A defamation case filed in an Ohio County Court docket uncovers a tradition of dishonesty at BlackOxygen Organics. Plaintiff Louise Harris claims to be a US citizen residing in the UK in her lawsuit (given courtesy of Mombie on Fb).
In line with Harris, she is a “licensed well being and wellness practitioner headquartered in the UK.” Careyann Muller Zivich is a United States citizen and a resident of Ohio. Zivich was recognized in Harris’ lawsuit as a “biohacker, well being, perspective, and wealth coach.” I could possibly be improper, however none of these look like acknowledged {qualifications}.
Harris and Zivich are each previous distributors for BlackOxygen Organics. In line with Harris, Zivich is a widely known distributor who has direct entry to “large audiences” through “social media teams.” Harris asserts that she was defamed by these organizations.
In line with the allegations made in Harris’ lawsuit; Harris expressed reservations about BlackOxygen’s medical claims and the shortage of transparency relating to the contents in its merchandise after turning into a model companion.
Harris, Zivich, and one other distributor, skeptical of BlackOxygen Organics’ personal commissioned testing, ‘commissioned unbiased lab checks of (BlackOxygen’s) merchandise.’ Impartial laboratory checks decided that the products have been unfit for human consumption for quite a lot of causes, together with extreme portions of dangerous heavy metals and a potassium content material that may end in extreme medical issues or demise if consumed as advocated by BlackOxygen. Harris’ difficulties started when she ‘voiced her considerations to Zivich and BlackOxygen’s company management’.
Harris requested that BlackOxygen evaluate her batch testing findings to their very own and eradicate harmful batches from {the marketplace}. Marc Saint-Onge, founder and CEO of BlackOxygen, notified Harris that BlackOxygen didn’t do heavy steel testing on any of the batches at present available on the market.
Harris then requested that BlackOxygen recall all remaining batches and cling to industry-standard testing requirements sooner or later. Saint-Onge advised Harris that BlackOxygen will take no motion attributable to quite a lot of elements, together with the absence of any deaths instantly associated to BlackOxygen items.
Evidently, Saint-Onge was not keen to recall BlackOxygen’s harmful merchandise voluntarily till somebody died. In August, officers restricted the distribution of BlackOxygen Organics’ merchandise in the USA as a consequence of their very own checks. In September, Canada adopted likewise. Saint-Onge disregarded the FDA’s prohibition and proceeded to distribute BlackOxygen Organics items illegally to residents of the USA.
Saint-Onge abruptly introduced the closure of BlackOxygen Organics in November 2021. This leads us again to the criticism filed by Harris; Quickly afterwards, Zivich started disseminating info saying that the corporate was not closing and that Harris had coordinated a hack on the corporate and despatched a phony e mail to hurt the corporate. In fact, that was nonsense. And Harris knew what he was doing for Zivich.
When Zivich made this false comment relating to Harris, she was conscious that the corporate was in reality closing, as she and different chosen model companions have been knowledgeable confidentially previous to the e-mail being despatched.
Regardless of this, Zivich denied earlier data of the closure at a BlackOxygen Organics webinar discussing the closure (after it was made public). Zivich maintained throughout this webinar, in discussion groups, and in “subsequent social media posts” that BlackOxygen Organics was closing. had nothing to do with safety considerations and was the consequence of an inordinate quantity of “orchestrated” chargebacks, which induced BlackOxygen’s bank card processors to freeze all of their funds and prohibit future transactions.
Naturally, orders weren’t being accomplished attributable to BlackOxygen Organics’ merchandise being prohibited from distribution in its two key markets. Maybe if refunds had been issued, customers wouldn’t have wanted to submit chargebacks? Even when Zivich’s unconfirmed assertion is accepted, BlackOxygen’s closure remains to be attributed to “security considerations” (distribution of poisonous merchandise). In a transfer that has a daunting resemblance to BlackOxygen company’s conduct towards one other distributor a couple of months earlier, Zivich claimed Harris was ‘personally liable for the freezing of the corporate’s property.
Harris continues by asserting that neither banks nor bank card processors have closed or frozen the accounts of BlackOxygen Natural. Harris asserts that Zivich lied about her accountability with a purpose to ‘deflect criticism away from herself and BlackOxygen’s senior executives. Zivich suggested tons of of shoppers who had lately realized they’d not be paid earned commissions and have been involved about how they’d pay their mortgages or present for his or her youngsters that Harris was personally liable for their losses and they need to “thank” Harris.
Actually, Zivich was conscious that the closure was associated to the product high quality of BlackOxygen. Moreover, Zivich asserted Harris’s innocence. was “mentally in poor health”; had a “psychological breakdown and was unable to carry out her job duties”; required involuntary dedication to a psychological facility; stole cash from Zivich with a purpose to receive the beforehand referenced unbiased BlackOxygen product testing; stole BlackOxygen Organics property; stole management of a 100,000-strong Fb group Harris created (and thus already had management of); was terminated by BlackOxygen Organics; and was planning to launch a BlackOx
Moreover, Zivich asserted that Harris was a member of a satanic group devoted to stopping the general public from discovering the magical therapeutic capabilities of BlackOxygen items by way of the usage of darkish power.
Harris suffered public ridicule and outrageous harassment as a direct and proximate results of Zivich’s actions, together with widespread and unironic claims that she is a “demon,” a “undercover agent for the evil FDA,” and that she desired to kill as many youngsters as attainable by depriving them of the magical properties of BlackOxygen merchandise, together with their “natural arsenic and lead.” And, as if that weren’t dangerous sufficient, there seems to be extra… (There are) extra statements that aren’t included right here however might be offered beneath seal or in accordance with the Court docket’s directions.
Harris sued Zivich on December sixth, alleging defamation. Zivich’s efforts… have been calculated particularly and maliciously to hurt Harris. Harris argues that Zivich’s conduct resulted in her turning into the sufferer of ‘on-line bullying, harassment, and direct and oblique threats of bodily violence.’ Sadly, I’m unable to trace county litigation, however I’ll hold an eye fixed out for any developments in Harris’ case. On the floor, it seems as if Zivich faces slander costs.
