• Wisconsin Election Conspiracy in Milwaukee

    Set aside for a moment your opinion about whether or not the Wisconsin April 7 election should have gone forward in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the statewide “safer at home” order.  Let’s talk about what happened in Milwaukee […]

  • Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loans and Child Support (COVID-19)

    A family lawyer asked if a loan received under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) will be considered income for purposes of the child support obligations of the business owner. The simple answer: Loans are not income. The business is not […]

  • COVID-19 Coronavirus Stimulus Check Scams

    Coronavirus stimulus check scams have already started. This is shameful, but not entirely unexpected. U.S. taxpayers will be receiving payments of up to $1,200 per adult and $500 per child, with reductions for special circumstances. To receive a payment, you […]

  • Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran $400k Fraud Victim

    Barbara Corcoran lost $400,000 to a fraud scheme. Or did she? The headlines were that the real estate mogul had nearly $400,000 stolen from her with an email phishing scam. It makes for good click-bait, but there was so much […]

  • Who Has FIVE Foreclosures?

    Jennifer McKinney, that’s who! Years ago I delighted in writing about mommy bloggers who earned gobs of money at the expense of their readers (and the advertisers who wanted to get in front of them), but were dishonest in one […]

  • Dooce Will Sleep With Your Husband

    From time-to-time, I used to talk about mommy bloggers here. Primarily the fraud that is Jennifer McKinney (MckMama), but occasionally I would mention others. One such person was Dooce (Heather B. Armstrong), the “original” mommy blogger. Dooce made a mint […]

  • Windy City Rehab Fraud?

    Windy City Rehab is an awesome reality show on HGTV. Alison Victoria (legal name Alison Gramenos) and Donovan Eckhardt are the faces of the show, and they find properties in Chicago to rehab and sell. But construction projects don’t always […]

  • How Does MLM Affect People?

    The late Jon Taylor, PhD wrote a thorough and excellent book about multi-level marketing (MLM): The Case (For and) Against Multi-Level Marketing: The Complete Guide to Understanding the Flaws – and Proving and Countering the Effects – of Endless Chain […]

  • MLM Income Disclosure Statements

    A collection of annual income disclosure statements published by multi-level marketing companies, continuously updated. Last updates done 02/10/24 to add 2022 and 2023 statements for some of the pyramid schemes listed below. I have also added Beautycounter, Farmasi, and Colorstreet […]

  • FTC Sues Nerium: Illegal Pyramid Scheme

    Last week the FTC announced a lawsuit against Neora (formerly known as Nerium), alleging that it is an illegal pyramid scheme. Couple this with the recent end to AdvoCare’s multi-level marketing method of business at the hands of the FTC, […]