More indefensible "free speech" from Loony Coldwell

Leonard Coldwell, fake doctor and real scammer, has just revealed, on Facebook, something many of us suspected: He is indeed withholding the latest Kevin Trudeau court documents from his gaudy web site because he thinks that this somehow gives him an advantage over two critical bloggers whom he fears. You will probably have to click on the picture to enlarge it enough to read his semi-literate ramblings.

The alleged dangerous psychopath Lenny mentions in his little neener-neener is Bernie O'Mahony of GINtruth.com (who has comments of his own about that right here). The alleged ex-hooker with AIDS is yours truly of this very Whirled. I know this because Lenny has made similar references to both of us on numerous occasions. Little Lenny put this post on Abe Husein's wall the evening of April 8, 2013, and Abe can't remove it right now because he has been blocked from Facebook.

But let this be yet another record of Coldwell's intelligence level and professionalism (or lack thereof on both counts). Not to mention his utter lack of maturity. Not exactly the type of "leader" whose seekrit klub you'd want to pay to join. Or even join for free. Just sayin'.

PS ~ Omri at Glancingweb has some words about Lenny's "new" vitamin enterprise, the egregiously overpriced Active Champions line (or the Chumplements, as some of us like to call them). Omri quotes  the little marketing fib that Lenny's pal Peter told to make the vitamins sound as if they're truly new and unique, and as if Lenny sacrificed blood, sweat, tears, and untold treasure for the good of the world. Omri also mentions that Universal Formulas, which packages Lenny's beloved Bepure "cleanse," got a warning letter from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a few years back for peddling one of Lenny's supplement frauducts. More about that later on this Whirled when I get around to it. For now, business and real life call!

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De-brainwashing: out of the frying pan, into the fire

As mentioned on this blog last week, Petard Winkwell (individually known as Peter Wink and Leonard Coldwell), the Supreme Founders of the IBMS Master's Society seekrit klub and GIN ripoff, hosted yet another teleconference on Thursday evening, March 28, 2013. This one was devoted to "de-brainwashing" -- ridding yourself of the influence of the negative mainstream media, and, most importantly, of negative people (including and especially family and friends) who are worried about the fact that you are putting moneys into the pockets of scammers. I'm told there was even a visualization exercise to purge bad people from your life, so you can continue unimpeded with your mission to give as much money as possible to the scam of your choice. As long as it's the Winkwell scam, that is.

Here is the playback link, and I'll add the warning that it's another 70-plus minutes that you'll never get back. I haven't taken the time to listen to the whole thing because I value my minutes. But I've listened to bits and pieces, and have read comments from people who have listened to it in its entirety. Anyway, it may not be up there for much longer, so get it while it's hot.

Also on tap: A new documentary in which Not-Doc Coldwell reveals his true origins, and the big things that are in store for Planet Earth. Here's the link for more information.*


* Okay, THAT is an April Fools' joke. After all, I am reasonably certain that Coldwell is in fact human and not an E.T.

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The Coldwell Revolution: Lunacy, Lechery, Sovereignty

Earlier this month, Not-Doctor Leonard Coldwell, the former Bernd Klein, aka Bernd Witchner, our un-favorite German import, fired yet another shot at his critics. Not content with calling those who disagree with him stupid and ignorant, or diagnosing them with all sorts of mental illnesses (generally using outdated labels for the various disorders), or accusing them of being criminals/former prostitutes/shills for Big Pharma, he has now decreed that his critics are "jealous, impotent losers." The screen shot above was taken from one of little Lenny's Facebook comments on March 15, 2013. It is apparently intended to make his critics swoon with envy over Lenny's popularity with the ladies.


Are y'all envious yet? Me neither.

The pic on the left, with the two brunettes, was actually taken at a Global Information Network (GIN) event in early 2012. That was back when Lenny was still b.f.f.s with serial scammer Kevin Trudeau. The pic on the right shows Lenny with two of his current female enablers. The young woman on the left of the pic (Lenny's right) is one of Lenny's personal assistants, Amy Chappell; for her pathetic testimony and the story of how she renounced her family and dedicated her life to Saint Lenny, see here. The woman on the right of the pic is nutrition "expert" and former Miss Earth Australia Liana Werner-Gray. Here is one of several videos of Lenny and Liana.

Lenny appears to be fond of using young women as props, perhaps to shore up his sagging ego and convince the world (and himself) that he's a player. (The other thing he often does to prove his manliness is make fun of gay people, according to reports from several people who have attended his live events.) At about 4:51 in the above-linked vid with Liana, who is in her mid-twenties, Lenny says to her, "To be honest, I [have] reached a point in my life where I don't really care to be 100% the fittest and the trimmest. You, you, you have your emphasis in life on different points. And, uh, I still have beautiful friends like you in my life -- so it's not really -- um -- what I focus on any more is to look like Rambo. I just want to feel good, I just want to be as healthy and fit and energized as I can be..."

Translation: "I've let my body go to seed, but I can still surround myself with young hotties so I can look studly and virile."

My sense is that nobody who really does any research into Lenny is buying into the studly posturing. (And those who are aware of various unpleasant allegations about him may find that posturing particularly repugnant.) The fawning comments on his Facebook pages are clearly from fans, followers and wannabes. For instance, look at the comments on this photo, taken at a February 7, 2012 GIN event:



At first I wondered why Lenny didn't use that photo as well on his March 15 post, in order to make the "impotent losers" even more jealous, but then I realized that Lenny's whole objective in writing the March 15 post was to glorify himself. In the "rockin' pink" photo he has to share the spotlight with another man.

And that other guy is none other than Lenny's twelve-years-younger half brother, Jens Wilhelm Anskohl, not-quite-world-famous poker player, reportedly a ladies' man in his own right, and on record as Lenny's business partner in several enterprises. Jens sometimes goes by the name Nicholas Coldwell; a friend of mine got his business card at a GIN event a couple of years ago, and sent me a snapshot of it. (Oddly enough, this person swore to me that Nicholas had been introduced to their group as Lenny's nephew, but most folks seem to agree that Jens/Nicholas is Lenny's brother.)

Jens/Nicholas is, as I noted, also partners with Lenny in several businesses, including a phony church, the Church of Inner Healing. Though the mailing address of the Church of Inner Healing is in South Carolina, it is registered in Nevada.




I noticed that The Church of Inner Healing was set up in 2009, the same year that GIN began. Apparently 2009 was a big, big year for Lenny. Besides GIN, it was the year that Lenny got into social media big time. He joined Facebook on January 25, 2009. He set up his Myspace page in March 2009, and filled his photo album with pictures labeled, "Dr. Leonard Coldwell Speaches (sic)", as well as semi-literate captions such as this one: "Celebrated by the world Dr. Coldwells speach lets Freedom Ring was broadcasted all over the world by clearchannel radio." Or this one, where he describes himself as a "Renouned Key not speaker":

Want more? Be my guest. But hurry, before he reads this and takes it all down.

Around the same time he set up the Myspace page, Lenny also set up a page on a social media site called Mingle City, which actually seems to be more oriented towards African Americans. Apparently not wanting to be mistaken for one of "those people," however, he lists his nationality as "White." Not "German." Not "Naturalized US citizen." But "White." He doesn't appear to be trolling for booty on that site; he describes himself as "very happily married," and is clearly promoting his "cancer expert" shtick rather than his more studly qualities.

But of all of the social media sites, Facebook is the one Lenny has really chosen to focus on to spread his rants and actionable lies, including, of course, those he told about me. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't have quite as large an audience on Facebook as he might have hoped, since he has felt obligated to block so many people. He has blocked and deleted virtually everyone who has criticized him or even questioned or mildly challenged him. He seems to be a very paranoid little man.

Meanwhile, he continues to push his lunacy on the wingnut-conspiracy fronts. He and Peter Wink are still hosting their "anti-tyranny" conference calls, in which Loony Lenny spouts off every conspiracy cliche imaginable. They just hosted another one last Thursday evening, March 21, and have yet another one scheduled for March 28. That one will be devoted to the topic of brainwashing, or, more specifically, how to rid yourself of the evil influence of the mainstream media and loved ones who don't support you in your mission to put money into scammers' pockets. If you're interested in calling in, it will be on Thursday, March 28, 2013, at 8:00 PM Central Time, 9:00 PM Eastern. The number is 1-805-399-1200, and the access code is 966807. I don't know if you'll actually be able to participate or ask questions, or if you are only allowed to listen.

The calls, of course, are merely a recruiting tool for Winkwell's IBMS Master's Society scam, which I wrote about here and here. So be prepared for that, if you're thinking of calling in.

On March 22, Lenny posted a video that covered some of the main topics discussed on the March 21 phone call. It is a classic example of Lenny looniness; you owe it to yourself to watch it. Among other things, Lenny puts Obama and other politicians on notice that "we the people" are coming after them with guns, but will be doing so lawfully. Lenny also makes reference to a citizen-formed "Grand Jury" of 27 people, who will "lawfully" indict Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and others for the crime of treason. Though he was no doubt inspired by the rants of the Citizens Grand Jury movement, he's just peddling more bullsh-t. All of those "Citizen Grand Jury" things are political stunts and pseudo-legal entities, and their actions have never held up in any court. Here's one article on Snopes, regarding some Citizen Grand Jury hysteria: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/indicted.asp

Still, his little vid is good for a few laughs. So pop up some popcorn, pour yourself a beer or other beverage of choice, and settle back for some rich entertainment from our favorite lunatic, pretend-ladies' man, and not-doctor. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vCCw-8a8qGc

You can also get to it by clicking on the pic below. (I did not embed the video in this post.) Not surprisingly, comments are disabled on this video, as they are on most of "Dr." C's vids.

Lenny and Peter are still planning on holding their millionaire-militia meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina on May 25-26. They'll be teaching people how to become a millionaire, how to be healthy, how to rid their lives of useless people, and how to use guns and knives to defend their sovereignty against government agents and other authorities. Originally the event was listed at $199, but it is now down to $49.99. If you join the IBMS Master's Society scam for only $499, though, you can get in for free. Apparently certain attractive young women and selected followers and supporters of Lenny can also get in free. And if a one-day seminar isn't enough "Dr." C time for you, you can buy a VIP dinner with Lenny and pals for $199 ($299 for a couple). A three-course dinner and soft drinks are included. I guess if you want booze, though, that will be on you. (No doubt, a lot of booze will be in "Dr." C.)

In addition, people who join the IBMS Master's Society scam will be able to participate in an "initiation ceremony" that will render them a "fully functioning Sovereign."


Keep that popcorn popping, because the entertainment -- maybe "Len-tertainment' would be a better word -- shows no sign of letting up any time soon.
PS ~ I know I've linked to this before, but here again is a 2012 report on the Sovereign Citizens' Movement, from which Lenny and Peter have apparently borrowed heavily for their politically oriented IBMS Master's Society scam "teachings":
http://www.adl.org/assets/pdf/combating-hate/Lawless-Ones-2012-Edition-WEB-final.pdf

Related to the above, and to the shtick that Winkwell are promoting via IBMS Master's Society scam: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Freeman_on_the_land

UPDATE, 24 February 2014
I know that you Godly types will be really, really sorry to hear this, but as of this 20 February, 2014 Bizapedia update, it appears that the Church of Inner Healing, LLC, along with several of Loony's other business interests, have been dissolved. This doesn't mean that the Church of Inner Healing, Loony Version, is totally dead or that it won't pop up in another form somewhere else. Actually it still lives, at least as a creepy web page. But the organization listed on Bizpedia has gone poof. Here's the link to the latest listing, as well as a screen shot (click to enlarge).

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Ryan Kath at KSHB-TV does Trudeau/GIN update, Coldwell & Wink continue to scam with cheap imitation of GIN

By now you may have seen that award-winning investigative journalist Ryan Kath at KSHB-TV (the Kansas City, Missouri NBC affiliate) has done an update on serial scammer Kevin Trudeau and Trudeau's scammy, Ponzi-like Global Information Network (GIN). Here is the link. Or click on the picture above. I am not embedding the video in this post, but you can watch the video and read the accompanying news story by clicking the links I have provided.

The big development is that Illinois federal judge Robert Gettleman has ordered Trudeau to appear at an evidentiary hearing on May 21. That means an in-person appearance. Trudeau supposedly has to drag his own physical self into that court room and appear before the judge. Here is the document (click on pic to enlarge):

That's just one of numerous recent court documents related to this case. The notorious Not-Doctor Lenny Coldwell was sharing all of them on his site for a while, but has recently quit doing that, and I'm thinking it's because he wants to make it appear that he has exclusive access to information that the rest of us can't easily get. As in, I know something you don't know. Neener, neener, neener. But, as I've mentioned here before, just about anyone in the United States can access these docs by signing up with the Pacer.gov case search site. Once registered, search for Case NO. 1:03-cv-03904: FTC v. Trudeau, et al., Robert W. Gettleman presiding. You do have to pay a nominal per-page fee for the documents.

Ryan Kath deserves credit and admiration for being one of the few TV journalists who has given Trudeau any attention at all in recent years, and certainly the first TV journo that I know of to tackle GIN. There's been plenty of online criticism of GIN, which seemed like a so-obvious-as-to-be-ludicrous scam to many of us -- I've been blogging about it since late 2009 myself -- but there have precious few mentions on TV. (Psst! National news shows, where in blazes are y'all?)

Actually, I know where they probably are. The investigative journalists who really care about people getting scammed are having to fight the powers-that-be who are all too cognizant of the ad revenues from Scamworld. They don't want to piss off their infomercial kings and queens too much.

Ryan aired his first investigative piece on November 12, 2012. The person who started that ball rolling is Kansas City resident and ex-GIN member Abe Husein. Abe says he spent about $30,000 in GIN and didn't get the results he expected. Eventually it dawned on him that -- duh -- Kevin Trudeau is a scammer and GIN is a scam. Alas, although Abe and some of his greatest supporters (perhaps "groomers" would be a better word) -- particularly Lenny Coldwell -- predicted that this one investigative news story would mark the absolute end of GIN, that didn't happen. But it was a good story anyway, as even Salty Droid acknowledged in this December post.

Ryan's update aired on the evening of March 7, the very same date that Lenny Coldwell and his brother-in-harms, Peter Wink, hosted yet another teleconference to rally the troops against tyranny (using their own definition of tyranny), to share their wacko conspiracy-nut stuff, and, of course, to pitch their latest scam venture, the IBMS Master's Society. Here's one of several Facebook promos for this momentous phone call (as usual, click to enlarge):

A few of my friends listened in, and one wrote, "Amy [Chappell] couldn't even get through her intro without stumbling over all the absurd lies she was forced to read." Another said, "I only lasted ten minutes, my bullsh-t meter started smoking and I had to go out and get some fresh air." Someone else wrote, "Peter Wink is not really one to rally the troops, and he is using his PC mic or his home VOIP phone because the quality is awful." (See PS.)

But I suppose it doesn't matter, because Peter and Lenny, according to Peter and Lenny, are so popular it's scary! And the more negative press they get, the more popular they get. According to Peter and Lenny.

Amusingly, Lenny Coldwell is still crowing about his former b.f.f.'s impending downfall, despite the fact that he and Peter are trying to pull the same kind of scam as GIN, but on a slightly smaller scale. Omri Shabat on the Glancing Web blog said it quite concisely:

The GIN is dead, long live the IBMS!... the scam is the scam, the victims are the victims and the Trudeau is the Coldwell.

Yeah, that's pretty much my thinking, as noted at great length on my "Meet the new scam, same as the old scam" mini-series: here and here.

And here's Bernie on GINtruth with yet another riff on IBMS. Bernie has accepted the little Teutonic twerp's "$100,000 challenge" to produce evidence that other people and organizations are getting even remotely the same "results" that the IBMS Master's Society scam is getting. Lenny bases his ludicrous claims about results on the dubious "testimonials" that appear on the IBMS Master's Society scam Web page -- many of which were written in response to various live Lenny events, and one of which even praised Kevin Trudeau.

So these "testimonials" were emphatically not all about the new IBMS Master's Society scam, and to define these giddy and in some cases semi-literate strokes to Lenny and Peter's egos as "results" is either disingenuous or daft, or both. Here are just some of these stupendous "results":

But perhaps I digress. I really do hope Ryan Kath continues to stay on the GIN story, and I believe he will. But frankly, I'm not holding my breath waiting for the end of GIN and Kevin Trudeau's scamming days. A lot can happen between now and May 21. And even if GIN and Trudeau go down for good, the big sick machine of Scamworld will roll on and on and on.

PS ~ For sheer Lenny looniness, here's a link to the playback of the March 7 conference call. That's 72 minutes and 37 seconds you'll never get back. But time spent laughing until you pee yourself can be, I suppose, therapeutic.

More True-dough (and Lenny) on this Whirled:

March 2013: Coldwell and Wink target vulnerable women with IBMS Master's Society "coaching"

February 2013: Kevin Trudeau's GIN: The sky is falling (again)...yawn

February 2013: Loony Coldwell: Cheesy video and bad spelling

February 2013: IBMS Master's Society Supreme Loony Coldwell strikes again

February 2013: Faux heroes and hypocrisy in action

February 2013: Meet the new scam, same as the old scam, Part 2

January 2013: Vital signs: "Immortal" (former) breatharian Mony Vital dies on GIN cruise

January 2013: Meet the new scam, same as the old scam, Part 1

December 2012: 2012 ~ The Whirled goes on

November 2012: Kevin Trudeau: justice delayed...again

November 2012: Kevin Trudeau exposé on KSHB-TV: buzz, backlash, and big beginnings

November 2012: Alien nation: just how crazy is Kevin Trudeau (not to mention his sheeple)?

November 2012: Kevin Trudeau: KSHB-TV undercover investigation

November 2012: Kevin Trudeau gets some more mainstream lovin'

October 2012: Evil has not won

October 2012: Kevin Trudeau: Rats in our heads, GIN down the toilet...and life goes on

October 2012: Kevin Trudeau: The shape of things to come?

September 2012: Leonard Coldwell and Fred Van Liew: Pot, meet kettle

August 2012: Truth is better than GIN any day

July 2012: Drunk on GIN, and you can too!

July 2012: Kevin Trudeau's GIN: part of the big sick machine

July 2012: Independence Daze

May 2012 (updated September 2012): Paging Dr. C: Bernd bridges in Deutschland?

May 2012: Can alien DNA save Kevin Trudeau's GIN?

May 2012: Does a canary with a GIN hangover sing as sweetly?

April 2012: Viva Lost Wages: Sin City Become GIN City for a weekend

February 2012: A. Rose by any other name would shill as sweet

December 2011: True-dough updates: Bad poetry for KT, hate mail for CC

November 2011: A jumpsuit for Jimmy

August 2011: First Amendment Stuporhero

August 2011: Calling all lazy men: let's build a pyramid together!

August 2011: Everything old is Nouveau again (or, Neo-scam by any other name), Part 1 of 2

June 2011: Holy Guacamole! True-dough's racist rants

June 2011: For he's a jolly good felon: True-dough speaks out for Death Ray

December 2009 (amended several times in 2010): Illuminutty: the secret brotherhood of the chronically gullible

November 2009: How to take over the world

July 2009: Horse farts and related matters

January 2009: Mr. Fire meets up with true dough

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Coldwell and Wink target vulnerable women with IBMS Master's Society "coaching"

“Will you step into my parlor?” said the spider to the fly;
“’Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy.
The way into my parlor is up a winding stair,
And I have many pretty things to show when you are there.”

 

Can you say "blatant targeting of vulnerable women," boys and girls? The above screen shot apparently was posted recently on the Facebook page of one of Not-Doctor Leonard Coldwell's proteges, business partners, and fellow freedom fighters, Abe Husein. It was also shared by a Facebook participant who calls himself Jared Schlehuber, not to be confused with the baseball player. Here's that one:


But apparently Peter didn't post this on his own page.

Now, given that the IBMS Master's Society is run by "Supreme Partners" Peter Wink and Lenny Coldwell, can anybody write a brief essay on why this type of relationship "coaching" is a really, really bad idea?

Here is a link to get you started.

From what I have seen, Lenny has a penchant for targeting women who are in circumstances that render them particularly vulnerable -- e.g., young, naive, inexperienced, abused, lonely, self-esteem-challenged, or emotionally unbalanced in some way. Or perhaps married, with children whose welfare the women feel they must protect at all costs. Many seem to be in some way susceptible to his manipulation, and intimidated by his threats regarding what he will do if they "tell."

I have to wonder why this post by Peter Wink, if it is in any way well-intentioned, is targeted to women. After all, many men are in abusive relationships too -- relationships in which they are abused emotionally or even physically by their intimate partner, whether that partner is a woman or a gay male lover. (Lenny likes to make fun of gays, though, according to reports from people who have been to some of his live events. Whether that's a cover-up for latent tendencies or just ugly prejudice is anyone's guess.)

Frankly, this is one of the most blatant and disgusting posts ever written in the short time that the IBMS Master's Society scam has been in operation.

But it is not really surprising. After all, look at one of the scheme's poster children, Amy Chappell, whose big contribution to the IBMS franchise and the Lenny Coldwell mythos seems to be a series of heartfelt confesstimonials* about "the ones who have to go." In Amy's case, the ones who had to go from her life were, at one time, her parents -- see this September 2012 presentation -- although apparently she now has a surrogate momma, whom she met at Lenny's horsey camp in January 2013. In a testimonial on one of the horsey camp videos, Surrogate Momma referred to Amy as "my baby." (Note: Previously I erroneously referred to this woman as Amy's mother, but apparently Amy really has abandoned her birth parents in favor of the Coldwell cult.)
 


But I digress. By posting that Facebook link targeting women, Peter has, in my opinion, taken another giant step towards proving that he has no conscience, despite his earlier attempts to paint himself as a heroic advocate for women (particularly single moms). Call me naive, but even at this point, I would have thought better of him.

And now, dear little children, who may this story read,
To idle, silly, flattering words, I pray you ne’er give heed;
Unto an evil counselor close heart, and ear, and eye,
And take a lesson from this tale of the Spider and the Fly.

PS ~ If you really are in an abusive relationship, there are many other resources to which you can turn. If you are in the US or Puerto Rico, start here.

PPS added 5 March 2013: Will the exploitation never end? A friend of mine just alerted me to the fact that Peter Wink posted the targeted IBMS promo on a Facebook page for abused women, the Battered Women's Legal Advocacy Project. Fortunately, as you'll see, his comment was countered by someone who provided this very useful link.



PPPS added 6 March 2013: Bernie weighs in on "Unqualified therapists looking for young, abused women."

* Props to Salty Droid for coining the word "confesstimonials."


More True-dough (and Lenny) on this Whirled:

February 2013: Kevin Trudeau's GIN: The sky is falling (again)...yawn

February 2013: Loony Coldwell: Cheesy video and bad spelling

February 2013: IBMS Master's Society Supreme Loony Coldwell strikes again

February 2013: Faux heroes and hypocrisy in action

February 2013: Meet the new scam, same as the old scam, Part 2

January 2013: Vital signs: "Immortal" (former) breatharian Mony Vital dies on GIN cruise

January 2013: Meet the new scam, same as the old scam, Part 1

December 2012: 2012 ~ The Whirled goes on

November 2012: Kevin Trudeau: justice delayed...again

November 2012: Kevin Trudeau exposé on KSHB-TV: buzz, backlash, and big beginnings

November 2012: Alien nation: just how crazy is Kevin Trudeau (not to mention his sheeple)?

November 2012: Kevin Trudeau: KSHB-TV undercover investigation

November 2012: Kevin Trudeau gets some more mainstream lovin'

October 2012: Evil has not won

October 2012: Kevin Trudeau: Rats in our heads, GIN down the toilet...and life goes on

October 2012: Kevin Trudeau: The shape of things to come?

September 2012: Leonard Coldwell and Fred Van Liew: Pot, meet kettle

August 2012: Truth is better than GIN any day

July 2012: Drunk on GIN, and you can too!

July 2012: Kevin Trudeau's GIN: part of the big sick machine

July 2012: Independence Daze

May 2012 (updated September 2012): Paging Dr. C: Bernd bridges in Deutschland?

May 2012: Can alien DNA save Kevin Trudeau's GIN?

May 2012: Does a canary with a GIN hangover sing as sweetly?

April 2012: Viva Lost Wages: Sin City Become GIN City for a weekend

February 2012: A. Rose by any other name would shill as sweet

December 2011: True-dough updates: Bad poetry for KT, hate mail for CC

November 2011: A jumpsuit for Jimmy

August 2011: First Amendment Stuporhero

August 2011: Calling all lazy men: let's build a pyramid together!

August 2011: Everything old is Nouveau again (or, Neo-scam by any other name), Part 1 of 2

June 2011: Holy Guacamole! True-dough's racist rants

June 2011: For he's a jolly good felon: True-dough speaks out for Death Ray

December 2009 (amended several times in 2010): Illuminutty: the secret brotherhood of the chronically gullible

November 2009: How to take over the world

July 2009: Horse farts and related matters

January 2009: Mr. Fire meets up with true dough

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Kevin Trudeau's GIN: The sky is falling (again)...yawn

Our un-favorite German import, Not-Doctor Loony Coldwell, aka Not-C (get it?) is at it again, making predictions and projections on Facebook. This one is about serial scammer Kevin Trudeau's Global Information Network (GIN). The screen cap below is from a much longer thread (as usual, click to enlarge):

So there you have it, folks: Kevin Trudeau will go to jail in June. For sure. This time Lenny really, really means it. And after all, Lenny has never been wrong about anything else, has he? Well, except for all of the other times he gave us a date when Kevin would be in jail and GIN would be finished... (And except for all of those warnings about what is really going on in the world, such as the thousands of Chinese who are holed up in bunkers in California after the U.S. gave Cali to the Chinese to pay off our debt.)

Now, maybe Something Really Big is going to happen with GIN and Trudeau. And maybe not. This case has been going on for years. In an effort to get money that they say Kevin owes, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been zeroing in more and more on GIN, but who knows where that will lead -- if anywhere? You can get all of the public records about the FTC's ongoing case against Trudeau by signing up with the Pacer.gov case search site. Once registered, search for Case NO. 1:03-cv-03904: FTC v. Trudeau, et al., Robert W. Gettleman presiding. You do have to pay a nominal per-page fee for the documents, which Lenny has apparently been doing, and then he posts them for free on his own site. (He apparently hasn't posted the latest ones, but you can get them yourself.)

I have no doubt that other agencies such as the IRS are on Trudeau's case now too. But still, that's no guarantee that Kevin will go to jail in June.

Lenny likes to make himself look important and heroic, and apparently continues to rat out his former b.f.f. to every government agent and other authority possible, and then crow about having done so -- even though he has often bitterly slammed these very agencies and authorities on his own web sites, and has repeatedly and defiantly said that they have no power over him. I still find that amusing. I know I've shared this before, but here it is again, straight from the little man's web site...

And then there's this recent Facebook post about a planned "Champions For Freedom, Safety and Liberty" weekend coming up this year in Florida:

Wow. It almost looks as if Lenny really is forming a militia.

As for Kevin's wife, I think it's worthy of note that she actually does use the name "Natalie," which is the Americanized version of her (legal) Russian name, Nataliya. In fact she was introduced to Joe "Mr. Fire" Vitale as Natalie when he first met Kevin more than four years ago. She was also referred to as Natalie in the June 2008 news story about her wedding to serial scammer Trudeau. And she's apparently Natalie Babenko on Facebook too.

"Leonard Coldwell" is kind of an Americanized-sounding name too, but it's a much further cry from "Bernd Klein" or "Bernd Witchner" than "Natalie" is from "Natalyia."

But I quibble. There are so many other blogworthy points in that one post from Lenny that it's hard to know where to focus. One particularly disturbing point is the idea of Kevin sending his wife to Lenny, who is unlicensed and unqualified, for any sort of serious problem such as depression. That makes me shudder. It should make you shudder too. And if he had been qualified or licensed, it would have been a serious breach of confidentiality and ethics for Lenny to even mention that Natalie had been referred to him, to say nothing of disclosing the condition for which he supposedly treated or counseled her. But then, being ethical has apparently never been Lenny's strong suit, and as for confidentiality, he's a loose cannon and will shoot his mouth off at any time, anywhere.

It's hard for Lenny to look blameless and heroic when he continually states, as he does in the post above, that he was "there" with Trudeau and GIN from the very beginning and saw everything. I know I've mentioned that before, too. As for American Greed... well, maybe they would like to look into some of Lenny's little schemes, such as the IBMS Master's Society scam, which derived much of its inspiration (not to mention its mailing list, I'm betting) from GIN. A friend of mine has helpfully sent the show an email suggesting as much. (For the record: this was not at my urging; I didn't even know the friend had done it until after the fact.)

There are more tantalizing hints on Facebook about the coming Final Blow to GIN, which, as you may know if you've been following this blog or various conversations on other blogs or on Facebook, has been Just Around the Corner for nearly a year now. Late on Sunday night, February 24, Lenny's protege and fellow freedom fighter Abe Husein wrote on a Facebook thread:

Something BIG is about to happen with regards to GIN. Nobody knows because I havn't [sic] told anyone. Just keep watching. The best has [sic] yet to come! This will be the biggest blow yet and will most likely be the final blow.

When another participant chided him for being a tease, Abe responded:

... it is just too risky to give this info out prematurely. The final blow is near. This meet N greet is going to be a time to remember for sure!

The Meet-n-Greet to which Abe is referring is a get-together some of the ex-GIN are planning, tentatively slated for Vegas in July at the Bellagio. They apparently plan to have a celebratory drink or two or fifty in front of the famous Fountains. What they will be celebrating is the Final Fall of GIN and, perhaps, Kevin's incarceration.Whether Lenny and Peter Wink, aka Petard Winkwell, will be there is not altogether clear at this time. On a recent Facebook thread, Abe referred to Peter and Lenny as his "team captains" in the noble war on GIN, so it seems only fitting that they should be there.

Some people have asked if I will be attending. I think...um... no. I'll be washing my hair that month.

I also noticed that Abe wrote on one of his threads (in another effort to insult GIN members): "The only ones with low self esteem r the ones who need to pay $150 a month and thousands in upgrades to get 'secret info' to fell [sic] special."

I wonder if he feels the same way about those who need to pay a $499 initiation fee and $89 a month to get "secret info" to "fell" special?

We've heard so many times that The End is near for GIN and the sky is falling on Kevin Trudeau. If that's true, great. Maybe Abe really does know something that the rest of us don't. Although I'm sure he's communicating with people in and outside of GIN, more than likely much of the seekrit info he brags about possessing is being spoon-fed to him by his "team captains," Lenny and Peter. At any rate, if I were you, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a stupendously dramatic and deeply satisfying ending to Trudeau's scamming career.

PS ~ My new pal Aunt Alex, aka Alexandra Nouri, MSW, focused on Lenny recently on her blog. She managed to sum up both his buffoonery and his insidiousness in one relatively brief blog post.

PPS ~ Apparently the Champions for Freedom weekend mentioned above is going to be in North Carolina instead of Florida. Now dubbed the Wealthy Warriors Weekend, the toy soldiers camp is scheduled for May 25 at the Hilton Executive Park in Charlotte, NC. Here's Bernie with the deets and commentary. Be sure you review this PDF of the promo post Lenny put on Facebook. In the words of the little twerp: "Martial Law is coming Coldwell Law will fix it." Uh-huh.

More True-dough (and Lenny) on this Whirled:

•  February 2013: Loony Coldwell: Cheesy video and bad spelling
• February 2013: IBMS Master's Society Supreme Loony Coldwell strikes again
• February 2013: Faux heroes and hypocrisy in action
• February 2013: Meet the new scam, same as the old scam, Part 2
• January 2013: Vital signs: "Immortal" (former) breatharian Mony Vital dies on GIN cruise
• January 2013: Meet the new scam, same as the old scam, Part 1
• December 2012: 2012 ~ The Whirled goes on
• November 2012: Kevin Trudeau: justice delayed...again
• November 2012: Kevin Trudeau exposé on KSHB-TV: buzz, backlash, and big beginnings
• November 2012: Alien nation: just how crazy is Kevin Trudeau (not to mention his sheeple)?
• November 2012: Kevin Trudeau: KSHB-TV undercover investigation
• November 2012: Kevin Trudeau gets some more mainstream lovin'
• October 2012: Evil has not won
• October 2012: Kevin Trudeau: Rats in our heads, GIN down the toilet...and life goes on
• October 2012: Kevin Trudeau: The shape of things to come?
• September 2012: Leonard Coldwell and Fred Van Liew: Pot, meet kettle
• August 2012: Truth is better than GIN any day
• July 2012: Drunk on GIN, and you can too!
• July 2012: Kevin Trudeau's GIN: part of the big sick machine
• July 2012: Independence Daze
• May 2012 (updated September 2012): Paging Dr. C: Bernd bridges in Deutschland?
• May 2012: Can alien DNA save Kevin Trudeau's GIN?
• May 2012: Does a canary with a GIN hangover sing as sweetly?
• April 2012: Viva Lost Wages: Sin City Become GIN City for a weekend
• February 2012: A. Rose by any other name would shill as sweet
• December 2011: True-dough updates: Bad poetry for KT, hate mail for CC
•  November 2011: A jumpsuit for Jimmy
• August 2011: First Amendment Stuporhero
• August 2011: Calling all lazy men: let's build a pyramid together!
• August 2011: Everything old is Nouveau again (or, Neo-scam by any other name), Part 1 of 2
• June 2011: Holy Guacamole! True-dough's racist rants
• June 2011: For he's a jolly good felon: True-dough speaks out for Death Ray
• December 2009 (amended several times in 2010): Illuminutty: the secret brotherhood of the chronically gullible
• November 2009: How to take over the world
• July 2009: Horse farts and related matters
• January 2009: Mr. Fire meets up with true dough

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