Federal prosecutors often manufacture loss amounts in financial crimes to inflate sentencing guidelines without evidentiary support.

“They just had a number potential loss. Like none of the numbers made sense. They didn't go to anything. They just decided that these were potential loss and then they said, "Okay, here's the loss amount and like there's just one it's it's it's one one piece of paper."”

Chris suggests that the seller likely launched the business as a front to sell it after failing to make it profitable himself.

“My guess is like you said his dad's in the industry they probably know the industry really well they speak the language I bet you anything that he started this business with the intent of it actually being a business launch didn't really go well he cobbled together some customers he didn't like what”