It sure got quiet round here right quick.
People who had everything going for them, security assured for themselves and their families. But enough wasn't enough.
Everybody understands the poor man who robs a Brinks truck, but the wealthy person who lies to make a couple of hundred thousand is unfathomable.
That's what is truly amazing about some of these schemes. Tony was making on the order of $200,000 a month from his IA (Investment Advice) site. He was doing what he enjoyed, outing scam companies, scams he could see coming with his experience as a broker. Now this, and to me among all the disturbing allegations is that he traded against his own public recommendations, what he stated here.
Look at Chris Rea, who I'm suing in Texas for RICO violations. He had a site, Trading Places, right up there with AP as one of the most prominent IA sites on the Net. He and Julia were earning also several hundred thousand dollars a month. Rea in fact wrote me in October - during this case if you can believe it, maybe he sees the dangers of all this coming out - well, he wrote and said he and Julia took home several million dollars from TP. But, cannot leave well enough alone, wealthy and making a fortune, have to ratchet it up, so he teams with the alleged racketeers Philip Berber and Leslie Moor so the advice is corrupted beyond belief. In fact, Rea admitted to me that Berber and Moor made corrupt bribery arrangements with dozens of sites across the country; I've specifically identified 35 of them already. Of course Rea says, "t'aint me," I only accepted the money for "advertising." LOLOLISSIMO - sure you did, Merlin.
So Berber and Moor walk away with more than $400 million, that's ---------------->FOUR HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. Berber boasts about it on CNBC and Fox News, not to mention locally. He goes on CNBC and Fox and compares himself to Mother Teresa. meanwhile, he knew exactly what he did, he was never licensed as a broker, he made illegal kickback arrangements personally conceived arranged and executed in conspiracy with everyone who would agree, which included virtually all leading IA Net sites in the country, and then when he's sued he destroys documents, commits perjury in court to support his previously having lied to federal agency officials of the Securities and Exchange Commission during the 99 and 00 PSI Congressional investigation into these activities. Now, Berber has been giving lectures at universities in the US preaching his business model to impressionable college students. The Universities of Texas and Wisconsin are merely two of them. Berber's business model was destroying 10,000 of his own clients and other IA members; and he's giving the next generation of business people advice.
Like I said, I truly hope and believe that Kenneth Breen and other United States Attorneys are only warming up their investigation of what happened - it doesn't get any better than what AP did; it gets far, far worse. |