PatrickPretty.com

Month: April 2010

RECOMMENDED VIEWING: Fox 5 Atlanta Airs Reports On Narc That Car; Not A Single Promoter Interviewed By Investigative Reporter Could Identify Narc Client

EDITOR’S NOTE: We encourage readers of the PP Blog to view these new reports on Fox 5 in Atlanta, which hit a stone wall when investigative reporter Dana Fowle tried to get answers from Narc That Car members and company management. One of the striking things about the reports below is that not a single…

Apr 30, 2010
INetGlobal Employees Ask Judge For Order That Blocks Secret Service From Interviewing Them; Claim Government Has ‘Superiority’ Mentality

The litigation against INetGlobal amid Ponzi scheme allegations is turning into a legal slugfest in multiple venues. On one side, federal prosecutors are seeking to disqualify INetGlobal attorney Mark Kallenbach, claiming that he is attempting to be both a lawyer and a witness in the same case. Now, employees of INetGlobal are seeking a protective…

Apr 30, 2010
EDITORIAL: Congratulations, Naysayers. Narc That Car Promoter ‘Jah’ Says You Deserve Additional Recognition As ‘Scammers’

Narc That Car promoter “Jah,” who previously declared that repping for the company was like working for the “Census Bureau” and that his downline group would cap earnings claims in check-waving videos on YouTube at three figures because “weâ€™re not going to be out here flashing, you know, five-figure checksâ€ now suggests at Scam.com (see…

Apr 30, 2010
PONZI NEWS/UPDATES: Fire Destroys ‘3 Hebrew Boys’ Ponzi Headquarters; Minnesota Man Gets Nearly 10 Years In Prison In Ponzi Case; California Man Gets 25

Sign of the apocalypse? The headquarters of the “3 Hebrew Boys” Ponzi scheme in Columbia, S.C., was gutted in a fire Monday and Tuesday. Firefighters spent 19 hours over two days battling the blaze, but the “building and all contents . . . were completely destroyed,” according to Beattie B. Ashmore. Ashmore is the court-appointed…

Apr 28, 2010
Steve Renner Fires, Gets Restraining Order Against Donald Allen; Says Former VP Harassed Him, Tried To Extort $100,000

Former INetGlobal CEO Steven Keough now has some company on the list of people alleged to have tried to extort money from the Steve Renner family of companies. Renner went to court yesterday in Minnesota to seek a restraining order prohibiting Donald Allen from harassing him. The order was granted after Renner asserted Allen tried…

Apr 28, 2010
No Stranger To Controversy, Donald Allen Says He Is Cooperating With Secret Service In INetGlobal Probe And Has ‘One Hell Of A Story’ To Tell

UPDATED 6:08 P.M. ET (U.S.A. JAN. 20, 2011.) EDITOR’S NOTE: The story below includes an assertion by Donald Allen that his IBNN.org website was knocked offline Sunday by a company with ties to INetGlobal. Moments before the story was set for publication, the IBNN website returned. The story does not reflect this later event, and…

Apr 27, 2010
BULLETIN: Donald Allen Says He Will Cooperate With Secret Service In INetGlobal Probe; VP Of Renner Entity Claims Former CEO Was Maligned By Company After Raid

BULLETIN: The vice president of marketing and public relations for V-Newswire — an entity in the Steve Renner family of companies — said he will cooperate “100 percent” with federal prosecutors in the INetGlobal Ponzi scheme investigation. Donald W.R. Allen II said this morning that he has met with the U.S. Secret Service twice in…

Apr 27, 2010
Is Trevor Cook Lying To Ponzi Investigators In $190 Million Case After Accepting Plea Deal? Investors Say Story Too Incredible To Believe

EDITOR’S NOTE: Some of the investors in the Trevor Cook/Pat Kiley Ponzi scheme in Minnesota say they believe Cook is lying to investigators about the whereabouts of assets and perhaps other elements of the probe. “We do not believe this much money could be totally lost in such a short period of time,” an investor…

Apr 26, 2010
UPDATE: Data Network Affiliates Gets More Bizarre By The Day; MLM Firm Now Says It Was Snookered In $10 ‘Unlimited’ Cell-Phone Deal

The PP Blog attempts to write serious stories about serious subjects. In recent weeks, we have reported very little on events at Data Network Affiliates (DNA). Perhaps the biggest reason we have published fewer updates on events at DNA was because things had gotten so strange that sharing news with readers almost seemed like a…

Apr 26, 2010
SPECIAL REPORT: SEC Says Detroit Pension Funds Looted By Outside Manager, Used-Car Dealer; Agency Alleges Elaborate Fraud Into Which Millions Dumped Into Firms That Financed High-Risk Loans In Metro Atlanta

EDITOR’S NOTE: The story below is about a compelling case in which nearly $16 million in public-pension funds from the Detroit area allegedly ended up in the control of an Atlanta-area, used-car dealership that operates in a business segment commonly known in the auto trade as “buy here, pay here.” Research shows that the dealership…

Apr 26, 2010
Alleged Cyber-Extortionist Indicted: Feds Say Anthony Digati Tried To Chill, Defame Business On Internet To Extract $200,000 In Bizarre Social-Networking Plot

Unhappy with an entity with which you have a dispute? Want to chill them to get your way by threatening to use keyword targeting and social networking? Want to start a wild spin campaign to misinform the public and slime people and entities you perceive to be your enemies? Want to suggest a person or…

Apr 22, 2010