Three scammers behind the 8 Determine Dream Life-style pyramid scheme have been criminally charged.
- Alex Dee, aka Alex Dowlatshahi, was arrested in Washington on January tenth, 2024
- Brian Kaplan was arrested in Colorado on October 2nd, 2023
- Jerrold Maurer, aka Jerry Maurer, was arrested at an unknown date
Dee, Kaplan and Maurer had been all indicted in Colorado final 12 months.
Dee was indicted on November seventh and Kaplan was indicted on October 2nd. Maurer’s case nonetheless seems to be underneath seal.
Though Dee’s and Kaplan’s indictments had been ordered unsealed, at time of publication they continue to be sealed.
Pending clerical unsealing of the respective instances, we flip to a January twelfth press-release from the DOJ.
From January 2017 by means of June 2019, Dee allegedly ran 8FDL as a pyramid scheme.
Dee and his co-conspirators allegedly recruited members by means of emails, robocalls, promotional movies, and webinars.
They allegedly instructed customers that 8FDL was a authentic enterprise with actual merchandise and lied to potential members about how a lot cash they may make, how a lot others who had joined 8FDL had made, and the continued prices related to the enterprise.
In actual fact, the overwhelming majority of people that joined 8FDL by no means made any cash.
- Alex Dee has been charged with 4 counts of wire fraud and one depend of conspiracy to commit wire fraud
- Brian Kaplan and Jerrold Maurer have been charged with one depend of conspiracy to commit wire fraud
Each Kaplan and Maurer have already pled responsible to their prices. Sentencing has but to be scheduled however every faces as much as 5 years in jail.
If convicted, Alex Dee is going through as much as twenty years per depend (5 counts complete).
8 Determine Dream Life-style legal prices observe civil regulatory motion from the FTC in 2019. The FTC’s case was settled for $31.9 million in 2020.
BehindMLM reviewed 8 Determine Dream Life-style in 2017, accurately figuring out it as an unlawful gifting scheme.
In 2018, Dee claimed “near $30 million” had handed by means of the rip-off. 8 Determine Dream Life-style would go on to break down later that very same 12 months.