A.L. Williams - Pyramid Scheme

  • Investigation -
      • Always Marco - YouTube - Social Media - Primerica - [BonkNote]
      • FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
        • 1990 1111 - Asbury Park Press - This Isn't Just Insurance: When A.L. Williams Pitches, Agents Listen, by Ames Alexander  ---  [BonkNote]
      • Insurance Commissioners - States
        • 1982 0106 - NP - The Charlotte News - N.C. checks insurance firm after 'pyramid' questions - [A.L.Williams ] ---  [BonkNote]
      • Joseph Belth - Primerica
  • 2018 - ArtWilliamsBest - Art Williams Greatest Hits from Highlands 2018 - Part 2 - [VIDEO-YouTube-01:14:30]
    • 55-56:45 - I'm Sorry You weren't there when:
      • 30 states investigated us for being a Pyramid. They thought we were a Pyramid.
      • California investigated us for being a Cult.
  • 1990 1111 - Asbury Park Press - This Isn't Just Insurance: When A.L. Williams Pitches, Agents Listen, by Ames Alexander  ---  [BonkNote]
    • The sales troops have been without their leader since July, when Williams announced that he was taking a leave of absence to cooperate with an FBI investigation into his unorthodox insurance sales firm.
    • With no formal business education or corporate management experience, Williams formed his own insurance agency in 1977, teaming up with Charles D. "Boe" Adams, who was earlier convicted of stock and land fraud.
    • Williams now refers to Adams as the "genius" behind the operation.
    • Outside his Atlanta office, Williams reportedly kept a life-size portrait of Adams, bearing the inscription "The Mastermind."

29 Mar 1982, Mon The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, North Carolina) Newspapers.com

  • A.L. Williams - Joseph Belth
    • 2016 1207 - Forum 400 - Battle for the Soul of the US Life Industry - [Joseph Belth]  ---  [BonkNote]  ---  [VIDEO-YouTube-48:28]
      • 33 - A.L. Williams / Primerica
        • North Carolina Department of Insurance Banned Insurance Forum Issue
        • Joseph Belth - We sued the North Carolina Department of Insurance
  • Primerica - Joseph Belth
  • 1982-? - Newspaper - State Probes Atlanta Insurance Firm – [A.L. Williams]  ---  [BonkNote]
    • [Bonk: I Found this on GoogleNews in 2014 – This is all I have and I haven't been able to find it again. I think it’s from 1982 - <WishList?>] 

    • Phil A. Telfer. an associate attorney general, said the firm A.L. Williams may have violated the state's anti-pyramiding law.

  • 1986 0511 - NYT - Crusading for Term Life Insurance - [A.L. Williams - Joseph Belth], by Thomas C. Hayes- [link]
    • "The indiscriminate replacement of cash-value insurance causes me concern,'' said Joseph M. Belth, an insurance professor at Indiana University.
    • A frequent critic of Mr. Williams, Mr. Belth charges in a recent issue of his monthly newsletter that ''what A.L. Williams is doing is wrong for the consumer and represents a disservice to the public.''
      • Mr. Williams dismisses the charge, claiming that Mr. Belth's criticism is aimed at increasing his newsletter's circulation in the insurance industry.
  • 1987 1123 - UPI - Former high school football coach; Art Williams 'He hit this country like a bomb. They didn't know what hit them.', By Rhonda Cook - [link]
    • But Belth said there seems to be a high turnover in the A.L. Williams 'multi-level marketing' organization, which attracts part-timers because it allows them to make commissions off their sales as well as the sales of anyone they bring into the company.
  • Year-? - Book - The A.L. Williams Replacement Empire: Articles from the Insurance Forum, 1981-1986 
  • 2015 - Book - The Insurance Forum: A Memoir, by Joseph Belth
    • theinsuranceforum.com/pages/topics.html
    • Chapter 5 - [Bonk: The Chapter References the following Insurance Forum Newsletters]
      1. December 1980  The Plight of Jefferson Standard's Old Policyholders
      2. April 1981  The A. L. Williams Replacement Empire
      3. January 1982  The A. L. Williams Replacement Empire Strikes Back (The Banning of The Insurance Forum in North Carolina)
      4. March 1982  The A. L. Williams Strategy Begins to Unravel--Part 1
      5. April 1982  The A. L. Williams Strategy Begins to Unravel--Part 2
      6. July 1982  More on the Plight of Jefferson Standard's Old Policyholders
      7. April 1983  A. L. Williams and The Saturday Evening Post<
      8. September 1984  Victory in North Carolina against A. L. Williams' Efforts to Suppress Distribution of The Insurance Forum
      9. May 1985  A. L. Williams' Common Sense Booklet
      10. July 1985  A. L. Williams and the United States Congress
      11. February 1988  A. L. Williams and Southern Illinois University
      12. November 2010  The Primerica Replacement Empire (by Alan Press)
      13. December 1980  The Plight of Jefferson Standard's Old Policyholders
      14. April 1981  The A. L. Williams Replacement Empire
      15. January 1982  The A. L. Williams Replacement Empire Strikes Back (The Banning of The Insurance Forum in North Carolina)
      16. March 1982  The A. L. Williams Strategy Begins to Unravel--Part 1
      17. April 1982  The A. L. Williams Strategy Begins to Unravel--Part 2
      18. July 1982  More on the Plight of Jefferson Standard's Old Policyholders
      19. April 1983  A. L. Williams and The Saturday Evening Post<
      20. September 1984  Victory in North Carolina against A. L. Williams' Efforts to Suppress Distribution of The Insurance Forum
      21. May 1985  A. L. Williams' Common Sense Booklet
      22. July 1985  A. L. Williams and the United States Congress
      23. February 1988  A. L. Williams and Southern Illinois University
      24. November 2010  The Primerica Replacement Empire (by Alan Press)