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    Curt Schilling’s company files for bankruptcy

    Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s troubled video gaming company has filed for bankruptcy. The filing was made in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on Thursday.Providence-based 38 Studios last month laid off its entire workforce. It also was more than two weeks late on a $1.1 million payment to the state.

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    Curt Schilling’s company told employees it was selling their homes; didn’t

    Not only did Curt Schilling’s company go belly-up and lay everyone off, it allegedly boned some of them via a relocation program that apparently didn’t do what it was supposed to do:
    Some of the hundreds of 38 Studios employees laid off yesterday were hit with a second round of bad news this week when they were told by banks that homes they thought the company had sold for them hadn’t been and that they may be stuck with a second mortgage, Polygon has learned … One former employee said they discovered this week that their Massachusetts home, which they had been told was sold last year, actually hadn’t been. The bank contacted them this week to ask why they mortgage wasn’t being paid.
    When stuff like this happens, investigators really start going over a company’s books. And when investigators start going over a company’s books, boy howdy do things get ugly. Because a lot of companies have fishy stuff on the books. If everything else is fine, no one ever knows.
    But fired employees getting caught up in mortgages they thought their company disposed of? Watch out.





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    Throw the catsup stained sock Schilling in jail.
    People around him always said he was a prick.

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    Another neo crook.

    Have fun America.

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    Can you write the impaired cliff notes version, what he do, jail time?

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    So basically get 80 million from the govt, spend 2 years doing nothing, then go bankrupt as soon as Rhode Island stops giving you money...what a joke

    The whole idea of taking a longshot business idea like this is you put your balls on the line and if you pull of the miracle and succeed you get rich if you dont you go broke...thats what happens when you get into an extremely risky and expensive business like this. If RI wants to give away 100s of millions of taxpayers money to finance bullshit ideas like this they are nuts, to do what watch a bunch of these longshots instantly tank and go bankrupt and then if one finally beats the odds and succeeds it just makes some jackass conman like Schilling rich?

    Im all for small business loans to start promising local businesses with a reasonable level of risk/success but this was a crap idea and a 100 mil instantly flushed down the comode, meanwhile theyll claim they cant pay school teachers or some shit...yea I wonder why
    Last edited by bettilimbroke999; 06-09-12 at 04:07 AM.

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    No surprise here After those layoffs

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    I wonder how much Schilling stole??????????

    Athletes are dumb jocks not business people

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    maybe he had dumbnesia and thought he was still in mlb and wanted the big payout

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    Has the audacity to show his face on Baseball Tonight, as if he is not in the process of screwing over former employees and the state of RI.

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    Of the 80 mil Rhode Island gave that Schilling instablew 40 mil went for leasing a lavish office building and new computer equipment that they'll now put on ebay for 20 cents on the dollar, about 400 employees salaries (before he stifffed em) at about 50k a year got 20 mil and the other 20 mil went for uh "managerial expenses" for an ex-ball players invaluable skills at guiding a video game design team to an impressive 3 month run from launching their first product in February to complete shutdown and bankruptcy in May
    Last edited by bettilimbroke999; 06-09-12 at 07:38 AM.

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