🦊 Furry Furry Convention Drama - Because you can't have a couple thousand dog fucking enthusiasts under the same roof without shit hitting the fan

xylitolic expat said:
Only partial payments , but probably not anymore. When Anime Milwaukee finally got wise to what he was doing to them, they sent a bunch of staffers to liquidate their own office 'leased' to them by Cory. Cory did a exceptionally poor job keeping his own con affairs separate from AMKE, so they had to sift through tons of IRS correspondence addressed to him (it was out in the open and mixed with AMKE shit) to make sure they got all their paperwork. He was really hoping Denfur et al would bring in enough legitimate revenue but then COVID fucked it all up.

He also 'misappropriated' an insane amount of money from AMKE, but the acting board leader and old friend of his obstructed the investigation before also resigning himself and the new management is half oblivious half embarrassed to go after him.
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This is amazing.

They need to stop being embarrassed. This guy's a fraud and a pest and they should get their own house in order. I mean, I'm perfectly happy sitting back and watching continual drama out of the Corgi camp, but there's a lot of people who'd be better off.

In conventions of all stripes, the 'old friend prevent defense' is sadly a thing.
 
Mikoyan said:
This is amazing.

They need to stop being embarrassed. This guy's a fraud and a pest and they should get their own house in order. I mean, I'm perfectly happy sitting back and watching continual drama out of the Corgi camp, but there's a lot of people who'd be better off.

In conventions of all stripes, the 'old friend prevent defense' is sadly a thing.
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It's probably too late for AMKE at this point. The board org that runs AMKE already said 2022 is their make-or-break year due to solvency issues due to some contract concerns (public info), so they risk closing just like daishocon. If that doesn't do them in, the soliciting donations throu ECPS while claiming to be a charity org fully knowing they lost their charity status years prior will get them and it will find its way back to Cory.

Some of the ECPS and AMKE people are just as bad as he is by accepting hush payments out of convention accounts. I bet they didn't declare that 'income' on their personal returns either.
 
xylitolic expat said:
Only partial payments , but probably not anymore. When Anime Milwaukee finally got wise to what he was doing to them, they sent a bunch of staffers to liquidate their own office 'leased' to them by Cory. Cory did a exceptionally poor job keeping his own con affairs separate from AMKE, so they had to sift through tons of IRS correspondence addressed to him (it was out in the open and mixed with AMKE shit) to make sure they got all their paperwork. He was really hoping Denfur et al would bring in enough legitimate revenue but then COVID fucked it all up.

He also 'misappropriated' an insane amount of money from AMKE, but the acting board leader and old friend of his obstructed the investigation before also resigning himself and the new management is half oblivious half embarrassed to go after him.
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AMKE is just generally fucked. The old board was Cory's little bitch and begged for the others staffers to take Cory back initially because he thought he was the best thing ever. The current staff still have ties to Cory, with some of them actively receiving bribes from Cory back when he was in office to keep their mouths shut. The smart people, guilty or not, have all left or were "fired" from their volunteer positions because the convention heads after Cory were afraid of them finding out more and potentially reporting things to the police or contacting government orgs to push for an audit. Cory and all of his "followers" are rotten from to the core.
 
aoaoaoa said:
Treble/Corgi Events making friends with the right kind of people. Yeah, we might be at the point of making a separate thread for this debacle
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We definitely will at some point. I don't think this is going to go away any time soon. Every day brings a new discovery that's been out in the open for months.

Been seeing some people say that Cory is an accountant. If that's the case, it makes all this shit even more suspect. Someone probably got too sure of their accounting skills, tried to get clever with it, and ended up committing a ton of fraud in the process.
 
Mikoyan said:
"Remaining board" sounds like there's a coup going on.
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It sounds like something similar is going on with DenFur. A lot of staffers have stepped down recently. Concerns about the con getting cancelled were raised by a bunch of people in the convention chat, and the staffers that are still on board have been in damage control mode. I haven't gone through all of the group chat since the bombshell about Corey dropped, but considering that the discussion went from dunking on Corey and his less-than-stellar leadership qualities to typical banal furry banter relatively quickly, I'm assuming that one of the chat mods put the kibosh on any discussion about Corey or the future of the con.
 
This may or may not be entirely relevant, but the con chair of AnthroExpo, CassMutt, has said a few things about this whole situation. (Archive)

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GrubRun said:
This may or may not be entirely relevant, but the con chair of AnthroExpo, CassMutt, has said a few things about this whole situation. (Archive)

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Just to confirm, she's simply one of the several co-chairs of Anthroexpo, a newbie convention that the locals don't really even like. (Extremely empty all over the con space and the events were lackluster according to several groups of locals that attended.)

It should also be on record that she was once very tight with that entire group and defended them and their actions violently in 2019 when anyone tried to publicly mention the embezzlement from Treble and such. Once she was booted for harassing staff members and others, only then did she start playing victim and claiming they were a terrible convention group. (Yet still applied and paid for tables for these conventions? Likely because she's so broke from nobody commissioning her after seeing her 3, going on 4 year old fursuit commission queue. Yikes.)
 
Mikoyan said:
Breaking news: It seems that Corgi's cons are all splitting up and going non-profit and they want Treble out. (https://archive.md/voMLp because linking the archive doesn't work for some reason?)

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Does anybody know what type of non-profit Trebel is and where it's located? Is it Colorado? I can pull up past tax records for it for us because all non-profit is public info if it has existed since last tax season.

You can still make money off of a non-profit just because depending upon the state that you live in and what type of nonprofit that it is you only have to give a certain dollar amount or percentage of all income to the charity type that your non-profit is sponsoring. You are still allowed to pay your employees fully. Its why the Susan G Komen CEO makes $500,000 a year despite totally funding breast cancer. It's a good way to weed out shit tier charities/non profits vs good ones is looking at their tax records . Going non-profit is actually milkier than LLC because it can be scrutinized easier.
 
Dog_With_A_Lawn said:
Bitters is being, well... Bitters, but this particular chain of tweets in his thread made me laugh
Original tweet for context (Arguing with Chai about his actions regarding Corgi Events):

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The tweets:
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Holy shit, it's like they almost realized the issues associated with allowing people to change their names on a whim and never being allowed to refer to them by their previous names. Almost.
 
Mikoyan said:
Breaking news: It seems that Corgi's cons are all splitting up and going non-profit and they want Treble out. (https://archive.md/voMLp because linking the archive doesn't work for some reason?)

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Heard through the grapevine that the leading theory on this is that Treble is trying to offload Corgi Events onto people who don't understand how corporate finances work. Basically, he's going to sell them a bunch of debt that they'll be responsible for. It's enough that the Fandom's Favorite Lawyer chimed in:
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Posted above was a screenshot of a court case of Treble being sued by the State of Wisconsin for unpaid taxes. The state's delinquent taxpayers list does indeed name Corgi Events under its former name of "Ponyville Bronies LLC".
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(It's a little weird to search, do a city search for "Kenosha" then use the browser search to find Corey or Ponyville)

So it does seem very possible that these people are about to pay Treble for the honor of being $95k behind in taxes plus whatever else he owes money on, because furries don't know how business works.
 
Mikoyan said:
They need to stop being embarrassed. This guy's a fraud and a pest and they should get their own house in order.
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I absolutely refuse to believe any furry or furry-adjacent person is capable of feeling anything even remotely approaching "embarrassment."

Also, they're second only to troons in their propensity to steadfastly refuse to clean house and toss out the degenerates. Admittedly, there'd be no one left if they did.
 
moocow said:
I absolutely refuse to believe any furry or furry-adjacent person is capable of feeling anything even remotely approaching "embarrassment."

Also, they're second only to troons in their propensity to steadfastly refuse to clean house and toss out the degenerates. Admittedly, there'd be no one left if they did.
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The reason you refuse to believe it is because any furry or furry-adjacent person capable of feeling that is extremely good at not revealing they're in the fandom, or are the (current minority) of furfags who are (relatively) well adjusted and treat it as a weird hobby, hold the fandom at (very long) arm's length, or concentrated what artistic talents they do have into a formal work field like illustration and entertainment.
 
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