ASD members said this morning that ASD President Andy Bowdoin tried to rally the troops last night by evoking Satan and God and comparing events at ASD to the 9/11 Terrorist attack on the United States.

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Some members are angry that Bowdoin used the 9/11 analogy, saying it is monumentally disrespectful to thousands of people killed on September 11, 2001, and their friends, family...

Reports appeared online this morning that AdSurfDaily owner Andy Bowdoin wasn't permitted to speak in a conference call with ASD members because a "gag order" had been handed down.

No such order appears to be part of the public record.

Public records show Bowdoin, 74, donated money to a political committee a few weeks prior to the state and federal investigations into his business practices. How Bowdoin presented the money to the committee is unclear.
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Today is the 10th straight day ASD Cash Generator has been in the news. It appears as though ASD now has an attorney of record in the federal case.

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There are many interesting subplots in the ASD forfeiture case. Some ASD members are behaving as though they can petition the government and members of Congress to make it all go away -- as though they're petitioning a local school...

It's beginning to look as though some ASD members devised a scheme by which other members would click on Google Adsense ads to create a revenue stream for ASD.

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An element of mystery surrounds the ASDOfferUniverse site. What's not mysterious are instructions that appear online for people to click on the Adsense ads to generate revenue.

It's also apparent that some...

As state and federal investigators move forward with separate probes into the business practices of ASD Cash Generator amid Ponzi and Pyramid allegations, resentment is brewing across the Web.

Today the St. Petersburg Times, a Florida newspaper, awarded ASD a Gold Medal for alleged flimflammery in the sport of "conniving schemes."

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Some ASD members are monitoring...