Two months ago, we promised you a follow-up on an unfolding story about a scandal at Ateliere Creative Technologies, after the cloud-native media supply chain company pulled out of its $29.7 million commitment to acquire CodeMill—triggering a truly ugly series of events. After speaking to former employees at Ateliere and assessing evidence of documented conversations with some of the company’s most senior figures, the extent of alleged potential illegal activities—reportedly defrauding investors and fabricating reasons to fire employees without severance or backpay—has been brought to light. But first, a disclosure: Faultline is not a legal publication, and we don’t hand down verdicts. But we don’t ignore them either. Allegations of misconduct and mismanagement at Ateliere—some now the subject of legal proceedings—paint a…