Despite the widespread fraud, U.S. District Judge Dee Benson states a contrarian position to arguments from the Federal Trade Commission. Meanwhile, the FTC asserts that all assets shall be frozen. Finally, the FTC insists a responsible party is appointed to take over the companies and seize all related funds.
“It might be fraud. It might not be,” said Benson, who added the issues “can be sorted out at trial” and indicated he didn’t accept the FTC argument the businesses operated as single enterprise in which all operations involved fraud.
