Dossity Intel
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Open-sourced intel on the people behind the headlines. Want to read full reports or deep dive on someone else? Reach out: https://t.co/Yn41wP4wK7
Joined October 2024
Dossity analyzed Dollar General’s ($DG) management. CEO Todd Vasos findings:. -Married 3 times.-Domestic violence charge (1998).-Ex-wife accused of killing baby (1994).-Bankruptcy (1994).-Judgment (2020).-Suspiciously timed large insider trades (2022).-Daughter’s gun / criminal
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Kudos to the @DOJCrimDiv and @FBISanFrancisco for their involvement securing the charges. @DossityIntel will continue to follow the case.
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Shafi and Woordman has begun to use a different last name on online profiles. @DossityIntel identified profiles belonging to both with the last name Eden.
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In addition to misrepresenting user growth, the SEC has also filed litigation against Shafi and his wife Barbara Woortman. Woortman is a self-proclaimed holistic healer who is being prosecuted for her involvement in using IRL company funds on personal expenses she and Shafi
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Before founding IRL, Shafi founded recruiting startup getTalent, which was sold to Dice in 2013. Shafi claims to have invested in multiple companies including Rex, MyPlace, and Memyard.
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IRL raised money from multiple notable funds including Founders Fund, Floodgate, Goodwater Capital and, during their Series C, SoftBank Vision Fund. They raised $170M at over a $1B valuation in their last fundraise.
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Shafi allegedly inflated IRL’s growth by secretly spending millions on “incentive ads” that paid users to download the app, while telling investors growth was organic. He routed invoices through third parties, falsified records, and told staff to mislabel costs as infrastructure.
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Prosecutors @USAO_NDCA announced that a federal grand jury indicted Abraham Shafi, founder of IRL, for wire fraud, securities fraud, and obstruction. @DossityIntel dug in further and found the following:.- Scam mechanics.- Investors impacted.- Shafi’s background.- Shafi's wife's
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Dossity also found Westman’s Venmo account with multiple transactions.
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Westman’s late grandmother was a famous Kentucky horse breeder, Mary Lou Heleringer. In 2004, the Kentucky legislature recognized her when she passed in 2004.
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Westman’s mother Mary Grace had previously worked at the Church where the shooting occurred, before retiring in 2021. The Church celebrated this retirement on their Facebook page.
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In 2019, Westman’s mother helped petition the state of Minnesota to change Robin’s name from Robert. Online documents from previous years indicate that Robert had gone by the name Bobby as a child.
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🟥 BREAKING 🟥. The suspect in today’s horrific shooting in Minnesota has been identified as Robin Westman. @DossityIntel did further digging and found the following:. - Name Change (from Robert to Robin).- Westman’s mother previously worked at the Church.- Westman’s family
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Kudos to the @DOJCrimDiv and @IRS_CI for their leadership securing today's indictment. Dossity will continue to follow.
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In addition to orchestrating a $700M tax refund scam, Hughes allegedly set up a fake charity called “Brother to Brother Outreach Trust.” Prosecutors say he used it to collect a cut of other taxpayers’ fraudulent refunds—disguised as “donations.”
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His Instagram account @ ElBandele has 16K+ followers and hundreds of videos of him singing Bitcoin inspired songs, often in front of fancy (and orange) sports cars and California homes.
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@DossityIntel found that Hughes also operated under the pseudonym “Orange Baron” as he promoted his musical performance inspired by Bitcoin.
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According to prosecutors, Hughes used false 1041s & 1040s with fake withholdings tied to banks & payment platforms. He allegedly bought a $1.8M Malibu home, 2 Teslas & $500K crypto, while recruiting others & pocketing “fees.” Charges: mail fraud, false claims, false returns—20.
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"BITCOIN BALLER" INDICTED ON $700M TAX REFUND FRAUD. The @DOJTaxDiv unsealed an indictment charging Melvin Louis Hughes of Los Angeles with orchestrating a massive tax fraud scheme. From 2016–2025, Hughes allegedly filed false returns seeking $700M+ in refunds and actually.
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