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Creatine Marketing claims to be one of the best marketing firms Sacramento has to offer. On the surface, they offer web design and marketing services but internally they are a multilevel marketing scheme driven by their efforts in Visalus, Organo Gold, X-treme Biz, and Solavei. Flashback to 2010 a well-known and sizable company by the name of "US Loan Auditors" was brought to their knees when they were slapped with a $60 million lawsuit by the California Attorney General Jerry Brown, a class action lawsuit, and a lawsuit from Bank of America. The key players named in the lawsuit were Jeff Pulvino, Shane Barker, and James Sandison.

They claimed they could help troubled homeowners faced with foreclosure and the housing crisis, by going after the lending scam artists who provided them with bad loans. They claimed to be experts on predatory lending and preyed on desperate homeowners with little to no means of escaping foreclosure.

The same individual gentlemen named in the lawsuit Jeff Pulvino, Shane Barker, and James Sandison started another social media marketing company named Creatine Marketing located in 3840 Rosin Ct, Sacramento, CA. Their company is driven by profits from multi level marketing scams that each of the owners participate in.

Shane Barker, now a former chief Marketing Officer of Creatine Marketing now runs his own marketing company, Modera. Jennifer Mount, former Executive Assistant at US Loan Auditors now works as a co-founder of Creatine Marketing. Daniel Fleetwood, former Vice President of Sales at US Loan Auditors, now also operates as a co-founder of Creatine Marketing.

Now why is this relevant? Let me reference former US Loan Auditors accountant, Paula Sontra's legal affidavit from back in October, 2010:

“I was also told by Pulvino that he, Barker, and Sandison are planning to start several
new companies, and that they are planning to hide any association between these new companies and their individual names because of their "bad credit history, " and especially Sandison's name because of the bar issues, " by which I assume he meant the disciplinary charges for embezzlement and other misconduct that the State Bar recently filed against Sandison.

I was told by Pulvino they would like to form these new companies quickly and that
they will be Nevada corporations. I was also told that they would prefer to establish each one as a separate entity because if legal issues arise with one or more of them, the others could be kept going. Pulvino told me that they may obtain a separate office space for each company, preferably different suites in the same building.”

Sure enough, flash forward to 2013, Jeff Pulvino is a co-founder of Creatine Marketing, without any public acknowledgment on the website's team page, and Shane Barker and Jeff Pulvino are publicly listed as reputation management "clients". The company's business license is a Nevada business license under the name of Next Level Ideas, Inc and listed under Daniel Fleetwood, former Vice President of Sales at US Loan Auditors.

Creatine Marketing SocialCam Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddtv-XVumeI

James Sandison, a now disbarred attorney, works in the "legal department" at Creatine Marketing. His name is also nowhere on the company's website. The company (as shown in the second video) are preparing to use two separate office spaces in the same building at 3840 Rosin Court. The man shown in the video Nicolas Fordham, runs MXSWeb.com and X-treme Biz, MXSWeb's affiliate marketing program.

Creatine Marketing is now housing members of Organo Gold, Visalus, and X-treme Biz, all affiliate marketing schemes with questionable business practices. Jeff Pulvino, Daniel Fleetwood, Robert Black, and Patrick A. Weller all operate parts of Organo Gold whilst working under Creatine Marketing. Interesting enough, Organo Gold had claims filed against them by the Federal Trade Commission for its false health claims. http://www.krgv.com/news/special-investigation-organo-gold-federal-investigations/

Creatine Marketing's domain name was set up in October 1st, 2010, around the same time the owners of US Loan Auditors were publicly handling their lawsuit and subsequent bankruptcy, so as Paula Sontra officially stated, Jeff Pulvino made the immediate move to establish Creatine Marketing after the downfall of US Loan Auditors:

"Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: CREATINEMARKETING.COMCreated on: 01-Oct-10
Expires on: 01-Oct-13
Last Updated on: 15-Jan-13 Registrant:
Next Level Ideas"

Update by teavana
Mar 24, 2013 5:45 pm EDT

I'm not sure what that would accomplish since Jim Sandison isn't pursuing litigation on behalf of the company, I would guess he's just a consultant there. More putting the information out there because it is suspicious.

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Nora Petrash
Nevada City, US
Mar 21, 2013 3:53 pm EDT

How do you know.. Can you confirm Sandison, does work for this company? It states: he is not listed on the web site, so how did you find out he is involved in this company?
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Social Sam
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Mar 22, 2013 2:04 am EDT

It seems fairly clear from this video: https://mega.co.nz/#!FctmzYrB!HmpCXigJXBe2j80rZ4qkhUlSpgF1IaCb9JDKeyoFtDY
Sorry, I could only find a download version of the video, but James Sandison is shown at 1:26 and referred to as the Creatine Marketing "legal department" by CTO Nicolas Fordham.

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Jackson49
US
Mar 23, 2013 1:54 pm EDT

Has anyone called the AG to talk about this legal consultant that has been disbarred?