Since this doesn't seem to exist anywhere else on the internet, I figured I'll make it so peoples have a place to go for a relatively current summary/re-cap. I don't have all my links at the moment, but I will edit as necessary.
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I'll fast-forward through a FULL re-cap: guy posts picture of creepy daycare, threats happen, allegations of harassment, reddit closes thread, another person makes another post, more people take notice, crowd-sourced investigations ensue, people take pictures of daycare at stupid hours, call daycare, call business owner, who knows how many emails, and order pizzas, reddit shuts down all public conversation of daycare, crowdsourced investigation continues in the shadows, stupid people keep being stupid, reddit shuts down private conversations, a day passes... and here we are.
I'm doing my best to cover different sides of the conversation and investigation up to this point, but not all of them. While I do my best to take my personal bias toward possibilities out of editorializing, I'm human. There are many possibilities that can be considered that I don't make mention of. There are many leads you may have last heard about I don't bring up, that's because I am not 100% on what is known and do not want to spread any wrong or misleading information. Doing my best to stick to the verified facts we know
The Daycare:
Without a look into tax records, there's little to indicate that the daycare is nothing more than a very poorly managed tax shelter. It is quite possible that they are also embezzling state and city edu funds as well, although we have not uncovered anything to indicate that. The only difficult thing about the 'tax shelter' idea is that the registration of the place has lapsed once in the past, and is currently lapsed. These lapses have led some to believe that the place operates more as a money laundering operation. But, without some insight into public tax records that may be able to put a light on their reported annual revenue, there's little to support that they're laundering as well. If it was anything more nefarious than that (drugs/guns/people trafficking), they've stopped operating out of this building because of jabronies with pizzas and cell-phone cameras. EDIT FOR CLARITY: I'm not saying that there's nothing happening here so stop looking. Very well could be drugs. I'm saying that there is more information we have yet to find (public tax or IRS records to shine light on finances). So, until we can get that information, there are still other avenues, far removed from the daycare as they may be, that are worth looking into. But I do 100% mean that if anything more nefarious than tax/embezzling shenaniganry was happening here, it's over now.
That's the day-care in a nutshell. Oogy-boogy!! Totally worth censoring all of reddit for and shutting down private subs faster than the fappening and underage porn. Let that one sink in.
The Shipping Container:
Now, the last most people heard was there was a shipping container of 16,000lbs of cheap plastic chinese crap and sports balls shipped from a Fun Stuff, Inc. We're still looking into this. Have you ever tried to go through a file cabinet with no filing system and no one was even required to file anything in the first place? It's kinda like that. Not an easy task.
The container controversy
There were 5 different companies all mentioned on the same bill of lading (BOL or B/L). The problem is it's incredibly not common practice for a BOL on a shipping container destined to a wholesaler to indicate a single recipient that wholesaler is sending product to once that container is received. Let alone 5 businesses on 1. A shipper in china doesn't care about where their stuff is destined, they just want them to get to the wholesaler, after that it's the wholesalers problem to deal with. Unless the shipment was going straight through to the final destination (bypassing the wholesaler altogether). Which would mean this BOL indicates over 80,000lbs was in one shipping container (each business had an individual shipment of ~16,000lbs... all in one container? All on one BOL?). A virtual impossibility, ergo this BOL is HIGHLY suspicious.
So maybe they were to receive a part of this 16,000lbs of cheap plastic crap and balls? Not unreasonable to speculate that a daycare would want, say, 25lbs of a 16,000lbs total order and less so considering the volume 2 named companies would want for conference/trade show trinkets. But again, it's so rare to indicate an individual recipient of a bulk shipment that we haven't found one yet, (those are individual links, feel free to check em if you want, we've found 2 that were in chinese, but I think those links are now lost, but neither of them indicated final buyer/destination either).
Some have called the source of the links implicating the daycare to the shipment into question altogether becasue fonroid.com does really weird things when trying to utilize its search and parse its results. Others think that nothing is wrong with any of it and it should be considered 100% proof of shenaniganry.
Container Summary:
So, why go on so much about these BOL's? When it comes down to this container, best I can speak to is a collective shrug. We're just as confused as you, most have even stopped searching past this point. But not all of us. Mostly because one of the sales execs for the company that does the shipping (according to his linkedin profile) used to work for a defense contractor, and that in-and-of-itself is noteworthy enough to keep pulling this thread.
What is still being done?
there was more stuff here but I moved it because introducing SEC violations and connections to international shipping fraud are misdirection from the initial daycare investigation. So that's all been moved so people can stay focused on the daycare summation 'from last you knew' and not new information. If you want, to read it now and catch up on some new stuff we've found, go for it. It's posted in the comments for later if you wish. Or just skip it if you think SEC violations and shipping fraud aren't worth getting caught up on
Here is what is being actively investigate at this moment:
*Looking for more BOLs in the hopes of finding one that directly connects 100% Fun Stuff and the daycare, allowing us to conclude the fonroid.com link is more genuine than is currently percieved
*Researching tax & financial information on the daycare, considering possible FOIA request
*Researching the companies proxy'd by Fun Stuff's registered agent to see if any names connect back to financial institutions in IL or any of the other companies associated with the 16,000lbs BOL, again lending credibility to the suspect fonroid BOL.
That's where we're at. Whatever is going on here, rest assured, we're looking into it.
Summary speculations (aka scale of plausibilities, use at your leisure):
Most likely (and reasonable): There's probably some serious tax-evasion and SEC violations going on and reddit admins are retarded for banning discussion of this subject.
Plausible:Some guy is running a drug ring out of a poorly managed day care. Some unrelated companies are involved in a massive money laundering operation and reddit admins are understandably cautious, but stupid for banning private conversations
Speculation but plausible: some guy doesn't know how to manage a proper tax shelter, and some totally unrelated companies are involved in an elaborate gun running operation and reddit admins are understandably cautious, but stupid for banning private conversations
Wild speculation: Some guy uses a daycare as a front for money laundering operations involving possible black-market guns by white collar guys importing in VA and reddit admins are understandably cautious, but stupid for banning private conversations
WILD SPECULATION: DoD is importing guns for who-knows-what-reason funneled through a front acting as a daycare and reddit admins are doing what they're told
WILDEST SPECULATION: The world's ruling power was utilizing a daycare as a funnel point for their pedophila ring, are pissed people are onto them and are hoping things calm down so operations aren't shut down too long and reddit admins are doing what they're told
I fall somewhere between Most likely and Wild speculation but plausible. The business records are just way too sloppy for for me to be convinced of clandestine ops out of this place. THat would be done through a legal proxy, not this guy. It is sloppy enough for drugs or guns, but it's going to hard to connect those dots. Something fishy as fuck is cooking in Virginia.
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