Under Investigation: The inside story of the Florida Attorney General’s investigation of Wilhelmina Scouting Network, the largest model and talent scam in America.

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Ayman El-Difrawi (Ayman A. El-Difrawi)

Aliases: "Alec Defrawy"; "Michael Difrawi"; "Michael Chandler"; "Michael Jensen"; "David Mellon"; "Alan Madison"

LATEST: Michael Fomkin current CEO of Impact 210 is also the owner of the Northern New Jersey Industry Magazine Franchise. Also, I called the Miami office for Impact 210 and asked for Alec Defrawy. The receptionist said he was there but busy and asked me to leave a message.

Criminal Background Check

Inmate number: 25268-016
Released: August 27, 1999
Source: Federal Bureau of Prisons

Crimes, Arrests, Indictments, Convictions, and Fraud

  • Child Abuse
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud
  • False financial reporting
  • Illegal phone call recordings
  • False Advertising
  • Copyright violations for commercial purposes
  • Internet Fraud
  • Conspiracy to commit internet fraud
  • Internet defamation
  • Conspiracy to defraud the media
  • Unpaid restitution

Child Abuse

Ayman El-Difrawi

Defrawy was arrested for child abuse, aggravated child abuse and child abuse. He attacked a 4-year-old boy.

Source: Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, Hillsborough County, Florida

". . . don't leave him alone with the children."

His former girlfriend, under oath in a long deposition, recalled the statements of her young son, who told her mother Defrawy cut his lip and/or put Tabasco sauce on his cut: "Ayman had put this Tabasco on his open cut and that's why it had swollen up." "He said that Ayman told him it was medicine and that he put it on his lip." Defrawy punched the two-year-old boy in the stomach. He also burned the skin off the boy's genitals with boiling hot water: "I saw all the skin was gone around his genitals." Her son, reporting the assault, said, "Michael gave me a bath and he punched me in the stomach and he pinched my wee-wee." "I called the sheriff's department and they showed up."

Sexual Harassment

"HR Director . . . received $25,000 from Michael DiFrawi regarding some type of sexual harassment."

Source: Florida Attorney General's Case Report, Options Talent investigation, p. 10.

False financial reporting

". . . the FBI discovered that he and another of his companies, Cosmoco Inc., received more than $170,000 for consulting work during the time he claimed he could not afford an attorney."

Source: "Man Gets Four Years in Fraud Case," Washington Post, March 12, 1996, p. B8.

Conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud

"In relation of a 1991 offence, in 1995, Mr. DeFrawy pled guilty to a criminal charge of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud."

Source: SEC, Options Talent Group, 8-K, October 7, 2002, p. 19.

Internet Fraud

Alec Defrawy was caught publishing a fraudulent mock website. A copy of the original document he wrote was obtained with his digital fingerprints. The Author was Rafiah Kashmiri (his mother); it was Last Saved By alecdefrawy.

Special+Report.doc

The digital document content was copied and pasted into the mock website: the content was the same, even the title was the same. (See the web page as it appeared: specialreport.html.)

Source: Former employee

Conspiracy to commit internet fraud

Caught on tape telling his staff to lie on the internet

Source: http://ripoffreport.com/pops/boguspostings.wav

Illegal phone call recordings

Michael Difrawi

"Four officers in a Maitland business that helps other companies get loans were charged Wednesday with illegally taping telephone calls. Patrick Read, 29, of Apopka, president of the Small Business Loan Association; G. Thomas Bradshaw, 24, of Altamonte Springs, vice president; Michael Difrawi, 26, of Altamonte Springs, vice president; and David Elliott, 27, of Orlando, national sales manager, were all released from jail on $1,000 bail after being charged with unlawful interception of an oral communication, a felony that carries a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison and $5,000 fine."

Source: "4 Business Officers Taped Calls Illegally, Police Say," Orlando Sentinel, November 22, 1990, Pg. B4

False Advertising

"The BBB said this week it has received several complaints about Shearson Management Group and its sister company, the Small Business Loan Association, which offer employment and loan referral services for $195. Shearson recently changed its named [sic] to Strategic, a company employee said, because of objectiions [sic] from the well-known Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc., which has no connection with the job referral firm. The company applied for BBB membership in November but was rejected in December because the company couldn't substantiate its advertised job listings, said Brenda Jimenez, a spokeswoman for the bureau."

Source: Stephen Goldstein, "Be wary of up-front money for services, local BBB warns," Washington Times, January 11, 1991, Pg. C3.

Copyright violations for commercial purposes

Defrawy copied supermodel images and put them on his website emodel.com to mislead consumers to sign up with emodel.

Source: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.models.petite/msg/de2bd888ea5c3b2d

Internet defamation

Defrawy created www.beiconline.com, the socalled Bureau of Ethical Internet Commerce, a fake name and non-existent organization. He has been sued for the defamation he published on beiconline.

Source: Henderson v. Fashion Rock, Alec Defrawy et al (Ontario Superior Court)

Conspiracy to defraud the media

Alec Defrawy

"Alec Defrawy is actually the man we saw coordinating that fake 'documentary crew.' "

Source: "Trans Continental Talent: An I-Team Investigation," Fox 5 Atlanta, Nov. 14, 2002.

Unpaid restitution

"U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan ordered Ayman A. El-Difrawi, 32, to pay more than $2.3 million in restitution to victims of the scam he created through companies known as the Small Business Loan Association and Shearson Management Group."

Source: "Man Gets Four Years in Fraud Case," Washington Post, March 12, 1996; p. B8.

“The sentence imposed in Docket Number 94CR162-01 is approaching the expiration date of August 26, 2002, and the outstanding balance of restitution remains at $2,330,554. Mr. El-Difrawi has paid a total of $8,575 as of July 15, 2002. . . . Mr. El-Difrawi has consistently paid $300 per month toward his restitution obligation."

Source: Defrawy Parole records

"During fiscal 2002 and for the period from inception through July 31, 2001, the Company paid General Services Corporation, on behalf of Alec Defrawy, $274,798 and $64,862, respectively in consulting fees and bonuses."

Source: SEC Filings, Form 10-KSB, Options Talent Group, July 31, 2002, F-13.

If Defrawy was earning $274,798 and $64,862, respectively in consulting fees and bonuses, why was he only paying $300 per month in restitution? If the authorities knew that he was making that much money, they would never have allowed him to pay back such a small amount per month. IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ASSETS OF DEFRAWY OR FRAUDULENT REPORTING, CONTACT The Financial Litigation Unit of the U.S. Attorney Office in Orlando, Florida.

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