I am sorry this happened to you OP. I hope the business owners get served the justice that they deserve!
Long shot here but while SWC started our in this forum, we never knew their real creators. They would always hire a PR person to speak for them. So we can't even be sure if the ownership is the same.
Not necessarily. The PR person might know more.
For example, whenever I worked with crypto projects as a marketing manager/advisor/etc. I would never work with projects that had anonymous leadership. I would always ask for ID of the person I was working for.