Structured Settlements 4Real®Blog 2026
Structured settlements expert John Darer reviews the latest structured settlements and settlement planning information and news, and provides expert opinion and highly regarded commentary. that is spicy, Informative, irreverent and effective for over 20 years.
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Category: Maryland Cauldron of Deceit
A bubbling cauldron of Structured Settlement Watchdog commentary about unsavory behavior by Maryland individuals or companies related to structured settlement factoring
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According to Weissman’s latest report, Ryan Blank brought Arthur Badger Jr. to Washington D.C. and “lavishly entertained” him in an effort to persuade Badger to sell his minor daughters’ structured settlement payments, worth millions, for pennies on the dollar to Blank entities.
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FTC announces final rule on August 14, 2024 to combat fake reviews and testimonials by prohibiting their sale or purchase and allow the agency to seek civil penalties against knowing violators. How FTC rule affects Structured Settlement Secondary Market
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On April 7, 2023, the Circuit Court of Maryland handed down sentences to 3 defendants associated with a role in the Access Funding scam of black lead paint victims in Baltimore City from 2013-2015 that received extensive coverage in the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun and other publications
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Structured settlement factoring class action lawsuit, Access Funding, LLC, et al. v. Chrystal Linton, et al., No. 5, September Term, 2022 ARBITRATION – EXISTENCE OF AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE – FRAUD – TRANSFER OF STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT PAYMENT RIGHTS
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Boghosian, Smith, and Sud prevented the 94 owners of structured settlement payment rights from receiving MD mandated independent professional advice. Smith pretended to give IPAs while (through Sud) receiving kickbacks from Access Funding when deals concluded. False statements made to court.
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According to a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) legal Exhibit, the Access Funding Sales Training Manual suggests that Access Funding was formally targeting structured settlement annuitants of AIG, Pacific Life and “any other insurance company that needs (payment) servicing”
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BBB of Maryland has bestowed a dubious A+ rating on banned AnnuitySold LLC, tied to fraudster Richart Ruddie (aka Richart Ruddie Annuity) whose textbook frauds were cited 18 times in a 2021 Utah Law Review treatise by UCLA Law professor Eugene Volokh.
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Richart Ruddie’s “textbook frauds,” involving a multi-state de-indexing scam and other questionable “reputation management” tactics, are referenced 18 times in UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh’s detailed 83-page treatise published in the Utah Law Journal.
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Today structured settlement factoring has devolved from justification as a source of liquidity to one of endless documented cases of systemic destruction of a stable source of income for annuitants, with the aid of shady lawyers and certain inattentive judges not up to the task.
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The Amble Media Group website features 4 separate images, one of which is labeled David Springer, but that could never be confused with David Springer, the sole principal on record for Amble Media Group. Is “Meet the Expert” (i.e. the singular) a Freudian slip?