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Here is Jody Victor's First Letter:
December
13, 2005
Via
Certified Mail,
Return-Receipt Requested
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Mr. Scott
Larsen:
Sent via
email
Dear Mr.
Larsen:
It has come
to my attention that you have made false statements
concerning my family, our business and me on
http://www.amquix.info.
I respect
the right of anyone to express their personal
opinions or provide verified and accurate
information online or offline. But it is
completely unacceptable to disseminate, as you
have, false and damaging information about my
business, my family, or me. By this letter I am
informing you of the verifiable facts and insisting
that you correct the record immediately.
The
specific erroneous information you have posted –
without ever meeting me or engaging in any
discussion with me -- includes:
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Your
Web site includes entirely false and misleading
information about my Amway/Quixtar business
qualification. Please refer to the enclosed
Statement from Quixtar
for accurate information about my business.
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Your
assertions that my wife and I are periodically
qualifying emeralds and that we have never had
our own business "as large as crown" are
entirely false and materially damaging to my
family and our business.
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Your
allegation that I caused Amway or Quixtar to
alter the family crown portrait displayed at
company headquarters by having my former spouse,
Linda, "retouched off the portrait" is entirely
incorrect. Once again, refer to the enclosed
Statement provided by Quixtar for the true and
accurate facts. Linda and I were never depicted
in a "family crown portrait."
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Contrary to your assertions, my father did not
relinquish any claim to the "American Way
Association" before he died.
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Your
implication that I have some inappropriate means
of staying "in power" and maintaining a position
on the IBOAI board is reported without any
substantiating fact and is completely false.
There is a significant difference between
stating opinion and providing information that a
Web site visitor would interpret as a statement
of fact, and you are further damaging my
reputation and business through such innuendo.
I am
continuing to review your Web site and other
Internet locations for additional false and
inaccurate information, and will be asking you to
correct the record further if we identify such
information.
Additionally, neither I nor my family members are
public figures and reproduction of our photos
without our permission is unlawful. Take them off
your site and anywhere else you’ve posted them as
well.
Let me be
perfectly clear. Continued abuse of me and my family
is completely intolerable and unlawful and I insist
that -- by December 26, 2005 -- you remove all of
the aforementioned false statements, unconfirmed
information and personal photographs from your site
or any other Web site or medium where they might
appear. There is no flexibility in that deadline –
we are aware of how easy it is to quickly correct
Web pages. I also want your written confirmation –
to the fax or email addresses given below – that you
have completed this task.
If you do
this, then we can both walk away from this without
further damage. However, if you are unwilling to
correct the record, then I will presume you wish to
deliberately continue to cause harm. That will not
put you in good standing with the laws of the United
States or Germany – which has even tougher laws on
libel and slander than we have in this country.
If you fail
to retract the false information and correct the
record, I will take whatever further action I deem
necessary to obtain appropriate relief.
Sincerely
yours,
Jody Victor
View Quixtar's supporting
statement for Jody Victor
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