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As posted on PBReserve.com

Shawn Walker - The real story.
We’ve all heard stories about how Shawn Walker has done this or that, but no one really wants to put their name to anything for either fear of gossiping or of retribution. However, our PBR Investigative team recently uncovered some JUICY information that may lead to a clearer picture of what lead to Shawn Walkers firing and ultimately the bankruptcy of the NPPL/Pacific Paintball LLC.

“From the Pacific Paintball Bankruptcy filing, Page 43 (Losses):

$45,161

Debtor believes the former president wrongfully, among other things, took monies from debtor via inappropriate and unauthorized checks, overcharging the company for health and auto reimbursement above and beyond his employment agreement, charging the company for airfare for personal matters, and using company funds to pay for a compressor for the paintball park of a friend of the President for no value to Pacific Paintball LLC or its affiliates. In addition, debtor believes that the former president, or people working with the former president, recently hacked into the company’s websites, redirected the company’s Camp Pendleton paintball park website to a web site this new group has set up and copied the company’s proprietary web site and logo at their site called thepaintballpark.com. No insurance claim was filed.”

Feel free to read the filing yourself:
http://www.pbreserve.com/filing.pdf


Shawn Walker - Bankruptcy Part 2: XPSL
Pacific Paintball LLC. actually filed SIX bankruptcy filings with the Central District Court California Division. On page 12 of the filing you will note that Pacific Paintball LLC. claim against Walker includes an additional sum of “Not less than $37,157.00” bringing the total to $87,318.

Claim against Shawn Walker, former President, for misappropriation of funds and theft of proprietary information.

and the details are on page 31 (important snapshot linked, full filing below)

Debtor believes the former president wrongfully, among other things, took monies from the debtor via unauthorized checks, misappropriating company cash at company paintball events, an unauthorized and improper payment to a vendor on the president’s behalf, and an unauthorized and improper payment to the president’s church. No insurance claim was filed. Date of loss: 1/2007-10/2008, Description and value of property: Approx $37,157.00 CASH”

You can read the full XPSL filing bankruptcy filing here:
http://www.pbreserve.com/xpslfiling.pdf
 
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His biggest crime in terms of the damage he did to the NPPL wasn't so much any alleged theft but his abject incompetence when it came to dealing with sensitive issues that were in a lot of cases, politically charged.

His lack of commonsense and inability to see 'consequences' that would inevitably loom at some time in the future as a direct result of his decisions was truly alarming.
He did more to alienate the NPPL from the industry than if he had been planted there by the PSP as chief saboteur.
 
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SteveD said:
Hi Pete. I was just reminded that it's coming up on the 20th anniversary of the Werewolves team - and I still want my hat!
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I think this should be posted in the 'dinosaurs' section, shouldn't it?

Anyway, people are missing the bigger question here, which is:

If you steal money, and give it to your church, do you go 'north' or 'south' when your time comes? Is there an 'ends justify the means' system?
 
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Statement from Shawn Walker

Statement from Shawn Walker

As the paperwork has now been officially filed for the bankruptcy of Pacific Paintball and its related companies some accusations within the paperwork have been made against me.

I want to first be very clear that these accusations are just that, accusations. There is no verdict of guilt or even proof of information but rather just un-based claims. The bankruptcy document filed was created from and behalf of Pacific Paintball. There is no legal precedent that shows these as statement of fact and shouldn�t be interpreted that way.

That being said, I don't write this to change people's minds or convince people to believe one thing or the other. I actually find it a bit comical that I am such a hot topic for discussion. I only present another side of the story. As there are always two sides of the story I encourage everyone to weigh the information accordingly and form whatever opinion they want.

Directly, I will say again. I did not steal from the company nor did I cause the company to become bankrupt.

The reality of the financial situation of the company was my personal money and credit was intertwined within all aspects of the business. When I was let go it was like a divorce and we had to un tangle all the pieces. My lawyers were working with Pacific's lawyers to accomplish this before the bankruptcy. When someone asks if I paid for some personal expenses with company money, the direct answer is yes I did because the "company money" was actually my personal money (my personal credit card) that wasn't being reimbursed by the company

Here are a few counter facts to directly dispute the claims made in the BK doc.

1) To the claim I spent company money for personal expenses. In reality I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of my personal money to operate Pacific Paintball. Over 200k alone on one of my personal credit cards. 90% of all the plane tickets we booked were on my personal card. Sometimes I was reimbursed from the company for these expenses, sometimes I was not. The last 3 months I was working for the company I had racked up over 30k of event expenses on my personal credit card that were never reimbursed to me. Sometimes records weren't kept perfectly but our Controller had direct access to my personal credit card account and paid bills directly to that account.
2) Most of all accounts and loans the company opened were in my name. Since the company didn't have any credit I had to secure these accounts. Car leases for other employees, equipment accounts, cell phone accounts, venue contracts, etc. etc. Because of the BK I am now forced to either pay off these company expenses myself or suffer the consequences on my personal credit history.
3) To the claim I over compensated myself for car and health reimbursements. How is this possible? I didn�t set up the Health care plans; someone else did with the approval of the investors. Same with the car reimbursement. How could I over reimburse myself when the checks were coming from our Controller and approved by the investors and CEO?
4) To the claim I somehow "hacked" into the Camp Pendleton website. I did nothing of the sort. I created a new website and hired the company that built the first website for CP to create a similar website for me. It has to look similar because all pricing had to stay the same as per my contract with the base. I made a new logo and am using that new logo on the site. In fact, since I have been operating the park I have had to honor reservations that were made even though deposits were paid to Pacific and I will see none of that money.

I have talked to many people that are owed money from Pacific Paintball. The way I understand it when a Trustee is assigned he/she will determine how to liquidate the assets and then how to pay the outstanding creditors.

I plan to submit the money the company owes me to the Trustee just like the dozens of others.

In the end there is one basic reality that everyone needs to understand. Pacific Paintball went bankrupt. Nothing said by me or others will change that. No one person caused the multi-million dollar company to fail. It was a perfect storm of multiple inputs that ultimately did the company in. For those that care about our industry, it's time to move on and start working on what we can do to be part of the solution not the problem. There are many quality regional leagues across the nation and one quality national league in the PSP. Support those leagues and show your support for our sport.

I am always willing to talk to anyone and answer any questions people may have. I have nothing to hide from. I am working hard to help turn this industry around.

I can be contacted at shawn@therpl.com
 
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SteveD said:
Brandon,

I actually think that the 68Caliber blog - http://68caliber.wordpress.com was the first place to run the filings and other related information, but I won't quibble - they're available to anyone who sets up an account at Pacer (www.pacer.gov)
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You were the first to post that Pacific had filed. PbReview seemed to get most of the details out first. I'm pretty sure I was the first to put up the filings in full.
 
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