You own 35% of a profitable Astoria restaurant group. For five years, distributions hit your account every quarter like clockwork. Then your managing member stopped distributing — but you notice he's driving a new Range Rover, paid off his Forest Hills mortgage, and bought a place in Montauk. When you ask for an explanation, he tells you the business needs to "retain earnings" while quietly paying himself a $400,000 "management fee" on top of his ownership share. This is one