UPDATED 2:59 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) Both sites discussed in story below are back up. . . .
Two websites associated with AdSurfDaily mainstay Bob Guenther are offline. The sites — asdmba.com and jaffapartners.com — both are returning this message:
“OOPS. This site is currently unavailable.” The message includes a prompt for ASDMBA and JaffaPartners to contact the hosting company.
Why the sites are offline is unclear. Both sites were operational yesterday. The registrations for both domains is current, with the ASDMBA site not set to expire until October 2010 and the JaffaPartners site good until December 2011.
Guenther was among more than 30 defendants sued earlier this month by shareholders of Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment (CME), a company that makes computer games.
The defendants are accused in Maricopa County Court in Arizona of RICO violations for “participating in a scheme or artifice to defraudâ€; conversion of assets and refusing to return the assets with an “evil mindâ€; unjust enrichment for “failing to pay†or provide consideration for assets; and fraudulent transfer/conveyance.”
Guenther is on probation in Maricopa County, after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of harassment last year in a case that involved his conduct toward CME. He initially was charged with two felonies in the case. Records in the Arizona case point out that Guenther has a previous felony conviction.
He pleaded guilty in the 1990s to a felony count of bank fraud, according to federal records.
ASDMBA solicited contributions from members, saying the organization wanted to protect members’ interests in the AdSurfDaily Ponzi scheme litigation. Some ASDMBA members said they would not have given money to ASDMBA had they known of Guenther’s felony record. Others complained that Guenther did not provide an adequate accounting of how the money ASDMBA collected was spent.
Members said ASDMBA collected tens of thousands of dollars.