AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Abdul El-Sayed's top aide promoted brain pills in multi-level marketing scheme the FTC called fraudulent
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed built his brand on fighting health misinformation, but his longest-serving aide spent years promoting a supplement the FTC said made false claims about treating Alzheimer's disease. Tara Terpstra, the operations director of El-Sayed's Democratic Senate campaign, worked as an independent distributor for Nerium, a multi-level marketing company that federal regulators, […] The post Abdul El-Sayed's top aide promoted brain pills in multi-level marketing scheme the FTC called fraudulent appeared first on American Almanac .
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed built his brand on fighting health misinformation, but his longest-serving aide spent years promoting a supplement the FTC said made false claims about treating Alzheimer's disease. Tara Terpstra, the operations director of El-Sayed's Democratic Senate campaign, worked as an independent distributor for Nerium, a multi-level marketing company that federal regulators, customers, and the late actor Ray Liotta all accused of running a pyramid scheme. In social media posts from 2015, Terpstra pitched Nerium's coffee-extract supplement EHT as a "cutting edge...age-defying supplement" and an "Alzheimer's treatment", claims the Federal Trade Commission later targeted in a 2019 enforcement action, the…Open
