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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/betsy-dick-devos-family-amway-michigan-politics-religion-214631
Van Andel and DeVos
When Betsy Prince and Dick DeVos married in 1979, it brought together two powerful Dutch families with perfectly compatible values.
“There’s a close-knit atmosphere of the aristocracy of West Michigan,” Demas says. “It almost brings to mind the old monarchies of Europe where they would intermarry.”
Amway, the machine that built the DeVos fortune, is among the best-known multilevel-marketing companies in the world, relying on independent salespeople to start their own businesses selling Amway-produced goods and to recruit other independent salespeople to work underneath them. Over the past half-century, the company has attracted a healthy dose of criticism.
In 1969, the Federal Trade Commission alleged that Amway was a pyramid scheme, launching a six-year investigation that failed to prove the charges.
In 1982, the government of Canada filed criminal charges against the company, alleging that Amway had defrauded the country out of $28 million in customs duties and forged fake receipts to cover its tracks; in November 1983, Amway pled guilty to fraud and Canadian prosecutors dropped the criminal charges against Richard DeVos and other company executives. Amway’s direct-sales model—which it has exported to more than 100 countries—has become a ubiquitous part of the modern economy.
Van Andel and DeVos
When Betsy Prince and Dick DeVos married in 1979, it brought together two powerful Dutch families with perfectly compatible values.
“There’s a close-knit atmosphere of the aristocracy of West Michigan,” Demas says. “It almost brings to mind the old monarchies of Europe where they would intermarry.”
Amway, the machine that built the DeVos fortune, is among the best-known multilevel-marketing companies in the world, relying on independent salespeople to start their own businesses selling Amway-produced goods and to recruit other independent salespeople to work underneath them. Over the past half-century, the company has attracted a healthy dose of criticism.
In 1969, the Federal Trade Commission alleged that Amway was a pyramid scheme, launching a six-year investigation that failed to prove the charges.
In 1982, the government of Canada filed criminal charges against the company, alleging that Amway had defrauded the country out of $28 million in customs duties and forged fake receipts to cover its tracks; in November 1983, Amway pled guilty to fraud and Canadian prosecutors dropped the criminal charges against Richard DeVos and other company executives. Amway’s direct-sales model—which it has exported to more than 100 countries—has become a ubiquitous part of the modern economy.
POLITICO
How Betsy DeVos Used God and Amway to Take Over Michigan Politics
With her nomination as education secretary, a powerful political clan will bring its overtly Christian agenda to Washington.
Forwarded from Tanya
At the heart of the government's interest is China's Thousand Talents Program, which China uses to entice researchers in the United States to share and transmit their knowledge back to China in exchange for perks including salaries, research funding and lab space.
That program, which U.S. officials say has led recruits to engage in major intellectual property thefts such as stealing proprietary defense data related to U.S. military jet engines, was also at issue in the Justice Department's civil case against VARI.
Between January 2012 and August 2019, the Justice Department said the Van Andel Institute failed to investigate researchers' foreign funding even though it had received a letter from a Chinese institution at one point which claimed that one of its researchers - Huaqiang Eric Xu - was receiving "generous support" from China's Thousand Talents Program.
Xu served as a primary investigator for the Center for Drug Discovery, a strategic collaboration between the Van Andel Institute and the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica. From 2013 through 2017, Xu received more than $10,000, the Justice Department said.
The other researcher at issue, Jiyan Ma, also received a Chinese grant which was not disclosed to the NIH.
The timeline here is very interesting
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1YN2PF/
That program, which U.S. officials say has led recruits to engage in major intellectual property thefts such as stealing proprietary defense data related to U.S. military jet engines, was also at issue in the Justice Department's civil case against VARI.
Between January 2012 and August 2019, the Justice Department said the Van Andel Institute failed to investigate researchers' foreign funding even though it had received a letter from a Chinese institution at one point which claimed that one of its researchers - Huaqiang Eric Xu - was receiving "generous support" from China's Thousand Talents Program.
Xu served as a primary investigator for the Center for Drug Discovery, a strategic collaboration between the Van Andel Institute and the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica. From 2013 through 2017, Xu received more than $10,000, the Justice Department said.
The other researcher at issue, Jiyan Ma, also received a Chinese grant which was not disclosed to the NIH.
The timeline here is very interesting
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1YN2PF/
Reuters
Michigan-based research institute to pay $5.5 million over Chinese-funded grants
The Van Andel Research Institute, which conducts biomedical research, will pay $5.5 million to resolve civil charges that it failed to disclose to the U.S. government that two of its researchers were funded by Chinese government grants, the Justice Department…
Forwarded from Tanya
Ma is the other Chinese guy from VARI being charged
Jiyan Ma, Ph.D., studies > prion diseases
abnormal proteins that cause neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s disease and prion diseases in humans and animals. His lab has developed new ways to understand how these proteins spread and cause diseases in humans and animals.
https://www.vai.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/VARI_PIs_BioSheet_2018_FINAL.pdf
Jiyan Ma, Ph.D., studies > prion diseases
abnormal proteins that cause neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s disease and prion diseases in humans and animals. His lab has developed new ways to understand how these proteins spread and cause diseases in humans and animals.
https://www.vai.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/VARI_PIs_BioSheet_2018_FINAL.pdf
Forwarded from Tanya
Prion diseases always deadly, within months, no cure, brain damage
Prion diseases > kuru
https://www.cdc.gov/prions/about/index.html
Prion diseases > kuru
https://www.cdc.gov/prions/about/index.html
Forwarded from Lin Wood
How many federal, state, and local “elected” public officials fought to #FIX2020 starting on November 4, 2020 and are still fighting to do so today???
Can you name even one???
Did ANY of them ever REALLY fight to #FIX2020 or did a few just tickle our ears???
How many FAKE Patriots have used the genuine desire of REAL Patriots to #FIX2020 to simply grift and personally profit off REAL Patriots???
Can you name them???
The list is long.
Lin 🙏❤️🇺🇸
www.FightBack.law
#FIX2020IN2024
Can you name even one???
Did ANY of them ever REALLY fight to #FIX2020 or did a few just tickle our ears???
How many FAKE Patriots have used the genuine desire of REAL Patriots to #FIX2020 to simply grift and personally profit off REAL Patriots???
Can you name them???
The list is long.
Lin 🙏❤️🇺🇸
www.FightBack.law
#FIX2020IN2024
Forwarded from Lin Wood
If 2020 is not fixed before November 2024 and meaningful and public changes are not made to our election system to safeguard the November 2024 vote, I predict our nation is doomed to destruction.
We only have less than 6 months.
We cannot have a repeat of 2020 and its grueling aftermath.
The country cannot survive it.
It simply CANNOT be business as usual.
Do you agree with me???
Pray for our nation.
God is in control.
Jesus Christ is God.
Lin 🙏❤️🇺🇸
www.FightBack.law
#FIX2020IN2024
We only have less than 6 months.
We cannot have a repeat of 2020 and its grueling aftermath.
The country cannot survive it.
It simply CANNOT be business as usual.
Do you agree with me???
Pray for our nation.
God is in control.
Jesus Christ is God.
Lin 🙏❤️🇺🇸
www.FightBack.law
#FIX2020IN2024
Forwarded from Teresa Francis (Plane Crazy ✈️)
NONE!
And.. fake patriots everywhere! The emails, texts wanting money daily from me is ridiculous.
The amount of telegram messages, pretending to be you, Lin is astonishing. Liars everywhere!
Jesus please come!
❤️🙏❤️
And.. fake patriots everywhere! The emails, texts wanting money daily from me is ridiculous.
The amount of telegram messages, pretending to be you, Lin is astonishing. Liars everywhere!
Jesus please come!
❤️🙏❤️
Forwarded from Lin Wood
Why in the world do so many want to pretend to be me on social media???
Why do so many post FAKE photos pretending to be standing next to President Trump???
So many false prophets.
So many grifters.
Just sayin.’
Lin 🙏❤️🇺🇸
www.FightBack.law
#FIX2020IN2024
Why do so many post FAKE photos pretending to be standing next to President Trump???
So many false prophets.
So many grifters.
Just sayin.’
Lin 🙏❤️🇺🇸
www.FightBack.law
#FIX2020IN2024
Forwarded from Lin Wood
If you had asked me 6 years ago, “Lin, what is your will for your life in the next few years???,” I would have NEVER said that I wanted it to be what it has been!!! However, I do NOT know the future. Only God knows the future.
His will be done, not mine.
Jesus Christ is God.
Lin 🙏🙏🙏
His will be done, not mine.
Jesus Christ is God.
Lin 🙏🙏🙏
Forwarded from Philip John
Mtg’s finishing move. The Adams bomb followed by the apple drop 😭🤣
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