Carlos Miller has been a First Amendment Champion for years. He has been unlawfully arrested multiple times for filming and photographing police activity and other happenings in public areas. Marc Randazza alerts us to the latest injustice involving Carlos Miller. On Sunday night, Carlos Miller was lawfully filming at the …
Usana Health Sciences offers vitamins and other nutritional products through a multi-level marketing structure. For years, the company has been dogged by allegations of operating a pyramid scheme and doing business illegally in China. In November 2012, Citron Research released a detailed report on allegations that the company has been …
Send Out Cards was established as a multi-level marketing company in 2005, offering “personalized” greeting cards. Although the company offers an “income opportunity,” 72% of distributors earned zero commissions in 2011. Send Out Cards Income Disclosure 2008 Send Out Cards Income Disclosure 2009 Send Out Cards Income Disclosure 2010 Send …
Mary Kay Cosmetics has been selling makeup and skin care for more than 50 years. The real truth about Mary Kay is covered in-depth at Pink Truth, a site offering opinions and facts that Mary Kay Inc. doesn’t want you to see. Mary Kay provides earnings disclosures for Canada, but …
Mannatech offers health and nutrition products, with the primary product being Ambrotose (essentially a sugar pill, or fancy name “glyconutrients”). Independent biologists have said that Ambrotose is useless. Mannatech has been plagued for years by distributors making medical claims, suggesting Ambrotose cures all sorts of diseases such as lupus, autism, …
Popehat points us to a nice victory by SOCNET in a lawsuit filed by John Giduck, the man who claims he was defamed when a SOCNET user stated that he was fraudulently posing as a Special Forces veteran. The court granted SOCNET’s motion to dismiss (even with no anti-SLAPP statute …
Marc Randazza is exposing a scam being run on a site called “Is Anybody Down”. Ken White at Popehat has gotten in on the fun too. The concept behind Anybody Down site is that angry exes submit nude pictures to the site (without the permission of the people in the …
A couple of months ago, a ruling on an anti-SLAPP motion in a defamation case against Gawker Media (owner of website Gizmodo) got my attention. Scott Redmond, with his service called Peep Telephony (or Peep Wireless), was upset because Gizmodo posted a negative review of the service. More specifically, Gizmodo …
If you’re not interested in the saga of the bankruptcy fraud allegedly committed by Jennifer McKinney (blogger “MckMama”) and her husband Israel, skip this article. In the latest turn of events, MckMama has claimed to have two serious car accidents in the past 8 months that have landed her in …
Lauren Stevens, former in-house counsel for GlaxoSmithKline was acquitted last year of criminal charges of obstructing a government agency. She was accused of withholding documents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration when it was looking into allegations of off-label marketing of the antidepressant Wellbutrin. Stevens has said, “I think …
