Dec 20, 2010
Dec 20, 2010
Darren Meade, of Kairos-Meade, lost a $1,106,000m lawsuit in 2001, after attempting to scam Beale Research Center, his post-MetRx employer. As you can see from the court documents, I’ve posted below, every word out of Meade’s mouth is a lie, a con, or a scam.
First we’ll take a look at the judgment itself, so you can verify the date and amount:
Here’s how the story goes, according to the lawsuit and subsequent judgement:
After Met-Rx was sold and Darren Meade got his money, he began promoting himself as a major player in the nutritional industry, and the driving force behind Met-Rx’s success.
Back in the day, in the supplement industry, former Met-Rx employees were a hot commodity, even ones nobody had ever heard of; so Meade landed himself a job as the vice president of sales for Beale Research Center. For Beale, this was a slam dunk – the guy who made Met-Rx a success could surely increase sales and drive marketing for another company in the same field, right? Wrong.
Whether Meade was simply lying or actually delusional enough to think that his career highlights were true, I have no idea. He was reportedly doing a lot of drugs at this point in his life, so either option is possible.
Unfortunately, Meade isn’t such a hot salesman, nor is he a hot businessman, so he attempted to hide his shortcomings:
- To make himself look more important than he was, he began telling his clients that he’s the president of the company (when in truth he was vice president of sales).
- To impress his new boss, he began invoicing Beale Research Center for orders that never happened, and paying the tabs himself (i.e. instead of selling products to customers, he bought the products himself, and gave them away for free, then lied about the sales to his boss).
- Instead of promoting the company, he engaged in relentless self promotion, and the promotion of competing interests (a trend he has never ceased)
Around this time, Meade began to lose the plot, and his then-girlfriend was forced to flee to Colorado, and ultimately to take out a restraining order on him. Darren doesn’t like when people talk about this part of his life, and in fact, he has threatened multiple people with lawsuits for doing so. Unfortunately for Darren, he’s been given multiple chances to prove this information libelous (or wrong), as has his lawyer (who I spoke to last week). In no instance were Darren and/or his lawyer able to refute any of the claims I’ve made about him.
Eventually, the house of cards came crashing down, and Meade was exposed as a fraud, and ordered to pay over a million dollars in restitution to his former employer. Let’s take a look at the lawsuit now:
