Not only owning a shop from 2008-2010 but presumedly running the Eclipse shop from 2010 onward. That's an assumption, I realize. As late as 2015 he was the owner of this shop.
Now, to play devil's advocate (pun intended) if Father was ordained in the mid 1990's by a traditional Bishop somewhere and then left bereft of a priestly assignment, well that's another question. It's just that there's no real details available and there are a lot of people with serious doubts.
He wouldn't be the first traditional priest who had no way to minister and was forced to live and work in the world. I'm trying to explore all the angles here, but why the insistent blackout of information by the chapel board??
If that were the case, no problem would exist. Everyone would understand.
Something else is going on.
As you say, "why the insistent blackout of information by the chapel board??"
They must have believed some lie he told them in order to continue to "protect" him from concerned parents.
Friends at the chapel with children in the school attempted to talk to the school board and scheduled an appointment with one of the four members to discuss their concerns. The person then cancelled the scheduled meeting. What does that tell you?
Why are they stonewalling?