Dwight Owen Schweitzer

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has upheld the rulings of a federal judge and rejected an appeal by AdSurfDaily figures Todd Disner and Dwight Owen Schweitzer. The ASD duo had contended the seizure of records from ASD’s database in a Ponzi scheme case brought in 2008 by the U.S. [...]

UPDATED 7:49 P.M. ET (JAN. 14, U.S.A.) Judge Rosemary Collyer has been on the federal bench in the District of Columbia for 10 years. She was nominated by President George W. Bush in 2002 and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Earlier in her career, then-attorney Collyer was appointed by President Reagan to lead the [...]

Dear Readers, The PP Blog’s choice for the “Most Important” story to appear on the Blog in 2012 is this one, dated July 28: “Site Critical Of Zeek Goes Missing After HubPages Receives Trademark ‘Infringement’ Complaint Attributed To Rex Venture Group LLC — But North Carolina-Based Rex Not Listed As Trademark Owner; Florida Firm That [...]

UPDATED 3:57 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) Gregory Baker, a Florida man who hosts calls featuring Robert Craddock in the aftermath of the SEC’s Ponzi-scheme case against Zeek Rewards, is listed as a winner in the Botfly LLC Ponzi scheme case, one of the Sunshine State’s ugliest fraud schemes. Prosecutors said that David Lewalski, Botfly’s now-imprisoned operator, [...]

EDITOR’S NOTE: ASD was a multilevel-marketing scheme that planted the seed it paid a return of 1 percent a day on top of two-tiered affiliate commissions totaling 15 percent for recruiters. Federal prosecutors described the purported “opportunity” as a Ponzi scheme based in the the small town of Quincy, Fla., and operated by recidivist securities [...]

AdSurfDaily figures Todd Disner and Dwight Owen Schweitzer — later to become pitchmen for the alleged Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme — have appealed the dismissal of their ASD-related lawsuit. In August, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer dismissed claims by the ASD duo that their 4th Amendment rights had been violated when ASD computer records were [...]

BULLETIN: AdSurfDaily figures Todd Disner and Dwight Owen Schweitzer will not be permitted to reopen their lawsuit against the government and get a different judge to hear it. U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer of the District of Columbia this morning denied a motion by the ASD duo that she recuse herself from the case. At [...]

AdSurfDaily figures Todd Disner and Dwight Owen Schweitzer should not be permitted to reopen their lawsuit against the government for alleged misdeeds in bringing the ASD Ponzi-scheme case in August 2008, government lawyers said in court filings today. Moreover, the bid by Disner and Schweitzer to force U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer of the District [...]

MLM pitchmen and AdSurfDaily figures Todd Disner and Dwight Owen Schweitzer — both of whom went on to become promoters of the alleged Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme — have accused a federal judge of “sophistry.” Sophistry, according to Dictionary.com, means “a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.” Disner turned to MLM [...]

BULLETIN: (UPDATED 3 P.M. EDT U.S.A.) This bizarre announcement appears today on ZTeamBiz, the site that was using PayPal purportedly to raise funds to “defend” affiliates of the collapsed Zeek Rewards’ MLM scheme: The payment solution has been removed and will be replaced on September 8, 2012. PayPal a company owned by eBay.com had decided [...]

BULLETIN: A federal judge has dismissed the November 2011 lawsuit against the United States by AdSurfDaily figures Todd Disner and Dwight Owen Schweitzer. The dismissal of the lawsuit by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer came on the same day she sentenced confessed ASD Ponzi scheme operator Andy Bowdoin to 78 months in federal prison. After [...]