12/11/2024 – He Wasn’t Lying: It Was M.G.M.

Today I have been going through my notes and getting my facts straight in preparation for my coming small claims court date tomorrow. Initially, I was not planning on writing a blog post as I wanted to keep my thoughts centered on the big day. However, I did take a break to get a haircut, so I can look as presentable as can be. As I was sitting in the barber’s chair combing through the facts in my brain, I began to rethink what I had recently uncovered with all of your help. You see, when I first started to decipher Ryne’s Venmo records, many of the repeated names jumped out at me because of the quantity or dollar amount of transactions with Ryne. From the original list of suspicious people, one of the names at the top of that list was an individual named Max. Out of the 1,800+ listed transactions 162 of them involved Max. Total USD equivalent = $166,849.45 in just over 2 months. Many of Max’s notes seemed more out of line with victims and more in line with those who are involved with this Ponzi scheme – snippet below.

So what is his connection to Ryne? A quick search of Max instantly revealed his previous Illinois ties.

Could it be coincidence that Ryne and Max are close enough to the same age and lived in Illinois at the same time? Maybe. It is ironic that they are both born in August. Yes, but that didn’t help. So I dug further, tracking my own $4909.48 paid Disney trip that went through Ryne’s Venmo.

Within 3 minutes of receiving my Venmo, Ryne transferred $3,500 of that money to Max labeled with a pizza emoji (🍕) in the notes. 30 seconds later, he pays Venmo an instant transfer fee of $24.66 to move the rest of the money to an external account. This didn’t sit well with me because I received an email a few days ago, for the first time ever, from a victim who wrote…

Now back to the barber’s chair. An epiphany! It hit me like a ray of sunlight, the missing puzzle piece as clear as day. I whipped out my phone and pulled up my spreadsheet. That’s when I saw it: the registered email address for Max Mendelson is…

As in “MGM.” Ladies and gentlemen, in typical Ryne fashion, the lies are sprinkled with truths. Partly to help him keep his lies straight, and partly to dangle the clues right in our face. He’s like a financial serial killer, leaving clues to help him feel superior to the rest of us.

As I stared in disbelief at my phone, my barber looked on nervously as the tiny shaved pieces covered my screen. With so little of the puzzle on display it’s hard to definitively connect all the dots for now. However, it’s not going to take long for federal investigators to uncover that large amounts of the money was sent to Max, an unrelated friend, for reasons I do not know. The remaining funds were transferred to an external account – want to bet it’s a certain joint bank account? And, here I am taking a shot in the dark, the next steps that make sense to me is that then the money was redistributed to family members Venmo’s and various apps or bank accounts. From here, we know that the few victims who got their refunds received it from either Ryne himself but in many cases it came from various family members.

This provides the simplest explanation as to why we have so many family members / conspirators not only paying the victims back, but also moving large amounts of money to Ryne’s Venmo with the notes section on the account transfers labeled “Loan.” To me, it seems like it was money that originated from the victims themselves and this was the internal note used amongst conspirators to keep track of the payments. The final piece of the puzzle came from a text last night that showed Maria making a payment back to a victim.

Two words: ‘God Bless’ – striking in their open mockery of God – and a code that has eluded me until today. This is the code word that was used by these criminals to keep track of victims who were paid back as a direct result of other funds taken from the criminal slush fund. In short stolen money (Loans) goes to the crime syndicate and is paid back (God Bless) as slowly as possible or not at all. This system of transferring helps to obscure the size of the scheme and shield family members from the certain legal fallout.

And if you think this is good, just wait. I am but one person with a below average IQ, that has been able to piece together your Ponzi Scheme in less then two weeks with only a fraction of the puzzle. Wait until the forensic investigators who do this for a living show up. #COOKED.

Only question remains…

Max Mendelson… Who are you? Where are you? You can’t hide forever.

Email your Max tips or anything else you think would help you rynevitugfraud@gmail.com

**Update. You guys are so fast with the tips its insane. Meet MGM himself. https://www.instagram.com/maxmendelson/

And look they follow each other on the socials. So cute. Maybe you guys can share a cell together too.