Category: Companies

Following negotiation with the DOJ, iComTech founder David Carmona has been ordered to pay $789,218 in restitution. A separate order has also set iComTech forfeiture at $3.7 million. On January 28th the Southern District of New York court ordered Carmona pay $789,218.94 in restitution to iComTech victims. With respect to restitution, Carmona is being held…

Jason Cardiff has disobeyed court orders instructing him to return to the US by January 19th. In the lead up to Cardiff’s potential fugitive status, the DOJ executed a previously filed extradition warrant. For context, Cardiff was arrested on fraud charges pertaining to Redwood Scientific Technologies in November 2023. Cardiff is also the owner of…

Eaconomy and co-owner Hassan Mahmoud has filed suit against My Daily Choice owner Josh Zwagil. In a Nevada suit filed on January 21st, Mahmoud claims Zwagil’s company Creative Brands attempted a “hostile takeover” of Eaconomy. Editor’s Note: For some reason Zwagil is incorrectly cited as “Zwigal” throughout Mahmoud’s suit. To keep things simple I’ve corrected…

TRX ChargePoint fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website. TRX ChargePoint’s website domain (“trxchargepoint.net”), was registered with bogus details on January 22nd, 2025. Of note is TRX ChargePoint’s website domain being registered through the Chinese registrar Alibaba (Singapore). As always, if an MLM company is not openly upfront about who is running…

Epicure has collapsed. Without warning to its MLM Ambassadors or customers, the company disabled its websites yesterday. Epicure’s social media profiles have also been nuked. After Epicure disappeared from the internet, owner and founder Sylvie Rochette sent out the following communication to the company’s Ambassadors; To Our Ambassador Community, After 32 incredible years, it’s with…

Scentsy has announced a round of staff layoffs. The layoffs coincide with compensation plan changes, effectively raising the barrier of entry to its MLM opportunity. On  January 9th Scentsy filed a WARN notice in Texas. The notice details 94 layoffs in Coppell on January 3rd, 2025 (click to enlarge): Coppell is home to one of…

Navan Global founder Trey Knight, aka Haskell Knight, and wife Emily Knight, aka Emily Deborah Fryer, are set to plead guilty to bankruptcy fraud. Known to BehindMLM was the Knights’ indictment for wire fraud, filed in Louisiana back in 2021. That case is scheduled for trial commencing February 4th, 2025. What we didn’t know the…

Two Oris Teams scammers have been arrested in Pune. As reported by Punekar News on January 12th, the arrests were made following a complaint by a “highly educated youth”. The Pimpri-Chinchwad Cyber Police have arrested two individuals in connection with the scam. The accused have been identified as Avinash Singh and Ravi Thakur. Singh’s and…

Former CEO and WorldVentures Director Michael Azcue has settled with the Spherature Investments Liquidating Trustee. WorldVentures was a travel-themed  MLM pyramid scheme that collapsed through bankruptcy in 2020. Spherature Investments was WorldVentures’ parent company at time of collapse. As part of his duties, the Spherature Investments Trustee sued Azcue (right) in October 2022. As per…

Investview has settled Apex fraud allegations with the SEC for $375,000. The civil monetary penalty represents just 1.7% of the $21 million the SEC alleges Apex took in. As alleged by the SEC, Investview offered unregistered securities through Apex. In July 2019, Investview launched the Apex Program. The Apex Program purported to use “Apex Packs”…