Default judgment has been entered towards Redwood Scientific Applied sciences and a bunch of company defendants.

Ultimate judgment has additionally been entered towards proprietor Jason Cardiff and spouse Eunjung Cardiff.

Again in 2018, the FTC accused Redwood Scientific Applied sciences and associated company defendants of FTC Act, the Restore On-line Customers’ Confidence Act, the Digital Fund Switch Act and Telemarketing and Shopper Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act violations.

Named company defendants are Redwood Scientific Applied sciences (integrated in CA, NV, DE), Establish LLC, Superior Males’s Institute Prolongz LLC, Run Away Merchandise LLC and Carols Place LP.

The courtroom deems the company defendants as “numerous
iterations and shells of each other”. To maintain issues easy, I’ll check with them because the “Redwood company defendants”.

Not one of the Redwood company defendants filed a response to the FTC’s criticism. This prompted the regulator to file for file for default judgment in August 2020.

The hazard of future violations by the Company Defendants justifies
the issuance of everlasting injunctive reduction, together with banning them from participating in sure actions.

As per the phrases of the granted injunctive reduction, the Redwood company defendants are banned from

1. performing unfavorable possibility gross sales (billing customers for product gross sales they don’t choose out of);
2. making robocalls and ringless voicemails;
3. “participating or taking part in any multilevel advertising and marketing program”;
4. “promoting, advertising and marketing, selling, or providing on the market of any dissolvable oral movie strip to end-user customers”;
5. claiming their merchandise “assist customers give up smoking”, “causes or assists in inflicting weight reduction”, “suppresses or helps suppress urge for food”, “helps customers keep away from gaining again any weight reduction”, “will increase ejaculation management or the period of intercourse”, “treats or prevents untimely ejaculation”, or “cures, mitigates, or treats any illness”; and
6. making representations their merchandise are superior alternate options for any of the above.
7. misrepresenting product endorsements;
8. claiming merchandise are made within the US after they aren’t;
9. making deceptive and misleading revenue claims;
10. mendacity about buyer satisfaction charges, whole prices, refund insurance policies, product advantages, product trial presents, buyer billing, how buyer billing data is used and transactions licensed by customers;
11. failing to honor refunds, returns and/or cancellation requests;
12. participating in bank card laundering;
13. mendacity to cost processors and banks;
14. “participating in any techniques to keep away from fraud-and-risk monitoring applications”;
15. making unauthorized fees; and
16. misusing submitted buyer data.

An exception for prohibited acts in factors 5 and 6 is given, supplied “competent and dependable scientific proof substantiating” any representations made are supplied.

Any such proof

should include human scientific testing of the product, or of an Primarily Equal Product, that’s adequate in high quality and amount based mostly on requirements typically accepted by specialists within the related illness, situation, or perform to which the illustration relates, when thought of in mild of your complete physique of related and dependable scientific proof, to substantiate that the illustration is true.

Such testing have to be: (1) randomized, double-blind, and placebo-controlled; and

(2) performed by researchers certified by coaching and expertise to conduct such testing.

The Redwood company defendants are topic to twenty years of compliance monitoring. There isn’t a financial part to the judgment order.

Ultimate judgement towards Redwood’s proprietor, Jason Cardiff and spouse Eunjung, was additionally entered on March 1st.

Ultimate judgment stems from granting of abstract judgment towards the Cardiffs in 2020.

The Cardiffs operated the Company Defendants as a standard enterprise, and the Company Defendants had been “all concerned within the sale of the Merchandise [with] cash, merchandise, and workers circulation[ing] freely between them.”

The Cardiffs had been the “beneficiaries and masterminds” of the frequent enterprise, and “had data of the misrepresentations in promoting or had been recklessly detached to the falsity of the misrepresentations.”

The ultimate judgment reaffirms the findings of abstract judgment, in that the Cardiffs

1. lied in regards to the efficacy of the TBX-FREE, Eupepsia Skinny and Prolongz strips;
2. supplied a false money-back assure for the strips;
3. falsely claimed the oral strips had been made within the US;
4. supplied pretend weight reduction testimonials for the strips;
5. lied about enrolling unsuspecting customers into an autoship program;
6. made “false and unsubstantiated claims that individuals who turned Rengalife members had been prone to earn substantial
   revenue”;
7. made unauthorized billing funds to shopper’s credit score and debit playing cards; and
8. engaged in robocall fraud.

The injunctive reduction granted towards the Cardiffs mirror that of the Redwood company defendants.

Of specific be aware is the Cardiffs being banned from MLM for all times.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Jason Cardiff and Eunjung Cardiff, whether or not performing straight or by way of an middleman, together with by consulting, planning, facilitating, or advising, are completely restrained and enjoined from participating or taking part in any multilevel advertising and marketing program.

As with the Redwood company defendants, there may be no financial penalty related to ultimate judgment order.

This can be a results of the Supreme Courtroom siding with scammers final yr.

BehindMLM took an curiosity within the Redwood proceedings because of its ties to RengaLife.

Each the default judgment and ultimate judgment orders convey BehindMLM’s protection of the Redwood litigation to a detailed.