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.
From phantom private jets to $3.4B in fake gold sales, school officials stonewall inquiries into coach and former rapper Dylan Rottkov’s past executive ties to Marc Lubaszka and Hadari Oshri
By Aitana Vargas
Silence. Deafening silence.
This has been the response Investor News and La Cronista have received to our request to Portland High School regarding the appointment of former rapper Dylan Rottkov as head football coach for the upcoming season.
Repeated inquiries sent to Principal Sarah Obare, Athletic Director Spencer Allen, and Communications Director Tess Nacelewicz —including extensive documentation of prior fraud allegations— went unanswered prior to publication.
The school did not provide any comments on whether Rottkov had disclosed details about his prior executive roles in two now-defunct corporations: Fly Private X, a private jet company with phantom jets registered in Delaware for which Rottkov served as VP and Marc Lubaszka as President, and Buy Gold Brightly, a gold company registered in Montana that listed the football coach as principal before being replaced by the self-described Crypto King, Patrick Seller.
been removed from his IG account but remains on search results
Details on Rottkov’s participation in alleged schemes have been documented for years in A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar Crime, an award-winning exposé published in Investor News that is now available in La Cronista.
In a press release published on the school’s website on February 2, 2026, Rottkov stated that he was “fully committed to developing young men of character, accountability, and discipline, while building a competitive football program that will make our school proud.”
The former VP of Fly Private X added: “Portland High School has a foundation of rich tradition and excellence. I am looking forward to working, along with my staff, to uphold a standard that all former and current Bulldogs can be proud of.”
His appointment, however, raises concerning questions about the school’s and district’s role in thoroughly vetting individuals placed in roles of mentorship and authority over minors and teenagers in Maine’s largest and most diverse school district —where more than half of all district students are economically disadvantaged and roughly 51% are students of color.
These questions were also not addressed in a light feature that aired on local TV station NEWS CENTER Maine highlighting Rottkov’s “unconventional” journey from rapper to student mentor in Maine.
In the glorified piece, Rottkov, whose mother is running for public office in South Portland, spoke candidly about his past aspirations of becoming an NBA player in his early years and his later transition to a rap career marked by condos nestled in the Hollywood Hills and foreign cars.
This portrayal, however, left out crucial details tied to his rapper years: his participation in alleged schemes with gold broker Lubaszka, current Gula World CEO Hadari Oshri and former model Seller. The rapper made no mention of the nonexistent fleet of private jets Fly Private X claimed to own, the company’s alleged $370M in failed attempts at procuring much-needed PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic and the false $3.4B in sales over a 14-year period the Buy Gold Brightly site claimed. Some of these operations were linked to a luxurious Malibu beachfront property later decimated by the deadly January 2025 wildfires.
The local TV profile aired weeks after La Cronista launched its dedicated hub for the years-long award-winning investigative series. La Cronista and Investor News reached out to NEWS CENTER Maine for comment regarding the broadcast segment, but no response was received prior to publication.
Rottkov, currently the owner and President of Blue Wave Basketball Club in Portland, was a football player and captain at South Portland High School. Yet local roots should not replace rigorous institutional review.
Scandals from elite universities like USC and UCLA —where athletic programs prioritized marquee hires and wins over institutional integrity and compliance— proved that administrative oversight may fail when sports are involved. Now, similar questions are turning inward at the secondary school level in Maine’s largest district, where Portland High officials are refusing to answer how a figure linked to corporate fraud allegations was handed the keys to a youth and mentorship program.
*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
**A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar Crime is an award-winning investigative series by Aitana Vargas published in InvestorNews.io and now available in LaCronista.com. The series exposes Hadari Oshri’s, Marc Lubaszka’s, former rapper Dylan Rottkov’s (formerly known as Dylan Raw) and Patrick Seller’s participation in alleged PPE and gold schemes through various corporations, including Fly Private X, Buy Gold Brightly, Trade Safe Pro, and A1A Management.
***Industry recognition: Initial work in this series was recognized with an LA Press Club award in 2022. In 2023, the series was selected as a finalist for Floodlight, an initiative by Fundación Gabo and the Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project.
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