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EDITORIAL: Herbalife And Polarization In The Latino Community
The PP Blog’s take on Bill Ackman’s take on Herbalife is that the Los Angeles-based MLM firm dupes prospects into believing they’re boarding the bus to Disneyland, but it’s really the bus to Jurassic Park. Latinos, African Americans and other vulnerable populations pile on bus after bus and become financial protein for the pyramid scheme…
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SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST: American Among 5 Detained In Hong Kong Pyramid-Scheme Investigation; Unidentified Firm Said To Promote ‘Cloud-Based’ Internet Apps And To Have Gathered Nearly $100 Million
FLASH: The South China Morning Post is reporting that an American and four others have been detained in a pyramid-scheme investigation involving HK$750 million (about U.S. $96.7 million). The publication did not identify the detainees. Nor did it identify the company, which is said to promote “cloud-based internet productivity and communications applications” and to be…
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‘Minister Of The Gospel’ Accused Of Offering Undercover Agent Discount To Join ‘Secret’ HYIP Program Found Guilty Of Wire Fraud And Conspiracy
EDITOR’S NOTE: It doesn’t come any crazier than HYIP prime-bank schemes. This is another example . . . UPDATED 7:47 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) Moses Onciu, a self-styled “Minister of the Gospel” and director of David and Goliath International Ministries Inc. of Fountain Hills, Ariz., has been found guilty in federal court in California of HYIP-related…
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‘Sovereign Citizen,’ 66, Used ‘Bogus Checks’ To Pay For 2 Dodge Trucks, Chiropractic Services And Logging Equipment
In the latest bizarre case involving a purported “sovereign citizen,” Charlie McCants Jr., 66, of Mayesville, S.C., has been convicted on seven counts of attempting to pass bogus government checks to pay for items such as Dodge trucks, chiropractic services and logging equipment, federal prosecutors said. “Evidence presented at the trial showed McCants used bogus…
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EDITORIAL: Alleged LAX Gunman And Conspiracy Theorist Paul Anthony Ciancia Becomes Author Of One Of History’s Unwanted Footnotes
UPDATED 11:04 A.M. ET (NOV. 4, U.S.A.) Gerardo I. Hernandez, a 39-year-old Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer described as a loving husband and father and dutiful employee, gave his life for his country Friday. In an awful and unwanted footnote, he became the first TSA officer killed in the line of duty. Officer Hernandez thus…
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Halloween Day Guilty Plea For Liberty Reserve Figure Vladimir Kats
Before Liberty Reserve and its alleged co-conspirators were indicted in May, the company was involved in several horror-filled propositions. These included laundering $6 billion as part of schemes involving “credit card fraud, identity theft, investment fraud, computer hacking, child pornography, and narcotics trafficking,” federal prosecutors said. Now, Liberty Reserve figure Vladimir Kats, also known as…
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BULLETIN: ‘First Clawback Claims Are Now Imminent,’ Zeek Receiver Says
BULLETIN: The court-appointed receiver in the Zeek Rewards MLM Ponzi scheme case says in new court filings that clawback claims against alleged net winners “are now imminent, and a lawsuit against multiple named defendants along with a class of net winners will be filed during the fourth quarter of 2013.” Zeek winners received an estimated…
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Churches May Be At Risk From WCM777 ‘Program’; Congregants In Rialto, Calif., May Have Been Swept Into Bizarre Cross-Border Scheme; YouTube Pitchman Says Venture Will ‘Go Into Selling Shares, Pre-IPOs’; Craigslist Flags Ad In Atlanta; Siemens AG Says ‘No Form Of Cooperation Exists’ Between Itself ‘And The World Capital Market Company’
Siemens AG, the German engineering and electronics conglomerate, has taken the unusual step of issuing an “official statement” on its public website that “no form of cooperation exists between Siemens and the World Capital Market company and its affiliated businesses.” The statement appeared yesterday and was announced on Twitter, after the multibillion-dollar firm had received…
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