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2 California Members Tell Court Zeek Rewards Left Them ‘On The Verge Of Financial Devastation’

For Californians Walsh J. Young Jr. and May Causing, the Zeek Rewards MLM scheme left them “on the verge of financial devastation,” according to a new filing in the Zeek Ponzi scheme case. The self-written, self-submitted filing by Young and Causing appeared yesterday on the docket of Senior U.S. District Judge Graham C. Mullen of…

Oct 10, 2012
BULLETIN: AdSurfDaily Figure Kenneth Wayne Leaming Was Founder Of ‘Sovereign Group’s Armed Enforcement Wing’ And Had ‘Assault Rifle’ With Bayonet At Time Of Arrest, Prosecutors Say; Probe Was Part Of Deeper Investigation Into ‘Sovereign Citizens’ Operating Nationally Through Washington State

BULLETIN: The November 2011 arrest by the FBI of Kenneth Wayne Leaming was part of a deeper probe into the activities of a “national” group of “sovereign citizens” operating in the Pacific Northwest, new court filings by federal prosecutors in the Western District of Washington reveal. “Local jurisdictions alerted federal law enforcement that they had…

Oct 9, 2012
BULLETIN: Zeek Mystery Deepens: Receiver Says He Discovered ‘Foreign’ Account That Has NOT Been Seized; Meanwhile, $5 Million In Cashier’s Checks From Single U.S. Bank Found At Zeek Headquarters; Firm’s Records Described As ‘Inadequate Or Incomplete’; Secret Service Has Recovered Lion’s Share Of $293 Million Found So Far

BULLETIN: (5TH UPDATE 6:13 P.M. EDT) The court-appointed receiver in the Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme case says he discovered that Zeek has “at least one foreign account” that has not been seized. It was “not clear” whether the funds would be recoverable despite the fact the bank that holds the account has been served with…

Oct 9, 2012
BULLETIN: Judge Declines To Recuse Herself — And Denies Motion By ASD Figures Todd Disner And Dwight Owen Schweitzer To Reopen Lawsuit

BULLETIN: AdSurfDaily figures Todd Disner and Dwight Owen Schweitzer will not be permitted to reopen their lawsuit against the government and get a different judge to hear it. U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer of the District of Columbia this morning denied a motion by the ASD duo that she recuse herself from the case. At…

Oct 5, 2012
UPDATES: (1) Cyberstalker Resurfaces To Claim The Zeek ‘Defense Fund Is Snowballing’ And To Accuse PP Blog And Supporters Of Communism; (2) Blog Receives Separate Email That Plants Seed It Is A ‘Mercenary/Assassin For The SEC & NCAG’; (3) A Series Of Death Threats

A cyberstalker who has used more than a dozen usernames and bogus email addresses to send harassing communications to the PP Blog resurfaced today after an absence of days. The stalker appears to be sending unwanted communications from a series of IPs in the region of Columbus, Ohio. Today’s would-be posting bid was targeted at…

Oct 4, 2012
Government Opposes Bids By ASD Figures Todd Disner And Dwight Owen Schweitzer To Reopen Lawsuit And Boot Federal Judge From Case

AdSurfDaily figures Todd Disner and Dwight Owen Schweitzer should not be permitted to reopen their lawsuit against the government for alleged misdeeds in bringing the ASD Ponzi-scheme case in August 2008, government lawyers said in court filings today. Moreover, the bid by Disner and Schweitzer to force U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer of the District…

Oct 4, 2012
ASD UPDATES BLOG: Victims Of AdSurfDaily Ponzi Scheme Who Missed Filing Deadline For Remissions Should Get Paperwork In Order And Contact U.S. Attorney’s Office To Receive Claim Form

On Aug. 29, the PP Blog reported that U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer has authorized the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen remissions claims for victims of the AdSurfDaily Ponzi scheme who missed the January 2011 filing deadline. Earlier in August, prosecutors advised Collyer that “it is entirely possible” ASD’s database did not contain the…

Oct 4, 2012
BULLETIN: Disbarred Attorney And Alleged Serial Fraud Pitchman Charged With Fleecing ‘Elderly Women’; James S. Quay Has Used At Least 3 Aliases And Some Of The Money Was Spent On ‘Membership At A Massage Spa,’ SEC Charges

An Atlanta man has been charged by the SEC in an alleged scheme in which two elderly women were defrauded through an entity with the confidence-inspiring name of “Trinity Charitable Solutions.” The man’s name is James S. Quay — and the SEC described him as an unlicensed financial adviser, a serial pitchman for fraud schemes…

Oct 4, 2012
Was This Man Your Zeek Sponsor?

UPDATED 12:51 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) This man (photo left) has been identified by a PP Blog reader as Jack Phillips, a suspect in an alleged swindle involving investments in purported emeralds. Phillips, 77, is a resident of Oregon. He was charged criminally last week in Salt Lake County, Utah, in the alleged emeralds caper. Zeek…

Oct 2, 2012
‘Investor-Fraud Summits’ Set For 6 U.S. Cities: Stamford, Conn.; Nashville, Tenn.; San Francisco; Denver; Cleveland And Miami

What: Investor Fraud Summits. Where/When: Stamford, Conn. (today from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT at the University of Connecticut – Stamford Campus); Nashville, Tenn. (Oct. 4 from 8:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EDT at Vanderbilt University Law School’s Flynn Auditorium located at 131 21st Avenue South) ; San Francisco (Oct. 9, in Walnut Creek,…

Oct 1, 2012
Month After Zeek Ponzi Complaint By SEC, ASD Figures (And Zeek Pitchmen) Todd Disner And Dwight Owen Schweitzer Accuse Judge Who Dismissed Their ASD-Related Lawsuit Of ‘Sophistry’; Duo Tries To Reopen Case And Have Judge Removed

MLM pitchmen and AdSurfDaily figures Todd Disner and Dwight Owen Schweitzer — both of whom went on to become promoters of the alleged Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme — have accused a federal judge of “sophistry.” Sophistry, according to Dictionary.com, means “a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.” Disner turned to MLM…

Sep 28, 2012