Scott Carney

And he started this grifting real estate company, which sold people contracts and houses on a rent-to-own basis, but was basically designed to steal all their money.

And it's more complex than that, but that's the gist.

And he got indicted on 90 counts for violating fair trade practices.

And he skipped out on his trial, fled New Zealand, backpacked around the world, landed in Phoenix, Arizona, and started the world's most profitable supplement company called AG1, which is like everywhere.

It's worth like $1.2 billion right now.

And it was really interesting to go dig into his past and tell the story that no one else had come up with, even though the records are publicly available.

It wasn't like too difficult to find.

But I found it.

And when I did that, this is crazy.

AG Wan, when I was writing that piece, I reached out to them because part of being a journalist is you reach out to the people.

Yeah.

So I reached out to them and they hired the most expensive law firm in the country.

It was actually, what's their name?

God, the name's not coming to me, but it was like, it was the law, the defamation law firm that won the $787 million lawsuit against Fox News.

Like if you remember when they did the voting machine, Fox was like saying Dominion voting was like a scam and they got sued for a shit ton of money and they settled for $707 million.

The lawyer who argued the case and got that plaintiff was the one writing me saying, Scott, you know, we're going to sue you.

Um, and so I did, so I, but, but they were lying to me.

They were telling me that Chris Ashenden, the founder of that company was never in jail.

had never been convicted of a crime, had never done all these things.

And it just turns out they were lying, that they were just sending me these false records, these records that were misleading.