The Honorable Greg Stivers of Western Kentucky presided over the I2G Infinity 2 Global case. Judge Stivers sought to ensure a fair trial; however, his expressed “trust” in the prosecution and unfamiliarity with multi-level marketing (MLM) practices resulted in the introduction of irrelevant, confusing, and prejudicial hearsay emails that are typically found in legitimate MLM companies. Hearsay and False “losses” from non-witnesses were widely accepted as the “truth of the matter.”
The prosecution misled the court and jury by inflating the I2G losses by over $28 million. They introduced spreadsheet data on Total I2G Gains and Losses that excluded $28 million in commission gains from the alleged victims, which served as the “source” of their purchases. Furthermore, the prosecution presented 27 months of non-I2G data as if it were I2G data, even after I2G had been closed.
The judge could not oversee a fair trial with false evidence of losses presented through 16 witnesses. The prosecutor directly lied to the judge about statements from the data provider to discredit exonerating evidence and suggested the existence of missing funds in foreign bank accounts—funds that were accounted for in the legitimate commission data. The government manipulated crucial information, inflating I2G’s reported losses by over $28 million.