if Bricks and Minigs at any point during the negotiation is in bad faith, they try to trick you, you can call them out. That's content. You've got the upper hand here. Ben definitely has the upper hand. The manels have the upper hand. So at any point if they were to try to turn the tables on him or trick him, I think the eyes of the internet, the eyes of the world are on are still on this case. So the time is right to negotiate and get it done now. But I want to know what you guys think in the comments below and I will catch you on the next one. [ __ ] based. Absolutely [ __ ] based. I really hope that obviously they, you know, like you never never capitulate to these people. Ne never do it. Don't do it. Malcolm at the wall call that art. Yeah, I can't really uh remind someone. There's the video right there. I've watched a lot of Andrew's videos. Make sure to give it a like. I'm glad that we've got a guy that's an attorney that's able to like give some insight on this that's clued in and they know what the hell's going on. The other uh innocent BAM franchise owners should come together and sue Bam Corporate. Maybe. I I don't I don't know what's going to happen, but I know that there's something that is profoundly and extremely wrong. And again, bricks and mini figs is like that's a big problem, but the bigger problem in my opinion actually is the um uh it's the the police station, right? I mean like that's it.