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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
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
INetGlobal Accuses Former CEO Of Extortion Bid; Says Company Is Solvent; Accuses Government Of Leaking Search Warrant Affidavit To Press

Denying it was a Ponzi scheme, INetGlobal says a federal judge should release about $25 million, business records and computer equipment seized in an investigation by the U.S. Secret Service last month because the property was “unlawfully seized.” Meanwhile, INetGlobal has accused its former chief executive officer — whom it describes as a “informant” who…

Mar 26, 2010
SECRET SERVICE: INetGlobal Forced Members To Keep Money In The Company With ‘Automatic Repurchasing’ Scheme; Undercover Agent Sent Email To Support, Which Verified Repurchase Was Mandatory

UPDATED 11:07 A.M. ET (U.S.A.) One of the undercover Secret Service agents who joined INetGlobal discovered that the company had implemented an “automatic repurchasing” program by default and that the program could not be switched off, thus distancing participants — many of whom may not have understood English — from their money. Although it is…

Feb 26, 2010
AdSurfDaily Cited In INetGlobal/Steve Renner Search Warrant Application; Former Company CEO Helped Agents Prior To Raid; Undercover Agent Joined Surf Program; Agents Witnessed Spectacle At New York Function

The U.S. Secret Service observed Minnesota-based INetGlobal’s operations for weeks in January, dispatched undercover agents to join the autosurf, learned that a bank recently had closed accounts tied to the firm amid money-laundering suspicions — and already had received incriminating information from the firm’s former chief executive officer prior to executing multiple search warrants Tuesday,…

Feb 25, 2010