Navan World founder Trey Knight, aka Haskell Knight, and spouse Emily Knight, aka Emily Deborah Fryer, are set to plead responsible to chapter fraud.
Identified to BehindMLM was the Knights’ indictment for wire fraud, filed in Louisiana again in 2021. That case is scheduled for trial commencing February 4th, 2025.
What we didn’t know the Knights had additionally individually been indicted for chapter fraud in 2022.
Within the Knights’ Louisiana wire fraud case, the DOJ filed a Movement to Consolidate on January seventeenth;
On Could 12, 2022, the Center District of Florida Grand Jury returned an eleven-count Indictment charging the defendants with one depend of chapter fraud, in violation 18 U.S.C. § 157(3), two counts of false assertion underneath penalty of perjury, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 152(3) and eight counts of false oath, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 152(2).
On October 15, 2024, defendant, TREY GRANT KNIGHT and his lawyer executed a Rule 20 agreeing to plead responsible to depend one of many Center District of Florida indictment and have the matter transferred to the Center District of Louisiana.
The matter has been transferred to the Center District of Louisiana for the responsible plea and sentencing.
That is the primary I’d heard of the Knights’ chapter fraud proceedings. Perusal of the indictment reveals the Knights lied underneath oath with respect to earlier chapter proceedings.
The related time interval is June by means of October 2016, throughout which the Knights have been Melaleuca and Kyani distributors.
In or about October 2016, Trey Knight and Emily Knight submitted paperwork to Melaleuca to vary the title on the account from their private capacities to Uninterrupted Advertising and marketing, a enterprise they managed.
In or about June 2017, Trey Knight additionally obtained cash from a community advertising enterprise named Kyani.
The Knights filed for Chapter 7 chapter on Could twenty sixth, 2017.
Complete belongings value $24,487.00 and complete liabilities of $598,968.88 have been listed on the suitable schedule
Trey Knight and Emily Knight didn’t disclose revenue from Melaleuca and Kyani to the chapter court docket.
As a part of proceedings the Knights have been questioned underneath oath. Collectively they did not disclose their MLM earnings, in addition to failed enterprise dealings Empower Outreach and Udoxa.
Three of Udoxa traders sued the chapter property as collectors to cowl their losses.
Trey Knight and Emily Knight claimed that two of the 4 traders have been collectors however not in reference to Udoxa.
The Knights have been charged with:
- one depend of chapter fraud;
- two counts of false assertion; and
- eight counts of false oath
The Knights’ responsible plea will see them plead responsible to the depend of chapter fraud.
The DOJ requested a change of plea listening to on the Florida docket on November twelfth, 2024. The chapter case was transferred to Louisiana on December 4th however no change of plea listening to date has been set.
A ruling on the DOJ’s wire fraud movement to consolidate the circumstances, now that they’re each in Louisiana, stays pending.