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  • Guenther Was Charged With Financial Fraud In 1990s

    The de facto head of the ASD Members Business Association (ASDMBA) Trust was charged by federal prosecutors with 11 counts of bank fraud in July 1994, according to records.

    Bob Guenther pleaded guilty to a single count in December 1994. In a plea agreement, prosecutors dropped 10 counts.

    ASDMBA members said Guenther has refused to provide details on how the association had spent money it began collecting last summer to ensure contributors’ legal interests were covered in the AdSurfDaily Ponzi scheme case.

    After a year-long series of delays in the 1994 Texas bank-fraud case, Guenther was sentenced to three years’ probation, in December 1995. He was ordered to pay $76,134 in restitution, which U.S. District Judge Paul Brown labeled “due immediately.”

    In July 1998, his probation was modified, enabling Guenther to pay restitution in installments of $3,000 monthly. Why restitution remained unpaid more than two years after sentencing is unclear. Brown extended Guenther’s probation by one year to ensure payment.

    Guenther made good on the restitution and was discharged from probation in April 1999.

    Guenther was charged in Maricopa County, Arizona, with two felony counts of aggravated harrassment March 13. Police alleged he violated a court order that prohibited him from making harassing contact with Cheyenne Mountain and Affiliates, an Arizona company.

    ASDMBA members said Guenther routinely used threats and menacing talk when the subject of his management of the association’s business affairs was brought up.

    One of Guenther’s lawyers in the bank-fraud case was Michael McColloch. McColloch’s name was referenced in an an Oct. 27, 2008, document prepared by Dallas attorney Larry Friedman.

    The document advised Guenther on how to behave when he interacted with a federal prosecutor in the ASD case, and warned him to quit threatening ASDMBA members.

  • BREAKING NEWS: Bob Guenther Charged With Two Felony Counts Of Aggravated Harassment In Arizona

    UPDATED 2:12 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Bob Guenther, a mainstay in the AdSurfDaily case and the de facto head of the ASD Members Business Association (ASDMBA) Trust, has been charged with two felony counts of aggravated harassment in Maricopa County, Arizona.

    Mesa, Arizona, police said Guenther repeatedly violated a court injunction for workplace harassment that prohibited him from nuisancing Cheyenne Mountain and Affiliates, an Arizona business.

    Despite the injunction, Guenther continued to contact Cheyenne Mountain in a manner that “harassed or threatened” the company, police said.

    Guenther violated the court order both by email and telephone, police said. An infraction that occurred via telephone was recorded and placed into evidence.

    “[Guenther] is being charged with aggravated harassment because of the multiple violations of the injunction,” police said. The investigator handling the case said in court documents that up to five separate violations of the order occurred and that Guenther “continues to violate this injunction.”

    The case is being prosecuted by the office of Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas. Charges were filed March 13. Guenther is scheduled to make a court appearance April 14.

    Read the criminal complaint for aggravated harassment against Guenther.

    Guenther is the de facto head of ASDMBA, a group funded by members with the expectation that their legal interests would be protected in the AdSurfDaily Ponzi scheme case. Federal prosecutors seized tens of millions of dollars from ASD in August, saying the company was selling unregistered securities and engaging in wire fraud and money-laundering.

    ASDMBA members said Guenther has refused to provide transparent accounting for ASDMBA, instead engaging in profanity, threats and menacing behavior. In recent days, Guenther has claimed that someone was impersonating him on the ASD-Biz forum, a discussion site for ASD and ASDMBA members and people interested in the case.

    Guenther deleted his account at the forum, an act that also deleted his posts. He then established an account under a different user name. Within hours threats and hostile language appeared under his new forum identity.

    Here is a post claimed by Guenther that appeared yesterday at the ASD-Biz Forum (italics added):

    Ill tell you how you move on, you can kiss your ASD money goodbye…

    None of you 10-12 idiots deserve a fricking thing but a butt kicking, certainly not my time

    Arons, Ill see your dumbass in court. You are a piece of work rookie, and when I finish with you, there wont be a place you can hide, and that’s after Friedman..

    This is Bob Guenther, my assistant, Maria will not waste her time again in this pissy room full of wanna-be’s, weak sucks, and overweight nagging women..

    You dont like what I say, do something about it besides talk.. Bunch of weaks sisters.

    The “Arons” to whom Guenther referred was Jack Arons, a Florida man named a defendant in a slander and libel lawsuit filed earlier this month by Dallas-based attorney Larry Friedman.

    Friedman is the attorney for the Trust and was was introduced to ASDMBA members by Guenther. Some ASDMBA members said they had turned to the Texas Bar and the office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to investigate the Trust.