Amway, Herbalife, Fusion GPS, Ecuador, Assange and Farage, Fraud

"Nigel Farage may have given Julian Assange a thumb drive of data and was possibly a more frequent visitor than was publicly known to the Ecuadorian embassy where the WikiLeaks founder lives, according to testimony given to US congressional inquiry into the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to the Kremlin."


https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/19/trump-russia-inquiry-is-told-nigel-farage-may-have-given-julian-assange-data

"Assange has denied working as an agent of Russia and Farage has ridiculed suggestions that the Kremlin influenced either the US election or Britain’s 2016 vote to exit the European Union.

Farage’s relationship with Assange is of key interest because US intelligence and law enforcement officials see the WikiLeaks founder as a conduit for the Russian government. "

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Amway (Betsy DeVos, Eric Prince)

Amway's name in Chinese, "an li, " has entered the vernacular as "to be brainwashed" or "heavily promoted."

Herbalife (Carl Ichan) accused of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/business/amway-china.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/business/amway-china.html

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"BEIJING (Reuters) - Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group (FSG), co-founded by former U.S. military services contractor Erik Prince, said it had acquired 25 percent of a Chinese security training facility, the company’s latest move to tap into China’s Belt and Road development plan.

FSG has a made strategic shift to take advantage of China’s Belt and Road plan in 12 countries including Pakistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, its 2016 annual report showed."
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Is Herbalife a Pyramid Scheme?

Herbalife is a direct-selling company. That means you cannot buy its protein shakes and nutritional supplements in stores. Instead, Herbalife distributes its products exclusively through a network of 3.7 million “members” in about 90 countries.

 Members buy Herbalife products in bulk, and can then either consume them or try to resell them.

"Plenty of pyramid cases are easy to resolve. A simple chain-letter-like arrangement, whereby new recruits pay cash upstream hoping to get more cash from their own downstream recruits, is manipulative and blatantly violates the law."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/wall-streets-6-billion-mystery/361624/

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"Fusion GPS bills itself as a corporate research firm, but in many ways it operates with the secrecy of a spy agency

It was also hired to ward off scrutiny of the nutritional supplement company Herbalife, which ultimately paid $200 million to distributors to settle claims by regulators."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/journalism-for-rent-inside-the-secretive-firm-behind-the-trump-dossier/2017/12/11/8d5428d4-bd89-11e7-af84-d3e2ee4b2af1_story.html?utm_term=.9f227cc7b219