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PROSECUTION: INetGlobal Trying To Derail Probe By Hiring Attorney To Block Agents’ Access To ‘Potentially Adverse Witnesses’ Among Employee Ranks; Assertion That One Attorney Can Represent All Workers ‘Outlandish’

Federal prosecutors say they believe INetGlobal and its parent company — Inter-Mark Corp. — hired an attorney for employees to derail a criminal probe into the companies’ business practices by muting the voices of workers who could become witnesses in the case. Prosecutors made the dramatic claim in response to INetGlobal’s request last week for…

May 8, 2010
BULLETIN: Renner Case Takes West Coast Turn; Prosecutors Seek Forfeiture Of San Diego Property Allegedly Bought With Funds From INetGlobal Advertisers

BULLETIN: UPDATED 1:47 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Federal prosecutors and the U.S. Secret Service have filed paperwork that says INetGlobal’s parent company — Inter-Mark Corp. — acquired a property in San Diego last year and intended to remodel it with proceeds from a Ponzi scheme. Records suggest the purchase price of the property was $595,000 and…

May 7, 2010
BULLETIN: Steve Renner, Operator Of INetGlobal Autosurf, Sentenced To 18 Months In Federal Prison In Tax Case Tied To His Money-Services Business

UPDATED 6:57 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) The operator of the INetGlobal autosurf has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for income-tax evasion. Steve Renner also was ordered by U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank to cooperate with the IRS “in the assessment and payment of taxes still due,” federal prosecutors said. Renner was convicted in…

May 5, 2010
INetGlobal Employees Ask Judge For Order That Blocks Secret Service From Interviewing Them; Claim Government Has ‘Superiority’ Mentality

The litigation against INetGlobal amid Ponzi scheme allegations is turning into a legal slugfest in multiple venues. On one side, federal prosecutors are seeking to disqualify INetGlobal attorney Mark Kallenbach, claiming that he is attempting to be both a lawyer and a witness in the same case. Now, employees of INetGlobal are seeking a protective…

Apr 30, 2010
Steve Renner Fires, Gets Restraining Order Against Donald Allen; Says Former VP Harassed Him, Tried To Extort $100,000

Former INetGlobal CEO Steven Keough now has some company on the list of people alleged to have tried to extort money from the Steve Renner family of companies. Renner went to court yesterday in Minnesota to seek a restraining order prohibiting Donald Allen from harassing him. The order was granted after Renner asserted Allen tried…

Apr 28, 2010
No Stranger To Controversy, Donald Allen Says He Is Cooperating With Secret Service In INetGlobal Probe And Has ‘One Hell Of A Story’ To Tell

UPDATED 6:08 P.M. ET (U.S.A. JAN. 20, 2011.) EDITOR’S NOTE: The story below includes an assertion by Donald Allen that his IBNN.org website was knocked offline Sunday by a company with ties to INetGlobal. Moments before the story was set for publication, the IBNN website returned. The story does not reflect this later event, and…

Apr 27, 2010
BULLETIN: Donald Allen Says He Will Cooperate With Secret Service In INetGlobal Probe; VP Of Renner Entity Claims Former CEO Was Maligned By Company After Raid

BULLETIN: The vice president of marketing and public relations for V-Newswire — an entity in the Steve Renner family of companies — said he will cooperate “100 percent” with federal prosecutors in the INetGlobal Ponzi scheme investigation. Donald W.R. Allen II said this morning that he has met with the U.S. Secret Service twice in…

Apr 27, 2010
NEWS/UPDATES: Feds Say $900 Million Nevin Shapiro Ponzi ‘Perfect Example Of Greed Run Amok’; Colorado Charges Bela Geczy, Michael Kass With Racketeering In Fraud Case

The acts of Nevin Shapiro — a Florida man arrested in New Jersey yesterday on charges of orchestrating a $900 million Ponzi scheme — represent a “perfect example of greed run amok,” an FBI agent said. Separately, a grand jury in Colorado has charged two men under the state’s organized-crime statute with operating an $18…

Apr 22, 2010
Federal Judge Delays Ruling In INetGlobal Case, Saying Attorney May Be ‘Primary Fact Witness’; Sends Case Back To Magistrate Judge

UPDATED 8:29 A.M. EDT (APRIL 18, U.S.A.) Despite Internet and email claims yesterday and today by supporters of INetGlobal that the company had won a key battle with prosecutors, that the case was “over” and that news about the litigation engulfing the company “is better than anything we expected,” an order and memorandum by a…

Apr 17, 2010
INetGlobal Disputes Government Assertion That Attorney Should Be Disqualified From Case; Says Lawyer Not ‘Necessary Witness’

Attorney Mark Kallenbach should remain as counsel for INetGlobal because he is not a “necessary witness” as the prosecution claimed last week, an attorney for INetGlobal owner Steve Renner said today. Prosecutors moved last week to have Kallenbach disqualified, arguing that he was attempting to be both a lawyer and a witness in the Ponzi…

Apr 12, 2010
Another Fraud Case In Minnesota: Renee Marie Brown Accused By SEC Of Starting ‘Sham’ Investment Fund Known As ‘X’

UPDATED 7:52 A.M. EDT (April 13, U.S.A.) On the very day Tom Petters was sentenced in Minnesota to 50 years in prison for operating a colossal Ponzi scheme, a federal judge froze the assets of Renee Marie Brown after the SEC accused her of ripping off clients by persuading them to invest in a mysterious…

Apr 12, 2010