Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
All right, you guys, happy Friday. We are going on a journey.
Chapter 2: What is the Erpenbeck scandal and its significance?
All right, a journey. So yesterday we told you that by all accounts, the voice that is in Erica's ear is Lori, her mother. Lori is the pusher, consigliere. As a part of the public psychological campaign, Erica has been curating videos to remind us that her mother is very ill. I don't dispute that.
I do dispute that Erica was with her on September 10th receiving a treatment, but we'll get to that later. Not important for today. Lori France Fay, despite being ill, has recently been put on the board of Superfeed Technologies alongside Turning Point Action's COO, Tyler Boyer. Shady dude. They're effectively then business partners. They have been for a while, actually.
Lori was at first a director over at Superfeed. Rumors have been swirling online that money from Turning Point Action has been routed into Superfeed. Now, I'm not a forensic accountant, so I can either confirm nor deny that. The point is, and I want you to take away here, is that these two are in cahoots, okay?
And we earlier broke the story that Tyler Boyer is, among other things, allegedly taking Turning Point into the business of real estate in particular. It might be relevant then that we learn a little bit, a thing or two, about a witness to Lori's frankly bizarre divorce documents that we went over. Now, I know, I know, she's a grieving widow. She's a grieving widow.
Very required that I say that. And we are therefore not allowed to speak about her turning point, family, or why the hell her mother was ever put on any board in the first place. But you know what? Billions of dollars are on the line, so I'd like to mark myself safe from being emotionally manipulated by Operation Erica Bird. Welcome back to Bride of Erica.
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Chapter 3: What details are revealed in the Erika timeline?
We have nothing to hide. Man, oh man, Loretta Abbas. Loretta Abbas or, you know, Walstad, Bronze Fae, Guinta. Something ain't right. Too many LLCs, too many households always lurking behind her daughter, shady divorce docs, curated content. Even the lawyer on those shady divorce docs, Rebecca Kay, may she rest in peace. But even she was involved with horse racing.
Is everybody somehow maybe connected to gambling? I want to know. All I know is that with mom, the vibes are not vibing for me, okay? Lottery tickets flying in the air with her grandma, grandparents. Well, on Monday's episode, or I guess earlier this week, Wednesday's episode, we went through Lori and Kent's divorce documents, right?
The only two out of about six or so documents that were available. And we determined that something wasn't right. Four different dates to the alleged wedding between Lori and Kent happened. An unnotarized child care agreement plus a different date for Erica's birthday than the one initially listed in the Cincinnati News.
Chapter 4: How does Lori's involvement in Superfeed Technologies raise concerns?
November 22nd across four sets of documents. But we caution people at home that, hey, there's other docs. Therefore, it's plausible that those remaining documents made some necessary changes. Caution, I said, caution. You guys don't listen. One of you guys went ahead and tore the caution tape down, sent me all the remaining documents. And those were interesting.
I'll have you know that Erica's birthday on all of them is November 22nd. Yeah, it is. Her name is spelled differently a few times too. Erica with a C. We'll go over that next week. That's what I want to talk about is a person that was in these documents. There was another person mentioned, someone who is listed as the witness to these shenanigans.
That's how I am going to hitherto refer to the divorce documents, the shenanigans. And that witness, his name is Richard Erpenbeck. I'll show you that here. Now, what I am blurring out on this document is is it had his address, which allowed me to definitively confirm which Rick Erpenbeck we were speaking about. Who is the one that actually was the witness?
Erpenbeck, by the way, anybody that's gone through following any of the people on X that have been deep diving alongside me, you will know that Erpenbeck is not an unusual name when it comes to Lori's businesses. This is actually the family that she uses many times to either notarize or to flat out incorporate her very many LLCs, regarding which... I just want to say this.
I'm never able to figure out what the heck the purposes of these LLCs are. What do these businesses actually do? Lori has LLCs coming out of her ears, okay? Lori's got a lot going on.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Lori's business dealings?
And I want to say something else. Her professional backstory in and of itself, it's odd. It's kind of like Erica odd, to be honest, right? Lori Ann was a model. By her second marriage, we discover that she's working as a secretary. She then must have fallen and bumped her head and became a technological genius.
There was no evidence of it, but then suddenly, whoop, she's arrived, and she is just putting together tech companies, as many people do. I am waiting for that late-stage technological brilliance to fall upon me, because I can barely sort through my apps. I don't even know how to get to the App Store in a fast enough time.
Let me take you through the litany of LLCs that she has filed, this is Lori, which feature Richard or Donna Erpenbeck as either the secretary, the incorporator, the notary, across a 25-year period. Okay?
Okay.
Now, Laurie filed for Eurotech in June of 1993. What does it do? Nobody knows. But Rick was featured. Laurie and Rick filed for Eurotech International UK. Nobody knows. That was in 1995. She filed for Techmetrics International 1993. And in the available 1998 docs pertaining to it, Richard Erpenbeck is again listed as the secretary. Laurie and Rick filed for Techmetrics Limited 1993.
That's International UK in 95. She also filed for virtual registration, okay, in December of 1999. You can see that we've got both Donna and Rick Erpenbeck had signed off on that. Also, does that say, yeah, you see Lori's signature. Everyone's kind of involved in getting these documents together. And then we know Lori files for AZ Tech. She goes to Arizona. We're in Europe.
We're doing tech everywhere. That's in August of 1997. And she eventually renames that E3 Tech in 2017. Again, her, Rick, Donna, you can go through these docs yourself. Their names are on there. Now, look, I've been around. I've seen some stuff.
I can tell you my instincts when I see a ton of LLCs and I don't know what the heck they're doing, especially when they're identifying themselves as tech, as a technology. That should be easily identifiable. Okay, you're a tech genius. In my mind, and I'm not saying this is the circumstance, but my unprofessional opinion, my mind goes to money laundering. Right. Got to get rid of money.
People got to start creating LLCs. You're thinking you're very sensible. Hey, maybe that's not the case. There's no evidence for that. Good. Even the thought of that is just thinking about that would make us a demon. No, everything's above board always. Now, Rick Erpenbeck, under that scenario, might just be a fantastic businessman.
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Chapter 6: What led to the Erpenbeck family's downfall?
So that's seven years of her life that we could find. There could be more. There could be, she could have been doing pageantry while she was in Ohio for a couple of years. I'll let you know. I'll keep you posted. I should also add here that some pageant women disputed her narrative. They wrote to us that she was just randomly invited.
They said that minors in particular are not just freely solicited to join pageant world and that their photo has to be submitted by a parent or a guardian. I'm not an expert on that. And maybe I wasn't pretty enough. I was a little funny looking, had a little bit of an underbite, but I never received any of these mailers that she's talking about.
Anyway, let's jump into an Erica timeline and you guys can follow along here. 2005, Erica is still attending Notre Dame Prep and she is playing basketball. She was a junior in high school from 2005, 2006.
She is going to win first runner-up in the National America Miss Arizona Pageant, and she will represent Arizona in the upcoming All-American Miss Pageant in November of 2005, which takes place in Los Angeles. That year, Lori Franz Bay is listed in the House bill budget for the U.S. Department of Homeland Securities for another business that she has called IMET Laboratories.
Like I said, don't ask me what any of her businesses do. It's not clear. In August, just ahead of Erica's senior year, this is 2006 now, in August, just ahead of her senior year, she's going to win the National American Miss Teen Pageant. And she wins a chance and takes it to travel to D.C. to present her plans to Representative J.D. Hayworth and Senator John Kill.
Erica becomes involved with a charity known as Andrea's Closet, which works with a hospital in Winslow, Arizona, for kids. Erica notes that she stops by that hospital often on the way to basketball games and that she wants to establish her own charity in the future. That year, her father, Kent Fronspe, is listed as a risk assessment contractor.
He's mentioned also as a resident of Surprise, Arizona, concerned. Basically, he's trying to get more funding from the DHS. You get this sense that now the family is like, we need government contracts for stuff. That'll work for us.
Lori is going to have to close down Virtual Registration International Incorporated, one that Rick helped her open, because the tax department force closes it for lack of a tax filing. So that tends to happen a lot with some of these LLCs. In 2007, we have Erica winning the Miss American, I'm sorry, her teen year begins. So you kind of
You have the pageant at the end of a year, and then you have the crown for the following year, for those of you who are like me and do not know how pageantry world works. So if you're competing in 2006, you are competing for 2007, and then 2007 is going to be your year. So that is her Miss America team year.
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Chapter 7: How did Lori's personal life intersect with the scandal?
In the 2007 and 2008 school year, Erica is going to begin playing basketball. She got the scholarship and she does that. Regis University begins in the fall. I could find two newspaper entries of her scoring, November 24th game against South Dakota, and then another entry on December 1st.
And, yeah, she seemingly, if I was just following the paper trail, I would say she had abandoned her scholarship. And I was wondering, like, did she transfer to Loyola Marymount? Like, what happened here? And you should know, of course, never leave Lori out. First off, she's listed now as having been married to Larry Ginta. That's the first time.
um that we see that because joe abbas dies and it looks like she is married laurie and larry maybe they're saying that they're just together who knows and that's why they're listing him i'm not positive um but laurie every year there's always new llc so laurie is going to file az tech international with rick erpenbeck on documents and that will um Oh, I'm sorry. They had already filed that.
It gets canceled by the tax department. That's right. There's so many LLCs and so many cancellations. This one gets canceled. 2008 is where it gets pretty interesting because I was trying to find Erica's very present. And suddenly in 2008, I can't find her. OK, I put this as like Erica's missing school year. Now, she herself disputes this in various times.
She says she played basketball for two years and she's going to know in a future alumni packet for Notre Dame that she was indeed playing basketball at Regis University for two years. But I could not confirm that. And interestingly enough, Regis University still has her basketball stat page up. And they're on my side. They say they only have a record of her playing from 2007 to 2008.
That's the season that she played. Now, she may have just stayed on. It's possible that she continued her studies. She said she had an academic scholarship. Um, at Regis, I thought that I was like, maybe she stopped playing basketball and she decided to just focus on her studies. And that's why I can't find her at basketball games.
Maybe that's why Regis is not acknowledging that she continued to play. But then I thought, nope, I think something else happened here. She does indeed go missing because Erica gives an interview in 2020 where she's reflecting on her life. It's a rather obscure interview, which has since been removed, by the way.
They contacted someone and got this taken down, but not before I got it, not before I got it and saved it. As soon as I saw it, I said, save this. They're going to start going backwards and trying to delete stuff. And this one was a gem. And she's going to confirm that after she passes her crown. So in 2007, she's wearing the crown and then she passes her crown.
She is going to confirm that she does indeed go missing during after that period. So this would be, of course, in 2008. Take a listen to what Erica says herself.
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