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Yet the invoices to HNB from Direct Outbound Services appear to tell a different story.  In essence, it appears that  Direct Outbound Services made money from responding to consumer complaints to State AGs, the BBB, Visa/Mastercard, customer service, contract manufacturing, and more.

It's curious to note that John Monarch's business partner and attorney, Aaron Kelly, is currently facing action by the Arizona Bar for his alleged role in manufacturing fake defendants for his clients to sue.   The Arizona Bar has also accused Monarch's business partner of creating fake notaries, as noted in this Washington Post article published by UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh.

That's not to say that Jon Dorko isn't a real person, instead it appears that Direct Outbound Services operated and billed for the very things that "Jon Dorko" claims to have managed.   In other words, notwithstanding Dorko's role as a "signer" on the merchant accounts and contracted operational services at Direct Outbound, it's hard to tell exactly what Dorko's actual role was in the alleged HNB scam.

After Jon Dorko stopped operating the sophisticated HNB free trial program, he parlayed all of his operational skills into becoming a lawn specialist for Trugreen.   A lawn specialist?

How does Jon Dorko go from making millions one day as a free trial merchant to a lawn specialist the next?

It's not as-if Jon Dorko was indicted or had all of his assets seized.  With millions of dollars generated it seems that Dorko could have easily moved onto a new venture that utilized his operational know-how in fulfillment, merchant processing, call centers, and direct marketing, just like Jesse Willms did after his weight loss free trial scams were shut down by regulators.

In Willms case, unlike Dorko, all of his assets were seized.  Yet the deftness that has characterized his entire business career,  Willms was back at it just weeks later selling free trial programs to consumers seeking driving records, criminal records, and vehicle-history reports (just as Carfax does).

Was Jon Dorko just a front man signer in the HNB operation or was he indeed the mastermind behind the alleged scam that thousands of consumers reported to their credit card providers as fraud?