BREAKING NEWS: What is TelexFree US Doing In Bed With ex-FHTM Joseph "Joe" Isaacs?

Logo of the United States Federal Communications Commission, used on their website and some publications since the early 2000s. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Recently some TelexFree fanatics, desperate to find ANY shred of legitimacy for that suspect Ponzi scheme, found that TelexFree US (not Brazil, mind you, where it's actually called Yimpactus, and has NO license to operate telecom in Brazil) has gained preliminary FCC Approval in the US (ITC2142013082200236;) as of September 2013.

For timeline, TelexFree Brazil was shut down in June 2013 by court injunction, and has been in a limbo since. Its lawyers launched appeal after appeal to no avail, while telling affiliates that they should register with TelexFree US and get paid by TelexFree US.

It is also interesting to note the timeframe... late July is when Gerald "I see no Ponzi" Nehra said TelexFree is legal in the US, at a TelexFree event in Newport Beach, California. Presumably, that's when they started applying for the FCC license, not that there's any proof that TelexFree actually OWNS any "telecom facilities", as specified in the FCC license it had obtained. They went through "streamlined" FCC approval process where the public was given a few weeks to comment, and voila: "authority granted".

Can you BUY any TelexFree service and use it? Good question. I haven't found ANYONE that claimed to done so that is believable.

What's surprising the the other name that appeared on TelexFree's FCC license... Joe "I love then hate FHTM" Isaacs.

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Joe Isaacs has a long history in MLM, though he apparently made some money with FHTM, i.e. Fortune High Tech Marketing. He created an online hub called Fortune Social and tried to create a FHTM affiliate community, as well as sell them online sales tools. Apparently FHTM objected and served him a cease and desist notice. Thus started a long battle where Joe Isaacs became the "whistleblower" against the "abuses" of FHTM. He even self-published a book called Scapegoat. When FHTM was finally closed by FTC as a pyramid scheme in early 2013, he tried to portrayed himself as a hero who helped along FHTM's demise.   As this is not about FHTM, you are welcome to Google "FHTM + Joe Isaacs" and you'll find PLENTY of material on these times (much of them written by Joe Isaacs himself under various aliases)

What's interesting is Joe Isaacs apparently opened a consulting business called ISG Telecom Consultants in Florida, the same address he had previously used by Fortune Social and such, where he helps anybody with enough money to become a telecom company. You just need to know what papers to file with whom, basically, which is what a consultant does. And he has helped several telecom companies get off the ground...

And one of them is TelexFree... the suspect scam in Brazil, that doesn't really exist in the US (or UK), as proven before when their offices are... well, virtual.

Is this irony? Fate? Or God playing a cruel joke on everybody?