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Amid a flurry of filings aimed at suppressing evidence collected against him, James Merrill’s criminal trial has been delayed. Initially slated to kick off on October 3rd, Merrill’s trial is now scheduled for October 24th. According to the case docket, Merrill’s trial is expected to wrap up in late November. As to Merrill’s suppression motion, Judge Hillman has taken the [Continue reading…]

Last week James Merrill’s probation officer recommend the current curfew and monitoring in place be removed. Since the restrictions were imposed two years ago, Merrill has only violated his curfew once in a minor incident he accepted full responsibility for.

Citing James Merrill’s ongoing compliance with curfew and monitoring conditions ordered back in 2014, a probation officer has requested Merrill’s monitoring be dropped.

Dorian da Silva Santos, 29, was a relatively well-known TelexFree net-winner residing in Serra Preta, a city in the eastern state of Bahia, Brazil. Known for “changing lives”, TelexFree may certainly have changed the life of Santos. On Tuesday Santos was found dead in a field. His hand were tied and he’d been shot multiple times in [Continue reading…]

In January 2015 Brazilian authorities filed a criminal case against TelexFree and owners Carlos Wanzeler and Carlos Costa. The case was filed on the back of an investigation that began in 2013, seeking to establish whether TelexFree’s VOIP offering was illegal. The case recently went to trial and has been playing out in the Federal [Continue reading…]

Through TelexFree Electric, Sunwind Energy Group received approximately $2.6 million dollars in stolen Ponzi funds. TelexFree Electric, owned by Carlos Wanzeler, James Merrill and Carlos Costa, transferred the funds under the guise of an equity investment and/or loan. The TelexFree Trustee sued Sunwind Energy for $2.6 million as part of his clawback rampage back in [Continue reading…]

Joele Frank Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher (Joele Frank), a public relations firm based out of New York, has settled with the TelexFree Trustee. Joele Frank was sued back in April as part of the Trustee’s clawback rampage. According to the filing, Joele Frank was paid an $85,000 “non-refundable advance” by TelexFree two days before its bankruptcy filing. Between [Continue reading…]

One of the bolder moves we’ve seen in the ongoing DOJ litigation against TelexFree and its owners, are motions by James Merrill seeking to suppress seized evidence against the company. Not bits and pieces or a tidbit here and there… but all of it – the whole kit and caboodle. Supporting his motions, Merrill argued that [Continue reading…]

Back in April the TelexFree Trustee filed a host of clawback adversary proceedings against TelexFree insiders. The Trustee was required to commence the Adversary Proceeding before the Criminal Action could be resolved because the expiration of the Statute of Limitation relevant to these actions was approaching and was clearly going to expire before the Criminal Action [Continue reading…]

As per our last update on Sann Rodrigues’ visa fraud case, a Status Conference was scheduled for June 7th. On June 6th a Joint Motion was filed, requesting a continuance of the scheduled conference until August. Reasons for the delay include a substitution of attorneys on the DOJ side and a joint request for ‘additional [Continue reading…]