AN IMPORTANT NOTE: On June 22, 2021, Hadari Oshri –Marc Lubaszka’s business partner– filed a civil harassment restraining order (CHRO) against Investor News reporter Aitana Vargas to stop the publication of her investigative series “A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar crime,” and any subsequent installments or future media coverage. On August 3, 2021, Vargas filed an anti-SLAPP motion to strike Oshri’s CHRO petition. In a hearing held on September 13, 2021, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Doreen Boxer granted Vargas’s anti-SLAPP motion and denied Oshri’s civil harassment petition for failure to sustain the applicable burden of proof. Oshri will now have to pay Vargas’s attorney’s fees for filing a frivolous case. The Israeli entrepreneur also declined to go on a recorded interview or provide statements via email. This outlet has striven to reach out to sources to ensure they have the opportunity to provide their own account of events.
Los Angeles (CA) – Aitana Vargas’s exposé “A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar Crime” last night received one of the LA Press Club’s top journalism awards at a celebrity-packed gala hosted at the Sheraton Universal Hotel that also honored Bill Whitaker’s life achievements.
The judges stated that Vargas’s work is a “compelling story of intrigue and vitriol that goes down a trail through international and domestic law, individual broken dreams, and the hard-fought desire to bring a criminal to justice.”
Speaking after the gala, Vargas said that “this award is a reminder that the victims’ years-long plights and repeated calls for justice have yet to be properly addressed by the justice system.” “This is not over yet.”
Vargas’s tenacity defeated Oshri’s desire to silence the truth
Throughout 2021, Oshri led a months-long campaign aimed at removing any and all media coverage online. The entrepreneur first tried to silence one of the reporter’s sources. Then, in a desperate attempt to stop Vargas’s investigative efforts, the release of documents linking Oshri and Lubaszka to an alleged multi-million dollar PPE scheme, as well as the publication of any and all content, Oshri filed a SLAPP suit against the journalist.
Oshri’s legal efforts against the correspondent came to an abrupt end in September 2021 as a Los Angeles Superior Court judge granted the reporter’s anti-SLAPP motion. During the hearing, the judge called out the entrepreneur for repeatedly interrupting the court proceedings and criticized her attorneys’ failure to provide admissible evidence.
Oshri’s fruitless legal campaign will be costly, for she will have to pay the journalist’s hefty anti-SLAPP legal fees: $23,000.
Read the notice of ruling on the anti-SLAPP motion here.
Against this backdrop, the in-depth investigative series would have never been released without the tenacity of the author, who was also legally threatened and received a cease-and-desist letter from Oshri’s former attorney, John Tamborelli.
In response to Tamborelli’s 2021 legal threats, the National Writers Union (NWU) sent him a letter demanding that he stop his intimidation campaign towards the reporter.
Read here the NWU Letter.
Hadari Oshri and Marc Lubaszka forged a partnership based on business and personal misrepresentations
The award-winning story exposes Oshri’s alleged participation in a joint PPE scheme with American broker Marc Lubaszka, who owes nearly $2M to tens of gold IRA investors across the US and has publicly admitted to doing business with Venezuela’s illegal gold mining syndicates.
The pair used Lubaszka’s private jet company, Fly Private X, to sell both nonexistent private jets and PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they ran their operations from a luxurious beachfront property located in East Malibu where they threw parties featuring high-end DJs.
Exclusive documents obtained by Vargas show that Oshri and Lubaszka’s PPE scheme was also linked to convicted COVID-19 fraudster Arael Doolittle.
In the meantime, Oshri founded Trade Safe Pro, LLC, and Lubaszka recruited rapper Dylan Raw to act as his patsy and the VP of Fly Private X. Together, broker and singer founded Buy Gold Brightly to sell gold and IRA plans.
Oshri’s empire: A legacy of business failures
For years, Oshri has misrepresented her “successful” career as a businesswoman by running a strategic online PR campaign that includes the publication of articles written by her ghost writer, Ryan Foland. To this date, she continues to misrepresent her business operations by publishing content on her website and her Medium account.
As if her legacy of demonstrated past business failures were not enough, Oshri has also lost every step of the way in 2021: She lost the anti-SLAPP court battle to Vargas; She’ll have to pay the reporter’s hefty legal fees; The investigative series Oshri tried to stop has been released; Her alleged participation in a multi-million dollar PPE scheme with Marc Lubaszka has been exposed; Two more installments on Oshri’s Xehar wreck (aka fashion fairy project) and Trade Safe Pro, LLC are in the works; And last night, Vargas’s compelling exposé received one of the night’s top LA Press Club journalism awards.
Read here the full list of winners.
*Since Hadari Oshri filed a meritless case against Investor News contributor Aitana Vargas and had previously declined to provide written comments or go on a recorded interview, it is our policy not to seek further comments from the entrepreneur. Oshri is always welcome to reach out and agree to the proposed interview terms. The same policy applies to her former Counsel, John Tamborelli.
**To contact the newsroom, send an email to info@investornews.io. To contact and send tips to investigative reporter Aitana Vargas, use aitana_investigations@protonmail.com. All malicious emails, phone calls and text messages are reported to law enforcement.
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