• ESPN Outside the Lines on AdvoCare

    UPDATE: The television segment has been pushed back, but the article is out today. ESPN has been investigating AdvoCare, a multi-level marketing company that sells a “business opportunity” using nutritional products as their hook. Today, ESPN’s investigative news show Outside […]

  • Does Voluntary Disclosure of White Collar Crimes Really Help?

    The Federal government wields a big stick when it comes to business-related crimes. Violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), fraud in the delivery of health care services or in the receipt of federal money for those services, and […]

  • MLM is Not a Business (It’s a Pyramid Scheme)

    I’ve written many times about how multi-level marketing (MLM) is not a business. Don’t believe me? Others have said the same thing. Today Lazy Man and Money lays out the reasons why MLM is not a business. You’ll have to […]

  • Herbalife $HLF Doesn’t Want You to See This Video

    Herbalife (HLF) does not want you to see or hear the evidence that the company is nothing more than a recruiting scheme. Audio and video footage was obtained of CEO Michael Johnson talking about how Herbalife is a recruiting company: […]

  • Herbalife CEO Michael Johnson on Recruiting

    Michael Johnson, CEO of Herbalife, talks about how the company is based on recruiting. ” Today, we’re recruiting. We’re still a recruiting company, and we’ve got to never not be this [again pointing to the word “Recruiting” on the slide […]

  • Rodan + Fields Income Disclosure Statements

    Rodan & Fields is a multi-level marketing company  that sells skin care products. The company initially established a positive reputation with its ProActiv Solution, which was a product for acne prone skin. In 2008, it moved into the MLM business […]

  • Truth About Poverty in America

    Last week the internets informed me that the United States is terrible because we “allow children to go hungry.” This is not true by any stretch of the imagination. If parents are willing to take even a minimal amount of […]

  • Thompson Burton: Support Company of the Year from Academy of Multilevel Marketing

    Thompson Burton, a law firm providing services to multi-level marketing companies, provides our comic relief today, along with “The Academy of Multilevel Marketing” (TAMM). The Academy of Multi-Level Marketing is an organization created by MLM industry supporters to make up […]

  • Marc Randazza Free Speech Win for Dr. Steven Novella

    First Amendment attorney Marc Randazza of Las Vegas has scored a particularly important win in a case involving Steven Novella, MD and Edward Tobinick, MD. Dr. Tobinick sued Dr. Novella and Yale University in Florida, not for defamation, but for […]

  • Herbalife $HLF CEO Michael Johnson on Recruiting

    Last week a video was posted to YouTube showing Herbalife CEO Michael Johnson talking about recruiting. Herbalife had the video pulled from YouTube on the basis of copyright infringement. That is most certainly a bogus claim. I’m not an attorney, […]