I've been digging into this and last night I figured out that the original owner of the franchise is Antifa and they wanted to sell the store to BAM because they were leaving the country on account of political persecution.
Here are some posts from Ben Gorman the owner.He owns a publishing company called Not a Pipe Pub.
Check out his T shirt on the teacher page.
They started a gofundme and have raised $70,000
I am starting to think the whole thing is one big production. Bryan Mansell, the son of the starwars lego owner is a production manager.
His gofundme has raised around $300000
It's almost $400,000 now.
There are over one and a half million Patel's in the United States.
Bryan Mansell taught at a film school in Los Angeles. It's possible he could have been friends with Reckless Ben, he is from LA too.
I think It's a possibility that all of them, including the Mormon mafia are in on the scam.
https://www.facebook.com/musicmansell/