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UPDATED 4:57 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Ten more pro se motions to intervene in the federal forfeiture case against AdSurfDaily Inc. have just appeared on the docket of U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer. With the motions docketed yesterday, the grand total filed in the past two days now stands at 12. Previously 10 motions were filed, […]

Five more motions to intervene have been filed by pro se litigants in the AdSurfDaily federal forfeiture case. This morning’s filings came on the heels of five other pro se pleadings that appeared Tuesday on the docket of U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer. Like the previous motions, today’s filings appear to have used a litigation […]

On Feb. 27, ASD President Andy Bowdoin — acting as his own attorney — filed a motion to rescind a decision he made in January to submit to the forfeiture of tens of millions of dollars and real estate seized by the government in a wire fraud, money-laundering and Ponzi scheme investigation. Federal prosecutors, on […]

Never mind that AdSurfDaily President Andy Bowdoin himself says ASD was operating illegally when the U.S. Secret Service seized tens of millions of dollars last summer amid allegations of wire fraud, money-laundering, engaging in the sale of unregistered securities and operating a Ponzi scheme. And never mind that Bowdoin — who initially insisted ASD was […]

UPDATED 1:45 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Language federal prosecutors used in a December forfeiture complaint against assets tied to AdSurfDaily might help explain the emergence of AdViewGlobal (AVG), a surf firm with common management and close ties to ASD. Meanwhile, court filings by ASD President Andy Bowdoin continue to electrify some ASD members, but Bowdoin’s once-considerable […]

UPDATED 8:33 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) A federal judge said one of ASD President Andy Bowdoin’s pro se pleadings to reverse his earlier decision to submit to the forfeiture of proceeds seized by the government in a Ponzi scheme case cited no law. Bowdoin’s pleading appeared to presume that the filing alone achieved the goal of […]

UPDATED 11:05 A.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Acting as his own attorney, AdSurfDaily Inc. President Andy Bowdoin has filed a motion to rescind a decision he made in January to submit to the forfeiture of real estate and tens of millions of dollars seized by the government in August. As first reported in this Blog last month, […]

When Curtis Richmond began filing pleadings in the ASD case, the Surf’s Up forum hailed him a hero. Prosecutors see things a different way. A federal judge should not permit Richmond and three others to intervene in the AdSurfDaily forfeiture case because the pleadings “will cause either manifest injustice, unconscionable delay, or both,” federal prosecutors […]

UPDATED 11:41 A.M. EDT (March 12, U.S.A.) AdSurfDaily President Andy Bowdoin, acting as his own attorney, acknowledged in court filings yesterday that the company had been operating illegally when the government seized tens of millions of dollars last summer. The concession was nuclear. It undermines the work of his previous paid attorneys and puts Bowdoin […]