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SHOPIFY SHILL Conspiring against Me!?
"I was clever in having multiple llc's" — the wrong-entity theory stated on camera. The grievance C047 and C095 were pleaded on.
Direct case referenceShortFebruary 22, 2025
Original video removed
Published
FormatShort
CategoryDirect legal/court
Primary topic—
Research relevanceDirect case reference
Case-link confidenceMedium
Last checkedOctober 23, 2026
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How a tier is assigned.Strong — the statement names a tracked case or dispute and describes filing conduct of the kind the indicators document: repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision, or filing framed as imposing cost on the opponent. Moderate — it bears on litigation conduct or chronology in a tracked dispute, but the case link is tentative or the statement describes something other than the speaker’s own filing behaviour. Context — general commentary with no specific tracked case identified.
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the person suing me sued the wrong LLC that's their mistake I was clever in having multiple llc's they chose the wrong one so legally they're supposed to start a new lawsuit against the correct business and go through the whole process again
An on-camera statement that he deliberately maintained multiple LLCs and that an opposing party's judgment attached to the wrong one. The entity distinction he asserts is independently visible in the dataset — the tracked party-name record carries both Frankie's Free-Range Meat, LLC and Free Range Meat LLC as separate entities, and a third, FRM LLC, appears as a defendant in C022 and C103. The filing conduct described here is the opposing party's, not his. The tier is Moderate, with no filing-conduct factor.
Transcript-verified verbatim quote
Source removed. Quoted at 00:05 in the archived transcript.
yet Shopify is obeying the court order this is like me winning a case against Yahoo and then trying to collect against Google it's complete fraud it's illegitimate
This is the substance of the wrong recorded for two tracked actions. The case tracker's refiling note for C047 describes that case as "targeting the Lewis & Lin court order used to obtain his business records," and C095's as "the same single fraud claim against Shopify and Lewis & Lin LLC over the same misused court order." The statement predates neither — it sits one day after C047 was filed.
Transcript-verified verbatim quote
Source removed. Quoted at 00:30 in the archived transcript.
Moderate pattern relevanceFiling announced or confirmed01:12
I've already filed a federal lawsuit against the lawyer that did this as well as Shopify and I filed an emergency motion to stay and quash everything going on
C047, Tufano v. Shopify (USA) Inc. et al, M.D. Pa. 3:25-cv-00316, was filed 2025-02-21 — the day before this video published — and its defendants are exactly All Operating Corporations and LLC's for Shopify; Lewis & Lin LLC; Shopify (USA) Inc., i.e. "the lawyer that did this as well as Shopify." That is about as tight as a publish-date adjacency gets, and it is stated as a fact about upload timing. (Tier: Moderate — Filing announced or confirmed)
Why this classification: Moderate because he confirms a federal action against 'the lawyer that did this as well as Shopify' one day after the matching docket shows it filed, yet frames it as a response to a fraudulent order rather than to any adverse ruling.
Transcript-verified verbatim quote
Source removed. Quoted at 01:12 in the archived transcript.
and my lawyer is in the club too so he's just trying to get me to obey and do what they say but I I I really don't know maybe you guys can leave reviews on this lawyer reviews on Shopify
Two things at once — an allegation that his own retained lawyer is part of "the club" (the video's secret-society framing), and an instruction to viewers to leave reviews on an unnamed lawyer and on Shopify. See the research notes archived for this video for why this is coded No filing-conduct factor rather than Judicial or forum bias alleged, and for the viewer-direction note. (Tier: Moderate — No filing-conduct factor)
Transcript-verified verbatim quote
Source removed. Quoted at 01:45 in the archived transcript.
Cases linked to this video
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7:20-cv-09346 — Saladino, MD v. Frank TufanoTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:05 researched as bearing on this case: "I was clever in having multiple llc's" — the wrong-entity theory stated on camera.