by Structured Settlement Watchdog
Richart Ruddie, Owings Mills native and owner of a dirty reputation management company, “butterflied and filleted” by attorney Paul Alan Levy and at the time of publication was is in the process of plea bargaining with the Rhode Island United States Attorney in the criminal investigation into his scam.
As covered in previous blogs, the search engine optimization indexing scam orchestrated by Richart Ruddie, who ran search” and “reputation management” scheme, charging tens of thousands of dollars for the service of suppressing public access to blog articles alerting consumers to problems with debt relief companies.
Ruddie arranged to have suits filed in various states around the country, submitting forged consent orders signed by non-exsitent defendants
One such case was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island. After Chief Judge William E. Smith learned that he had been tricked by this fraud into signing a consent order, he granted a motion for leave to intervene filed by Myvesta Foundation, the blog host victimized by the scheme; dismissed the case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction; and ordered briefing on the issue of attorney fees under Rhode Island’s anti-SLAPP law, as well as sanctions under the Court’s inherent authority.
The Structured Settlement Factoring Connection Ties in AnnuitySold
As the result of Paul Alan Levy’s excellent legal work we had the ability to tie in Ruddie’s AnnuitySold structured settlement site to Ruddie’s fraud. As written previously, the papers in the phony lawsuit were sent to a notary via an AnnuitySold email and the check to pay the notary signed by Richart Ruddie came from a company that Richart Ruddie and Ryan William Blank were both managing members of, a company dissolved in October 2016 as the scam began to unravel.
Read Paul Alan Levy’s excellent write up Richart Ruddie Settles anti-SLAPP Claims, Makes Restitution; but the Guilty Companies Remain Unpunished
Update on Case Involving https://getoutofdebt.org/, Rescue One Financial, and Fake Lawsuits Paul Alan Levy March 14, 2017
Interesting People: “Profile Defender” scammer who files fake lawsuits is pleading guilty and making restitution Dave Farber March 14, 2017
Settlement Agreement with Richart Ruddie and his companies
Download USCOURTS-rid-1_16-cv-00144-1 Richart Ruddie Fraud Sanctions Order Rhode Island
“Following the issuance of discovery subpoenas to Ruddie, to the Case 1:16-cv-00144-S-LDA Document 16 Filed 04/13/17 Page 1 of 3 PageID #: Case 1:16-cv-00144-S-LDA Document 16 Filed 04/13/17 Page 2 of 3 PageID #: customers on whose behalf he was believed to have presented these papers, and to two attorneys whom Ruddie hired to file two similar lawsuits, Ruddie and some of his companies admitted being responsible for causing this action to be filed in this Court, as well as causing several similar actions to be filed in state courts in Maryland and Florida”.
Apparently-fake-defendant libel lawsuit watch: Richart Ruddie & SEO Profile Defender Network LLC paying $71,000 to settle claim – The Washington Post, March 14, 2017
As reported a year later on January 9, 2018