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A lawyer weighs in
I suspect that these groups operate with little if any supervision. There would be little risk management oversight and no alumni around.
If something unfortunate should happen, and if our name were to surface, the plaintiff lawyer would file suit against the General Fraternity and it's officers - that's where the money is.
The group in question may have been an LXA chapter in the past, and they may have been disciplined and closed, but the plaintiff lawyer won't care, the families / survivors won't care, and the media won't care. Fraternities carry the same love in public as pit bulls and politicians. The local press will smell blood and will come after us, and the campus Greek system as a whole.
LXA will be in the position of damage control. Anything we say will be taken as self-serving. If we say "We closed that chapter three years ago", the plaintiff attorney will respond with "Well, you didn't do a good job of closing it, did you..."
That they group was not officially sanctioned will mean little to the press or a jury. I don't want to be in the position of trying to explain away a problem. Rather, I would want to smack it hard, right now. Thus, if something unfortunate should happen, we might be in a better position to defend ourselves.
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