Alongside shadowy figures with fake identities and eastern European accents, E-Estate presents “Mike Hamilton” as co-founder of the company.

Today BehindMLM can exclusively reveal “Mike Hamilton” is Mike Wilson, a California born US resident now believed to be living in Florida.

Wilson moved from the US to Ukraine around 2019. This is the connection between promotion in the US and the eastern European scammers running E-Estate.

So other than being the face of E-Estate promotion in the US under a fictitious identity, who is Mike Wilson?

Wilson is co-founder of Andesite Blue, a company he co-founded with Ben Miller.

As stated on its website, Andesite Blue’s “mission” is to

provide passive income to our bond holders while helping to support worthy projects to improve healthcare, housing, agricultural and green energy in the emerging market of Ukraine.

For an early history, we’ll quote from Wilson’s Andesite Blue corporate bio;

1979-1984 United States Marine Corps

In 1984 [Wilson] began his career in sales and businesses. He gained a broad background of experience working at companies including Panasonic, Brother and AT&T which developed and refined his abilities.

During the 1990s, he owned companies in the construction and housing industry.

In 2015 he invented a medical device that helped people to rehabilitate safely while learning to walk again. He successfully obtained 9 patents on the device and started a company in manufacturing, marketing and distribution.

As previously stated, Wilson moved to Ukraine circa 2019. For more on Wilson’s life in Ukraine, we’ll quote from a 2024 interview he gave to RBC;

American Mike Wilson, a father of five sons, has been helping Ukrainian military personnel and veterans for many years.

He used to come to Ukraine occasionally, but after the full-scale Russian invasion, Ukraine became his second home.

Back in 2015, Wilson trained Ukrainian military personnel – teaching them shooting, which he himself once mastered in the US Marine Corps.

Now he leads an English conversation club at the “After Service” charitable foundation and plans to open the “Kyiv Western Saloon” – a meeting place for people with common interests.

Wilson claims his efforts to train the Ukraine military drew the attention of the CIA;

I trained them in a typical United States Marine Corps program, which taught them how to shoot accurately.

The next step was to develop a program that the military could continue to study. I drew up a curriculum. So that everyone who graduated from the course knew all the basics of handling weapons and the tactics of effective combat.

It was important to train those who would then train others and spread this knowledge and skills among other military personnel.

I took the course and returned to the States again. There, CIA officers came to me. They called me, and I asked where they got my number from. Because the number was new, not yet registered. They replied: “well, we have our own ways.” They laughed.

After this conversation, I called the special services myself and asked if it was a prank, and if a real person had actually called me. Because, you know, it’s not every day that you get a call from the CIA.

In fact, the conversation was quite ordinary. They asked questions, wanted to make sure that I hadn’t violated anything. I hadn’t fought, for example.

If you’re more of a visual person, here’s Wilson sharing his life story with Storytelling Ukraine in 2024.

Wilson himself maintains he doesn’t speak Ukrainian. In the linked Storytelling Ukraine video above, while running his own company in Montana with his five sons.

Wilson states he met  Leysa (Lesa, Lisa?), a Ukrainian national from Kyiv. Wilson dated Leysa and she introduced him to Ukraine.

Wilson claims he’s been making trips to Ukraine since 2012. He met his second wife on one of those trips and, at 58 around 2020, had a daughter.

Wilson opened Kyiv’s Western Saloon in mid to late 2023.

Wilson used a line-dancing marketing schtick to promote the business early on. As far as I know, despite Wilson returning to the US, Kyiv’s Western Saloon is still operating.

While E-Estate’s website domain was registered in late 2024, the Ponzi scheme didn’t go live till late 2025 (around October).

There’s a post on Kyiv’s Western Saloon’s FaceBook page featuring Wilson dated September 26th, 2024. After that Wilson only appears in one other post dated February 16th, 2026.

From this we can surmise Wilson left Ukraine to start defrauding consumers through E-Estate sometime after late 2024. The February 2026 Kyiv’s Western Saloon post suggests Wilson still periodically returns.

So that’s E-Estate’s “Mike Hamilton” Mike Wilson:

  • marine corps veteran
  • father of six
  • husband to a Ukrainian national
  • business owner
  • Ponzi scammer and committer of securities fraud

E-Estate itself is a simple MLM crypto Ponzi built around fictitious real-estate investments. Beyond being the face of the scam in the US, the full extent of Wilson’s involvement in E-Estate is unknown.

On June 1st, 2026, the Texas State Securities Board issued an E-Estate securities fraud cease and desist. Wilson, as “Mike Hamilton”, was a named Respondent.

Perhaps feeling secure in his cover not being blown yet, Wilson has not heeded the Texas order and continues to mislead and defraud consumers.

In his latest E-Estate appearance, a marketing video dated June 5th, Wilson attempts to justify E-Estate’s fraud with the old “few understand” crypto trope.

Wilson’s video is part of what appears to be a coordinated response, dismissive of state and federal US securities law.

As he did earlier this year in Florida…

…Wilson is set to host E-Estate’s upcoming June 13th marketing event in Washington D.C.

Whether the event goes ahead, in violation of state and federal US securities law, remains to be seen.