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URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Interim TelexFree Chief Tells Bankruptcy Judge That He Has Fired Carlos Wanzeler And Caused James Merrill And Joe Craft To Resign

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Carlos Wanzeler refused to resign from TelexFree-related entities and has been fired by interim CEO Stuart A. MacMillan, according to new filings in the TelexFree bankruptcy case. MacMillan also caused the resignations of former TelexFree President James Merrill and interim CFO Joe H. Craft, according to the filings. MacMillan now…

Apr 30, 2014
WANTING MORE: From Zeek To TelexFree

(UPDATED 10:13 A.M. EDT APRIL 30 U.S.A.) Back in October 2012, two California members of the collapsed Zeek Rewards MLM “program” filed a self-written pleading with the federal judge presiding over the Zeek Ponzi- and pyramid case in North Carolina. Just two months earlier — in August 2012 — the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission…

Apr 29, 2014
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: SEC Enters TelexFree Nevada Bankruptcy Fray — Plus Confirmation That U.S. Attorney’s Office Part Of Probe

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: (Updated 6:24 P.M. EDT U.S.A.) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has entered the TelexFree fray in Nevada Bankruptcy Court and has petitioned the judge to transfer the case to Bankruptcy Court in the Central District of Massachusetts, an area that is a potential TelexFree stronghold. The Central District covers…

Apr 23, 2014
BULLETIN: U.S. Trustee Says ‘Compelling Evidence Of Fraud’ And ‘Reasonable Grounds’ To Believe ‘Criminal Conduct’ Occurred On Road To TelexFree Bankruptcy Filing

BULLETIN: (11th Update 2:35 p.m. EDT U.S.A.) The United States’ trustee who serves the region (Nevada) in which TelexFree’s bankruptcy case was filed on April 13 has alleged there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that “criminal conduct” occurred at TelexFree. Trustee Tracy Hope Davis, who works for a division of the U.S. Department of Justice,…

Apr 23, 2014
BULLETIN: Nevada Attorney General To Intervene In TelexFree Licensing Matters Before The State Public Utilities Commission

BULLETIN: (Updated 8:56 p.m. EDT U.S.A.) The Consumer Protection Bureau of Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto says in regulatory filings that it intends to intervene in TelexFree-related licensing matters before the Nevada Public Utilities Commission. TelexFree, accused of conducting a Ponzi scheme that gathered $1.2 billion, has Nevada telecom applications pending for TelexFree LLC…

Apr 21, 2014
Now, Zeek- And AdSurfDaily-Like Petitions For TelexFree; Bankruptcy Judge Asked To ‘Bail Out’ MLM ‘Program’

On Monday, the PP Blog reported that TelexFree — through its bankruptcy filing Sunday in Nevada — was seeking to reject contracts with its promoters. Yesterday, Jordan Maglich of PonziTracker.com published a lengthy article under this headline: “TelexFree Asks Bankruptcy Court To Eliminate Promoter Obligations.” In between, the Massachusetts Securities Division described TelexFree as a…

Apr 19, 2014
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: SEC Charges TelexFree, Executives And Key Promoters — Including Sann Rodrigues And Faith Sloan

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: (19th Update 5:45 p.m. ET U.S.A.) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against the alleged TelexFree pyramid scheme and a federal judge has granted an asset freeze. TelexFree was a sham to mask an investment scheme known as “AdCentral” in which affiliates were told they could…

Apr 17, 2014
ZEEK-BEATER: TelexFree LLC Filings In Alabama Say Firm Posted ‘Total Income’ Of Nearly $700 Million In 2013; Thursday Hearing On Telecom Application In State Delayed At Company’s Request; Firm May Be Filing Cookie-Cutter Applications With Regulators

UPDATED 4:50 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) The TelexFree LLC branch of the TelexFree enterprise posted more than $691 million in “total income” last year, according to a filing with the Alabama Public Service Commission. (The PP Blog retrieved the filing today and saved it as TelexFreeAlabamaApplication.pdf. See link below.) TelexFree asked that the document be “FILED…

Apr 8, 2014
EDITORIAL: Uproar In TelexFree’s Billion-Dollar Broom Closet

UPDATED 12:15 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) The Boston Red Sox were at the White House Tuesday to receive recognition for winning the 2013 World Series. There were plenty of smiling faces, perhaps particularly when slugger David Ortiz, the MVP of the series, posed for a selfie with President Obama. But back home in Massachusetts, particularly in…

Apr 3, 2014
TelexFree, WCM777 (Etc.) — In Pictures

California-based WCM777, an MLM “program,” got booted out of Massachusetts in November 2013, amid allegations of securities fraud and affinity fraud targeted at the Brazilian community through hotel pitchfests. WCM777, purportedly operated by Ming Xu and recruiting affiliates to conduct business over the Internet, later got booted out of California. In addition to the Brazilian…

Mar 22, 2014
In Face Of International Probes And Legal/PR Disaster In Africa, TelexFree Launches PR Campaign That Only Raises More Questions

UPDATED 9:24 A.M. EDT (MARCH 22 U.S.A.) TelexFree, alleged to be a pyramid scheme using a VOIP product as a front to mask an investment program, has been under investigation in Brazil since at least June 2013. There’s also an ongoing securities probe in Massachusetts. The government of Rwanda, meanwhile, has announced it booted a…

Mar 21, 2014