Mary Dee & FTC settlement advances, Michael Force “not interested”
Having failed to negotiate a settlement between themselves, defendant Mary Dee and the FTC have filed a joint settlement conference motion.
The motion requests a settlement conference be held before a Magistrate Judge.
In effect, the Magistrate Judge will act as a neutral mediator between the parties in an attempt to settle the Digital Altitude case with respect to Dee.
The motion comes after both Mary Dee and Michael Force were prohibited access to Digital Altitude victim funds to pay for lifestyle expenses.
The final paragraph in the October 2nd motion advises the court that
Defendant Michael Force has stated he is not interested in participating in a settlement conference.
As of a few months ago, settlement negotiations between Force and the FTC had come to a “standstill“.
Having been ditched by his lawyers, Force is currently representing himself against the FTC pro se.
I still don’t understand why they were allowed to skim from the ill-gotten gains to fund their lifestyles. Do these people not even experience reality after being caught? Try to picture the scene if someone else was caught stealing.
Would they be allowed to keep stealing just to fund a lifestyle they became accustomed to or would they have to suffer as the majority of naive ponzi affiliates do and find one day your source of income just stops and you have to deal with that by making some drastic changes to your finances?
None of this makes any sense.
It was part of the preliminary injunction from memory.
Everything could have been changed and the company allowed to operate legally had they had the Receiver MOBE was appointed.
The only real complaint in the TRO was about advertising wording. The events were educational and there were no sales (unlike MOBE) conducted at events.
DA events had educational business speakers unlike MOBE who just had talks given by salespeople and the back of the room was high-pressure order takers.
But DA didn’t have a legitimate Receiver with Thomas Seaman who is notoriously corrupt and has been overcharging and draining the funds from day one. T
here will be nothing left for victims and any crocodile tears from the FTC that they care about the people they are actually responsible for hurting more than DA is for show.
Seaman didn’t do his postings on time. He didn’t notify staff that the internal operations were shut down. He forced staff to work then told them he wasn’t going to pay them despite having the full ability to do so.
He didn’t notify consumers on time about TRO actions. He lied and misrepresented notices to the public and to internal staff. He never interviewed any staff, asked for resumes of any of the staff, did the research on degrees, experience or education on the staff which meant that all of his assertions to coaching ability to the FTC were patent lies.
He didn’t submit the compliance program that DA was about to launch and, in fact has worked to suppress that data. He misrepresented the state of the company to the FTC.
He purposefully timed actions to be when the CEO was on vacation and the COO was in the hospital having a double mastectomy so he could ensure that he made a fortune and to ensure that he could get access and delete anything that might be used to stop the flow of funds into his account (i.e. proof of company fitness).
He’s also one of the few FTC Receiver’s that have had numerous cases of clients and even staff of companies under TROs petition the courts for the ability to sue him.
Many people don’t realize that Receivers have complete immunity and you have to sue just for the right to sue the Receiver. The Receiver also has more power in some areas than the FTC.
If a Receiver misrepresents to the FTC and consumers, as Seaman did, the ability to effectively take control of a company to evaluate it’s ability to operate legally there is very little the FTC can or will do.
Consumers who are harmed by unlawful shutdowns where the Receiver mismanages the funds and misrepresents the fitness of the company have little to no recourse.
MOBE on the other hand has a very fit Receiver and it’s interesting to see that in their case, with actual criminals openly defrauding and using numerous shell and hidden LLC’s around the world, that very little is being done to the main operators like Matt Lloyd, Athar Roshan, Russell Whitney (Sr.), Russell Dabney Winston who are still doing live events in SEAsia as we speak.
It’s actually galling to think that if the world were fair, MOBE would have gotten Thomas Seaman and DA would have received Mark Bernett.
But life isn’t fair and now all the consumers and staff of both companies have lost millions w/little hope of actual recovery.
False. Pyramid schemes marketed on grossly misleading income claims are illegal in the US as they violate the FTC Act.
Stop making excuses for scammers and spreading bullshit.
Mary Dee was behind the scenes with Wealth Masters for many years and was just as arrogant. That’s where she met Michael Force.
What a disgrace he is. Using his military background to paint a picture of honesty and integrity. The military ought to charge him for deception and subject him to their own form of punishment.
It is sickening that these two feel entitled to the funds that belong to their victims.
It’s further disturbing that the government allowed this to happen.
Which is further proof that the government itself is not exactly your friend.
But, at least they identify that Digital Craptitude was a total misrepresentation of reality.
It’s not a lie that everything could have been changed and the company allowed to operate legally under totally different management.
The company model was not broken (Ozedit: Snip. Stop posting falsities. See below.)
Yes it is. Digital Altitude was a scam that made false promises to consumers. Changing management does not change that fact or make Digital Altitude any less liable for violating the FTC Act.
Furthermore the Receiership analyzed Digital Altitude and concluded there was no way to legally operate the company. This was accepted as fact by the court.
As for having the MOBE Receiver, the only difference is Matt Lloyd isn’t fighting the FTC.
Had he of the same conclusion as Digital Altitude would have been reached. MOBE is as much of a scam as Digital Altitude was, they had near identical business models.
Changing Receivers doesn’t make pyramid schemes that make gross misrepresentations to consumers regarding potential income any less illegal.
Last time I’ll state this: Stop posting bullshit and making excuses for scammers.
Micheal force ripped our family off $10k what a disgrace of a human being.