
FTC Files for Injunction as IML Shuts Down
Agency worries MLM defendants are dissipating assets.
Heinert et al. v. Bank of America, N.A. et al.
19-cv-6081, W.D.N.Y.
(Jan. 2019)
Investments in financial services, insurance, real estate development, and medical laboratories
Operating a A fraudulent investment operation that tricks investors into thinking that they will earn lots of money on a short-term investment, when, in reality, there isn’t any investment opportunity at all. Rather, the promoter just uses the money from new recruits to pay off the older investors. In other words, stealing from Peter to give to Paul. that promotes lucrative investments when the money invested was used to pay off earlier investors
Dismissed;
Dismissal of claims against certain defendants affirmed on appeal
Agency worries MLM defendants are dissipating assets.
Patrick Coffee, The Wall Street Journal
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