AN IMPORTANT NOTE: On June 22, 2021, Hadari Oshri –Marc Lubaszka’s business partner– filed a frivolous civil harassment restraining order (CHRO) against me to stop the publication of my investigative series “A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar Crime,” and any subsequent installments or future media coverage. On August 3, 2021, I 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 my anti-SLAPP motion and denied Oshri’s civil harassment petition for failure to sustain the applicable burden of proof. CA’s powerful anti-SLAPP statute mandates that the losing party, in this case Oshri, pay the prevailing party’s attorney’s fees. She also declined to go on a recorded interview or provide statements via email. This multi-part series is available in Investor News and La Cronista.
Investor News has investigated Hadari Oshri since 2021 as part of the award-winning series A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar Crime by investigative reporter Aitana Vargas. This page collects our reporting, court outcomes and documents in one place, newest first.
Key facts
- Anti-SLAPP ruling, Sept. 13, 2021: Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Doreen Boxer granted Aitana Vargas’s anti-SLAPP motion and denied Oshri’s civil harassment petition, which sought to stop publication of the series. Read the story
- Alleged PPE scheme: Documents obtained by Investor News tie Oshri and Marc Lubaszka’s Fly Private X to alleged attempts to sell over $370M in nonexistent PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read Part IV
- $225K lawsuit: Investor News reported in 2022 that Oshri and Patrick Seller were sued for $225K over the non-delivery of COVID-19 i-home test kits. Read the story
- Mind Master: Oshri now sells the mushroom supplement Mind Master through Gula World using a certificate of analysis that SC Labs, the lab named in it, has called into question. Read the story
- Recognition: Initial work in this series won an LA Press Club award in 2022 and was a 2023 Floodlight finalist, an initiative by Fundación Gabo and the Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project. Read more
Hadari Oshri coverage: full timeline
- Portland High holds public records hostage for weeks as Marc Lubaszka, Dylan Rottkov’s former biz partner, faces multiple felonies
- Separate coasts, same scramble: how Dylan Rottkov and Hadari Oshri are flying away from their Fly Private X collapse
- Offshore corporation Complaints Board restores victims’ complaints against Lubaszka after falsely claiming the thread was deleted due to “prolonged inactivity”
- The unvetted football coach: Portland High appoints Dylan Rottkov despite ties to alleged corporate fraud
- Digital forensics firm says affidavit filed in Hadari Oshri court case “altered,” not authentic
- Disgraced businesswoman Hadari Oshri announces Gaya Ventures networking event in Malibu
- Hadari Oshri’s Gaya Ventures site claims she’s joined forces with convicted businessman Orlando Birbragher in new biz venture
- Hadari Oshri’s meritless legal plan and sloppy PR campaign backfired
- Hadari Oshri and Patrick Seller sued for $225K for non-delivery of COVID-19 i-home test kits
- The exposé Hadari Oshri and her attorney tried to stop wins LA Press Club award
- Aitana Vargas walks red carpet at tonight’s LA Press Club awards gala
- Nominan la serie de investigación de Aitana Vargas sobre el presunto entramado fraudulento de Hadari Oshri
- Aitana Vargas’s exposé on Hadari Oshri nominated for journalism award
- 2019 court case against Hadari Oshri exposes her dodgy, aggressive legal maneuvers
- Hadari Oshri sued for copyright infringement in 2017
- La reportera Aitana Vargas pide 23.000 dólares en honorarios tras pulverizar la querella mordaza de Hadari Oshri
- Hadari Oshri deactivates LinkedIn account following PPE exposé
- Hadari Oshri has portrayed herself as an expert in global supply chain and PPE during the worst pandemic to hit the world since 1918
- Hadari Oshri allegedly linked to attempted $370M nonexistent PPE COVID-19 scheme
- Pursuing flash money, rapper Dylan Raw partners with conman Marc Lubaszka and becomes his patsy
- Marc Lubaszka’s nonexistent private jets failed to deliver PPE amid the COVID-19 pandemic
- The Legal Bullies Club – The SLAPPers: Featuring Hadari Oshri
- Hadari Oshri’s losses mount up as she fails again to silence her victims
- Hadari Oshri loses anti-SLAPP court battle to award-winning news correspondent Aitana Vargas
- A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar Crime (Part I)
Related investigation
Oshri’s business partner during the pandemic was gold broker Marc Lubaszka. See our Marc Lubaszka investigation page.
After this reporter survived in 2021 an anti-SLAPP motion against Ms. Oshri, as a matter of policy, this outlet no longer reaches out to Ms. Oshri, her then-attorney, John Tamborelli, Mr. Lubaszka, Mr. Rottkov and Mr. Seller for comment. But we remain fully committed to hearing and sharing their opinion should they decide to reach out to us by email: aitana_investigations@protonmail.com
