Actually, I did not see him tractor the ore. What I saw was Swordmaiden flying in formation with a Corsair gunboat through an area heavily populated by miners. Crow has been a Junker boss for a long time. You can come up with any excuse you want, he knows what's going on. If it's obvious to him, it will be obvious to others as well. When we do it, we use covert communications and come in to get the loot when there are no witnesses and leave quickly. I didn't complain because you were in group with them (Even though we consider that bad form in the Congress), I took issue because it was obvious to several people including the RM what you were doing.
Let me give you another analogy about my pal Tony Soprano. Tony operates many various criminal enterprises, but also a legit one.....waste management. That's right, he uses a fleet of garbage trucks as the front for his entire operation. In my humble opinion, Tony Soprano is the ultimate Junker boss. Now, one of Tony's captains, a guy named Richie, was selling drugs on the side. No problem, that's what they do, except that Richie's boys were selling the drugs off the garbage trucks they were driving. Tony told Richie he had to stop doing this. If Richie gets caught, it doesn't just put him in danger, it jeopardizes the entire family operation. When Richie continued doing it anyway, Tony began to plan Richie's demise. That is until Tony's sister got emotional and decided to give Richie a 9mm attitude adjustment......what a family.
Also, if Tony had a deal going and some underling came in and swept the deal out from under him and walked away with the case, Tony would demand that the fool pay the cash back to him or end up sleeping with the fishes. This is how we do Junker RP. You are free to disagree with it if you like, but you will deal with the RP consequences.