When a person sells their car, the new owner inherits all the recalls, damage and potentially dangerous maintenance issues that weren't fixed by the seller.
I hear tell it's possible for a new owner to clean up a toxic shell and transform it into a legit company, but I've never seen it.
I also heard aliens and bigfoot were real, Earth is flat and the Moon is made of cheese.
Companies like M.M. do it and then sell clean shells (down by the seashore), but I've yet to see a new owner convert an old scam into a clean shell to become their company.
But maybe this will be the first. And maybe I'll win the lottery this week.
Barton scams can never be fully decontaminated - his toxic stench lingers on like radiation.