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Public statement source · YT877
Eggs soon! Bug Spray! Frankie's Free Range Meat Vlog
A first-person account of the business-partner breakup — a partner who "left", cut ties with a specific organ-and-tendon vendor, and is alleged to have been "stealing meat and product from" the wagyu vendor. That breakup is the subject matter of a tracked New York state action filed 2021-04-22 in which he and his LLC are the plaintiffs and the LLC's other managing member is the defendant; that action was still live on the 2022-05-03 publish date (2021-04-22 → 2022-05-03 is 376 days, computed as a plain date difference). He names no person, no company and no proceeding here, and he describes no filing of his own, so no core factor is available and no case link is written — see the research notes archived for this video for why the direction matters. Recorded as grievance chronology and as a party allegation, never as a finding: no source is offered for the theft claim and this file takes no position on whether it is true. Possible case/dispute link: tentative and unconfirmed. The grievance shape matches the tracked 2021 state action over the LLC's internal affairs, but the transcript supplies no name, so the link rests entirely on subject matter. Recorded as unresolved.
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i still have some issues from when my business partner left so there was this one company that we were buying like a lot of organs from a lot of tendons really local grass-fed easy to get consistently every week he basically cut ties with that vendor and i still it's a nightmare sourcing the stuff we were getting from them still and then we have uh the wagyu vendor uh which he was also stealing meat and product from so i can't get my hands on it anymore
A first-person account of the business-partner breakup — a partner who "left", cut ties with a specific organ-and-tendon vendor, and is alleged to have been "stealing meat and product from" the wagyu vendor. That breakup is the subject matter of a tracked New York state action filed 2021-04-22 in which he and his LLC are the plaintiffs and the LLC's other managing member is the defendant; that action was still live on the 2022-05-03 publish date (2021-04-22 → 2022-05-03 is 376 days, computed as a plain date difference). He names no person, no company and no proceeding here, and he describes no filing of his own, so no core factor is available and no case link is written — see the research notes archived for this video for why the direction matters. Recorded as grievance chronology and as a party allegation, never as a finding: no source is offered for the theft claim and this file takes no position on whether it is true. Possible case/dispute link: tentative and unconfirmed. The grievance shape matches the tracked 2021 state action over the LLC's internal affairs, but the transcript supplies no name, so the link rests entirely on subject matter. Recorded as unresolved.
so hopefully you know i can save up some money over the next year or two all these lawsuits go away and then the business is in an actual reasonable position
He uses the plural — "all these lawsuits" — on 2022-05-03, and frames their ending as a precondition for the business becoming viable, alongside saving money. He gives no count, names no case, no court, no opponent and no claim, so this is not self-reported filing volume; it is a statement that multiple proceedings were weighing on him at a date when, per the batch's parent-verified position, exactly two dockets were live — one brought against him and one brought by his LLC — with three earlier dockets already closed in 2018–2019. ⚠ The plural is therefore consistent with the known docket picture and is not evidence of any additional, unrecorded case; a later pass must not read "all these lawsuits" as implying more than two. See the research notes archived for this video for a further proceeding the dataset records, which may also be inside his "these". Possible case/dispute link: none written. The statement is compatible with both live dockets and identifies neither.