Shane Morand “leaves” Organo, initiates legal proceedings?
A reader recently wrote in about Shane Morand promoting “PureCafe” on YouTube.
They figured it was some new coffee MLM and asked me to look into it.
Morand made a name for himself as one of the original co-founders of Organo Gold (now Organo).
I should note that the last time we came across Morand, circa mid 2022, he was in Dubai promoting the collapsed Decentra Ponzi scheme.
According to Morand’s LinkedIn profile he’s now in Costa Rica. Evidently Morand’s Dubai crypto bro aspirations didn’t pan out but I digress.
I hit up Morand’s Twitter profile and saw a “#livepure” hashtag.
LivePure is Pure, as reviewed here by BehindMLM. I had a look at LivePure’s compensation plan and it’s the same plan I reviewed in 2019. As such I won’t be publishing an updated review.
In trying to suss out when Morand joined LivePure I came across a self-serving November 4th press-release.
Renowned Co-Founder Shane Morand Departs ORGANO, Paving the Way for Future Opportunities in the Functional Coffee Sector
The above headline struck me as odd. Morand was assumed to have left Organo once he transitioned into the Dubai MLM crypto Ponzi circuit.
I noted that there was nothing from Organo Gold in the press-release, which I took to mean it was one-sided.
I still think Morand left Organo before Decentra Universe but I don’t have anything concrete to refute Morand’s claims with so I’ll leave that there.
In addition to the headline, these paragraphs also caught my eye;
Commenting on his time at ORGANO and future aspirations, Mr. Morand stated, “While my journey with ORGANO has been profoundly rewarding, unresolved challenges over the past 5 years have prompted me to chart a different course.”
Mr. Morand recently initiated legal proceedings in Houston, Texas, related to his time at ORGANO.
These legal matters are currently under the careful review of Houston’s legal authorities, and additional information regarding the situation in Houston, Texas is forthcoming.
We encourage all interested parties to stay informed and await official updates as they become available.
I went looking for federal case details and there aren’t any. Who the “legal authorities” and “interested parties” Morand references remains unclear.
In another self-serving press-release, Morand announced he’d joined LivePure on November 27th, 2023.
Get ready for a rendezvous with destiny as direct sales maestro Shane Morand announced today that he is choosing to embark on a transformative journey in conjunction with global MLM leader LivePURE.
This highly anticipated celebration set to launch in Q1, 2024 in Dallas, Texas, promises to redefine the very essence of wellness with its ground-breaking approach.
I’m a bit miffed on the “Q1, 2024” launch date. PureCafe is already available on LivePure’s website and, with reviews dating back to 2019, appears to have been for some time.
Pending any further updates, we’ll keep you posted.
Organo Gold underwent a discreet acquisition by Urban Retreat. Due to legal challenges, their website maintains a different narrative. To navigate the situation, the decision was made to uphold the Organo brand under new ownership.
(Source: organo leaders).
About legal troubles, You can read here: reddit.com/r/antiMLM/comments/y81ax0/comment/j5yfi1n/
This is the reason for so much mystery around the figure of Morand.
Seriously. Thats it …..thats the comment.
@Propagalo
Thanks for that. What a mess.
So basically Organo is now run by a faceless corporation. Between the secrecy and mystery legal stuff, I’m guessing Organo won’t be around for much longer than a few years.
@propagalo
Not quite…Reminiscience was offloaded by John Miller (UR) to Organo,and left the delightful Caius (aka Robert) Hale as nothing more than a rep.
Urban Retreat has relaunched for the trillionth time and with the usual shady business practices but is not linked to Organo.
It sounds like Hale has now been booted from Organo and was last seen on Facebook shilling a “give me $30 and I’ll give you $3000” scam whilst presumably hiding under his bed in Dubai.
Unless he’s made some clever investments (highly unlikely if the Colombian marching powder rumours are true) then he’s going to start feeling the pinch pretty soon.
Organo underwent an acquisition by Paul Caldwell, as requested from Holton Buggs and Bernie.
While Mr. Caldwell has some investments in other companies, its not affected UR or Organo as well.
Reminiscience acqusitied by Organo. Idk about the problems in the Remini, but there were a mess, which has been cleared.
Caius and Hall has no business in OG and never were. The two company remained separatelly. Only in paper it get the “an organo brand”.
About Shane Morand, He is not active in Organo since 2020.
There were issues between the new owners and with Shane, most likely because Shane received money from the company in addition to his commissions which was stopped as he was not participated in company leadership roles with the new owners, while he had a chance.
So he left remained his distributor income, but he was not building a business for years now. and this was an insist for him that not getting plus money “just for no reason”.
So technically he left OG since 2020, but he kept his DP income. But still fighting for that leadership money.
Also with the random ponzi-theme stuff what he did, not keeped in good standing with the company OG. The announcement was made by him now because he is participating an another coffee company, so he had to say something after 5 years.
Also he always blamed and di-edified the new owners, inspite of the good things that happaned all over the company. And his negativ speech has caused a loss for lots of DPs.
One of the issues he had about the gold. as the company name said Organo Gold, the Gold was his idea, to somehow implement the gold business into the company, which was suspended. This is why he is doing now the Kinesis Gold as well.
So what Shane did, I think that was non-sense, he was against the acquisition, and after made it very personally. But it was necessary for the company, and the new leadership is brought a lots of good value. DP’s get more commissions and travels, more opportunities and products. More better than in the area of the Shane-time.
I respect him what he did for the company, but the new-blood were needed for the renewal.
His “launch” communication about a LivePure coffee, it’s for a new coffee product for a company, not for the existing ones.
Thanks for filling in some blanks. Organo Gold started to undo itself when Buggs left for crypto scams circa 2018.
The complete lack of transparency since then has, in my opinion, left the company dead in the water. Dunno if it will recover, I guess we’ll see.
Probably unlikely as long as Organo remains a faceless corp.
As in actual new product or just a new flavor of the existing line?
@Oz
It’s a new coffee product with cordyceps. They dont have a similar to this.
Regarding OG:
As I see Organo become more transparent with the new leadership, with the old ones were lots of secrets or not very well understand infos.
These “faceless” company statements are just gossips from Remini / UR side. Idk why is there a big mess there and a lots of misinformation.
Anybody who lookup deeply can see that the company is mostly owned by Mr. Paul Caldwell investment company (and Bernie’s company).
Mr. Caldwell has an investment portfolio company for over a decade, and doing some stuff like that, Organo was his first NWM investment.
In 2016-2018 Organo was operated mostly by Mr. Holton Buggs, like a CEO. He did bunch of stuff in the background. (and Shane ofc) But after a while they knew that a new management is needed for solving issues, as Holton is mainly a DP. Mr. Paul and Mr. Holton know each other for a while as they are living in the same area (as neighbours or sth) so Holton contacted him as he knew that he do some management stuff in high level, and after some meetings they agreee to Paul will merge OG to his investment company, and Holton can build a business.
After the acquisition, Holton did that crypto stuff and somebody convincied him, that after in OG he had a CEO company experience, why not doing it his own. So this is where iBuumerang started.
As I know Holton still has a share from OG.
With the new leadership over the last 6 years, the company has a lots of new products, system, commissions etc. So they absolutelly rebuilt for a good. So now the ball in the DP’s hand to build up the company again.
Fair enough. Probably should have led with “fungus coffee” instead of just calling it PureCafe though. Bit of marketing fail.
So basically Morand is trying to recreate Organo Gold at LivePure. Or at least the coffee line.
A visit to Organo Gold’s website reveals nothing about company ownership or executives. This is the opposite of transparency.
The old Organo site had executive information readily available.
I’m not saying one team or the other is better, just on the transparency front “Organo” is clearly a step backwards. This is a due-diligence point I flagged.
And “faceless corporation” is a term I used. It has nothing to do with “gossips”. Any MLM company that fails to present ownership or executive information to consumers comes off as a “faceless corporation”. I’ve been using the term for years.
It’s not a good look on the due-diligence scorecard.
Ok, I now understand what you mean under “faceless corporation”. I didnt think that is a big issue, as working with normal non-MLM corporations, most of them are not share these data as well on their websites. But everybody can find it if they google a bit.
Regarding this there is an another official website: organoglobal.com/corporate-team/
where are some more information about it. There was an another one as well, but I cannot find it.
Yeah so not sure what “non-MLM corporations” have to do with me pointing out an MLM company specific issue.
An MLM company failing to disclose ownership and/or executive information is an immediate red flag.
That Organo Global website has the required information. That information should be on Organo’s primary website.