iAchieve May/June 2002
 Hal & Harriet's Diamond Tape Excerpts

Harriet with designer handcuffs
8/16/2004

From a site visitor: Hal and Harriett Lyons live in Santa Barbara, CA. They were brought up on stage at one of the Team 5 K functions as new Diamonds (from Platinum to Diamond in one year). This was around August of 2001. They never had Emerald or Diamond articles in the Achieve magazine. It was a shock to our whole organization, because they kept it a secret from everyone except the Team 5K diamond, their sponsors. Harriet had been a second grade school teacher for 30 years and Hal owned his own contracting business, and was a horse guy - rancher-type. Harriet was Colleen's supervisor at the elementary school, when Colleen got in the business and married Chuck.

Hal and Harriet were put on the celebrity speaking tour and went to every Free Enterprise function put on by Yager, speaking to tens of thousands of people...as "real diamonds". They were flown all over the country via private jet. A site visitor reported that they spoke to about 6000 at a Michigan function and an estimated 15,000 people at a Yager FED in St. Louis in September 2001.

They were even hired to speak for Gulick in Australia and New Zealand and were making tapes and putting them out all through the Yager system. They attended the all-expense paid Diamond Club in Hawaii and were recognized as new "Diamonds".

Then troubles began to surface. Apparently, Harriet had been extremely convincing and influential with everyone, but she had never produced the volume to finish the Diamond qualification. She wasn't even close. She kept claiming that the volume was coming through and she somehow manipulated things to make it look like Diamond had happened. their diamond was asked to "vouch" for her and he did on the faith that she was telling him the truth too.

Quixtar Achieve May/June 2002
Pages 10, 11

But after a few months of research, no one at the corporation could track the actual volume, so Diamond never actually happened.

As this began to unravel, Harriet was involved in another couple of scandals to do with the corporation. Apparently she wrote checks that bounced - to the company for large amounts of money - we're talking about tens of thousands of dollars. She clung to the story that she was a Diamond, and the company being very gracious gave her the benefit of the doubt. But the checks kept bouncing and she could not cover them. As things began to collapse, she drafted a fraudulent letter to Quixtar, on letter-head from her bank, from a "manager" who didn't even work at that bank anymore, saying that somebody committed bank fraud and the Lyon's accounts were mysteriously drained. That is why all these large checks had bounced.

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The company attempted to contact the bank but of course could not track down this manager who didn't work there anymore who had "written the letter" to verify Harriet's banking problems. So that put off the scandal discovery a few more weeks. In the meantime, Harriet had an attorney in her down line (who was way down line and had never been to a function, nor ever met Harriet, so didn't know who Harriet was). This attorney resided in Santa Barbara. Harriet got hold of some of her (the attorney) letter head and drafted another letter arguing that

"her client" had been defrauded and the bank agreed that she had in fact been robbed and her accounts drained by someone. All this was fictitiously put together by Harriet in a desperate struggle to believe her own lie that they were actually Diamonds.

The attorney of course received a call from the corporation regarding the letter they thought the attorney drafted. Not only had the attorney not written a letter on Harriet's behalf, but she had never met nor heard of Hal and Harriet Lyons. Some other IBO had just signed her up into the business on a quick decision. The attorney was shocked and not pleased. The attorney informed the corporation that she had never written such a letter, although they had one with her letterhead and a signature. The corporation of course apologized and the doo-doo hit the fan and Team 5k was called and informed of the whole scandal.

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Their upline Diamond entered into a lengthy negotiation process with the attorney who had been defrauded by Harriet Lyons, profusely apologized and begged her not to press charges, which, by the grace of God she did not. After all the dust settled, Quixtar informed their diamond formally that they were having meetings to decide the Lyons' punishment, and within a few weeks, the Lyons' were terminated from Quixtar.

There is a lot more detail about the Lyons that involved problems with tools, and bouncing checks to the P.D.P. (Professional Development Program) office - the diamond's separate corporation set up as a

Hal & Harriet's "Diamond Tape"
"The 34-foot Tower"
 Hal & Harriet's Diamond Tape Excerpts

Nevada Corporation to run tools and function profits through.  It is claimed that P.D.P. just barely breaks even by sponsoring all the events and special promotions like houseboat trips for certain qualifiers, etc. It's all the same dirty money as the other Diamonds I read about on your web site. I imagine that there are millions in profit that have been hidden and/or stashed in assets, in the name of the "team's" money for functions, etc.