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 Marc Lubaszka 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 records and documents in one place, newest first.
Key facts
- Montana charges, 2026: The state of Montana charged Lubaszka this year with tampering with public records or information, theft and money laundering. He faces multiple felony counts and is due in court on December 16, 2026. Read the story
- New identity: Montana court records show Lubaszka was operating as “Sir Michael Montgomery Morgan IV,” portraying himself as a billionaire and an alleged member of the JP Morgan family. Read more
- Fly Private X: Lubaszka owned Fly Private X, a Delaware company that claimed to own fleets of jets to raise $35M from investors during the COVID-19 pandemic. It did not own a single jet. Read Part II
- Victims: Investors including 81-year-old disabled veteran Steve Gern have spent years seeking accountability. Read Part I
- Complaints Board: Victims’ complaints against Lubaszka were wiped out and later restored by Complaints Board. Read the story
Marc Lubaszka 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
- Offshore corporation Complaints Board wipes out all victims’ complaints against Lubaszka after falsely tagging them “resolved”
- 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
- 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
- Aitana Vargas’s exposé on Hadari Oshri nominated for journalism award
- 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 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
Lubaszka’s pandemic-era partner in the alleged PPE scheme was Hadari Oshri. See our Hadari Oshri 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
