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Court records detail promoter’s personal outlays Although more than $7,800 remains unaccounted for by the figures Gates has submitted, he claimed that his assets are only about $600: a $200 laptop computer, about $300 in clothes and a $100 leather coat. The affidavit states that Gates claims not to have either a checking or savings account. “Where’s the rest of the money?” Yerington said. “It should have been in the bank for the show, and to bring in other people.” Gates also claimed to have more than $21,000 in debts, citing $11,638 in back child support owed and a loan of $9,500 on a Jeep Cherokee he said he no longer possesses. The documents detailing Gates’ financial matters, including a list of how he spent the funds and from whom he received money, are part of a lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon. Allen was an employee of HardNox Productions LLC, Gates’ company that was promoting the tattoo event. Allen is scheduled to appear in court at 9 a.m. Thursday for a hearing on a preliminary injunction. He could not be reached for comment. Grimm has previously told the Globe that he was just a vendor who was helping out with the festival. He has been ordered to submit to the court a similar accounting of all funds he received and how he spent them by close of business on Wednesday. Money owed Some of the vendors contacted by the Globe said they are owed more money than Gates reported. Bernice Regina, shop manager for Grinn and Barrett Tattoo Studio in Omaha, Neb., said her company sent Gates a business check for $600 to reserve booth space in the Chicago Ink Deep convention that Gates said he was planning for early April. “It was sent on Nov. 11,” she said. “We made it out to Josh Allen.” Tony Schnobrich, of St. Cloud, Minn., owner of Snobrik Cartoons, said he paid Gates $350 in the spring to participate in Godstock’s originally scheduled show in June. “They took my money right up before the show,” Schnobrich said. The attorney general’s office has received more than a dozen complaints from 10 states and Canada against Gates and Grimm, and Gates’ production companies, OnFire Productions and HardNox Productions. Because the fraud suit is civil rather than criminal, the penalties being sought are injunctive relief and restitution, not jail time. Gates is still under investigation by the Joplin Police Department for possible criminal charges, and Yerington and other vendors said they hope additional charges will be filed. 
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