Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee said the state’s economic-development organization sued Wells Fargo, Barclays and Curt Schilling, the former chairman of 38 Studios LLC, the bankrupt video-game company.
The banks and Schilling, the former Boston Red Sox pitcher who founded 38 Studios, didn’t disclose to the state Economic Development Corp. negative information about the Providence-based company’s financial projections and business plan, according to a copy of the complaint posted on the EDC website.
The filing couldn’t be immediately confirmed.
“38 Studios failed because of risks that had not been disclosed to the EDC board, but were or should have been known by” the defendants, the state said in the complaint.
The EDC board in 2010 approved the issuance of $75 million in bonds to finance a loan to allow 38 Studios to move to Rhode Island from Massachusetts and complete a multiplayer online game called Copernicus.