Multilevel Marketing: The Consumer Protection Challenge 2023 - Session 1: Review of Recent MLM Cases

00:00:00 Welcome & Greeting
00:03:31 Douglas M. Brooks - Remembering Bruce Craig, Esq.
00:07:52 Peter Vander Nat, PhD
00:34:30 Stacie Bosley, PhD
00:56:12 Professor William Keep
01:18:37 Claire Wack

Welcome – William Keep
Greeting from Dr. Kathryn Jervis, Dean, TCNJ School of Business

Review of some recent MLM cases:

Peter Vander Nat, PhD (Federal Trade Commission, retired)
Peter J. Vander Nat, PhD (University of Notre Dame) served for 15+ years as senior economic expert at the FTC regarding pyramid schemes and has submitted numerous declarations to federal courts. Along with co-author Dr. Bill Keep, he has published articles on pyramid schemes vs. legitimate multilevel marketing. Upon retiring from the FTC in 2014, he remains an active expert witness for government prosecution of pyramid schemes.

Stacie Bosley, PhD (Associate Professor of Economics)
Stacie Bosley is an economist with a PhD. in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota. She is the Kahlert Professor of Economics at Hamline University, Minnesota. She has served as an expert witness for the FTC in pyramid scheme cases. Her work on MLMs has been published in the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, the Journal of Financial Crime, the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Economic Inquiry.

William Keep, PhD (Professor of Marketing)
William W. Keep, PhD is a professor of marketing and former dean of business and interim provost at The College of New Jersey. He has assisted state and federal prosecutors in the prosecution of pyramid schemes and has been quoted in the press (The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg/ BusinessWeek, Financial Times, New York Times, Forbes, etc.) as an expert on multilevel marketing. With Dr. Peter Vander Nat (senior economics, FTC, retired), Dr. Keep published academic articles on multilevel marketing, pyramid schemes, and the evolution of direct selling in the United States.

Claire Wack (Federal Trade Commission)
Claire Wack is a staff attorney in the Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Marketing Practices, where she has worked on a breadth of topics over the last seven years, including multilevel marketing and pyramid schemes. Claire began her legal career as an honors attorney at the Federal Communications Commission prior to joining the FTC.

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