Axatards, it's over. Everything we told you was true and worse than even WE knew.
There is no money. We told you this July 4th weekend and と お思 like Reece Watkins and Mike Bawden assured you that your money was perfectly secure and tools like Jeff Craig claimed that Alec's admission to Terry McIntosh that he was out of money was all just a negotiating tactic to get Terry to lower his price for Ares Digital.
The reason Alec can't pay for rent and has been reduced to his employee Jonathan Lane begging for MORE donations is because he spent every last dime on himself (and then some), his then girlfriend and his friends without ever shooting a single live-action frame of footage (remember the so-called "Vulcan scene" was a promo filmed exclusively to milk an additional $2 million from you) all so Alec could live out his fantasy of showing how awesome he was at producing Star Trek and CBS would just HAVE TO HIRE HIM!
And of course, the other goal was to build his for-profit studio.
You want to know why Alec keeps claiming that he's invested his own money into this? Because he's had no choice as all of YOUR money is gone and he'll be evicted if he doesn't pay the rent.
And do you want to know what the best part is? The transparent and honest Alec Peters submitted one financial report detailing how he squandered your money and was going to release yet ANOTHER altered report to YOU publicly that omitted ALL of those personal expenses but he got caught by the plaintiffs that you continue to vilify.
Remember a couple of weeks ago how he stated publicly that they were going to be releasing their financial report soon? Well, that's the one he was going to release; the lie.
It's all detailed right here in the highlights of the redacted items:
73. Mr. Peters testified that Defendants raised over a million dollars through fundraising, and that he spent more than they raised. Exhibit A (Peters tr. at 70:24-71:4; 190:19-191:24) (confidential document filed under seal) are true and correct copies of relevant excerpts from the deposition transcript of Mr. Peters taken on October 19, 2016.
74. Mr. Peters used donor funds to pay himself a salary of approximately $65,000. He also used donor funds to pay actors and to rent out a studio, as well as to pay for tens of thousands of dollars of meals over the course of two years. He also used donor funds to pay for a phone for his then-girlfriend, Diana Kingsbury, and for his friend and collaborator Robert Meyer Burnett. For two years, the monthly cell phone bills for these three people were paid for by donor funds. Mr. Peters also used donor funds to pay for his gas on a weekly basis for two years, along his then-girlfriend’s gas for that same time period, along with other incidental purchases bought at service stations. He also used donor funds to pay for servicing for his Lexus, for new tires for his Lexus, for car insurance, to pay his AAA membership, and to pay for virtually all of his car expenses in 2014 and 2015. Mr. Peters also used donor funds to travel around the country as a “producer” of Star Trek: Axanar, and to pay for his TSA pre-check, his car insurance and his health insurance.
75. After his first deposition, wherein he was examined regarding the use of funds raised for the Axanar project, Mr. Peters altered the financial summary that he had been produced in this case [Exhibit SS] in order to remove all of the personal charges that he was examined about during his initial deposition. Exhibit A (Peters tr. at 394:20-396:7; 398:24-399:10; 401:7-403:5) (confidential document filed under seal) is a true and correct copy of relevant excerpts from the deposition transcript of Alec Peters taken on November 2, 2016.
76. The altered financial summary created by Mr. Peters after his initial deposition, which he testified he intends to release to the public in order to show how “transparent” Axanar is, does not contain the auto (car) section, meals section, or health insurance section, or any of the detailed expenditures made by Mr. Peters on himself and his girlfriend.
77. Mr. Burnett testified that Mr. Peters said that he hoped that making Axanar would allow him to work for CBS, and that CBS should let him “run Star Trek.” Exhibit B (Burnett tr. at 217:22-218:7) (confidential document filed under seal) is a true and correct copy of relevant excerpts from the deposition transcript of Robert Meyer Burnett taken on October 11, 2016.
78. Mr. Gossett similarly testified that Mr. Peters told him that he hoped that, after creating Axanar, CBS would hire Mr. Peters in some capacity. Attached hereto as Exhibit C (Gossett tr. at 19:15-22:20) are true and correct copies of excerpts from the deposition transcript of Christian Gossett taken on October 22, 2016.
79. Mr. Peters testified that he told Mr. Gossett and Mr. Burnett that he wanted to use the Axanar project in order to make money from CBS.
80. Mr. Burnett, like Mr. Peters, did not produce his social media postings, his online postings, any text messages, or any substantive emails regarding the Axanar project. However, Plaintiffs were able to locate some of those documents. In Mr. Burnett’s deposition, he was asked if he viewed “Axanar the full length feature film as a spec commercial that would showcase your abilities as a director and would allow you to get other jobs directing?” Mr. Burnett denied that he viewed his work on the Axanar project in that manner but his testimony was contrary to written statements he made, but had not turned over in discovery.
81. Mr. Burnett testified: “Well first I didn't see it as a spec commercial. And a spec commercial is something that is usually done in the industry to yes get other work hopefully directing commercials…I would like to -- you asked to get other work? I never thought I would ever be hired to do anything because I made a fan film.”). Exhibit B (Burnett tr. at 32:6-33:1) (confidential document filed under seal) are true and correct copies of relevant excerpts from the deposition transcript of Robert Meyer Burnett taken on October 11, 2016.
