Once a scammer, always a scammer

[Acting AG Matt] Whitaker is a former U.S. attorney in Iowa, but he was also involved in a Miami-based invention-marketing company the Federal Trade Commission shut down last year after calling it a scam.

Whitaker not only sat on the board of World Patent Marketing but also once sent a threatening email to a former customer who had complained after he spent thousands of dollars and did not receive the promised services. Court records obtained by New Times for a 2017 feature about the fraudulent company show that in an August 2015 email to a disgruntled customer, Whitaker touted his background as a former federal attorney and suggested that filing a complaint with the Better Business Bureau and "smearing" the company online could result in "serious civil and criminal consequences."

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Internal records show the company paid him nearly $10,000 before the company was shuttered.

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Other threats came from Whitaker. In one email included in thousands of pages of documents New Times reviewed, he accused a customer of "possible blackmail or extortion" and threatened "serious civil or criminal consequences."

The feds alleged that thousands of would-be inventors — whose ideas included posterior-enhancing jeans, bimini tops for lawnmowers and fruit crossbred with marijuana — were ripped off in the scheme. They lost as much as $400,000 apiece; some spent their entire life savings.

After losing a 2014 Senate bid and leaving World Patent Marketing, Whitaker became a CNN commentator and penned op-eds claiming that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe has "gone too far" and that he would have indicted Hillary Clinton. He was named Sessions’ chief of staff in September 2017.

  Miama New Times

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.