• 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, […]

  • Herbalife Report: “Pyramid Shakedown”

    This week New York State Senator Jeff Klein and Public Advocate Letitia James issued a scathing report on multi-level marketing company Herbalife (NYSE: HLF). The report, The Amercian Scheme: Herbalife’s Pyramid ‘Shake’down, is based on complaints filed by 56 Herbalife […]

  • Advocare: What You Should Know

    Written by: Advocare Facts AdvoCare is a multi-level-marketing company (MLM), founded in 1993 by Charles Ragus. Charlie once worked as a regional vice president for Fidelity Union Insurance while being a distributor for Herbalife. In 1989 Charlie co-founded Omnitrition International. […]

  • Pink Truth and Mary Kay on ABC’s 20/20

    Tune in to 20/20 on ABC on Friday October 2  for a story on the truth behind Mary Kay’s multi-level marketing “opportunity.” MLM is not a business opportunity, it’s a clever scam that has been made to look like a […]

  • Herbalife is Not Like Vemma, Unless It Is

    In light of the recent shutdown of multi-level marketing company Vemma (following allegations that it is a pyramid scheme),there has been much discussion of Herbalife. Is it a more legitimate MLM, or is it a pyramid scheme like Vemma and […]

  • MLMs as Pyramid Schemes (Vemma Shut Down)

    Multi-level marketing companies – – MLMs for short – – go to great lengths to distance themselves from pyramid schemes. The Direct Selling Association (a lobbying group funded by multi-level marketing companies that helps ensure our government continues to allow […]