Compiled: 2026-04-17 PM
Purpose: Single-page catalog of the verbatim quotes that do the most legal work. All drawn from the master union corpus (_master-all-sources.jsonl) across all 4 Takeouts + Thunderbird.
From: Vincent Lindow Jr. (vlindowjr@gmail.com) To: Todd Tanner (lostit1278@gmail.com) Subject: Re: Paypal Debit Card
"Oh and here are the details of that secret deal that I made with the investors. LOL. one percent of royalties and equity for $10,000 dollars. These were all oral agreements which are legal in New York and I told you about them."
Why it matters: Vince characterizes the deal as "secret," fixes the rate at $10K per 1% of royalties AND equity, admits the agreements are oral, and raises a NY-law defense that doesn't cure the FL Ch. 605 / operating-agreement / related-party problems.
From: Vincent Lindow Jr. To: Todd Tanner
"As a partner you are entitled to an equal share of all of our revenues that we make minus expenses. You are not entitled to access to my family's money."
Why it matters:
From: Vincent Lindow Jr. (vince@3dgamemarket.com) Subject: Re: 转发:Re: 3DGM and Z2D co-operation
"I have responded on Gmail. Fine I will pay the investors out of my shares. Problem solved that was easy. One less thing for you to worry about."
Why it matters: Vince, as Manager, is casually moving investor liabilities off the LLC books and onto his personal equity — a textbook commingling / no-segregated-bookkeeping admission. "Problem solved that was easy" frames LLC governance as a casual personal matter, not a statutory duty.
From: Vincent Lindow Jr. Subject: Business Call
"Since yesterday I have gotten two investors. $10,000 available right after the Acer partnership is formalized with an advancement for me to go to Pax East and the other investor will be cutting us a check for 10,000 in the middle of May. My mom and Sister Lisa and they are both in 100%. I am meeting Peter soon and he will also be in. Only two spots left."
Why it matters: Names two family-adjacent investors at $10K/1% (Vince's own mother and sister Lisa). Establishes related-party transactions the 10% Member was never shown documentation for.
From: Vincent Lindow Jr. Subject: Re: Call
"Sounds great. Just closed our third investor. Peter is in. Two more to go."
Why it matters: Names Peter Parts (Ithaca / R.I.T. business incubator associate) as investor #3. Peter Parts is known to have been in direct email correspondence with Todd and in active dealings with 3DGM — corroborating subpoena target if needed.
From: Vincent Lindow Jr. Subject: The show went great
"I got a 4th investor, one more to go. And I am already on that."
Why it matters: Confirms 4 of 5 targeted investor slots closed by late April 2022. Investor #4's identity not disclosed in this corpus.
From: Vincent Lindow Jr. Subject: Can we please fix this between us
"I really want to make us big money and I am so close. I would have sold a display today and got another investor but we are fighting and we should not be. This investor is a classmate of mine and his son in law owns a large security company in Texas."
Why it matters: First identifying detail on another investor candidate — a classmate of Vince's from his school years whose son-in-law owns a large Texas-based security company. This is enough detail for counsel to identify the individual through discovery if the investor's $10K payment ever appears in bank records.
From: Vincent Lindow Jr. Subject: Re: Distributed computing... by TJ
"All of this time, I could have been learning this stuff and maybe not even doing gaming if we had a plan for our 3DGM investors."
Why it matters: Three days before the "severance" memo, Vince writes casually of "our 3DGM investors" in present tense. The investors are still an active relationship. The LLC is still operating (despite being administratively dissolved). Vince is still the person managing the investor relationship. This is evidence that the April 17 action was retaliation against Todd, not a genuine wind-down.
From: Todd Tanner
To: Vince Lindow Jr.
Context: Documented in 2026-04-17-severance-check-analysis.md line 98, in the context summary.
"I AM NOT YOUR EMPLOYEE."
Why it matters: Todd's own written assertion, in caps, four years before the 2026 "severance" characterization. Establishes that Todd rejected employment framing contemporaneously — not retroactively for litigation.
From: Todd Tanner (lostit1278@gmail.com) Subject: Re: Stopped to see you
"...partner in this company for the first time in 10 years, then we can talk strategy. If you wish to keep running the company like I am not a partner, you are welcome to make me an offer to buy me out."
Why it matters: Todd offering a buyout as the remedy for not being treated as a partner — the opposite of what an employee would write. Employees don't get "bought out." Partners / Members do.
[!CAUTION] Vince uses a cycle of "lashing out" followed by "we're family" apologies, while consistently devaluing Todd's technical labor relative to Vince's family's cash investments.
"I would understand your position if you invested money or brought in investors money but you have not. So your main complaint is you do not have control over my family's money and Ilya's money before that. Money that I have been paying you with so you can bash me..."
"I work every day at this company... you who have put very little money in, turn your nose up to [revenue opportunities]."
"I am sorry for the way I handled the Z to D situation but that crushed me and I lashed out and I am sorry for that."
"I am starting to look stupid when I can't answer [Ilya's] questions... I am afraid if something is not done by then of what he will do."
"I am willing to talk about increasing your pay some if things are tough but I am done being ignored. ... As long as you are paid with our money every two weeks things are good."
"In my opinion this is your best shot to make a lot of money for your family and we as friends could say we built this together and then sell it and retire."
Fact (not quote): The FIRST post-dissolution $200 weekly payment from "3D Game Market LLC" went out on 2025-09-26 — the exact day Florida administratively dissolved the LLC. 28+ weekly $200 payments continued thereafter through 2026-04-17, all from the LLC PayPal account, with no written notice of dissolution to Todd as a Member.
Why it matters: This is structural. A dissolved LLC continuing to disburse funds from its own PayPal account for 28+ weeks, while one Member is kept in the dark about the dissolution, is the textbook piercing-the-veil / failure-of-formalities fact pattern.
Fact (not quote): 67 consecutive weekly $200 payments from Jan 2025 through Apr 17 2026. 66 of 67 were sent from the "3D Game Market LLC" PayPal account. Only one (2025-11-14) was from "Vincent Lindow Jr" personally.
Why it matters: Vince's repeated written framing that the money was coming "out of my check / out of my paycheck" is contradicted by 98.5% of the actual payment instruments. The LLC is the payer. Vince's rhetoric is not the financial record.
Per TJ direct testimony: two separate "3D Game Market"-named PayPal accounts exist:
Todd's historical access (clarified 2026-04-17 PM): Todd had operational access to the PayPal accounts when he set up the Drupal/Ubercart storefront on 3dgamemarket.com — that access was required because Vince and Ilya could not configure the storefront themselves. However, the PayPal accounts were only ever used for retail site transactions — customer purchases of displays, games, subscriptions. Todd has seen the destination bank account numbers in the PayPal deposit-configuration settings (those numbers are visible to any PayPal admin, because PayPal has to know where to sweep collected funds), but Todd has never been allowed to view the destination bank accounts directly — no statements, no transaction histories, no balances, no non-PayPal deposits. The actual business money (investor $10K contributions, wholesale / Dimenco / Acer / KDX / Philips / psHolix deals, licensing revenue) never flowed through PayPal; those went straight into the manager-controlled private bank accounts.
Why it matters: Two parallel manager-controlled financial rails with no Member oversight of the destination bank accounts is textbook commingling and a predicate fact for piercing-the-veil analysis. Even more importantly: Todd knows the destination bank account numbers (he saw them in the PayPal settings) but was denied inspection of the accounts those identifiers point to. That is a perfected, specific denial of the FL Ch. 605.0410 Member inspection right — not a speculative one. Counsel can make a targeted inspection demand by account number, not just by category.
Documentary backup: 2017-09-29 screenshots preserved at D:/3DGM Legal/2017-09-29 PayPal Screenshots/ and documented in D:/3DGM Legal/_research/docs/EVIDENCE-PayPal-Screenshots-2017.md. The screenshots show the Ilya-controlled PayPal Merchant ID XMUJ4UQ48EPZY and primary destination bank account TD Bank NA x-4837, along with Todd's authorized sub-user login ToddT3DGM — proving both the existence of the dual-rail structure and Todd's formal (but limited to the PayPal surface) access.
From: Ilya Sorokin (sorokin.ilya@gmail.com) To: Todd Tanner Subject: Re: My dog is sick Dates: 2023-12-26 → 2023-12-27
Ilya's numbered proposal to Todd (quoted back in the reply):
"1. I would like you to be a part of the company, so I will buy 23% for $10k, you will keep 10%."
Ilya's follow-up after Todd provisionally accepts:
"Thanks for your answer. I definitely want you to be the part of the team. You worked too hard to just walk away from it all. I need your address in order to complete the wire."
And Todd's reply in the same thread:
"Honestly, I would rather sell it all and become an employee as I am tired of trying to get treated like a partner instead of a form of cheap labor who is otherwise ignored. ... If required, I agree."
Then Ilya wires the $10K to Todd's personal address (8377 Main St Apt 1, Interlaken NY).
Why it matters: This is Ilya — the registered Manager (MGR) on the LLC's Florida filings, and the Member who became the largest single equity holder after the December 2023 purchase (approximately 56% post-purchase: roughly 33% founding interest plus the 23% he bought from Todd). He is characterizing the December 2023 transaction IN HIS OWN WRITING as (a) a purchase of 23% of Todd's equity, (b) leaving Todd as a 10% Member of the company going forward, and (c) explicitly REJECTING Todd's offer to "sell it all and become an employee." Ilya chose Member-retention over employee-conversion. That choice forecloses any 2026 characterization of Todd as an employee terminable "for cause" via PayPal memo. Vince retains approximately 30-33% of his own — or whatever is left after his undisclosed 1%-per-$10K investor sales, which have never been documented to the 10% Member.
From: Ilya Sorokin To: Todd Tanner Subject: Re: Email to Xin, Date: 2023-07-31
"In our relationship, it was always clear that I was providing funding, Vince was dealing with operational responsibilities and you deal with tech."
And in the same email:
"He borrowed money from his closest relatives so that he could pay you, he even increased your pay using this money."
Why it matters:
From: Ilya Sorokin To: Todd Tanner Subject: This is urgent Date: 2023-08-07
"I want to talk about OUR business. ... I hope you make a smart decision — it is your business as much as it is ours."
"For years we let you do whatever you wanted, at your own pace and unknown deliverables. You can thank Vince for that, by the way, he was your biggest supporter."
Why it matters: Ilya is describing an owner-level relationship — Todd's autonomy over his own pace and deliverables, the company described as "your business as much as it is ours," peer partnership phrasing throughout. This is not how any employer describes an employment relationship. Ilya's own words here, four months before he bought 23% from Todd, are directly inconsistent with the 2026 "severance" framing.
Direct rebuttal to "unknown deliverables": The deliverables were not unknown. See EVIDENCE-Todd-Deliverables-Projects-Inventory.md in this same folder, which catalogs 40+ distinct Visual Studio solutions authored solo by Todd for 3DGM (2014-2026), a public GMRender API SDK with worked DX9/DX11 example renderers distributed to third-party integrators, custom Drupal modules powering 3dgamemarket.net, and the open-source Rendusa 2D+Z media viewer served live at 3dgamemarket.net/rendusa/ and published at github.com/LostBeard/rendusa. Every page of the company's own public website carries the footer "3DGameMarket by Todd Tanner" — Ilya cannot credibly claim not to know what Todd was building while Ilya's company was publicly attributing authorship to him.
[!CAUTION] Ilya consistently weaponized Todd's family's survival (rent/food) and his disability (anxiety) to enforce compliance, while explicitly denying employment status to avoid liabilities.
"Meanwhile your family goes without pay. I hope you can explain to them why."
"If I hold back, you will not have enough money to pay rent or to buy food, what I promised in order for us to have a payday as a team."
"This is what will put food on your family table! If you do not do it, we are done!"
"I hope your common sense prevails in spite of the mental issues that you are fighting with."
"You asked me not to call you because you 'freeze' when I call. But I do not hear from you. ... I will pay today, but I need you to send me weekly update..."
"It would be a lot easier if you just email your questions. It also would give me a chance to think about your questions as I get anxiety on the phone and it makes me babble."
"not even capable to talk to me after 12 years of knowing me."
idx: 115)[!CAUTION] In late July and early August 2023, after Todd declined a 3rd-party project (Z2D), Ilya and Vince launched a coordinated psychological and financial assault to force compliance.
From: Vincent Lindow (vlindowjr@gmail.com) Date: 2017-10-18 Context: Todd is asking for a code-signing certificate to continue work. Vince explains why the paperwork is unavailable.
"Ilya locked all of our paperwork up in his safe and the battery died. He has to go through a lot of hoops with the company of the safe to get it open. So he is getting duplicates sent out to him from Delaware. ... We need that paperwork for not only the code signing certificate but also Ali pay."
Why it matters:
Source: Audio Excerpt 2025-10-21-vince-reads-german-team-pitch-five-years-stopped.md
Date: 2025-10-21
Context: Vince reads aloud a written pitch he sent to a German prospective partner (3D Global / Stan).
Vince: "Because as we all know, we only have one programmer, and that's you." [00:17:16]
Vince: "As far as the artifacts go, I agree with everything they are saying and that is why we quit working on this code over five years ago." [00:10:28]
Vince: "We have a patent written for this, but not filed." [00:13:37]
Why it matters:
Source: Audio Excerpt 2022-10-04-vince-partner-in-florida-and-payroll-stall.md
Date: 2022-10-04
Context: Vince discussing customer pipeline and past failures.
Vince: "America's best working" / "The Army simulator" (identifying 3DGM customers/projects) Vince: "The Mako" customer identity - took 3DGM free work and went to competitor.
Why it matters:
Source: Email archive-3, idx: 836 / "LLC Advice addendum"
Date: 2023-08-02
Context: In a comprehensive memo outlining the partnership's breakdown, Todd documents his reasoning for refusing to cooperate on Intellectual Property filings.
"Vince and Ilya want to patent my methods and techniques but again I told them I refuse to consider it while they are refusing to give me access to our companies financial data. They of course again attack me for damaging the company."
Why it matters:
Source: Email archive-3, idx: 836
Date: 2023-08-02 (reporting 2020 event)
"Vince has lied about how much we owe our other partner Ilya. He told me at 1 point that we owed Ilya around $1,000,000.00 (this was around 2020.) I told Vince 'I did not owe him that' as I never had access to any money or even information about what money was being spent on. Vince eventually told me never mind. I can only assume because he knew I would want proof."
Why it matters:
Source: Email archive-3, idx: 836
"I spent countless days frequently working 18 hours and easily 70+ hour weeks while getting nothing more than as much pay as a minimum wage employee would for 2 days. I had hoped that when we started making more money it would even out."
Why it matters:
Source: Email archive-3, idx: 836
"The job I have refused to do is being valued at $100,000.00. We would supposedly be paid partially in cash, product discounts from the 3rd party asking for the project which we would resell, and a % of all sales they make on the project."
Why it matters:
Source: Email archive-2, idx: 815
Date: 2022-09-23
"Fine I will pay the investors out of my shares. Problem solved that was easy. One less thing for you to worry about." — Vince Lindow Jr.
Why it matters:
From: Vincent Lindow Jr. (vince@3dgamemarket.com)
To: Todd Tanner (lostit1278@gmail.com)
Subject: Re: Update
Date: 2023-11-03 (same thread as Todd's "broke LLC law by violating my legal right to see the books" reply)
Context: Todd had been demanding Member-level financial transparency; Vince and Ilya had been pressuring Todd to deliver / characterize 3DGM source code. In this reply Vince explicitly juxtaposes books visibility with how often Todd "let" them see source code, then mirrors that as mutual "withholding" between partners.
Longer paragraph (books justified by low revenue + source code seen only once):
"This was never intentionally held from you as before these, there are no books that I know of and any money we got from Deepub went back into the business. I never thought this was a bad thing with the books as we had no or little revenue and you have only let us see the source code once. Thousands of dollars that was supposed to be paid by DeePub was not paid and I have copies of the emails requesting it and there responses. No money was ever withheld from you."
Admission (same message, immediately after QuickBooks / bank-access promises):
"I do understand your frustration with not seeing the books. I have seen the source code once. It does suck when partners withold things. I will not do it anymore."
(Original email spells withold; preserved verbatim.)
Todd's same-thread rebuttal (IP vs books — not a wage demand):
From: Todd Tanner
Date: 2023-11-03 (reply same day)
"I told you and Ilya from the get go that the source code and IP is mine and that 3DGameMarket has an exclusive license to the product. The fact you even saw the source code once is due to the extortion you and Ilya used to get it. You and Ilya however broke LLC law by violating my legal right to see the books for 10 years."
Why it matters:
Documentary backup: Full thread extraction, Message-IDs, and Gmail thread ID 1781472207089318487 in D:/3DGM Legal/2023-11-03-todd-to-vince-broke-llc-law-and-vince-admission.md. Cross-index: EVIDENCE-Books-Refusal-Pattern-Master-Index.md.
Purpose: Ilya’s writing is usually less chaotic than Vince’s, but these passages are not fully broken out elsewhere in this cheat sheet. They show (a) IP / “company owns the product” pressure, (b) personal dependence / “carrying you” framing, (c) explicit owner-not-employee + funder leverage, (d) funding cut-off threats, and (e) minimization of books requests while acknowledging anxiety. Sources preserved in _research/docs/_scan_ilya_abuse_CURATED.md and _research/docs/_debug_ilya_threats_FULL.txt (grep ethical values, kiss your ass, not funding 3DGM).
From: Ilya Sorokin
To: Todd Tanner
"…The product that we have developed belongs to the company not just to Todd Turner. I have been funding your work for over 4 years in good faith, and definitely expect the same in return. … Right now you might feel like the king of the mountain, but you would not get where you are now without me and Vince. If you do not see it, you are short sighted.
Just for your info, verbal agreements are legally binding in the state of New York, just in case my assessment of your ethical values is incorrect."
Why it matters: Controlled, lawyer-adjacent diction — but content is IP capture (“belongs to the company not just to Todd Turner”), quid pro quo on funding vs deliverables, economic dependence, and an implied threat (NY law + questioning “ethical values”). Pairs against Todd’s exclusive-license and Member books positions.
"3. MOST IMPORTANT - you are not my employee, I am not paying your salary, I do not own 3DGamemarket. It is OUR business which I am keeping afloat in hopes that all of us will make money from it."
Why it matters: Second 2017 Ilya not-an-employee statement (distinct thread from the Jan 6, 2017 “Re: Copyright” email already cited in Item 18). Reinforces equitable estoppel pattern across multiple dates.
From: Ilya Sorokin
To: Todd Tanner
"…I appreciate your work and efforts much more than you appreciate me paying your bills for the last 4 years. Instead of thank you, I get a feeling that you feel that I owe you something. … if I thought of you as my employee we would not have these conversations. … Does it men that I will kiss your ass - absolutely not! Nor would I expect to kiss mine because I have been carrying you for so long. … your are kicking ass and we would not be here without you. You just have to realize that we would not be here without Vince or me either!"
Why it matters: Patron / funder dominance and degrading language while still admitting partner framing (“if I thought of you as my employee…”). Useful for hostile-environment / severity and for rebutting any portrait of Ilya as a distant passive investor.
From: Ilya Sorokin
To: Todd Tanner
"Your argument about delivering pizza would be totally valid if you were an employee of the company, but you are not - you are the owner. And the only reason you still have this status is because I have been carrying you and Vince for 6 years (like it or not). You and Vince have been working very hard, but you did not do it for me or my company, you did and still doing it for yourself and your company."
Why it matters: Ilya in writing calls Todd the owner, admits years of financial carry, and uses contemptuous analogy (“delivering pizza”) to dismiss Todd’s grievance — inconsistent with a arms-length employer treating a minimum-wage worker, and inconsistent with later employee/severance framing.
From: Ilya Sorokin
To: Todd Tanner
"Thanks for the update. I understand your anxiety and that is the reason we have not been communicating. … You keep on asking about financial reports - frankly I am not sure what you are hoping to find there, every dollar (as little as we have) goes to pay you and Vince … I have been funding this company for years and years, hundreds of thousands of dollars without getting one penny in …"
(Truncated in corpus; full body in _scan_ilya_abuse_CURATED.md §2 and emails-from-ilya.md.)
Why it matters: Acknowledges anxiety then dismisses books (“not sure what you are hoping to find”) — same period as escalating pressure. Supports pattern: financial opacity + disability-aware management.
From: Ilya Sorokin (mobile)
"Just want to put everyone on notice - if my emails are ignored I am not funding 3DGM any longer."
Why it matters: Plain economic coercion in one sentence — three weeks before the July–Aug 2023 Z2D rupture window. Shows Ilya’s controlled voice still issuing all-or-nothing funding threats.
From: Ilya Sorokin
To: Vincent Lindow Jr. (not Todd)
"…It is almost like Todd saying that he is the only one working and we are having a free ride, even though both of us know he would not be anywhere without our support."
Why it matters: Not sent to Todd, but admissibility is for counsel; it shows how Ilya characterized Todd internally during the same era as the “carrying you” emails — undercut / free ride narrative while Ilya funded.
Purpose: Another pass through emails-from-ilya.md surfaced Ilya-only lines that were easy to miss because the 2023-07-31 message in the archive embeds a long quoted block from Vince (profanity, “moron,” lawyer/police threats) below Ilya’s own paragraphs. Do not attribute Vince’s quoted text to Ilya. Ilya’s own paragraphs are still high-signal for control, pay conditioning, and character attacks. This item also pulls Aug 7, 2023 lines not quoted in Item 17, and the Jan 14, 2019 “friend and partner / all falls on Todd” block (cross-ref EVIDENCE-2015-2024-Z2D-KDX-Biao-Decade-Long-Customer-Plus-Ilya-2019-Partner-Admission.md in _research/docs/).
ilya@3dgamemarket.com — “Re: Email to Xin,” (Ilya’s own words to Vince, Todd & Parts Cc’d)From: Ilya Sorokin (ilya@3dgamemarket.com)
To: Vince — Cc: Todd, Peter Parts
"You are not running your own show and can not make the decisions that hurt the company (and you in the process by the way). If you are not working you are not getting paid, I believe even you understand this."
… "But as far as business is conserved your actions are detrimental to it."
"In the past you came around after a few days past your ridiculous outbursts apologized to Vince and completed the work. So I will hope for her same."
… "On the last note - if you are not going to do it, we are done as a company - we loose the revenue and the monitor for which we waited for more than 10 years."
Attribution: Immediately after this, the same email in emails-from-ilya.md contains Vince’s reply (starting “The letter you wrote to Xin is unacceptable…”) including threats of lawyer, police, sue — that block is Vince, not Ilya.
Why it matters: Ilya in his own voice: denies Todd unilateral Member-level decision rights, pay-for-work, “detrimental” / “ridiculous outbursts” characterization, and company-death conditional — same day as the family / “mental issues” lines already in Item 18–19, but these sentences are the business-control half of the tag team.
From: Ilya Sorokin (ilya@3dgamemarket.com)
To: Todd Tanner
"If they go to another vendor or hire people internally to get this done, we loose not only this opportunity and money, but also our position in the market place."
"I do not know if you inherited money or do not need the money anymore, it is your and your family's call."
Why it matters: Vendor-loss / market-position pressure plus wealth-shaming (“inherited money”) in the same Z2D escalation week as Item 17 — useful for severity and pattern alongside “OUR business” / “not capable to talk to me.”
From: Ilya Sorokin (sorokin.ilya@gmail.com)
To: Todd Tanner
"I know it all falls on Todd, and I am sorry that neither Vince or I can help you with this. We can not learn programming, and we can not even bring somebody else to help because it would take too much time to teach that person."
… "Your friend and partner,
Ilya"
Why it matters: 4.5 years before the Aug 2023 “unknown deliverables” insult, Ilya admits the engineering bottleneck is entirely Todd and that substitution is impractical — inconsistent with treating Todd as a fungible employee. “Your friend and partner” is his own closing, not Todd’s label.
is@actforex.com, is@acttrader.com) — this passFinding: Outbound 3DGM-related content from those addresses in this export is mostly operational (e.g. 2014-03 logo thread to you and Vince; 2018-11-10 is@acttrader.com — “Just sent you $1000” for car repair). 2013-05 thread shows Todd raising security concern that a server might be Actforex-shared; Ilya/Vasyl arrange VPS — useful for infrastructure / control themes, not a new “smoking gun” sentence from Ilya.
_master-all-sources.jsonl via grep on the quoted text.