sentences:  DEN became indicative of excess in the era of the dot-com bubble, with high pay for executives while not generating any revenues and very little traffic.In October 1999, a young man from New Jersey identified only as Jake W. filed a lawsuit alleging that Collins-Rector had sexually molested him for 3 years beginning in 1993 when he was 13-years-old.The lawsuit was filed just prior to DEN's scheduled IPO, causing concern among potential investors and leading to the resignations of Collins-Rector, Shackley, and Pierce, leaving Ritts in charge.