The Corrupt Government Prosecutor and FBI Agent could indict a Ham Sandwich and could indict you too. When the case is built via farm-raised, solicited complaints generated by a con man who swears to take the company down for outing him, how could legitimate agents of the law even take these claims seriously when they don’t even match the data produced by the data provider and fail to even understand the data or how people were paid? When truth doesn’t matter, and any lie will do, the average person, or in this case, a distributor, can and will be indicted every time. When prosecutors can misrepresent the law and tell a jury that the universal MLM participation act of recruiting constitutes a pyramid scheme, then no single MLM is excluded from being a pyramid scheme. When an FBI agent can make up facts as he goes, admit he can’t explain a pyramid scheme, say he doesn’t know what I knew, and make up complete lies that I knew Rick Maike and Doyce Barnes from another company and that proves we conspired from the beginning, there are no guardrails for justice. Agent McClelland repeatedly lied to the grand jury. Lie: Faraday held up a $200,000 check in her name. Truth: No check was in my name. Lie: I saw her bank account, and there was only $20,000 in it. He admitted at trial that he never had access to my bank account. He thinks it may have been a corporate account. He also had no recollection of any of it at trial. Lie: The distributors’ victims lost money; Shin Jeong, Michelle Kim, and Queyenne Pepito each earned over $200k in commissions. Lie: Michelle Kim didn’t earn any commissions. Michelle Kim earned over $200,000 and built a team. Lie: The defendants promoted the casino as earning massive profits, even though he admitted the monthly casino share was around $20. McClelland admitted there were only $16 million in customer deposits, but Madison Sewell told the jury at trial there were $34 million in losses and $40 million in sales. Sewell knew the true numbers, yet told the jury $17 million was missing, suggesting it was in foreign bank accounts when the data showed exactly where the missing money was: in the system. The system showed commissions represented as losses and never credited as gains were transferred into gift certificates to purchase products, and was never money lost and unaccounted for. The prosecutor knew every penny was accounted for but chose to misrepresent it to the jury as losses. The bottom line: This prosecutor and FBI agent repeatedly and materially misrepresented facts to the jury. The hypocrisy is that they are trying to charge the defendant with the same deception they committed against the Court and jury.
I’ve attached the grand jury testimony. Notice the end of the testimony, when Marissa Ford defines a pyramid scheme and describes recruiting alone as a criminal activity that constitutes a pyramid scheme. She tried to do the exact same thing at trial: tell the jury that participation in a pyramid scheme, regardless of intent, constituted a conspiracy to commit mail fraud, which, in her definition, was a pyramid scheme. The FTC treats it as a violation of 5 C of the FTC Act, a civil violation. Also note McClelland description to the jury of conspiracy simply because of my position, rank, and earnings. Successful MLM recruiters or earners in this industry can be on their way to 20 years in prison for a completely legal activity if you get in front of a prosecutor like Marissa Ford or Madison Sewell. Shame on them. They should have known better, and certainly did. They had the data that told the truth, but they didn’t share it with the Court or the jury.
This is Marissa Ford’s definition of a pyramid scheme found on page 54 of the grand jury transcript. Marissa Ford told a Grand Jury that a pyramid scheme was merely recruiting others who could receive rewards in an mlm program. “A pyramid scheme is any plan, program, device, scheme or other process by which a participant gives money for the opportunity to receive compensation
and other things of value in return for inducing other persons to become participants in the program.” This is not the definition of a pyramid scheme. It leaves out the most important 2nd half of the Koskot definition, that are “unrelated to the product”. In the case of i2G, there were seven product and the products were directly related to commissions in the plan. Rewards or bv was assessed by product usage. The casino chip usage, the fantasy sports usagem the online games usage all generated bv that piad out through the compensation plan. I2G, by definition, could not have been a pyramid scheme.
Marissa Ford further misled the jury by telling them that a 6th Circuit law made participating in a pyramid scheme illegal. No law makes participating in a pyramid scheme illegal, and the case she cites, Gold Unlimited, targeted the owner, not distributors. The law she cites is merely a jury instruction used in that case that, for that case, defined a pyramid scheme as a scheme to defraud. However Gold Unlimited relied on the owners “devising a scheme to defraud”, not participants unknowingly participating in an mlm the prosecution deemed to be a pyramid scheme. This is what Marissa Ford told the jury on page 55 of the Grand Jury transcript.
“I can tell you that we previously had a pyramid scheme case in this district that went to trial, and there is law in the Sixth Circuit which says that for purposes of, for example, the mail fraud statute, a scheme and artifice to defraud, if you find that
something was operating as a pyramid scheme. And a pyramid scheme is by definition a scheme and artifice to
defraud. It’s also not necessary for the government to know that the — I’m sorry. It’s not necessary for the government to prove that the defendant personally knew any or all of the persons defrauded or that the defendants are the ones who mailed the documents listed in the indictment or knew that they were mailed. What must proved beyond — what must be proven by the government is that the defendant or defendants knowingly devised or intended to devise a scheme that was substantially the same as the one charged
in the indictment, and that the use of the United States mails was closely related to the scheme in that the defendants either mailed something or caused it to be mailed in an attempt to execute or carry out the scheme. The word knowingly, as used in the statute, means that the act was done voluntarily and intentionally, not because of mistake or accident. If the defendants knew that their scheme was generally fraudulent, it need not be shown that each check obtained from investors was obtained by false
representations made by the defendants or that the defendants were aware of the specific false representations made by all middlemen in every instance, which I think goes generally to the question that you had asked.”
In short, Marissa Ford misrepresented the definition of a pyramid scheme, the law, and what the jury needed to find to convict someone of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. She told them that they basically did not have to prove anything if the jury found that i2G was a MLM company where the business model is to recruit others to receive rewards. Now you know why this case is important. All 25 million mlm participants in the United States could find themselves in the position I was placed and if they are successful, they could be put away for 20 years.
find that the defendant deliberately closed his or her
eyes to what would otherwise have been obvious.