Lemonbrat Has Filed Suit Against Former Employee (and Con-Runner) Corey Wood
In a series of events that has left many of us shocked, frequent convention vendor Lemonbrat has filed a lawsuit against their former financial manager Corey Wood. The case (2018-CH-14309) was filed back on the 15th of November, though Lemonbrat did not publicly acknowledge Wood was no longer with the company until a Facebook post yesterday:
…they discovered Wood established separate Square accounts for Lemonbrat and its predecessor that diverted credit card payments that belonging to the plaintiffs to Wood personally. The plaintiffs allege Wood diverted more than $40,000 to himself via his false Square account or accounts and has written more than $15,000 in bogus checks.
If any of this is true, it’s a pretty serious situation. What makes it even more important though is Wood’s prominence in the con running community. Wood is the convention chair for Anime Milwaukee (Wisconsin’s largest anime convention), and owns and operates other events including the upcoming furry convention Aquatifur.
Nerd & Tie reached out to both Wood and Lemonbrat for comment while writing this piece. Wood responded that he and Lemonbrat “…are handling all of this on a civil level and none of the conventions I manage have been or will be affected by these allegations and issues.” We have yet to receive a response from Lemonbrat on the matter. Lemonbrat has opted not to comment.
Update (12/4/18 4:00pm): Anime Milwaukee has announced that Wood has stepped down as Convention Chair.
Final Update: This case appears to have been settled out of court in May of 2019.
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In addition: https://aquatifur.com/announcements/all-posts/Announcements/for-immediate-release.html
Very similar posts posts were made for DenFur and Painted Desert Fur Con, also run by Corgi Events.
I have a *lot* to say about this, but I’d prefer not to do so in public.
Funny because treble is in the pdfc2019 staff picture….
He also says on his Twitter he is still the CEO of the cons he owns
https://twitter.com/RykerHusky/status/1092264344316870656?s=19 (treble is the person with a beard in front of the blue shirt guy)
Check out Treble Vandoren @F2 (@TrebleVandoren): https://twitter.com/TrebleVandoren?s=09
Treble’s profile with a bio reflecting that he is still running the cons.
It’s all a scam, do not support these conventions, the staff are pre banning people and lying to our faces to defend a thief
Corey is still very much involved with the operation and finances of the “Corgi Events” cons. Corgi Events LLC is a Wisconsin Limited Liability Corporation and he remains the proprietor. The “announcements” from the conventions are meaningless and only exist to confuse and obscure his continued involvement in these conventions.
Corgi Events continues to claim it runs Anime Milwaukee. Anime Milwaukee claims it is a nonprofit corporation called “Entertainment and Culture Promotional Society”. The IRS reports “Entertainment and Culture Promotional Society” had its nonprofit status revoked years ago for never filing the necessary paperwork. Look it up, it’ll take a few minutes but it’s all online.
this man is a scam artist, and it would not surprise me if these conventions become the furry community’s own fyre festival.