Tag: Massachusetts Securities Division
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BULLETIN: Montana Halts TelexFree; State Says Firm Supplied Incomplete, Inaccurate Information And Continued To Operate After Claiming It Had Pulled Out
BULLETIN: The state of Montana has issued a Cease and Desist order to TelexFree, revealing it had been unsuccessfully seeking complete information from the MLM “program” for months and alleging that TelexFree continued to do business in the state after claiming it had pulled out. The April 23 order was issued by the office of…
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Zeek Ponzi-Scheme Figure T. LeMont Silver Now Spokesman For Florida ‘Expat’ Lifestyle In Dominican Republic
(UPDATED 9:33 A.M. EDT, APRIL 27 U.S.A.) T. LeMont Silver, a pitchman for the $850 million Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme and the OneX pyramid scheme, is now a spokesman for the “Florida Expat” lifestyle in the Dominican Republic, which recently has been rocked by what the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission describes as the collapse…
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BULLETIN: Massachusetts Securities Division Issues TelexFree Complaint Form; Commonwealth Secretary William Galvin Publishes Brochure On How To Steer Clear Of Pyramid Schemes
BULLETIN: (UPDATED 5:56 P.M. EDT U.S.A.) The Massachusetts Securities Division (MSD) has published a complaint form for TelexFree investors. Massachusetts Commonwealth Secretary William Galvin, who oversees MSD, also has published a brochure titled, “Illegal Pyramid Schemes Disguised as Multi-level Marketing Businesses (MLMs).” Galvin’s investigators alleged on April 15 that TelexFree was a combined Ponzi- and…
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BULLETIN: TelexFree’s Telecom License At Risk In Minnesota; Department Of Commerce Asks PUC To Deny Embattled MLM Firm Authority To Operate
BULLETIN: The Minnesota Department of Commerce has asked the state Public Utilities Commission to deny TelexFree’s authorization to provide long-distance service in the state. Minnesota regulators now are questioning whether TelexFree financial and background information submitted to the state to gain telecom authority was accurate. The PUC granted the authority on April 18, after the…
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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,…
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Alleged TelexFree MLM Ponzi Scheme May Have Polluted Money Flow To Vendors, Contractors AND The Government At Hundreds Of Thousands Of Contact Points
Virtually no one was safe from the TelexFree MLM financial menace, documents suggest. Not even the government. How far and deep did the alleged TelexFree fraud pollution flow? The answer remains unclear a week after Ponzi- and pyramid allegations were filed against the enterprise, but documents suggest pollution at hundreds of thousands of points of…
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TelexFree, Allegedly One Of The Largest Ponzi Schemes In History, Says State And Federal Actions Against It ‘Precipitous And Unnecessary’
Effectively having been accused of rivaling Scott Rothstein’s epic Ponzi scheme, TelexFree issued a statement this afternoon that calls the government actions against it “precipitous and unnecessary.” Rothstein’s Florida-based Ponzi scheme collapsed in 2009. It gathered about $1.2 billion before toppling, and is one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history. On Tuesday, Massachusetts…
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TelexFree ‘Top Story’ In Department Of Homeland Security’s Daily Infrastructure Report
TelexFree — specifically the Ponzi- and pyramid complaint filed against it Tuesday by Massachusetts Commonwealth Secretary William Galvin — was the top story yesterday in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s daily infrastructure report. DHS was formed after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Galvin alleged that TelexFree had gathered more than $1.2 billion…