 "People are circling the wagons" he told the newspaper.In October 2019, the "Times-Union" reported that a former manager at Mavis had told investigators the month before that it had falsified its records of repairs, including those it allegedly performed on the Excursion, in order to meet corporate sales quotas.In May 2018, he had purchased a brake master cylinder from a nearby auto parts store to install in the limousine, but another employee told him later that it had not been even though Prestige had been billed for that work, and he returned it to the store.