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Bizarre Events Unfold At Florida Bankruptcy Proceeding For RoboVault; Purported ‘Sovereign’ Claims To Derive Authority From ‘The Pope’
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story in the Sun Sentinel was recommended by a reader. Indeed, Florida is serving up another strange one. To set the stage, RoboVault is a secure storage facility in Fort Lauderdale that allegedly is wasting away because its former owner, Marvin Chaney, somehow came to believe the facility is storing “sovereign bonds”…
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UPDATE: Hearing For Gary Calhoun, MPB Today Operator, Reset For Feb. 4
UPDATE: A hearing for Gary Calhoun set for yesterday in Florida’s Escambia County Circuit Court on a state-level racketeering charge has been rescheduled for Feb. 4, according to the docket of the case. Calhoun, 56, of Pensacola, was arrested last month on the racketeering charge. He is the operator of the MPB Today MLM “program”…
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Man From Colorado Town Of Fairplay Ran ‘Gold Coin’ Fraud Scheme, Prosecutors Say
James P. Burg, formerly of Fairplay, Colo., ripped off his customers for gold coins and, in at least one instance, “used one customer’s payment for coins to refund funds to another customer,” federal prosecutors said. The scam fetched more than $2.4 million and operated through three websites, prosecutors said. Burg, 61, became the subject of…
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FBI Offers Up To $10,000 Reward For Info Leading To Capture Of Accused Ponzi Schemer And International Fugitive Peter Heckman
A German national who allegedly conducted a Ponzi scheme in Hawaii and then fled to Indonesia is the subject of an FBI manhunt. Peter Heckman, 63, ran a Ponzi scheme in which he promised investors “guaranteed returns of 10 to 15 percent for terms as short as two weeks,” the FBI said. The scam allegedly…
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[NOTE TO READERS]: Stories About Accused Utah Fraudster Jeremy Johnson Now Back Online
On March 23, 2012, the PP Blog temporarily removed from public view three stories pertaining to accused Utah fraudster Jeremy Johnson. The explanation of why the stories were taken offline temporarily is here. On March 23, 2012, the PP Blog’s security software recorded a “mass injection attack” as the Blog visited a domain styled CollotGuerard.com…
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URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: New Filings By SEC Suggest Zeek Probe Began In April 2012 Or Earlier; Agency, Receiver Oppose Motions To Intervene By Possible Clawback Targets
UPDATED 9:46 A.M. ET (JAN. 13, U.S.A.) New court filings by the SEC in the Zeek Ponzi scheme case in the Western District of North Carolina strongly suggest that the Zeek probe was under way at least by April 17, 2012. On that date, according to the filings, an IT specialist for the SEC was…
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UPDATE: Craddock To Zeek Troops: Receiver Is Still Evil — And BOLO For Commies And Nazis
UPDATED 7:03 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) Zeek Rewards figure Robert Craddock told his conference-call audience last night that the court-appointed receiver in the Zeek case was still evil. For good measure, Craddock pointed listeners to a video that planted the seed there is a Communist or budding Hitler behind every tree. (These evildoers, if our take…