Amway Quixtar Hall of Shame


The Amway/Quixtar Hall of Shame "In financial planning you trust no one. In Amway you trust everyone" John Sestina- Quixtar Executive Diamond and CFP
Emerald's Joe and Lorinda Brassuer	Emerald's swindle downline and others on "H₂0 Water treatment" scam.
Quixtar and Jams team up to destroy Diamond	Bruce Anderson wins $301,000 judgement in Florida state court to only have his case retried in JAMWAY kangaroo court (Amway mandated arbitration). The kangaroo court judge from JAMS/Endispute assesses him $729,000!
Double Diamond Hal Gooch	Hal Gooch shoots a black baboon and has racist remarks captured on video tape.
RIAA v. Amway and various diamonds	Amway pays $9,000,000 to settle music copyright infringement case.
Crown Ambassador Dexter Yager	Charged with sexual harassment by Amway employee. Amway employee claims to have been fired as result of the incident.
Diamond Harriet Lyons	Fake Quixtar Diamond Harriet Lyons charged with 54 counts of fraud bilking investors and downline IBOs out of at least $2 million.
Hal & Harriett Lyons	Couple fake Diamond status, attend Diamond Club, and bounce tens of thousands of dollars in checks to Quixtar. Harriet goes to jail for defrauding $300,000 from a 77 year old woman.
Executive Diamond Joe and Doris Shaw	Couple bilks at least 140 investors out of up to $10 million in real estate loan fraud used $2 million to inventory load Amway products. Doris files bankruptcy while still soliciting victims! Doris Shaw arrested for fraud, and pleads no contest to fraud charges. Related murder story from Ann Arbor Observer.
Emerald Trevor Jones	Utah Emerald IBOs scam 50 others for $2 million in Ponzi scheme, which supposedly bought accounts-receivable of Asian latex glove manufacturer.
Diamond Al Keranen	Diamond distributor Al Keranen takes 180+ Amway distributors for $12 million in real estate swindle.
The Ponzi Scheme - 4Nexchange	Quixtar Crown, Don Storms, promotes investment Ponzi scheme. Over $17 million was scammed, much of it from downline IBOs.
PSD Direct Paul Grant	IBO running 4Nexchange investment scheme pockets at least $2.13 Million, much of which came from Quixtar IBOs. Paul Grant sentenced to 5 years in prison and to repay $18.7 million to investors.
WWDB Ruby Alfonzo Lacson	Ruby IBO sells unregistered securities in Washington State's largest stock swindle. $90 million lost by over 5,000 investors, many of whom were Amway/Quixtar IBOs. Alfonzo goes to prison.
Emerald Dan Strader	Emerald Dan Strader and son of Tele-Evangelist Karl Strader, bilks $2.1 million from elderly investors in real estate scam. Dan goes to prison.
Amway sued for Patent Infringement	Artistry cosmetics accused of using patented formulas from TTI Inc.
Amway Cheats Inventor	Amway trys to cheat inventor out of product he asked Amway to market
Amway defrauds the government of Canada	Amway pleads guilty to criminal fraud for tax evasion in 1983. This case was to collect the back duties, fees, and fines that had been evaded. The Canadian department of Revenue claimed Amway owed C$148 million. The case was eventually settled for $45 million.
Amway Corporation and The Story of Emerald Eric Scheibeler	Quixtar/Amway Corporation breaks bonus payment covenant and forces Emerald IBO into bankruptcy by holding bonus checks after he exposed fraud by his upline. This is not the first time the Corporation has withheld bonus money to pressure their "independent distributors" to see the "corporation's way. Rick Setzer had the same problem in his suit against Amway.
WWDB Diamond David and Debbie Shores	Diamonds walk away from financial obligations. Diamond dream house sold in bank foreclosure sale.
WWDB Diamond Greg & Kathy Gilmour	State of Wisconsin has to take Diamond couple to court on two occasions to pay over $12,000 in back State income taxes and fines.
Crown Ambassador Bill Britt	Despite being the teacher of family and Christian values Bill Britt separates from his wife Peggy. Bill is caught in many compromising situations with another woman documented with 911 phone calls.
Crown Ambassador Dexter Yager	Dexter Yager and InterNET Services Corp. ordered to pay $125,000 in copyright infringement suit of Les Giblin's book "Skill with People".
Network 21	Jim Dornan's Network 21 sued for selling pirated copies of the book "Skill with People". They settle out of court for $250,000.
Craig & Cara Loupelle	Loupelles' buy way to Diamond with fake direct leg to boot. Loupelle’s story from their office manager.
False P&G Satan Rumor	Thirteen years after Amway denounces the Satan P&G rumor being propagated in many Lines-of-sponsorship, Diamond Randy Haugen repeats the rumor on Amway's Amvox voice messaging system.
Sana Jennings-Fossum	Amway distributor accused of diverting $190,000 in Alumni funds to private account. $14,000 paid to Amway from the Alumni association accounts.
Jim & Patti Hearn	In a complicated swindle, Hearn used her influence to authorize the Jefferson County Schools to purchase hundreds of $322,000 worth of Encyclopedia Americanas from her Amway distributorship. The Hearns were sentenced to 9 months in prison and 10 years probation.
Emerald -Mark Dean	Arrested for forging drug prescription.
Eric Snead	According to an AP article in the Boston Globe on January 6, 1999, Eric Snead, Amway distributor, "has been arrested after allegedly pocketing more than $207,000 the Foxwoods Resort casino paid for the delivery of mail-order catalogs and merchandise, police said." The Foxwoods Resort Casino had ordered Amagift gift albums from Snead, which they were planning to give their 11,000 employees as holiday gifts. Last Tuesday, Amway Corp. representatives in Ada, MI announced that Snead's distributorship has been terminated.