With all due respect Hilarski, you have confused investigative journalism with "tearing someone down". I just got off the phone with one of Jeff Berwick's victims, who paid him over $30,000 for a passport that he never received. It has been several years since this man gave TDV Global the $30,000 and Jeff nor any of his associates will return his emails or phone calls. Out of desperation, he posted this on a website. He is a rather nice and congenial man. He is obviously embarrassed that he trusted Jeff Berwick.
I care deeply about honesty and freedom of speech. I also care about the integrity of this platform and the decentralization movement. I couldn't sleep at night if I turned my back on the people in Steemit who have built this place up to where it is currently. I have worked very hard, every day for months, and months and months, creating value here as a writer. If more innocent people are scammed out of money, and they start equating Steemit as a place where known scam artists can make thousands, what does that say about the integrity of Steemit and the entire decentralization movement? I believe you work for Steemit now, so if anyone, you should be deeply concerned about new users and protecting them from getting scammed by this person. I am curious, have you partnered with Jeff in some of his business dealings? What exactly is your relationship based upon?
Everyone has a right to know what is going on. By trying to shield us from the truth, you are only damaging your reputation. My post showed facts and I am now doing the research to back up those statements from victims. You and anyone else is free to contact one of his victims who lost $30,000. His name is Kevin Schmidt. He has publicly listed his information because he wants to prevent other victims from being scammed. In his estimation, he has saved between 10-15 people from being scammed out of the passport fraud. Go here and contact himself to learn the truth: http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/tdv-passports-failure-to-deliver-c707391.html#c1624651
By trying to cover up the truth of innocent people being victimized, you are revealing yourself to be untrustworthy.
People are free to write what they want online. Just remember that everything is on a very public blockchain. I will not be caught up in public dirt throwing. We are well on our way to being a successful blogging platform but it all can come crashing down if we are not careful. Other peoples private business transactions are not my expertise.
Berwick's private 'business transactions' are about to become public information on here…and many other places. If you, or he, can somehow try to refute his own emails, lies, crimes and information, to/from his victims, feel free to try. I welcome it. I will be dumping more about Berwick, and his sleazy cohorts, than Wikileaks is dumping about Hillary. Cheers.
Steemit is still censorship free and we all have a right to know the truth. Perhaps investigative journalism has a chance to thrive. Let's see hard evidence and information so people can make up their own minds. Free thinking people are obviously in short supply everywhere.
There's plenty of evidence and information about Galt's Gulch Chile and the criminal Ken Johnson on our webpage ALREADY. Go to http://ggcrecovery.com