> While fact investigation continues, BAM’s current state of its investigation has uncovered significant evidence of gross negligence in how the store was previously operated by the prior owner

Verbal diarrhea. Excessive passive tense and vagueries to dilute blame (who is the "prior" owner here - Johnson or the woman before they've been trying to scapegoat?) and to top it off multiple grammatical errors in a single sentence.

I can't believe they would let this draft hit the website in its current form this in the midst of what could be an existential crisis for there company.

Seems like with this kind of carry on, they could possibly end up in breach of their supplier agreement with Lego itself.

Crazy that they would risk that for a little spat. I guess they thought strong arm tactics would silence the story.

The fact they think it ok to admit to using their countersuit (against Bryan, the Lego owner) as leverage in this very post is wild.

They don't seem to understand, that there is no way out of it except giving the guy all the Lego sets or 200k dollars and saying "we are very sorry" multiple times. They're still trying to save their face and money and it might ruin the whole franchise.

They keep saying unauthorized consignment agreement. Except that they've yet to make public so much as a single document showing that the franchisees were not allowed to do consignment. And the previous owners shared their franchisee agreement which explicitly authorized them to do consignment.

They keep digging their grave, looks like

Um yes so that happened, though a guess is since an archive of the going ons got into the public 3rd June, [1], the company could guess they run the possibility of landing in proverbial hot water ... time to cut losses.

[1] https://archive.org/details/american-fork-bodycam-unredacted

Edited for clarity.

related from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314136