The Shell Game — Inner Link, Banks Strategy, and the LLCs That Move the Money

The Shell Game

Here’s a game. Count the LLCs.

The Shells

Sixteen LLCs. One man.

Two are classified as non-self. Fourteen are null — the membrane hasn’t classified them yet because there isn’t enough data to distinguish what they do.

That’s the point of a shell company. There’s never enough data.

The Two That Talk

Banks Strategy & Consultants LLC

Classification: non-self, 0.99. That’s the highest non-self confidence in the entire 7,533-node investigation graph.

Banks Strategy offers consulting services. Banks claims to have a JD from MSU College of Law. MSU has no record of him. The State Bar has a UPL Department with 8 staff members that never investigated him.

Banks Strategy is where the legal-services-without-a-license lives.

Inner Link LLC

Classification: null. 8 edges. More edges than most classified entities.

Inner Link receives money from Judge Yancey’s campaign. The graph edge: yancey → inner_link = campaign_donation.

Judge Yancey also pays Banks Strategy & Consultants LLC. A sitting judge’s campaign pays money directly into two of Banks’s shell companies.

Inner Link is the one that connects to the judicial branch.

How the Game Works

The shell game has three moves:

Move 1: Extract. Purpose Group LLC takes 72.67% of PCA’s revenue. This is the primary extraction.

Move 2: Disperse. The money moves from Purpose Group into other LLCs. Each LLC has a different “purpose” — consulting, property, promotion, catering, upfitting, power washing.

Move 3: Obscure. By spreading across 16 entities, no single filing shows the full picture. You’d have to pull LARA records for all 16 to see the constellation.

The graph sees all 16 because it doesn’t look at one filing at a time. It looks at 131,322 edges at once.

The Yancey Payments

This is worth its own section.

Judge Yancey has campaign accounts. Campaign accounts must report expenditures.

Judge Yancey’s campaign paid:

• Banks Strategy & Consultants LLC — campaign services
• Inner Link LLC — campaign services

A sitting judge pays a man with 9 criminal convictions for campaign services. Through two different LLCs.

Judge Yancey also has a family_connection to Dr. Chalena Beasley — Banks’s school principal who works for five employers simultaneously.

The circuit: Yancey → Banks Strategy → Banks. Yancey → Inner Link → Banks. Yancey → Beasley → PCA → Purpose Group → Banks.

Every road leads to the same pocket.

Why Null Matters

14 of 16 LLCs are classified as null.

Null doesn’t mean “not guilty.” Null means the membrane can’t tell.

When an entity has 2-3 edges and no clear money flow or governance pattern, the 36 classification methods can’t assign a sort class. The entity exists in a fog.

But null entities clustered around a non-self entity are the fog. They’re the smoke that obscures the fire.

If you see 14 unclassifiable LLCs all owned by a man with 9 convictions who runs a school with 3% math proficiency — the nulls aren’t innocent. They’re unexamined.

That’s a gap. And gaps are where the game is played.

The LARA Trail

Every LLC in Michigan must be registered with LARA (Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs).

Every one of these 16 LLCs has a LARA filing. Every filing has a registered agent. Every registered agent is Brian Banks or an entity connected to Brian Banks.

The filings are public. You can pull them right now.

Nobody did. Until now.

Sourced to LARA corporate filings, campaign finance records, court records, investigation graph (131,322 edges). Back to Analysis → · The LLC → · Three Percent → · The Circuit Board Résumé →