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Zeek Fallout Almost Too Strange To Contemplate

For starters, Zeek affiliates being approached by upline sponsors and email/website appeals to send in money “to defend Zeek Rewards and all of our independent businesses as per our legal rights of due process” might want to read this July 25 PP Blog post. It’s about how wordplay was used to sanitize HYIP scams. For…

Aug 27, 2012
BULLETIN: AdSurfDaily Apologists Circulate Plan To ‘Flood’ Judge With Letters Of Support For Jailed Ponzi Schemer Andy Bowdoin; Forwarded Email Includes 2 Ads For Zeek Rewards’ ‘Program’ And Claims ASD Patriarch Was ‘Railroaded’

“Well we have been dealt a setback today…the judge here agreed with the government to transfer us to the District Court in Washington DC… The same judge who railroaded Andy. I will make a motion for her to recuse herself and if she will not (and she will not) I will take an appeal.” —…

Aug 14, 2012
NEW ‘SOVEREIGN’ THEORY? UCC Rejection + 2nd Amendment = License To Kill: New York Man Threatened To Kill Bank’s Fraud Examiner, Attorney, FBI Says

A purported “sovereign citizen” apparently unhappy that a bank wouldn’t fall for his “UCC” scamming bid to wipe out a $179,000 home-equity loan has been arrested by the FBI on charges he threatened to kill two bank employees: a loss-prevention specialist and an attorney. Michael Chung, 52, of the New York Borough of Queens, somehow…

Aug 8, 2012
Jailed AdSurfDaily Figure Kenneth Wayne Leaming Sues Obama, Holder; Purported ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Claims President Not A U.S. Citizen And Demands Compensation In ‘Silver’ And ‘Gold’ For Alleged Unlawful Imprisonment

EDITOR’S NOTE: Just when you thought AdSurfDaily-related events could not get any stranger . . . ** _____________________________ ** Jailed near Seattle and awaiting trial in September on charges he filed false liens against at least five public officials involved in the AdSurfDaily Ponzi case, purported “sovereign citizen” Kenneth Wayne Leaming has sued “Barrack Hussein…

Jul 25, 2012
BULLETIN: Missing Investment Adviser Named In SEC Civil Complaint Yesterday In Atlanta Has Been Charged Criminally In New York

BULLETIN: Aubrey Lee Price, the missing Georgia man sued by the SEC in an alleged $40 million investment-fraud caper that depleted “substantially all” of the reserves of a bank in Southern Georgia, has been charged criminally in New York with embezzling $17 million from the bank. The office of U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch of…

Jul 3, 2012
Raymond Bitar, Full Tilt Poker CEO, Arrested; Gambling Site Linked To THREE U.S. Banks That Failed, Feds Say; ‘The On-Line Casino Become An Internet Ponzi Scheme,’ Top FBI Official Says

Three vulnerable U.S. banks that processed illegal gambling payments for Full Tilt Poker in exchange for investments in the institutions later failed, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York said yesterday. The failures of Sunfirst Bank in St. George, Utah, and All American Bank and New City Bank — both of which were…

Jul 3, 2012
BULLETIN: SEC Says Missing Man Was Mastermind Of $40 Million Fraud In Georgia In Which ‘Substantially All’ Of A Bank’s Reserves Were Misappropriated And Lost In Trading; Persons With Info Asked To Call FBI Or Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office

BULLETIN: The SEC has gone to federal court in Atlanta, alleging that Aubrey Lee Price masterminded a $40 million investment fraud and that Price might have misappropriated millions of dollars from a “failing” bank in southern Georgia after a company he controlled bought a stake in the bank in 2010. The alleged misappropriation involved “substantially…

Jul 2, 2012
Purported ‘Secret’ Computer Program And ‘Proprietary Computer Algorithm’ Were Launching Ground For Forex Swindle, Feds Say; George Sepero Charged Amid Allegations He Also Defrauded Elderly Widow With Serious Medical Problems Out Of Her Life Savings In Separate Scam

UPDATED OCT. 19, 2013. George Sepero has been sentenced to 100 months in federal prison. Our earlier story is below and has been edited to correct spelling. The word “proprietary” has been used again to mask a large financial swindle, federal prosecutors said. George Sepero, 39, of Glen Rock, N.J., has been indicted on charges…

Jun 28, 2012
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: CFTC Chairman Issues Extraordinary Statement In Response To Congressional Proposal To Cut Agency Budget In Wake Of White-Collar Fraud Epidemic And Expanded Responsibilities

UPDATED 9:05 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) The white-collar fraud epidemic has become a political football — one that actually uses a football analogy. This is a statement from Gary Gensler, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission: “The result of the House bill is to effectively put the interests of Wall Street ahead of those…

Jun 6, 2012
EDITORIAL: ‘Our Mentor Has Had To Take A Break Due To Legal Reasons,’ OneX Pitchman Claims About ASD’s Andy Bowdoin

Back in 2008 — when the U.S. Secret Service raided Florida-based AdSurfDaily in a Ponzi probe and people who called ASD’s office were told God was on the company’s side — federal prosecutors alleged that ASD President Andy Bowdoin had “followers.” The meaning of “followers” largely was left to the imagination. Much of the mystery…

May 15, 2012
BULLETIN: SEC Suspends Trading In 379 Penny Stocks; Initiative Dubbed ‘Operation Shell-Expel’ Leads To Unprecedented Number Of Shutdowns

BULLETIN: In an unprecedented move, the SEC today announced that it had suspended trading in 379 penny stocks, saying the companies were delinquent in filings and ripe for hijacking and scams involving reverse mergers and pump-and-dump schemes. “The trading suspension marks the most companies ever suspended in a single day by the agency as it…

May 14, 2012