Some bozos never learn.

I won’t name the podcast, but here’s what I wrote them (with a few alterations) when I learned about their interview with Wid as I was getting some more information together for the lawyers at the Utah Attorney General’s office for the Communications Fraud case they are putting together in Wid:
The podcast XXXX  is filled with lies and verifiable misstatements. I believe your podcast co-host XXX XXXXX mentions he is/was thinking of working with Wid – please reconsider. I don’t have a personal vendetta against Wid; I’m actively trying to stop him from stealing from others. There’s a difference.

The various blog posts on the internet, KBoards threads, vlogs – all of those dozens of people, myself included, aren’t wasting their time to trash an innocent man.

Wid Bastian is a convicted felon.

He didn’t overextend himself with high interest rates as he said on his interview with you,

he pled guilty to embezzling the money.

That’s verifiable information that flies in the face of his explanation to you.

Prior to that, it is stated that he was fired from Merrill Lynch for embezzling clients’ money. That’s also what he did to numerous author clients (unrelated to my issues with him) and they are pursuing him in civil court.

My issue is, he stole money from me and other authors he said he’d market for, and

we have proof that is on file with the Utah Attorney General’s office.

They are pursuing him for Communications Fraud.

They don’t do that over lies from crazy people on the internet.

He defrauded authors and is actively soliciting new victims. DON’T BE ONE.

If you do business with him, in six months or so, you’ll see he ripped you off, too.
Working to stop this predator takes a lot of time, effort, and money, with likely no recovery to me and the other authors or punishment to the perpetrator. All I’m doing is letting potential victims know what is in store for them.

Your podcast was done with a con man.

Please don’t help him find more victims by helping him appear innocent.

It seems you didn’t do your homework and apparently swallowed his BS. I did what I could in blog posts; he gets to say I’m disgruntled. Nope. The Utah Attorney General’s office is continuing to issue subpoenas on Wid as we speak. They’re smart enough to not do that for a disgruntled blogger.

In the part of the podcast where he was allowed to “air his video,” he made a lot of false statements. He did not “set the record straight.”

• Many people filed reports with the trustee in Wid’s bankruptcy filing. The trustee may be able to provide that information to you.
• The fact that a lot of people harmed by Wid’s theft didn’t come forward is because they were embarrassed to have been conned
• it takes time and money to pursue an out-of-state civil proceeding, and
• they didn’t want to spend more money when Wid was already bankrupt;
• they felt it was throwing good money after bad, and
• the emotional side of all of it was hard to continue to bring back up. There was no lunacy.
• Authors tend to be introverts that don’t want a fight.
• Wid knows this and that’s why he preys on them.

He says he provided all of the documents that were “in his possession.”

That’s almost a true statement.

He provided almost no relevant documents because he didn’t have records

(a legit business would)

showing expenses or payroll – because his prior method of operation was to just spent the money and didn’t do the work. That appears to be what he did here as well.

• Lined up victims,

• took the money,

• spent it, and

• declared bankruptcy.

He says not one person filed an “adversary motion or proceeding.” Many of us filed the required legal protest document, which is what the law in Utah requires for a bankruptcy case.

“That means from a legal point of view none of the people who made such horrible statements about me had any legal grounds to sue me for anything.” As Wid well knows, because he is under current investigation by the Utah Attorney General’s office for communications fraud and has been served subpoenas in that regard, that’s not true; we are pursuing civil action in Utah and other states over his fraud.

Not file an objection to a debt discharge?

We did exactly that – and he knows we did.

He says we may be cowards. I’m no coward. Cowards hide. I’m not hiding, am I? We aren’t mean or stupid.
He says facts matter. They sure do!

“I did not rip anyone off… if anyone says otherwise, they are lying to you.”

Nope.

Wid ripped off dozens of people, and many of them are working hard to get that known.

We are providing the proof the the Utah AG’s office.

Wake up. Wid just conned you. He conned me, too.