User blog comment:Pawn of Atlas/Important Discussion for Rapture Storyline page/@comment-75.36.142.227-20140329223049

Logic :

Suchong was part of the ADAM development program.

Suchong was not (that we know) involved in the Smuggling Operation which was the crime Fontaine was accused off (and apparently evidence was finally found/proven  for)

Fontaines band of thugs (some Splicers) attacking City Authorities resisting arrest for the Smuggling crime is a seperate crime.

Suchong was not involved in that crime (that we know)

Fontaine had hundreds of other employees most not being splicers who just worked at his other businesses.

An Investigation into who all was involved in the Smuggling operation/Resisting civil authorities  would take some time (Sullivans extensive setup in the Wharfmasters Ofiice in BS1 was part of that). Some may have manages to hide out before they were arrested and were being identified and hunted.

Employees uninvolved in the Smuggling/Attack on Authorities would be vetted and released (if ever actually arrested). Depending on events they may have to wait to go back to work,

Fontaines "employees" who WERE involved in either crime, if arrested, were incarcerated - either at Persephone (which may have run out of room) and now at the improvised Prison at Fontaine's department store  (its being 'sunk' may be much more metaphorical than actual)

All of Fontaine's Businesses were seized. Most would probably be locked up/down until the investigations could search for any needed evidence/contraband 'seized', etc... This could take alot of time -- 3 months  from Shootout to New Years isnt that much and we dont know what other things like running down suspects may have monopolized alot of the City Authorities time and manpower efforts.

Who gained control of the bulk of the businesses involved? -  we really arent told, but if they were important to the  operation of Rapture, they might be assigned immediately by the City Council to Trustees to resume/continue their operations.

Some of the businesses might in time resume after the City decided their fate (apparently Fontaine had no familiy which anything non-crime-related-to might be turned over to - that search in itself would take time )

The City may just eventually auction off the properties/plant/product stocks to recoup expenses of the law and order operations incurred. Some with no takers would be abandoned and opened to public reclamation or used for City facilities (public ownership).

ADAM production (including the Little Sister Orphanages) was important to keep operating (the addiction was already started even with the small pre-Civil War number). We arent really told how much competition existed in the ADAM production, but it sounded like it was important for that operation to resume soonest. Ryan might arrange to get at least interim control if the stability of the City depended on continuance.

Suchong was an important employee of the ADAM product production, which if he had no other legal issues held against him, would make him an important person to get back to normal work. Which apparently he did (plenty of pre BaSx Audio Diaries to show that).

The Kashmir Attack and start of the Civil War then changed priorities making ADAM production even more importatnt. Suchong, if still alive, would likely remain important in running the production and then the Gatherer/Protector program work to increase production.