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"Inside World Marketing Alliance"
"The World Marketing Alliance's nearly 11,000 licensed securities brokers comprise the fourth-largest broker sales force in the country, yet the company passes under the radar of most journalists ... Unlike its better-known financial peers, the company applies an Amway-like sale structure that often runs counter to investors' best interests. To support the layered compensation structure, brokers must sell high commission products. And to earn more money, brokers must recruit other brokers, a system that fosters a decentralized sales culture in which rogue brokers can operate undetected."
Tags: part-time brokers; pyramid scheme; Ponzi scheme; "compound recruiting"; investments; motgages; Internet services; scam; WMA; Morman Church; varible universal life; VUL; fraud; "selling away"; Zillionaire.com; Amway; bankruptcy; Securities and Exchange Commission; SEC; insurance; mutual funds
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The Morman Church tried and failed, to cure parishioner Michael Shean of pedophilia. Fifteen years later Santa Barbara County would describe the youth baseball coach and Sunday school teacher as a "predator." The story raises questions about the place of faith in criminal rehabilitation and the confidentiality of the confessional. (May 21, 1995)
Tags: Wilson Parks Confessions and desires Contest entry Child abuse 7 pgs.