Did anyone hear about the "dynamite tommy" thing? Apparently they are pulling deg's merch off the shelfs..... I went to fye and newbury comics even hot topic recently, and there where no cds D: not even a plastic card.
mmm....so...Credits to Jame!
Trouble For Free-Will
Koichi Kaku, a former official of Asatsu-DK Inc., a advertising agency based in Tokyo, was recently arrested, along with two other people, for fraud. Hiroshi Tomioka (also known as Tommy Dynamite), president of Free-Will music production, and Kazunori Murasaki, a former Free-Will official, were the other two involved in cheating the agency out of 324 million yen (about $2.4 million) in 2001. The three associates covered themselves by passing the funds off as those required for producing videos for artists such as Dir en grey, but instead, outsourced the projects to subcontractors.
It is unclear how exactly these events may or may not affect bands such as Dir en grey, RENTRER EN SOI, and others affiliated with Free-Will and its sub-labels.
ABOUT Tommy Dynamite:
CREDITS TO:BATSU
Dynamite Tommy arrested for fraud
Theft of 320,000,000 yen from a major advertising company: former company employees arrested
Former employees of the major advertising company Asatsu DK, INC and the executive of a music label were arrested in connection with fraud totaling 320,000,000 yen. In 2001, Kaku Kouichi* (39), a former employee of ADK, Tomioka Yuu [DYNAMITE TOMMY] (43), the president of the music label FREE-WILL, and Murasaki Ittoku (35) of the same firm placed an order for costumes, concert costs, music video costs, and other overhead costs for the popular band Dir en grey, and are suspected of fradulently taking 324,000,000 yen from Asatsu DK, INC. The majority of the money was given to Tomioka by Kaku*. In regards to the investigation, Kaku* confessed to the charges while Tomioka denies them.
Sources:
http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/shakai/20070914AT1G1401C14092007.html
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http://phantasmagoria.livejournal.com/295493.html
THAT'S ALL I KNOW^^
Yeah I bet Kisaki's happy about it
☝WHAT????NO...NO...I DON'T THINK SO....☝
