© 2020 TPM MEDIA LLC. Associate Publisher: PUBLISHED SINCE 2000 Clayton Morris, an ex-host on “Fox and Friends,” has moved to Portugal with his wife as he over two dozen lawsuits for allegedly defrauding investors. © 2020 TPM MEDIA LLC. Clayton Morris, a former host on “Fox and Friends,” has moved to Portugal with his wife as they both face more than two dozen lawsuits for allegedly defrauding investors.Prosecutors haven’t filed criminal charges against Morris, who left Natali Morris, Clayton’s wife and a former MSNBC host, claimed on her She also insisted that “we have not run from anything.”“In my clients’ opinion, innocent people don’t flee the country,” said Jynell Berkshire, a real estate attorney who is representing several of the plaintiffs in the suit.
Morris has been sued by more than two dozen different investors since the start of 2019.One Columbus, GA-based plaintiff accuses the Fox alum of running “what appears to be a Ponzi scheme…pushed…through podcasts, YouTube videos, a website, and individual phone calls and emails.” The same suit reproduces an email Morris sent to the investor assuring him that Morris Invest LLC owned and controlled the Whelan-founded corporations that Morris is now attempting to blame for the whole debacle.In a separate, public note about the family’s hop across the Atlantic, Morris described how hard the whole thing has been on the two of them.“Watching him endure this has felt like what I would imagine it is like to watch him endure chemotherapy,” she Morris has previously asserted that he is a victim of Whelan just like the people now suing both men. Head of Product: In a December 2018 segment that began with a montage of highlights from Morris’s time hosting the weekend version of the show, Morris didn’t just describe the barebones version of the investment schemes he’d been touting in web videos and a book. The New York Times says that Clayton Morris was making $6,500 per property he referred to Ocean Pointe, and he referred from 700 to 1,000 properties. He got help along the way from various prominent conservative media figures on and off Fox News airwaves, from Dick Morris to Newt Gingrich to Mike Huckabee to Glenn Beck, Stansberry hasn’t gone away now that the White House has changed hands. Apply for a free student membership Experiencing financial hardship? Notorious con-man Porter Stansberry is perhaps the ur-example of the phenomenon.Stansberry spent the Obama years prodding conservative mailing list audiences to be ever more afraid of a looming apocalypse, then marketing survivalist-themed investment products to them. The lawsuits make clear Morris represented himself to at least some investors as holding effective control of the Whelan firms he now blames for the cock-ups in Indianapolis.“We would never have worked with this company if we knew ourselves, our families, or any other investors would find themselves in this position,” a March statement on the firm’s website The man Morris did business with – the man he now says tricked him, too – had lost his license to broker real estate transactions in Indiana “several years ago” and had his firm “shut down [in 2017] by the State Attorney General’s office after multiple complaints,” T&H Realty Services’ Jeremy Tallman wrote The suit on behalf of the Georgia man specifically claims that Morris “appear[s] to have targeted inexperienced investors, many of whom ultimately lost large proportions of their savings or retirement funds in the scheme.”Grifting off a conservative audience with little financial sophistication or experience of investing is something of a time-honored tradition in the conservative media world. Front-End Developer: General Counsel: (Photo by Janette Pellegrini/Getty Images) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. More recently, he’s The couple is very happy with the marriage and everyone enjoys each other’s company very much. Apply for a free community-supported membership