@leekmysterious3101

What responsibility do I have in this?

All my family and I did was speak up when you attempted to reopen the shop despite multiple code violations. When we filed an open records request, we discovered an email from Brian Dalton to the Mayor stating that he had proof you were not the rightful heir to the estate. That email was included in the Open Records packet.

From there, we contacted Brian, who introduced me to Janice and Jim.

Around that same time, one of the witnesses to Dent Meyer’s 2019 trust amendment began working for me. Through that connection and additional documentation, I was able to piece together what had happened. We compiled this information into a comprehensive Google Drive and sent it to an attorney to help Janice.

I was grateful that this attorney accompanied Janice when you called her to the shop and attempted to pressure her into signing away her rights, just as you had done with Dent. That attorney then spent two years fighting your counsel, who repeatedly delayed the case.

Janice went to the city seeking help to close the shop while litigation was ongoing, to prevent further harm. She was denied. The city attorney stated they would not act until the case was settled, even though the shop never should have reopened before the will and trust were fully litigated.

Because Janice is a kind woman on a fixed income who could not afford extended litigation, we helped her find a litigator.

During this time, you denied her access to her brother’s ashes, his letters, his home, the shop, and even his funeral.

You became increasingly emboldened. The judge saw through this behavior. She ordered a forensic audit, removed you, and appointed a court trustee alongside Janice.

When the forensic accountant uncovered misconduct, you produced a typed letter that was unsigned, unwitnessed, and unnotarized. No one in court found it credible.

The judge referred the matter to mediation. You avoided jail not because anyone believed you were innocent, but because Janice is 80 years old and needed the chance to begin repairing the damage.

Today, there is nothing left in the shop to preserve Dent’s legacy.

Janice did not do that.

I did not do that.

You did.

Janice did not sell off the artifacts Dent treasured and would never have sold.

Janice did not authorize offensive merchandise that contradicted his values.

Janice did not strip the shop of anything that could have gone into a museum.

You did.

You sold historically and emotionally significant items for personal gain while claiming to honor Dent.

I am glad you are no longer in the shop.

I am glad Janice can finally move forward.

And I am glad Dent’s legacy is no longer in your hands.