“Bricks & Minifigs American Fork” was registered in August. In September BAM’s disclosure document first called the Reckless Ben case “material to the decision.”
A public map listing puts the store at 356 E State St. BAM’s own complaint describes four days of police calls in March at and around the American Fork home of Josh Johnson, one of the nine people BAM lists as selling its franchises. On April 17 Ammon McNeff certified that BAM’s document did “not contain any material omissions”; its litigation page listed one matter, from 2019. On May 27 he verified BAM’s complaint against Benjamin Schneider, known as Reckless Ben, which says Schneider’s statements caused “damage to Plaintiffs’ ability to recruit new franchisees.” Three weeks later BAM’s law firm refiled the document with that page unchanged.
PRIMARY SOURCEUtah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code, filings of March 15 and August 20, 2026 (entities 14672763-0160 and 14728681-0151). BAM Franchising’s disclosure document in four versions, each from a state regulator’s file: issued March 31, 2025; issued April 8, 2026; revised for Minnesota in June 2026; amended and certified September 9, 2026. Ammon McNeff’s certification of April 17, 2026. BAM’s verified complaint of May 27, 2026.
CONFIRMEDthe two filings and the store name; the address, on a public map listing read October 4; that the words Schneider, Reckless and American Fork appear nowhere in the first three versions, each searched in full; that American Fork, police and arrest appear nowhere in the fourth; that all four list Josh Johnson as a franchise seller.
INFERENCEthat the company which registered the name is BAM’s franchisee, and that the franchise was sold on a version that did not mention the case. The signing date is not public. The name was registered August 20, and BAM’s store finder listed the store by September 14, two days before anyone could have signed on the amended document.
The store
The company that registered the store’s name was organized on March 15, 2026, “To engage in lawful business activities including retail sale of toys, collectibles, and related merchandise.” On August 20 it registered “Bricks & Minifigs American Fork.” A public map listing puts a toy store of that name at 356 E State St, with no phone number or hours yet, and BAM’s own store finder listed “American Fork, UT” as coming soon by September 14.
American Fork is the city BAM’s complaint against Benjamin Schneider gives as Josh Johnson’s home, and the city whose police answered calls to it on four days in March (the State’s account of those days). Johnson is BAM’s co-plaintiff in that case and the complaining witness in Utah County’s criminal case, and BAM’s receipt page lists him sixth among its nine franchise sellers (September 26).
March 15 was four days after Lieutenant Adamson of the American Fork police reported “Five in custody” (the raid). This site found no record of any dealing between the company’s owner and Johnson, the McNeffs or the police, and nothing that ties the owner to the March events.
What BAM told buyers
That is the whole of Item 3 in the edition BAM issued on April 8, four weeks after the arrests. It lists one matter, an agreement with Washington’s attorney general from 2019. The 2025 edition has the same single entry.
Nine days later Ammon McNeff certified the document to Minnesota “under penalty of law” (the application). The certification says he has “read and know the contents” and that the documents “do not contain any material omissions.”
What BAM told a court
“These false statements were calculated and intended to cause injury and harm to Plaintiffs and their businesses and did and continues to cause substantial and ongoing injury and harm, including” … “(iii) interference with franchise relationships; (iv) damage to Plaintiffs’ ability to recruit new franchisees”
BAM sued Schneider on May 27. The allegations are BAM’s, and Schneider disputes them. Ammon McNeff verified the complaint as BAM’s chief executive, and Josh Johnson verified it too. Its paragraph 180 claims damages for “loss of franchise relationships and prospective franchisees.”
Three weeks later, on June 17 and 18, Manal Hall of Dentons Durham Jones Pinegar sent Minnesota “A full clean copy of the revised Franchise Disclosure Document.” The same firm had filed the complaint against Schneider, and it defends BAM in the fraud suit its former Salem franchisees filed on March 27 (the suit). Item 3 of the revised copy lists neither case and matches April’s word for word.
On September 9 McNeff certified an amended edition. Its Item 3 names both cases and says of BAM’s own, “Franchisor believes that this action and the facts surrounding it is information that is material to the decision to enter into a Bricks and Minifigs franchise agreement” (reported September 25). The words American Fork, police and arrest are nowhere in the amended document, and Johnson is still on its receipt page as a franchise seller.
On May 27 Ammon McNeff verified a complaint saying Benjamin Schneider’s statements had caused “damage to Plaintiffs’ ability to recruit new franchisees.” The document BAM gives the people it recruits did not name him until September.
In order
When it was sold
The date of the franchise agreement is not public. BAM’s own year-end table counts 70 franchise agreements signed for stores not yet open and has no row for Utah (Item 20, Table No. Five, pages 66 and 67 of the April document), so on BAM’s count this one was signed in 2026.
The name was registered on August 20. The amended document was created on September 2, by its own file stamp (September 25), and BAM’s receipt page gives a buyer 14 calendar days with the document before signing, which makes September 16 the first day anyone could have signed on it. BAM’s store finder was listing American Fork two days before that.
The document sets the initial fee at $40,000, “payable in full when you sign the Franchise Agreement,” unless an area development agreement says otherwise. In seven states the addenda to BAM’s current document defer that fee until the store is open or BAM has met its obligations before opening, and the Illinois addendum says the state “imposed this deferral requirement due to Franchisor’s financial condition” (the guide, state by state). Utah is not one of the seven. BAM’s interim report books $776,000 of “New Franchise Sales” for January through May 2026 and does not break the figure down by month.
What Utah requires
Utah does not register franchises. It takes a yearly notice in which a franchisor states that it “is in substantial compliance” with the Federal Trade Commission’s franchise rule (Utah Code 13-15-201). BAM’s is on the state’s public register as “FRANCHISE PROOF OF NOTICE FILING,” registration 8427231-BSOE, status “ACTIVE,” expires “31-MAY-27.” That federal rule has a franchisor prepare revisions “within a reasonable time after the close of each quarter of the fiscal year” “to reflect any material change” (16 CFR 436.7). Section 13-15-303 lets Utah’s Division of Consumer Protection open proceedings to revoke a receipt, in the public interest, when “the filing is incomplete, false, or misleading.” What BAM told Utah in its notice is not on the public register.
The fair reading, and its limit. A registered name is not a signed agreement, and the signing date is not public; that the franchise was sold on a document that did not mention the case is an inference from BAM’s records and the state’s. If the agreement was signed before March 8 there was nothing in American Fork to disclose that day, and BAM’s own suit did not exist until May 27. Item 3 has a fixed list of what must go in it, and BAM’s amendment says of its case “nor does this action involve the franchise relationship.” The versions compared are the ones BAM filed in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and what BAM told this buyer outside the document is on no public record. This site found no record of any dealing between the store’s owner and Johnson, the McNeffs or the police, and nothing here is a finding of law. The right of reply is open to BAM and to the store’s owner.
The record
The April 8 document, in the clean copy filed in Minnesota in June. Ammon McNeff’s certification of April 17. BAM’s verified complaint. BAM’s June 17 response to Minnesota. The September amendment, marked. The 2025 edition. Wisconsin’s file. Utah Division of Consumer Protection, registered entities search. Utah Code 13-15-201. 16 CFR 436.7. September 25: the amendment, sentence by sentence. September 26: who Josh Johnson is, from the record. September 23: what Utah County charged. July 15: the raid. The Salem franchisees’ suit. Franchisee rights in Utah. The disclosure document, read against itself.
Sources. Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code: certificate of organization, filing 260315877328B, filed March 15, 2026, entity 14672763-0160; certificate of assumed and of true name, filing 2608201159012B, effective August 20, 2026, entity 14728681-0151; both quoted verbatim and shown without the owner’s name and address. A public map listing for “Bricks & Minifigs American Fork,” read October 4, 2026. BAM’s public store finder, read September 14 and September 25, 2026. BAM Franchising, Inc., Franchise Disclosure Document: issuance date March 31, 2025 (Minnesota Department of Commerce, file 9006, submission 33584-202504); issuance date April 8, 2026 (as filed in Wisconsin, file 640999, and Minnesota, submission 36508-202605), Items 3, 5 and 20, the state addenda and the receipt; and the amendment certified September 9, 2026 (Minnesota submission 37254-202609, and the copy uploaded to Wisconsin September 8), Item 3, the receipt and Exhibit H, each searched in full. Minnesota Department of Commerce, submission 36508-202605: the renewal application with its certification of April 17, 2026, the response letters dated June 17 and June 18, 2026, and the clean disclosure document filed with them. BAM Franchising, Inc. v. Schneider, verified complaint, Utah Fourth District No. 260402353, filed May 27, 2026, paragraphs 92 to 98, 165 and 180 and its verifications; its allegations are the plaintiffs’, and the defendants dispute them. BAMF Salem 1, LLC v. BAM Franchising, Inc., Utah Business and Chancery Court No. 260200029, the court’s docket: complaint filed March 27, 2026; acceptance of service by BAM’s counsel dated April 21 and filed April 28, 2026; BAM’s motion of May 27, 2026. Utah Division of Consumer Protection, registered entities search, franchise proof of notice filing 8427231-BSOE, read October 4, 2026. Utah Code 13-15-201 and 13-15-303, as published by the Legislature, in the version effective May 6, 2026. 16 CFR 436.7, as published in the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations. State of Utah v. Schneider, No. 261401094, and the American Fork police record of March 8 to 11, as published on this site. Everyone named here is presumed to have acted lawfully, and Benjamin Schneider is presumed innocent.