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Dreamwave 的倒閉並非一夕之間發生。最早有關自由接案者未獲支付報酬的傳聞，可追溯至 2003 年 10 月。
在 Dreamwave 關閉後，前自由撰稿人 Adam Patyk 與 James McDonough 重申他們的指控，表示 Dreamwave（並未明確指 Pat Lee 本人）在宣布破產前就已停止支付他們報酬。兩人隨後對前雇主提起訴訟，而在訴訟公開後，他們據稱也聽說其他 Dreamwave 員工與接案者同樣抱怨未獲支付薪資。

除了 Patyk 與 McDonough 之外，其他前 Dreamwave 員工或接案者並未如此明確地談及此事。畫家 Don Figueroa 只提到 Dreamwave「在支付支票上嚴重延誤」，並指出他在公司關閉前一個月與 Pat Lee 見面時，對方仍保證「一切都沒問題」。同樣的抱怨也被編劇 Simon Furman 提及。
此外，畫家 Guido Guidi 僅批評 Dreamwave 缺乏「良好的溝通」，並對 Pat Lee 與其兄 Roger Lee 表現出矛盾態度。而畫家 James Raiz 則聲稱自己是「極少數能從 Dreamwave 全數拿到報酬的人之一」。

在宣布破產前，Pat Lee 與 Roger Lee 已秘密花了四個月，將 Dreamwave 的大部分資產轉移至一家名為 Dream Engine 的新公司，該公司網站網域登記在 Roger 名下。
此外，後來發現 Pat Lee 在放棄 Dreamwave 前，已確保將公司名下的 Porsche 車輛轉至自己名下，並在破產前就花了 50 萬加幣購買豪華公寓。Dreamwave 的總債務則超過一百萬美元。

一名前員工後來透露，Pat 與 Roger 早在破產前整整一年就已知公司即將崩潰，但他們沒有向員工坦白，反而讓父母成為「有擔保債權人」，並讓公司再撐一年。這是因為加拿大法律規定，若要在破產時優先獲得償還，必須在破產前至少滿一年被登記為有擔保債權人（此法原為防止臨時造假債權）。
Teddy Lee 與 Anne Lee 因此獲得 14.1 萬加幣的「家具租賃」補償金，儘管他們多年來其實由兩個兒子經濟扶養。

此外，Guido Guidi 與 Don Figueroa 也證實，他們在 Dreamwave 關閉前寄給公司的原稿，事後竟被 FedEx 向他們本人收取運費。

Dreamwave 倒閉後，Pat Lee 多次接受訪問，將自己描繪成「環境下的受害者」，同時完全迴避關於拖欠報酬與 Dream Engine 存在的問題。

在 Dream Engine 時期，Pat Lee 將公司相當一部分資金花在他女友 Aimee Chan 的競選活動上，後者最終於 2006 年奪得 Miss Hong Kong 冠軍。此事最終導致 Pat 被 Dream Engine 與其兄 Roger 要求離開公司。
2007 年秋天，Aimee Chan 在社群網站 alivenotdead 上將感情狀態改為「single」。

之後，Pat 被列為一家香港公司 DeepSky Pictures 的「director」。該公司如今似乎已不存在，也不清楚是否曾實際製作過任何作品。
此外，他據稱還成立了 Triple Eye Productions 與 Secret Lab Ltd.，但這些公司皆缺乏顯著成果，甚至難以確認是否仍在營運。

2010 年 12 月，Pat Lee 終於接受了批評者 Rich Johnston 的專訪。雖然 Johnston 提出了許多尖銳問題，並引用他與 Simon Furman、Alex Milne 等人的談話內容，但 Lee 的回答多半敷衍、含糊其辭，或稱「不記得」。
他宣稱自己發起了一項名為 Creative Refund Movement 的計畫，旨在償還前 Dreamwave 藝術家的欠款。
然而，直到十二年後，沒有任何藝術家證實收到過付款，其中一人甚至確認在運動啟動兩年內「完全沒有拿到任何東西」。


原文：https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Pat_Lee

Business practices
The demise of Dreamwave didn't come overnight. The first rumors of freelancers not getting paid date back as far as October 2003.[20] Following the closure of Dreamwave, former freelance writers Adam Patyk and James McDonough reiterated their claims that Dreamwave (not explicitly referring to Lee himself) had stopped paying them even before declaring bankruptcy. They had then filed a lawsuit against their former employer, and when that became public, they had allegedly also heard from other Dreamwave employees and freelancers who were supposedly also complaining about not being paid anymore.[21]

Aside from Patyk and McDonough, no other former Dreamwave employees or freelancers were nearly as explicit on the issue. Artist Don Figueroa only stated that Dreamwave was "getting really behind with the check" and pointed out that he "was also assured everything was cool" when he met Pat Lee in person only a month prior to the closing of Dreamwave.[16] The latter complaint was also repeated by writer Simon Furman.[22] Likewise, artist Guido Guidi merely accused Dreamwave of a lack of "[g]ood communication", and even revealed an ambivalent attitude towards Pat Lee and his brother Roger.[17] Artist James Raiz, meanwhile, claimed that he was "one of the very few who came out of Dreamwave with all [his] money".[23]

Prior to declaring bankruptcy, Pat and his brother Roger had spent four months secretly transferring most of Dreamwave's assets to a new company named Dream Engine, whose website domain was registered to Roger's name.[24] In addition, it would turn out that Lee had made sure to transfer ownership of his formerly company-owned Porsche to himself before giving up Dreamwave,[25] and had spent half a million Canadian dollars on a new luxury apartment even before the Dreamwave bankruptcy.[26] The overall amount of Dreamwave's debt was far over a million dollars.[27]

A former Dreamwave employee later suggested that Pat and Roger had known about the looming demise of Dreamwave a full year before declaring bankruptcy, but instead of coming clean to their employees, they named their parents secured creditors and then kept the company going for another year, because Canadian law required people to be named secured creditors for at least a year before bankruptcy in order to be given priority over other creditors (this is meant to prevent someone being given secured creditor status a week before bankruptcy and then getting away with all the company's money). Teddy and Anne Lee were granted $141,000 for alleged "furniture lease", even though they were financially supported by their sons for most of their adult lives.[28]

In addition, Guido Guidi and Don Figueroa later confirmed that they were additionally charged by FedEx for having shipped artwork to Dreamwave prior to the company's closure.[29]

Pat Lee himself gave several interviews following the closing of Dreamwave, presenting himself as a victim of circumstance while completely dodging the issue of unpaid creators and the existence of Dream Engine.[30][31][32]

While working with Dream Engine, Pat Lee spent a significant amount of the company's funds on the campaign of his girlfriend Aimee Chan, who would eventually win the title of Miss Hong Kong in 2006. This ultimately resulted in Pat being asked by Dream Engine and his brother Roger to leave the company.[33] In the fall of 2007, Aimee Chan changed her status on her alivenotdead social networking page[34] to "single". Oops!

Following that, he was listed as the "director" of a Hong Kong-based company named DeepSky Pictures. The company apparently no longer exists, and it's unclear if it ever actually produced anything. Likewise, the companies Triple Eye Productions and Secret Lab Ltd. he had reportedly founded don't exactly have a high-profile output either, and it's difficult to find out whether they are even in business anymore.

In December 2010, Pat Lee finally agreed to give an interview to Rich Johnston, one of his most outspoken critics. While Johnston asked a lot of hard-hitting questions, often referring to personal conversations he had with people like Simon Furman and Alex Milne, Lee gave very half-hearted non-answers, claimed not to remember certain details or avoided answering questions entirely. Lee did announce he had started a "Creative Refund Movement" project to pay former Dreamwave artists.[35] As of twelve years later, no artist has confirmed any kind of repayment, and one artist confirmed they received nothing within the first two years of its announcement.[36]