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.
Years after a high-stakes corporate fiasco tied to phantom jets, PPE procurement and gold coins, two former business partners are staging simultaneous comebacks —one leading Portland High’s football team in Maine, the other pushing a wellness, spirituality and mushroom supplements brand in California.
They are almost a country apart.
On the pebbly beaches of the East Coast, one has built a visible career as a locally celebrated high school sports coach and youth mentor. On the stunning, sun-drenched shores of the West Coast, the other operates as a meditation guru and biohacking expert, offering spiritual and expensive mentorship opportunities, while selling promises to help fight anxiety and “stimulate the growth of brain cells” through her signature mushroom supplement Mind Master.
This is a tale of two coasts and two former business partners: Dylan Rottkov and Hadari Oshri.
Years after their shared Fly Private X fiasco with gold broker Marc Lubaszka collapsed under the weight of unfulfilled multimillion-dollar PPE sales and nonexistent private jets ––or “jests,” as Oshri baptized them in court documents––, stubborn rebranding efforts have pulled both back into the spotlight.
The East Coast: The Inaugural Season Under Review
At Maine’s Portland High, head football coach Rottkov is preparing his team for their September 4, 2026 matchup during his publicized inaugural season, a position he balances with his leadership role as President of non-profit Blue Wave Basketball.
Official staff biographies for the organization describe him as a “decorated football and basketball coach at both Portland High School and Yarmouth High School” —despite a resume consisting of lower-level assistant and coordination roles rather than a history of leading those programs. The organization site and his X profile also list Rottkov as the owner of Blue Wave Basketball, an impossibility given that it’s a non-profit.
Rottkov has, too, been crafting a local media rebranding effort to promote his transformation from a Hollywood Hills-based rapper and foreign car lover to a high-character mentor. But his past is catching up to him just as fast.
After the initial stonewalling regarding his highly celebrated appointment, the school administration broke its silence after two missed media inquiry deadlines and released a statement:
“Pursuant to the requirements of Maine law, the Portland Public Schools is not permitted to disclose information concerning individual employees and we are thus unable to respond to many of your questions. What we can tell you is that, prior to hiring all employees, we conduct a background check through the state of Maine and require possession of a current CHRC (Criminal History Record Check) or Maine DOE (Department of Education) certification. As of April 2026, per newly adopted legislation (LD2192) that came into effect at that time, we also conduct a review of applicable DOE records. If any of these inquiries reveals information suggesting the applicant may not be fit for a position in the district, we engage in further investigation before making a hiring decision.”
Rottkov’s hiring and appointment announcement, however, came a few months before the April 2026 emergency policy was adopted.
Behind this legislation is Cara Courchesne, a mother from Lewiston, Maine, who claimed she had been sexually harassed by an elementary school employee in 2005.
“I learned via a simple Google search that in November 2024, he (Courchesne’s alleged harasser, not Rottkov) had left his position as an assistant principal in southern Maine amidst sexual harassment allegations. In February 2025, Lewiston Public Schools hired him as an ed tech,” Courchesne said in her testimony in support of LD 2192 on February 24, 2026.
While her advocacy successfully pushed the emergency framework into law, the resulting statute still carries built-in limitations. LD 2192 strictly targets school-level employee misconduct —such as drugs, alcohol, harassment, physical, sexual or emotional abuse or inappropriate contact with students and other employees. But the legislation is fundamentally unequipped to look outward and flag private civil disputes, uncharged private financial schemes or defunct corporate paper trails outside of Maine.
Even beyond the boundaries of the statute, standard criminal background checks generally do not reveal potential law enforcement or regulatory agency investigations unless formal charges have been filed or indictments unsealed. Some investigations, including those of financial and business nature, are also notorious for dragging on for years.
In its statement, the school also admitted no prior knowledge of the revelations described in A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar Crime, such as Rottkov’s ties to Fly Private X and Buy Gold Brightly. This includes a 2021 on-the-record interview with Investor News in which the then-rapper described chasing money through luxury jet and gold ventures, brushing off Lubaszka’s tumultuous past business history because it happened long ago and insisting he was not Lubaszka’s “victim.” Meanwhile, Fly Private X was simultaneously leveraged by Oshri in alleged attempts to sell $370 million in nonexistent COVID-19 PPE, according to documents obtained by Investor News, felon Arael Doolittle’s attorney and Alaa Hattab. The latter entrepreneur pleaded guilty in November 2023 in a New Jersey federal court to conspiring to defraud investors of more than $35M.
“We can also say that reading the articles that you shared with us was the first time we heard the information you described,” the school said. An online search, however, would likely have surfaced these reports.
The school has not confirmed whether it plans to conduct an internal audit, and whether Rottkov will remain in his position throughout the football season. But under Maine’s LD 2192, the school may not have a legal mandate to initiate a formal probe into out-of-state past business dealings because these events would fall outside the scope of a ‘covered investigation.’
The news regarding Rottkov’s background may come as a sharp shock in a district that prides itself on diversity and protecting vulnerable, economically disadvantaged communities. In a progressive city like Portland that serves as a “Safe Haven” for students without papers, discovering that a prominent youth mentor is tied to past questionable business ventures risks eroding local trust —raising difficult questions for families, regular students and school officials alike about how thoroughly the district is required to screen the adults placed in positions of authority and whether the school might potentially become a target for official agencies’ inquiries.
The West Coast: Once a Fashion Fairy visionary, Hadari Oshri is now reaching new heights with her latest mushroom supplements venture
Almost a continent away in California, former fashion fairy visionary Oshri just executed a massive public relations stunt. And surely, she had to take to social media to boast about it: a 300-attendee promotional experience for her new brand, mushroom supplement Mind Master, created under her Wyoming-registered corporation Gula World, which, despite HIPAA-related compliance (which does not apply to the supplements sector) and other sweeping claims on the company’s website, seems to be reaching cruising altitude ––at least for now.
“Carefully formulated with five powerful kinds of mushrooms, this blend delivers a full spectrum of benefits from stimulating the growth of brain cells, boosting serotonin, reducing Information [sic], and supporting your immune system, to enhancing focus, energy, and mood,” says Gulaworld.com.
It can only be assumed that, by “reducing Information,” Oshri may have meant inflammation.
To build an aura of alleged clinical validity, Gula World’s mushroom website (mindmaster.life) boldly asserts that Mind Master won the Physician’s Choice Award in 2025. Neither Gula World nor Mind Master is among the winners announced on the NDNR (Naturopathic Doctor News & Review) website. A request for comment to the NDNR editor went unanswered by publication date.
The Mind Master’s website further claims that the product has been “third-party tested” for potency, mold, heavy metals and toxicity, “so you can be sure about what you’re putting in your body.” A downloadable Certificate of Analysis (CoA) appears next to this claim. Named in the document is SC Laboratories (also known as SC Labs), a CA-licensed, accredited testing laboratory with facilities across the country that provides potency and contaminant testing for cannabis, hemp and other products.
“The CoA you provided is not an official CoA of SC Laboratories,” said in an email Jeff Dingman, technical sales manager at SC Laboratories. “We have no record of this company (Gula World) as a client or the sample being tested by SC Laboratories.”
Dingman added that all SC Laboratories CoAs contain a QR code to verify the report. “When a sample is tested for a regulated market, the associated QR code is public, and scanning it directs the user to our website, where the sample and testing information can be independently verified,” he explained. Dingman also noted that when SC Laboratories identifies fraudulent use of its data, CoAs or company name, “we will contact that company directly and request that the material be corrected or removed. If they are unwilling to do so, the matter may be escalated through formal legal channels.”
As of September 1, 2026, other assertions by the mushroom brand include that it is the number one best-selling mushroom powder in the US. Also, its “team of PhD scientists formulated Mind Master around well-studied functional mushrooms used for centuries.” However, the names of these scientists are not disclosed, preventing any independent verification of this or other product safety claims.
But it’s the FAQ section of Gulaworld.com that provides insight into an unexpected vertical for the company: the sale of weight loss and diabetes prescription injections Semaglutide and Tirzepatide for $259 and $399 for the first month, respectively. Doctors’ identities, credentials, medical licenses, physical practice locations, pharmacy partners, insurance or regulatory disclaimers are not available anywhere on the website, other than the HIPAA compliant stamp in the footer. The only address listed on the website is that of the company’s registration agent in Wyoming.
Gula World’s Return Policy page also warns that “All products we offer are non-refundable. Our medications are ordered specifically per patient and therefore cannot be refunded. We have a ‘no refund policy.’”
The cherry on top is that clicking on the website’s “Mental Health” label routes the user directly to the mushroom product.
Present at the flashy mushroom event was Oshri’s “internal team,” including David Behrend, CEO of publicly traded Hubilu Venture Corporation. In 2025, Behrend submitted a federal form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According to the document, Behrend’s company injected $80,940 of cash into Gula Entities, a web of corporations that included Gula World, Gula Health and Gaya Ventures Inc.
In exchange for the investment, Hubilu obtained 16 million shares of Gaya, 1.6 million of Gula Health, 1.6 million of Gula World and the 50% “Gift a Friend” referral royalties.
FL public records show that Gaya Ventures was administratively dissolved in 2025. As previously reported by Investor News, the now-defunct company website listed convicted pharmaceutical businessman Orlando Birbragher as CIO.
By December 2024, Behrend had written off the Gula Entities investment as a loss. An Equity Stake & Investment Agreement shows Behrend became co-founder of all three Gula Entities (“INC”) on July 2, 2024. Public documents also list him as the Gula World director in 2025. His name was dropped a year later.
In a statement to Investor News and La Cronista, Behrend, on behalf of his publicly traded company, said:
“This is exciting to hear from you (Aitana) about your path of exploration (into Gula World). Hubilu is a minor shareholder in GulaWorld and our holding is limited to investment only. We invested in GulaWorld and Hadari Oshri, based on the future potential of MindMaster as a game changer in people living healthier lives and exploring their personal growth, and Ms Oshri’s vision to execute on such. Our involvement in GulaWorld, and my life choices, are about now, and the future, not the past. That is a core philosophy of GulaWorld. I have never heard the name Orlando Birbragher, and as that person was not involved in Gula Companies at the time of Hubilu investment, it would be of no relevance. Regarding components and analysis of Mind Master, I personally met the lead scientist before Hubilu invested, but I refer you to Ms Oshri, who is cc’d on this email, to answer all questions product and scientific related.”
Behrend did not respond to a follow-up question about the 2025 award Mind Master’s website claims to have won. A reviewer identified as ‘David B.’ also left two glowing testimonials of the mushroom product on the Gula World site.
While the paper trail appears to signal the Gula conglomerate struggles to stay afloat in the largely unregulated wellness industry, Oshri still keeps an indispensable asset close to her chest: her attorney, John Tamborelli, whom she publicly thanked for “opening his beautiful home” to physically host the mushroom event.
Tamborelli, a prominent California-based civil attorney, has acted as Oshri’s legal shield multiple times, including a case where he invoked a whopping 46 legal defenses. They lost. The duo was also named in a personal injury case that was eventually dismissed by the plaintiffs. In a 2021 email, Tamborelli stated he represented those copied in the email thread: namely, Oshri, Lubaszka, Fly Private X, and surprisingly, Lubaszka’s nonexistent assistant, Krista Collinsworth.
As previously reported by Investor News, Tamborelli is also behind attempts to silence this investigative series, including a 2021 cease-and-desist email he sent to this reporter at the instructions of Oshri. His threats were met with a letter from the National Writers Union (NWU), which demanded that he stop all legal intimidation. And to his credit, he stopped. Ironically, one of Tamborelli’s stellar legal cases successfully made it all the way to the California Supreme Court, culminating in the 2019 landmark Rand Resources v. City of Carson anti-SLAPP proceedings where he represented co-defendants fighting over free speech and petitioning rights ––much like my anti-SLAPP win against Oshri in 2021, a battle to which she showed up with a formidable team of criminal defense attorneys who filed no sworn declaration, no admissible evidence and still threw everything at this reporter. The judge was not happy. Ultimately, an embarrassing loss for the Oshri team. This time, Tamborelli had decided to sit it out.
Most recently, Investor News reported that, in May 2021, Oshri filed an affidavit with the Los Angeles Superior Court in a restraining order case. The document bore the logo and the name of Ohio-based company Digital Forensics Corporation (DFC), which has long maintained it did not produce it. Tamborelli represented Oshri in this case.
“We can confirm, however, that the name in your email and in the affidavit (“Hadari Oshri”) is not a listed client of DFC,” Jeromy Simonovic, an attorney for the company, said to this reporter in an email in 2022. “It appears that the affidavit you provided in your email is not an original affidavit produced by our Company, as it has been altered. We are conducting a further investigation into this matter and cannot provide you with any further comments at this time.”
The company added: “It does not appear that our company has had any contact with the attorney referenced in your email.”
This case ultimately settled in 2021, but not before Tamborelli had inserted a provision into a third-party stipulation agreement requiring the respondent to instruct this reporter to scrub all published posts mentioning Oshri, Lubaszka, and Tamborelli himself.
Tamborelli’s demand has never been honored –by me.
*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 (who requested by email to be left alone), Mr. Lubaszka, Mr. Rottkov and Patrick 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
**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.
***Read the entire series in La Cronista. This story was first published in La Cronista on September 2, 2026.
For news tips and story ideas, please contact investigative reporter Aitana Vargas at aitana_investigations@protonmail.com.
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