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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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Professor Volokh Exposes Attempts to Vanish from Google Materials About Attempts to Vanish Materials
A similar bogus DMCA takedown to what Professor Volokh received, revealed more plagiarized content from yet another one of our posts, this one concerning Richart Ruddie’s being sanctioned for reputation management fraud on the Court in the Myvesta RI matter and again backdated to mislead
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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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Richart Ruddie and Ryan Blank companies have sunk to the dubious honor of being worst of the structured settlement secondary market, with an F rating from the Better Business Bureau. Ruddie/Blank companies are now rated even worse than Reliance Funding, the successor to Access Funding,
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JRR Funding, a company that was registered to Richard Ruddie of Owings Mills MD and Ft Lauderdale, FL, banned (with Annuity Sold and other affiliates) in 2018, from doing business in Maryland for 7 years, has a fake employee promoted on LinkedIn. Shameful Richart Ruddie Annuity. Shameful.
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Lack of structured settlement secondary market regulation allowed punks that run AnnuitySold, affiliated companies and others, to run amok. In this case Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh took on the miscreants with a fervor and result that sets an example of what can be done in other states
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Myvesta’s amicus brief is a must read to gain an understanding about the extent of the fraud. There is apparently more to be learned about Richart Ruddie, but Levy states that he is under some restriction so as not interfere with the ongoing Rhode Island US Attorney criminal investigation of Ruddie.
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Richart Ruddie SEO Indexing Scam Reputation Management Guru Pays Up , Plea Bargains in Criminal Case
Richart Ruddie,ran a dirty reputation management company from Ft Lauderdale, “butterflied and filleted” by the Public Citizen Law Group’s Paul Alan Levy like a Michelin chef, settled the civil case for $71K and cut a deal with the RI US Attorney in the criminal investigation of the de-indexing scam.
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Richart Ruddie’s scheme to charge customers while attempting to defraud Google through the filing of fraudulent lawsuits in various courts and securing “consent judgments” is unravellling. On 1/31/2017, a RI Judge vacated the Order in Bradley Smithf v Deborah Garcia, Defendant and Myvesta Foundation Defendant-Intervenor C.A.
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Just 2 days after a scathing Washington Post article was published, RIR1984 LLC was dissolved, according to Florida Secretary of State records. Same records reveal that Ryan W. Blank, an Owings Mills high school mate of Richart Ruddie’s is listed as a co-member of RIR1984 LLC
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Annuity Sold’s Richart Ruddie could face criminal charges per a report by Paul Alan Levy of the Public Citizen Law Group. Ruddie’s rapidly unraveling scam on various courts around the country, involves dozens of suspicious court cases, missing defendants, aiming at getting web pages taken down or deindexed as part of “reputation management”