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Tekkoshocon 2007 took place on Friday, April 13th to Sunday, April 15th. Two affiants in this case, Lynn Hunt and Whitney Falba, allege that Vic Mignonga went missing sometime during the convention and was found in his hotel room with one or more underage girls by Tekko staff.

Lynn Hunt alleges that Vic Mignogna went missing for several hours on Saturday and that he was located in his hotel room with an underage female.


Whitney Falba does not give a specific day as to when this happened, but said that it was 30-45 minutes prior to a question and answer panel. She said that Vic Mignogna was located in his hotel room with three underage girls.



It is disconcerting how vague they are as to when this incident occurred. This makes it difficult for Vic Mignogna to provide an alibi or produce evidence that would refute their claims. To make matters worse, no schedule for this event has been produced that would list the panels Vic was scheduled to appear at. While we cannot rule out that such an incident occurred, we can narrow the scope as to when it could have, based on photos and videos of Vic that were taken during the event. He had a large contingent of Risembool Rangers following him around and they took a lot of pictures.

Friday
Anime Battlestars game show panel with Greg Ayres, Kyle Hebert, Carrie Savage, Brett Weaver, and Hilary Hatch


Solo panel


Autograph session (note: the woman sitting next to Vic is his mother.)


Risembool Rangers dinner (note: his mother was present)


Assorted convention photos on Friday




Saturday
Morning - Fullmetal Alchemist Panel with Whitney Falba and Tekko public safety team member Jack Miller in attendance as security.

*The time on the camera is off and still shows 4/13. It changes to 4/14 later in the day.

Autograph session (note: his mother beside him)


Afternoon - Vic in the children's programming area with Kyle Hebert, Carrie Savage and Tekko staff member Jacqueline Miller.

*The date has changed to 4/14, showing us that the order of events for Saturday is:
FMA panel-> Autograph signing-> Another Panel? (not pictured)-> Playtime in the children's programming area

Evening - Risembool Rangers presenting Vic with gifts in a hotel room


(note: his mother was present for this event)


Assorted photos on Saturday

This photo was captioned, "Vic crouded around EVERYONE outside of a panel."




Sunday

Church service


Macross Panel with Mari Iijima and Brett Weaver


Autograph session


A wild Brett Weaver appears, (note: the date on the photos has changed from 4/14 during the Macross panel to 4/15 during the autograph session. This is still the same day, however, as Vic and Brett are wearing the same shirts. The camera's clock being off by a number of hours does allow us to conclude that this autograph session took place after the Macross panel.)



In addition to Brett Weaver's claim that he stopped Vic from sitting next to Mari, which is not true, he also said that he thought that he and Vic never spoke again, which as you can see above, is also not true. Brett Weaver approached Vic's autograph table, beer in hand.



Closing ceremonies


Assorted convention photos on Sunday


Tekko 2007 Staff Members


Jim Falba - Publications
Whitney Robinson - Industry Liaison (She went on to marry Jim Falba and took his last name)
Chris Aumiller - Live Events Chair
John Prager - Head of Public Safety
Jacqueline Miller - Children's Programming
Lynn Hunt - AMVs

Left to Right: Unknown, Jim Falba, Whitney Falba, Chris Aumiller during a meetup for Tekko forum members on Friday, April 13th.




John Prager


Jacqueline Miller on Saturday


Lynn Hunt


Whitney Falba & Jim Falba
Whitney Falba testified that she was the Live Events Chair and her duties were as follows:

directing events to stay on time, working with Guest Relations to make certain guests appeared where pertinent and in a timely fashion, verifying details for events and making sure organizers showed up on time. I also verified that events had the staffing and security needs fulfilled for the safety of staff and attendees.

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However, the staff listing shows that was Chris Aumiller's job. He was present at the convention and if you look at the photos above, he is wearing a watch while Whitney is not. That would come in handy when "directing events to stay on time".



Jim Falba made an entry on his Live Journal about the convention, detailing his movements and activities, along with those of future wife, Whitney Falba.


He wrote that he was awakened early on Saturday so he and Whitney could dart off to her FMA panel. Note: Vic's coffee cup.

"Saturday was significantly less busy as far as my own department was concerned, but I still had much to occupy myself with. I was awakened early so we could dart off to Whitney's FMA panel. That was pretty neat, even though the fans mostly kept hammering Vic with questions."

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Whitney testified that she was hesitant to allow Vic to join what was supposed to be her panel. She said that he ignored the outline she provided and questions about how the panel would be organized. She said that he went off topic with comments about other voice actors related to the show.



In contrast to this statement, Whitney seemed to be enjoying herself during the panel despite Vic telling a drinking story that had nothing to do with FMA. If the alleged incident in the hotel room with the underage girls had occurred on Friday or very early Saturday morning, her behavior with Vic would seem to be very inappropriate.

Backup: https://kiwifarms.net/attachments/t...onaire-360p_30fps_h264-96kbit_aac-mp4.869997/

Additional video from this panel:
Backup: https://kiwifarms.net/attachments/t...-booth-360p_30fps_h264-96kbit_aac-mp4.869905/

She would later write these YouTube comments,



She also wrote these comments on Reddit




(Vic talked about that miniskirt line during his solo Friday panel at Tekkoshocon.)
Backup: https://kiwifarms.net/attachments/r...igins-480p_25fps_h264-128kbit_aac-mp4.869926/

As for what happened after the FMA panel ended,

Whitney Falba wrote this in her affidavit,

"When I left the panel, I witnessed Mignogna requesting for another autograph session, despite requests from me and security telling him he needed to clear the room for the next event. I believe that Mignogna did not have any concern for the convention schedule and other celebrities, and was more concerned about his own fandom and attention."

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Jim Falba wrote this in his Live Journal,

"After that, me, Whitney, and Chris spent two unnecessary hours waiting to register our skit for the masquerade. That was a bit frustrating. It also made me slightly late to my Nadesico panel, which would have gone better had I had my necessary prep time. Thankfully Gai Daigoji saved the day. Gekigan STROKE!!!!!"

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He also wrote that they rehearsed for and participated in the masquerade later that day.

Masquerade time! We sat and rehearsed for awhile (me, Whitney, Chris, and our Nabeshin). At some poitn in the intervening time we were getting close to running out of Saturday badges, leading into the part of the con I feel the most guilty about. Us Nerima Daikon Brothers were to go on stage in a half hour, but we needed more Saturday badges. I offered to go, but since it was getting late in the day and people didn't want me to miss my skit, I was told we didn't need to bother and we'd use last year's badges. I feel bad about not going, but they said I shouldn't. ^^;;

The skit went well, and I think people liked it. I sure as heck did. I hope someone took our picture or that someone recorded the skit.

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Jim Falba and Chris Aumiller as the "Nerima Daikon Brothers"


After the Masquerade, Jim Falba went to something called Tekko Court and then Tekko Improv. Once that was done, he and Whitney changed and headed to the staff suite.

Anyway, the summary of Saturday was that I was off the floor way more than I intended to be with all the panels and such. Sorry guys.

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Jacqueline Miller
Jacqueline Miller made an entry in her Live Journal about the convention. She said that Vic, Kyle Hebert, and Carrie Savage stopped by the children's programming area on Saturday afternoon.


On Twitter, she wrote that Vic and a few others were to do a panel in the room for the kids on Saturday. Vic was late and she went looking for him. She found him in the hallway with his fan girls.


Vic called her a "traitor" for being in the mini-skirt army (MSA), who are fans of Travis Willingham's character in FMA. They have a rivalry with the Risembool Rangers, who are fans of Vic and his character, Edward Elric.



She posted many photos on Facebook. Some are time-stamped, however, her camera also had the incorrect time. For example, Vic was listed as visiting the kid's area at 2:30 AM.



Jacqueline Miller took part in a FMA photoshoot on Satuday, along with her husband, Jack Miller


On the YouTube page for the FMA panel video, she wrote the following comment. (Context: During the FMA panel, Vic attempted to demonstrate how drunk Travis Willingham was with Jack Miller, but switched over to Whitney)


John Prager
John Prager is listed as the Head of Public Safety in 2007, yet in his affidavit, he only testified about the 2010 convention. Why?

In a deleted conversation between Lynn Hunt and Jacqueline Miller, Jacqueline Miller tweeted that John Prager was not the head of public safety in 2007 and that 3-4 weeks before Tekko, he got a DUI and was replaced that year.



John Prager was at the convention and in a Live Journal entry he mentions working as security for the Mari Iijima concert on Saturday night.


John Prager was photographed working as security for the Mari Iijima concert on Saturday night.


So, was Jacqueline Miller mistaken? Maybe not. A Live Journal entry shortly before Tekko does suggest that he was in some sort of legal trouble at the time. It remains to be seen why the head of AMVs, Lynn Hunt, and the head of Industry, Whitney Falba, reported on a security matter involving underage girls while the purported Head of Public Safety did not.


Lynn Hunt
On the AMV forum, Deuce Loosely reported that the hard drive for the AMV contest had a meltdown on Saturday afternoon, as did Lynn Hunt.

The first scheduled showing of AMV hell didn't happen. The second at 11:30 PM was also missed because the room she was in only had a DVD player and not a computer. The third showing at 2:30 am was a sting of clips in a media player, rather than part of a single presentation.




Lynn Hunt posted that the schedule "basically had me in events from opening ceremonies until about midnight with one 2 hour break between. That ended up being spent on getting food."

When her computer went kaput,

"Someone offered to help and we ended up chugging over his core2duo machine from home so we could get 2 computers working on this. Typically for me to compile the contest and fully render it taked approximately a week. I had about 15 hours until the next showing. His computer compiled rendered while I redid the category sprite animations."

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"Contest gets compiled for afternoon sat showings and basically it is on to Hell. Now.... this is WHY I give specific codecs to submit to and why certain ones are highly not recommended. I had every codec under the sun. I had wmv galore, divx so old I needed to get divx since xvid didn't recognize it, xvid, only a handful of mpeg2, an old indeo codec and virtually every screen resolution under the sun...."

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"So imagine from about 4pm to 11pm trying to render all that. Everything for the contest was already converted to mpeg2, and most of them were submitted in mpeg2 or divx, which are simple to convert. But with the hell clips some of them I had to kinda do backwards methods to begin with to get them to play. This meant a 20 second video was taking longer to deal with than a 5 min long drama video. We had a lot of choking of programs on some of these."

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