Jun 21, 2026 | Individual / Social Impact, Legalities and Laws, News, Pyramid Scheme Politics
Robert L. FitzPatrick, June 2026 Reflecting on my decades of work to expose multi-level marketing (MLM), there were several turning point realizations, as others have also noted in their own journeys of discovery. The first came quickly — that MLM is not at all...May 10, 2026 | Economics / Financial, Legalities and Laws, News, Pyramid Scheme Politics
by Robert L. FitzPatrick Remembering I am one of the few people in the world that for more than 30 years consistently examined and sought to expose the lie that is called “multi-level marketing” (MLM). I am not alone, but part of a tiny cadre of...May 27, 2024 | Economics / Financial, Humor, Legalities and Laws, News
But First a Special News Alert: The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the agency regulating fair trade and competition, has issued an advisory that Unicorn Sightings Companies (USCs) are legitimate, but it urges consumers to “do their homework.” “Some USCs...
Feb 5, 2021 | Economics / Financial, False Profits, Legalities and Laws, News, Pyramid Scheme Politics
For all the news coverage, including a hilarious Samantha Bee commentary, interviews of tearful and angry victims, torrents of social media debate, and an upcoming film documentary, the state prosecution of the MLM, LuLaRoe, ended not with a bang for justice but...
Jan 13, 2020 | False Profits, Legalities and Laws, Pyramid Scheme Politics
People who free themselves from “MLM” painfully discover an intertwining web of fake income promises, pretenses to “direct selling” and cruel manipulations to induce false hope and constant purchasing. Yet, there is one more layer of deception they often do not...
May 30, 2019 | Economics / Financial, False Profits, Legalities and Laws, Pyramid Scheme Politics
The big story about the MLM, Advocare, dropping out of MLM and adopting a “single-level” system (actual direct selling) supposedly as a result of “confidential talks” with the FTC is highly suspicious on its face. At its website, Advocare states: On May 17, AdvoCare...