URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: (1st Update 8:13 p.m. EDT U.S.A.) A Brazilian attorney living in Massachusetts and studying law in the United States is among the co-plaintiffs listed in a racketeering and fraud lawsuit filed yesterday against TelexFree, its officers and executives and accountant, MLM attorney Gerald Nehra and various financial vendors.
The case is filed as an adversary action in the TelexFree bankruptcy case in Massachusetts.
Rafaela G.P. Serrano, the attorney and co-plaintiff, also is the trustee of the “TelexFree Settlement Trust,” according to the lawsuit. She alleges TelexFree was a massive international Ponzi- and pyramid scheme. The complaint lists her as “the former president of the Brazilian Immigrant Center, in Boston, Massachusetts, which is the largest Brazilian workers and immigrants’ rights nonprofit organization serving immigrants in the U.S.”
She is currently enrolled at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.
Serrano’s entry into the TelexFree bankruptcy fray appears to be the first by a Brazilian legal scholar on U.S. domestic soil.
From the complaint (italics added):
Ms. Serrano has been playing a leadership role within the immigrant community in Massachusetts and other states in the U.S. participating in training workers about their rights, safety, and leadership skills; lobbying and participate in law making/changing in Massachusetts; outreaching community members through radio shows and visits to churches.
Her co-plaintiff is Paulo Eduardo Ferrari, a TelexFree member who says he was swindled.
TelexFree and various vendors have been named in multiple prospective class-action lawsuits that allege racketeering and fraud.
Read the Aug. 20 complaint.