[marclove]

After reading the complaint, I came to a similar conclusion. Was it fraud & money laundering? That's for the court to decide and they have a presumption of innocence.

Regardless of that outcome though (and assuming United Directories doesn't dispute that Exhibit A is one of their advertisements), its pretty clearly a shady business in my mind. While technically (probably) legal, its a spammy business model that adds very little value.

Its not really fair to Hashrocket employees that this will taint Hashrocket's reputation, but it unfortunately will to some extent.

Oh and totally agreed about the whole -- if your brother's already been indicted for the same exact thing and is currently a fugitive you might want to rethink the business model -- thing. That just shows a complete lack of common sense.