A manufacturer can't simply terminate a dealers franchise by tapping their toes on the ground three times and saying "Be gone"....State laws heavily favor the dealers - the result of some rather unsavory practices in the past by the manufacturers.
There has to be cause.
Criminal activity IS one of the causes that will sail. First the dealer has to be convicted of a criminal act then the manufacturer can terminate.
In that order.
It has been tried in the reverse order but usually doesn't work out too well.
