| | Documentation reveals that both the Amway Corporation senior management and ownership were aware that their distributor force was being defrauded and abused in 1981-1982. Recorded and hard copy paper documents now reveal that billionaire founder Rich DeVos was personally aware of the method, manner and scope of the fraud being perpetrated upon trusting distributors.
Here is what Rich DeVos acknowledged 20 years ago, in his own words, regarding distributors being “threatened, pressured, intimidated, coerced and scared”...
| | Click On MP3 Icon To Hear Rich DeVos Confess To The Abuses Of His Top Amway Leaders! | The Amway Corporation would, for the next two decades, financially reward and shower with incentives the very Kingpin distributors that were committing the abuses named above. The Amway Corporation’s level of involvement in the scheme extends far beyond rewarding the Kingpin level distributors who were bringing in millions of distributors through deception. The victims needed to be silenced for the scheme to continue culling billions from an unknowing public.
Amway, Rich DeVos, Kingpin distributors Dexter Yager, Bill Britt and many others were named in countless lawsuit after lawsuit in many states. See the “Lawsuits” section of the “Links” page at the end of this site. Each lawsuit revealed the victims were defrauded in a nearly identical, systematic fashion. Amway hired attorneys from one of the largest firms in the nation to work against plaintiff-victims. When caught red handed, Amway and/or its Kingpin distributors would deny the charges or claim it “was an isolated incident” despite having full knowledge of an ongoing, systematic fraud.
Through multiple websites, the lawsuits became public and it began to impair North American operations. Did Amway step in and take action against the distributors that were defrauding the public? No, they took two significant steps to silence the victims and “morph” their operation into something the public would not recognize as Amway. Both efforts have been a tremendous success to date, if you consider further perpetuating fraud a “tremendous success”.
First, the Amway corporation worked with the very distributors who were perpetuating the fraud to craft the “Business Support Materials Arbitration Agreement”, referred to as the BSMAA. This is not even a standard arbitration agreement but one that precludes the victims from speaking publicly about what was done to them. It also precludes another class action lawsuit like the Hanrahan lawsuit from being filed so former distributors that have been wiped out financially will have to face Amway’s crack legal team alone.
The BSMAA was written with a gag order embedded in it. Once you are forced into binding arbitration, you are no longer able to discuss the basis of your complaint with other litigants, or anyone else for that matter. Jody Victor, the mega-millionaire distributor who, by his own admission, helped craft the BSMAA, worked with Amway management and/or ownership to actually have it made part of the Amway application. Incredibly and unknowingly, one of the first acts a new Amway distributor commits is signing a document taking away their right to a trial by jury if and when they ever realize that they have been deceived. An attorney involved in current litigation with Amway advised me that it seemed to have been carefully crafted to also assure that there could never be a class-action suit brought against Amway or its Kingpin distributors. That was a smart move, as a single, destitute former distributor seemed to stand no chance against an over-funded, legally advantaged Goliath.
I reviewed tapes of a leader’s only meeting where Kingpin level Crown Distributor Jody Victor described the BSMAA and its purpose as follows:
"This is an important document. One that you will all come to know… a BSMAA I call it. But it is an idea to be able to say look, here it is you guys…risk reduction of your business. In every kit that will be signed by every distributor..."*
"The BSMAA is of course the Business Support Material...
ahhh...Arbitration Agreement that we are drafting and writing...You and I, distributors, to place in the kit...and the ADA Board and the ADA Board has instructed the Company, the Company will then collect them...as well as the other things that are going to be...words that will be on your actually, it’s an actual document...but actually words...new words on your SA-88 application and your intent to continue so that nobody can come in and mess up this business. It virtually shuts out the ability of a Hanrahan lawsuit but even more importantly than that, it means that nobody is going to mess with your kids. Their future, their business and that all risk reduction is totally stamped out, in other words, our goal was to do that...Well, only if we can remain humble, only if we remain filled with integrity..."**
* Emerald Directs II GDL 97-20 Internet Services
** Ibid.
There have been several versions of the arbitration agreement and one judge not only threw it out, he described it as “unconscionable”. See his ruling :
| | Click On PDF Icon To Download The Judge's Ruling On The BSMAA As Unenforceable! | One key area of promoting Amway versus other multi-level marketing businesses was the emphasis our leaders placed on the Amway Distributors Association Board (ADA.) This group was made up of many Diamond (and above that level) distributors that were voted into office to represent the distributor force on any policy changes. We were told that we were the only company that had distributor representation on a policy board of this nature and that this protected our interests and futures. I was dumbfounded to uncover and document that these mega-wealthy distributors seemed to derive nearly all of their income from the secretive, if not illegal, tool business and had just crafted a document that we were all forced to sign. The “risk reduction” BSMAA document limited distributors’ legal options for recourse if and when they realized they had been robbed and deceived. The very people who alleged to represent our best interests just collaborated with Amway and reduced their mutual risk, in the event distributors discovered the deception.
Amway went on what seems to be a corporate mission, which focused on removing any hint of “Amway” from Amway or its distributors. The Amagram magazine was a monthly magazine sent to distributors now called Achieve. Distributors are now called IBO’s (Independent Business Owners). What an incredible farce. The Amway Distributor Association is now the IBOA International. The Amway Mutual Fund is now the Activa Mutual Fund. Dexter Yager’s bi-monthly magazine is no longer called Dreambuilders, but it is now called The Business Owner. Amway was morphed into a new parent company named Alticor. It appears that Amway has been broken down into smaller companies called Access Business Group and Pyxis Innovations. Amway, Quixtar, Access Business Group and Pyxis Innovations are now subsidiaries of Alticor.
It appears that Amway ownership is expecting a huge class action suit or Federal interdiction and skelatonized Amway’s assets as an umbrella of protection. The Amway North American distributor organization ceased to exist. All the distributors became Quixtar IBO’s. Quixtar is an online version of Amway under a new corporate identity, unkown to the public. When it launched the bonus schedule, products and recruitment techniques were virtually identical to Amway. There has been a huge push for Quixtar and its new “IBO’s.” The sad part of it is that many people, earnestly seeking opportunity, think they actually have all the rights of a business owner when they become Quixtar Independent Business Owners. Nothing has changed. The Quixtar business is the bait by which the masses still are being lured into the exact same motivational organizations that have defrauded the public of literally over twenty billion dollars to date.
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