Ammon McNeff sealed Legally Mine’s doors “for a Criminal Investigation” and fired its president on a police case number two days old. The file closed as civil. The FBI investigated.
In the family war over Legally Mine, the sons went to Orem police on Wednesday, October 14, 2020, were referred to the county on the Thursday, and locked the building on the Friday. The police report, released on October 21, 2026, under Utah’s records act, shows what the police did that week: a referral. Five days later a judge kept the president the sons had fired, and in May 2021 the file closed as “worked out among the parties in civil court.”
PRIMARY SOURCEOrem Police Department, Officer Report for Incident 20OR24205, eight pages as released on October 21, 2026, served below; the October 2020 papers in the consolidated Utah Fourth District case, No. 190401633: the sons’ declarations and notice to staff, the father’s restraining-order motion and his side’s declarations, the arbitrator’s orders as exhibits, and the court’s minute entry of October 21, 2020.
CONFIRMEDThe sequence, from both sides’ sworn papers and the police record together: the report of October 14, 2020, the referral of October 15, 2020, the lockout of October 16, 2020, six termination notices citing the case number, the signs on the door, and police called to the parking lot who called it a civil matter.
CONTRADICTED“Criminal investigations are currently being conducted,” the sons’ notice of October 16, 2020, by the police record: a referral made the afternoon before, no investigation by Orem, a file closed as civil. And “As the only owners with management authority of Legally Mine,” by the arbitrator’s order of September 14, 2020, that neither son should act as manager, and by the court five days later.
ADJUDICATEDOctober 21, 2020, Judge James R. Taylor, from the minute entry: “Lindsay Thompson is to remain the current president of the company until the court otherwise determines”; “No disbursement will be made to any of the owner until further order of the court”; a $1 million bond; and “The court makes no determinations at this time as to allegations of criminal conduct.”
The file
The file was requested from Orem under GRAMA and released on October 21, 2026, eight pages, redacted by the department: dates of birth, addresses, telephone numbers, the complainant’s email, and the names of the employees he accused. The written statement the complainant emailed the officer that afternoon, with a statement from a former billing employee, is listed as attached and was not produced. The disposition line reads closed, May 25, 2021.
The week, by three records
| When | The sons swore | The father’s side swore | The public record | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed., Oct. 14, 2020 | A police report: “our identities had been stolen in attempt to move client credit card information.” | Never mentioned, in the motion or in his side’s three declarations. | 12:12 p.m., at the station: employees “have stolen company data” and impersonated Ammon. | CONFIRMED |
| Thu., Oct. 15, 2020 | Officer Backus calls: the county “was taking over the case”; keep the accused off “their computers, servers, etc.” | “In the dark of night” the brothers “seized physical control of the office”; a door kicked in. | Referred to the county attorney’s investigators. Ammon: they would “fire or put the employee’s on leave tomorrow.” | CONFIRMED |
| Fri., Oct. 16, 2020 | Six fired, the president first, “As the only owners with management authority”; “Criminal investigations are currently being conducted.” Police called on two who stayed. | STOP signs, “Office Currently Close for a Criminal Investigation.” “Ammon and Matthew called the police on us”; the police “considered the issue a civil matter.” | No police entry for that call. The sons file a Petition for Interim Compliance, the recordings attached. | CONFIRMED |
| Sun., Oct. 18, 2020 | Dan, the president and Seiler arrive “with the Orem Police Department”; Seiler puts the county attorney on the phone; the officer: let Dan “do whatever he wanted.” | That night the sons “agreed not to re-enter the office building.” | A Sunday. Nothing on the docket; nothing in the police file. | AS SWORN |
| Oct. 19 to 21, 2020 | A motion to strike; the opposition with both declarations. | An ex parte motion: the sons a hundred yards away, the president restored. | The judge: Thompson “is to remain the current president”; status quo; no disbursement; a $1 million bond. | ADJUDICATED |
| Dec. 2020 to Feb. 2021 | A federal complaint, January 22, 2021. | An answer and counterclaim, December 24, 2020. | Settled January 26, 2021; dismissed in February. | CONFIRMED |
| May 25, 2021 | Orem closes the file: reports “against Dan McNeff were ultimately investigated by the FBI”; the rest “worked out among the parties in civil court.” | PRIMARY SOURCE | ||
The number on the door
The notices went out on the morning of Friday, October 16, 2020, over the names of Ammon and Matthew McNeff, “Owner Legally Mine.” Six people were fired, the company’s president first. Each notice recited the award against their father, declared the sons “the only owners with management authority,” and listed grounds that ran from handbook violations to “participation in the theft of company property and funds (Orem PD Case #20OR24205).” Then the line the morning rested on: “Criminal investigations are currently being conducted.” On the glass doors, over plastic sheeting, two red STOP signs said the same thing to anyone who walked up.
The complaint behind the number was that employees had moved the company’s card billing to another processor, FigPay, by impersonating Ammon and a former billing employee. Ammon told the officer FigPay “is not affiliated with Legally Mine”; the sons’ declarations say the FigPay merchant account “is entirely and exclusively owned by Dan”; and the father’s side’s own declaration, as the sons quote it, says the company had “attempted to transition its merchant account from Orion to FigPay.” In the other side’s telling, the theft the sons reported was a change of processor by the majority owner.
What the police had done by the morning of the notices is on page six of their report. The afternoon before, Officer J. Backus had met the three complainants, decided with two sergeants that the county attorney’s investigators “may want to investigate the concerns,” called the county’s chief, and told Ammon the county would follow up. Ammon told him they “were going to either fire or put the employee’s on leave tomorrow.” The officer’s advice was about evidence: keep the suspects off the computers and servers. His last line: “This case will be referred to the Utah County Attorney’s Office Bureau of Investigations for follow up.” That is the investigation the notices announced: a referral, one afternoon old, to an office that had not yet opened a file. The sons’ own sworn account builds the lockout on it. The father’s side swore to the night before it: “In the dark of night and between close of business on October 15, 2020, and the early morning hours of Friday, October 16, 2020, Ammon and Matthew entered Legally Mine’s offices and seized physical control of the office,” key fobs deactivated, computers moved to one room, the president’s “office door had been kicked in and the door frame was broken,” her declaration says. The sons: “In order to keep employees involved from accessing ‘their computers, servers, ect,’ on the morning of October 16, Ammon and I locked down the office.” The officer’s evidence advice became the stop signs. The sons’ papers name the people they say made the calls; the police redacted every name; no one was charged.
The closing supplement is dated by the disposition line, May 25, 2021. By then the family had settled. A detective on the department’s FBI task force wrote it: “Reports by Ammon McNeff against Dan McNeff were ultimately investigated by the FBI (SA Kevin Mortensen via case 290-SU-3371566). Other aspects of the report were worked out among the parties in civil court. The Orem Police will not investigate further and this case will be closed.” The department recorded the son’s reports as reports against his father. What the Bureau did with them is not in this file, and nothing in the public record shows a charge against anyone.
The Friday and the Sunday, as sworn
The police visits of that weekend are in the sons’ sworn account and, for the Friday, in the father’s side’s. On Friday morning the president and another of the six refused to leave the parking lot, and the brothers called police to remove them. Matthew McNeff: “A Lieutenant from the police station arrived, stating that Tom Seiler had personally called the Orem Chief of Police, and informed him this was strictly a civil matter.” He would neither admit them nor remove them. The other side’s declaration agrees on the visit: “Ammon and Matthew called the police on us,” and the officers “stated they considered the issue a civil matter.” The call to the chief is the sons’ word alone. Before the police came, a group text had gone to the six: “If you do not leave, law enforcement will be brought to remove you.”
On Sunday, October 18, 2020, by Matthew’s declaration, Dan, the president and Seiler arrived “with the Orem Police Department, and were forcing their way in.” Seiler telephoned David Leavitt, the county attorney, and handed the officer his phone: “here is the district attorney, he wants to talk to you.” The officer came back and said “the DA stated he was to allow Dan to do whatever he wanted, because Dan was the majority owner.” Matthew told him “the arbitrator punished Dan because we showed evidence that he had been stealing from the company.” Seiler, by the same account: “You shut up! That is not true!” A truce held until the hearing: no one would enter. The president’s declaration records the same terms from her side, that the sons “agreed not to re-enter the office building” only if no employee entered either. Neither the Friday call nor the Sunday one is in the police file released; both would be separate entries, and both are requested.
Who had authority that week
The award of July 6, 2020, is the sentence the sons printed at the top of every notice: “Daniel McNeff is hereby expelled as manager of Legally Mine effective immediately.” It is not the whole of what the arbitrator said. On July 7, 2020, he wrote that “until a new manager is in place as set forth in the Final Award, the president of Legally Mine will be responsible for day to day decisions.” The president was Lindsey Thompson. On September 14, 2020, he ruled on the sons’ motion to put one of them in charge: the tribunal “does not believe that it would be appropriate for either of Claimants to act as Manager of Legally Mine.” On September 25, 2020, his jurisdiction ended. Three weeks after that, the sons fired the president under the title “the only owners with management authority.”
On October 21, 2020, Judge Taylor heard the father’s motion and the sons’ opposition for an hour and twenty minutes. He did not give the father his restraining order. He ordered that Thompson “is to remain the current president of the company until the court otherwise determines,” that the parties make “every effort to maintain the status quo,” that “Restorations are to occur forthwith without delay,” that no money go to any owner, and that a $1 million corporate bond be posted first. On the heart of the week he said this: “The court makes no determinations at this time as to allegations of criminal conduct, wrongful termination of Ammon McNeff and Matthew McNeff, or conduct harmful to Dan McNeff.” The president the sons had fired on a police case number five days earlier walked back in under a court order. Two days later the docket shows a request to reduce the bond.
The notice said criminal investigations were being conducted. The police record says a referral was made. The judge said he was deciding nothing about crime. The file closed as civil.
The method, then and now
Ammon McNeff, who signed that notice, is BAM’s chief executive. On August 8, 2026, he told an American Fork officer, on the officer’s recorded call, “So somebody has to be arrested to show that they can’t continue to do this,” and “We need the police to take action,” reported October 19, 2026. In Keizer, a detective “concluded BAM knew” whose collection it was holding, and the prosecutor declined anyway. In Provo, a warrant for a journalist’s Google account issued “on a charge they never filed,” on a complaint whose address was the chief executive’s own house. The 2020 file is the earliest of these on paper: a police case number used as an instrument in a business dispute, by the same man, against his own father’s side of the family company, in a case the police closed as civil.
The fair reading, and its limit. Both sides used the police and the courts that week. The father arrived with officers on the Sunday and, by the sons’ own account, with the county attorney on his lawyer’s phone. The sons held an award that had expelled their father as manager and found his testimony untruthful, as the cast page records. Owners may fire staff, and anyone may report what they believe is a crime; the police did refer this one, the county was willing to look, and the FBI did. Nothing in the file shows the report was false, and the card-data allegation was never decided by anyone. The limit is what the notices and the signs claimed on October 16, 2020: an investigation that was, in the police’s own record, a referral made the afternoon before, by a department that never investigated and closed the file as civil, in a week a judge ended by putting the fired president back and ruling on no crime at all. The six were never charged; their names are redacted in the police release and boxed in every filing served here. The family settled on January 26, 2021.
Sources. Orem Police Department, Officer Report for Incident 20OR24205, released under GRAMA on October 21, 2026, served as released (eight pages; the department’s redactions). McNeff v. McNeff, Utah Fourth District Court, Provo, consolidated No. 190401633 (with No. 200401232), Judge James R. Taylor: the father’s Ex Parte Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction, October 19, 2020 (the motion, 23 pages; its exhibits are cited from the file); the second declarations of the president and of one of the six, October 19, 2020, with the photographs of the entryway; the sons’ Opposition of October 20, 2020, with Exhibit 2 (the notice to staff), Exhibit 5 (Declaration of Matthew McNeff) and Exhibit 6 (Declaration of Ammon McNeff); the Final Decision and Award of July 6, 2020, and the arbitrator’s email of July 7, 2020, and his order of September 14, 2020, as quoted in the motion; the case history for October 19 to 23, 2020, with the minute entry of October 21. Every served filing is as filed, with the names of the five other fired employees, other staff, a client and vendors’ representatives boxed by the Publisher; the McNeffs, the president, counsel and officials are left as filed. McNeff v. McNeff, No. 2:21-cv-00048 (D. Utah), complaint of January 22, 2021. Earlier: the family, the cast, the operating agreement. The right of reply is open to everyone named here.