Andre Vaughn was a former Youngevity high distributor, who jumped ship for Wakaya Perfection in late 2015.
Wakaya Perfection cite Vaughn as a “Founding Ambassador”, and checklist him first on the “Discipline Leaders” part of their web site.
On June 18th, Vaughn was sentenced to 10 months in jail for repeated cases of chapter fraud.
Andre Vaughn popped up on BehindMLM’s radar on account of the messy spat between Youngevity and Wakaya Perfection.
In a nutshell, Wakaya Perfection was created by a bunch of former Youngevity executives and high distributors.
Youngevity wasn’t glad about being gutted, cue a number of backwards and forwards lawsuits.
Wakaya Perfection’s counter lawsuit in opposition to Youngevity was stayed earlier this 12 months. However the authorized mess is much from over and nonetheless taking part in out.
Individually Vaughn is a named defendant in a $250,000 securities fraud lawsuit filed in opposition to Wakaya Perfection final December.
The lawsuit offers with secret backroom offers given to Wakaya Perfection distributors.
Vaughn is a defendant within the lawsuit, which was referred to arbitration in January.
Throughout his time at Youngevity, Vaughn evidently additionally loved secret backroom deal privileges.
As disclosed by Youngevity themselves of their lawsuit in opposition to Wakaya Perfection;
Andre Vaughn and Monique Vaughn are married, share their property, and co-mingle their funds. Andre was a high distributor for Youngevity.
Whereas each Andre and Monique maintained Youngevity distributor accounts, Andre was by far the extra lively in Youngevity enterprise.
Over a interval of roughly 4 years, Andreoli in his capability as President of Youngevity, induced in extra of a dozen “compelled {qualifications}” or automated rank developments to be bestowed upon people and entities who didn’t earn these developments.
The impact was to trigger the corporate to pay these people and entities greater than justified commissions, bonuses, and automotive bonuses.
Amongst these given these compelled {qualifications} have been Andreoli’s dad and mom, his spouse and youngsters, Andre Vaughn, and Monique Vaughn.
For instance, on account of Andreoli’s compelled qualification of Andre Vaughn, Youngevity paid Vaughn $40,000.00 in automotive bonuses and in extra of $600,000.00 in commissions and different bonuses over a 4 12 months interval.
Sadly for Vaughn, he was additionally secretive in his monetary affairs outdoors of Youngevity.
On July 18th, 2018, a Grand Jury indicted Andre Vaughn on a number of counts of chapter associated fraud.
Based on Vaughn’s indictment, he and his spouse Monique (proper);
- hid property and knowingly made false declarations below penalty of perjury in separate April 2005, June 2012, July 2013 and April 2015 chapter filings;
- fraudulently hid a number of financial institution accounts they owned and/or had an curiosity in throughout their numerous chapter filings;
- lied about separating from each other of their 2013 chapter submitting; and
- hid their “affiliation with numerous companies and organizations”.
Whether or not Youngevity was one of many companies the Vaughns did not disclose is unclear.
A Public Defender was assigned to the case and Andre Vaughn initially plead not responsible on August seventh, 2018.
On December 4th a plea settlement was filed.
As per the settlement, Vaughn agreed to plead responsible to Depend 5 of his indictment.
Depend 5 referred to Vaughn failing to reveal financial institution accounts he had an curiosity in, in addition to his enterprise affiliations.
In alternate the DOJ agreed to not bringing and additional felony fees, referring to the conduct detailed in his indictment.
On December nineteenth Vaughn filed a movement to withdraw his not responsible plea.
In January 2019 Vaughn’s plea deal was accepted by the court docket.
Following a number of sentencing listening to reschedules, Vaughn was sentenced on June 18th to 10 months in jail.
Upon launch, Vaughn will probably be topic to supervised launch for 2 years.
Monique Vaughn was indicted the identical day as her husband.
She plead not responsible in August 2018, which was withdrawn rather than a responsible plea settlement at in early February.
Monique Vaughn is because of be sentenced on July ninth.
Contemplating Vaughn’s former standing in Youngevity and now Wakaya Perfection, actually some fast questions come to thoughts:
Particularly how was Vaughn a high earner in Youngevity and concurrently submitting for chapter each few years.
Vaughn is a Blue Diamond Ambassador in Wakaya Perfection, and high of their Discipline Management checklist.
In his Wakaya Perfection Discipline Management bio, Vaughn claims he’s
skilled monetary independence in community advertising and marketing on a degree that has exceeded my preliminary desires.
My monetary independence has afforded me the power to get pleasure from my favourite sport of Basketball on a completely new degree as a co-owner of a Semi-pro Basketball Workforce.
Profitable is a life-style. It’s this mindset that helped me to realize the Blue Diamond Ambassador degree so rapidly and it’s a mindset that can assist me obtain my life purpose of leaving an unimaginable legacy for my kids.
As I look in direction of the longer term, in a single 12 months from now I will probably be a worldwide chief in and a high cash earner within the business.
When weighed in opposition to Vaughn’s repeated chapter filings and fraudulent concealment of property, none of that rhetoric actually provides up.
Replace seventh July 2019 – Monique Vaughn has been sentenced to 3 years probation.