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Andy Esquivel arrested (again)

Posted on February 1, 2016 in Andy Esquivel's Scams Andy's Threats Buzz/Wiser Karma Cause Ron Kelsay Trial Updates Uncategorized Wiser Car Cover Wiser E-Cigarettes Wiser Eyes Wiser Helmet Wiser No Phone Zone Wiser Technology Xooplay Xtagged

111701135-mugshot1 Andy Esquivel has been arrested (again) and is now in state custody.  He was taken into custody just before noon on Monday, February 1st – booking number 201600817.  His bail is set at $25,000 cash.  He cannot bond out, he must pay the full amount to be released.

For those of us watching this drama unfold, this comes as no surprise.  This is not the last time Andy will be arrested for probation violation, but because this is the first time it will be his shortest time in jail (30 days).  Next time it’ll be 90 days, then 6 months according to AP&P guidelines.

I’ll post updates on Andy’s status and audio of the court hearings as they become available.  My hunch, given how damning the report by Andy’s probation officer was, this won’t end well. Here’s the custody information website link.

UPDATE: Andy’s hearing before Judge Connors is scheduled for Tuesday, February 16th @ 9:15am.

UPDATE: Andy was released from jail on his own recognizance and a sentencing hearing has been set for March 8th @ 9:15am.  At this hearing, based on what he is posting online, we expect Andy to claim that he has a job, that his parole officer is somehow ‘corrupt’, and that he needs a 6th PO who will be more sympathetic to his latest scam, SmileyHeroes.com.  

UPDATE: The February 16th hearing was a short one, so we’re not going to bother posting the audio online.

UPDATE: Andy’s sentencing hearing has been postponed five times since his release, usually at the request of his public defender.  The new hearing has been scheduled for June 14th @ 9:00am.

Details of Amdy Esquivel’s plea agreement released

Posted on October 22, 2014 in Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel Guilty of Securities Fraud

The full details of Andy Esquivel’s securities fraud plea agreement are now available for review.  Due to a glitch in the court records database, we weren’t able to access this document until just recently (the court attached the wrong plea agreement to Andy’s case file).

The full agreement can be found here.

The agreement details the conditions of Andy Esquivel’s release on Probation, including the requirement that he pay full restitution to his victims, get a job, and submit to random drug and alcohol testing for three years.  Once (IF) Andy completes his probation, the prosecutor cites no objection to reducing the two 3rd degree felonies Andy was convicted of to Class A misdemeanors – still serious crimes, but reduced one level in weight.  Probation is to last three (3) years.

Below please find a transcript of the guilty plea submitted by Andy Esquivel via his public defender:

“During the period of time from March 2008 through April 2009, [I] operated a business known as Xtagged.  [I] represented Xtagged was an Internet based business in which the user created an online profile for meeting & dating.  During that period of time [I] met with 3 individuals.  At various meetings, [I] represented that Xtagged was a registered LLC, that Xtagged was patented & the Dept. of Motor Vehicles had authorized Xtagged to communicate and access their databases.  That MySpace, Michael Jackson & Google were interested in purchasing Xtagged & that in near future Xtagged would become a public corporation.

Based upon [my] representations, these individuals purchased ‘stock’ in Xtagged.  They did not receive any return on their investment as promised and [I] failed to return their investment when asked.  A records search showed Xtagged was never registered in the state of Utah and no patents held in it’s name.  The DMV was contacted and they never gave permission for Xtagged to access their database.  No evidence that any offer to purchase Xtagged was made or that it ever went public.” – Andres Esquivel (8/19/2014)

 

Andy Esquivel lies (a list)

Posted on October 22, 2014 in Andy Esquivel's Scams Andy's Threats Andy's Videos Buzz/Wiser Karma Cause Ron Kelsay Trial Updates Wiser Car Cover Wiser E-Cigarettes Wiser Eyes Wiser Helmet Wiser No Phone Zone Wiser Technology Xooplay Xtagged

Here’s a brief outline of Andy’s various lies:

  • Truth: Andy Esquivel conned $5,000 from an investor named Ryion Butcher
  • Truth: Andy Esquivel conned $50,000 from an investor named Gene Allen Brady and his mother Georgia Brady
  • Truth: Andy Esquivel conned $10,000 from an investor named Kyle Kluff
  • Lies specifically told to scam victim Kyle Cluff in order to secure his investment (quoted from recent testimony):
    • Donald Trump was buying xtagged, and he called Andy and Andy put him on speaker phone so his family could hear and celebrate.
    • 24 hour fitness was endorsing xtagged and we would be on the Biggest loser.
    • Geico was endorsing xtagged.
    • Kyle needed to sell all these Nike stickers so Nike will endorse xtagged.
    • The Attorney General of Colorado was going to endorse xtagged and take it to President Obama.
    • Colorado University professors wanted to use xtagged with the grant money they received.
    • P 90X was going to pay you to use xtagged and if Kyle helped Andy get in shape he was going to split it with Kyle which would of come to $30,000.
    • Andy got paid millions of dollars from real estate companies to use xtagged for selling their homes.
    • Myspace wanted to by xtagged for 5 million dollars.
    • The DMV was going to use xtagged system.
    • Americas most wanted was endorsing xtagged.
    • [Andy wa going to be on Oprah in just 6 more months (this was three years ago).
    • xtagged was going to have a super bowl commercial for 2009 for Budweiser.
    • Andy was in the middle of brokering a deal with Budweiser for your amazing “trademarked” commercial.
    • Andy told Kyle multiple times, “Kyle, it’s done we sold xtagged, your officially a millionaire.”
    • xtagged was supposed to be on 10 different news stations, (many of which were fox news, and not the regional ones but nation wide fox news.) but Andy didn’t want the site to crash because of being over viewed, so he postponed the interview.
    • Scam victims will get their buy out in just one month.
    • All of Andy’s companies, (xtagged, car cover, BTP, the sushi shop) were under the same company name and Kyle owned 3 % of each.
    • Andy had a Google executive fly out to Utah, just to meet him and talk about xtagged.
    • Andy owned www.yourplates.com and was using it as a trial version of xtagged.
    • That xtagged had facial recognition and that Andy ha meetings with many FBI agents who loved xtagged.
    • That xtagged was going to be on shark tank the tv show.
    • That the stocks everyone bought were going to go public of June, 2008 and they would open no lower than $30 a share, and will quickly rise above the price of Google stock.
    • Andy’s ex-lawyer and Allen had a deal to sell Xtagged for 30 million dollars, but the buyers were all about the money so Andy didn’t sell.
  • Truth: Andy Esquivel conned $5,000 from an investor named Stephen R. Klemark, III
  • Truth: Andy Esquivel conned $2,000 from an investor named Chris Engelbrecht
  • Truth: Andy Esquivel conned $1,500 from an investor named Robert Daugherty
  • Truth: According to Andy Esquivel’s former attorney,  Andy is alleged to have conned as much as $100,000 from Melissa Garr [JPG]
  • truth: Andy Esquivel conned $2,500 from an investor named Shar Jenkins and used it to pay back the $2,500 he conned from Logan Laws
    • note: this constitutes running a ‘ponzi scheme’ across state lines according to the Utah Department of Securities.
  • Truth: Andy Esquivel conned more than $70,000 from members of his own family (who all know him as “Chicho”).  formal charges in these cases have not yet been filed, but the victims are communicating with authorities to determine next steps.
  • Truth: Andy Esquivel was convicted of digital harassment in American Fork, Utah (Case#101101231).  Hw was sentenced to a fine and a year’s probabtion.
  • Truth: Xtagged is being investigated for fraud by the Federal Trade Commission (#26458904)
  • Truth: Andy Esquivel has been charged with three felony counts of securities fraud in Davis County Utah (case#111701135) and is currently free on $10,000 bond.  He faces trial on all three counts on October 24th, 2012 and will be representing himself.
  • Truth: Andy Esquivel has been charged with disorderly conduct in connection with a fight he and his cousin John Steer had in Bountiful Utah in 2009 (case#091800357) and is currently free on $750 in cash bail.
  • Truth: Andy Esquivel was convicted in 2004 of felony weapons charges involving drugs [ZIP]
  • Lie: MySpace offered $100 Million to buy MySpaceTagged.com
    • truth – Myspace almost sued Andy over MySpaceTagged.comAndress "Andy" Esquivel
  • Lie: Xtagged authenticates users license plate numbers
    • truth – Xtagged.com never had a connection to any public databases and therefore could not authenticate anything
  • Lie: Xtagged used face recognition software to authenticate users
    • truth – there never was any face recognition software in Xtagged
  • Lie: Xtagged was sponsored by iSafe.org
    • truth – iSafe.org was considering legal action against Xtagged
  • Lie: Xtagged is trademarked
    • truth – Andy never finished filing a trademark on the Xtagged name or logo [click here]
  • Lie: Wiser Electronic Cigarette Inc. bought out Wiser LLC [link]
    • truth – a business entity search with the Colorado Secretary of State reveals that “Wiser Electronic Cigarette, Inc.” does not exist [link]
    • truth – a business entity search with the Colorado Secretary of State reveals that “Wiser LLC” does not exist [link]
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel sold Xtagged for millions and bought houses in Florida, Nevada and Colorado
    • Truth – Andy Esquivel is broke and lives with his mother
  • Lie: On August 25th, Wiser Technology released their Wiser Car Cover.  Andy posted a picture of it being tested at 75 mph in New Mexico [PHOTO]
    • Truth – the photo Andy posted was actually of a 2012 Hyundai Veloster undergoing road tests in the mid west. The car, which has not yet been released, was disguised by black wraps. Many other photos of similarly disguised Velosters are posted across the web, including YouTube videos. Andy spotted one, took a picture of it, and labeled it “Wiser Car Cover” in an attempt to fool people into believing he had a product.
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel partnered with Nike and licensed their logo to merge with Xtagged
    • truth – Nike is considering legal action against Andy Esquivel for trademark infringement
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel partnered with Geico and licensed their logo to merge with Xtagged
    • truth – Geico is considering legal action against Andy Esquivel for trademark infringement
  • Lie: KarmaCause.org was a website affiliated with KarmaCurrency.com.au
    • truth – KarmaCause.org is a domain that used to redirect to KarmaCurrency.com.au without their knowledge
  • Lie: KarmaCause.org and Xtagged helped a homeless family in Denver, as reported by their testimonial on Xtagged.com
    • truth – the entire story was a sham, the photos stolen and the license plate of the alleged homeless family helped by Andy’s charity is fake
  • Lie: Xtagged is worth millions of dollars
    • truth – Xtagged.com is now offline and is therefore worth little more than the fee required to register it with Godaddy.
  • Lie: Google was considering buying Xtagged for $1 Billion dollars
    • truth – the M&A department at Google has never heard of Xtagged and wouldn’t consider buying it if they had
    • update: Andy claims to be suing Google and has started a twitter feed caled “Die-Google-Die” to promote his anti-Google cause.
  • Lie: Stephen R. Klemark bought Xtagged for $24.5 million
    • truth – Stephen R. Klemark doesn’t have $24.5 Million

    Andy Esquivel arrested on weapons charges

  • Lie: Stephen R. Klemark bought Xtagged for $2.4 million
    • truth – Stephen R. Klemark doesn’t have $2.4 million
  • Lie: Xtagged got bought for $50 million
    • truth – nobody is stupid enough to buy Xtagged for $50 million
  • Lie: This message board thread has cost Xtagged $175k or $300k or $2.5m or $12m or $15m (depending on the day of the week) in lost potential investments
    • truth – nobody in their right mind would invest any amount of money into Xtagged
    • truth – Any company considering investing in Xtagged would do their homework first and discover everything we’ve posted here (including the fact that none of the companies mentioned legally exist) on their own
    • truth – It has been noted that pathalogical liars can never remember the lies they’ve told, which is why Andy’s numbers always change with time
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel got financial backing for Xtagged form some company at CES in Las Vegas
    • truth – Andy Esquivel never went to CES and nobody there would have given him the time of day if he had
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel is developing an energy drink called Buzz/Wiser where 50% of the profits will go to MADD
    • truth – MADD is suing Andy Esquivel over this claim
    • truth – there is no energy drink
    • truth – New Belgium Brewing Company is about to sue Andy Esquivel and Stephen R. Klemark, III for using their logo to promote this fake energy drink
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel was working on a deal with a stadium
    • truth – there never was a deal with any stadium
  • Lie: Buzz/Wiser Feel Better is a new version of the Buzz/Wiser drink family that cures hangovers
    • truth – Andy spoofed a drink called Security Feel Better manufactured out of Miami Florida, stole all their graphics, and pretended it was his. The owner of the real drink is taking legal action.
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel filmed his infamous Mariah Carey video in front of a big screen TV owned by one of his business partners
    • truth – Andy Esquivel filmed the Mariah Carey video in front of a wall in his mother’s living room using a laptop projector borrowed from friends
  • Lie: Buzz/Wiser contains a secret ingredient that cures hangovers
    • truth – there is no Buzz/Wiser
  • Lie: Buzz/Wiser has shipped 1 Million units
    • truth – there is no Buzz/Wiser
  • Lie: Buzz/Wiser is a non-alcoholic energy drink
    • truth – there is no Buzz/Wiser
    • truth – published mock-ups photos of the proposed energy drink currently being displayed on the Buzz/Wiser website include the text “alcohol content 5.4%” around the upper lip of the can
  • Lie: Buzz & Wiser is being ‘considered’ for a Superbowl commercial
    • truth – the only ‘consideration’ you need to get a Superbowl commercial is a few million dollars in cash and a good media firm
    • truth – there is no ‘Buzz & Wiser’
  • Lie: Xtagged has a reality show which aired in July of 2008
    • truth – there is no reality show, never was, never will be…
  • Lie: Xtagged will be featured in an upcoming episode of “The Family Guy”
    • truth – no it will not
  • Lie: Xtagged will have a cameo in the upcoming Pixar movie “Cars II”
    • truth – no it will not
  • Lie: The Denver Police Department has endorsed Wiser Technology’s “No Phone Zone” application
    • truth – a spokesperson for the Denver Police Department expressly states that the department does not endorse products of any kind
    • truth – Steve Klemark, who works for the department as a low level clerk, was the subject of an internal affairs investigation and subsequent disciplinary action for using the name of the department to promote his various schemes.
  • Lie: Aspen St. Inn in Colorado has partnered with Wiser E-Cigarette to offer an e-cigarette in every room. Their phone number is (720) 732-7786
    • truth – representatives of the Aspen Street Inn in Colorado have never even heard of e-cigarettes and the phone number above for Andy’s mother, not the inn.
  • Lie: Andy staged a HUGE infomercial to launch his Wiser E-Cigarette on July 4th
    • truth – since Andy still hasn’t posted the video from this amazing television event, we can only assume that it never happened.
  • Lie: “Gary the Bus Driver” was on hand for the infomercial and posted this blog describing the event
    • “Gary the Bus Driver” is actually Andy pretending to be someone who actually thinks his various fictitious products are real. This was revealed in a recent YouTube video posted by Andy in which he surfs Google while still logged in as Gary the Bus Driver (he apparently didn’t realize the login cookie from Blogger persists when you switch to Google.com).
  • Lie: Xtagged has an iPhone app that will start your car for you
    • truth – Andy bought a remote starter and filmed himself starting a car with it after touching the screen of his iPhone…pretending the iPhone started the car
  • Lie: Xtagged software is bundled with the Samsung Instinct
    • truth – Samsung knows nothing about Xtagged, would not bundle this software if it did, and decided not to sue Andy over these claims because they considered the damage caused by his amateur YouTube video minimal
  • Lie: Buzz/Wiser is working on a Superbowl commercial
    • truth – there is no Superbowl commercial
  • Lie: Xtagged was buying Rebecca Dunn a house in Colorado
    • truth – Andy can’t even afford to buy himself a house in Colorado
  • Lie: I’m leaving my job to go work for Andy Esquivel at Xtagged
    • truth – no amount of money in this world is worth going to jail because I worked with Andy Esquivel at Xtagged
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel owns a printing company
    • truth – Andy Esquivel doesn’t own any legitimate businesses
  • Lie: Xtagged has a line of jewelry
    • truth – Andy Esquivel bought one ring with the Xtagged logo on it…this does not constitute a ‘line’
  • Lie: Ryion was fired from Xtagged because he embezzled funds
    • truth – Ryion turned against Xtagged when he found out Andy was a fraud
  • Lie: Someone inside City Weekly deleted Andy Esquivel’s blog posts on CityWeekly.net because they’re against Xtagged
    • truth – nobody at City Weekly gives a damn about Andy Esquivel or Xtagged
  • Lie: 50% of Xtagged profits go to fix healthcare
    • truth – Andy Esquivel voted for Obama and that’s the extent of his contribution to healthcare
  • Lie: The Buzz/Wiser energy drink ships with pills that help women detect sexual drugs in their drinks
    • truth – there is no Buzz/Wiser energy drink and no such “magic pill” to detect Rohypnol, GHB, or any other such “sexual” drug.
  • Lie: Xtagged is patented
    • truth – Andy Esquivel started a patent application, but never finished it
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel developed and patented Blue-tooth profiler
    • truth – there is no blue-tooth profiler and no patent for it
  • Lie: I somehow hacked Rebecca Dunn’s AOL email and sent Viagra ads to all her contacts
    • truth – Rebecca Dunn obviously downloaded a virus.
  • Lie: Xtagged LLC has numerous investors
    • truth – there is no Xtagged LLC
  • Lie: Andy has developed a blue-tooth enabled micro-chip that goes on the tip of an e-cigarette the broadcasts nicotine intake
    • truth – Andy couldn’t develop a microchip if his life depended on it.
  • Lie: Andy has developed a pair of 1080p, high definition, 3D sunglasses that, when connected to a Wii styled gyroscopic cell phone, can take you on a virtual tour of Solomon and Herod’s temples in Jerusalem.
    • truth – besides being so outlandish as to stretch a sane person’s imagination, these products are absolute fantasy.
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel is marketing an e-cig to all the casino’s in Las Vegas and all the nursing homes in Colorado
    • truth – Andy Esquivel could barely afford to buy the demo kits for his e-cig
    • truth – no casino would give Andy Esquivel the time of day
    • truth – Andy Esquivel’s mother works for a nursing home and that’s about the extent of his involvement with them
  • Lie: I’m just attacking Andy because I’m jealous he hired my mother at Xtagged instead of me
    • truth – Andy has never paid my mother, so to say he “hired her is a stretch
    • truth – I have a rewarding career working for one of the ten largest corporations on Earth. Although mu mother offered me a “job” at the non-existent company she claims to head and that Andy pretends to own, I wasn’t stupid enough to take her seriously, much less accept.
  • Lie: Andy gave me a weekend job working at his nightclub “Playground” in Park City
    • truth – Andy was not an owner of Playground. At most he was a regular there who suckered the real owners into signing papers trading 10% of their failing club for exclusive distribution rights to Xtagged.com
    • truth – I only visited Playground twice while it was still in business to take photos of Andy trying to impress people with Xtagged.
    • truth – Andy didn’t have the authority to hire anybody at Playground, and I wouldn’t have accepted a “weekend job” there if he had
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel is suing City Weekly
    • truth – Andy Esquivel isn’t suing anybody
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel is suing me
    • truth – Andy Esquivel isn’t suing anybody
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel is suing Ryion
    • truth – Andy Esquivel isn’t suing anybody
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel is suing a police department in Utah somewhere for harassment after they pulled him over in his Lamborghini and gave him a hard time.
    • truth – Andy Esquivel isn’t suing anybody
    • truth – Andy Esquivel doesn’t own a Lamborghini
  • Lie: the Lamborghini incident was taped by a passenger int he back seat
    • truth – Lamborghini’s don’t have back seats
  • Lie: Andy has developed a backpack-borne child cover that attaches to the valve stem of a car, inflates using air in the car’s tires and protects children from freak hailstorms while walking home from school.
    • truth – this is probably the dumbest idea ever imagined (imagine children running to attach their inflatable shelters to the valve stems of random automobiles at the first sight of hail while walking home form school). It’s ridiculous even by Andy standards and the odds of it being real are less than zero!
  • Lie: Ryion and I are running from a federal court summons
    • truth – there is no federal summons because there is no federal case because Andy and Steve never filed in federal court.
    • truth – Actually Andy Esquivel is the one running from court summons’. Several state entities and plaintiffs have been trying to serve him with papers for years without success. He remains in hiding.
    • truth – thew reason Andy cannot sue anybody is because if he ever appeared in court, he would be arrested on several outstanding warrants and served with court papers while in custody.
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel owns two nightclubs
    • truth – Andy used to own part of a sushi shop and once suckered the owners of a now bankrupt club in Park City into signing over 10% of their club in exchange for a percentage in “Xtagged”, but that’s it. Today, Andy couldn’t afford two golf clubs.
  • Lie: I sent emails to Andy’s 14 year old son calling Andy a scam
    • truth – Andy cc’d his son on a series of threatening emails sent to Ryion and I. When his son complained, Andy sent his son threatening emails and later claimed that the threats were really sent by Ryion and I impersonating him.
  • Lie: Andy’s son’s school decided not to allow kids to use Xtagged.com when they saw blogs posted by Ryion Butcher claiming it was a scam
    • truth – Andy showed up at his son’s school one day and started handing out Xtagged.com stickers to the children attending there. The principal caught Andy and demanded that he leave school grounds immediately! He also told Andy that if he ever showed up on school grounds again, the school would notify the police.
  • Lie: Ryion and I are impersonating various officials, including lawyers and police officers who are trying to contact Andy
    • truth – all the officials trying to reach Andy to discuss his various criminal activities are real (as Andy has since found out the hard way)
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel was willing to buy PartyUtah.com for $150,000 but I asked Steve Klemark to buy the website for that amount instead of buying Xtagged for millions.
    • truth – Andy Esquivel called me out of the blue in late 2009 and asked if I’d be willing to sell PartyUtah.com and for how much. I replied “…sure, for $150,000,” which was $100k more than I thought the site was worth at the time and $150k more than I knew Andy had. Ever since then, Andy has perpetuated the myth that PartyUtah.com is for sale and that I’m asking him, Steve, or some other mythical creature for $150k. The fact is, PartyUtah.com isn’t for sale…period! If it was for sale, Andy Esquivel is the last person on Earth I’d consider selling the site to at any price. Steve Klemark did tell me in early 2010 that he thought Xtagged.com was worth $1,000 because he saw it on Google (at which point I told him he was an idiot and that the site wasn’t worth fifty bucks), but that’s the extent of our conversation.
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel has a private investigator named Zed
    • truth – there is no private investigator named Zed
  • Lie: Stephen R. Klemark hired a private investigator named Zed
    • truth – there is no private investigator named Zed
  • Lie: a company that was about to buy Andy out hired a private investigator named Zed
    • truth – there is no private investigator named Zed
  • Lie: Zed is working on a huge expose on me that will be in all the papers using information he got from an ex-girlfriend of mine
    • truth – there is no Zed, if there is then he isn’t a private investigator, and the only information he has on me is the garbage he got by talking to my mentally incompetent mother
    • Note: Andy subsequently admitted via email that “Zed” was a fictional character created by Steve Klemark to prove some sort of point.
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel’s private investigator’s real name is Zeb, not Zed
    • truth – Andy Esquivel mis-spelled the name of his fictitious private investigator in an email to me and has since pretended I got the name wrong to cover his ass
    • Update: Andy later admitted that ‘Zed’ was fake.
  • Andy Esquivel’s various websites have ton of traffic…they’re in fact visited by tens of thousands of people per month.
    • Andy is unfortunately a technology illiterate and is unaware that a “request” is meaningless in web analytics. When he see a report that reads “48,000 requests,” he thinks that means 48,000 ‘people’ visited his website. In fact, one load of Andy’s WiserTechnology.com homepage includes 52 unique server requests for different page elements. His true traffic is probably closer to 1,000 page views per month, a significant proportion of which are undoubtedly generated by search engine spiders and bots.
  • Andy Esquivel is being followed by a legitimate documentary film-maker who will chronicle his story
    • Truth: Andy is being followed around by a convicted felon names Ronald Dean Kelsay who’s criminal record includes the following charges (case numbers and dates provided for reference):
      • 1990F73 – 01/12/1990 – Theft
        Theft Twice Or More W In 6 Mons
        1st Degree Crim Tres
        Conspiracy
      • 1990CR147 – 02/07/1990 – Theft
        Theft 2x Or More Win 6mo
        1st Deg Criminal Trespass
        Conspiracy
      • 2003M3974 – 11/12/2003 – Criminal Mischief
        Criminal Mischief-under $100
      • 2004T1214 – 02/26/2004 – DUI
      • 2005CR1585 – 09/12/2005 – Criminal Mischief
        Criminal Mischief-$500-$15,000
        Criminal Mischief-$500-$15,000
        Criminal Mischief-$100-$500
      • 2006CR1040 – 07/17/2006 – Burglary
        Burglary 2-of Dwelling (2)
        Harassment-strike/shove/kick
        Menacing Felony
        Trespass 1-dwelling
        Criminal Mischief-$100-$500
  • Lie: Andy Esquivel is a genius and a good person. He is “Rich of life and Family.”
    • truth – Andy Esquivel is not a good person. He is a sociopathic, pathological lying con-artist with a criminal record and multiple fraud charges pending against him. He has conned dozens of investors out of tens of thousands of dollars and preys on the ignorant and feeble minded.
    • truth – Andy Esquivel is not a genius. He is an uneducated idiot with a vivid imagination and the ‘gift of gab’ (when he’s not strung-out on methamphetamines). He suffers from multiple delusions, including that he is a gifted inventor, wealthy philanthropist, and a wealthy businessman who is perpetually under attack from evil antagonists of every shape who want nothing more than to stop him from saving the world.
    • truth – Andy is not rich of family. He has five children by three different women, all of whom were under-aged minors when he got them pregnant (qualifying him for statutory rape charges). He has over the years been the subject of several domestic violence investigations including an arrest in Provo, Utah (court record #162999), and the 2003 incident which led to his arrest on federal weapons charges (see link below).
    • truth – Andy is not rich of life. He hasn’t had a legitimate job in years and his criminal record includes felony conviction for burglary from 1988 (Burglary case file #1 and case file #2). He currently lives in hiding with his mother in Lakewood Colorado along with his undocumented worked girlfriend who he got pregnant when she was 17 and their two children. He survives on charity and the proceeds from his various scams. Any has never paid child support for his 1st and 2nd children (for which he now owes $19,540, computed based on minimum wage because Andy has never worked). Andy’s third child (by a 17 year old girl who’s parents almost pressed rape charges against Andy) was named Jayden and was adopted by his foster parents after Andy voluntarily gave up his parental rights to the child.
    • Here’s a link to the story about the adoption of Andy’s third child:

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Andy ordered to pay victims back

Posted on October 7, 2014 in Trial Updates Uncategorized

This is a remote post from the airport so will be brief:

Andy was sentenced today. 90 days in jail with credit for the 200+ days served so far. Andy was ordered to pay $500 in legal fees, $800 fine, and was ordered to pay $13,000 in restitution to his victims!

[Details of plea agreement]

Andy was sentenced to 36 months probation, during which time he cannot use alcohol or drugs, must submit to random drug and alcohol testing, cannot enter establishments where alcohol is sold (clubs and bars), and must get and keep a job! He must also refrain from all criminal activity.

Andy immediately posted this video claiming that he only took the plea deal to keep Ryion, Kyle and Chris from making billions of dollars by suing Bump.cpm – whatever.  Here’s a guy who couldn’t even afford a private defense attorney…how the hell is he supposed to be able to pay someone to help him sue a well funded startup?

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Andy Esquivel pleads GUILTY to Felony Securities Fraud!!!

Posted on September 2, 2014 in Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel Guilty of Securities Fraud

Andy Esquivel has plead Guilty to two felony counts of securities fraud!  No matter what he says from here out about the “conspiracy” against him, the fact is he’s a criminal, a serial felon, and a crook.

[Andy Esquivel Plea Agreement]

The plea followed over six months in custody including a stint at the Utah State Mental Hospital where after treatment Andy was found competent to stand trial for his crimes.  As part of Andy’s plea deal, a single 2nd degree felony count of securities fraud was dropped.  Andy remains free on $10,000 bond pending his sentencing on October 7th.

Andy celebrated his release from jail by posting on Diigo and bashing those who have helped see him charged with his crimes.  He’s tried to hitch his wagon to Mark Shurtleff and John Swallow by implying that somehow the conspiracy against him is related to their recent indictment.  The reality of course is that Andy’s case is in no way related to anything but his own criminal activity and that there is no ‘conspiracy’ against him, only a desire to see him pay for his crimes.

The maximum penalty for each of the two 2nd degree felonies Andy has now confessed to is 5 years in prison.  Given Andy’s behavior prior to and during his trial, the victims and the authors of this blog obviously hope that Andy is sentenced to the maximum.  He’s certainly proven that he has absolutely no remorse for his actions and will continue his criminal activity as soon as he is free.

I will post the audio from Andy’s competency hearing as soon as it arrives.  In the meantime, stay tuned for more psychotic rants from this pathological lying sociopath and the brainless minions who worship him.

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Competency Hearing for Andy Esquivel today

Posted on August 12, 2014 in Trial Updates

Today Andy Esquivel is appearing before Judge Connors for a review of his mental evaluation at the State Mental Hospital.  The results of the evaluation (which are confidential) were transmitted to the court yesterday.  There are two possible outcomes: either Andy will be found “crazy” and sentenced to more time in a state mental institution or he will be found ‘competent to stand trial’ and the felony securities fraud trial will commence.

Andy’s girlfriend posted on Wiser Technology recently that the evaluation cleared Andy for trial, so that’s most likely the case.  The real question is whether or not Andy will be released after spending most of this year in either prison or a padded cell.  Above is an illustration drawn by one of Andy’s fellow inmates depicting Andy ranting to other inmates while guards look on.  We can assume that this image is an accurate depiction as it comes from the inside and was drawn by a skilled caricature artist (who just happens to be in custody).  The sketch also matches images of the prison which can be found online.

I’ll post as soon as we know the outcome of today’s hearing for sure and after that I’ll be sure to also post audio of the hearing for everybody to enjoy.  In the meantime, stay tuned.

UPDATE:  Andy is still in the custody of the Utah State Mental Hospital.  He was not transferred to court today, although the court did receive his competency evaluation.  In that evaluation (the details of which are confidential) Andy was found competent to stand trial.  The hearing was continued until August 19th (next week) at which time the judge will determine whether to release Andy or to hold him in Davis County Jail pending trial.  Andy will remain in the custody of the State Mental Hospital until that hearing.

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More letters from Jail…

Posted on May 15, 2014 in Andy's Threats Ron Kelsay Trial Updates Wiser Technology

Andy Esquivel jail photo

Andy Esquivel has been keeping himself busy writing letters from jail.  He’s now been moved to a mental hospital, but it’s still interesting to see how Andy kept himself busy.  Below is a link to several of these letters – including one from his “spouse” (girlfriend actually) and one complaining about his newest public defender.  The letters are hard to read, but still fun.

Here are the letters [PDF]

Incidentally, I’m curious what Andy’s personal biographer Ron Kelsay is thinking right now.  I’d give $50 bucks to see the look on his face when he reads these letters from jail and realizes that his documentary is never going to sell any tickets.  I wonder what Allen Brady is thinking now that his dream of moving into a $2 Million dollar house with the proceeds from some lawsuit over Xtagged evaporate.  I wonder what Steve Klemark is thinking now that he realizes he drove his wife to the brink by chasing a drug addicted con-man around for years.  I wonder what Shar Jenkins is thinking right now, realizing that his dream of opening a night-club in Park City have vanished.  Guys, you’re welcome to post your thoughts – we’re all dying to hear form you!

Update: I spent a lot of time trying to understand these letters and after way too much time immersed in Andy’s gibberish I realized that int he second (or third) letter, Andy is actually trying to convince the judge to recuse himself from this case and grant Andy a change of venue with a new judge.  If that’s not a sign of pure desperation, then I don’t know what is.

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Andy Esquivel moved to mental hospital

Posted on May 10, 2014 in Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel has been moved from Davis County Jail to a mental hospital.  He will be treated for his delusions and psychosis, then re-evaluated for sanity in August.  If at that time he still thinks he’s a genius inventor who’s the target of a conspiracy to cost him millions of dollars and take his company away, then he’ll continue the psychiatric treatments until he’s cured.

In the meantime, someone should commit Allen Brady, Shar Jenkions and Steve Klemark, since they obviously suffer form the same delusions.

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Andy Esquivel still lobbying to get sent to Mental Institution

Posted on April 17, 2014 in Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel jail photo

Our friend Andy Esquivel is currently wasting away in Davis County jail waiting to be sent to a padded cell at the Utah State Mental Hospital.  He’s apparently not enjoying his stay very much because he’s lobbying through his girlfriend to be moved sooner rather than later.  It sounds as if Andy thinks he’ll get better treatment in the mental hospital than he is currently receiving in jail.  Here are the court notes on the most recent exchange:

04-16-14 Note: Clerk received a call from DEF’s spouse and family member
asking why DEF was not transported to the Utah State
Hospital yet. Clerk informed them that the prosecutor’s
office was advised by the jail that DEF is on the waiting
list, but he is #20 on the list. Therefore, has not been transported to the State
Hospital yet.

Poor Andy.  It apparently still isn’t sinking in that he’s criminally insane and that society has no further use for him.  Maybe he thinks he can con a psychiatrist into letting him go home early.  Whatever is going on inside that warped brain of his, I’m glad it’s happening in jail instead of out on the street.

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More letters from jail…

Posted on April 10, 2014 in Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel jail photo

Andy keeps writing letters from jail.  Here are the latest two.  They’re pretty sad and pathetic, but also kind-of funny.  In these latest letters Andy pulls out all the stops to convince the judge to let him out.  “Mental institution, misdemeanors, anything but jail you honor!”

He even tells the judge that he’s got him on YouTube and and that the North Salt Lake Chief of Police is his father-in-law (which is a lie because Anyd’s never been married).  Pretty sad the lengths to which a con-man will go to get out of a bad situation.

[Letter #2]   [Letter #2]

 

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A Letter from a Davis County Jail

Posted on April 8, 2014 in Andy Esquivel's Scams Trial Updates Uncategorized Wiser Technology Xtagged

Andy Esquivel jail photo

You guys will think this is funny: here’s a copy of a letter which Andy Esquivel wrote while in jail in Davis County.  In this letter, Andy complains about both the prosecutor and his newest public defender.  He also compares himself to Martin Luther King and brags that he marched around the jail yard all day on Martin Luther King’s birthday.

Here’s a copy of the letter [PDF].

It’s pretty sad and pathetic.  I’d write more about it, but I’m really busy this week.

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Andy Esquivel’s commitment order released

Posted on March 5, 2014 in Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel jail photo

We just got the official commitment order [PDF] for Andy Esquivel.  It’s pretty hilarious – basically says everything we’ve been saying on this website for years:  Andy is delusional, doesn’t understand the charges against him, can’t comprehend the consequences if he is convicted, can’t assist the prosecution or make an intelligent decision about his defense, suffers from serious mental illness, etc.

If you read between the lines you also realize that what it’s saying is that Allen Brady hasn’t done Andy any favors by trying to act as his surrogate legal counsel.  If Allen had a brain himself (and was trying to help Andy) he would have encouraged Andy to plead guilty years ago, to get a job, pay child support, and to pay his victims back the money he stole.

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ANDY ESQUIVEL SPEAKS FROM JAIL!!!

Posted on March 3, 2014 in Andy Esquivel's Scams Andy's Threats Andy's Videos Buzz/Wiser Karma Cause Trial Updates Wiser Car Cover Wiser E-Cigarettes Wiser Eyes Wiser Helmet Wiser No Phone Zone Wiser Technology Xooplay Xtagged

Andy Esquivel jail photo

Just when you guys thought Andy would never post on YouTube again (because he’s in JAIL), Andy defies the odds and manages to get a video posted anyway.  Boy, this guy REALLY doesn’t know when to shut up!

[VIDEO]

In this latest video, Andy convinces his girlfriend (he’s now using me as the excuse why he never married her in spite of the fact they have three kids together) to put him on speaker so she can record him from jail and post online.  It sounds like he’s calling from the common yard at the Davis County jail because there’s lots of commotion around him.

Andy explains that he’s in jail of his own free will.  That he asked to be sent to Jail on January 7th because ‘the prosecution has postponed his trial six times’…which makes perfect sense, right?  Andy tries to put his own spin on his February 11th hearing claiming that he’s being committed to a state mental hospital because the Judge wants to prove he is sane, not for restoration of sanity because he is insane as is actually the case.  He rambles on and on about the conspiracy against him, his million dollar lawsuits, all his inventions – basically all the delusions that are the reason he’s being held for restoration right now in the first place.  He demonstrates in the space of five minutes that indeed the psychiatrists are absolutely correct – he is not mentally competent to stand trial and he is badly in need of psychiatric help.

Half-way through the video, Andy is interrupted by an inmate named “Boss” who tries to explain that in fact the fight he was just part of was not his fault and was nothing for his wife to worry about.  The guy Andy got into a fight with should never have been let out of isolation because, like Andy, the inmate he fought with was is mentally disturbed.  Andy also brags that he’s lost a lot of weight in jail (I guess he’s sensitive about his weight) and that jail isn’t so bad after all.

I never thought I’d live to see the day when Andy Esquivel is posting psychotic rants from behind bars, but here it is.  He has no idea why he’s there, no idea what he needs to do to be released, and shows no signs that his delusions have abated.  Between us, I think Andy is going to be incarcerated for a very long time, because he’s never going to admit that he’s a delusional mess and needs help.  The more he resists treatment, the longer he’s going to remain in state custody and I personally believe that’s a good thing.

I wonder what Allen Brady, Steve Klemark, Shar Jenkins, and Ron Kelsay are thinking right now?  “…Boy, were we stupid!”

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Andy Esquivel committed to state mental hospital

Posted on February 25, 2014 in Andy Esquivel's Scams Andy's Threats Andy's Videos Ron Kelsay Trial Updates Wiser Technology Xtagged

Andy Esquivel jail photo

At long last we’ve received the audio transcript [AUDIO]of the February 11th hearing in which Andy Esquivel was ordered “held for restoration” (of sanity) at the Utah State Mental Hospital.  At this hearing Alan Brady also received a stern warning against continuing to pretend to be Andy Esquivel’s attorney.

It was an eventful hearing to say the least!

First of all, Andy’s public defender was not present at the hearing.  He’s still very much in charge of the case, but it’s curious that he was not able to attend.  Has Andy pissed off another public defender?  Telling is the fact that before the end of this audio transcript we hear Andy meekly declare to the judge “…he lied last time, I don’t trust him” as the Judge continued to explain that all motions need to be filed through his attorney and could not be submitted willy-nilly to the court.

Which brings us to Alan Brady:  As you all know, Alan Brady has been acting as Andy’s pseudo-attorney for years now, helping him draft legal-looking court documents and such to perpetuate Andy’s various schemes.  Alan’s latest foray into make-believe legal work has been to draft a motion for dismissal on Andy’s behalf and to file it with the court.  Alan apparently told the attorney assisting Andy in court on the 11th about thee motions he’d been drafting and filing and got spanked!  We don’t obviously have a recording of the conversation, but the attorney mentioned several times in the audio transcript before the Judge that she told Alan in no uncertain terms that drafting legal documents and pretending to be an attorney (as he’s been doing for years now) is illegal.  She states that she told Alan flatly (and reminded him indirectly several times in court) that Andy can draft motions if he wants to, but if Alan continued to do so, he could be charged.

It was actually telling how much time the court spent on this subject and I think everybody in that room knew Alan Brady was walking on very thin ice.

The state submitted a motion to have Andy held for restoration (of sanity) which the court accepted.  Andy through his stand-in attorney saying that he’s been in jail for a long time and that he wanted his ‘bail’ reduced so that he could attend to some medical issues.  The court (and his representation) explained that bail wasn’t an issue since he was being held for restoration and is basically going to be incarcerated until his various delusions are cured (you know, the ones where he’s a genius inventor who’s being persecuted by a shadowy conspiracy to cost the world millions and billions of dollars).  In other words, either Andy admits that he’s a con-artist, that all his ‘inventions’ are fake, that Wiser Technology and Xtagged were basically scams and that he’s been lying all this time in order to screw people out of money, or he stays in the state mental hospital until the state gets bored and decides to drop the charges against him.

Once it started to sink in for Andy that he was likely to remain in state custody for a very long time, he he suddenly had a change of heart about those “misdemeanors and no jail time” that he’s been complaining that his attorneys tried to trick him into taking ages ago.  “I’ll take the misdemeanors and no jail time then,” he said desperately to the end of the transcript, but as the court explained – it’s too late.

One thing Andy tried to do made at least some sense – he tried to file a motion (or rather Alan Brady tried to file a motion on Andy’s behalf) to strike the jury trial and switch to a bench trial where the Judge has more latitude to act.  Unfortunately, Alan isn’t an attorney and the court made it clear to Andy that no such motion would be considered unless it came directly from his public defender.  Ironically, Alan (and Andy) got the idea to strike the jury trial form this website.  Your welcome for the free legal advice fellas.  😉

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Andy Esquivel Sentenced to State Mental Hospital

Posted on February 17, 2014 in Andy Esquivel's Scams Andy's Threats Andy's Videos Ron Kelsay Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel jail photo

Andy Esquivel has been sentenced to a state mental institution until he is determined to be mentally competent to stand trial for three felony counts of securities fraud.  He remains in custody at Davis County Jail and a competency evaluation has been set for August at which time Judge Connors will determine when the trial can proceed.

We’ve known for some time that Andy Esquivel was crazy and we’ve been saying as much here on this blog and on it’s predecessor websites for years.  Only a lunatic could seriously claim to have invented such outlandish creations as an alcoholic energy drink that’s supposedly endorsed by Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or an inflatable car cover that deflates your tires to spare your paint, or radioactive fingernail polish actuated tabled that uses blue-tooth to broadcast your complete medical history to everyone around you in a bar.

Once Andy has received the medication (and detoxification) he requires, the hope is that he will be able to accept responsibility for what he has done and the trial can move forward.  If Andy is lucky his public defender will then be able to convince him top plead guilty to the charges against him so that he can serve his time and move on with his life.

Eventually Andy might even be able to become a fully functioning, gainfully employed member of society – one who pays taxes, child support, and lives by the fruits of his own labor instead of the ill-gotten gains from his various scams.  One can only hope.

In the meantime at least, Andy Esquivel remains off the streets and more importantly off the Internet.  He is no longer a danger to himself or to others.  If we are lucky, then his equally delusional followers will learn a lesson from this long drama – in the end you can’t con your way into wealth.  You have to add as much value to this world as you expect to take out of it.

Hear that Alan Brady, Shar Jenkins, Steve Klemark and John Steer?  Get lives, get jobs, and stop chasing the quick buck.  Oh yea, and leave those drugs alone!

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Competency hearing set for August 12, 2014

Posted on February 13, 2014 in Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel jail photo

As Andy has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial due to his obvious insanity, a hearing has been scheduled for August 12th to determine whether by that time he will be sane enough for the trial to continue.

More details to come – we’re waiting for the audio transcript of the February 11th pre-trial to understand the full details.  Andy remains incarcerated in Davis County jail until further notice.

Case update available here: [PDF]

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Experts find Andy Esquivel mentally incompetent

Posted on February 11, 2014 in Andy Esquivel's Scams Andy's Threats Andy's Videos Trial Updates Xtagged

Andy Esquivel jail photo

On January 7th a visibly agitated Andy Esquivel walked into court and faced Judge Connors after the first of two psychiatrists found him mentally incompetent to stand trial.  According to the audio transcript which we acquired from the court, the first psychiatrist found that Andy suffers from delusions and is bi-polar.  Andy’s defense attorney stated that a second mental evaluation will more than likely find the same, so the trial needs to be postponed until Andy can receive the medication (and possibly hospitalization) he needs.

The prosecutor protested the fact that Andy can’t seem to get himself together enough to meet with the second psychiatrist pointing out that Andy’s obstructive behavior has caused this case to drag on for a seeming eternity.  He pointed out that the first pre-trial was more than two years ago and that Andy’s behavior has been going on for more than five years now.  The prosecutor requested that the court incarcerate Andy to keep him from continuing to be a hindrance to the case.

Judge Connors agreed with the prosecutor, but before sending Andy off to jail allowed Andy one more chance to explain himself.  Andy took the opportunity to launch into a lunatic rant in which he claimed he was not insane, that eh would not take misdemeanors, that he’s been called a liar in front of the whole world (as if anybody other than his victims and Alan Brady are actually paying attention to this trial), that he has some assorted motions that he swears he filed, blah, blah, blah…  none of this impressed the judge at all, and when Andy said “I’ll go to jail right now to prove (something)”, Judge Connors only replied “Well, I’ll give you that opportunity in a minute.”  While being hauled off to jail, ANdy continued ranting “I want protective custody!  I’ve been threatened in this jail!  Blah, blah, blah…”  I was half expecting him to spout out that he was Napoleon or something.

Today was Andy’s pre-trial to discuss the results of the second mental evaluation in jail.  Andy remains in custody, so I doubt the results were helpful to Andy’s case.  As always, I’ll keep you all posted on what happens.

An audio transcript of the January 7th hearing can be found here: [AUDIO]

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Andy posts secret mental evaluation video

Posted on February 3, 2014 in Trial Updates

Before he was incarcerated Andy Esquivel posted this Youtube video which supposedly captures his mental evaluation for his supporters.  The video is a hidden link and not available without a direct link.  We have sources who were able to find the link so that we can share it here with you now.

This is about as silly as it gets.  The person in the video who’s pretending to be Andy’s psychiatrist asks if Andy thinks this is all the result of a conspiracy.  Andy repeats his lunatic refrain that it is in fact a conspiracy carried out by a bunch of bloggers (Kyle, Chris, Ryan, his ex girlfriend, etc., most of whom don’t blog) and “former employee” Daryl Acumen (who never worked for Andy).  The voice essentially says “ok, I’m good” and then wraps up the interview.

If the video were in fact a recording of Andy’s actual evaluation (which is is not), then it would explain why Andy was subsequently thrown in jail so that the court could get a second, more thorough evaluation.  of course, the video is staged and the second evaluation was required only to make sure both psychiatrists were impartial.

Fun times.

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Andy Esquivel failed to complete psychiatric evaluation

Posted on January 8, 2014 in Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel - convicted felon

This website has learned that part of the reason the court decided to throw Andy Esquivel in jail until further notice was because he failed to report for his mandatory psychiatric evaluation as ordered.  This letter [PDF] from psychiatrist assigned to evaluate Andy states that in spite of repeated attempts to make contact, Andy did not return phone calls or attempt to otherwise make contact.

We are still waiting for an audio transcript of the January 7th hearing and will provide more details as they become available.  As of right now, Andy is behind bars and will remain there for the foreseeable future.

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Court orders Andy Esquivel held without bail

Posted on January 8, 2014 in Andy Esquivel's Scams Trial Updates Xtagged

Andy Esquivel - convicted felon

On January 7th Judge Connors of Davis County ordered Andy Esquivel held in Davis County Jail without bail until further notice.  We’re still waiting for the audio transcripts of the hearing, but it must not have gone well.

On January 7th the court was scheduled to review the results of Andy’s mandatory psychiatric evaluations to determine whether he was competent to stand trial.  Immediately after that hearing Andy’s mug-shot appeared on the Davis County jail website with a booking time of 10:49am.

See the court order here: [PDF]

The contents of Andy’s psychiatric evaluation are sealed so we don’t know what the psychiatrists found, but my hunch is that they determined Andy to be dangerous, mentally unstable, completely delusional, and incapable of telling the difference between fantasy and reality.  It only remains to be seen whether the court will determine that Andy’s mental illness is serious enough to impede his ability to receive a fair trial.

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Court to decide if Andy Esquivel is CRAZY!!!

Posted on October 29, 2013 in Andy Esquivel's Scams Andy's Threats Andy's Videos Buzz/Wiser Karma Cause Ron Kelsay Trial Updates Uncategorized Wiser Car Cover Wiser E-Cigarettes Wiser Eyes Wiser Helmet Wiser No Phone Zone Wiser Technology Xooplay Xtagged

At the pre-trial hearing on October 22nd, Andy Esquivel’s defense counsel asked for a continuance of the proceeding until January 7th to give the court time to ascertain whether Andy is clinically INSANE!!! If Andy is found to be CRAZY and therefore unfit to stand trial, he could be sentenced to time in a Utah mental institution.

At the request of defense counsel, this matter is continued to
1/7/2014 to allow the defendant to have a mental health evaluation
completed to determine if defendant is competent to stand trial.
The State will prepare the order.
The trial date will remain in place.

Irony: this is EXACTLY what we’ve been trying to say for years! Yes, Andy Esquivel is mentally insane and so is his chief accomplice Allen Brady. Both need to be institutionalized for their own safety and for the safety of others.

I’ll post audio of the pre-trial haring soon, but for now the trial date last set stands pending the mental health review.

I think that pretty much closes the case on Andy. When your own defense attorney states in court for the record that you’re nuts, it’s time to pack up shop and go home.

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Final, final pre-trial hearing set for 9/17/2013

Posted on September 10, 2013 in Trial Updates

After begging Judge Connors to let him have a public defender again, Andy Esquivel got his wish and was assigned C. Markley Arrington. His temporary defense attorney was Albright while the court found someone who was actually willing to take the case. Andy claims he’s ok with a public defender (and no longer thinks there’s a conspiracy within the PD office to conspire with this blog and put him in jail) as long as they stop trying to talk him into taking a plea deal.

The bottom line is that Andy has a public defender again (he’s too broke to afford a private lawyer in spite of his repeated proclamations over the years that he has dozens of corporate attorneys between Denver and LA) and that attorney is under strict instructions from Andy not to entertain any pleas of ‘Guilty’ no mater how damning the evidence stacked against him.

Arrington, who represented Andy briefly while the court sought out Albright for his defense, asked the court on September 3rd to postpone the final PTC until September 17th, presumably to give him more time to formulate a defense or negotiate a guilty plea with Lyon. My guess is that next week Arrington will petition the court for another trial extension to give him more time to convince Andy to plead ‘Guilty’ and to give Andy more time to raise the money he’d be required to pay back to his victims as a certain condition of such a plea.

I’m not sure Judge Connors would go along with such a plan as he’s beginning to lose patience with Andy’s courtroom antics and stall tactics, but it’s the safest bet. Otherwise we’ll all be in court on October 16th for the quickest and most entertaining trial in recent memory. Unfortunately Andy won’t be able to call all the ‘witnesses’ he promised and almost certainly won’t be allowed to testify himself. It’s a shame Andy did such a piss-poor job representing himself – we were all looking forward to watching Andy make a complete idiot of himself at trial.

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Andy Esquivel makes a fool of himself in court…(again)

Posted on August 15, 2013 in Trial Updates

Andress "Andy" Esquivel

Sorry for the delay in posting, but we wanted to wait to post until the audio transcript from the August 7th hearing was available. That audio transcript is now available here (FLV), and it’s hilarious!  Nothing is more satisfyign than listening to a respectable Judge and a professional attorney trying to deal with Andy Esquivel and losing their patience with his ineptitude.

In this hearing, Andy begins by saying he’s finally ready to “take the lawyer”, meaning a public defender.  Unfortunately for Andy (and the prosecutor points this out) he was already offered a second public defender but, like an idiot, he told the court flatly that he refused to accept the help of the public defender’s office because he thought they were involved in a conspiracy against him.

full case update can be read here [PDF].

Andy continuously claims to have filed a motion for discovery with the court, in spite of the fact that the clerks office has no record of such a filing.  Judge Connors at one point becomes exasperated and just breaks it down for Andy: (11:45) “Mr. Brady put your arm down…Mr. Esquivel, I don’t know how many times we need to have this discussion.  You cannot just continue to represent yourself and ignore all of the court’s rules!”

Andy blabs on and on about how he’s now willing to take an attorney, but the prosecutor pointed out that we’re now months down the road from the date when Andy lost his first public defender and refused another and he doesn’t believe that another attorney will be ready by trial.  “His conduct in the state’s opinion is destructive and it’s delaying tactics.”

At the end of the day, the Judge told Andy to file a proper discovery motion by COB Friday (which he never did).  Andy then told the Judge “if you give me the discovery then I’ll hire my own attorney,” after which Andy filed a financial affidavit [PDF] claiming that he’s broke and can’t afford an attorney.  Andy admits in the affidavit that he hasn’t worked since June 2009, that the highest he ever earned was a measly $12/hr., that his girlfriend (who he falsely claims is his “wife) doesn’t work, that he has no assets (not even a car) and that he pays no rent.  Oh, here’s Andy’s contact information in case anybody wants to sue Andy in civil court:

5789 Middlewood Ave.
Kearns, Utah 84118
(801) 819-5126

The Judge told Andy that at this point he has no intention of postponing trial anymore.  The current trial date is October 16th, 2013.  My hunch is that the prosecutor is going to object to Andy’s request for counsel because (a) there’s no time for the new public defender to review the case before trial and (b) because Andy’s affidavit is completely false…Andy didn’t even list how much money he spends on rent in the document, even though in his latest video he’s bragging about his new house.

The next hearing date is August 20th at 8:30am, where the court will review the status of the case, including Andy’s motion to dismiss [PDF], which is completely nonsensical.

You guys need to just listen to the hearing.  I’m tired, and it was too funny to adequately convey in a blog post.  In the end, Andy looked completely inept…which of course he is.  Andy’s motion to dismiss makes him look even more inept.  The fact that he’s now begging for an attorney makes him look pathetic on top of inept.  Oh boy, at least we’re nearing the end of this trial and Andy will soon either plead guilty or be convicted of fraud.

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Andy Esquivel’s Motion Hearing postponed

Posted on July 11, 2013 in Trial Updates

The motion hearing scheduled for yesterday was postponed until August 7th.  We would have posted this sooner, but we wanted to see what Andy would post after he showed up for court and found out there was no hearing.  Usually Andy goes ballistic and writes a 50 page email ranting about conspiracies and the like whenever there’s a postponement like this one.  In this case, Andy’s annoyance at wasting his gas to drive to court first thing in the morning hit with a ‘squish’ and no mass email was sent out to “the media” blaming the delay on corrupt prosecutors or shadowy government agencies looking to stop him from saving the world.  As always, the latest court updates (including this postponement with details regarding the reason for the delay) can be found here [PDF].

In the meantime Andy figured out how to file a discovery motion and did so on Monday.  He even went to the court with Allen to file the document himself, which is impressive.  Too bad he gave the court a fake phone number or he’d have known that there was no court on Tuesday.  The postponement was filed on Monday while Andy was int he building, but when the clerk tried to call Andy there was no answer.  Andy seems very eager to get his hands on the prosecutor’s witness list, and is now referring to all his fraud victims as “TRAITORS” on a regular basis.

Nothing else new to report.  Andy’s been rather quiet since getting sentenced in Colorado to serve 64 hours of community service for failing to pay back child support.  Andy is so intent on not working that he even claims to have moved back to Utah to avoid the sentence.  Don’t worry Andy, it’ll be waiting for you when you get out of prison and return to Colorado.

 

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Judge shuts the door on Andy Esquivel’s imaginary evidence…

Posted on June 28, 2013 in Andy's Threats Trial Updates Xtagged

Andy Esquivel

Well, it’s official – Andy Esquivel won’t be allowed to call any witnesses at his jury trial in October.  In fact, Andy won’t be able to present any evidence of consequence at his trial in October, so he’s essentially screwed.

On June 10th Judge Connors signed a motion to compel [PDF] filed by Prosecutor Nathan Lyon which gave Andy until May 21st to provide the prosecution with full details of all his witnesses and all evidence Andy intended to present at trial.  Andy failed to comply.  The list Andy did provide was incomplete and the witnesses all found to be irrelevant to the case.  Andy’s evidence was likewise found to be completely irrelevant to the charges against him.

The motion to compel signed by Judge Connors EXPLICITLY states that any evidence not provided to the prosecution by May 21st will not be permitted at trial!  May 21st was over a month ago, so Andy has missed his deadline to present any evidence which could support his defense.  Since nothing that Andy has provided up until now will help him at trial in October, Andy basically won’t have a defense in October.

(No lawyer) + (No defense) + (No evidence) + (Refuses to admit he did anything wrong or to pay his victims their money back) = Andy Esquivel is definitely on his way to prison in October.  Good luck with that, Andy!

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Andy Esquivel Finally gets a job…sort of.

Posted on June 25, 2013 in Andy's Threats Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel

Those of you who enjoy Andy Esquivel’s threatening blogs and emails as much as I do will recall that in recent weeks Andy has made a lot of noise about a “conspiracy” between his ex girlfriend and this blog to block him from the ‘millions and billions’ of dollars in potential profits he could have made if his various scams had been able to materialize.  Lately he’s been claiming that last Saturday was D-Day for the conspiracy to finally be exposed and that everybody involved was going to jail, including his ex.  Last week he posted this nonsensical threat:

Hey dumb-ass they want me to have public defender so when I win they don’t look as bad Dee-Dee-Dee I am going to take this all the way your going to prison Daryl & this Friday Denise has to answer to the Judge here in Colorado about you and her… so keep manipulating and still prosecutor LYON has not released his witness list with hundreds more like 3 of witnesses Daryl God Don’t Like Ugly OH SMILEYHEROEScom :)X

Well last Friday was in fact a court hearing for Andy – one in which he needed to explain to the courts why he still hasn’t paid a dime in child-support in spite of the fact that he’s
Now, we all know Andy as a lazy, good for nothing, scamster with a habit of telling untruths to survive and of stealing money to feed his drug addiction.  Knowing this much about Andy, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that as son as Andy was sentenced  he immediately went about crafting a story to get him out of the ruling.  “But your honor, I’m moving to Utah on July first, so I can’t do no community service,”  Andy reportedly told the judge in the case.  In a show of mercy that Andy has become accustomed to and now expects from state courts, the judge gave Andy 30 days to prove he’s left the state of Colorado for good before he must begin serving his sentence.  If Andy fails to provide proof that he’s moved, then he will be recalled to the court for a stiffer sentence.stolen a small fortune from investors from California to Colorado.  Andy showed up on Friday prepared to impress the judge with his sob-stories explaining that it’s impossible for him to get a job because of this website, but she apparently wasn’t having any of it.  Instead of buying into Andy’s claims that he can’t work, the judge did the unthinkable – she gave Andy Esquivel a job…

Sixty four (64) hours of community service to be exact!

My hunch is that Andy isn’t moving anywhere and that his please to the court are just a stalling tactic to get out of doing any real work.  Andy can’t picture himself picking up trash by the roadside in a bright orange vest and hard hat any more than we can picture him as CEO of a multi-million dollar tech start-up.  The mere thought of doing manual labor terrifies Andy – probably more than jail does.  We’ll have to see how this plays out, but my hunch is we’ll have another child support case update for you here in a month and that it will read something like this – “Colorado judge loses patience with Andy Esquivel and sentences him to 30 days in jail for failing to comply with an order to begin community service immediately.

Then again, Andy might actually be dumb enough to leave Colorado in the hopes of avoiding these child support charges altogether.  What he doesn’t realize is that Utah has even stricter child support laws that Colorado does and he already owes over $20,000 in back support in this state before he arrives (more will be added for every month eh lives here).  I think Idaho would be a better choice for Andy because he doesn’t have a record there.  Here in Utah the police are all to familiar with Mr. Esquivel and they’re  not likely to give him a pass while he unpacks his moving van.

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Hey Alan Brady, here’s a link for your boss…

Posted on June 21, 2013 in Trial Updates

Hey Alan, since your boss (pathological lying sociopath, serial criminal and convicted felon Andres “Andy” Esquivel of Lakewood Colorado) hasn’t received his copy of this motion by Davis County Prosecutor Nathan Lyon, I’ll help you guys out and share my copy.

http://xtagged.co/files/cases/111701135/111701135-andys.witnesses.pdf

Enjoy!

PS – you can still call Logan Laws if you want, but note that Logan isn’t going to help your case because he knows Andy is a criminal just like the rest of us and he isn’t afraid to tell that to a judge and jury.

 

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Andy Esquivel gets spanked by Davis County Prosecutor

Posted on June 17, 2013 in Andy's Threats Ron Kelsay Trial Updates Uncategorized

Andy Esquivel

To say the least, it’s been an interesting couple of weeks since Andy’s last pre-trial hearing.  We’ve got a lot to cover, but I’ll try to get through it all as quickly as I can.

First of all, a new date has been set for Andy’s securities fraud trial.  The fireworks begin on October 16th and will continue for three days.  As always you can find the latest trial updates by clicking on any case update link [PDF] you find on this website.  The trial is stilled set up as a ‘jury trial” rather than a “bench trial” because Andy isn’t smart enough to know that the only chance he has of getting this case thrown out by the judge is if he reverses the decision by his previous “super lawyer” to take the case out of a judges hands and to wait for nine jurors (who aren’t likely to fall for his crap any more than we do) to pronounce him guilty.

As reported last month on this site, Andy Esquivel recently sent out a mass email (to his supporters supposedly) in which he listed all the people he claims to want to call as witnesses at his trial.  The list was prepared in response to a court order earlier in the month in which Judge Connors demanded that Andy comply with a reciprocal discovery motion by the prosecutor [PDF]and list all the people he intended to call as witnesses.  We obtained the full list because one of the journalists who Andy insists on spamming is secretly preparing an expose on what a complete fraud Andy is and they were generous enough to share Andy’s email with us.  We correctly reported last month that (a) Andy failed to include contact information for the witnesses he claimed he was calling and (b) almost nobody on Andy’s list had even the slightest relevance to the case.

Almost as if to confirm the astute insight of this blog, Prosecutor Nathan Lyon on Thursday filed this motion [PDF] with the court asking Judge Connors to throw out Andy’s entire witness list as irrelevant to the case against him and lacking even the most basic contact information on the people listed.  The prosecutor reviews each name on the witness list (in much the same way we did on our blog post) and explains why each one is not only irrelevant to the case, but calls out the fact that Andy’s videos and links are “rambling and nonsensical.”  The only “witness” that the prosecutor approved of was Logan Laws, who is frankly on deck to testify for the prosecution so it makes little sense for Andy to call him for the defense.

In short, Andy Esquivel just got emasculated by the prosecutor and told to go home and start over from scratch…and he is still posting ridiculous videos and sending out senseless emails.  Here’s an example:

Mr Lyon I never published this witness list why did you let Plaintiff Ryion Butcher put this on his slander site:

I have attached a copy. Allen we never published, this is why Steve Klemark’s wife tried to commit suicide all the harassment from the plaintiffs & co-conspirators trying to scare me to take plea… Lyon stated oh well when I told him of Steve’s wife last year and the attorney brotherhood that Allen and I recorded Holje say to us looks like it does exist.

Your plaintiffs say J.King from I-safe is going to testify against me remember I told King about the slander/smear campaign since 2009 we recorded it so as soon as you finally release the list that Holje nor six month Albright ever got… I will address all 4 on the list one by one I sent motion by mail we are still waiting to see who’s on list all these lies will hit a wall very soon.

Ryion Butcher stated to Xtagged witnesses which is also witness tampering, that we have reported to Mr. Lyon Davis prosecutor more than once Allen Brady went to Mr. Lyons office LAST YEAR I have web cam of Mr. Lyon and I speaking about this and Ron the documentary film maker has video from last year on Mr. Lyon and Mr. Holje call Ron 720.233.4104 Ron Kelsay! I have attached a screenshot that Ryion posted of his blog attacking my family and Ryion tells people that the prosecutor is the one telling him to attack!!! Ryion tells Xtagged owners “Just say you are a security not an owner and we can take Andy down! I am now writing a letter to the judge informing him about all the PERJURY & WITNESS TAMPERING ALLEN BRADY can verify (1.801.819.5126) the plaintiffs have committed through out this trial and are still committing with the help of Mr. Lyon says Ryion Butcher, ITS ALL LIES I have a video uploaded at karmacause proving all, Ron has video that dates earlier. My family and the media don’t believe that you guys know what plaintiffs are doing to all of us and they say court is not in order! I told Mr. Lyon about Steve Klemark’s wife and much more! Now that Mr. Lyon knows Xtagged, Inc. paperwork is 100% real not to mention all the non non-disclosures plaintiffs signed and the multiple counts of perjury that the plaintiffs have committed, the damages that www.Xtagged.co causes will be at fault of the state.

Now what exactly does the above email tell us, other than the fact that Steve Klemark’s wife tried to kill herself because she finally realized that her husband was up to his chin helping a convicted felon execute numerous scams at the potential price of his own job with the Devner PD and she couldn’t live with the idea that he might go to jail too.  Isn’t it interesting that a guy who threatened to release sex tapes of potential witnesses in his securities fraud trial to the media is accusing others of ‘witness tampering?’  Andy why is Andy so convinced that ‘his family and the media’ are on his side here?  First of all, only one reporter in the media even cares that Andy is about to go to jail and most of Andy’s family have disowned him and his convicted felon of a mother as pariahs.  Most are now reaching out to me (unsolicited) and expressing support for this website and sympathy for the victims of Andy’s criminal activity.  When is Andy going to finally realize that the only people who think he’s innocent of these crimes are drug addicts like Alan Brady and fellow criminals like Ron Kelsay and that the only person facing jail time for his crimes is himself?

The bottom line is that this trial is almost over.  With Andy Esquivel continuing to send impotent letters to the judge in this case (unaware that they’re doing absolutely no good) and being endlessly distracted by his own YouTube channel, Andy is sure to be convicted and sentenced before Christmas.  The only question is how many years in prison is Andy going to get.  I for one say the longer the better!

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Andy Esquivel publishes his witness list…

Posted on May 17, 2013 in Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel

Pathological lying sociopath and convicted felon Andy Esquivel, who is representing himself in his own securities fraud trial, has published his witness list for trial.  We’re sharing it here to help others understand how crazy Andy really is and to display the full extent of Andy’s criminal activity.  The words below are Andy’s with the truth in brackets.

Daryl Acumen: he recommended law firm look at the seven email video  Allen fired Daryl from Xtag in 07 to hire his mother Rebecaa Dunn as Xtagged CEO, Daryl then started this conspiracy with Ryion etc. #0069 [The fact is I never worked for Xtagged, so I could never have been fired.  That said, I can’t wait to testify against this lunatic and to explain to a jury how crazy he really is…if he’s dumb enough to put me on the stand.]

Jason Webb: Xtag patent/corps attorney he told all Xtagged owners he could only sell securities #0070 [Jason was found to have acted improperly by convincing certain fraud victims that Xtagged was a solid investment.  His law firm faced disciplinary action by the Utah Department of Securities for the actions of Webb, which violated securities law.]

Saeed Kermani: started Single & Dating/patent 06 & 07 #0071 [Andy’s old boss at Comcast]

Mehraz Sheikhi: was paid back $10,000 just as Ryion B. was paid back $2,500 through Logan Laws #0072 [One of Andy’s fraud victims]

Logan Laws: Logan & Ryion teamed up for $5,000 & after Logan begged Andy to separate them due to Ryion Butcher being a A—hole these are Logan’s words about Ryion to Shar Jenkins & texts #0073 [One of Andy’s fraud victims, eager to testify against Andy]

Steve Klemark: Wisertechnology.com CIO I have attached his Denver Halo P.D ID Steve Bought Xtagged in 2009 & he made Ryion B. $5,000 money order… Steve stop going with Andy to court in Utah because Steve said prosecutor J.C.Y. & Mr. Holje was conspiring. Steve made two videos… #0074 [Low-level IT guy at the Denver PD who supposedly purchased Xtagged for $24 Million dollars.]

Shar Jenkins: not only paid Logan Laws $2,500 money order he offered everybody buy-outs just as Steve K. did and Allen Brady and many more… #0075 [One of Andy’s brainless minions who pretends to be some sort of marketing guru.]

Kirk Yuhnke: Fox13 now Denver Fox31 my first prime time interview for my invention of car tags I offered Kirk Yuhnke 1% ownership of system Sindy was witness look at attachment file D.I.D #0076 [A Fox News reporter who doesn’t know nor care who Andy Esquivel is.]

Sindy Manzano: worked for Xtagged 06 to present in 05 the Deseret News did story on Sindy Manzano D.I.D file #0077 [Andy’s live-in girlfriend and mother of three of Andy’s six illegitimate children.  She lives on welfare because she claims she can’t work due to this blog.]

Trevor Riley: Xtagged Inc Bank manager and helper his email FB attachments are to his attorney #0078 [A random bank clerk who Andy pretends has something to do with this case.]

Allen Brady: Wisertechnology.com CEO I think Allen has told you plenty and gave you his paper work Allen and his family attempted many time to buy-out the plaintiffs they just attacked Allen and his mother… #0079 [Andy’s mindless puppet who is illiterate and an admitted drug addict.]

John Steer: He was second victim at hero’s computers 09 in Bountiful, John can verify conspiracy John also made up paperwork for Ryion Butcher & Taylor he was second in command at Xtagged #0080 [Andy’s cousin and accomplice in most of Andy’s fraudulent schemes.]

Jake House: ran our Bountiful Sushi shop with John Steer Jake is co-owner of Xtag & has exact paperwork as Ryion Butcher and Jake has made video testimony online against Ut plaintiffs #0081 [Another random co-conspirator of Andy’s.]

Jeff Parker: My first partner we bought first system stickers together Jeff has exact paper as Ryion and was at trial Feb, 26, 2013 #0082 [A random guy Andy found to support him at court because everybody else had finally figured out Andy was a fraud.]

Daris Garner: My third partner 06 after Jeff Parker we all worked for Saeed K. at Comcast, Daris has the same paperwork as Ryion B. and was at pretrial Holje would not speak to Daris nor Albright… #0083 [Another Xtagged fraud victim.]

Andre Rawka: John Steer gave Andre 1% ownership free for all the media Dre brought to Xtagged and yes it was the same paperwork as Ryion’s. Dre is now a climbing star in Utah #0084 [Some local rapper who Andy convinced to endorse his various scams for a price.]

Zachary Edwards: John Steer gave 1% ownership to Zac same reason as Dre above Zac can also verify conspiracy attacks on Xtagged.com, Wiser e-cig, Wisertechnology.com, Karmacause.com etc. #0085 [Another Xtagged scam victim.]

Taylor Jones: John Steer gave ownership to Taylor from our Sushi shop in Utah yep same paperwork as plaintiffs. Taylor then brought our attention to Jason Cowdin for Xtagged real estate app, #0086  [Another Xtagged scam victim.]

Jason Cowdin: Taylor Jones got ownership for Jason C. from John Steer & I yep John gave Jason same paperwork as plaintiffs. Jason C. was responsible for big VC meeting one with his mentor that stated “Andy is not about money” then second meeting with Social Sam people. #0087 [Another Xtagged scam victim.]

Brain Davis: Mel & Brian 3% ownership of Xtagged Brian’s with Bountiful Brian Davis paperwork. #0088 [A real-estate investor from Ogden who refused to deal with Andy because Andy was never able to provide evidence that he was a legitimate.]

Chue Berriel: of CEA Property’s Investments llc co-OWNER of Xtagged since 2008 Daryl & Ryion tried to manipulate Chue by contacting her son Edward Gonzales as court has been in progress look at Chue’s statement on LinkedIn #0089 [Andy’s aunt who was scammed out of tens of thousands of dollars.  Andy spoofed her identity on LinkedIn to pretend that she wasn’t on the verge of turning him into the police.]

Ladd Quayle: plaintiff Kyle Cluff gave ownership to Ladd Q. you have copy of Kyle’s email to Andy telling Andy to give Ladd ownership of Xtagged here’s Ladd’s latest email April 8 2013 below #0090 [One of Andy’s victims who is eager to testify against him at trial.]

Professor John Richards of B.Y.U: he would not meet until our paperwork & no scam was confirmed Ladd has all emails from Steve klemark because Steve Bought Xtagged Dec of 2009… #0091 [Met with Andy once and saw through his garbage within minutes and refused to meet with him ever again.]

Rebecca Dunn:  Xtagged.com C.E.O 2008-2011 I have provided seven emails dating 01-25-08 to 03-02-08 that proves all you have copies of our Xtagged CEO Final warning letter. #0092 [Andy conned Rebecca into thinking she was CEO of his various scams.  She eventually realized that Andy was a fraud and turned over piles of evidence against Andy to the courts.  She will not be at trial.]

Andrew Couch of Bump.com: #0093 Andrew told all Xtagged workers “We are going to put Andy in prison no matter what” Andrew conspired with Daryl A. & Ryion B. to smear/slander Xtagged and then re-filed patent in May of 2010, Andrew’s & Andy’s 2007 [Principal at Bump.com who has been harassed by Andy for years.  Has no interest in Andy or this case.]

Jonathan King: ex-FBI agent I meet with in 2009 plaintiff Kyle Cuff arrange meeting I told him about The smear/slander conspiracy back in 2009 and I gave him 40% ownership of Xtagged… #0094 [iSafe executive who knows better than most how much of a fraud Andy is.  The company came very close to suing Andy Esquivel for compromising their name by claiming that his scam was endorsed by them.

Final witness Leonard Martinez & his assistant: Allen Brady and I gave them $2,575.00 in 2010 to pay Plaintiff Chris E… Leonard can also confirm smear/slander conspiracy 2010 through 2013 #0095 [Leonard Martinez dumped Andy Esquivel as a client years ago because he realized that Andy was not only a fraud, but also crazy.  Leonard was the first of Andy’s string of lawyers to abandon Andy as a client in disgust.]

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Andy Esquivel invents Web Super Hero!

Posted on April 23, 2013 in Andy Esquivel's Scams Trial Updates

Just when you thought Andy Esquivel’s schemes couldn’t get any more childish and insane, he comes up with something that’s so incredibly stupid it makes you wonder how he managed to get out of kindergarten.

This is “Super X-Man”, Andy’s latest super-hero.  Andy claims to have created this cyber-crime fighting character for i-Safe and for John King’s kids.  Both assertions are completely untrue of course, but that won’t stop Andy from pretending that this character had something to do with his Xtagged scam back in 2009.

The cartoon character is actually a Zaazu smiley lifted from this website (fourth row, first smiley) and modified in Photoshop to sport an “X” instead of an “S”.  Andy is notorious for finding cute characters online and pretending he came up with the graphic himself or licensed it’s use for one of his scams (Crazy Frog being the most notorious example).  Here’s how Andy describes the new super hero and once again claims that the little character would have saved the world had it not been for the exploits of evil mastermind Daryl Acumen:

D.O.B: 2009 meet Super X online delete man his promise is to fight online crime & delete people like Daryl Acumen & his Xtagged co-conspirators, trust us Superman don’t eXist but online Super X-man does his true name will be revealed soon;)  …Andy created this internet superhero for ex-F.B.I. agent Mr. King’s kids of www.I-Safe.Org in 2009:)x Here’s Daryl Acumen’s face after Super X busted Daryl:'( cry baby… Team Wiser
The World Wide Web’s first Superhero that actually fights Cyber Crime using Digital Internet Dna System

So there you have it – this stolen Zaazu smiley is going to save the internet with fictitious Digital Internet DNA technology that Steve Klemark isn’t smart enough to spell, much less invent, and he would have done it already if it hadn’t been for those pesky fraud victims who keep pressing charges against Andy for stealing their money.

In related news, the final pre-trial hearing in Andy’s securities fraud trial has been moved up one week – probably to deal with the fact that Andy still refuses to fully comply with a mutual discovery order issued by Judge Connors over a month ago.  The court will likely rule on prosecutor Nathan Lyon’s ‘motion to compel  and will force Andy to hand over all witness information, potential testimony, and all remaining documents on pain of a contempt finding.  Full case update available here [PDF].

The new pre-trial hearing has been set for May 7th in the same court-room.  Hopefully Andy will be able to fly out for the hearing, since it probably won’t end well in his absence.

 

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Andy Esquivel brags about stealing $175,000!!!

Posted on April 11, 2013 in Andy's Threats Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel

As we get closer to trial, it helps to understand the scale of the scams Andy Esquivel has been perpetrating for the last three years.  In order to help the readers of this blog understand the extent of Andy’s crimes, I’d like to share the following email [PDF] which Andy sent in April of 2011.  In this email, Andy Esquivel actually brags about having stolen $175,000 from “investors” in Xtagged.  Note, Andy does not call them “owners”, but INVESTORS!  That is an important thing to observe because up until now the main argument in Andy’s purported legal defense has been the notion that he “never took no investors” and “never sold no securities” and that in fact all of the people who gave him money for shares in Xtagged were “owners”…which is effectively another way of saying the exact same thing.

Here’s an excerpt from the email:

The day I took you to Leonard Shar
remember… and Leonard didn’t want to talk to
you and you just went back and met him. Why
would he not want to hear your testimony bro
look what happened to you Shar when your
colleagues found the blogs about the S.E.C and
Andy the scammer. I only had $175,000 in
investors big deal that was my budget for
three years www.bump.com has put 1.1 million
in to bump in one year bro!!! Shar that day you
went to Leonard’s office he had told me that
the S.E.C did not even start a investigation…
Seven moths later!!!!!

If you ask me, it looks like Andy needs to get his story straight before he tells it to the judge.  Were these people ‘investors’ or were they ‘owners’ or does it really make a difference?  If Andy has any hope of getting this case thrown out before May 14th, then he probably needs to review his email and make sure he hasn’t spammed anything to the world that is going to contradict his witness testimony on June 12th.

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Andy Esquivel DEMANDS that “fake” securities fraud case be dropped “A.S.A.P!”

Posted on April 11, 2013 in Andy's Threats Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel gets tough on the court!  On April 10th, Andy posted the following on his Diigo blog:

04/08/2013 Ladd Q. (6924 read) – karmacause@ymail.com – WHY are the plaintiffs paperwork called securities but not Ladd’s, Allen’s, Jeff’s, etc. all true Xtagged owners want this fake securities case dropped A.S.A.P!

As you can see, Andy is mad!  He wants to know why Allen Brady, Jeff whats-his-face, and Ladd Quayle’s Xtagged paperwork aren’t referred to as a “securities” while Ryion, Chris and Kyle’s paperwork is.  That is a very good question, and it’s probably something Andy can ask the court on May 14th at his pre-trial hearing.  If Andy is forceful enough about this apparent discrepancy, he might actually be able to convince the judge to throw the case out prior to the June 12th trial date.  Andy might consider presenting the judge with paperwork for all current and past owners of Xtagged and Wiser Technology to bolster his case.  If the court is so convinced that Ryion, Kyle and Chris’ paperwork all constitute ‘securities’, then you would think that the courts would have said something about the paperwork of those other owners as well.  I’m sure there’s a valid reason why only the paperwork for these three defendants was considered when bringing securities fraud charges against Andy, but he has a right to know what those reasons were.

Good luck Andy!  Maybe you should consider writing a letter to the court via the clerk’s office to expedite the process.  You’ll have to include all the subject paperwork as to add weight to your case for a dismissal, but at least you won’t have to wait until May 14th for a decision.

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Andy Esquivel officially pisses off the court!!!

Posted on April 10, 2013 in Andy's Threats Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel

On April 2nd (a week ago) we posted here on this blog an email in which Andy Esquivel basically thumbed his nose at the Davis County Court and openly refused to comply fully with a motion for reciprocal discovery which the prosecution filed last year.  The motion was reiterated last month in a hearing in which the court went so far as to give Andy a deadline for compliance with the motion.  In non-legal terms, Andy was required to hand over all evidence to the prosecutor, including witness names, addresses, phone numbers, expected testimony, any exhibits he intends to present at trial, etc.  In response, Andy sent an idiotic email to the prosecutor claiming that he wasn’t going to fully comply with the order because 11 supposed “owners” of Xtagged who are supposedly going to testify at trial “don’t trust you guys!”

In response to Andy’s failure to fully comply with the prosecutions motion and to Andy’s ridiculous (but typical) email, the State of Utah filed a Motion to Compel [PDF]with the court, demanding that Andy immediately hand over a full witness list, each witnesses relationship to the defendant (ie:  Jobita Berriel – Andy’s Mother, Sindy Monzano – Live-in Girlfriend, John Steer – Cousin, etc…) so that the court can determine their objectivity and potential prejudice, contact information for each witness so that Davis County Prosecutor Nathan Lyon can get depositions from them if required, AND ALL DOCUMENTATION OR EXHIBITS Andy is pretending to be holding out on until trial.  If Andy fails to comply with the pending court order, he could be barred from presenting any such evidence in court on June 12th.

The Prosecutor attached a copy of the court order explaining what Andy needs to provide in exhibit A of the motion and also included a copy of Andy’s stupid email as exhibit B.  This is the second time one of Andy’s rambling emails has been admitted as state’s evidence and made a matter of public record to show what a brainless moron Andy is for future reference in court.

How dumb can a criminal get?  Hasn’t Andy learned yet that he can’t play games with the court and get away with it?  Don’t be stupid Andy, hand over all evidence to the court immediately – unless of course you don’t actually HAVE any evidence and this is all just you pretending that you’re Perry Mason.

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Andy loses big at child support hearing

Posted on April 4, 2013 in Andy's Threats Trial Updates Wiser Technology Xtagged

Andress "Andy" Esquivel

Andy Esquivel had a bad day yesterday at his child support hearing.  This hearing was for current child support owed through Colorado and doesn’t even address the nearly $20,000 in back child support Andy already owes.

Yesterday a judge in Colorado spanked down Andy’s repeated assertions that the $5,000 check he extorted illegally from Ryion Butcher and gave to his ex should count towards his child support balance.  She pointed out to Andy that the current hearing was only to deal with the money he’s owed since November of 2011.

Andy has been ordered to pay $320 per month plus $50 per month in back support for the balance accrued since 2011.  He is still awaiting a court hearing for the $20,000 he owes prior to November 2011.

Andy argued that he’s broke and doesn’t have a job.  he said he’d bene tryign to find work but that potential employers continue to find this website, which has destroyed his good name (Andy has a criminal record going back 20 years that includes statutory rape, burglary, weapons and drug charges as well as domestic abuse…all of which is a matter of public record).  The judge wasn’t buying it and told Andy to get a job anyway.  She stated flatly that Andy has five children and thus doesn’t ‘have the luxury of sitting at home’ on his ass watching TV all day.  When Andy repeatedly tried to bring up Xtagged and Wiser Technology, the judge stopped him mid-sentence and asked “are any of these projects generating money?” – to which Andy was forced to answer “No.”

Andy was ordered to begin paying both the current payments and back child support immediately.  If he fails to pay child support as ordered by the court, then he will be forced to re-appear in June and explain why.  He could then face stiff penalties as Colorado’s deadbeat-dad laws are no joke.

It must suck to be a complete loser.

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Andy Esquivel thumbs his nose at the court (again)

Posted on April 2, 2013 in Andy's Threats Trial Updates Wiser Technology

Andy Esquivel

Pathalogical lying sociopath and convicted felon Andy Esquivel gave us all another reason to peg him as the dumbest human being alive today by sending out a hilarious email in which he basically thumbed his nose at the Utah court system and openly refused to comply with an order to fully comply with the prosecution’s mutual discovery motion.  In the email, Andy basically claims that although the “11 owners” of the Xtagged scam have evidence which will be presenting at trial, he won’t hand it over to Davis County Prosecutor Nathan Lyons because “they don’t trust you guys.”

[Fraud Case Updates]

Earth to Andy – This is a criminal trial and you’ve been ordered by the court to hand over all evidence to the prosecutor.  Holding out a few slips of paper because you claim your supporters “don’t trust” the court is basically contempt.  Not only could you be cited and fined for withholding evidence, but you could actually find yourself in jail prematurely simply for refusing to comply with Judge Connors’ order.  Furthermore, any evidence which you fail to hand over to the prosecution will not be admissible at trial, but you probably already knew that right?

Andy goes on to accuse Davis County of “racism” (big surprise) and claims he’s going to ask the judge to move the trial to another venue because everyone in Utah is so mean to him.  Here’s a copy of the full email:

From: “Karma Cause” <karmacause@ymail.com>
Date: Apr 2, 2013 11:25 AM
Subject: Allen delivers my evidence 03/21/13 one year after…
To: “Deputy Attorney”, “Utah Investigator”, “steve.klemark@yahoo.com” <steve.klemark@yahoo.com>, “John Steer” <xtagme@gmail.com>, “shar” <bossmarketing2011@gmail.com>, “Jobita B” <cogotavon@gmail.com>, “chue berriel” , “j_park32” <j_park32@yahoo.com>, “Daris Garner” <garndari@gmail.com>, “Talor” <taylorjoness@gmail.com>, “saeed” <Abcaisauc@yahoo.com>, “Chris E. 1” , “MOM2” , “beck”
Cc: “Digital I-D filed” <file@digitalinternetdna.com>, “leo” <lmartinez@denverlegalteam.com>, “Steve K” <legal@wisertechnology.com>, “Adam Platt” , “shar” <bossmarketing2011@gmail.com>

To: Mr. Lyon & Xtagged owners.

Allen Brady told me that he delivered my bundle of evidence Xtagged, Inc. papers etc.03/21/2013 exactly one year after the plaintiffs committed massive perjury on the stand.    
http://youtu.be/Hgxf10J-Vo0 <<<—– Video evidence of plaintiffs committing witness tampering.  
I have attached attorney Albrights text lie & the 2009 $2,500 cashiers check to Ryion Butcher that was given to Logan Laws to give to Ryion because Ryion was combative and wanted to fight because he was to be bought out by a black guy Shar Jenkins (Ryion is extreme racist witness: Jeff Nicklaus he went to school with Ryion) that’s why white Steve Klemark from the Denver PD Halo project I attached his ID, well Steve Klemark made $5,000 money order for Ryion Butcher Oct of 2009 and Ryion Butcher wrote back to Steve Klemark:
Look at this email from Ryion Butcher 1% owner of  Xtagged I was going to post one from Chis E. my attorney ask me not to. Only Media
———- message ——————-
From: ryion butcher <workkhardd@ddd.com>
Date: XXX at 11:36 PM
Subject: RE: XXX!
To: xtagged@gmail.com, xtagme@gmail.com, utxpatrol@gmail.com
Cc: xtaggedtrainer@gmail.com, dale <party@costs.com>, rdunn@wiserecigarette.com, beckiedunnz@aol.com, allenbrady@xxx.com

Private until court!!! XXX!

Look below how Ryion signs off!

Sincerely,

Ryion Butcher
1% Owner XTagged –
Entitled to 1% of all dividends and profits

World Peace!

Please keep in mind Mr. Lyon that the evidence bundle I gave you does not have evidence from all 11 other Xtagged owners until trial they don’t trust you guys because of Holje & Albrights lies but they will be at trial with videos.


Steve Klemark bought Xtagged.com in 2009 and Holje nor Albright ever contacted Steve, Rebecca Dunn Xtagged CEO 2009-2011 she has never been contacted.

I am going to request new pretrial date asap now that you have seen 2008 Xtagged, Inc paperwork all legit and proof of perjury & witness tampering on behalf of the plaintiffs & Daryl Acumen. I believe if this case is not dropped asap I can asked the judge to move this trial to another court based on my evidence of extreme prejudice.

Oh here’s the link that proves extortion by Ryion & Kyle:   http://www.karmacause.info/John_Richards-AngelList.php
Have a great day Andy Esquivel
http://wisertechnology.com/Home_Page.php
http://www.karmacause.info/
https://www.diigo.com/user/xtagged
(Key media bcc)
WWW.KARMACAUSE.INFO
Andres Esquivel KarmaCause CEO:
Sent with my Xraza-phone

There are so many ways we can make fun of Andy after he sends out emails like this one:  Whyis it that none of these “Key media” personalities who are always “bcc” on all of Andy’s emails ever show up for any of his

Steve Klemark - Denver Police Department

hearings?  Why is it that nobody’s ever seen this mythical “Xraza-phone” that Andy claims to use to send these emails and if there is a such thing as an “Xraza-phone”, then why did he lie to Judge Connors and tell the court he “don’t carry no phone”?  Why haven’t we hard from Steve Klemark in ages except through fake Linked-In profiles and secondary references from Andy?  Is the Denver Police Department really ok with Andy showing off scanned copies of Steve’s security badge to promote his own criminal activity?

In other news, Andy has a hearing tomorrow at 3pm with the Jefferson County Court in which he needs to explain why he has failed to comply with a lawful order to pay child support.  As I write this, Andy owes over $20,000 in back child support for the first two of his six children and hasn’t made an effort to find a job so that he can pay the amounts which he continues to owe monthly.  Andy asked for tomorrow’s hearing to buy himself more time since he has no intention of seeking work, but he has no grounds on which to argue for a reduced payment or a reduction in the amount he already owes.  IN fact, Andy’s child support liability was based on minimum wage employment specifically because the court was unable to verify ANY kind of legitimate employment for Andy in the last ten years.  Andy’s continuous threats of legal action and “jail” made repeatedly to members of the Colorado Child Support Enforcement office which is handling this case have not deterred the state’s attorneys or impressed the judge.  For an overview of the child support case proceeding against Andy, click here [PDF].

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2/26 Pretrial audio online now!

Posted on March 9, 2013 in Andy's Videos Trial Updates Wiser Technology Xtagged

Andress "Andy" EsquivelThe audio transcript of Andy Esquivel’s February 26th pre-trial hearing is online now exclusively at Xtagged.co!

[AUDIO TRANSCRIPT]

Andy has been bragging on his various scam blogs that you can call the court and order “video” of the proceeding, but (as usual) Andy is lying.  No video is available of the hearing, only the audio we provide here.

The hearing went pretty much as expected: Andy kept insisting he was innocent, indicating that he probably won’t plead ‘Guilty’  until he very last minute.  The judge noted Andy’s intention to represent himself, but explained that he will still be required to follow the protocols of the court, and Andy agreed.  A trial date was set for June, which was the earliest they had available.  The prosecution pushed a 2012 motion for reciprocal discovery which Andy still has not complied with – meaning that Andy still hasn’t provided the prosecution with his “evidence”, case overview, or a list of potential witnesses for trial.  Andy tried to pin the blame on WIlliam Albright, but his former public defender was quick to point out that (a) Andy had a copy of everything he gave to his investigator and (b) the point is moot because the motion is for Andy, not Albright, and it’s Andy’s responsibility to comply.  The court agreed and gave Andy a hard deadline of March 26th to hand over all evidence, testimony and witness lists to the prosecution.

“Your Honor, here’s where we’re at: He needs to comply with the motion that’s been made by the state for reciprocal discovery.  Whether he’s given me anything or not is moot because he’s got it!  He’s got whatever he gave me.  He gave me copies if he gave me anything at all (or my investigator), so what’s before the court right now is he needs a timeframe that he will comply with the motion for reciprocal discovery.” – William Albright

The highlight of the hearing was probably when Andy tried to make a big deal of the fact that trial had been postponed.  He asked the judge to tell him who had a calendar conflict and thus couldn’t make trial ‘today.’  The judge was understandably confused and explained to Andy that today was a pre-trial conference, that trial was stricken at the last pre-trial (which he missed) and that all the details were discussed in his absence…which apparently Alan Brady failed to convey.  At first Andy even pretended not to be aware that trial wasn’t going to begin on the 26th, even though he’s posted such several times across the web over the last several weeks.  The funniest part was when Andy started to tell the judge that he had “all [his]witnesses” present and ready to go, even though only Alan Brady and some woman described as an “older, heavy-set Latina with bad hair” were in the courtroom.  Shar Jenkins, John Steer, Steve Klemark, and Ron Kelsay were all noticeably absent.

Andy has been claiming that a slew of potential witnesses (including Rebecca Dunn) will be testifying in his defense.  If that’s true, then Andy has until the 26th to notify the prosecution so that the court can prepare for their testimony…otherwise they will all be forbidden from testifying and Andy’s evidence will not be permitted in court.  Obviously whatever was in the shoebox Andy gave to Nathan Hurst, the public defender didn’t find it very actionable.  It will be interesting to see what Andy does next.

Since Andy is now acting as his own counsel, his contact information is a matter of public record.  That information as provided to the court follows:

Andres “Andy” Esquivel
990 Upham Street
Lakewood Co. 80214
(770) 779-4737

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New trial date set in Andy Esquivel’s securities fraud case

Posted on February 28, 2013 in Trial Updates Xtagged

Andy Esquivel

A jury trial date has been set in the felony securities fraud trial of Andres “Andy” Esquivel.  At the pre-trial conference on February 26th, Andy waived his right to counsel and informed the court that he intends to represent himself.  A final pre-trial conference has been set for May 14th, followed by a 3-day jury trial on June 12th – 14th.  Judge Connors will preside over the trial.

[Trial update]

In a preview of what is to come, immediately after the trial Andy Esquivel filmed a crazy, ranting video immediately after the hearing in which he insists that the trial will never happen because the prosecutor keep stalling the case.  He also introduced star witness Jeff Parker, who nobody has ever heard of.  Speaking on the subject of Tuesday’s hearing, Andy Esquivel wrote:

“…Jeff Parker shows at court – YouTube. Holje & Albright are both connected to CORRUPTED PROSECUTOR J.C Ynchausti that covered up the attempted murder of John Steer when he was struck in the head five times by a que ball at hero’s.  This is why I told judge Connors at pretrial I can not trust attorneys

As soon as the audio transcript is available, we will post it for everyone to see.

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Andy Esquivel introduces Jeff Parker

Posted on February 27, 2013 in Andy's Videos Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel introduces Jeff Parker at pre-trial

Andy has released a new video introducing Jeff Parker, a former investor in the Xtagged scam who is either not smart enough to recognize the fact that Andy is about to be convicted of fraud or who simply doesn’t care.  This video was shot (by Andy because apparently Ron Kelsay has given up on his documentary featuring Andy and has stopped following Andy to Utah every other week) yesterday immediately after court.  It includes claims by Andy that the court refuses to tell him who asked for a delay in the trial (which is a matter of public record), and that Albright never interviewed Jeff Parker who he claims is an essential witness in his defense.

Anyway, Andy goes on to talk about Dakota Iverson, who has recently learned about these criminal proceedings from this blog and has started attending the pre-trial hearings out of curiosity.  Andy attempts to dilute Dakota’s testimony that Andy ripped him off of wages at Xtreme Sushi by accusing Dakota of “stealing” his “$2,000 basketball.”  I personally think that’s one of the funnier claims that Andy has made in his defense.

A $2,000 basketball Andy?  Seriously?  Maybe you should include that in yoru courtroom testimony…see how that impresses the judge.

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Andy Esquivel on a rampage part 2

Posted on February 24, 2013 in Andy's Threats Trial Updates Xtagged

After discovering our new Wiser Technology Scam blog, Andy Esquivel threw a lug-nut and sent the following hilarious email.  Notice he send this email to William Albright’s investigator even though William Albright is no longer handling Andy’s criminal defense.  Andy’s big point is that the Utah Department of Securities asked for a the trial to be rescheduled to avoid calendar conflicts with other trials.  Andy takes extrudes from this a vast conspiracy theory that somehow ends in his eminent acquittal…go figure.

Re-posted here without edits (except to reduce the font size from the XX-LARGE that Andy likes to use for emphasis):

From: “Karma Cause” <karmacause@ymail.com>
Date: Feb 23, 2013 7:22 AM
Subject: Daryl & Adam have started again…
To: “Utah Investigator” <Carl@landofhealth.com>, “MOM2” <rebeccadunn4@gmail.com>, “A sweet” <asweet@utah.gov>, “kwoodwell@utah.gov” <kwoodwell@utah.gov>, “Adam Platt” <aplatt@halifaxlegalllc.com>, “Alll” <allengbrady@gmail.com>, “law firm” <info@denverlegalteam.com>, “leo” <lmartinez@denverlegalteam.com>, “shar” <bossmarketing2011@gmail.com>, “John Steer” <xtagme@gmail.com>, “chue berriel” <chueberriel@yahoo.com>, “Jobita B” <cogotavon@gmail.com>, “steve.klemark@yahoo.com” <steve.klemark@yahoo.com>, “Steve K” <legal@wisertechnology.com>, “ron” <ronkelsay@yahoo.com>, “Brian Doubleday” <brian@gwvideo.com>, “mitchthrower@gmail.com” <mitchthrower@gmail.com>, “Talor” <taylorjoness@gmail.com>, “Daris Garner” <garndari@gmail.com>, “j_park32” <j_park32@yahoo.com>, “sis2” <rockyraquel30@gmail.com>, “Jason Webb” <jason@2patent.net>, “Jason Webb” <jason@advantialaw.com>
Cc: “news 1” <anastasiya.bolton@9news.com>, “news 2” <medemma@comcast.net>, “news 3” <vargas_paula@hotmail.com>, “news 4” <jalvarado0815@hotmail.com>, “news 5” <mossgregg@yahoo.com>, “news 6” <jessica.zartler@gmail.com>, “adam5news” <aadams@ksl.com>, “NBC Cal” <Tony.Kovaleski@nbcuni.com>

Xtagged system is worth billions:
“How would you call a self driving Taxi or Google car, punch in the plate number then it would return to your phones gps taxi area”  just like the long rangers horse.

http://garythebus.blogspot.com/ <— Here they go again FYI Adam Sweet had me arrested to keep me from seeing the SEC judge ask Allen & Steve we recorded Adam Sweet lie over and over he told Allen he had never talk to him Allen goes off on Adam Sweet, Adam called us for meeting after the SEC judge I recorded it all! I have also published it all! FYI we have sent this to all our family members Allen is on speaker phone as we speak he is sending it to his family also I advise all Xtagged owners due the same immediately.
Adam Sweet Lied! Adam had to have told Davis prosecutor they could not make trial.
To buy more time and get trial continued!

Shar & Allen were told by Thomas Brady Adam Sweet will not be testifying as a matter of fact Thomas told Shar Adam Sweet should have never been at the pretrial. 
  
This video below Shar talks about his meeting with Utah SEC Allen Brady Thomas Brady & Adam Sweet:
 Looks like Andy hasn’t learned anything yet after losing two attorneys because he doesn’t know when to shut up!

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Andy Esquivel is back!!!

Posted on February 9, 2013 in Andy Esquivel's Scams Andy's Threats Trial Updates Uncategorized

Here’s Andy Esquivel’s latest statement about trial:

Andy EsquivelI am Back! Hello everyone my name is Andy Esquivel I would like to thank Team Wiser Allen, John, Shar, Leonard etc. as you may have heard by now trial was cancelled again. I will get my day in court no matter how long it takes. I will not take misdemeanors they are trying to force to save themselves from a lawsuit all because Ryion & Daryl lied to the Utah S.E.C!

You hear that Daryl Acumen I will never quit until I see you and your mother Rebecca Dunn take the stand at trial!!!

Earth to Andy – your trial has been postponed, not cancelled.  Don’t worry, you’ll get your day in court soon enough.  Hey, since you’re so ‘eager’ for your trial to start, why don’t you save the court some time and represent yourself instead of waiting for the new public defender to come up to speed on your case (that would be a load of laughs).  Better yet, just plead GUILTY and get it all over with!

As for Rebecca Dunn taking the stand at trial – don’t hold your breath.  Personally I would give my left arm to be able to testify against you at trial, but since I’m only peripherally connected to this case, that’s not likely.  Maybe you should ask your new attorney to call me to testify though and see how that goes over.  “Hey Julie, I want Daryl Acumen to take the stand at my trial…no I’m not crazy…yes I realize he’ll only convince the Jury to put me away for a quarter of a century, but…no I haven’t lost my mind, why do you…but I don’t care if I go to jail, I just want to look good in front of my friends…OF COURSE I HAVE FRIENDS!!!”

Andy is unbelievable, but a load of laughs.  Keep posting buddy.  Maybe you’ll land a guest spot on Dr. Phil.  I hear they have a special program coming up devoted to pathological lying sociopaths with delusions of grandeur.

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Andres Esquivel’s attorney quits – calls Andy’s actions “repugnant”

Posted on February 8, 2013 in Andy Esquivel's Scams Andy's Threats Andy's Videos Trial Updates Xtagged

Andress "Andy" Esquivel

Andres “Andy” Esquivel’s public defender filed a motion with the second district court of Davis County on Wednesday formally requesting to be released from the case.  In the filing Mr. Albright described Andy’s actions as “repugnant” and stated that the attorney client relationship had been “irreparably damaged” by Andy’s pretrial activity.  This is EXACTLY what we stated would be the reason for Albright’s departure when we first learned about it from the court last week.  The trouble with Andy, besides the fact that he’s a pathological lying sociopath, a dead-beat dad, and a convicted felon, is the fact that he doesn’t know when to shut up!  This is the SECOND attorney that Andy has driven away by his psychosis and if he is not careful he will end up having to represent himself in this case because no competent attorney will represent him.  Albright has nominated conflict attorney Julie George to represent Andy for the duration of the trial.

The memorandum filed with the court on Wednesday states the following:

Utah Rules of Professional Conduct, Rule 1.16 (b) (4) states that where representation has commenced, the lawyer shall withdraw from the representation of a client if “the client insists upon taking action that the lawyer considers repugnant or with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement”.

  1. Mr. Esquivel has recorded conversations I have had with him.  His recordings include conversations taken place at the courthouse, on the telephone, text messages and include conversations defendant had with my investigator Carl Hurst.
  2. Most, if not all, of these conversations and text messages have been posted on the internet.  These conversations have also been sent to news outlets, reporters, business associates of Mr. Esquivel and to the case prosecutor, Nathan Lyon.
  3. One of Mr. Esquivel’s associates is Allen Brady.  On the 16th of January Mr. Brady called me and set up a meeting with Mr. Esquivel, Mr. hurst, and myself.  Mr. Esquivel did not show up, but Mr. Brady did.
  4. Two days after we met with Mr. Brady, Mr. Esquivel posted on the internet under the subject heading “Why was Allen Brady threatened” (a copy of what was posted is attached).  Mr. Esquivel states that we threatened Mr. Brady not to testify.
  5. Later on page 2, Mr. Esquivel talks about a video he has whereby I talk to him about the evidence of the case.

Conclusion:

I have found the actions of Mr. Esquivel repugnant and obviously have a fundamental disagreement with him recording attorney client conversations and posting them on the internet and specifically sending them to news outlets, reporters, and the prosecutor in the case.  Because of the above actions the attorney-client relationship has been irreparably damaged to the point that counsel can no longer provide effective assistance.

William J. Albright

Mr. Albright then attached a psychotic, rambling email from Andy in which he goes on and on about Allen Brady testifying and about the $100,000 he stole from Melissa Garr.  The email states:

Mr. hurst all my witnesses, you know the ones you guys have not called, have spoken with Allen Brady the man that was called to Bountiful 01/17/13 and threatened not to testify & you guys can’t tell Allen to stop recording especially in Bountiful where they attacked us!  All Xtagged owners have asked for my attorneys phone number provided in this video for Xtagged owners & media ONLY that’s why the video is unlisted: http://youtu.be/t4S4WDr2PDg

but most Xtagged owners say they are writing letters to judge Connors including Allen Brady.  I asked them to wait until I have my meeting with you & Albright over Skype this coming week!

Every time Holje or Albright have presented so called evidence I shot it DOWN!  I recorded Brian Davis laugh about $100,000 he had and Melissa Garr supposedly gave me listen to my attorney http://youtu.be/t4S4WDr2PDg

FYI- the new so called evidence you hear public defender talk about in video above was also shot down call Allen Brady asap he has all details.  Ryion’s checks prove he scammed Logan Laws look http://youtu.be/-iGbB11Sdt8

[full text of the filed motion can be seen here]

So Andy and his brainless accomplice Allen Brady have done it again.  No doubt Andy’s first attorney Michael Holje resigned the case for similar reasons.  We’ve seen in emails provided by Andy Esquivel himself that Michael Holje was concerned about evidence that he stole $100,000 from Melissa Garr, and it’s clear that this evidence is damning enough to rattle Andy into driving away another lawyer!  Obviously there is some truth to Ms. Garr’s allegations if Andy continues to go completely insane every time the question is raised by his own attorneys.

Why is Allen Brady still so involved in these proceedings anyway?  Doesn’t he realize after all this time that he isn’t helping Andy in the least?  Everything he’s done to try to help Andy in this case has only made things worse!  He began by claiming against all reason that Ryion Butcher and I would be facing eminent jail time in this case (in which we’re not even defendants), bragged that the case was being moved to Colorado for some reason, spent thousands of dollars he didn’t have paying for an attorney who subsequently quit because he realized Andy was guilty, and now has so inflamed tensions between Andy and his public defender that Andy is left without legal representation in a felony fraud case that could carry up to 25 years in prison for Andy if he’s convicted!  If ever a brainless monkey walked the Earth in the clothes of a human being it must be Allen Brady…the man has the intellectual capacity of a grape!

To say the least, Tuesday’s pre-trial hearing should be interesting.  The court will appoint Andy a new public defender and that attorney must figure out a way to keep her client under wraps until trial.  She also needs to put Allen Brady in his place and convince the Judge that Andy Esquivel is mentally competent to stand trial…whew!  Talk about having your work cut out for you.

Good luck with that Julie.  Personally I think you should file a gag order against Andy and enter a GUILTY plea on his behalf.  I don’t know how Andy would pay restitution to his victims, but at least he’d be out of everybody’s hair for a little while.

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Another judgement against Andy Esquivel

Posted on February 5, 2013 in Andy Esquivel's Scams Andy's Threats Karma Cause Trial Updates Wiser Technology

Andy EsquivelPoor little Andy Esquivel just can’t catch a break.  Just when it didn’t look like life could get any worse with a pending criminal trial, his public defender quitting his case, another pending hearing for back child support, and a sixth illegitimate child entering the world with a dad who can’t seem to find work, Andy Esquivel gets slammed with ANOTHER judgement demanding payment of $1,575.99 from NAR Inc.

The judgement is being filed in Utah as a foreign judgement from Colorado by NAR Inc. apparently for APEX Alarm equipment and services that Andy purchased and never paid for.  Obviously Andy won’t be able to pay the judgement since he’s broke, unemployed, and still pretending to be CEO of a bankrupt group of imaginary technology companies.  One wonders how long it will take Andy to realize he’s an adult now and that he needs to have a job in order to live.  In this day and age it’s unacceptable to continue living off of your girlfriend and her food-stamps while living at home with your mother.  Any real man would by now have picked up the classifieds and found himself legitimate work as a janitor someplace.

The case details can be found here:

The court has granted NAR Inc. permission to charge Andy 8% interest until the judgement is satisfied.  My hunch is that when Andy finally gets our of jail and is forced to get a job as a condition of his probation, NAR Inc. will garnish his wages to recover their funds.  At minimum wage, who knows how long that is going to take, but at least they’ll eventually get their money.

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Andy loses another defense attorney…

Posted on February 1, 2013 in Trial Updates

Another defense attorney has resigned as counsel in the securities fraud trial of con-artist Andy Esquivel.  In a filing with Judge Connors on Thursday, prosecutor Nathan Lyon confirmed to the court that William Albright has resigned from the case citing a “recently developed conflict of interest.”  No details on the nature of the ‘conflict of interest’ were made available to the court, but a pre-trial hearing has been scheduled for February 12th at 8:45am before judge Connors to assign a new public defender.  At that time the court will also review a continuance motion filed by the prosecution due to scheduling conflicts of it’s two expert witnesses in the case.

[Continuance filing and defense resignation]

This makes the second attorney to resign from Andy Esquivel’s defense team in less than nine months.  Defense attorney Michael Holje of the firm Brown & Bradshaw resigned the case in May citing similar client issues and demanded that Andy Esquivel cease all communication with his office.  Andy subsequently asked to represent himself before pleading ‘indigent’ before the judge and requesting that a public defender be appointed to defend him.

What is Andy doing to keep scaring away his defense attorneys?  We’re pretty sure Allen Brady simply ran out of money to continue subsidizing Holje for Andy, but for a court appointed public defender to quit the case, Andy must have done something really, REALLY stupid!  We may not know what caused the conflict until the hearing on February 12th, but until then it’ll be fun to speculate on what drove Albright away.  My guess is that it was a combination of Andy violating attorney-client privilege by sharing private communications between himself and his attorney with he world, Albright taking exception to Andy’s threats to file erroneous complaints with the Utah Bar against the prosecutor in the case, and Andy’s clearly being not only guilty but non-repentant about the crimes of which he is accused.  Under the circumstances, I couldn’t blame any ethical attorney for being unwilling to continue as Andy’s defense counsel.

Andy remains free on a $10,000 bond secured by his mother because he doesn’t have a job.  Case updates can as always be found here.

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Andy Esquivel fraud trial eminent

Posted on January 18, 2013 in Trial Updates

There was little (really nothing) to report from Andy’s final pre-trial hearing on January 15th.  The hearing was short and to the point – no resolution as yet (duh, Andy can’t afford to pay the victims back as would be required by a plea agreement), so trial will proceed on February 27th as planned.  Case updates as always are available exclusively right here at Xtagged.co.  You can go to one of Andy’s stupid, ranting little blogs, but all you’re going to find there is a lot of nonsense about BYU professors, Bump and death threats against Google.  Only Xtagged.co consistently provides you accurate, up-to-date reporting on what has proven to be the most colorful and hilarious fraud case in recent memory.  From indictment to conviction, nobody covers this case like we do!

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Andy shows off fraud check

Posted on January 16, 2013 in Andy's Threats Trial Updates

Xtagged fraud check

Check for $2,500 paid for 1% of “Xtagged” – part of securities fraud case against Andy Esquivel.

Andy is now posting evidence of his crimes in the hopes that this will somehow convince the world that he’s innocent.  Here’s the text of Andy’s latest post – see if you can make any sense of it:

We paid Ryion $2,500 through Logan Laws 09/14/2009 look below [at picture of check to the left]…  after we gave Logan $2,500 Ryion was supposed to remove negative blogs he never did so we never paid remainder $2,500!

By reading the text above you would think that the check pictured was made out to Ryion Butcher, right?  In fact close inspection reveals that the check pictured is the one Ryion Butcher wrote to Andy Esquivel in exchange for 1% of his Xtagged scam.  The text in Andy’s post has absolutely nothing to do with the check in the photo.  Note: accepting a ‘check’ in exchange for a ‘share of ownership’ in a company (real or fictitious) is BY DEFINITION a “securities transaction,” yet Andy Esquivel is going to try to make the case at trial that he never sold any securities.

In other words, here’s Andy trying to convince himself that the pictured check proves he tried to pay Ryion Butcher back, when in fact all it does is provide further evidence of the fact that Andy committed securities fraud as charged.  It’s amazing how the minds of crazy people work.  Looped logic, delusions of grandeur, fantasies of persecution – it’s no wonder poor Andy can’t get a job.

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A busy week for Andy Esquivel

Posted on January 8, 2013 in Trial Updates

Next week will be a busy one for Andres “Andy” Esquivel Jr. (DOB 9/8/1970).  Andy has two court hearings to contend with.

The first on January 11th at 9:01am with Judge Marianne Marshall Tims at the Colorado District Court room 2f relates to the fact that Andy has made no effort to repay the nearly $20,000 in back child support he owes for two of his soon to be six children (all conceived and born out of wedlock).  Andy will presumably attempt to present evidence that he once paid his ex $5,000 (which he never reported to ORS) as reason to reduce the amount he owes from $20k to the still substantial sum of $15k.  Since Andy has no means to pay either the $15k or the $20k, the question is of course moot.  He will likely be asked whether he has attempted to find work in order to meet his paternal obligations, to which he will have to respond negatively.  It is likely that the court will mandate that Andy take steps to become a contributing member of society by seeking gainful employment or face sanctions.

The second hearing on January 15th  at 8:45am in courtroom 5 with Judge David Connors will be the final pre-trial hearing for felony securities fraud case #111701135.  Unless Andy faces the music and agrees to a plea bargain in which he agrees to pay his victims back their investments with interest, this hearing will simply be a formality in which the defense and prosecution advise the court as to whom they intent to call as witnesses at the trial on February 27th.  Since Andy’s attorney has no witnesses to call, the hearing should be a short one.  Andy continues to post online that he intends to call a host of witnesses to his defense, but since Andy has an attorney now and his attorney has yet to notify anybody besides Andy that they need to prepare to testify, the odds of that are slim.

As usual, we’ll post details about both hearings as soon as the information is made available to us by the courts.

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New trial date set in Andres Esquivel’s securities fraud case

Posted on November 28, 2012 in Trial Updates

A new trial date has been set in Andy Esquivel’s securities fraud case.  A final pre-trial hearing will occur on January 15th followed by a jury trial on February 27th and 28th where Andy will be represented by a public defender (because he cannot afford to pay for an attorney himself).  Full updates can be viewed in the case file here.

On the 28th of February we expect the court to find that Andres Esquivel did in fact sell “securities” to three men in Davis County Utah and therefore did in fact violate the law.  Andy continues to claim that he did NOT sell securities to these three men and that he is therefore innocent of securities fraud.  I’m curious to find out how someone becomes an “owner” of a business after being sold “shares” in the company without having participated in a “securities” transaction.  This should be very enlightening.

 

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Details of Andy Esquivel’s pending Utah Department of Securities Administrative Action

Posted on November 26, 2012 in Andy Esquivel's Scams Trial Updates Xtagged

Andres “Andy” Esquivel likes to pretend that the people who have worked to bring him to justice will one day face some sort of legal retribution.  His favorite claim is that once he’s found innocent of securities fraud, “the SEC” has promised to begin an investigation of the people who worked to bring criminal charges against him in the first place.  The story goes that Andy met with an SEC judge after he was formally charged with fraud in Davis County and that the judge promised that as soon as the criminal case was over he would investigate the conspiracy to convict Andy.  Andy sounds as if he’s really excited about these new charges, as seen in the following post:

“Wait until a real investigation happens and don’t worry a real one is coming the SEC Judge told Allen Brady Aug, 02, 2011 he would start one as soon as Davis county case is over he told Allen that…” – Andy Esquivel

As we have explained on this blog numerous times, the Utah Department of Securities officers that Andy met with indicated to him that HE will be subject to further administrative action by their agency once his criminal case concludes, not his victims.  It is unknown what sorts of sanctions or penalties Andy will be subject to once the criminal case ends, but what will not be happening is some investigation of Andy’s victims or the administrators of this blog resulting in charges against us.  The ‘investigation’ Andy refers to has already occurred and resulted in the criminal charges he now faces.  What’s left is for the Utah Department of Securities to take their own disciplinary action outside of the criminal charges now pending.

Here are the details of the Utah Department of Securities case against Andy Esquivel and Xtagged.

  • Document #1 – details of the charges against Andy, facts of the case, and the results of the UDS investigation that has already occurred.
  • Document #2 – a complete description of the conversations between Andy Esquivel and the Utah Department of Securities officials by Administrative Law Judge J. Steven Eklund, explaining that they would defer the pending charges and administrative actions against Andy until after the criminal trial concludes.
  • Document #3 – statement of the delivery of the request to defer administrative action until after the conclusion of Andy’s criminal trial as delivered to Assistant Attorney General Scott Davis.

Andy will no doubt continue to brag that he talked to a judge at the SEC (the Judge being Steven Eklund and the agency actually being the Utah Department of Securities, not the SEC) and that those discussions will result in another investigation that will exonerate him and implicate his victims, but this is a  complete falsehood.  The facts of the case are simple and are here documented for the entire world to review.

Why Andy continues to deflect blame for his criminal activity away from himself and towards the people he scammed is beyond me.  A normal person would admit to their crimes, take the punishment and move on.  Pathological lying sociopaths apparently can’t do that.

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Pre-trial scheduled for November 13th

Posted on October 12, 2012 in Trial Updates

Andres “Andy” Esquivel’s securities fraud jury trial, which was previously scheduled to proceed on October 24th, has been cancelled and another pre-trial hearing has been set for November 13th.  This will give Andy’s public defender time to prepare a defense if the case does go to trial (Andy’s public defender was only recently assigned) or to negotiate a plea bargain in the event that Andy decides to stop fighting the charges against him.  We think a plea bargain is the likeliest outcome of the November 13th proceeding, especially since Andy is so clearly guilty of fraud and no attorney in his right mind would go into trial with evidence as damning as what the prosecution has against Andy Esquivel.

The updated minutes were not available as of this posting, but we will have the links updated with the latest file once it is available.

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New pre-trial hearing set for 10/2

Posted on September 5, 2012 in Trial Updates

The next pre-trial hearing has been set for October 2nd at 9am as per Andy’s public defender.  The postponement was requested to give the PD more time to prepare.  As always, updates can be found here [PDF].

As part of his own preparations for trial, Andy has stopped posting under his usual “Xtagged” Diigo account and has switched to a less conspicuous “AllenBrady” account instead.  It’s still Andy, as any casual observer who’s used to Andy’s rantings can clearly see, but he has at least decided that posting under his own name as he awaits trial for securities fraud is a bad idea.  The suggestion must have comes from Andy’s attorney because I don’t think he is smart enough to have come to such a conclusion in isolation.

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Poor “indigent” Andy Esquivel accepts public defender…

Posted on August 16, 2012 in Trial Updates Xtagged

Andy Esquivel

Poor little Andy Esquivel appeared for his pre-trial conference on Tuesday morning and finally admitted that he’s too broke to pay an attorney and that he isn’t capable of representing himself.

In the latest case update (obtained by Xtagged.co from the court and uploaded here) the court found Andy Esquivel to be “indigent” (adjective: [in-di-juhnt] – lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished) and incapable of paying for his own counsel.  The court therefore appointed Andy a public defender to help represent him at the upcoming trial.  Another pre-trial conference was scheduled for August 28th with the new state funded (free) lawyer.

Below are the minutes from the pre-trial conference for review:

The parties are unable to reach a resolution.

In other words, Andy, being broke and unemployed, can’t afford to accept a plea deal because he’d have to pay the victims back with money he doesn’t have and can’t scam from his uncles and aunts, who are now onto his criminal activity – thanks in no small part to this website.

Defendant requests to proceed with the trial and will represent
himself.
Mr. Lyon indicates he had advised the defendant the Right to
Counsel and asks the Court to recite the defendant’s rights to him.
The Court advises the defendant of his Right to Counsel.
Defendant acknowledges his rights and waives his Right to Counsel.
Defendant requests to proceed with the trial.
Based on the record, the jury trial scheduled for October 24, 25,
and 26, 2012 at 8:30 a.m. will go forward.
TIME: 1:15 PM
This matter is recalled on the court’s calendar.

Andy is adamant that he wants to go forward with the trial and represent himself.  Nathan has tried to explain that he’s facing serious charges and should really take the public defender, but Andy refuses for two reasons:

  1. He’d have to admit that he’s broke, which flies in the face of his assertions over the last several years that his companies are worth billions, he’s selling out all his product lines, and has armies of lawyers working to sue people like Ryion Butcher, Bump.com and me.
  2. Andy would have to confess that all the conspiracy theories he told his minions about this website somehow corrupting all the public defenders in the state, were figments of his deranged imagination…begging the question, what else has Andy made up?

Mr. Arrington indicates that the defendant has changed his mind
and would like to be represented by counsel.

Key phrase in this notation: “defendant has changed his mind.”  That represents a recurring pattern for Andy.  Once upon a time Andy had investors, sold Xtagged for millions of dollars, launched an e-cigarette at a casino on an infomercial in front of a studio audience, was suing various people using teams of lawyers from his offices in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, had sold out his entire stock of an alcoholic energy drink, etc…  All that changed at some point because Andy Esquivel “changed his mind.”

Defendant is indigent
and requests a public defender to represent him.

In other words, Andy is BROKE!!!  He doesn’t have a job and lives with his mother.  Poor guy.  If you have any questions about this assertion, just watch the last video Andy published where morons-in-common Allen Brady and Ron Kelsay admit that they had to bail Andy out of jail and where Andy brags that he will not be paying them back because it’s against his principles.

Mr. Arrington
requests the Court to appoint Mr.
Albright to represent the defendant.
State has no objections.
Under the circumstances, the Court grants the request and appoints
Mr. Albright as public defender. Mr. Arrington will notify Mr.
Albright.

Andy’s NEW, new attorney is William Albright.

A pretrial conference is set for 8/28/2012 at 8:30 a.m. The Court
will leave the jury trial dates in place until Mr. Albright has had
a chance to review the case.

Andy’s new attorney is going to try to convince Andy to plead guilty to avoid spending time in jail, since the evidence is overwhelmingly stacked against him.  A deal isn’t likely however because Andy can’t afford to pay the Utah victims back and this would doubtless be a condition of any plea deal his attorney negotiates.  It would also of course require Andy to admit to the world that he is a fraud.

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Official pretrial transcript now available

Posted on July 23, 2012 in Trial Updates

The official pre-trial hearing transcript is now available for review here [PDF].  For your convenience, the full text of the March 21st hearing is also available below:

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IN THE SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT-FARMINGTON
OF DAVIS COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH
STATE OF UTAH,
Plaintiff,
vs.
ANDRES ESQUIVEL,
Defendant.
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Remanded Preliminary Hearing
Electronically Recorded on
March 21, 2012
BEFORE: THE HONORABLE MICHAEL G. ALLPHIN
Second District Court Judge
APPEARANCES
For the State:
For the Defendant:
Transcribed by: Wendy Haws, CCT
(Certifier’s identity unknown) Signed by Administrative Office of the Courts Time: 2012.07.21 17:37:29 -06’00’ Reason: Document: Filed with the Utah State Courts Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
1771 South California Avenue
Provo, Utah 84606
Telephone: (801) 377-2927
Nathan D. Lyon
DAVIS COUNTY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
800 West State Street
P.O. Box 618
Farmington, Utah 84025
Telephone: (801)541-4300
Michael T. Holje
BROWN, BRADSHAW & MOFFAT
10 West Broadway
Suite 210
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101
Telephone: (801)821-5218

INDEX
WITNESS: KYLE CLUFF PAGE
DIRECT EXAMINATION BY: MR. LYON 5
CROSS EXAMINATION BY: MR. HOLJE 17
REDIRECT EXAMINATION BY: MR. LYON 35
WITNESS: CHRISTOPHER PAUL ENGELBRECHT
DIRECT EXAMINATION BY: MR. LYON 38
CROSS EXAMINATION BY: MR. HOLJE 46
WITNESS: RYION BUTCHER
DIRECT EXAMINATION BY: MR. LYON 55
CROSS EXAMINATION BY: MR. HOLJE 64
WITNESS: ADAM SWEET
DIRECT EXAMINATION BY: MR. LYON 78
CROSS EXAMINATION BY: MR. HOLJE 82
WITNESS: THOMAS BRADY
DIRECT EXAMINATION BY: MR. LYON 86
CROSS EXAMINATION BY: MR. HOLJE 102
-o0oEXHIBIT
NUMBER DESCRIPTION PAGE
No. 1
No. 3
No. 2
No. 4
Two Checks to X-Tagged
Copy of Contract
Convertible Promissory Note
Stock Certificates Plus Other Documents
16
16
46
52
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PROCEEDINGS
(Electronically recorded on March 21, 2012)
COURT CLERK: No. 24, State of Utah vs. Andres Esquivel
case No. 111701135, set for remanded preliminary hearing.
THE COURT: Counsel, are you ready?
MR. LYON: Yes, your Honor.
MR. HOLJE: Yes, your Honor.
THE COURT: Call your witness.
MR. HOLJE: Your Honor, before we get started, the
State would like to invoke the exclusionary rule.
THE COURT: Counsel on either side, if you have
witnesses other than the officer that is going to assist
Counsel, any potential witnesses, we’d ask them to step aside,
please not talk about the case amongst themselves either before
or after their testimony.
MR. LYON: Your Honor, I do –-I have –
THE COURT: You all know who you’ve got. So if you
would just direct them, I’d appreciate it.
MR. LYON: Just for the record, I’ve got three victims
that will be present, my lead investigator and then our expert,
that I think are entitled to stay under the rule.
MR. HOLJE: Your Honor, with –-I don’t have any
witnesses to call today. For the Court’s information –Justin,
if you want to stand up –-your Honor, if I could
introduce Justin Pratt. He’s a new member of the bar. He’s

my mentee under the Bar’s new lawyer mentoring program –
THE COURT: Uh-huh.
MR. HOLJE: –-and he’s required to observe, so –
THE COURT: You can have him come up and sit behind
you there if you’d like.
MR. HOLJE: That would be great. Thank you, your
Honor. Other than that, Steve Burton is a member of the Bar.
He works with Justin Pratt. I don’t have any –
THE COURT: Okay.
MR. HOLJE: –-issue with him being here either.
THE COURT: Let’s go ahead, then, Mr. Lyon.
MR. LYON: Okay. Your Honor, just as a very brief
opening statement, just to lay a little foundation for your
Honor –
THE COURT: Go ahead.
MR. LYON: –-this is a securities fraud case, and
we’re going to be hearing from three of the individuals who
invested in the company which the defendant (inaudible), which
was called “X-Tag.” We also have the Investigator Sweet, who
performed some of the investigation.
We also have Tom Brady, who is our expert, who I think
will be able to shed a little bit of light for the Court, I’m
hoping, as to the securities, and why this falls within the
parameters of the security, given that this is not what we
generally see in our normal practice; but I think we’ll proceed

with that, your Honor.
THE COURT: Okay.
MR. LYON: State calls Kyle Cluff.
THE COURT: Sir, if you’d just –
MR. LYON: Stop right there. Stop right there.
COURT CLERK: You do solemnly swear that the testimony
you are about to give in the case now before the Court will be
the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help
you God?
THE WITNESS: Yes.
THE COURT: Thank you. Now you can please have a seat
at the witness stand. Go ahead.
KYLE CLUFF,
having been first duly sworn,
testified as follows:
DIRECT EXAMINATION
BY MR. LYON:
Q. Mr. Cluff, could you please state your name, spelling
your last name for the record.
A. Kyle Cluff, C-l-u-f-f.
Q. Mr. Cluff, do you reside in the Davis County area?
A. Idonot.
Q. Is it Weber County?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, and are you employed right now?

A. Iam.
Q. Okay, where do you work?
A. I work at McKay Dee Hospital.
Q. You’re also going to school?
A. Yeah, I’m a full-time student at Weber State.
Q. What are you studying?
A. I am a senior. I’m Athletic Therapy, and getting
ready to apply for my graduate school in Health Administration.
Q. Okay, now Mr. Cluff, have you been previously employed
at Anytime Fitness?
A. I have.
Q. Were you so employed at the Bountiful location back in
February of 2008?
A. I was.
Q. What were your responsibilities there?
A. I was a personal trainer/manager of the gym.
Q. While you were so employed, did you have an occasion
to come in contact with an individual by the name of Andres
Esquivel?
A. I did.
Q. Okay, that’s the defendant sitting next to Mr. Holje?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Could you tell us when that occurred?
A. That was in February of 2008.
Q. What were the circumstances in which you came in

contact with him?
A. I came personally in contact with him under the
impression of him buying a personal training package from the
gym.
Q. Was someone –-did someone instruct you to speak with
Mr. Esquivel?
A. Yes.
Q. Who was that?
A. The gym manager.
Q. Tell us about the conversation you had with the
defendant.
A. That I did, or that the gym manager did?
A. That you did.
Q. Well, the defendant was in the owner’s office, as
I walked in, explaining about his Internet company. He was
talking about the government giving him money for startup
costs, about his soon-to-be appearance on the Oprah Winfrey
show, how MySpace tried to buy it for 5 million but he
declined.
Q. Did he explain what his company is?
A. He did.
Q. Can you tell us what he explained to you as?
A. He said his company was an Internet company that
would keep pedophiles and rapists off of the Internet, and
keep them from coming in contact face-to-face with children

or adolescents.
Q. Did he tell you what the name of his company was?
A. He did.
Q. What was that?
A. X-Tagged.
Q. Did he explain what the purpose of X-Tagged was?
A. To keep the Internet safe.
Q. Now, I recognize you said that he was going to help
keep people safe. Did he explain how that was going to work?
A. He did. He stated that X-Tagged used license plates
to verify individuals; and so, for example, if somebody was on
MySpace and they were talking to an individual, X-Tagged would
be a company that a person would take a picture touching their
license plate, and he said to me that if they touch someone
else’s license plate, that would be a felony same as if you
opened somebody’s mailbox and took their mail.
So I touch on their license plate. It identified them
as who they are. So if someone’s on MySpace talking to a –-to
a young girl, and they want to meet face-to-face, and she said,
“Are you X-Tagged?” she could then go see if he’s on X-Tagged
and if he’s verified, see what he looks like, see what his
license plate is, so when they meet face-to-face she can know
what to expect, know what car to see him driving up in, and
have him be verified.
Q. Now, was this supposed to be some sort of social

networking site?
A. Yes.
Q. At the time was he looking for investors in the
company?
A. He didn’t specify.
Q. Had he indicated whether he had already received money
from any sources?
A. He did. He said the government gave him $2,000,000
for startup costs.
Q. For the company?
A. For the company.
Q. Did he indicate whether he was going to be going in
television promoting this?
A. He did. He said he had already appeared on the Maury
show. That he was signing autographs and his lawyer made him
stop because their paperwork wasn’t fully done, and that in six
month’s time he would be on the Oprah Winfrey show.
Q. Now, on that first occasion that you came into contact
with him, was there any offering as to investment in the
company?
A. He told me what the stock price was.
Q. Which was what?
A. One dollar per share.
Q. Was there any minimum investment?
A. Yes, he did say you had to invest over $500. That was

the cost of the paperwork for his lawyer to process.
Q. Did he make any indication whether the company had
plans to go public?
A. He did. He did say once it went public, immediately
it would be upwards in the 30 to $40 per share, and that within
a relatively quick time it would surpass Google with their
stock, which was currently at 500 plus per share.
Q. Did he explain how the stock was going to be I guess
realizing those sorts of gains?
A. He did not.
Q. Did he indicate whether X-Tag was patented?
A. He did tell me it was patented.
Q. Did he tell you how much time was on the patent?
A. He did say it was a 20 year patent, and they had 18
years remaining.
Q. Had he received –-did he tell you whether he had
received any cooperation from the Utah Government Division of
Motor Vehicles?
A. He had stated that they are in process to link X-Tagged
with the DMV, to once again verify that they are the owner of
that –-of that car that they’re taking a picture with.
Q. Did he indicate to you whether he had received any
offers to buy the company?
A. He did. He said that MySpace offered him $5,000,000
for the company.
Q. Did he tell you whether he had accepted or declined
that offer?
A. He said he declined it.
Q. Did he give a reason why?
A. He did. He said that MySpace declined it for the
purpose that they would not use it. MySpace, for example, has
multiple individuals on there that have fake profiles. So if
X-Tagged were to be invented and be used, it would take away
from their amount of people, which would take away from the
price of advertising that they would receive. So he said that
they would take it and sweep it under the rug. So he was not
going to allow that to happen.
Q. Now, tell –-give us the context in which this whole
conversation took place while you’re speaking with him.
A. I was trying to sell him personal training at the gym.
Q. Okay, and did you in fact, I guess, sign him up? Is
that how you would characterize it? Did you sell him any
personal training plans?
A. He agreed to buy a fairly big plan. He stated, though,
that his days are very busy. He’s with lawyers and in and
out of meetings. That he needed somebody to train him about
2 o’clock in the morning; and he said he would train three
times what I’m asking if that –-if we could get somebody
there. I said we could not, you know, appease that request.
Q. So this conversation with him talking about your
company is taking place at the same time that you were trying
to sell him on personal training and fitness plans?
A. Correct.
Q. After this initial conversation did you make any
decisions as to whether to invest in X-Tag?
A. No.
Q. At some point did you make a decision to invest?
A. I did.
Q. Tell us when that happened.
A. It was –-I believe it was Monday after that weekend I
gave him a call and asked if the stock was closed or open.
Q. Okay, and what was his response?
A. He told me to hold on for a second and he asked whomever
he was driving with, he said, “Is the stock closed or
open?” They said, “It’s still open,” and he said, “Yes, it’s
still open.” Then so I told him I would like to purchase some
shares.
Q. How many shares did you want to purchase?
A. I told him I had $4,000, so that would be the
equivalent of 4,000 shares.
Q. Did you in fact write out a check for $4,000 to X-Tag?
A. I did.
Q. When did that happen?
A. That was I believe in March.
Q. To whom did you give the check?

A. I gave it to his associate, John.
Q. Did you receive anything in exchange for that?
A. I received a convertible promissory note.
Q. I’m sorry, tell me when –-when all of this oc –roughly
when all of this occurred.
A. This was in March.
Q. Now, at some time after March did you decide you
wanted to invest further in X-Tag?
A. I did. Even in March I wanted to invest more, but
that’s all the money I had.
Q. Okay, and so at some point later did you in fact
invest further?
A. I did. Mr. Esquivel called me I believe in May, told
me that there was a percent that had opened up and wanted to
know if I was interested in purchasing it.
Q. What did you tell him?
A. I asked him how much, and he told me it was $50,000
for 1 percent.
Q. Did you in fact give him $50,000?
A. No, I told him I’m not wealthy enough for that.
Q. Okay, did you invest any further money, then?
A. I did. He texted me a few days later and said that
they discussed it, and I could have it for $20,000. So I
called him, and I said, “I don’t have that money either.”
Then he came up with a solution, saying if I could come up

with $10,000, he would then credit –-the other $10,000, he
would then finance it himself.
Q. Okay, and tell us, how would you come up with $10,000?
A. So he took my $4,000 of the shares that I bought,
and he said he would convert that to the $10,000. He paid me
$2,000 for the diet plans and the personal training that I was
emailing him over several months. Then he also –-I gave him
another check for $2,000, and he took my Chevy Cavalier, which
had a broken engine, and said if I gave him the title he would
credit that for $2,000, which totals a monetary amount of
$10,000.
Q. At that time did you execute a second document to
memorialize the purchase of additional shares and the agreement
that you’ve just explained?
A. I did. He took my promissory note for the shares
back, and in return gave me a document for 1 percent of the
company.
Q. You didn’t –-did you keep a copy at all of that first
–-that first promissory note?
A. No, I did not.
Q. Okay, now –-now, Mr. Cluff, I’m showing you what’s
previously marked as State’s Exhibits looks like 1 and 3.
Could you tell us what these are?
A. Yeah, these are the two checks that I made out to
X-Tagged Incorporated.

Q. That’s Exhibit 1.
A. Exhibit 1 is the $2,000 I gave for the 1 percent
ownership.
Q. Okay.
A. And Exhibit –-is this two?
Q. No, this is just one exhibit.
A. Okay, yeah, the first one is the 4,000 shares. The
second check is the extra 2,000 I gave in the end of May, June.
Q. I’m showing you what’s been marked as Exhibit 3. Do
you recognize that?
A. Ido.
Q. What is it.
A. It is a copy of my contract that Mr. Esquivel gave me
after I gave him the monetary money that I had just described.
Q. Is it the second promissory note you’re talking about?
A. Yes.
Q. Pointing your attention to the very last page, there
is –-most of this is a typed contract, and on the last page
there’s some handwriting. Could you explain to us what that is
about?
A. Yes, Mr. Esquivel wanted me to meet him at Bogie’s,
which is a nightclub, I believe it’s Clearfield. I don’t go to
nightclubs, so I told him I would meet him in the parking lot.
In the parking lot he wrote the terms of our agreement. He
said that –-he gave me $2,000 for the gym and diet. I gave

him $6,000 in cash. Then for the title of my Cavalier he gave
me another $2,000. Then on the bottom he says that he financed
the rest by him, and X-Tagged for the other $10,000.
Q. Okay, so if I’m adding this up correctly, the 2,000
were the diet gym plans, the 6,000 representing the first
4,000, plus the second 2,000, and then $2,000 for the title
to your Chevy Cavalier?
A.
That’s correct.
Q.
Okay, $10,000.
MR. LYON: State moves to admit Exhibits 1 and 3.
MR. HOLJE: No objection.
THE COURT: Thank you. I’ll receive them.
(Exhibit Nos. 1 and 3 received into evidence)
Q. BY MR. LYON: Now, at any point in time was there a
conversation about –-we understand that you invested in X-Tag.
Was there any conversation between you and the defendant about
being able to get your money back?
A. Yes. Even on the promissory note that I initially
bought with the shares, he said that if the company did not
take off as he expected it to, we could receive our money back,
plus 3 percent interest in my case, by December of 2009. So
he, in other words, said, “You’re putting it in a bank, and
with a good interest plan. You’ll get it back if it doesn’t
work.”
Q.
Did you subsequently try to get that money back?

A.
I did multiple times.
Q.
Were you successful in doing so?
A.
No.
Q.
In that contract it references being able to call due
st
the note at –-or after December 31 , 2009. Did you try to
call due the note after that date?
A.
I did multiple times.
Q. In your dealings and discussions with Mr. Esquivel did
he ever tell you about a judgment of $3,075.62 that he received
against him in 2003?
A.
He did not.
Q.
Did he tell you about a judgment of $5,597.60 in 1999?
A.
He did not.
Q. Did he tell you about a judgment against him for
$1,537.69?
A.
He did not.
Q. Did he ever tell you whether this was a –-X-Tag was a
Utah business?
A.
He did not.
MR. LYON: Nothing further, your Honor.
THE COURT: Thank you. Counsel.
MR. HOLJE: Thank you.
CROSS EXAMINATION
BY MR. HOLJE:
Q. Okay, Mr. Cluff, just before I forget to ask this,

because it’s relevant to the charges in the Information, did
any of the money that you provided to Mr. Esquivel come from a
retirement account?
A. No.
Q. Your own retirement account?
A. No.
Q. Did any of this money come from equity in your home?
A. No.
Q. Okay, just personal savings?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay. All right, so is it your testimony Mr. Esquivel
told you to your face he’s the owner of X-Tag?
A. Yes.
Q. At any point did he use the word “stock”? We’ve
talked about shares here. You’ve mentioned shares. He never
mentioned the word “stock,” though, right?
A. It was quite a long time ago. I don’t recall.
Q. Okay. Your own assumption is that you were buying
stock?
A. That’s what I was assuming, yes.
Q. Okay. All right. You told us you gave your money to
an individual named John?
A. Uh-huh, that’s correct.
Q. You didn’t give it to Mr. Esquivel, right?
A. No. Mr. Esquivel told me to give it to John. He

would be coming to the gym to pick it up.
Q. Okay, did John have a last name, that you’re aware of?
A. I believe it was John Steere, I believe.
Q. Okay, had you ever met John Steere before?
A. I haven’t.
MR. LYON: Your Honor, if I could just interject. I
believe, Counsel, you’re talking about the first instance, not
the second?
MR. HOLJE: I’m talking –MR.
LYON: Just so we’re clear on the record.
MR. HOLJE: Thank you. That’s a useful clarification.
Q. BY MR. HOLJE: The first time you gave any money to X-
Tagged, was that to an individual named John??
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, and in return for this –-which was $4,000 at
the time, right?
A. That’s correct.
Q. In return for the $4,000 he gave you what?
A. A convertible promissory note.
Q. Okay, so the initial time was a convertible promissory
note, and subsequent when extra money was added, you were given
a second convertible promissory note; is that right?
A. A 1 percent document, yeah, of ownership in the
company.
Q. Okay. All right, so that we’re clear, I’m not trying

to trick you –
A.
Yeah.
Q. –-are both documents that we’re talking about
convertible promissory notes?
A.
To my knowledge. I’m not a legal expert.
Q.
Okay, did it say that on the top of it?
A.
On the top of it, it says 1 percent owner of X-Tagged.
Q.
Okay, but you –-do you have a copy of that anywhere?
A.
It’s with the Judge, I believe.
Q.
Okay. All right, thank you.
MR. HOLJE: Okay, if I may approach, Judge.
THE COURT: Yes.
Q. BY MR. HOLJE: Does this document that we’re looking
at, marked as Exhibit 3, does it have a title to it?
A.
Yes.
Q.
What does it say?
A.
“Convertible promissory note.”
Q.
Is this what you were given?
A.
Yes.
THE COURT: You can just leave it right there, in case
either one of you want to use it.
MR. HOLJE: Okay, thank you. Thank you, your Honor.
Q. BY MR. HOLJE: Your decision to give any money was
influenced by the representation of an attorney about the value
of X-Tagged shares; is that right?

A. That was for the 1 percent, yes.
Q. Okay. Tell us about that.
A. I received an email. I believe it was from–-forwarded
to me by Jason web, who worked at Advantia; and they said on
their last current valuation 1 percent of X-Tag was worth
$50,000.
Q. Okay, is Mr. Webb the attorney that you’re talking –A.
Yeah, that’s who I talked to initially when I got my
shares.
Q. Okay, and then it was based on that representation
that you decided to invest, right?
A. Of course.
Q. Not based on what Mr. Esquivel told you at the gym,
right?
A. No, it was based on both.
Q. Okay, but you hadn’t given any money prior to –excuse
me, let’s clarify that. That representation was given
to you when by Mr. –A.
That was when we were in the discussions of buying the
1 percent.
Q. Okay.
A. Before I had given any money.
Q. Okay, thank you. Then based on some very special
arrangements that Mr. Esquivel and you made, you decided to
give him money for 1 percent, right?

A. That’s correct.
Q. It’s your understanding that this was for ownership in
the company, right?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, do you consider yourself an owner of X-Tagged?
A. Not at all.
Q. Did you at any point consider yourself an owner of
X-Tagged?
A. I did. I tried to execute that, with no –-no
success.
Q. Okay, what do you mean you tried to execute?
A. I would try to give ideas, ask questions. Anytime
I asked a question that was –-that the defender could –-the
defense couldn’t answer, he would use explicit language with
me, get angry with me, tell me to get a lawyer, “You’re not
going to see your money.”
Q. You worked pretty closely with Mr. Esquivel for two
years on X-Tagged business; is that right?
A. That’s correct.
Q. Okay, in an effort to make it profitable, right?
A. Yeah, to see some sort of return.
Q. Okay, tell us what your role was specifically.
A. I had no role, I had no title. I was just a 1 percent
owner.
Q. Okay, a 1 percent owner?

A. Uh-huh.
Q. Did you go to meetings with him, or –A.
I tried to set up a few meetings, but I never attended
any.
Q. Okay, so these ideas that you’re presenting for X-Tag,
those were presented how and when?
A. I would –-for one example I met –-I got in contact
with Isafe.org, which is an Internet safety company out of
California, and I tried to set up a meeting for Mr. Esquivel
multiple times, and finally he attended. I just tried to push
the company forward. He seemed hesitant. He wanted to stay
in the same level, as if it was comfortable, and none of his
promises came to fruition. So I was trying to enable it to
happen.
Q. Okay. Okay, back to –-well, sorry, did you ever at
any point attempt to convert your convertible promissory note
into shares of stock?
A. No, I did not. The company never went public.
Q. Okay. You never at any point received a stock
certificate, right?
A. No.
Q. Your evidence of ownership in the company is solely
based on a convertible promissory note?
A. That’s correct, and his recognition, well, I was on
good terms with him.

Q. Okay. All right, in that convertible promissory
note that you signed, was there language about risks involved
with –A.
None. It was all positive.
Q.
There was no language about risk?
A.
There was no risk.
MR. HOLJE: Okay. Your Honor, if I could approach?
THE COURT: Go ahead.
MR. HOLJE: Do you still have that up there?
Q. BY MR. HOLJE: I’m referring to State’s Exhibit 3. Is
this your signature on page 8 of that document?
A.
It is.
Q.
Okay, did you read the document before signing it?
A.
I did not.
Q.
You didn’t read it?
A.
Uh-uh.
Q. Okay. Page 6 mentions representations and warranties
of the holder; is that correct?
A.
Yes.
Q. Okay. I’ll give you a second to review paragraph 18
of that document.
A.
(Witness reading document).
Q.
Have you had an opportunity to review that?
A.
I did.
Q.
Okay, is there anything in that paragraph that talks

about risks associated with this –-what we’re calling an
investment for purposes of today?
A. It does say “the holder is capable of evaluating the
risks and merits of this investment.”
Q. Okay, talk about based on your financial and business
experience?
A. Uh-huh.
Q. Okay. Does it say that you could suffer a complete
loss of your investment?
A. Not that I can see. I could be missing it, though.
Q. You may need to continue onto the next page.
A. It’s the next page? Okay. Yeah, it does mention it.
Q. Okay, Mr. Cluff, the document that you signed, doesn’t
it say that it’s a highly speculative investment and involves a
high degree of risk?
A. It does.
Q. Okay, and you signed that, right?
A. I did.
Q. Okay, and again, if you already answered this, I
apologize. You did nothing to convert the promissory note
into anything other than a promissory note?
A. I never had an opportunity nor any –-any question to
do so.
Q. Okay, no inclination or anything?
A. None.

Q. Okay. You talked about some value for personal
training and dieting, right?
A. Yes.
Q. Mr. Esquivel never actually did any personal training,
did he, at Anytime Fitness?
A. No.
Q. Okay. Is it your testimony, then, that $2,000 of your
10,000 total was based on diet plans that you prepared for him?
A. It was diet plans and specific exercises that I would
email him –Q.
Okay, so –A.
–-in his preparation to be on Oprah.
Q. Okay, so based on a number of emails, you believe you
earned $2,000 from him, right?
A. I didn’t charge. He came up to me and said, “I will
give you $2,000 to go towards this 1 percent,” and I agreed.
said, “Okay.”
Q. Okay, in essence a credit, right?
A. Yeah, he would credit it to the $10,000 –Q.
Credit the 2,000.
A. –-for the 1 percent.
Q. Okay, you never, say, invoiced him for $2,000 worth of
work? You never gave him a bill for –A.
No, I never, and I was doing it just to help out a
fellow employee. He came to me and said, “Since you’ve done

this, I will give you this much money.”
Q. Okay. Out of the kindness of his heart, essentially?
A. Well, I guess so.
Q. All right. With respect to the title to your Chevy
Cavalier –A.
Uh-huh.
Q. –-1998 Chevy Cavalier, right?
A. Yes.
Q. And this was in 2009, right, that this was going on?
A. In 2008.
Q. Excuse me, 2008. So the car would have been ten years
old then, right?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay. A ten-year-old Chevy Cavalier, and you told us
the engine didn’t work; is that right?
A. Yeah, as I told Mr. Esquivel, yes.
Q. Did the engine even exist? Was there an engine –A.
It was in there, yeah, just –Q.
It didn’t work?
A. –-didn’t feel too good, yeah.
Q. Car was inoperable, right?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Okay. All right, as far as the value of that car, did
you guys sit down and look it up or –A.
No, he stated that his lawyers just need collateral,

and he would give $2,000 for that title.
Q. Okay, again, a number that Mr. Esquivel just chose on
his own, right?
A. He stated it to me, and I said, “Of course.”
Q. Okay. All right, and with respect to efforts to get
your –-again, what we’ll call an “investment” for purposes of
today. With respect to getting your investment back, you told
us you tried several times?
A. Yes.
Q. Would you elaborate on that, please.
A. In what regards?
Q. How did you try to get it back?
A. Phone calls, multiple emails. I spoke with a lawyer.
Told me to write an email stating the provision that it says
that I can receive it back by December 31 st of 2009. I wrote an
email asking just for the amount back.
Q. These are emails to who?
A. Mr. Esquivel.
Q. Okay, do you have those emails still?
A. On my account I do.
Q. Did you provide them to Mr. Sweet, the investigator in
this case?
A. I don’t believe so.
Q. Okay. Take –-I’m not –-take a guess, how many times
did you –-did you try?

A.
Between five and ten.
Q.
Okay, and they were all by email?
A.
Yes.
Q.
Did you receive responses to any of these emails?
A. I received a few saying –-you know, attacking my
religion and using explicit language towards me saying I won’t
–-I won’t see it back. Get a lawyer.
Q. Okay, and those were emails that you didn’t see fit to
present to the investigator in this case?
A. I may have presented. It was quite a long time ago.
I don’t think I was asked for them either.
Q. Haven’t you been approached by individuals requesting
to pay you back this money?
A.
To me personally? Not to me personally.
Q.
You’ve never been approached about repayment of your–A.
I have heard rumors of them speaking to the other two
gentlemen that they wanted to buy us out; and we had given them
time frames and the amounts, and nothing ever materialized.
Q.
Okay, no personal contact from a Steve Klemark?
A.
No, not to me.
Q.
Or an Alan Brady?
A.
Not to me.
Q.
Or a Shar Jenkins or –A.
No, not to me. They were, according to the other two–THE
COURT: Just tell me what you know personally.

THE WITNESS: What I know personally is that they told
Ryion –THE
COURT: No, no, no.
THE WITNESS: Oh, sorry.
Q. BY MR. HOLJE: What you know.
A. Oh, no, I didn’t. They never contacted me.
Q. Okay. Didn’t you approach Mr. Esquivel in an email
one time asking for $90,000 in return?
A. I did.
Q. Okay, and that was based on your investment of $6,000
cash, right?
A. Yeah, that was based on multiple things. It was based
on the amount that he said he sold the company for three or
four months prior, that I had not received any payment for. So
he was asking for my buyout.
Q. Okay, and nothing in writing that you’re aware of
entitling you to $90,000 or anything?
A. With my calculation, it was my buyout. He did say
to me on the phone –-I said, “I need the money. I need to
be bought out,” and he said, “Well, I could probably get you
$90,000, you know, by tomorrow or the next day; but if you hang
onto this, it would be worth a lot more.” So that email was
referring to the conversation we had, “I’ll take the $90,000,
and you know, you can buy me out.”
Q. You mentioned that Mr. Esquivel never told you affirm

atively that X-Tag was a Utah business, right?
A. Not that I recall.
Q. Did he mention that it was a Wyoming business?
A. No, he did not.
Q. That it was a business incorporated in any state at
all?
A. No.
Q. Have you subsequently learned –-or I mean, in the two
years that you worked closely with him did you learn whether or
not it was incorporated in any state?
A. It was –-I didn’t –-not from his voice. No, not
from his mouth. I had assumed it was, because it’s X-Tag
Incorporated he said he invented in Utah. So that’s my
assumption.
Q. Okay, but working as a certain percent owner of X-Tag,
you never looked to see whether it was in fact a real company
or not?
A. I didn’t, nor did I have the opportunity. He never
gave me any –-any ability to look over the records or the
finances or any part of that dealings.
Q. Just finally, with respect to –-let’s go back to
the very beginning when you had a conversation in the gym, in
Anytime Fitness. You’ve told us about certain representations
that were made about the Oprah Winfrey show and Google buyouts
and things of that nature. You didn’t invest right after you

heard those things, right?
A. No, it was –-that was on a Saturday. I invested on
a Monday.
Q. Did you in the meantime speak to an attorney?
A. No.
Q. You told us before that you invested after an attorney
told you this was worth 50,000.
A. That was in regard to the 1 percent.
Q. Okay, so timewise about what, two months later; is
that accurate?
A. I invested in February. I think there’s a copy of my
check that I gave for the 1 percent was in the end of May.
Q. Okay.
A. Or the beginning of June.
Q. Okay, and in the meantime, between those three months
did you do any investigating on your own about X-Tagged or did
you talk to Mr. Esquivel about Oprah or any of those –A.
He would make remarks saying, for numerous reasons I
can’t remember, “It’s been postponed.” “It’s been postponed.”
There was always a reason it never –-never came to fruition.
So he continued to dangle the carrot in front of our –-in
front of my face, and I believed because I’m a –-I’m a trustworthy
person and I believed him.
Q. Okay, just relied on him, didn’t do any investigating
on your own; is that –

A. I played on the website, and it was built, and I
looked at it. I talked to his lawyer, which in fact gave me
a closure that this was a legitimate company.
Q. Okay, and you told us that you were a percent owner of
X-Tagged. At what point did you decide that you were not? You
also told us you don’t believe you’re a –A.
Oh, I don’t –-well, I don’t –-I don’t believe the
company is a legitimate company or a profitable company. I
don’t know if it’s even registered anywhere; but at the point
that I –-even if it was, the point that I thought that I was
not is when I questioned some of the things that he had been
saying about certain people buying the company, it being sold,
being jerked around side-to-side. As soon as I questioned
him, he blew up, started swearing, got angry, told me to get
a lawyer.
Q. Okay, and just finally, Mr. Cluff, you’ve told us that
you didn’t read that convertible promissory note, so if you
don’t know the answer to this, just say so. It directs you in
very specific terms on how to request that you be –-that you
get your money back. Did you follow through with any of those
specifics?
A. Like I said, my father got me in touch with his
lawyer, and he looked over the contract, and he told me it
was more than appropriate to use an email to request the
provision of the money to be returned, plus interest, within

a 30 day time frame, and I sent that.
Q. Okay, and could I direct your attention to paragraph
13 of that. Does your paragraph 13 on the State’s Exhibit 3 in
front of you say notices?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, and does it give some addresses there?
A. It does.
Q. Okay, addresses on where letters are to be sent to
make certain things happen?
A. It was.
Q. Okay, but you didn’t write any letters to those
addresses, right?
A. He was no longer at that address.
Q. Okay, how do you know?
A. Because he told me he was in –-I was still on good
terms with him while he left to Colorado –Q.
Okay.
A. –-and I could not find –-he would not give a new
address to contact him. So the lawyer said an email would
suffice.
MR. HOLJE: All right, that’s all the questions I have
for your Honor.
THE COURT: Thank you. Mr. Lyon.
MR. LYON: Just a few followup, your Honor.
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REDIRECT EXAMINATION
BY MR. LYON:
Q. Did the defendant ever tell you whether he was licensed
to sell securities in the State of Utah?
A. He never said.
Q. When discussing your investment with the defendant
orally, were there any discussions about risks and the risk
that you might be taking by investing in X-Tag?
A. He stated none.
Q. Okay, just so we’re clear, did he –-tell us, did he
specifically tell you there was no risk associated with X-Tag,
or tell us exactly –A.
All that he told me was that it was on the verge of
turning public and becoming, as I said, 30 to $40 immediately,
and it will go above Google, which was 500 and something, and
it was on that verge. Everything was ready. He was getting
ready to prepare for the Oprah Winfrey show. The site was up.
I looked at it. With all those things in hand, I believed it
was a legitimate –-legitimate company.
Q. Okay, and Mr. Woolsey has directed your attention to
the convertible promissory note, the paragraph and the language
that discussed the risk associated with investment.
A. Yes.
Q. Did you have any discussions with him, with the
defendant with regard to any of the risks associated with the

investment?
A. He never mentioned any risk. It was all positive.
Q. Did the defendant ever tell you how your 4,000 –-your
initial 4,000 buy in and then your other –-your second buy in,
how that –-how that was related to the –-let me start over.
With regards to your first investment of $4,000, that was equal
to how much –-what percentage in the company?
A. He never stated. It was just 4,000 shares.
Q. Okay, he never said whether that’s a percent, half
percent, 10 percent?
A. No.
Q. Did the defendant ever contact you with regards to –and
inform you that the company had been sold?
A. He had.
Q. Tell us when the first time that happened.
A. He had contacted me multiple times. Not necessary
that the company was sold, on those terms, but that he had
given part of it to different combinations of companies, and
he had stated that “You’re a millionaire. We’re all done. We
don’t have to do anymore work, you know. They’re going to take
it from here.” He did, however, on December I believe it was
2009, close to Christmas, he contacted me and said that they
sold the company in its entirety.
Q. Did they say to whom?
A. He told me it was Donald Trump that bought it.

Q. When you were first looking at investing the –-I
guess it would be the February, the springtime of 2008, did he
give you an initial date of when the company would go public?
A. When he –-when we were speaking, even when I called
him to buy the shares, he didn’t even know if –-he thought it
was public at the time, so he said it was on the verge.
Q. Now, would –-with regards to the judgments against
the defendant, would that –-had you known the defendant had
those problems with credit in the past, would that have
influenced your decision in investing in X-Tagged?
A.
Absolutely.
MR. LYON: Nothing further.
THE COURT: Anything else?
MR. HOLJE: No, your Honor.
THE COURT: Thank you, Mr. Cluff, you may step down.
This witness be excused?
MR. HOLJE: As far as we’re concerned.
MR. LYON: Yeah.
THE COURT: Hearing nothing –MR.
LYON: Oh, I’m sorry, what did you say?
MR. HOLJE: I said as far as we’re concerned, that’s
okay.
MR. LYON: Oh, okay.
THE COURT: You may be excused, Mr. Cluff.
Your next witness.

MR. LYON: Okay, your Honor, the State calls Christopher
Engelbrecht.
COURT CLERK: You do solemnly swear that the testimony
you are about to give in this case before the Court will now –in
this case now before the Court will be the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
THE WITNESS: (Inaudible).
THE COURT: Go ahead.
CHRISTOPHER PAUL ENGELBRECHT,
having been first duly sworn,
testified as follows:
DIRECT EXAMINATION
BY MR. LYON:
Q. Please state your name for the record, spelling your
last name.
A. Yes, Christopher Paul Engelbrecht, E-n-g-e-l-b-r-e-ch-
t.
Q. Mr. Engelbrecht, correct?
A. Correct.
Q. Back in the fall of 2008 were you the owner of Anytime
Fitness in Bountiful?
A. I was.
Q. In the time frame of about –-during the year of 2008
did you meet the defendant?
A. I did.

Q. Tell us when you first met him.
A. Andy came into the facility on –-in February to look
at a membership.
Q. Did you have contact with him that first time he came
in?
A. I did not.
Q. When did you meet with him?
A. I would guess it would be the second time.
Q. Tell us how the two of you met.
A. Andy came into my office to, what I assumed, talk
about a gym membership.
Q. When he comes into your office, do you initially start
talking about a gym membership?
A. The conversation was more short talk, you know,
personal, “How are you doing?” Then Andy, at that point,
had a lanyard of some sort around his neck, which then had
some digits on it, and the conversation took a turn for that.
Q. Okay, and was that lanyard dealing with X-Tagged?
A. It was.
Q. Tell us about your conversation that you had about the
company.
A. Excuse me. Andy proceeded to explain to me that it
was a company that he had invented that is designed to give
security to the Internet, keeping pedophiles, rapists, things
of that nature off of the social sites, such as Facebook and

MySpace.
Q. Did he tell you what phase the company was as far as
development? Was it –A.
He at that point explained to me that they were on the
verge of going public, and that they were going to put their –at
that point have stock in the company.
Q. Did he–at any point in time during your conversation
did he –-did the conversation turn towards an investment in
the company?
A. Yes, the conversation did take that direction, and –excuse
me, but it was a conversation that dealt with, “Hurry
up, we’re about to go public; and if you’re going to invest,
you need to make a decision.”
Q. How was that communicated to you, this hurry up and
decide?
A. Each time I spoke with Andy, he would basically say,
“We’re on the verge. We’re about a week away from going public.
So right now is the best time to get in, because once it converts
over, you’ll be a millionaire.”
Q. Okay, so are you talking about subsequent conversations
you’ve had with him, too, other than this first conversation?
A. They would be, you know, as he –-he came into the gym
one other time, and yes, that’s where the conversation went as
well.
Q. Okay, and just for right now, let’s focus on that

first conversation that you had with the defendant. When he’s
explaining the company, does he make any indication whether
individuals are interested in purchasing the company?
A. Yes, he told –-he told me that Michael Jordan was
looking at purchasing the company. He was going to be on the
Oprah Winfrey show because of it, and that he also mentioned
that it was going to be bigger than Google.
Q. Did he indicate –-did he tell you whether he was
planning on meeting with any other major –-I guess you could
say –-computer based companies?
A. What I can recollect right now is Google. Oh, wait, I
apologize, in regards to MySpace.
Q. Did he tell you whether –-what the price of X-Tag’s
stock was going to be after it went public?
A. Not a direct quote. He just continued to say it was
going to be worth millions. It’s going to be bigger than
Google.
Q. Now, on this first occasion that you meet with him, do
you make any decisions as to whether you want to invest or not?
A. No, I do not.
Q. Did you have a second –-or subsequent conversations
with the defendant?
A. Only through phone, telephone.
Q. Tell us about those conversations.
A. The last time I spoke with him before investing, he

said that they are within the next couple of days going public.
He’s not sure if I can still invest, but he will check it out,
and that at this point that I should probably just move forward
and invest, so that way –-and he’ll work something out.
Q. Did you make a decision as to whether you wanted to
invest or not?
A. Yes, at that point I –-what I had done is I called
Kyle to verify a few things, as he had spoke with his lawyer to
get some clarification; and it was at that point that I made
the decision to invest.
Q. How much did you initially invest?
A. 2,000.
Q. Now, when you spoke with the defendant about your
investment, did he talk to you about the risks associated?
A. No, it was all positive when he spoke to me.
Q. Did he –-as per your agreement and your oral agreement,
did you –-was there –-was there any decision as to
whether you could get your money back?
A. When he spoke to us, he basically made it look as
though there was nothing to be worried about. It was a win/win
situation, because verbally he had said to me that I would get
a 12 percent return on that after the given date. So it would
be no less than having money in a bank with interest.
Q. When you say “it,” under what circumstances would you
get your money back?

A. At the end of a specific period, which was the 2009
December.
Q. Just so we’re clear, you would get that money –-your
investment back plus 12 percent. Were there –-is that even if
the company had gone public?
A. That was –-yes, that would have been –-that was the
understanding that I had, yes.
Q. Did you have any conversations with him about X-Tagged
and its affiliation with the Utah Division of Motor Vehicles?
A. Yes, I did. He had said to me that they were working
to partner with the DMV for their license plate database, and
it would be unbelievably huge. He also mentioned that he was
looking at giving them 51 percent of the company.
Q. All right, Mr. Engelbrecht, I’m showing you State’s
Exhibit 2. Do you recognize that?
A. Yes, I do.
Q. What is it?
A. This is the convertible promissory note that we had
done for this –-the investment of $2,000.
Q. Who signed that?
A. That was signed by my wife, Melissa.
Q. Were you present at that time?
A. I was not.
Q. Do you recognize the signature on the back there?
A. Of my wife, yes.

Q. That’s her signature?
A. Yes, it is.
Q. Did you have subsequent conversations with the defendant
regarding this note?
A. Excuse me?
Q. Did you have subse –-after you executed this –-I
think it’s called a convertible promissory note –A.
Convertible promissory note.
Q. –-did you have subsequent conversations with the
defendant regarding the investment of $2,000?
A. At that point, no, I did not.
Q. Did the defendant make any indication to you whether
X-Tagged was patented?
A. Yes, he had said it was.
Q. Had the defendant disclosed to you about a judgment
in 2003 for $3,075.62?
A. No, he did not.
Q. Did he discuss –-disclose to you prior to your
investment about a judgment against him in 1999 for $5,597.60?
A. No, he did not.
Q. Similarly did he disclose to you about a judgment he
received against him for $1,537.69 in 1999?
A. He did not.
Q. Did he disclose to you he was not licensed to sell
securities in Utah?

A. No, he did not.
Q. During your conversations with him about X-Tagged, did
he make any indication as to X-Tagged being a Utah company?
A. No, he did not.
Q. Had you known about the prior judgments and he was
not licensed to sell securities, would that have changed your
decision in investing in X-Tagged?
A. 100 percent.
Q. Prior to receiving that promissory note, had you
received any disclosures as to risks associated with investment
in X-Tagged?
A. No, I did not.
Q. Now, in the fall of 2008 do you have a conversation
with the defendant about signing any documents to convert
stock?
A. Yes, I did.
Q. Tell us about that.
A. He called me concerning doing this conversion, and he
wanted me at that point to come over to his sushi restaurant.
I told him when I got off from the gym I would. I didn’t get
off until around 10 o’clock. At that point I called him, and
he said that he had already taken care of it, signed the
documents, and everything is taken care of.
Q. Did you in fact ever receive any stock in X-Tagged?
A. I did not.

Q.
Have you tried to receive your money back?
A.
Yes, I did.
Q.
Have you been successful in that?
A.
No, I have not.
MR. LYON: The State moves to admit Exhibit 2.
MR. HOLJE: No objection.
THE COURT: Thank you. I’ll receive it.
(Exhibit No. 2 received into evidence)
MR. LYON: Nothing further, your Honor.
CROSS EXAMINATION
BY MR. HOLJE:
Q.
Okay, Mr. Engelbrecht, you’re a business owner, right?
A.
I was, yes.
Q.
You were, okay. When did you sell?
A.
November of last year.
Q. Okay. All right, so at all times that we’re talking
about here, you were a business owner, right?
A.
Correct.
Q. All right, I’m sure as a business owner you understand
the concept of risk, right?
A.
Ido.
Q. Isn’t it –-in your opinion isn’t it kind of an oxymoron
to have an investment without risk?
A.
Yes.
Q.
Your testimony was that Mr. Esquivel said there is no

risk; is that accurate, or –
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, he affirmatively said that, or just you guys
never talked about it?
A. No, he said that in my office.
Q. That there is no risk in this?
A. Correct, he believed in karma.
Q. Okay, as a business owner did any red flags go off or
any bells and whistles in your head?
A. At that point, no, when it had to deal with a return.
Q. I’m sorry?
A. When it had to deal with a return that I would receive
at the end.
Q. Okay, so I’m not even sure I understand that, but
you –-your decision to invest was based on conversations
that talked about Oprah Winfrey and Google and things of that
nature; is that –A.
Yes, and he also mentioned the return that we would
receive at the end of the investment.
Q. How about –-you’re friends with Kyle Cluff, right?
A. That is correct.
Q. Okay, how about the conversations you had with Kyle
Cluff and representations from his attorney?
A. What question are we asking?
Q. You relied on those before investing; is that accurate?

A. Correct.
Q. Okay. This promissory note, convertible promissory
note, did you read it before signing it?
A. I did not.
Q. As a business owner, was that kind of the normal way
you do business or –A.
No.
Q. What made this one different?
A. I was not there.
Q. Okay. Is your name on it?
A. My name is written in as “Chris.”
Q. Okay, that’s your name, right, Chris?
A. That is.
Q. Okay. All right. You said it was signed by your
wife, right?
A. Correct.
Q. Okay. Has your wife made any efforts to get her money
back or get —-make contact with X-Tagged?
A. No.
Q. Okay. Did your wife read it before signing?
A. I cannot answer that.
Q. Okay. Did you have any independent verification
from an attorney, specifically Jason Webb, about the value of
X-Tagged?
A. I did not.

Q. Did you rely on any representations from an attorney
given to your friends about the value of X-Tagged?
A. I did.
Q. Okay. You’ve been –-you were here when I questioned
Mr. Cluff, right?
A. Yes.
Q. The –-I think the testimony was that this Jason Webb
said it would be worth $50,000; a 1 percent share was worth
50,000, right?
A. Correct.
Q. Was that information that was in your head at the time
you invested?
A. That’s what Kyle had told me.
Q. Okay, and that attorney, to your knowledge –-I understand
you didn’t speak to him, but to your knowledge, was he
sort of saying this was a legitimate company?
A. Yes.
Q. Subsequent to making an investment did you do any
independent investigation about whether or not X-Tagged was
incorporated in Utah or where it was incorporated or anything
like that?
A. No.
Q. Okay, did you ever hear anything through the grapevine
about that?
A. Not until a month ago.

Q. Okay. You told us that you asked for your money back,
right?
A. I did.
Q. Again, can –-can you elaborate on the efforts you
went through to get a money back?
A. In December 2009 I, one, sent an email to Andy directly
asking for it back. I received no reply; and two, I sent a
certified letter to the address on the contract, and that was
sent back as a return.
Q. Undeliverable?
A. Correct.
Q. Any reason why? I mean, no forwarding address, things
like that?
A. No forwarding address; and if I remember correctly,
address is no longer there, or something of that nature.
Q. Okay, so just those two things, right; an email with
no response and a letter that was unsuccessful?
A. Correct.
Q. Okay, and what efforts did you go through after that,
or how did you get here after that point?
A. How do I –-to this point here?
Q. Right.
A. Well, at that point, that’s when I went and visited
Mr. Sweet.
Q. Okay, on your initiation or were you contacted? In

other words –
A. No, it was on my initiation.
Q. Okay. Didn’t you also make a police report on this
matter?
A. No, I don’t –-I don’t recollect.
Q. You don’t recollect if you met with the Bountiful
police?
A. At this point I can’t remember.
Q. Okay. After sending an email or sending a letter,
haven’t you been contacted by numerous individuals about
repayment?
A. No, I have not.
Q. Ever in your life?
A. Not directly from them, no.
Q. Indirectly?
A. Explain.
Q. Well, did anybody talk to your wife, or did anybody
talk to your friend and say, “Pass the word onto Chris,” or –A.
Yes, through friends, not through my wife.
Q. Okay, if you’d explain that, please.
A. From what I understood, they would give a payment to
us, but there was no –-that I understood, there was no leading
time. There was nothing that took place in order for that to
happen.
Q. Okay, so you personally have never been contacted by a

Steve Klemark?
A. I was recently contacted, I think it was by Steve, as
of about two weeks ago.
Q. Okay.
A. But it wasn’t concerning payment. It was to sit down
and go over information that he said I needed to know.
Q. Okay, was that the first contact you’d ever had with
him?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, what about an Alan Brady?
A. No.
Q. No contact from him; or a Shar Jenkins?
A. Actually there were emails –-I apologize, there were
emails just recently sent as of –-just as recent. I apologize,
my mind was thinking in the past, but there were emails sent
speaking with apparently his lawyer for me to try and gain
payment back. They said that I would be paid back.
There was a picture of a check with my name on it
for $2,000. There were text messages at that point that were
–-or I apologize, emails that were sent, and me requesting
that it would be the amount plus interest, and they informed
me, whomever I was speaking with via email, that I would be
paid back. I needed to work through his lawyer, Mr. Martinez,
and all communication at that point fell off. I had never
received nothing more.

Q. Okay, and can you put a time frame on this for us?
A. To my remembering would have been the December time
frame.
Q. Of 2011?
A. That’s correct.
Q. So that we’re clear here, your testimony is that
those efforts we’ve just talked about, those communications
we’ve just talked about via email and directing you to contact
lawyers and that, that’s the first contact you’ve ever had
about getting repayment, is just –A.
Other than from Kyle and speaking with him, I have
never had any type of direct contact, other than that, that I
can remember.
Q. Okay. Okay, if you’ll bear with me, we can probably
–-I think a lot of this has been covered. The only other
thing, just by way of clarification, I think you mentioned,
like Mr. Cluff did, that there was a representation made to
you about the DMV participating in this idea of X-Tagged,
right? Do you remember that?
A. Yes.
Q. That representation was specifically –-I think the
way you worded it was he was in the process of working with
them; is that –-did I get that right?
A. That’s correct.
Q. Okay, not that there was any sort of affirmative deal

in place, but that that was an effort that was being made; is
that right?
A.
That’s correct.
Q. Did you ever follow up with Mr. Esquivel about some
of the things you’ve testified to with respect to interested
parties and X-Tagged, people like Michael Jordan or Google or
any of them?
A.
No, I did not.
Q. Okay. Did you have any sort of –-did you think that
you were an owner of X-Tagged?
A.
No.
Q. Did you make any efforts to direct its affairs or, you
know, give ideas and input on it?
A.
No.
Q. Essentially is it –-is it fair to say that your buddy
Kyle made an investment and thought it was good, and you jumped
onboard?
A.
Yes.
MR. HOLJE: That’s all the questions I have.
THE COURT: Thank you, Counsel. Mr. Lyon?
MR. LYON: I’ve got nothing further from this witness.
THE COURT: Okay, thank you, Mr. Engelbrecht, you may
step down.
Your next witness?
MR. LYON: Similarly, your Honor, may he be excused?

THE COURT: Yes.
MR. LYON: You’re free to stay or go.
The State calls Ryion Butcher.
COURT CLERK: You do solemnly swear that the testimony
you are about to give in the case now before the Court will be
the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help
you God?
THE WITNESS: Yes.
RYION BUTCHER,
having been first duly sworn,
testified as follows:
DIRECT EXAMINATION
BY MR. LYON:
Q. Okay, Mr. Butcher, could you please state your name
for the record –A.
Yes.
Q. –-spelling your first and last name.
A. It’s Ryion Butcher, R-y-I-o-n B-u-t-c-h-e-r.
Q. Mr. Butcher, were you employed at Performax Gyms in
Clearfield in 2009?
A. Yes, I was.
Q. During that time did you work with Mr. Cluff?
A. Yes.
Q. Who testified here today?
A. Uh-huh.

Q. At the time, Mr. Cluff was also working at Anytime
Fitness?
A. That’s correct.
Q. In your discussions and interactions with Mr. Cluff,
did you ever have any discussions about X-Tagged?
A. Yes.
Q. At any point in time did the defendant come into
Performax Gyms and have any discussions with you about X-
Tagged?
A. Yes, he did. He came in.
Q. Could you tell us when that happened.
A. That happened April 2009.
Q. Tell us about this first encounter you’ve had with
the defendant.
A. Yes, he was coming in to talk about the company and
meet with Logan Laws and Kyle.
Q. Okay, and Logan Laws is another individual that
happened to invest?
A. Yes, he was an 18-year-old kid that invested.
Q. Was this meeting set up by Mr. Cluff?
A. I believe it was set up by Mr. Esquivel.
Q. Okay, and so Mr. Esquivel was coming to meet with
Mr. Laws; you just happened to kind of sit in on the meeting?
A. Yes, they –Q.
Okay, during that meeting the defendant talked about

X-Tagged?
A. Yes.
Q. Could you tell us what he told you in describing the
company.
A. Yes, he told us about this new social networking
company. That it was going to be bigger than all the current
social networking companies out there.
Q. Specifically?
A. Google and –-well, I mean, Facebook and MySpace.
Q. Did he explain the company to you?
A. Yes, he was –-he talked about how they used the
license plates to verify individuals that it was really them
that were on the social networking site. That you would have
to get your picture taken with your license plate, and therefore
it would verify you that you’re that person.
Q. Now, did he tell you whether there were individuals
wanting to purchase X-Tagged?
A. Yes. He said that Google was interested in purchasing
X-Tagged. He was talking about a meeting with them within the
next two weeks.
Q. Did he give a price that investors were willing to pay
for X-Tagged?
A. Yeah, he was throwing all sorts of numbers around. He
said upwards for $500,000,000 to $1,000,000,000.
Q. Did he make reference to one Hugh Hefner being

interested?
A. Yes, he says he turned Hugh Hefner down. He also
stated that he was going on the Oprah show.
Q. Now, in this contacts did he indicate to you whether
there was an opportunity to buy into the company?
A. Yes, the said there was a half of a percent left in
the company, and it was the last half percent, and that if I
wanted in, I better act quickly, because there were so many
investors in line looking at buying this last half percent up.
Q. Did you in fact –-let’s see, did he tell you what
that percent would be worth?
A. Yes, he said it was currently worth $50,000.
Q. Did he explain to you how that’s worth –A.
No.
Q. –-$50,000? Did he explain what it would be worth
in the near future?
A. Yes, after –-well, after that, that meeting, and
after I invested it seemed like every single week the amount,
the price of it kept going up every single week.
Q. Okay, let’s just talk –A.
Okay.
Q. –-Mr. Butcher, just as to this first meeting –A.
Okay.
Q. –-did you in fact invest in the company then?
A. Yes.

Q. How much did you put in?
A. I put in 25,000 –-I mean, $2,500 at first.
Q. He was wanting to sell half a percent for $5,000; is
that correct?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, and so tell us how you put in $2,500 as opposed
to 5.
A. Yes. Well, he said that if I would just pay the 25
for the half percent, and that I would kind of help out, then
that would make up for the rest.
Q. Okay, now at this time did the defendant tell you
whether X-Tag was patented?
A. Yes.
Q. Did he tell you whether it was an LLC in Utah?
A. No.
Q. Did he tell you whether it was a business in Utah?
A. Yes.
Q. Did he explain to you whether there was any sort of
affiliation between the Department of Motor Vehicles and X-Tag?
A. Yes.
Q. What did he tell you?
A. He said that they were onboard with X-Tagged.
Q. When you say “onboard,” what does that mean?
A. That they were going to –-they were going to be a
part of X-Tagged and authorize the use of people’s license

plate, getting their help with X-Tag and making it safe.
Q. Okay, when –-and did he explain how that –-the
interaction between X-Tagged and the DMV was going to take
place?
A. No.
Q. Now, when you make your initial $2,500 investment, do
you remember what day?
A. Yeah, I believe –-I can’t remember the specific day.
Q. All right, well, let me just see if I can help refresh
your recollection. I’m showing you what’s been marked as
State’s Exhibit No. 4. Do you recognize that?
A. Yes.
Q. Tell us what you’re looking at.
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A. April 7 , 2009, a check for $2,500 made out to X-Tag.
Q. That’s your check?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, and that’s the first investment you make?
A. That’s correct.
Q. Okay, and did you receive –-in exchange for the
$2,500 did you receive anything?
A. Yes, I got a –-I have a document saying that –Q.
Okay.
A. –-I would receive 50 –-50,000 shares.
Q. Okay, and I’m showing you –-this is all part of one
exhibit; but can you tell us what you’re looking at there?

A. Basically my investment paper –Q.
Okay.
A. –-of 100,000. That was 100,000.
Q. Okay, and so –-okay, and from whom did you receive
that investment papers?
A. Mr. Esquivel.
Q. Okay, now after giving the first $2,500 were you
again approached by the defendant as to another investment
opportunity?
A. Yes, he said –Q.
When did that happen?
A. Just shortly after. About probably two weeks.
Q. Okay, tell us what happened.
A. He contacted me again and said that another half
percent became available.
Q. Were you interested in purchasing another half
percent?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you in fact make another investment?
A. Yes.
Q. How much was the second one for?
A. For $2,500.
Q. Again, referring to what’s been marked as Exhibit 4,
do you recognize these?
A. Yes.

Q. Can you tell us what they are?
A. It’s my second investment of $2,500, and another
certificate saying that I own 50,000 shares.
MR. LYON: Okay, State moves to admit Exhibit 4.
MR. HOLJE: No objection.
THE COURT: Thank you. Just 4? They’re all the same
exhibit?
MR. HOLJE: They’ve all –-for the record, there are –Exhibit
4 has four documents within it.
THE COURT: Thank you. I’ll receive 4 with the four
documents.
(Exhibit No. 4 received into evidence)
Q. BY MR. LYON: Now, Mr. Butcher, in your conversations
with Mr. Esquivel, at any point in time did he let you know
that he had a judgment against him in 2003 for $3,075.62?
A. No.
Q. Did he let you know he had a judgment against him in
1999 for $5,597.60?
A. No.
Q. Did he let you know that he had a judgment against him
in 1999 for $1,537.69?
A. No.
Q. Did he ever have a conversation with you about the
risks associated with investment?
A. No.

Q. Did he ever let you know –-have a conversation with
you that you could get your money back if things didn’t work
out, things didn’t go public?
A. Yes.
Q. Tell us about that.
A. Yes, he told us that rest assured that anytime we
wanted out, he would give us our money back with 12 percent
interest.
Q. Did he give you a date as when you could get that
back?
A. He said anytime, because he –-he mentioned that he
had investors lined up, and any one of them would gladly jump
on that, that percent and buy it up for more than what I had
paid for it.
Q. Did you at anytime in fact try to exercise that right
and get your investment back?
A. Yes.
Q. Tell us when that happened.
A. That happened within probably a month later. I
approached Mr. Esquivel and I said, “You know what, things
aren’t going too well. I’m getting ready to purchase a house.
I could really use my money back. Could I get that back?” and
he said, “Absolutely.” He goes, “I have an investor that’s
willing to pay $50,000 right now for it, so it will only be
helping X-Tag, but yeah, I’ll give you your money.” Then he

stated he would give me that money Monday.
Q.
Did you in fact receive your money back?
A. No, and then he told me I’d receive it on Wednesday.
Then he just kept dragging it out and out and out further and
further and further.
Q. At any time did the defendant let you know that he was
not licensed to sell securities in Utah?
A.
No time did he ever.
Q. Other than those –-as part as what’s been received as
4, we’ve got those two documents memorializing the investment
you made, did you receive any other written explanation as to
the risks associated with investing in X-Tagged?
A.
No.
MR. LYON: Nothing further.
THE COURT: Thank you.
CROSS EXAMINATION
BY MR. HOLJE:
Q. So, Mr. Butcher, is it true that the only documents
you were given throughout this entire ordeal were those that
have been presented as State’s Exhibit 4?
A.
Yes.
Q. Okay, you didn’t –-unlike your friends, you didn’t
receive a convertible promissory note?
A.
No.
Q.
Okay, and I just –-for the record we need to clarify

a couple things. If I could direct your attention to the
consent of all members of the Board of Directors dated
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April 7 , I think you have that one in front of you?
A. It’s right here.
Q. Oh, excuse me. That one mentions, does it not,
Mr. Butcher, that you were being granted 150,000 shares, and
then parentheses 100,000; is that right?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, do you –-do you know which is accurate?
A. The –-well, let’s see.
Q. In other words, the wording says 150 –A.
Yes, the wording –-he mixed up the wording.
Q. Do you know which is accurate?
A. For the 1 percent, it’s 100,000 for half it’s 50.
Q. Okay, and with respect to what’s being given in
exchange for that, this document dated April 7th says $5,000;
is that right?
A. Yes.
Q. Is that what your copy says?
A. My total investment is 5,000, uh-huh.
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Q. Okay, but on 4/7 of ‘09, on April 7 , you didn’t give
him $,000, right?
A. No, no.
Q. Okay. At no point did you, in a single episode, give
him $5,000?

A. No, it was –Q.
Okay.
A. –-two separate instances.
Q. Okay, with respect to the other one dated 4/7 –-4/16,
actually, of 2009, if I could direct your attention as well
to the amount given, the wording there says $5,000 was given,
right? I’m looking at the one dated April 16 th of ‘09.
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, does that say that you gave him $5,000?
A. Yes, total I’ve given him $5,000.
Q. Okay, but not on that occasion, right?
A. No.
Q. In fact, in parentheses it says 2,500, right?
A. Uh-huh.
Q. Okay. All right, I just wanted to put that on the
record –A.
Okay.
Q. –-to make sure that was –-that that was clear. Did
you believe you were an owner of X-Tagged?
A. No.
Q. Were you ever told you were an owner or –A.
He would say –-he would say that we are, but we
really had no say in anything to do with X-Tag.
Q. You were –-this document that you signed here, the
ones that –-the two documents we’ve been talking about, they

call you the business associate, right?
A. Uh-huh.
Q. Okay, and they say that you will be taking an active
roll in the business of the corporation, right?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay. You have promoted yourself as the X-Tagged
representative of Utah, right?
A. That’s the title he gave me.
Q. Okay.
A. Which I have no idea what it even means.
Q. Okay, did you –-didn’t you do a You Tube video sort
of promoting X-Tagged?
A. Yes, we did a funny –-promoting the stickers –Q.
Okay.
A. –-that he goes around and puts on cars.
Q. Okay, and you –-you represented yourself to the world
through the Internet that you were the Utah representative of
X-Tagged, right?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, as that Utah representative of X-Tagged, what
was your role?
A. Basically just wanted me to help with things. For
instance, we wanted to change his website, make it better,
and so we were –-I was actively engaged in helping him fight,
somebody to do that and also do a promotional –-like a video

on how to use the X-Tag website.
Q. Is it fair to say marketing, you were –A.
Yes.
Q. –-involved in marketing X-Tagged in Utah?
A. Uh-huh.
Q. Didn’t you represent to Mr. Esquivel or others
involved in X-Tagged that you had a marketing degree?
A. No.
Q. At any time?
A. Not at any time.
Q. Are you aware of anybody suggesting that you did have
a marketing degree?
A. Some people might assume that, just because that’s
what I did at Performax. I would go marketing the gym.
Q. Okay.
A. So some people may interpret that as I must have a
marketing degree, but I do not.
Q. Your sworn testimony is you’ve never told anyone that
you did?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay.
A. I never told anyone.
Q. Okay. How long did you act as the –-or are you still
acting as the Utah representative of X-Tagged?
A. No, I recent –-I found out quite quickly, started to

do my homework on Mr. Esquivel, and started to find out a lot
of the things that he had been telling us were in fact lies.
Q. How long would you say you acted in that roll?
A. Two weeks.
Q. Okay, so all in –-I think you told us you provided
money in April, early April of 2009?
A. Yeah.
Q. Right.
A. Because I started getting suspicious pretty quick.
Q. Okay, are you aware of the date of the video that you
sent out or –A.
No, sir.
Q. Okay. All right, so you met in–-you met Mr. Esquivel
at a –-at a different gym than the one we’ve previously been
discussing, right? It wasn’t Anytime Fitness?
A. That’s correct.
Q. Okay, and when you met him, were either Kyle Cluff or
Chris Engelbrecht there?
A. Kyle was.
Q. Kyle was there as well?
A. Uh-huh.
Q. Okay, and his experience, did that inform your –-your
desire to meet with Mr. Esquivel?
A. No, it was after sitting down with Mr. Esquivel that I
was –-I became interested.

Q. Okay. Just purely out of curiosity when he walked in
the door you wanted to meet, or did Kyle say, “Hey, do you want
to sit down and meet?”
A. Yeah, just I wasn’t doing anything at the time, and
they were all going to meet, and so –Q.
Okay.
A. –-I went and sat in.
Q. Okay, now so that we’re clear, I mean, your buddies
had given him money almost a year earlier, right?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, were you aware of that at the time?
A. At that time, yes.
Q. Okay. What we’ve heard here today in testimony is
that Mr. Esquivel talked about going on Oprah Winfrey as early
as March or February of 2008, and you met him in April of 2009,
right?
A. Uh-huh.
Q. Is it your testimony that you heard him from his mouth
say he was going on Oprah Winfrey at that time?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, and did any red flags go off? Did your buddy
say, “Hey, he told us that a year ago and it still hasn’t
happened”?
A. Well, they were on –-I think they still believe that
it was going to happen, because he would keep pushing things

further and further, just like the meeting for Google. It
would come time to meet with Google, and all of a sudden the
meeting’s changed to this month or this week or this week. It
just always kept changing. The dates always kept changing.
Q. Okay. Okay, I think you told us –and I apologize
if I get the amounts –-you correct me if I’m wrong –-did
you tell us that he said it was worth –-X-Tagged was worth
500,000,000 to 1,000,000,000?
A. Yes, he has told me that before.
Q. Upwards of that, right?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, and that he was willing to give you 1 percent
ownership of that for $5,000 or for –-yeah, I mean, ultimately
2 increments of a half percent for $5,000?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you do any math there to –A.
I know, I feel really stupid. Yes.
Q. Okay, so when he comes back and offers you a half a
percent more, the difference in time there was just these 10
days, right? Is that –-is that accurate –A.
Yes. Yeah, there –Q.
–-orwasit –A.
–-there wasn’t a whole lot of time that had passed.
Q. Okay, in those 10 days did any of these –-let me
rephrase that. What kind of –-what kind of interaction did

you have with him during those 10 days?
A. I was trained to help promote the website, get stickers
out and schedule things. A lot of which Andy would fail to
show up or appear or get the things that I needed to me.
Q. Did you use the gym –-were you a manager at the gym,
right?
A. I was –-I did –-I was the sales manager and did
marketing, and also personal training.
Q. Okay, and did you use the gym as sort of a vehicle to
get X-Tagged paraphernalia out there?
A. Did I use the gym?
Q. What I mean is, you know, did you promote X-Tagged
through the gym?
A. Not that I can recall.
Q. Didn’t have stickers available at the desk or –A.
No, no.
Q. –-anything like that?
A. No, we were –-we were going to shoot a commercial
there.
Q. All right, you testified earlier that –-or when
Mr. Lyon asked you about X-Tagged being a Utah business, was
there conversations about it being incorporated in any other
state?
A. No.
Q. Anybody ever bother to ask, that you’re aware of?

A. No.
Q. You certainly didn’t ask, right?
A. No.
Q. Okay. Have you subsequently learned that it’s a
business in Wyoming?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, when did that happen?
A. Probably a month ago.
Q. A month ago is when you found out, not when it was
made a business in Wyoming; is that –A.
Yes, that’s correct.
Q. Again, with respect to –-I’ll ask you what I asked
Mr. Engelbrecht –-with respect to the DMV, your testimony
before was that DMV was onboard. Is it possible that that
conversation said it’s in the works or something a little
softer than onboard?
A. I understood it to be that they were full on going –
Q. Okay.
A. –-and that it was active.
Q. Okay, so those weren’t his words that they were –the
deal was signed and stamped and ready to go. That’s your
interpretation of it, right?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay. You mentioned Logan Laws was there, right?
A. That’s correct.

Q. Logan Laws, are you aware, has asked for money and
received money back in this instance?
A. Yes, but not without a fight.
Q. Okay, are you friends with Logan Laws?
A. Yes, I am.
Q. Okay, have you made any efforts like Logan to get your
money back?
A. Yes.
Q. Explain those, please.
A. Yes, when I first initially asked for my investment
back, I did it in a very nice way, after I found out that
through my research some of the things that Andy had told us
were lies. I just asked for my money back, didn’t want any
confrontation or anything.
When he just kept pushing the dates out, I called him
and I said that he wasn’t an honest man, and he blew up and got
mad at me, and then started telling all the other X-Tag people
that he kicked me off of X-Tagged because I was gay and I was
posting gay pictures of myself on X-Tag.
I do have an email stating that –-saying that he sent
a mass message out to everyone saying I was gay and I posted
gay pics, and that I would never see a penny of my investment.
Q. Subsequent to that have you sort of gone on your own
campaign on the Internet to –A.
Yes.

Q. –-to say bad things about him?
A. Of warning people about Mr. Esquivel.
Q. Okay.
A. And the investment scam.
Q. Okay, and that includes, you know, blogging and
posting descriptions on Internet sites and those types of
things?
A. Yes, telling my story basically.
Q. Okay, how long has that been going on?
A. For a while.
Q. Put in terms of months?
A. Probably two years.
Q. Okay, have you been approached by –-you’ve heard me
ask this question to your friends. Have you been approached by
Alan Brady, Steve Klemark, Shar Jenkins in regards to getting
money back?
A. Just Alan Brady.
Q. Okay, when did that happen?
A. Alan Brady, I’ve met with him once. I can’t recall
the day he came to Performax, though, and met with me, and
told me he’s working on getting our money back, and he has all
sorts of stuff on Andy Esquivel. I don’t know if he was just
pretending that he wasn’t with Andy anymore, but he told me
that Andy was indeed a fact –-a scam, and that there was a lot
more investors than I knew that were scammed, and he had a list

of them. Then he told me –
Q. Did you –A.
–-that he would try to get our money back, but
nothing ever happened.
Q. –-have you ever refused an offer to –A.
No.
Q. –-give you money back?
A. Nope.
Q. Never at any time?
A. Never at any time. They always said they were –-they
would say, “All right, we’re going to get you your money back,”
and then nothing would ever happen. Collin –-or Leonard
Martinez, his attorney, I called –-I’ve called him at least
20, 30 times and have not received an answer, or anything
about payback. Matter of fact, they were trying to negotiate
a payback the last time we were in Court with Andy, and said
that they were going to try and get us some –THE
COURT: Well, wait just a minute. Wait until
you’re asked.
THE WITNESS: Oh, okay.
Q. BY MR. HOLJE: As long as you bring it up, have you
been approached by anyone at the –-and I’m not talking about
today, okay? Specifically Kathy Morris, have you ever been
approached about anybody about, you know, your desire to go
forward with this case versus getting some money and drifting

off into the sunset?
A.
Yes.
Q.
Okay. Did you refuse to take money at that point?
A. No, I never refused to take the money. I even said
he didn’t have to pay me back the 12 percent interest. I just
said, ‘Just give me the 5,000 and we’re done.” I mean, that’s
it.
Q. From that time you’ve never heard any offer about
getting 5,000 back; is that accurate or –A.
That’s accurate.
MR. HOLJE: I think that’s all the questions I have for
you, Mr. Butcher.
THE COURT: Thank you. Mr. Lyon?
MR. LYON: I’ve got nothing further from this witness.
May he please be excused?
THE COURT: Thank you. Mr. Butcher, you may step down
and be excused. Thank you for coming today.
MR. LYON: You’re free to stay or to go.
THE WITNESS: Okay.
THE COURT: Your next witness.
MR. LYON: The State calls Adam Sweet.
COURT CLERK: You do solemnly swear that the testimony
you are about to give in the case now before the Court will be
the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help
you God?

THE WITNESS: Yes.
ADAM SWEET,
having been first duly sworn,
testified as follows:
DIRECT EXAMINATION
BY MR. SWEET:
Q. Would you please state your name for the record,
spelling your last name.
A. Adam Sweet. Last name S-w-e-e-t.
Q. What’s your occupation?
A. I am a securities compliance investigator for the Utah
Division of Securities in the Utah Department of Commerce.
Q. How long have you been so employed?
A. For approximately 19 months.
Q. Were you assigned to perform the investigation
regarding the defendant?
A. Yes, I was.
Q. Okay, you’ve sat through the testimony of Mr. Cluff,
Engelbrecht and Butcher, correct?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, now in your investigation of the defendant, did
you locate any past judgments that have been –-I’m not sure
what the proper (inaudible) terminology is –-levied against
him?
A. Rendered.

Q. Rendered, thank you.
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, could you tell us about those?
A. Yes, I can. Can I refer to my notes?
Q. Sure.
MR. HOLJE: Your Honor, we’ll stipulate that what
exists on, you know, on Court records is –-it is what it is.
I think the records an speak for themselves, rather than go
through half a dozen judgments.
MR. LYON: That’s fine, and I think I’ve gone through
each one of the witnesses what those judgments are. If they’re
willing to stipulate to that, that’s great.
THE COURT: Were there four of them?
MR. LYON: Three.
THE COURT: Three of them.
MR. LYON: Two in 1999. One for about 5,500, the other
for just over 15, and one in 2003 for just over 3,000.
THE COURT: You’ll stipulate to those?
MR. HOLJE: Not to the –THE
COURT: That they exist?
MR. HOLJE: That they exist, right.
THE COURT: All right, thank you.
Q. BY MR. LYON: Okay, did you also perform an investigation
as to whether X-Tagged is a registered business?
A. Yes, I looked into whether or not it was a registered

business.
Q. Okay, and how did you do that?
A. By accessing the Utah Division of Corporations.
Q. According to the Utah records is X-Tagged a registered
business at all?
A. No.
Q. Has it ever been?
A. In Utah, no, not by the name of X –-X-Tagged had no
listing.
Q. Did you investigate whether Mr. Esquivel is licensed
to sell securities in the State of Utah?
A. Yes, I did.
Q. Has he ever been so licensed?
A. No.
Q. Do you –-you’re familiar with the assertion that the
defendant made representations that he had communicated with
the Division of Motor Vehicles, and they were going to grant
authorization to communicate with the State database?
A. I’m sorry, I didn’t hear the –-didn’t get the first
part of the question.
Q. Let me give you a better question.
A. Okay.
Q. At all during your investigation, did you investigate
whether the Division of Motor Vehicles had granted defendant
consent or access authorization to communicate and access the

database containing all of the –-the DMV records?
A. Yes, I did. I did contact the Utah DMV and spoke
with someone and received a letter in return verifying that
–-without looking at it –-that X-Tagged would –-or Andy
Esquivel, that they had never had any dealings or operations
with them, and that –-it said in the letter, generally
speaking, they would never condone such activity, by allowing
a private company to gain access to drivers license and
people’s personal information.
Q. That’s because –-is it –-do you know whether that
information is protected by State and Federal statute?
A. I don’t know that.
Q. Okay.
A. I do know that now, after glancing down at the letter.
I don’t know if you want me to read that brief part.
Q. That’s sufficient.
A. Okay.
Q. Do you –-did you investigate whether X-Tagged had
ever become a publicly traded company?
A. No. I mean, as far as I understand as a personal
investigator, that it was not a Utah registered as a business.
I kind of stopped there.
Q. Okay, so you would –-there’s no need to even go
further?
A. Yeah, as far –-yeah.

Q. Did you check to verify whether X-Tag has ever been
patented?
A. I did. I did an online search of the U. S. Patent
Office, and there were no results for X-Tagged.
Q.
Which would indicate?
A. As far as I understand, it would indicate a patent
that X-Tagged was –-had claimed or was in the process of
claiming.
Q.
Meaning there is no patent?
A.
Not –-no, no.
MR. LYON: Okay, I’ve got nothing further.
THE COURT: Thank you.
CROSS EXAMINATION
BY MR. HOLJE:
Q. So, Mr. Sweet, you –-you investigated X-Tagged in
other states, correct?
A. I –-as –-I investigate –-no, I just investigated
the Utah –Q.
Did you –-did you look into whether or not there was
a –-the name X-Tagged was being reserved in Colorado?
A. It was either Colorado or Wyoming. I think I’d come
across that X-Tagged is a registered corporation there, in one
of those two. I can’t remember.
Q. Okay, and that that name –-well, does your report
refer to anything about the name X-Tagged being held in the

State of Colorado?
A. Reserved?
Q. Yes.
A. Let me –-let me check. It would right here if it
did. I do have in my report that X-Tagged is not registered
in Utah. X-Tagged held a name reservation in Colorado from
st th
April 1 , 2010 to July 30 , 2010, with Darrel Acumen listed as
reservation holder.
Q. Okay, not Andy Esquivel?
A. No, if it had said his name I would have put that in
there.
Q. Okay, are you aware that X-Tagged is incorporated I
the State of Wyoming?
A. No. If I –-well, no, I’m not.
Q. Okay, your investigation –A.
If I –-no, I mean, if I had reason to, I mean, to
search a particular state I would. I just don’t rand –-you
know, randomly. I think Colorado I learned that he was –-had
visited Colorado or was doing business in Colorado. So I went
to that State’s corporation’s website. So I had reason to look
there, and that’s why I came across Colorado’s information –Q.
Okay.
A. –-but I don’t recall. Wyoming’s new to me. I don’t
recall any of the investors testifying –Q.
Okay.

A. –-anything about it.
Q. You were being told that X-Tagged was a bogus business
essentially, right?
A. By who?
Q. Well, by any of the individuals that you’ve –-that
you met with as part of this investigation?
A. Um –Q.
Any of these alleged victims who’ve testified today?
A. –-they were complaining –-they submitted –-they
complained that they invested money with X-Tagged and Andy,
and hadn’t got their money paid back; and they proceeded to
tell me the representations that were made to them.
Q. Okay, but not necessarily that X-Tagged was not an
actual business or anything?
A. Um –Q.
In other words, an alter ego for –A.
–-I don’t remember an investor saying X-Tagged is not
a business.
Q. Okay, as far as you were concerned, it was, right? It
just didn’t –A.
Until I researched it and found out that it wasn’t
registered in Utah, but had a name reservation in Colorado.
Q. Okay. All right. Did you –-did you come across –well,
let me try that again. You did come across some other
businesses that Mr. Esquivel was involved in, right?

A. I did. So yes.
Q. Is single and dating one of those?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, any –-and that was registered in the State of
Utah, correct?
A. Yeah, I have that registered for the State of Utah.
have the registration date, the expiration date, and then what
position Mr. Esquivel held.
Q. Okay, any sort of overlap that you were aware of, or
connection between single and dating and X-Tagged?
A. No. I mean, when we do a search of the corporation’s
website we can search of we know the names of the company.
Specifically we can do it that way; or if we don’t, we can put
in the principal’s name, the individual’s name, and that will
pull up businesses registered to that person. So –Q.
Okay.
A. –-it doesn’t explain any connections.
Q. But your investigation didn’t focus on whether or not
the two were somehow related?
A. No, because the complaints were not about single and
dating.
MR. HOLJE: Okay, Judge, if I could have just one quick
moment.
THE COURT: Go ahead. Are you all right?
COURT CLERK: Yeah.

MR. HOLJE: All right, I think that’s all the questions
I have for you. Thank you.
THE COURT: Thank you. Any followup, Mr. Lyon?
MR. LYON: Not from this witness.
THE COURT: Thank you, Mr. Sweet. You may step down.
Other witnesses?
MR. LYON: Just one, Judge. State calls Tom Brady.
COURT CLERK: You do solemnly swear that the testimony
you are about to give in the case now before the Court will be
the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help
you God?
THE WITNESS: Yes, I do.
THOMAS BRADY,
having been first duly sworn,
testified as follows:
DIRECT EXAMINATION
BY MR. LYON:
Q. Would you please state your name for the record,
spelling your last name.
A. Thomas Brady, B-r-a-d-y.
Q. What’s your occupation?
A. I’m the acting director of enforcement for the Utah
Division of Securities.
Q. How long have you been so employed?
A. Well, I’m currently in two roles. I’m also the

securities analyst. I’ve been the acting director for a month.
Q. How long have you been with the Utah Division of
Securities?
A. Just under three years.
Q. Prior to taking a job with the Division of Securities,
did you receive any education?
A. I’m a lawyer; I’m an attorney.
Q. Okay, let’s talk about your education. You received
an undergraduate degree?
A. Yes, my undergraduate degree is in political science
from Brigham Young University.
Q. You say you’re a lawyer; you’ve gone on to law school?
A. Yes, I attended Michigan State University.
Q. Okay, and when did you finish up there?
A. In 2009.
Q. Tell us about your responsibilities as a securities
analyst and then Director of Enforcement.
A. Okay. As the analyst I’m more or less a staff
attorney. I’m a staff attorney or in-house Counsel for the
Division of Securities in the enforcement section. My responsibilities
are mainly to take the investigative reports that the
investigators conclude, review them, ensure that the elements
are met for whatever the allegations or causes of actions are,
and then prepare the pleadings for that case. Also for ongoing
cases I negotiate settlement agreements with opposing Counsel.

Q. Do you write any technical reports or articles based
upon –-as an analyst?
A. Yes, yes. When legal issues arise, it’s my task to
research those out. I prepare memos explaining the nuances
that come up in our cases.
Q. Provide legal Counsel to that division, then?
A. Correct.
Q. Okay, now tell us about –-as an acting director, tell
us what your responsibilities are.
A. My responsibilities are to screen incoming complaints,
supervise attorneys and investigators with their respective
case files. Also to –-I am involved in negotiations on
certain administrative proceedings.
Q. Now, are you affiliated with any groups related to
your employment?
A. Related to securities law, yes. I’m a member of the
North American State Securities Association.
Q. Okay.
A. NASSA.
Q. Have you held any positions of responsibility within
that group?
A. Yes, I’m a member of the Mountain Region Enforcement
section.
Q. Okay, and so what does that mean?
A. In that region or zone, there are representatives from

each state. I think there are eight or nine states in our
region that are represented, and we meet semi-annually to
discuss certain trends that are occurring, certain fraudulent
trends that are occurring within our respective states. We
also do what’s called “de-conflicting,” where we discuss
potential targets that we’re investigating one state that may
have carryover into a different state. Mainly it’s working
together.
Q. As a result of your training and experience, do you –can
you tell us what a security is?
A. Yes, I can.
Q. What is –A.
Would you like me to?
Q. Yeah.
A. Well, a security, by name, under the statute, under
61-1-13 could be a stock, a note or a bond, an interest in
an LLC. There are certain categories that it falls under.
There are –-or specifically named categories. Then there
are broader categories, such as an investment contract that we
look at.
Q. Okay. Are all securities regulated by the State of
Utah?
A. Yes. In addition to that, securities are regulated by
the Federal Government.
Q. Okay. Due monitoring. Can you tell us why they’re

regulated?
A. To protect investors, more or less. To protect the
investors. Not to inhibit business, but protect the investors.
Q. As part of protecting investors has the State imposed
certain regulations and disclosures associated with the sale of
security?
A. Yes, they have.
Q. Okay, and is that primarily located in 61-1-1?
A. Yes and no. There are three areas where securities
are regulated under –-under the Utah Uniform Securities Act.
The first one is registration. So if securities –-any offer
of a security needs to be registered with Federal Government or
with the State.
MR. HOLJE: Judge, I’m going to object on relevance at
this point. I mean, he’s charged with securities fraud. I
think for purposes of today we don’t need the academic lecture
here on this.
THE COURT: You’re satisfied that at least the charging
document, the Information charging securities fraud, that that
definition –-or the alleged actions here would fall within
that definition?
MR. HOLJE: The alleged acts, your Honor.
THE COURT: All right, thank you.
MR. LYON: Okay, and I don’t want to –-I know it’s
already a quarter after 5, I’m sure everyone’s having a good

time, but I will try to move us along.
MR. HOLJE: So that I’m –-and so that we’re clear, I’m
not admitting the definition of the security here. I’m just,
you know. What I’m saying is we can look at the statute
ourselves and see how security is defined.
MR. LYON: Okay.
THE COURT: But for purposes of today’s hearing, you
don’t object to the Court relying on the testimony of this
witness, when he indicates that the alleged actions would
fall within the securities fraud statute subject to your –assuming
it goes onto the time of trial, fleshing that out
and trying to have the Court or the trier of fact, a jury,
make a determination as to whether it actually falls within
that?
MR. HOLJE: Right, and I think he’s told us that a
security is a stock, a bond, a note, I mean, an investment
contract. Those are all statutory. We can look at those and
see. So it’s –
THE COURT: Okay. I think for purposes of this hearing
today then we’ve probably gone far enough, Mr. Lyon, unless you
think there’s a couple more questions you need to ask.
MR. LYON: No. I mean, ultimately that’s –-well, let
me be quick here, real fast, your Honor. I do have just a few
questions.
THE COURT: Go ahead.

Q. BY MR. LYON: You understand that for purposes of
today’s hearing only, we’re acknowledging that these three
transactions that took place fall within the parameters of a
security. So we don’t need to whether –-concern ourselves
whether they are or not –MR.
HOLJE: Judge, I may have confused everybody here.
I apologize. I’m not saying that we admit that what took place
here, even for today’s purposes, falls within security. I’m
just saying this witness is sort of testifying about where we
can find securities and how they’re regulated and –
THE COURT: Well, Counsel, I think it’s the burden of
the State, if he’s going to in fact prove up his Information,
that we’ve got to have some definition of securities for the
Court to make a determination that the alleged actions fell
within the securities fraud statute. So I mean –
MR. HOLJE: I agree with that, and all I’m saying is I
just don’t want to read through Title 61 here, you know. We
know that’s in there, but –
THE COURT: Okay, you just ask him a few clarifying
questions, will you –
MR. LYON: I will.
THE COURT: –that will get us where we need to be as
far as the limited scope that we’re trying to fit within here.
MR. LYON: Okay, and I do want to move things along.
just want to make sure I’m laying adequate foundation for the

Court.
THE COURT: Sure.
Q. BY MR. LYON: Okay, my train of thought is derailed. We
have talked about what a security is and why they’re regulated.
Could you tell us where primarily it is –-the focus of the
regulation is within the code? I mean, we’re –-it’s located
within 61-1; is that correct? At least part, in part.
A. That’s the anti-fraud provision of the code, yes.
Q. Okay, now under that section of the code are there
any responsibilities and obligations placed upon an individual
who is selling a security as far as disclosures go?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, could you tell us about those.
A. Well, specifically you can look at subsection (2)
of 61-1-1 where it states that during an offer an individual
makes any untrue statement of material fact, or omits to state
a material fact, in order to make the statements made in the
light of the circumstances under which they’re made not misleading.
Under that provision, if an individual is offering a
security, yes, they need to state material facts. In other
words, good disclosures. If they fail to give or omit those
disclosures, then they violate that subsection.
Q. Okay, and you’ve heard the testimony today of these
three individuals?

A. Yes.
Q. Okay, are there any disclosures that should have been
given –-well, before we get there, let me just ask you, you
have heard –-you’ve had a chance to review the file regarding
Mr. Esquivel?
A. Yes, I have.
Q. Heard the testimony today by these three witnesses?
A. Yes, I have.
Q. Do you have an opinion as to whether –-let’s start
with Mr. Cluff –-whether the investment made by Mr. Cluff,
whether that was a security?
A. In my opinion, yes, that was a security transaction.
Q. Could you tell us why?
A. Well, in the initial offer it looks as if Mr. Esquivel
was offering a stock or a share of a company in that initial
offer. By definition, as we mentioned earlier, under statute,
a stock is a security, and share of a company is a security, so
long as it has the characteristics of a stock.
With the official transaction I guess you could say
while he was offered a stock it looks like what he actually
received was a promissory note. “He” being Mr. Cluff. Looks
like he received a promissory note under the code. A note is
presumed –-and under case law a note a presumed to be a
security.
Q. Okay, and understanding the presumptions that applied,

do you still believe that this –-that the note that was given
to Mr. Cluff is a security?
A. In my opinion, yes, it’s likely a security.
Q. Okay, can you tell us why?
A. Well, under–-when analyzing a note, as I said before,
under the Reeves’ test a note is presumed to be a security.
There are seven categories of non-securities. If a security –or
excuse me, a promissory note does not fall on its face in
one of those categories, you then apply what’s called a “family
resemblance” test.
In my opinion the promissory note did not fall in
any of those seven categories. So the next step would be to
look at the four factors of the family resemblance test, which
would indicate does it look like it falls into one of those
categories.
Q. Okay.
A. Those factors –Q.
You’re talking about –-when you say “the four
factors,” this is essentially the Reeves’ test that was
commonly referred to?
A. The Reeves’ test or family resemblance test.
Q. Okay.
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, can you just go through those four factors?
A. Sure. The first one is the expectation of the seller

and the buyer. In looking in this transaction, it looks like
the expectation of the seller and the buyer was that it was an
investment.
The second factor is the plan of distribution. In
this case it’s a little different, a little difficult to pinpoint
that. In my opinion it does not look like there was a
plan of distribution. You could argue that it could be open to
anybody, or it was specific to these individuals. So I don’t
know that that’s applicable in this case, in my opinion.
Q. Okay.
A. The third factor would be the expectation of the
public as to whether or not the transaction was an investment.
In my opinion the public would deem this as an investment.
Q. Why?
A. Because it had the characteristics of an investment.
There was an expectation of profit, there was furnishing value
with the expectation of profit. There was no consumer nature
to this. It looks like an investment.
Q. Okay, tell us about the fourth factor.
A. The fourth factor involves any risk reducing factors,
which would include a regulatory scheme or collateral –-or
collateral for the investment.
Q. Is there any sort of regulatory scheme?
A. It doesn’t look like it. In reviewing the promissory
note, there is no regulatory scheme attached.

Q. What would be a regulatory scheme?
A. Oh, for example, if it were –-a CD is regulated by
the FDIC. There’s another entity regulating that to ensure
the investor –-in other words, to protect the investor. There
is no protection here for the investor by another regulatory
agency, nor was the note collateralized. So those are three
out of –-given three out of the four factors. Missing one is
not dispositive; so in my opinion it’s likely to be a security.
Q. Now, you heard the testimony of Mr. Cluff as to the
events that led up to the first investment of $4,000, and then
a subsequent investment of 2,000 and a title to his vehicle and
whatnot. During all of this interaction with the defendant and
Mr. Cluff, were there any –-was there any information that
should have been revealed to Mr. Cluff by the defendant but
was not?
A. Well, material information, yes.
Q. Such as?
A. Financial statement of X-Tagged in its business operations,
its track record to other investors if it had other
investors, certainly the judgments against Mr. Esquivel should
have been disclosed, in my opinion.
Q. What about the patent information?
A. That would have been a misstatement, in light of the
evidence that I’ve seen. By stating that there was a patent
pending or in the works, and then as the investigation showed

that that was not true, that would be considered a misstatement
rather than a disclosure.
Q. Okay, so we’re breaking into two different categories
as far as omissions.
A. Yes.
Q. You’re talking omissions he should have disclosed
financial records and specifically the fact that he has three
judgments?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, and as far as misstatements, what would you put
in that category?
A. Well, the patent.
Q. Uh-huh.
A. Stating that there was a patent, and if I could review
my notes?
Q. Sure.
A. Is that okay? Okay. I think as far as provable
misstatements, I think the patent would be the large one in
this –-in that transaction.
Q. Okay, let’s talk about now Mr. Engelbrecht. You’ve –you’ve
heard the testimony of Mr. Engelbrecht, and also had a
chance to read the file regarding this. Do you have an opinion
as to whether the investment made by Mr. Engelbrecht was a
security?
A. Yes, I do.

Q. And the opinion is?
A. I think it’s very similar to Mr. Cluff’s. Sounds like
the same transaction. The offer seemed to be a stock, and the
sale seemed to be a promissory note, which both are securities.
Q. Just so we’re clear, you’re breaking this down into
two separate analysis, essentially, because the –-if I’m
understanding you correctly, there’s discussion about stock,
but when it’s memorialized in writing it’s a promissory note.
Are you –-is it your testimony that both of these would fall
within the parameters of a security?
A. Yes, under 61-1-1 it talks about in connection with
the offer or sale of a security. Because there are different
securities, there are different products –I should say
different products here. That’s why I’ve broken them up into
two. Seems to have a different product with the offer than
with the sale.
Q. Okay, given the events leading up to the investment
by Mr. Engelbrecht, were there any disclosures that should have
been made known unto Mr. Engelbrecht that were not?
A. Yes, financial statements, the civil judgments that
were pending. Also there were statements made as to the value
of the stock, which under Hanley, Hanley vs. SEC it states that
in order for an offerer to recommend a security, there needs
to be a reasonable basis for recommending the security.
In my opinion some of the –-some of the statements

made about a stock being worth $1 one day and then soon growing
to $500 per share, in order to make that a reasonable statement
there needs to be some disclosure as to how that’s going to
happen. So in my opinion that would be a disclosure issue as
well, explaining how it jumps from $1 to $500.
Q. Were there any misstatements that occurred?
A. May I review my notes?
Q. Un-huh.
A. Yes, the statement about the DMV having a working
relationship with X-Tagged and then the subsequent verification
that that was false, that would be a misstatement. Also, again
the patent. Also the statement that there’s no risk in the
investment.
Again, going back to (Inaudible), there needs to be
a reasonable basis for making a statement, and the statement
that there’s no risk in an investment, especially a high yield
investment like this one, there needs to be a reasonable basis
for making that statement. I did not see one in the evidence,
and it does not appear that Mr. Esquivel gave Mr. Engelbrecht
a reasonable justification for making that statement. So I
would –-in my opinion that would be a misstatement as well.
Q. When we’re looking at the required parameters for
disclosure, is it necessary for the defendant to have explained
what was being done, what had been done, or how X-Tagged was
going to become a public company?

A. Yes. In light of the statements made about X-Tagged,
and the success it was going to have, the interest from Google,
Facebook, MySpace, in order to make those reasonable statements
there needed to be some sort of explanation to make the statements
reasonable.
Q. Now, let’s move onto Mr. Butcher. You’ve had a chance
to review the file regarding Mr. Butcher?
A. I have.
Q. You’ve heard his testimony here today?
A. Yes.
Q. Do you have an opinion whether the investment made by
Mr. Butcher is a security?
A. Yes, it looks like Mr. Butcher received a stock.
Q. Were there any diclosures that should have been made
to Mr. Butcher that were not?
A. Yes, the financial statements, the civil judgments,
also there are risk disclosures, although I did just get
through saying that saying there’s no risk is a misstatement.
Also the failure to disclose risks is an omission of material
fact.
Q. So if there was no conversation between Mr. Butcher
and Mr. Esquivel as to the risk, that would be an omission?
A. Correct.
Q. Okay.
A. Also, again, the statements –-well, as far as the

disclosures, yes, there needed to be disclosures as to how the
investment was going to succeed.
Q. The –-are there any misstatements that were made?
A. If I can review my notes, please. That the DMV was
onboard, as Mr. –-as Mr. Butcher characterized. Also the
worth of this stock. I think again going back to making the
statement reasonable, the fact that Mr. Esquivel made a statement
that a half percent of a company was worth $50,000, but he
was willing to sell that to Mr. Butcher for $5,000, I believe
it was –-or excuse me, 2,500. No, it was 5,000 –-5,000 for
a share that was worth $50,000, I think in order to make that
statement reasonable, there needed to be some sort of explanation.
Q. What about the statement regarding the patent of
X-Tagged, where would that fall?
A. That would be a misstatement, in light of the investigation
showing that there was no patent.
MR. LYON: Okay, I’ve got nothing further.
THE COURT: Thank you. Counsel.
MR. HOLJE: Just a few questions, your Honor.
CROSS EXAMINATION
BY MR. HOLJE:
Q. So Mr. Brady, just so that we’re clear, there are
statutory –-securities are statutorily enumerated to an
extent; is that correct?

A. Yes.
Q. In other words, a stock is a security, a bond is a
security, a note is a security?
A. Yes.
Q. What we’re talking about in this case, at least with
respect to two of the alleged victims is –-are –-just totally
lost my train of thought –-the promissory notes, the convertible
promissory notes; is that right?
A. Yes.
Q. A convertible promissory note is different from a
traditional note, correct?
A. I guess you could say that, yes.
Q. In other words, a convertible promissory note gives
somebody an opportunity to convert what is otherwise a note
into stock; is that accurate?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, so to your knowledge is convertible –-specifically
a convertible promissory note listed anywhere in the regulatory
scheme of Utah?
A. No, it’s broadly defined as simply “note.”
Q. Okay, and is it your testimony that the term “note”
encompasses a convertible promissory note?
A. If it passed the family resemblance test of the
Reeves’ test, yes, that would be my testimony.
Q. Okay, so it’s not an automatic thing. There’s this

analysis that needs to take place, right?
A. Yes, it needs to be a substance over form issue.
Q. Okay. Right. Okay, and in this particular case, at
least with respect to those that Counsel that are talking about
convertible promissory notes, there was no stock issued at any
point, right, or no stock given to them?
A. Officially –-with the first two?
Q. Yes.
A. No.
Q. In other words –-so we need to make the record clear.
With respect to Mr. Cluff, then Mr. Engelbrecht, they never
received any stock, right?
A. It looks like in reviewing the file they received a
receipt indicating that they own shares. I don’t know that
they received any stock certificates officially.
Q. Right, okay.
A. If that’s what you’re asking.
Q. That is what I’m asking; and essentially, I mean, is
it fair to say they have a piece of paper saying that if they
want shares of stock they can get them, but that’s about it,
right? Is that –A.
Yes, and no. With –-as far as the promissory note is
concerned, yes, that’s correct, but a securities transaction
does not need to be in writing. It can be an oral agreement.
Q. Okay, and so are you relying on what –-we broke this

down into a dichotomy of sale versus –-or offer versus sale.
Are you relying on the offer when you give your opinion that
they were offered stocks?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay, that’s not based on the fact that they received
a convertible promissory note; it’s based on the fact that the
word “share” was used or something like that, or –A.
To clarify, you’re still talking about the first two–Q.
Yes, I am. Yeah.
A. Yes, based on the statements, the oral statements
made during the offer of a security, by the description or
Mr. Esquivel, my opinion of what he sold them was a stock.
Q. Okay, and your opinion is essentially aside from –your
opinion is not reliant on the convertible promissory note,
it sounds like, at least not exclusively?
A. Not with the offer. With the actual sale, yes.
Q. Right, okay. All right. I’m just –-I’m not trying
to confuse you. I’m trying to wrap my brain around this. You
said your opinion was that yes, it’s a security. With respect
to Engelbrecht and Cluff, your opinion was that it was a stock.
I’m just trying to figure out why you had that opinion. It’s
not based solely on the convertible promissory note. It takes
into account other factors.
A. Yes, and if you’d like I can explain why I think it’s
a stock.

Q. That actually might be helpful, yeah.
A. Okay.
Q. Yeah.
A. Okay, again, there needs to be a substance over form.
Although with a category like stocks and notes, it’s more cut
and dry; but with a stock, so long as the product that’s sold
has the characteristics of a stock it is considered a security.
Q. Okay, the family resemblance test, right?
A. No, no, that would be –-family resemblance relates to
the promissory note or to any note.
Q. Uh-huh.
A. A stock, if –-in order to look at the characteristics
of a stock, they’re typical –-there are usually five or six,
I believe. There’s whether or not there are voting rights;
dividends; whether it’s negotiable, meaning you can transfer
it, it’s transferrable; and whether or not there’s an appreciation
in value. If it carries those characteristics then it’s
likely a stock.
In looking in this case, judging by what Mr. Esquivel
was offering, in my opinion the stock offered was a security,
based on those characteristics.
Q. Okay, but the convertible promissory note that they
were actually given didn’t specify any of those things, right?
In fact, it said the opposite; no voting rights were given,
and that, you know, transferability and all those issues were

addressed in that; isn’t that accurate?
A. Yes, and therefore with the promissory notes you would
take a different analysis and view them as a note.
Q. Okay, so you’re –-you’re not looking at the two
together. You’re saying, “Hey, we have a stock here,” just
because at that point it meets the definition regardless of
what happened afterwards with the promissory note?
A. Well, I would say in my opinion Mr. Esquivel offered
one type of security, offered one security –Q.
Deliberately?
A. –-and sold a different security.
Q. Okay, and the fact that it was offered, that’s where
you’re saying fraud comes in, right?
A. Well, I’d say fraud comes in on both the offer and the
sale.
Q. Okay. You went through –-I don’t want to get too
bogged down in this family resemblance test here, but –A.
Sure.
Q. –-isn’t one of the considerations the managerial
efforts that are made by individuals involved in the company
and investors?
A. What you’re talking about is a passive investor.
Q. What I’m asking is, does it matter that Ryan Butcher
was the Utah representative, and that he put in efforts to
direct his company?

A. Okay, I think I know what you’re asking.
Q. Oh, and frankly, Kyle Cluff, as well, admitted to
being an owner of it, suggesting ideas on the direction of the
company. Those are relevant considerations, aren’t they?
A. They are if you’re using an investment contract
analysis. Under the investment –-to determine whether or
not a transaction or a product is a security as an investment
contract, you use what’s called a “Risk Capital Test,” which
looks at four factors.
One of them is what you’re talking about. One is
furnishing value; two, with the expectation of profit; three,
subject to the risk of the enterprise; and four, does the
investor receive actual or practical control of the enterprise?
Q. Okay, so you’re saying that is specific to investment
contracts?
A. The way you’re describing it, yes.
Q. Okay, and it doesn’t factor into notes or stocks?
A. That particular prong is for the investment contract
analysis. It wouldn’t provide the note analysis.
MR. HOLJE: Okay. Okay, I think that’s all the
questions I have, your Honor, your Honor.
THE COURT: Thank you. Anything else?
MR. LYON: (Inaudible).
THE COURT: Thank you, Mr. Brady. Appreciate it very
much.

Anything else?
MR. LYON: The State rests, your Honor.
THE COURT: Counsel, do you anticipate calling any
witnesses?
MR. HOLJE: No, I don’t, your Honor.
THE COURT: Do you feel a need to argue anything?
MR. HOLJE: I can do it very briefly.
THE COURT: Okay.
MR. HOLJE: Judge, with respect to Count No. I, that
alleges an amount of $10,000 or more. That is specific to
Mr. Cluff, Kyle Cluff. The State is alleging that it’s over
the $10,000 threshold based on an initial $4,000 check, a
subsequent $2,000 check, and then a credit that was given by
Mr. Esquivel just to be a nice guy, apparently, or whatever,
for a diet plan that was made. He was, you know, he was an
employee of the gym and was apparently helping him learn how
to eat right.
So Mr. Esquivel on his own says, “Okay, we’ll give you
a $2,000 credit for the diet plan. In addition, another $2,000
is credited based on a title to a ten-year-old car. In 2008 –in
2008 it’s a 1998 Chevy Cavalier. So a ten-year-old car that
by his own admission is inoperable, and again $2,000 seems to
be just kind of pulled out of thin air. You know, there’s no
evidence presented about the actual value of this 1998 Chevy
Cavalier.

I would suggest that a ten-year-old car that’s inoperable
in a Chevy particularly is not worth $2,000. That’s just
a number that was arrived at by Mr. Esquivel. Same with the
diet plan. Mr. Cluff told us there were no receipts given,
there were no –-it wasn’t invoiced. It was just a number that
they pulled out.
So in actuality what you have here is $6,000 being
given. The rest I would say are just credits that should not
be deemed sufficient for purposes of the $10,000 threshold.
That would make it a third –-that would make Count I a third-
degree felony, not a second degree felony.
THE COURT: Okay.
MR. HOLJE: I’ll submit on that basis, Judge.
THE COURT: Thank you. Let me first indicate for
Mr. Esquivel’s purpose and for anyone in the courtroom, I
think that both lawyers in this case understand that in
preliminary hearings it’s not the –-the Court doesn’t have
the opportunity to weigh the evidence, and has to take the
evidence in the light most favorable to the State.
So specifically, Mr. Esquivel, as it pertains to
your lawyer’s arguments regarding the value of the vehicle
and the value of the diet plan, the fact is there was evidence
presented that those were the values; 2,000, 2,000, $6,000
cash. So the Court takes that as –-as to be true in this
particular case, because I can’t weigh the evidence. It’s been

presented, and I take the evidence in the light most favorable
to the State.
So given that premise, let me back up, then, and
say based on the testimony of the witnesses, the documentary
evidence that I’ve received, that the Court finds probable
cause to believe that there were crimes committed in this
particular case by Mr. Esquivel; and they were as follows:
Count I, the Court finds that there was the crime
of securities fraud, a second-degree felony, committed in this
case. Probable cause to believe that it was been committed
by Mr. Esquivel, and specifically the $10,000 or more value
would apply to Mr. Cluff. So even though he’s not named in
this information, the Court believes that count would follow
Mr. Cluff.
The Court also finds probable cause to believe that
the crime in Count II, securities fraud, a third-degree felony,
was committed; and Count III, securities fraud, a third-degree
fraud, was committed as well. I’m not going to attach a victim
to either one of those, but we have two victims that basically
it appears to the Court after having heard the evidence that
each of those victims would be identified with one of these
particular counts.
So I’ll find that it’s appropriate to bind this over
to the trial Court, which in this case is Judge –
MR. LYON: Connors, your Honor.

THE COURT: –-Connors. How far out do you want to go?
MR. HOLJE: A couple of months, maybe?
MR. LYON: Let’s go –-this is just for arraignment.
MR. HOLJE: Oh, yeah, let’s just –-sorry, I thought
you sere setting the trial date as well, Judge.
THE COURT: No, no, no, no. So –
MR. HOLJE: We can –
THE COURT: –-arraignment.
MR. HOLJE: –-go just a couple –
THE COURT: Judge Connors holds his on Wednesday
mornings at 8:30.
MR. LYON: Tuesday.
COURT CLERK: Tuesday mornings.
THE COURT: At what?
MR. LYON: Tuesday mornings.
THE COURT: Tuesdays, excuse me. Thank you for keeping
me straight. Probably one other thing I ought to indicate for
the record that as Mr. Lyon indicated, securities is not one of
the areas that we normally get involved with. I was, however,
satisfied after having reviewed the statute and heard the
testimony of the expert witnesses, that at least there was
sufficient evidence presented that the Court could find
probable cause that these alleged incidents were in fact
a security transaction on each one of the three counts, and
therefore the violation occurred.

So have you got a date?
MR. HOLJE: Just a few weeks out is fine.
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COURT CLERK: On the 3 or the 10 of April?
MR. HOLJE: I’m in Duchesne on the 3 rd. If we could go
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to the 10 , please.
THE COURT: Mr. Lyon, do you want your exhibits?
MR. LYON: Yeah, do you mind if I withdraw them, or do
you want to leave them in?
MR. HOLJE: No, I don’t care.
THE COURT: I’ll allow you to withdraw your exhibits.
MR. HOLJE: Your Honor, this is kind of a weird request.
I’ve done it in the past, but he’s a –-he’s a resident of
Colorado. At least that’s where he’s at right now. He’s
making quite a bit of travel plans to get here each time for
Court. Is there any way to waive his personal appearance at
that arraignment, and you know, we’ll know –
THE COURT: Well, if that’s all we’re going to do is an
arraignment, we can do one of two things. We either waive his
appearance and you appear on his behalf, or I could actually
arraign him today, and then we set it for pretrial down the
road once you’ve had an opportunity to prepare. Let’s don’t –
MR. LYON: We can do that right now.
MR. HOLJE: Why don’t we do that, yeah. He’ll enter
pleas of not guilty right now, your Honor, and that might be
a

cleaner way. I apologize for not suggesting that sooner.
THE COURT: Well, let’s do this, then. Setting on
behalf of Judge Connors, and this case having been bound over
by the Magistrate, we’re here on an arraignment, Mr. Esquivel.
Counsel, Mr. Esquivel has a copy of the Information?
MR. HOLJE: Yes, he does.
THE COURT: He understands each of the counts?
MR. HOLJE: Yes.
THE COURT: Would you waive the reading of the Information,
then?
MR. HOLJE: We’ll waive a formal reading of that, your
Honor.
THE COURT: All right, and you anticipate that he’s
going to enter –
MR. HOLJE: Not guilty pleas today.
THE COURT: –-not guilty pleas.
MR. HOLJE: Yes, your Honor.
THE COURT: All right. Given that, I will arraign
Mr. Esquivel on these three counts, and enter a not guilty
plea on each of the three counts, and we’ll send it then to
Judge Connors for a pretrial conference. Now, you tell me
how far out that you want to go, that you think you can
reasonably –
(Counsel confer off the record)
MR. HOLJE: Something approximately a month down the

road, your Honor.
THE COURT: Okay, do you have a calendar? Do you want
to –
MR. HOLJE: Yeah, if we could –
THE COURT: –-do you want to tell me when you want to
come?
MR. HOLJE: Is there –
THE COURT: Tuesdays at 8:30.
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MR. HOLJE: Okay. Okay, let’s go the 24 , if that’s
acceptable.
THE COURT: That’s fine, isn’t it?
MR. LYON: That’s agreeable to the State, your Honor.
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COURT CLERK: Is that April 24 ?
MR. HOLJE: Yeah.
THE COURT: Tuesday, April 24 th at 8:30 a.m. Judge
Connors is in courtroom No. 5. Thank you all very much.
MR. HOLJE: Thank you.
THE COURT: Court will be in recess. Thanks, Diane.
MR. LYON: Thank you for staying late.
(Hearing concluded)

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Utah, do hereby certify:
That this proceeding was transcribed under my direction
from the transmitter records made of these meetings.
That I have been authorized by Beverly Lowe to prepare
said transcript, as an independent contractor working under
her court reporter’s license, appropriately authorized under
Utah statutes.
That this transcript is full, true, correct, and contains
all of the evidence and all matters to which the same related
which were audible through said recording.
I further certify that I am not interested in the outcome
thereof.
That certain parties were not identified in the record, and
therefore, the name associated with the statement may not be
the correct name as to the speaker.
WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL this 21 st day of July 2012.
My commission expires:
January 12, 2016
Wendy Haws, CCT
NOTARY PUBLIC
Residing in Utah County
Signed: ____________________
Beverly Lowe, CCR/CCT

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Andy Esquivel ordered to produce list of evidence and witnesses to the court

Posted on July 18, 2012 in Andy's Threats Trial Updates Xtagged

In a development which is routine for court cases of this kind but sure to be annoying for Andy Esquivel, the court has ordered Andy to hand over a comprehensive list (and copies) of all the documents he intends to use as defense evidence at trial, a list of all witnesses, their relationship to him, their contact information, a full accounting of any financial compensation they are receiving in exchange for their testimony, a list of all expert witnesses, their credentials, copies and photographs of all exhibits, and a detailed explanation of their pertinence to the case…or to provide proof that he is in fact insane.

Andy has been bragging ever since he was indicted that he had mountains of evidence which would prove him innocent and that he would bring an army of witnesses with him to trial.  He must now provide the court with a full list of such or he will be forbidden from using any of them at trial.

A copy of the court order can be found here [PDF] and a as always a detailed update of the case and it’s status can be found here [PDF].

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Andy bragging about big-shot lawyers

Posted on June 23, 2012 in Andy's Threats Trial Updates

Here’s a post from Andy’s website.  It’s from sometime last year when he was bragging about Ron Yengich taking his case.  I just thought it was sort-of funny in light of the fact that now Andy is representing himself.  I guess this wasn’t all my “manipulation” after all.  Sometimes the truth hurts.

Daryl blogged in video above “(Note:Andy doesn’t have an attorney and refuses to use the public defender assigned to him)” – (I wonder why?)

Now the truth: Allen Brady got Ron J, Yengich & he did take my case, but his fee is double what Ryion, Kyle and Chris put into the company! So if we have been trying to give these men back their money for 18 months just as Shar Jenkins paid $2,500 back to Logan Laws Sept,14, 2009. Why should we pay so much when we are innocent. Instead we will wait for ‘preliminary hearing’ Oct,26,2011 then all Xtagged, Steve, Allen, Shar, John, Jake and more witnesses and our evidence will be presented to the Judge if then & only then this proceeds forward to full trial then Ron J, Yengich will be retained. (Money has nothing to do with it! That’s just Daryl’s manipulation as usual.

Call Allen Brady 801.XXX.XXXX he can verify everything…

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Trial date set in Andy Esquivel’s fraud case!

Posted on June 22, 2012 in Trial Updates

Andy EsquivelOn Tuesday, June 19th, 2012, Judge David Connors set a date for the trial of Andres “Andy” Esquivel (aka – Chicho) for Wednesday, Octber 24th, through Friday, October 26th, of 2012.  There will be a three (3) day jury trial of Andy Esquivel preceded buy a pre-trial hearing on August 14th.  Andy will represent himself at trial.

As always an update of the current status of the case can be found here [PDF].

In related news, Andy Esquivel’s psychotic convicted felon mother called his family this week saying that several of Andy’s cousins will be going to jail for posting and liking a link to this website on Facebook.  She claimed that the prosecutor in Andy’s fraud trial on Tuesday decided to drop the charges against Andy and instead file charges against them and everyone associated with this website.  This was obviously a complete falsehood.

First of all, the first amendment is pretty clear about freedom of speech, and Colorado law is even more strict than the first amendment. Second, slander isn’t a criminal offense, and cannot therefore be punished by time in prison.  Third, if a civil action were brought, it would be in the state of the accused.  Fourth, any civil action would be outside the scope of action of the prosecutor in Andy’s fraud trial.  Fifth, everything posted on this website is a matter of public record and is therefore not only true, but protected by the Freedom of Information act and the first amendment.  Finally, Andy Esquivel has been threatening to have his accusers and those of us who have exposed his various scams thrown in jail for years with no effect.  The fact that he’s still throwing out hollow threats and even recruiting his crazy mother to help shows how desperate he is.

Andy Esquivel is a sad little man.  He’s got six kids by three different mothers, owes back child support on two, lost a third because of neglect, and will probably be in prison when the 6th is born.  He preaches about God, but never has the world seen a more godless individual. The only thing we as a society can do is to pray for his soul and hope that he learns his lesson in prison.

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Andy Esquivel’s attorney asks to be removed from email correspondences

Posted on June 19, 2012 in Andy Esquivel's Scams Trial Updates Xtagged

This crazy email exchange between Andy Esquivel and his attorney was forwarded to Xtagged “supporters” recently as evidence that Andy was framed.

____________________________________________________

From: “Karma Cause” <karmacause@ymail.com>
Date: May 23, 2012 3:38 AM
Subject: Re: Sorry Mr. Holje but we had good reasons.
To: “Michael Holje” <mike@brownbradshaw.com>
Cc: “leo” <lmartinez@denverlegalteam.com>, “law firm” <info@denverlegalteam.com>, “info@brownbradshaw.com” <info@brownbradshaw.com>, “Steve K” <legal@wisertechnology.com>, “Alll” <allengbrady@gmail.com>, “John Steer” <xtagme@gmail.com>, “shar” <bossmarketing2011@gmail.com>, “chue berriel” <chueberriel@yahoo.com>, “Daris Garner” <garndari@gmail.com>, “Jobita B” <cogotavon@gmail.com>

I just got back in town I will now removed you from my email Mr. Holje, just as you should have removed Chris E. from the case simply because it was Melissa that signed the paper but here is a better one I have watch video of you telling me over & over I could be found guilty just because I signed, your exact words “Andy don’t you read what you sign man, take the plea” 
I also have a bill statement sent to me from your firm billing me four hours $800.00 for you to research the same paper!
Mr. Holje nobody knew what a security was that’s why I was bringing Melissa Garr on board until Ryion lied about degree.
I told you that we wanted Chris & Kyle back because Daryl tricked them & it makes our intellectual property civil suit have a much bigger payout, did you help us with that no! Look all new evidence now shows corporate espionage period.    
Allen told you they all are going to file civil suits that you agreed they would win but you told Allen to wait until I took the plea and this trial was over and that’s not fair to Chris & Kyle remember Daryl tricked them!!! Kyle helped me for 2 yrs man I can’t just abandon him (Yeah Chris & Kyle get money back when I take plea of No jail-time & two years probation & it don’t affect our Xtagged civil suit & we owe Kyle & Chris nothing because they are paid back you said that I have watch cam video of it) but what about Chris & Kyle when they finally see that they are now getting sued by all owners Sylvester & Shar alone are seeking $400,000 in Damages, what then for Kyle & Chris I’m confused because that don’t sound right at all, Taylor will testify that I have been trying hard to save Kyle & Chris from Daryl.


I also have your statement at pretrial when you offered plea before the plaintiffs took the stand and I said no and then you replied “Well Andy I think its time to severe our relationship” all because I would not take plea & I told you that you could release me and you then did 360 & said never mind and went forward with pretrial but did not ask Adam Sweet why? 
You & Bountiful prosecutor are very good friends that’s a conflict of interest Allen should have told me what kc said to him.


FYI Chris E. contacted me it made us all very happy & Relia exposed Daryl Acumen, my old federal attorney is going to babysit the case here forward he is retired but I trust him! Oh relia brought John Richards into the picture.

Daryl has already posted his bull I attached screenshot I just wanted to let you know why Sylvester, Allen & I decided to let you go with good reason not Daryl’s bull crap Leonard Martinez sent first cashiers check from my car settlement I have copy, please send the balance of what I owe you Thank you

You now are removed from email list God bless you.    


(All Media Bcc) Mr. Holje is no longer my attorney. This will go to trial 100%  
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Andres Esquivel KarmaCause CEO:
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From: Michael Holje <mike@brownbradshaw.com>
To: Karma Cause <karmacause@ymail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:39 AM
Subject: RE: Shar great job. Relia exposes Daryl on John Richards!

As I am no longer representing Andy, please remove me from your email list.  Thanks.
Michael T. Holje
Brown, Bradshaw & Moffat, LLP
10 West Broadway, Suite 210
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101
(801) 532-5297 (tel)
(801) 532-5298 (fax)
mike@brownbradshaw.com

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Another crazy, ranting, psychotic email from Andy Esquivel

Posted on June 19, 2012 in Andy Esquivel's Scams Andy's Threats Buzz/Wiser Karma Cause Trial Updates Wiser Car Cover Wiser E-Cigarettes Wiser Eyes Xtagged

Andress "Andy" EsquivelThis crazy, ranting email from Andy Esquivel is as much evidence of drug use as it is evidence that Andy is guilty of everything he’s charged of.  No intelligent human being can read through this garbled mess and think anything other than “wow, this man is insane.”

With this email (sent to Xtagged “supporters”) Andy tries to explain in one twisted narrative the conspiracies that have brought him to this point – broke, being sued for $18,000 in back child support, unemployed, and on trial for felony securities fraud.  If you can get through even half of this gibberish, you will be impressed with the extent of Andy’s psychosis.

It’s over for Daryl & Ryion this is only one of the emails below from many people that lost out because of these two men, Carlos Martinez SLC promoter Rick from playground has said Daryl manipulated him Constantine from world famous Harryos in park city did even better he told John Steer that Daryl did the same thing to 4 other Utah companies all these people will get there justice and now finally Shar, Cynthia, key, Sylvester etc all of you can stop saying I am crazy for not letting you civilly sue Chris & Kyle along with Daryl and Ryion, I was right about Chris E. so please just be patient please look Chris E. is CC you all need to understand Chris’s Gym promoted Xtagged for 2 years and Kyle called news, companies if it wasn’t for kyle I never would have talked to i-safe.org you all know the video of Johnathon king ex- F.B.I agent with i-safe.org that I told on January 2009 “they are going to try and bring Xtagged down” I told Allen what I was going to do and I said “We only have a few owners at the moment but I will bring more in to protect us, it’s not my fault Kyle brought Ryion in that’s how Daryl found his way in, Taylor was brought in also look at the time frame I brought Taylor in right at that time and Taylor brought in his good friend Jason just look at the time frame as a matter of fact I did not want Ryion I wanted Logan laws because of his father with pro image but Logan only had $2,500 so he partnerd with Ryion! You guys seen the pre-trial video Ryion says “Andy took money from a little boy a kid named Logan Laws” Ryion partnered with that little kid to begin with Ryion is just as manipulative as Daryl Acumen! Xtagged will win guys. When I told Andrew Couch (I have it recorded from 2008) “I could not merge Xtagged because of safety reasons” he got pissed because he wanted money but he could not attack me until Daryl told him about Ryion’s blog May/2009 look click here Daryl used to be with Xtagged 2006 but he got jealous because we was on the news not him so he quit but after the Fox13 interview he tried to come back Allen told him no. Daryl and Andrew Couch then plotted to use Ryion, kyle, and Chris why because Andrew Couch took the system to Mitch Thrower not fully knowing about the flaw in the system that’s why I could not finish patent because they were watching the filings you see patents are a rich mans why of coping your Ideas so if I would have went forward with that same patent I would have had to released the research of the system flaw that’s what busted Andrew Couch look his LinkedIn says past Director of business intelligence at Bump.com and now Mitch Thrower’s LinkedIn follows Allen Brady and John Steer he used to follow me and Steve but they told him I was going to do 15 to 25 years in prison can you blame the guy for unconnecting from our linkedIn Chris E. knows this I sent them a video showing Mitch Thrower was on mine and Steve’s LinkedIn and what did Daryl do manipulate again, Daryl tried to take what was rightfully ours and he is going down I was my own attorney at the beginning of this trial WHY so Daryl would strait up manipulate these guys and say Andy don’t have no money see he blew it all blah blah blah, now he is doing it again “Andy don’t have a lawyer” I have already spent $14,000 on attorney & ten trips to Utah. Why did I take plea in Bountiful to prove a point… Casey the prosecutor in Bountiful did not do a thing about the attempted kidnapping May/2009 where 20 people jumped us three because Casey believed we had hundreds of investor’s and he wanted us ran out of Bountiful, Casey called to see if Xtagged had a license to do business but he only called Utah! Xtagged was out of Wyoming, get it now Casey will look bad. Adam Sweet did not even know about our Wyoming paperwork he pretended he did at pre-trial but what Adam does not know is that Ryion Butcher wants to be a movie star Ryion has a modeling profile that’s how Daryl got to him “will be famous on tv if we bust Andy” but that backfired on Daryl because October 2011 Ryion called Ron our documentary cameraman and gave a phone interview “Ron I like you and I want you to come and film me” Ron then says prove it give me something! Ryion sent him a book written by Becky(Daryl) wait until you all see the book Becky wrote and sent to us a year earlier but that was not it Ryion then tells Ron the cameraman “OK here is the biggest evidence Adam Sweet has on Andy he never registered Xtagged” he did that phone interview Oct of 2011 and then Daryl manipulated Ron past to get Ryion to stop talking! Adam Sweet of the SEC acted like he knew the whole time about Wyoming Xtagged INC but at pretrial if you all watched Adam Sweet pre-trial video you seen Mr.Holje ask Adam who registered Xtagged in Denver Colorado you will see Adam stumble through paper work for a few minutes and nervously say Daryl A, Acumen what you guys don’t know is Allen brady and Steve Klemark and I got a call after our meeting with the SEC Judge because they did not want Adam Sweet in the meeting for him having me arrest for no reason Adam Sweet asked Allen, Steve and I to come back to the SEC office and meet with him we did I said nothing just sat down and recorded the meeting Adam sweet told us “I don’t know a Daryl Acumen” Allen was amazed Allen said “What I told you about Daryl then Adam says I don’t know who you are Allen I only talked to Andy’s attorney Leonard Martinez, Allen told Adam Sweet ‘You called me 5 times asking if I would go against Andy and I said no and you would hang up! Then Steve klemark started in on Adam Sweet, all recorded guys, you see why they don’t want trial. We than came back to Denver and went strait to Leonard Martinez and told him that Adam Sweet said he did not know Daryl Acumen I record Leonard also guys Leonard was amazed and said that’s a lie I told him about Daryl myself. Ryion even told Ron something weird is going on I called Adam Sweet to tell him that you and I have come to an agreement Andy will pay Kyle, Chris and I our money back and I don’t even want interest Ron, remember Ryion wants to be in the documentary Ron says lets get it done I will film me giving you checks but then Ryion says we can’t because the Davis prosecutor said no he won’t allow it Why because if it’s dropped Casey the Bountiful prosecutor is now in trouble ready for this, Mr. Holje and Casey are great friends… I recorded every meeting with Mr. Holje the last one Mr. Holje is yelling at me to take the plea of misdemeanors and no jail time get it (Buddies Casey & Holje) Chris E. got a copy of the email I sent Mr. Holje and the truth is if I would have taken the plea Mr. Holje is right it would not hurt my civil suit against platester/Bump.com and since we let Mr. Jenkins pay these men at court we would not owe them anything everybody wins in his book Casey now can say see he was guilty that’s why Mr. Holje was forcing the plea on me I have a watch cam of all my meetings with Mr. Holje. Karma is my life guys I will prove it now ask Chris E. he got a copy of the email I sent Mr.Holje when I fired him I told him in the email “I can not do that because if I leave Kyle a man that helped me for two years hanging out to dry it will come back on me through karma because Steve, Sylvester, Key, Shar, Cory etc were going to sue them Kyle never should have sent an email that read ” I agree with everything Daryl and Ryion say about Wiser e-cig and the other fake companies with hundreds of investors! He is brain washed guys Kyle even sat down with our patent attorney, so to make this short I fired Mr. Holje to protect Chris and Kyle for my Karma. Now I will return to court representing my self again Why because I have all this evidence on video that’s why Brian Doubleday owns 20% of the movie rights this man is a movie genius he made Instinct that movie gave me so much in life Cuba Gooding JR I believe got an award for that guys I guarantee Brian will get a Pulitzer award for Xtagged movie, Facebook is getting sued Google it they are getting sued for their movie social network because it was 80% lies Xtagged is all on video since 2005 when it was Single & Dating Mr. Doubleday knows all of this look he is CC. Facebook is now in trouble with the SEC and everyone who invested is suing Facebook that’s why I never wanted to sell them pretty certificates that Allen Brady has had the whole time I wanted to hire Melissa Gar, Brian Davis worker you all remember Brian Davis the guy in Bountiful that lived in 1.6 million dollar house on hill next to the temple he sent Melissa Gar to me so they could handle INC, certificates, but then Ryion Butcher told us no don’t do that “I have a marketing degree guys” we all were there when Ryion said this at our sushi shop “I can sell Xtagged products an make us a lot of money” we only believed it because he was Kyle’s friend! The only reason Chris and Kyle don’t have paperwork like Allen Brady, Robert & Kim from playground is because they did not want to pay Jason web Xtagged Inc attorney $310 an hour to draw it up, Allen owned Bus company their lawyer did it for him not for free but you get what I mean Robert & Kim’s club lawyer did theirs. Chris and Kyle used that paperwork because Jason and another attorney emailed it to me

Screen-shots above are emails with Chris and Kyle’s paperwork from Utah Attorneys 02/04/2008! I want trial 100% but I don’t want Kyle and Chris to get in trouble they are manipulated by Daryl Acumen, ask Taylor Jones I asked if he could help save these men I have CC everyone because it’s all true look Taylor is in CC.

All this evidence is at http://www.diigo.com/user/xtagged you can find it on your own and that’s only 10% of evidence Mr. Holje told John Steer he did not want to see his evidence, that sent up red flags because he was helping his friend Casey the Bountiful prosecutor I paid $1,500 total for disorderly conduct! WHAT! “I CALLED THE POLICE GUYS” I am listed as the victim in Bountiful case report I have copy if needed media only they put no one was taken to the hospital John Steer was hit with a pool ball 14 times in the head that’s attempted murder I told Mr. Holje we were kidnapped he said why because they locked you in the store I said no Sir, because it was twenty men on three Why 20 to 3 because they were going to carry us out of there they just couldn’t believe we defended ourselves with 20 against 3, I have a recording of the fight on my old Samsung smart phone, he said let me see it, I said at trial you will he then keep billing me $200 an hour and said your not going to have enough money for the Davis court if you keep this up just take the plea of $300 and six months probation or else this is going to cost thousands, for a Disorderly conduct guys Mr. Superlawer.com ended up costing me $1,500 dollars and still had to plea a disorderly conduct that I never did in short don’t ever call 911 in bountiful because I did and it cost me $1,500 to call the Bountiful police, the men who moved all the furniture to jump us (I have video) that’s called premeditation and they unplugged the stores video cameras and please note the workers of hero’s computers where they jumped us never called 911 I did, it’s funny because Casey the bountiful prosecutor says to this day it was only four guys (I have a video of it) but never the less them four guys got a $300 fine That’s it! I paid $1,500 John Steer paid $180 fine and $5,000 bountiful hospital bill, yes Mr. Holje’s best friend Casey the Bountiful prosecutor showed us scammers and ran us out of town, only problem is we are not scammers and we did have INC, and where are the hundreds of investors we scammed so now what do they do.

Mr. Doubleday Sir, you know theirs to much to fit in this email but I only try to fulfill my Karma and guess what, I have done it now if trial proceeds I have done enough to warn Kyle & Chris here comes trial Sir get ready to film the trial in Utah. FYI the day you heard me out Brian for 5 hours and you did not ask for anything is the day I knew we had the right people for Xtagged movie here is some good news for you Sir, I will prove to you I am not about money rewrite our contract I am going to give your company 30% not 20% of documentary/movie royalties just promise you will tell the world everything Sir, Daryl Acumen used the internet as a weapon against all of us please tell the world. The other 20% is for my Xtagged team and the other 50% of course goes to karmacause.com

Andrew Couch got to see the big time with Mitch Thrower at first, and I almost lost everything but in the time of having nothing I invented so much more, so yes Andrew got to party and celebrate back then but the money clouded his mind and he just peeked… I on the other hand had nothing to cloud my mind and invented Buzz/wiser, Wisertechnology, Facebook apps just go look at www.Wisertechnology.com and see for yourselves that’s why I don’t want money in my account it’s that simple I will draw a salary from Karmacause.org that’s it! After everyone knows the truth they will trust www.Karmacause.org because it puts Digital fingerprints on everything and Steve Klemarks DigitalInternetDna.com will blow you all away that’s why he is CEO of WiserTechnology.com.

I will see you all when I come to Utah June 19th Dre, Zac, Rick Carlos all you guys that have recently email me just like Dre below’ I miss you to bro, none of this is your guys fault you did not abandon Xtagged Daryl is just evil and tried to steal your rightful blessing from God because I don’t know how I did all this all I know is that God does exist because before I could not live without my son Andres and my daughter Savannah ask John Steer he will tell you, my son and daughter was so proud of me in 2007 after Fox13 but now because of Daryl Acumen manipulating them with all these lies I have not seen them for three years… My son sent me an email 2 years ago that read ” You scammer why don’t you invent something that really works” my family says they think my ex wrote it not my son never the less I asked God to please give the strength to keep on inventing and oh boy he answered my prayers just look at us now Xooplay is not scam nothing is and with my prayers answered in full I knew I would see them soon that’s why I want trial over because I miss them dearly I just had to think of all children not just my own. Steve Klemark Denver P.D his father retired N.Y.P.D got so much research from these last two year that now I can say it will benefit our children 100% I just could not say anything, now you can see why… all I ask of you guys is to pray that I get to see Andres & Savannah soon because I don’t care about money just God.

P.s look at the way I write Ok that’s me Rebecca Dunn is the one that wrote all the text for Karmacause.com and Wisertecknology.com that’s a lot from her so please until a real investigation happens and don’t worry a real one is coming the SEC Judge told Allen Brady Aug, 02, 2011 he would start one as soon as Davis county case is over he told Allen that, so please everyone stop telling me that Daryl & Beckie are a Mother son team… Beckie told me that she was going to get Daryl for kicking her out of his home I believe at trial she will make good on that, if not and I am wrong that’s for God to judge not us. look at what I have been living and the proof of that is if we are in court and trial is coming 100% why still run slander/smear campaign to this day. Daryl and Ryion are so desperate they turned www.Xoutscams.com back on why when I am supposedly already caught! This is why, if Daryl and Ryion turn it off well they in a way turn of the brain washing machine right Chris E. you now why I truly fired Mr. Holje that’s why you are connected to all of us now and thank God.

God bless Us All! Dre see you soon…

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Andy Esquivel’s former attorney blocks Andy’s emails…

Posted on June 19, 2012 in Andy's Threats Trial Updates Xtagged

Here’s another ranting email from Andy Esquivel bragging that his attorney called him childish and has now blocked his emails.  This ranting email is a perfect example of the mental state of a pathological lying sociopath who’s brain has been rotted away by drugs.  Andy also continues to brag about Digital Internet DNA, which is of course another farce he’s created to convince his mentally incapacitated followers that there’s substance behind his madness.
Thank you God, it work guys our DigitalInternetDna.com app worked look at the screen-shots it even traced where it was coming from… And you will not believe what building they tried to hide it from but Digital Internet Dna aka D.I.D caught it all. Steve your Dad in N.Y.P.D bro you and him are going to be famous you did it just as they discovered Dna you discovered Internet Dna get ready this is going to be big!

Check this out it will blow you away; 

I told you guys you don’t know everything now it’s time I want you to click link below and click image of the bountiful police report 05/24/2009 I was primary victim…

 http://xtagged.blogspot.com/2011/12/lets-disprove-daryl-and-ryion-again.html
Are you ready click this link below of bountiful police on May, 01, 2009 the police in this video were two of the 20 men that attacked us May, 24, 2009 our police report says no one went to the hospital that’s a lie, I have a video of the whole fight ask John Steer Xtagme@gmail.com
http://www.abc4.com/news/local/story/EXCLUSIVE-Bountiful-City-settles-taser-lawsuit/KQEAenKQS02dTF8Q9DTQ3w.cspx
That’s why they were trying so hard to make me take the plea bargain of misdemeanors and no jail time they need to make me look bad! I am innocent I invented Xtagged.com and I am not taking plea… Read the two page email I sent earlier about Bountiful prosecutor Casey, SEC’s Adam Sweet & my so called $200 an hr attorney Mr. Holje that I fired and now he marks my email as spam screenshot 3 & 4 be sure to click all links in that email video and screenshot evidence please.
I hope you all read the long email of F.B.I 2008 I sent before this one, Xtagged.com is worth billions this will be the biggest internet news story ever.
Mr. Holje told me it was childish and dumb that I record everything, I recorded him saying that in court conference room what attorney that you pay $200 an hour would say that!
I recorded everything since the beginning of Xtagged and especially now…
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Andy Esquivel rails against his own attorney

Posted on June 19, 2012 in Andy's Threats Trial Updates Xtagged

In this email sent to Xtagged “supporters,” Andy Esquivel rails on his own attorney, alleging collusion and misdealing.  He continues to claim that his attorney somehow forced him to accept plea deals in Bountiful and American Fork, as if that were possible.  He again brags about the law enforcement connections he supposedly has amassed and tries to make his supporters believe that these “connections” will somehow shield him from the criminal charges he now faces.

Ever since we confronted Mr. Holje about Casey the Bountiful prosecutor and him being friends he has had our emails blocked as spam attachment 3&4;

Mr. Holje forced both pleas all you have to do to confirm this is get all court videos/transcripts, Ryion & Daryl told Bountiful prosecutor April, 29, 2009 we had hundreds of investors we scammed that’s why prosecutor had us ran out of Bountiful… As you see it was all a lie and that’s why they tried to force plea on me again for the third time it’s just this time I had to protect Chris & Kyle because I could not show them this stuff back then I was told not to…

Mr. Martinez 303.623.3300 our Denver Attorney since April of 2010 knew all of this the whole time he says this calls for an F.B.I investigation Steve & his Father of N.Y.P.D have went to the F.B.I that why I now dare to release these video they were marked private. Xtagged system is worth billions and in the last email about Adam Sweet from the SEC I showed you how he lied about Daryl Acumen Leonard also confirmed in his video that Adam Sweet was not being truthful.

Now do you get why Mr. Brian Doubleday is producing this movie it’s big we have a meeting with Mark Flores the attorney that sued Bountiful for Bruce Harper he was Xtagged supporter his plate wasn’t crooked he had an Xtagged bumper sticker on his car! They Attacked Bruce May, 2009 and us May of 2009 get it the police was to run Xtagged out of town because Casey Bountiful prosecutor just believed Ryion and Daryl did not check it out now they don’t know what to do…

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Andy Esquivel’s attorney warns about new allegations

Posted on June 19, 2012 in Trial Updates Xtagged

Here is an email communication from Andy’s attorney which he forwarded to the world that includes his attorney’s acknowledgement of additional allegations from Melissa Garr who claims Andy used Xtagged.com to defraud her out of $100,000.  In the following document, you will see that Andy gave Miss Garr 3% of Xtagged in consideration for her investment. One can only speculate whether or not these additional allegations contributed to Holje’s decision to quit the case.  The revelation was forwarded to Andy’s “supporters” with the claim that his attorney somehow tried to “force” him to accept a plea deal.  Note: Andy violated his own attorney client privilege by forwarding this email and therefore the information contained herein can now be used as evidence against him at trial.
From: Karma Cause <karmacause@ymail.com>
To: “brian.davis@utahhomes.com” <brian.davis@utahhomes.com>; “brokerbrian@facebook.com” <brokerbrian@facebook.com>
Cc: Digital I-D filed <file@digitalinternetdna.com>; Brian Doubleday <brian@gwvideo.com>; Steve K <legal@wisertechnology.com>; Alll <allengbrady@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 5:39 PM
Subject: Fw: Here is one of the emails from my $200 an hr lawyer.
Look at the date it was before pre-trial they made me plea of misdemeanors with no jail & I said no and then Ryion, kyle & Chris committed perjury 22 times we stopped counting at 22 I know their is more, after I posted some of the lies and my attorney video of Leonard Martinez Chris E. one of the plaintiffs had a change of heart and now is connected to Steve Klemarks police LinkedIn and John’s all of us http://www.linkedin.com/in/xraza
WWW.KARMACAUSE.INFO
Andres Esquivel KarmaCause CEO:
Sent with my Xraza-phone
—– Forwarded Message —–
From: Michael Holje <mike@brownbradshaw.com>
To: “karmacause@ymail.com” <karmacause@ymail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 4:31 PM
Subject: confidential email for Andres Esquivel
Andy,
Who is Melissa Garr in Ogden, Utah?  She is alleging that you, through XTagged, took $100,000 from her.
Michael T. Holje
Brown, Bradshaw & Moffat, LLP
10 West Broadway, Suite 210
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101

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Andy Esquivel still claims Xtagged worth “billions”

Posted on June 19, 2012 in Trial Updates Xtagged

Here’s the first of a series of delusional emails that Andy Esquivel has been sending to his “supporters” in the run-up to trial.  Notice that in this first example, Andy continues to claim that Xtagged is worth “billions,” in spite of the fact that the domain is currently redirecting to Bump.com which claims to have absolutely no relationship with Andy Esquivel and which Andy continues to claim is trying to steal Xtagged from him.  Andy also continues to talk about the Xtagged “movie.”
Brian I know this is blowing your mind I have attached commitment I signed with you 05/04/2009, please look at the date on email from Microsoft to Klye attachment 3 same day I signed with you all this is happening because Xtagged is worth billions if you watched the Facebook movie The Social Network you will see that even the treasurer of the U.S laughed when he was told Facebook would be worth millions. And know Daryl sent emails to my family saying that they are going to pull my bail on Tuesday I guess they really want to force the plea on meI told my family Daryl just wants them to be scared for me and talk me into taking the plea my family did not know everything about my evidence so ya can’t blame them at all… As you can see Brian Doubleday is CC: and as a movie maker he knows how much that would build the Xtagged movie “Dam it! Andy won’t take the plea lets pull his bail” I would go for my cause in a heart beat, unfortunately my family already has copies of the 22 perjury emails on the plaintiffs and would be knocking on the city hall doors instantly…
It works like this usually the prosecutor will let you sit in jail to force you to take plea, oh and they tried to put me in jail wait until you hear about that! But jail did not work because the other owners of Xtagged and my family bailed me out so they have Daryl start new website Dec, 05, 2011 in Ryions name and turn up the lies to try and force me to take plea unforgivably on their behalf that backfired on them because Steve’s wife tried to commit suicide thinking her husband really scammed hundreds of people for millions of dollars Amanda Klemark 3 days in Denver hospital and when I told Mr. Holje that he did not care I have video of it… That’s why Steve will not talk to anyone now but the Judge if you look at screenshot of Steve’s Facebook where Amanda wrote having a wonderful day because Steve’s father retired N.Y.P.D is back in town Steve does not want to say anything else until he takes the Stand. Allen Brady talked to attorney Mark Flores and was told be careful you could be in danger just last week.     
P.s I don’t believe we will get in to Utah early enough to meet with you tomorrow but I will call your office at 1:30pm I can meet with you on Tuesday my court is at 8:30am anytime after that would be great Ron will be filming some more witnesses so I can meet with you anytime Tuesday I have to get back to Denver Wednesday I have two kids that I need to take care of while my mom is at work and my girl is in chief school I wish I could stay longer but my family calls, it was nice speaking with you Mr. Holje would not contact you now I know why! He charges $200 an hour and would not due what I asked him for, for $50 bucks an hour I would call the person daddy and do everything I was asked as long as it was legal happy fathers day see you soon…

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Judge Connors signs Holje’s request to withdraw as counsel

Posted on June 10, 2012 in Trial Updates Xtagged

Andress "Andy" EsquivelThe judge overseeing the fraud case against Andy Esquivel signed the order releasing Michael Holje as Andy Esquivel’s attorney on Friday.  Check the case file update for more details [PDF] or click here for the official court order [PDF].  Now Andy is OFFICIALLY officially on his own for the pre-trial hearing on the 19th.  The questions now are (a) does Andy Esquivel have enough evidence or the skill to try this case on his own, (b) does he have the balls to ask for a trial date instead of another ‘extension’ and (c) will he throw himself on the mercy of the court and ask for a public defender to replace Michael Holje?  My guess is the answers are No, No, and Yes.

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Andy Esquivel is officially without legal representation

Posted on June 8, 2012 in Trial Updates Xtagged

Andress "Andy" EsquivelOn June 7th Judge Connors and prosecutor Lyon officially accepted Michael Holje’s motion to be released as Andy Esquivel’s attorney in fraud case#111701135.  As of yesterday therefore, Andy Esquivel is officially without legal representation.  The question remains whether or not Andy will accept help of a public defender.  Odds are he will because he’s too broke to hire another attorney.  Of course there’s always the possibility that Andy will try to represent himself with that box full of evidence he claims to have, but I doubt he’s that stupid.  Andy knows he’s guilty and representing himself at trial would only hasten the prosecution’s case.

The Pre-trial hearing in in a week and my guess is that Andy will ask for another extension to give him time to think.  An accelerated trial would be a disaster for Andy, as he would at minimum be found guilty and be ordered to pay Ryion, Kyle and Chris back in full.  As always the full case update can be found here [PDF].

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Will Andy Esquivel opt for the Public Defender?

Posted on June 4, 2012 in Trial Updates

Will Andy Esquivel opt for the Public Defender?

Andy EsquivelIf so, then time is running short.  Nobody has filed a motion with the court yet to become Andy’s new attorney and the pre-trial hearing is in two weeks.  From this side of the fence, Andy’s situation looks pretty bleak.  Unless one of the prosecutions witnesses gets hit by a bus or there’s a fire and all the evidence against Andy gets destroyed, he’s doomed.

Unfortunately for Andy, he can’t take a plea deal because it would require him to pay back Ryion, Kyle and Chris before the 19th in cash or certified funds.  Andy can’t go forward without an attorney unless he’s actually thinking of representing himself.  He seems to think he has enough “evidence” to go forward alone, but I don’t think he’s stupid enough to try.  I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

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Andy still without attorney

Posted on May 24, 2012 in Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel still without attorney

Andress "Andy" EsquivelAfter a week, it appears that Andy Esquivel still remains without legal representation.  This is a dangerous situation for him since he has a a pre-trial hearing on less than a month.

As most of you already know, Andy’s own attorney quit when he realized that (a) Andy Esquivel is guilty of fraud and has no hope of winning a trial and (b) Andy can’t afford to accept a plea bargain because it would require him to pay back the Utah victims immediately.  So far the court has not been notified of Holje’s replacement.

Andy’s next hearing will likely be very entertaining.  The main question is whether or not he will be able to scam someone out of enough money to pay Ryion, Kyle and Chris back or whether he will accept the help of a public defender.  Whatever Andy decides, it is clear he has only two choices: pay the Utah victims back immediately or start packing his bags for an extended stay in Utah state prison.

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Andy Esquivel’s attorney quits fraud case!

Posted on May 18, 2012 in Trial Updates Xtagged

Andy Esquivel’s attorney quits fraud case!

Andy EsquivelMichael Holje filed a motion Wednesday asking to be released as Andy Esquivel’s attorney in the securities fraud case now pending in Davis County district court (case#111701135).  A copy of the motion to be released can be found here [PDF] and as always a full case update can be found here [PDF].  No new counsel has as yet come forward to replace Holje and there is no indication yet as to whether or not Andy will accept the help of the public defender.

Andy was advised by mail that he is still required to appear before Judge Connors on July 19th for his pre-trial hearing.  Unless Andy reaches a plea agreement with the court before then, the case will proceed to trial.

This is a serious setback for Andy and his defense.  Most likely Andy either ran out of money ofr the poor suckers he was scamming to help him pay his legal fees wised up and decided it wasn’t worth it for them to float him anymore.  Whatever the case, Andy is in serious trouble without competent legal counsel, and little is he aware that his troubles are just beginning.

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Andy Esquivel’s pre-trial conference continued to June 19th

Posted on April 26, 2012 in Trial Updates Xtagged

Andy Esquivel’s pre-trial conference continued to June 19th

Andy EsquivelOn April 24th Michael Holje asked for a continuance of the pre-trial conference until June to give him more time to negotiate a plea or prepare for a defense. The court agreed and a 2nd pre-trial conference has been set for June 19th at 8:34am.  As always trial updated can be found here [PDF].

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Andy Esquivel Securities Fraud preliminary hearing audio transcript online now.

Posted on April 6, 2012 in Andy's Videos Trial Updates Xtagged

Andy Esquivel Securities Fraud preliminary hearing audio transcript

The audio transcript of Andy Esquivel’s Felony Securities Fraud preliminary hearing and his subsequent arraignment on three felony counts of Securities Fraud is now available here.

  • :45 Judge orders all potential witnesses to leave the room except for victims of the crime
  • 2:30 prosecutor’s opening statement
  • 3:45 Kyle Cluff witness testimony
  • 48:00 Chris Engelbreght witness testimony
  • 1:13:00 Ryan Butcher witness testimony
  • 1:45:00 Adam Sweet Complaint Investigator for the Utah Division of Securities expert testimony
  • 1:56:00 Tom Brady Acting Director of Enforcement at the Utah Division of Securities expert testimony
  • 2:30:35 Defense Counsel argues for reduction of 2nd degree felony charge
  • 2:33:45 Judge finds probable cause for all charges as presented by the state, including securities fraud in the 2nd degree
  • 2:37:28 Andy Esquivel is formally indicted and pleads not guilty to one second degree and two third degree felony counts of securities fraud.  A pre-trial conference is scheduled for April 24th.

Andress "Andy" EsquivelAfter the hearing was over, Andy walked out of the courtroom and confronted his followers who were forced to wait outside and who had no idea what had just happened in the courtroom.  Watch this [VIDEO] of Andy trying to put a good spin on the fact that he was just indicted on three felony counts of securities fraud.  It’s really fun to watch a master con artist and pathological liar at work.

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Pathological Liar and Con Artist Andy Esquivel Alleges Perjury

Posted on March 29, 2012 in Andy's Threats Karma Cause Trial Updates

Pathological Liar and Con Artist Andy Esquivel Alleges Perjury

As a goofy twist to a story that’s getting so tiresome and repetitive that it’s almost not worth posting about anymore, Andy Esquivel now claims that the witnesses who testified at his March 21st preliminary hearing are all guilty of perjury.  Here’s the evidence:

———- message ———-
From: ryion butcher <workkhardd@ddd.com>
Date: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX at 11:36 PM
Subject: RE: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!
To: xtagged@gmail.com, xtagme@gmail.com, utxpatrol@gmail.com
Cc: xtaggedtrainer@gmail.com, rdunn@wiserecigarette.com, beckiedunnz@aol.com, allenbrady@hotmail.com

Private until court!!! XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Look how Ryion signs off!
Sincerely,

Ryion Butcher
1% Owner XTagged –
Entitled to 1% of all dividends and profits

World Peace!

…boy, nobody saw that coming.

Andy EsquivelForget for a moment that a pathological lying idiot like Andy Esquivel accusing anybody of “perjury” is like Jack the Ripper accusing somebody of assault and consider the futility of posting an accusation of ‘perjury’ online.  Wouldn’t those accusations be more appropriate for his attorney to raise in court?  If the accusations had any merit whatsoever, wouldn’t his attorney have raised questions about the given testimony during cross examination already?  If you were an attorney for the defense and you were holding out for trial to raise questions about witness testimony, would you advise your client to post your allegations on the web for everybody including the prosecutor to see weeks in advance?

It’s amusing to me to see how much more desperate Andy’s posting become the closer he gets to trial.  First there were no charges.  Then the police were going to testify in a counter suit.  Then the charges had been thrown out.  Then Allen Brady was supposed to be negotiating with the DA to have the case dismissed.  Then there was going to be a change of venue to Colorado.  Then there was this box of evidence that Andy was going to use to beat the case.  Then Andy was going to have all his friends testify in his defense.  Then Andy was going to reveal all the details of this huge three year conspiracy in court.  Now there’s perjury.  Next Andy will claim he was framed or that his appeal will exonerate him.  Finally Andy will say it was all staged for a documentary about how an innocent man can get charged with fraud with an insider’s look at life behind bars.

No intelligent human being can watch the events of the last three years and conclude anything less than the obvious: Andy Esquivel is a pathological lying idiot who can’t find  a job and who survives by conning mentally incompetent sidekicks like Allen Brady into paying his legal bills.

Thankfully the drama is almost over.

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Xtagged Trial update (case#111701135) – Securities Fraud

Posted on March 23, 2012 in Trial Updates Xtagged

Xtagged Trial update (case#111701135) – Securities Fraud

Andy EsquivelI’ll have more updates once I review the audio transcripts, but on Wednesday Andy’s attorney tried and failed to get Andy’s charges reduced through a plea bargain.  First he offered to get the investors their money back within an hour in exchange for reduced charges, but Andy was unable to come up with the money.  Next he tried to get Kyle’s 2nd degree felony charge reduced, but the Judge and prosecutor would have none of it.

All three victims testified on Wednesday as well as Adam Sweet of the Utah Department of Securities and his Director.  The case against Andy was made clear and little room for discussion was left after the expert testimony.  Andy’s minions were not present in the courtroom as the Judge issued an exclusion order removing them from the court-room.

A pre-trial hearing has been set for April 24th, after which Andy will go to trial for securities fraud.  A case update can be found here [PDF].

Andy also released this hilarious video in which he makes a slew of new allegations and shows off the hidden cameras he supposedly used over the last several years to document his persecution by the state of Utah.  Andy also talks about his new Wiser memory card with amazing new features to impress his friends.  It’s fascinating how easily Andy Esquivel slips from one lie to the next without skipping a beat and without realizing his lies are contradicting other lies he told previously.  It’s very entertaining to watch a mindless sociopath at work.

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General Case updates

Posted on March 6, 2012 in Trial Updates

We’ve just uploaded the minutes of Andy Esquivel’s sentencing hearings form case numbers 101101321 (Digital Harassment – ‘no contest’) and 091800357 (Disorderly Conduct – ‘guilty’).  Full minutes are linked below:

Digital harassment ‘Non Contest’ plea minutes [PDF]

Disorderly Conduct ‘guilty’ plea minutes [PDF]

Andy’s attorney also filed a motion to forfeit a portion of Andy’s bail to satisfy the fine.   A copy of the motion to forfeit part of the $500 bail Allen Brady paid to satisfy Andy’s fine can be found here [PDF].

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Andy Esquivel Pleads “No Contest” to Harassment Charges

Posted on February 17, 2012 in Andy's Threats Ron Kelsay Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel Pleads “No Contest” to Harassment Charges

January 17, 2011 A. Fork prosecutor offers Andy plea bargain (NO jail and one year probation).  Andy said no thank you. WHY?  because Andres Esquivel is innocent! 

Apparently he changed his mind:

This morning Andy Esquivel plead “No Contest” to Class B Misdemeanor Digital Harassment charges (case#101101231) in Utah District Court.  Andy was ordered to pay a $250 fine ($50 per month for five months beginning April 1st) and to break no further state, local, or federal laws for a period of 12 months.  A full case update can be found here [PDF].

WE ALL WILL PROVE EVERYTHING 02/17/2012 9:30AM AT AMERICAN FORK! Steve, Shar, Allen, Gene, Denise, Jake, John, Ron and more

Today Andy, Steve, Shar, Gene, Denise, Jake, Ron and the gang proved…NOTHING!!!   It was a little anti-climactic to he honest.  Andy sent me 50 threatening emails over the course of 18 months.  He probably sent more actually, but I configured my email server to block all his messages so I have no idea.  As a result of his threatening spam, Andy was ordered to pay the state of Utah $5 per email.  That’s one expensive Gmail account!

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Disorderly Conduct Plea update

Posted on February 15, 2012 in Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel’s Disorderly Conduct Plea

Andy Esquivel pleads guilty to Disorderly ConductJust uploaded details of the “plea in abeyance” which Andy’s attorney negotiated with the court on February 6th.  It stipulates that the plea stands in abeyance for six months on the condition that Andy break no further laws in that period and pays a supervisory fee of $300 and all court costs.  A link to the minutes of the hearing can be found here [PDF].

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Andy Esquivel says Xtagged wasn’t a scam after all

Posted on February 9, 2012 in Andy's Videos Trial Updates Xtagged

I know this will come as a SHOCK to some of you reading this blog, but Andy Esquivel recently posted a new YouTube video in which he claims that (get this) Xtagged wasn’t a scam after all!

Andy warned everybody!

Wow, what a relief!  I had no idea.  Damn, well I guess Andy can fire Michael Holje now and we can all go home…NOT!!!

As ‘proof’ for his assertion that Xtagged wasn’t a scam, Andy points to a password protected  link on his Wiser Technology tombstone website which he says contains documents which PROVE that even though Xtagged never legally existed, it somehow legally existed – did you follow that?  No?  Ok, let’s try again…

In order for a company to legally exist, it must be registered with the Secretary of State of the state in which is chooses to do business.  Oh, and it should probably have a business license to go with that registration.  Xtagged, Inc. never had a business license, and was never registered in either Colorado or Utah.  That means Xtagged Inc. never existed except in the imagination of Andy Esquivel.

Just to be clear for those of you who are still confused: just because Andy Esquivel pretends that a company exists, that doesn’t make it so.  😉

So, Andy has these fraudulent documents which he claims prove the impossible, but they’re hidden behind a password protected link that he’s only given to the multitudes of journalists, who couldn’t care less about him because none of them ever show up to any of his court hearings, and he expects those of us who aren’t out of our minds to believe him?  …uh-huh, that’s what I said.

Anyway, in Andy’s video, he goes on and on about how he warned everybody that Xtagged wasn’t fake (as if that somehow makes the company real) and points to an email he sent in which he tells everybody this months ago.  He even claims to have told the SEC (by which he means the Utah department of Securities).  Gee, I wonder why the Davis County Prosecutor decided to go ahead with the case when Andy had sent out this email saying he wasn’t a scam after all?  The Utah Department of Securities investigator must feel like a fool for missing Andy’s email telling him that the whole investigation was a waste of time.  All Andy has to do is show that warning email to the Judge on the 21st and I’m sure it’ll all be over.  Good luck with that Andy!

Esquivel even digs out an old email my mother wrote when she was still completely delusional and hanging on Andy’s every word.  My mother later apologized for the email and admitted that everything in it was a lie, but that doesn’t deter Andy.  Beckie even tried to make up for her part in Andy’s various scams by sending hundreds of pages of incriminating documents to be used against Andy in his pending fraud case (see Beckie Speaks for a sample), but again Andy is undeterred.

All-in-all it’s a pretty sad video.  Andy is obviously out of steam and grabbing at straws to try to save his pride.  I guess facing felony fraud charges and an eminent indictment can really weigh on a guys psyche.  No matter, it’ll all be over soon.  All Andy has to do is plead ‘guilty’ and he might be able to avoid spending the next several years in a Utah state prison.

…or he can just go into hiding for ten years like he did when he was charged with 2nd degree felony burglary of a dwelling in Weber county back in 1988 and just hope the whole thing blows over before he’s 50.

 

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Fraud case preliminary hearing reset to 3/21

Posted on February 8, 2012 in Trial Updates Xtagged

Andy Esquivel’s fraud case preliminary hearing reset to 3/21

Andy EsquivelAndy’s attorney notified the court this week that he needed more time.  A new preliminary hearing data has therefore been scheduled for March 21st @ 2:30pm.  Here’s the latest case update [PDF].  Odds are Michael Holje will spend the next month negotiating such a plea bargain on Andy’s behalf and advising his client to take whatever he can get.

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Andy Esquivel’s Disorderly Conduct case update (#091800357)

Posted on February 7, 2012 in Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel Disorderly Conduct case update (#091800357)

Andy EsquivelAndy’s attorney successfully negotiated a plea deal with Bountiful City in case #091800357.  Andy plead “Guilty” to one charge of “Disorderly Conduct” and the “Fail to Appear” charge was dropped.  As noted earlier, Andy was ordered to pay a $300 fine on the disorderly and given three months to pay.  The full case update with final disposition may be found here [PDF].  The fine in this case was the same one John Steer was forced to pay by Utah state “Gotcha check” when he filed his tax returns in 2010 [PDF].  John also plead “Guilty” to a single count of “Disorderly Conduct” in 2009 [PDF].

There is no record of Andy “suing” the city for “racism” or anything else which Andy has claimed over the years.  In the end, all Andy’s stories about Bountiful city came to naught.

Case closed.

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Gene Allen & Georgia Brady fraud documents

Posted on February 6, 2012 in Trial Updates Xtagged

Andy EsquivelI’ve uploaded a scanned copy of the fraudulent documents Andy Esquivel used to scam Georgia Brady out of $50,000.  The docs were drawn up by Georgia’s attorney and her son Gene Allen Brady helped facilitate the scam.  The documents are notarized and would be fine except for one tiny detail which Georgia’s lazy attorney never bothered to check: the company listed on the documents “Xtagged, Inc.” never legally existed.  These documents are evidence of fraud, however Georgia’s brainless son convinced her not to press charges against Andy so that he could continue to be Andy’s friend.

Here’s a link to the document [PDF].

…and here’s Georgia Brady’s response to the way Andy jerking her around after stealing her money:

From: Georgia Brady georgiabrady@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:38:20 -0700 (PDT)
To: stelex247@yahoo.cominfo@xtagged.comjwootton@centralutahlaw.com
Subject: 10% ownership of Xtagged

April 9, 2010

To Whom It May Concern:

Last week, Andy set up a meeting with me, our lawyer and Steven K. McCormic for yesterday in Sandy, Utah at 11:00 a.m. As usual, he didn’t keep his commitment and is still jerking us around.

What is it going to take to get all of you to understand that Allen and I have the right as part owners of Xtagged to know who all the new owners are, the name and contact information of your lawyer so we can send the proper paper work to him that will show we legally own part of Xtagged? I know that Andy is blocking our every efforts so you don’t find out what a
liar he is. Like it or not, Andy has committed fraud and if you continue to protect him, you will be part of his fraud game and guilty by association according to the law.

Now, we can get this information peacefully and professionally or we can get it the hard way. Your choice. If I don’t get this information for my lawyer within the next 24 hours, Andy and Xtagged plus everyone associated with him will be turned over to the Federal Division of Securities for fraudulent activities Monday morning.  Andy has done fraudulent business in 5 or 6 states, making it a Federal offense. Not only will they get our information for us but Andy will end up in prison again.

So, do we do this peacefully and professionally or the hard way? Your choice – 24 Hours!

Please email the information to Georgia. Thank you.

Georgia Brady
georgiabrady@yahoo.com

 

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Andy Esquivel – Disorderly Conduct charge update (#091800357)

Posted on February 6, 2012 in Trial Updates

Andy EsquivelToday Andy Esquivel’s attorney reached a plea deal on his Bountiful disorderly conduct charge.  Andy is being fined $300 (the same as John Steer) and must pay $100 per month beginning on March 1st.  The final case disposition has not yet been filed, but here is the case status [PDF] as of this writing and the notice of the fine and payment arrangement details [PDF].

So Andy has to pay $300 for getting his butt kicked in Bountiful three years ago – good for him!  It’s a shame he didn’t take care of this back in 2009 so he could have avoided having Allen pay $750 to keep him out of jail all this time.  He might also have been able to avoid paying an attorney to negotiate on his behalf.  $200/hour is a lot to pay someone to clean up after you.

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Harassment Trial update

Posted on January 19, 2012 in Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel just posted the following on his Wiser Scam website:

January 17, 2011 American Fork prosecutor offers Andy plea bargain (NO jail and one year probation). Andy said no thank you. WHY? because Andy is innocent! 

Hmmm…so it looks like Andy is holding out for a better plea deal than “NO jail and one year probation.”  What’s he expecting, no jail and six months probation?  Maybe he really does want this case to go to trial.

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Andy’s bogus trial updates…

Posted on January 17, 2012 in Andy's Threats Trial Updates

Andy Esquivel is still trying to convince his friends that he’s in complete control of his legal situation and that things aren’t as bad as they appear.  Here’s the lates from the Wiser Technology website:

Court Update; January 17,2012 in Davis County court, we all finally get to tell our side as owners of Xtagged. John Steer, Jake House, Allen Brady, Shar Jenkins, Steve klemark & more. Followed by American Fork where we all will testify against Daryl Acumen.
  
After we all prove that securities were never sold as Ryion & Daryl stated “hundreds were sold”.
We will continue with our lawsuit for Xtagged.
F.Y.I Wiser Technology has received a great offer from a Nevada company that we are looking into 01/18/2012.

…so where do we begin?  First of all, the hearings held today in Davis County and American Fork Utah were preliminary hearings, not trials.  There was no jury and nobody was the least bit interested in anything Andy Esquivel had to say.  In short nobody “testified” about anything…period!  In both cases, Andy’s attorney simply informed the court that he needed more time to convince his client to plead ‘guilty’ or to formulate some kind of defense.  The idea that Andy or his gullible friends would get to ‘tell [their] sides of the story’ today or ‘testify against’ me is completely delusional and illustrates how mentally disturbed Andy Esquivel is.

Second, Andy is an IDIOT if he thinks he’s going to be able to convince a judge that he never sold securities, especially when the state has copies of the checks written to him by investors  as well as signed documents claiming to do precisely that.  I don’t know what Andy means by “hundreds were sold”.  Hundreds of what?  Does he mean shares?  If so, then his own documents conform that Andy sold tens of thousands of shares, not hundreds.

As for a lawsuit for Xtagged, all I have to say is…next?  I mean seriously, we’ve been hearing the same hollow threats about the same fictitious companies for years.  Who at this point is still listening?

Finally Andy now claims that some company from Nevada, blah, blah, blah…  We’ve heard that before too.  it used to be entertaining, but now it’s just…whatever.  The first time I ever spoke to Steve Klemark on the phone he said Andy had some BS story about investors in Nevada.  Every time Andy wants to create the impression that there’s money right around the corner he brings up some company in Nevada.  It’s almost a running joke, like saying ‘I’ve got some beach-front property in Arizona to sell.

I think it’s funny that Andy still has the stones to try so hard to spin his dilemma online.  Everybody knows he’s guilty of fraud and within a few months he’s going to be pleading guilty to all charges.  What does he think he’s gong to gain by continuing to lie?

for REAL updates, stay tuned to this website and check out “Trial Updates” section monthly.  As new information comes in that is public record, we will post it here.

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Case#101101231 January 17th update (harassment)

Posted on January 17, 2012 in Trial Updates

Today Andy showed up in American Fork with his attorney and was granted another continuance.  The court ruled that he doesn’t have to show up for the next hearing and that a plea statement can be filed via affidavit.  For more details, click here.

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Case#111701135 January 17th update (fraud)

Posted on January 17, 2012 in Trial Updates

Andy appeared in court today with his attorney and asked for a remand of his waived preliminary hearing from last year.  The Judge set the date for a remanded preliminary hearing on February 17th 2012.  For details, click here.

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Trial update – case#091800357

Posted on January 4, 2012 in Trial Updates

Michael Holje appeared in court today on Andy Esquivel’s behalf and secured a continuance until February 6th while he and the prosecutor attempt to come to some sort of resolution.  Andy is currently free on $750 cash bail pending trial.  For more detail, click here.

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Andy’s letters to the court…

Posted on December 7, 2011 in Trial Updates

Over the course of the last several months, Andy Esquivel has written the Utah courts several times to ask for more time to find an attorney.  Each time Andy sends a letter to the court, it becomes a matter of public record (a fact which Andy is completely ignorant of).  Because these letters are a matter of public record, anyone with a good attorney (or access to a public library and a basic knowledge of what to look for) can gain access to copies of those letters.  Below you will find links to the letters Andy has sent to the court so far, including one in which Andy openly wonders how in the world we are able to gain access to these letters in the first place.

Extension letter #1

Andy Esquivel asks for continuance of court date on November 14th and complains that I appeared in court.

Letter complaining that these letters are a matter of public record [PDF] (case#101101231)

Letter asking for more time and claiming that Ron Yengich is his attorney [PDF] (case#111701135)

 

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December 7th Hearing update (case#101101231)

Posted on December 7, 2011 in Trial Updates

4TH DISTRICT CT – AF
UTAH COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH
__________________________________________________________________

CEDAR HILLS CITY,               :  MINUTES
Plaintiff,          :  CONTINUANCE
:  NOTICE
:
vs.                             :  Case No: 101101231 MO
ANDRES ESQUIVEL,                :  Judge:   THOMAS LOW
Defendant.          :  Date:    December 7, 2011

__________________________________________________________________
PRESENT
Clerk:    daynat
Prosecutor: MERRILL, TIMOTHY G
Defendant
Defendant’s Attorney(s): MICHAEL T HOLJE

DEFENDANT INFORMATION
Date of birth: September 8, 1970
Audio
Tape Number:     2   Tape Count: 9.46

CHARGES
1. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION HARASSMENT – Class B Misdemeanor
Plea: Not Guilty

CONTINUANCE

Whose Motion:
The Defendant’s counsel Michael Holje.

Reason for continuance:
Counsel’s request.
The motion is granted.

PRETRIAL CONFERENCE is scheduled.
Date: 01/17/2012
Time: 02:30 p.m.
Location: Courtrm 1, 3rd Floor
Fourth District Court
75 East 80 North
American Fork, UT  84003-0986
Before Judge: CHRISTINE JOHNSON

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