The founder of the company that sells Enzyte sentenced to 25 years on counts of “conspiracy to commit bank, wire and mail fraud, as well as multiple counts of money laundering.”

Sounds a bit like this case which, to the best of my knowledge, hasn’t been heard yet. This can’t be good news for those folks.

Oh, and for the record, I think 25 years is a bit much.

Full story here.

The indictments, which include 40 separate crimes, are against Charles Thao, Mai Lor, Nutrapha Research, Bio Nutrasource, Tony Pham, Tong Vang, Techmedia Health (also known as Frist Nutrients and K.Y.C.), Shua Vang. The defendants, who were all arrested by Thursday, could face decades in prison or hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fines.

I got wind of this yesterday through my blog comments. Thanks for keeping me updated, guys.

If you follow the link there’s another link to a PDF of the indictment. I haven’t read it yet, but I suspect it’s quite entertaining.

Looks like this is going to hit the local news too.

Update: Comments are closed. I’m sick of people astroturfing here.

I’m replicating my response to this comment on TechMedica just for shits and giggles.

1) Google Maps is not always right!

They have a Google Map link to their place just below that photo. If it’s good enough for them it’s good enough for me to call bullshit on it.

2) Techmedica has two locations. The building you refer to is supposed to be their office. I called them on this and I asked the same question. They do have another location where everything is put together (the capsules).

I referred to two locations, one in Grand Rapids, one in Nevada. They have a picture of a building in Grand Rapids with a Las Vegas address below it. Does that make any sense? No. It’s a less than honest representation of their company.

That, and I’ll bet you dollars to donuts that the building they picture on their website has been Photoshopped. The lettering on the signs with the company logo is too clean, too white, and is entirely off center.

That and when you zoom in you see that the letters are prefectly shaded — just as they would be if placed there via Photoshop.

I’ll swing by tomorrow and take a picture of the actual building. I could be wrong, but I’d bet 100:1 odds that I’m right.

I am not sure why so many people are bent on talking bad about a company.

Because we believe it’s a scam run by a con artist that’s defrauding people left and right? Thats my motivation. Hell, I threw away the possibility of makin some spare cash by firing off an email to every email address I could find within the company railing against Tony Pham.

Why would somebody throw away a money making opportunity? Ethics? Yeah, that sounds about right.

If things were this bad the gov would have shut them down for good.

Give it time. Eventually the market or the government will shut this one down.

Many people point to the fda doc / request which in the end Techmedica fixed the labels to where their would not be any problems. How do I know this you might be asking, because I called and asked the same thing.

I usually don’t have to place multiple calls to a supplier of a health product to verify that they’re legitimate. That should throw up a nice big red flag.

I also read the fda doc thoroughly as well and I understood it as a bad label or bad marking on the product and, they needed to change the way the customer reviews – to show no “cures” and to make sure the heading didn’t say “here is the proof” etc.

In other word they were illegally labeling their product. All that research on a super-duper advanced cure-all drug and they never had anybody on staff that knew about FDA regulations with regards to product labeling?

Yeah that sounds like an honest mistake.

Update: Comments are closed. I’m sick of people astroturfing here.

I last wrote about this over a year ago and you can find that post about TechMedica right here.

Recently I’ve been getting comments on my original post which lead me to believe that the company is coming apart. I’m also occasionally searching for references to the company on other blogs which leads me to stuff like this about TechMedica.

The first comment on there surprised me, one for citing me, and two for showing something that I seemingly stumbled upon on my own but they also noticed. Truth be told I may have read it earlier, filed it away, then subliminally searched for it myself tonight. I cannot say for sure.

From the TechMedica company webpage I took this snapshot:

Note the address in the caption. This differs slightly (as in every single fuckin digit) from the address in the picture.

Take a gander at the lovely water. Thats gotta be a sight in Los Vegas, Nevada! Especially when you consider what the area looks like according to the address when you map it out with satelite images in Google Maps:

Hmm, not much water there. Lots of asphalt, not much water.

So, what happens when you look up the address for TechMedica in Grand Rapids, MI via Google? You find that their building indeed had the address of that in the picture, complete with body of water out front.

Why lie about the location? I’m not sure, but if I had to take a guess, and my guess is biased, I’d say it was done simply because the founder/president/whatever role he plays in the company, Tony Pham, is a pathological liar.

I could see lieing about the primary business location if you were a scammer in the middle of some slum in a 3rd world country, but I don’t see why it would be a bad thing to inform customers that you’re located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Hell, look at the picture! Not a bad place!

Why lie about something so non essential? Why make it so obvious? Anybody with half a clue knows that a) bodies of water in Las Vegas are rare, and b) lush pine trees aren’t found in the area. You should note that off to the right of the building in the original picture there’s one sitting there.

I’m going to try and stay on top of this one. It could get interesting, and I’m vastly fascinated that people have picked up my blog on this subject when it was only something I’ve briefly visited on here.

Update: Comments are closed. I’m sick of people astroturfing here.