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. CA’s powerful anti-SLAPP statute demands that the prevailing defendant be granted attorney’s fees for filing a frivolous case. The Israeli entrepreneur also declined to go on a recorded interview or provide statements via email.
Complaintsboard.com first falsely marked complaints against Marc Lubaszka’s defunct Aurum Advisors and Gold Coins Gain as “investigated” and “resolved,” then deleted them entirely. Now, the offshore company is back with a brand-new bogus excuse.
One month after our reporting exposed their shady takedowns, Complaints Board has done a complete 180 —restoring a wiped-out thread and hoping victims will buy their brand-new, manufactured excuse.
“I can confirm that the thread had been removed due to prolonged inactivity over a number of years,” an unnamed senior manager claimed in a recent email to Investor News.
Even with the thread back, this flimsy explanation is a fresh slap in the face for Marc Lubaszka’s tens of victims. For over a decade, defrauded investors have demanded that law enforcement take decisive action against the gold broker and his network, as detailed in A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar Crime.
Complaints Board’s latest stance directly contradicts its own published guidelines, which contain zero provisions for “prolonged inactivity” deletions:
“We do not remove complaints unless we receive an officially signed court order,” even if they are resolved. The site also states that the company does not remove complaints that comply with its Complaint Guidelines and claim to be free speech proponents.
As of August 27, 2026, Investor News has not located a single signed court order in which a judge ordered the removal of complaints about Lubaszka or his gold companies from Complaintsboard.com. Furthermore, the platform’s new posturing fails to explain why it originally slapped “investigated” and “resolved” tags on grievances that remain glaringly unresolved.
The “prolonged inactivity” defense collapses entirely under basic scrutiny. The thread in question experienced multi-year lulls —sitting quiet from 2012 to 2014, 2014 to 2020, and 2020 to 2022— yet was only obliterated after surging into high activity in 2022.
Among the resuscitated grievances is that of disabled and retired US veteran Steve Gern, who lost nearly $50,000 to Lubaszka’s defunct Aurum Advisors and Gold Coins Gain and never saw a dime returned.
Other restored comments expose deeper webs, referencing Lubaszka’s copycat gold venture, Buy Gold Brightly. Registered in Montana, the shell company listed former rapper-turned-Portland High football coach Dylan Rottkov as principal before he was replaced by self-anointed “Crypto King” Patrick Seller. The rescued thread also highlights Fly Private X, a Delaware-registered private jet company where Rottkov served as VP. As one user noted, Lubaszka “tried to get me to sell his imaginary jets” before making other more serious allegations.
Fly Private X was simultaneously leveraged by Hadari Oshri —current CEO of Gula World and creator of the Mind Master mushroom supplement— in alleged attempts to sell $370 million in nonexistent COVID-19 PPE, according to the attorney for felon Arael Doolittle and Alaa Hattab, who pleaded guilty in November 2023 in a New Jersey federal court to conspiring to defraud investors of more than $35M and was also charged by the SEC.
It remains to be seen whether Complaints Board will actively notify impacted customers that their voices are welcome on the platform again. When pressed over a month ago, the company steadfastly refused to identify who ordered the original takedowns.
While Complaints Board scrambles to rewrite its own history, attempts to suppress victim grievances and news stories continue across the web. This summer, Google search results for Oshri’s alleged PPE schemes and failed legal battles were scrubbed and replaced with sushi, manga and irrelevant content, while Rottkov makes local TV rounds in Maine to rebrand his image and discuss his “unconventional” journey from rapper to mentor at Portland High.
*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, Lubaszka and their then-attorney, John Tamborelli, 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. Email: aitana_investigations@protonmail.com
**This story will be updated as more information becomes available. Since image and document suppression attempts have been detected on Google, we are now creating a permanent archive at archive.org. Visit our partner outlet La Cronista to view the entire series archive.
For news tips and story ideas, please contact investigative reporter Aitana Vargas at aitana_investigations@protonmail.com.
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