Zeus Network CEO Lemuel “Lemmy” Plummer has been ordered to repay nearly $9.83 million to the streaming company after a three-member arbitration panel found that millions of dollars in company transactions lacked adequate documentation and that other payments—including compensation and transfers to a church led by his father—were not properly authorized.

The award is now at the center of a court fight. Zeus co-founders King Bach, Amanda Cerny and DeStorm Power have asked Los Angeles Superior Court to confirm the arbitration decision and make it enforceable as a court judgment. The request is not the same as a judge already entering that judgment.

The Shade Wire reviewed the detailed account of the arbitration award published by Baller Alert on November 9, 2026. The figures and findings below are attributed to that report’s description of the award and court petition.

What Plummer was ordered to repay

The arbitration panel’s award requires Plummer to repay $9,826,837 to Zeus Network. The largest components described in the report involve transfers through payment apps and cash withdrawals that the panel found were not supported by adequate records.

• $3,467,000: Transfers to third parties through services including PayPal, Cash App, Venmo, Apple Cash and Zelle for which the panel found the available documentation insufficient. The report says Plummer’s own expert could identify paperwork for only $131,666 of roughly $3.6 million in transfers.
• $1,974,167: Cash withdrawals the panel found were not adequately documented. The report says Zeus withdrew nearly $2 million in cash, but only $23,700 was supported by records.
• $1,436,000: Compensation the panel found Plummer received above the salary range he had initially discussed with the other members, without the approval required under the operating agreement.
• $770,222: Payments Zeus made to L Plummer Media, a company owned by Plummer, that the panel ordered repaid.
• $1,006,933: Reimbursements paid directly to Plummer that were included in the repayment award.
• $547,515: Loan repayments connected to a claimed loan from L Plummer Media for which the report says no loan documents were produced.
• $625,000: Payments directed to COGIC Israel, a church led by Plummer’s father. The panel reportedly found the payments had no business purpose and constituted a misappropriation of company funds.

The award’s total is not simply a personal payout to the three co-founders. The principal $9.83 million is to be repaid to Zeus Network itself, according to the report.

The co-founders are also seeking legal fees and interest

In addition to the repayment to Zeus, the panel reportedly ordered Plummer to pay the co-founders approximately $1.74 million in attorneys’ fees and costs. The award also includes interest at 8.25% per year on the damages dating back to October 2022.

The September 29 petition filed in Los Angeles Superior Court reportedly places the total sought at $13,779,781.25, including the award, fees, interest and related amounts. That is the amount the co-founders are asking the court to recognize and enforce—not a statement that a judge has already entered a $13.78 million judgment.

How the dispute started

The conflict traces back to October 2022, when King Bach—whose legal name is Andrew Bachelor and who brought the claims through Bach Enterprises—joined Cerny and Power in seeking arbitration under the company’s operating agreement.

The co-founders accused Plummer, who leads Zeus as CEO and manager, of failing to maintain proper financial books, withholding company records, making unauthorized payments to himself and others, and cutting off distributions they said they were owed. The arbitration panel heard the dispute over nine days in July and August 2025.

There was also a foundational disagreement over whether Bach, Cerny and Power were members and equity owners of Zeus. According to the report, Plummer argued in sworn responses that the three were never members because they had not made required capital contributions. The panel rejected that position, pointing to years of public statements describing them as co-founders and partners, a 2021 interview in which Plummer said they held equity, and tax forms identifying them as members. The panel ruled in December 2025 that the three were—and remained—members of the company.

What the panel said about the company’s records

The award reportedly described repeated problems obtaining financial records. The co-founders’ side made more than 20 requests for information. During the arbitration, Zeus agreed to provide documentation for 2,857 transactions but reportedly produced records for only 525. Bank statements requested years earlier were not provided until early 2025, according to the report.

The panel also reportedly found that Zeus had not filed tax returns for several years. Plummer’s explanation was that the returns could not be prepared until the arbitration settled who the company’s members were. The panel rejected that explanation and made him personally responsible for any resulting IRS fines, penalties or interest, according to the report.

Plummer’s counterclaim was denied, too

Plummer also brought a counterclaim seeking approximately $10.9 million from the co-founders. He argued that a March 2025 video by DeStorm Power, “Truth About Zeus Networks,” was defamatory and caused subscriber losses.

The panel denied the counterclaim because it found Plummer had not established that the video caused the financial losses he claimed. Importantly, the report says the panel did not decide whether the video was defamatory. Power acknowledged that one statement in the video—that 25 creators he brought to Zeus were never paid—was not fully accurate because some received small checks.

Not every expense was rejected

The arbitration was not a finding that every disputed Zeus expense was improper. The co-founders had challenged roughly $56 million in spending, but the panel awarded approximately $9.8 million. The report says the panel accepted several large categories as legitimate business expenses, including travel, ground transportation, private-jet travel, security, Super Bowl tickets and leasing a production house. It criticized the company’s recordkeeping but found insufficient evidence to order repayment of all the other disputed spending.

What happens next?

The arbitration award was issued April 24, 2026. The co-founders filed their petition to confirm it in Los Angeles Superior Court on September 29, according to Baller Alert. The petition was reported as pending before Judge Rupert A. Byrdsong at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse as of the November 9 report.

A court can confirm the award, correct it, vacate it or dismiss the petition. If confirmed, the award can be enforced like a court judgment. Until the court acts, it is important to distinguish the arbitrators’ decision from a final court judgment.

Zeus launched in 2018 with Plummer as its founder and CEO and King Bach, Amanda Cerny and DeStorm Power as co-founders. At the time, the launch was publicly announced alongside a production agreement with SAG-AFTRA, which described the three creators as Zeus co-founders.

The Shade Wire will continue following the court proceedings and any response from Plummer or Zeus.

Sources & photo credits

• Baller Alert: “Zeus Network CEO Lemuel Plummer Ordered to Repay $9.8 Million After Arbitrators Find He Misused Company Funds” (November 9, 2026).
• SAG-AFTRA: 2018 announcement of its collaboration with Zeus.
• DeStorm Power photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
• Amanda Cerny photo: Drifta Beatz, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
• Lemuel Plummer photo: supplied to The Shade Wire for this article.