Category: Writing And Branding
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Sentencing Hearing Postponed For Zeek Rewards’ Executive Dawn-Wright Olivares
Sentencing for Dawn Wright-Olivares, a former Zeek Rewards’ executive who pleaded guilty in February 2014 to investment-fraud conspiracy and tax-fraud conspiracy, has been postponed, the office of U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina said today. Wright-Olivares, whose age was listed as 45 by federal prosecutors at the time of her guilty plea,…
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Jeunesse MLM Rep Pulls A Piccolo
Truth In Advertising (TINA.org) reported yesterday that a website styled JeunesseReserve at a WordPress site had positioned the MLM juice offering Jeunesse Reserve as a product that will reverse the course of gangrene in patients with diabetes who are facing amputations. According to the product claim, a woman with diabetes had developed gangrene of the finger and no longer could…
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UPDATE: Feds Intervened After Payza Sued Obopay
As the PP Blog reported Oct. 19, federal prosecutors have opened a criminal probe involving Obopay and Payza and successfully asked a federal judge to pause civil litigation involving both payment-processing companies. The Blog is reporting today that federal prosecutors in the Northern District of California and the District of Columbia specifically intervened in a lawsuit…
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URGENT >> BULLETIN >>MOVING: Criminal Investigation Involving Obopay And Payza, A Ponzi-Forum Darling
URGENT >> BULLETIN >>MOVING: (Updated 3:03 p.m. EDT U.S.A.) The United States has opened a criminal investigation involving Obopay and Payza, a Ponzi-forum darling. Details of the probe are unclear. But the office of U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips of the District of Columbia confirms on its website that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security through Homeland…
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SHADES OF ZEEK: Prospective Class-Action Defendant Tells Judge TelexFree Was Operating A Tax Scam
In October 2014, federal prosecutors alleged that the Zeek Rewards MLM “program” shut down by the SEC two years earlier was in part a scam that caused “victim-investors to file inaccurate tax returns for phantom income they never actually received.” Now, a year later, a member of the TelexFree MLM scheme shut down by the…
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IN MEMORY: Jerry S. Parr, USSS (Ret.), 1930-2015
On Jan. 20, 1981, Ronald Reagan became President of the United States — America’s 40th. He almost died in an assassination attempt outside the Washington Hilton Hotel a little more than two months later, on March 30. It was the 69th day of his Presidency. Today America is remembering the life of Jerry S. Parr,…
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Banks Should Have Googled Daniel Fernandes Rojo Filho, Attorney Tells Bloomberg Business
The lede in a story this morning by Neil Weinberg of Bloomberg Business: “The U.S. requires banks to know their customers. Looks like several big ones, including Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co., may have missed getting acquainted with Daniel Fernandes Rojo Filho.” Here’s a link to the story, titled…
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REPORT: Vemma Europe Ltd. In ‘Provisional Liquidation’
3RD UPDATE 4:11 P.M. EDT U.S.A. There is a Twitter report in Spanish dated today that Vemma Europe Limited has been put in “provisional liquidation” and that the High Court of Ireland has appointed a provisional liquidator to verify claims. The PP Blog has observed a message on a Vemma.es domain that identifies the provisional liquidator as…