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Are ASD Members Waging Ongoing Misinformation Campaign To Suppress Victims’ Count And Obstruct Justice? Note Instructs Members NOT To File For Restitution

The now-defunct Surf’s Up forum was AdSurfDaily’s officially endorsed news venue. It became so on Nov. 27, 2008, a little more than a week after a key court ruling went against ASD, a Florida company implicated by the U.S. Secret Service in an alleged $100 million Ponzi scheme. Surf’s Up routinely deleted posts that challenged…

Nov 9, 2010
Justice Department Using Undercover Agents To Battle White-Collar Criminals; Top Official Says Investigative Tactics Normally Used To Prosecute Organized Crime Figures Useful In Battling Fraud Epidemic

EDITOR’S NOTE: The remarks below are excerpted from a speech last week in New York by Assistant U.S. Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer. As the PP Blog has previously reported, the Justice Department and agencies such as the FBI and U.S. Secret Service have been using undercover operatives to infiltrate criminal operations and networks used…

Nov 9, 2010
Feds Charge Robert Stinson Criminally On Heels Of SEC Lawsuit; Prosecutors Say ‘Life’s Good’ Operator Stole More Than $17 Million In Ponzi Scheme, Wired Money Even As FBI Was Conducting Raid

Even as the FBI was executing search warrants in the case of Life’s Good Inc. operator Robert Stinson Jr., Stinson was “wiring stolen funds out of Life’s Good bank accounts to other accounts,” federal prosecutors said. That act alone led to criminal charges of obstruction of justice. In a 26-count indictment in an alleged Ponzi…

Nov 9, 2010
NOTE TO READERS: PP Blog Back Again; Criminals Try To Make Mincemeat Out Of 1st Amendment; CEO Of Small Company In North Carolina Stands Up For Press Freedom

UPDATED 1:42 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) The PP Blog has returned. A major series of assaults on the Blog — and press freedom under the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — have been turned back. Five federal agencies are aware of the attacks. Evidence has been preserved. The Blog has established a satellite presence and…

Nov 8, 2010
KABOOM! Federal Judge Was Right When He Ordered Marketers To Pay $48.2 Million In False-Advertising Case Brought By FTC, Appeals Panel Rules; ‘Complete Absence Of Support’ For Most Claims Made About Supreme Greens And Coral Calcium Dietary Supplements

UPDATED 11:44 A.M. EDT (U.S.A.) So, you want to tell customers that your products cure diseases ranging from cancer to Parkinson’s and multiple sclerosis? And when critics and investigators and lawyers begin to ask tough questions, you want to deflect? And when a federal judge orders you to pay $48.2 million for making deceptive claims,…

Oct 30, 2010
Fugitives Charged In Michigan Ponzi Scheme Captured By U.S. Marshals, Police In Tennessee; Rita Gosselin And Husband Had Been On The Lam Since April

In December 2009, Rita Gosselin was indicted for racketeering in Michigan. Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said she was at the helm of a real-estate Ponzi scheme involving promissory notes. In April 2010, Gosselin, 58, was alleged to have cut a monitoring device and fled the the state with her husband, Richard Gosselin, 62. The…

Oct 30, 2010
BULLETIN: FBI Seeks Arrest Of Perry and Rachelle Griggs; Agency Alleges Husband-And-Wife Team Ran Ponzi Scheme While Husband Was Federal Prisoner In Nevada; Manhunt Under Way

BULLETIN: UPDATED WITH INFORMATION FROM THE CFTC AT 7:03 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Perry and Rachelle Griggs are on the lam after running a Ponzi scheme while Perry Griggs was a federal prisoner in Nevada, the FBI said. The alleged commodities scheme consumed about $3 million and was targeted principally at inmates and family members of…

Oct 29, 2010
FTC Shows Federal Judge Screen Shots Of Online Promos; Agency Sues Purported ‘Wellness’ Firm For Deceptive Trade Practices, False Advertising

An evidence exhibit filed by the FTC in federal court in San Francisco shows screen shots of claims made online by Wellness Support Network Inc. The agency now has sued the California company, alleging deceptive trade practices and false advertising in the marketing ofÂ products purported to treat and prevent diabetes. Included in the 25-page…

Oct 29, 2010
NOTE TO ASD VICTIMS: Rust Consulting Inc. Is The ONLY Authorized Claims Administrator; Don’t Be Confused By Claims Another Company Can Expedite Refunds

In early September, federal prosecutors informed U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer that an official website had been established to inform victims of the alleged AdSurfDaily Ponzi scheme about the remissions and restitution process. The government’s filing, which lists the URL of the website — http://www.adsurfdailyremission.com/ — is a public record. It has been on Collyer’s…

Oct 29, 2010
EDITORIAL: Script For MPB Today Promo Used The Word ‘Monkeys’ In Context Of Obama Presidency; Research Suggests At Least Two Versions Of Script Existed; One Painted Obamas As Welfare Recipients Aspiring To Eat Dog Food And Table Scraps Left By Family Pet

EDITOR’S NOTE: The PP Blog previously wrote about a promo by an MPB Today affiliate that sought to recruit prospects by depicting President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as Nazis. The PP Blog is reporting today that at least two versions of the affiliate’s anti-Obama script appear to have existed, including one that…

Oct 28, 2010
PP Blog Returns After 4-Day Outage Caused By DDoS Attack; Site Flooded Saturday By Millions Of Hits

Dear Readers, The PP Blog was brought down Saturday by a DDoS attack that flooded its servers with more than 6.1 million “hits” during a three-hour window. The Blog was shut down for security reasons, and federal law-enforcement agencies have been made aware of the attack. We were made aware of the nature of the…

Oct 27, 2010