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EDITORIAL: Another Dark Day For ‘Asteria Foundation’ And Related Entities As American Red Cross Issues Statement Suggesting It Was Duped: ‘We Have No Record Of Receiving A Donation From This Organization And Have Not Partnered With Them’ On Japan Earthquake Relief ‘Or Any Other Projects’

UPDATED 9:36 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) The American Red Cross is a national treasure whose powerful and noble name never should be diluted or trifled with. But it is now apparent that various Club Asteria-related entities have done exactly that by not revealing certain critical information to the Red Cross while at once shamelessly seeking to…

Nov 4, 2011
BULLETIN: Family Of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Threatened With Murder And Rape, Feds Say; Glendon Swift Of Lenoir City, Tenn., Arrested; FBI Says Cantor Was Called Vile Names And That Swift Threatened To ‘Destroy’ Him

BULLETIN: A Tennessee man has been arrested by FBI agents and police after making threats against Rep. Eric Cantor and his family, federal prosecutors said. Cantor, R-Va., is U.S. House Majority Leader. Charged with threatening to assault or murder a member of the immediate family of a U.S. official was Glendon Llewellyn Swift, 62, of…

Nov 3, 2011
SIDNEY AND CHARLOTTE HANSON FOREX PONZI: Federal Judge Orders Orders Tens Of Millions Of Dollars In Restitution, Penalties And Disgorgement

U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. of the Western District of North Carolina has ordered tens of millions of dollars in restitution, penalties and disgorgement in the civil Ponzi case against Sidney and Charlotte Hanson. The CFTC charged the North Carolina couple and their “Queen Shoals” companies in 2009, alleging a Forex Ponzi scheme…

Nov 3, 2011
EDITORIAL: Bogdan Fiedur Of AdLandPro’s Deplorable Bid To Chill RealScam.com In The Age Of International Mass-Marketing Fraud

A few weeks prior to the Aug. 1, 2008, seizure of tens of millions of dollars in the personal bank accounts of AdSurfDaily President Andy Bowdoin, Bowdoin apparently believed it prudent to plant the seed that the ASD autosurf had amassed a giant pot of cash and would use it to “hammer” critics. His willfully…

Nov 2, 2011
UNBELIEVABLE: In Alarming Fraud Allegations, Feds Say HUD-Insured Loans Issued Through Allied Home Mortgage Corp. Led To Huge Losses For U.S. Taxpayers — While Firm Used Tax Break And Virgin Islands ‘Quality-Control’ Employees Who ‘Did Not Know What HUD Was Or Even What A Mortgage Was’

BULLETIN: Federal prosecutors in New York have filed a civil complaint against Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corp., Allied Home Mortgage Corp. and two Allied executives that alleges the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was put on the hook for at least $834 million in losses because of fraud at Allied. Part of…

Nov 1, 2011
Alfred Gerebizza Arrested In $105 Million Ponzi Case; PP Blog Received Threatening Communication About Alleged Fraud Caper Last Year

UPDATED 5:25 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Alfred Gerebizza has been charged with mail fraud and tax crimes in a superseding indictment in the Daniel Spitzer Ponzi case, which alleged both domestic and offshore fraud. The SEC initially charged Spitzer civilly in June 2010, accusing him of “moving investor money through a complex network of foreign bank…

Nov 1, 2011
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: ALLEGED ‘PUPPETMASTERS’ EXPOSED: Feds Charge 5 Attorneys, 2 Mob Figures And CPA In Extortion Scheme That Led To ‘Illegal Takeover’ Of FirstPlus Financial Group Inc.; Scheme Featured ‘Fraudulent SEC Filings,’ U.S. Attorney Says

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Thirteen people have been arrested, including five attorneys, a CPA, two alleged mob associates and others in a spectacular case that alleges the mafia and its underlings illegally took over FirstPlus Financial Group Inc., a publicly held company in Texas. “[T]he defendants gave new meaning to ‘corporate takeover’ by looting a…

Nov 1, 2011
Arrest Warrant Issued For Jacob Franz Dyck; Purported Florida ‘Sovereign Citizen,’ 72, Wanted For ‘Committing Criminal Acts Through Simulated Use Of The Legal Process,’ Polk County Sheriff’s Office Says

Jacob Franz Dyck, a purported Florida “sovereign citizen,” is wanted on a felony arrest warrant for “Criminal Act Under Color Of Law Or Committing Criminal Acts Through Simulated Use Of The Legal Process,” the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said. Dyck, 72, has been the subject of considerable reporting by the St. Petersburg Times. See story…

Nov 1, 2011
BIZARRE ON TOP OF BIZARRE: Andrey C. Hicks, Boston-Area Man Charged Civilly By SEC Last Week In Alleged ‘Locust’ Hedge-Fund Scheme, Now Charged Criminally, Feds Say; Separately, TMZ.com Reports Hicks Was Guest At Kim Kardashasian/Kris Humphries August Wedding — And That Kardashian Filed For Divorce Today

Andrey C. Hicks, accused civilly by the SEC last week of orchestrating a domestic and offshore fraud, now has been charged criminally with wire fraud, federal prosecutors in Massachusetts said. Separately, TMZ.com is reporting that Hicks was a guest at the $10 million, August wedding of reality-TV star Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries, a professional…

Oct 31, 2011
MoneyMakerGroup Ponzi Forum ‘Temporarily’ Closes ‘JustBeenPaid’ Thread After Bickering Between Former Club Asteria Pitchman And Pitchman For ‘New’ Program Trading On JustBeenPaid’s Name

We’ve mentioned it before — and we’ll mention it again. In July 2010, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) described the HYIP sphere as a “bizarre substratum of the Internet.” It was as good a description as any, and here is yet another case in point: The MoneyMakerGroup Ponzi forum said today that it “temporarily”…

Oct 31, 2011
UPDATE: No Updates On Club Asteria Blog Since Oct. 15, No ‘News’ Site Updates Since Sept. 12; Firm Continues To Publish Red Cross Logo In House Organ And On Purported ‘Philanthropic’ Site Despite Cease-And-Desist Letter; 2008 Cash-Gifting Video With Hank Needham Emerges

Is anybody at home at Club Asteria and the purported Asteria Philanthropic Foundation? And where, precisely, is home? The Club Asteria Blog on a .US domain has not been updated since Oct. 15. In the recent past, the Blog had been updated approximately every three (or so) days, according to the date notations on the…

Oct 31, 2011