Legal Defense Help Needed

As you will find in our story, Merchants of Deception, I was a loyal IBO and invested nearly a decade of my life building "the business" to the Founder's Emerald level. At that point, I discovered the rampant, systematic fraud that caused the financial losses of hundreds of thousands of other loyal IBO's.

I naively reported details of the fraud and deception directly to then President Dick DeVos. He refused to respond and instead Amway/Quixtar shut off my income and appear to have attempted to cover up the consumer fraud in collaboration with his highest level Kingpin IBO's.

Each day, more and more IBOs drop out under the weight of these losses, unaware of how they are being scammed and convinced by promoters that they are personal 'failures". Internal management reports show an incredible 95% drop out rate over five years. These people are regularly replaced by yet another unaware group of consumer "IBO" investors who all fall into the same calculated trap.

I am asking you now to support me in breaking this cycle of deception and victimization. When the truth is widely known, this pyramid will topple. We are near a make-or-break point. I am speaking out with my book, news media contacts, website and through networking with other consumer advocates.

But I face the force that has silenced many other Quixtar whistleblowers: the Amway/Quixtar strategy of legally gagging its victims and drowning them in legal defense costs. One report:
http://www.merchantsofdeception.com/files/MorrisonEtAlLegalFees.pdf alleges that a group of former Emeralds in Texas who spoke out and litigated against abuses in the business were recently bankrupted with over $6,000,000 in legal fees. One Diamond sued me and Quixtar retained the law firm Brinks Hofer to file a legal action in what appears to be an effort to prevent me from speaking to the press and to force me into the gag ordered, forced arbitration.

This legal effort failed (see http://www.amquix.info/quixtar_scheibeler_arbitration.html) but created an enormous legal expense. Quixtar's attorney's efforts may break me financially and the action seems geared to force me to pull down the web site and censor the free book exposing the scam. Quixtar may have woefully underestimated my resolve to
protect the public and IBOs globally.

The current legal action could effectively make documentation of the consumer fraud permanently "disappear". I have cooperated with investigations by law enforcement or government agencies in both the UK, India and currently in the US. Both India and the UK have current legal actions pending against Amway. The fraudulent tools business was just banned in the UK and Amway not allowed to sponsor any consumer for 120 days. By their own admission, the current legal action in the UK could lead to Amway's closure there.

This consumer advocacy work is clearly important and clearly having a favorable impact for consumers. My legal bills will soon be over thirty thousand dollars and this is just the beginning. Despite death threats to myself, wife and son, I have continued as a consumer advocate. The response to this work and www.merchantsofdeception.com has been overwhelming with over a hundred thousand copies of the free book being downloaded and thousands of near identical IBO victim testimonials coming in from over 20 countries.

Now I truly need your help. If the web site or book have been of assistance to you or those you love, please make a significant donation to my legal defense. The non profit consumer group, Pyramid Scheme Alert has been kind enough to accept funds for my defense to pay the law firm directly. I will never have personal access to these funds.

Please see Pyramid Scheme Alert's Legal Defense Donation page for details. If you can afford a small donation, it will be greatly appreciated. If you have the means to make a significant donation that too will be appreciated beyond words.