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Public statement source · YT851
SNOWED IN NYC! Frankie's Free Range Meat NOT GOOD!
This is the grievance that later becomes the subject of a tracked action, narrated 79 days before that action was filed (interval computed in code as date(2021,4,22) - date(2021,2,2) = 79 days; endpoints 2021-02-02 and 2021-04-22). He describes money unaccounted for in a business he part-owns but does not run day to day, and an intention to take the operation over himself. No filing, threat of filing, lawyer, court or arbitration is mentioned anywhere in the video — this is the dispute's subject matter only, and it is recorded here as chronology, not as a statement about litigation. Possible case/dispute link: Tentative and unconfirmed — the business is Frankie's Free Range Meat, whose LLC is the plaintiff in C089 (FRANKIES FREE RANGE MEAT LLC et al v. ADAM STAROWICZ, N.Y. Sup. Ct. Westchester 55177/2021, filed 2021-04-22, dispute DSP020). The transcript names no case, no court and no surname; the link rests on the business name plus the forename in the next quote. ⚠ Contract §9 trap 4 applies and is unresolved: I cannot confirm from this transcript that the grievance narrated here is the grievance pleaded in C089.
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i'm kind of freaking out because i don't know what's going on we have this new commercial lease we're in this new facility we were able to make enough money to save up for that new facility but now it's even i'm not down there i'm not running the operation i'm not placing orders i don't know what's going on you know it's gotten to this kind of extreme point where now i'm probably going to basically have to be hands on with everything myself
This is the grievance that later becomes the subject of a tracked action, narrated 79 days before that action was filed (interval computed in code as date(2021,4,22) - date(2021,2,2) = 79 days; endpoints 2021-02-02 and 2021-04-22). He describes money unaccounted for in a business he part-owns but does not run day to day, and an intention to take the operation over himself. No filing, threat of filing, lawyer, court or arbitration is mentioned anywhere in the video — this is the dispute's subject matter only, and it is recorded here as chronology, not as a statement about litigation. Possible case/dispute link: Tentative and unconfirmed — the business is Frankie's Free Range Meat, whose LLC is the plaintiff in C089 (FRANKIES FREE RANGE MEAT LLC et al v. ADAM STAROWICZ, N.Y. Sup. Ct. Westchester 55177/2021, filed 2021-04-22, dispute DSP020). The transcript names no case, no court and no surname; the link rests on the business name plus the forename in the next quote. ⚠ Contract §9 trap 4 applies and is unresolved: I cannot confirm from this transcript that the grievance narrated here is the grievance pleaded in C089.
i said we were breaking even uh we're not you know adam is owed a lot of money i'm owed a lot of money we had to fire our employees last week so you know me and adam are now back to the drawing board of doing everything ourselves which i'm really not happy about
79 days before he sues Adam Starowicz, he describes Adam on camera as a fellow creditor of the shared business and a continuing working partner — "adam is owed a lot of money i'm owed a lot of money … me and adam are now back to the drawing board of doing everything ourselves". That is the opposite posture to the one the later pleading takes, and it dates the relationship as still intact at 2021-02-02. It states no filing conduct of any kind and must not be read as one. Possible case/dispute link: Tentative and unconfirmed — Adam word-bounded resolves in src/data/aliases.csv to the single canonical entity D0003 (Adam Starowicz), the named defendant in C089 / DSP020. ⚠ But the transcript gives a forename only; no surname is spoken anywhere in the track or written anywhere in the description. Per addendum §B, a bare forename is exactly the collision hazard, and the identification here rests on the forename co-occurring with the business name in the same sentence, not on the name itself. Treat as an adjacency to be confirmed from another source, not as a party link.
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55177/2021 — FRANKIES FREE RANGE MEAT LLC et al v. ADAM STAROWICZTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 04:45 researched as bearing on this case: [4:45]–[5:08] — Financial opacity at Frankie's Free Range Meat: "i'm not down there i'm not running the operation".