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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- 🔥Founder and Former CEO of 777 Partners, Joshua Wander, Pleads Guilty⚖️ to $500 Million Fraud Scheme — DOJ Confirms Double‑Pledging, Misappropriation of Structured‑Settlement Funds, and Falsified Bank Statements
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Category: Settlement Advertising Wall of Shame
Settlement Advertsiing Wall of Shame is a curated archive documenting misleading, deceptive, or ethically questionable advertising practices in the structured settlement and settlement‑planning ecosystem. This category highlights ads, promotions, and marketing claims that distort product definitions, blur regulatory boundaries, misuse fiduciary language, or confuse consumers and professionals about what structured settlements, annuities, and settlement planning actually are. By exposing these practices, the Wall of Shame serves as a public record, a teaching tool, and a reminder that clarity, accuracy, and integrity matter — especially in an industry where vulnerable people rely on truthful information.
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HighSpeedPayouts.com makes a devious and deceptive sales pitch to sell your structured settlement at its figurative pawn shop, for the purpose of “Taking Dream Vacations and Exotic Travel”, which is probably one of the all time dumbest things anyone can do with their structured settlement.
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Funding Direct LLC’s mailer appears to be a deceptive tactic aimed at encouraging structured settlement annuitants to sell their payments. It falsely claims that an inactive check from 2018 is a final attempt to collect owed balances, misleading recipients into thinking they are entitled to money, while also threatening termination of a nonexistent check.
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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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The American Equity Funding “carrots” are pretty much devoid of financial nutritional value. With the exception of possibly needing a reliable car for transportation, not a single of their other ideas is a legitimate reason to sell your structured settlement payments
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Prosperity Partners intentionally misrepresents a large number of items as structured annuity settlements as useless content fluff.. At this point Prosperity Partners is just mailing it in with information about structured settlements that is easily rubbished. Prosperity Partners Serves Up Rubbish on Structured Settlements inaccurate information. Jason Rigler’s frisbee chasing dog could do better than…