| As many site visitors know, Quixtar filed an arbitration demand on
former Amway/Quixtar founders Emerald Eric Scheibeler. Quixtar/Alticor was concerned
about statements Scheibeler had made to the various Internet media sources concerning a
death threat he had received from another Amway distributor. A Pennsylvania court later
denied Quixtar's arbitration demand. In order to clear the air and set the record
straight, Mr. Scheibeler has issued the following statement:
Apparently Quixtar and their attorneys had read some other meaning into Scheibeler's
words and falsely came to the conclusion that Scheibeler had claimed that senior company
management was responsible for making the death threats! The text that Quixtar and
the fine attorneys at Brinks Hofer have trouble with is below.
On March 8, 2006, The Cleveland Free Times
published the following statements from the letter, which are attributed to
Scheibeler:
I inadvertently discovered and documented
literally billions in systematic consumer fraud. Naively, thinking it was only being
perpetrated by Kingpin distributors, I reported it directly to Amway/Quixtar senior
management and to Dick DeVos, who was then president and is the son of the billionaire
founder (now running for governor of Michigan).
To my shock, I was told in a face-to-face
meeting what gun would be used to kill me if I became a whistleblower and made waves.
After a decade of diligent work, our sole income was shut off in an effort to starve me
into silence. My wife and young son received death threats on the telephone, resulting in
an FBI tap and trace on our line. A financial offer was made at the same time we were
being pressured to sign a non-disclosure agreement. We refused and lost our home and
medical insurance and had to declare bankruptcy. I have been advised that a private
investigator was hired to follow me in an attempt to find information that would discredit
my character.
On or before April 3, 2006, a Swedish newspaper published the following
statement attributed to Scheibeler:
When I, a person quite high up in the
organization, discovered and documented the scam, I reported it to the highest echelon,
Dick DeVos. That might have been quite naive. But I did it. The result was that I received
a direct death threat. My wife and children have been threatened over the telephone. Amway
also stopped my income flow in an attempt to silence me. It is ironic, considering that my
only aim in writing the book was to protect the distributors.
I hope this page and
this statement from Mr. Schiebeler helps to clear the air on this topic that no corporate
officials were behind the death threats |
