Hadari Oshri and Patrick Seller sued for $225K for non-delivery of COVID-19 i-home test kits

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By Investor News/Aitana Vargas

Story originally published in Investor News on August 13, 2022

NOTA EDITORIAL: Esta serie de investigación galardonada con un premio del LA Press Club en 2022 fue producida por Aitana Vargas para Investor News entre 2021 y 2026. A continuación reproducimos el trabajo original, acompañado de los documentos y las fotografías que forman parte del expediente. En las próximas semanas, iremos difundiendo las entregas completas, las cuales se divulgaron públicamente después de que la justicia de Los Ángeles desestimara intentos judiciales por parte de una de las presuntas implicadas, Hadari Oshri, de prohibir su publicación. Este trabajo está protegido por la Ley de Protección de Periodistas de California (Cal. Const. Art. I, *§ 2(b); California Evidence Code § 1070). La Cronista no renuncia a ningún privilegio o derecho al proceder a su difusión.***

AN IMPORTANT NOTE: On June 22, 2021, Hadari Oshri –Marc Lubaszka’s business partner– filed a frivolous civil harassment restraining order (CHRO) against me to stop the publication of my investigative series “A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar crime,” and any subsequent installments or future media coverage. On August 3, 2021, I filed an anti-SLAPP motion to strike Oshri’s CHRO petition. In a hearing held on September 13, 2021, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Doreen Boxer granted my anti-SLAPP motion and denied Oshri’s civil harassment petition for failure to sustain the applicable burden of proof. CA's powerful anti-SLAPP statute mandates that the losing party, in this case Oshri, pay the prevailing party's attorney’s fees. She also declined to go on a recorded interview or provide statements via email. And what follows are the next installments of my months-long investigative series whose publication Oshri desperately attempted yet failed to stop.

A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar Crime (Part VIII)

A1A Management, Patrick Seller and Hadari Oshri were sued for $250K for non-delivery of PPE in the COVID-19 pandemic. Oshri tried to use to LA courts to stop the publication of this exposé. Image subject to fair use. — Patrick Seller, Hadari Oshri and A1A Management were sued for non-delivery of COVID-19 PPE. The company was initially registered by Seller, who later added the fashion fairy entrepreneur.

A1A Management, which Oshri co-owns with Pat Seller, is also named in the lawsuit

Los Angeles, CA – As the world was coming out of the pandemic in 2022, Hadari Oshri and her business partner, underwear model Pat Seller, were sued by Major Gloves Inc. for $225,000 for failure to deliver i-home test kits. The lawsuit mentioned A1A Management, a company registered in Montana, showing Seller and Oshri as principals.

The lawsuit would have been just another court appearance by Oshri if it were not for the fact that the plaintiff filed a request for dismissal after the court rejected entry of default in August 2022.

The lawsuit came after she and her former counsel, John Tamborelli, tried to silence witnesses and sources willing to speak up on Oshri’s business practices in 2021.

In their great lengths to keep any information that could discredit Oshri’s business operations offline, Oshri and Tamborelli threatened legal action against award-winning journalist Aitana Vargas. In February 2021, Tamborelli phoned the reporter in an attempt to prevent the publication of the story. He later sent a cease-and-desist email that was met with a letter by the NWU advising him to stop all intimidation towards the reporter, who went on to win a top LA Press Club award for her coverage.

In her quest to stop all media coverage, in June 2021, Oshri filed and lost a frivolous SLAPP case against Vargas. Oshri is now responsible for paying the reporter’s hefty attorneys’ fees. Tamborelli failed to appear or defend his long-time client and friend at the anti-SLAPP motion hearing.

During this time, Vargas, this publication, and at least one source received emails containing illegal tracking beacons under fake names that included “Michaela Lake” and “Alex Alex,” among others.

Investor News was the first to expose Oshri’s and Marc Lubaszka’s (her prior business partner) links to an alleged $300mil PPE scheme involving convicted fraudster Arael Doolittle.

Oshri and Lubaszka were also linked with alleged attempts to sell non-existent private jets and raise $30mil from investors for Lubaszka’s company, Fly Private X. The phony private jet company also included an up-and-coming rapper called Dylan Raw, a current NFT enthusiast, who possibly used the title of Vice President of Fly Private X on his social media to gain clout. The singer, whose real name is Dylan Rottkov, is also linked to Lubaszka’s shady website Buy Gold Brightly, a company registered in Montana in February 2021. Seller replaced Raw as the listed principal a day after it was registered. The company was canceled in December 2022.

A1A Management, Patrick Seller and Hadari Oshri were sued for $250K for non-delivery of PPE in the COVID-19 pandemic. Oshri tried to use the LA courts to stop the publication of this exposé. Court records. Image subject to fair use.

Pat Seller, the Crypto King, partners with Hadari Oshri

Pat Seller, the self-anointed “Crypto King” and “visionary,” and Oshri are both listed as co-owners of A1A Management.

The duo appears to have been working out of both a luxurious Malibu property and a downtown LA apartment, as shown by company registration records and online posts. In multiple social media posts, Seller claimed he was living and working at the Malibu address during this time.

Online posts also show Oshri was looking to temporarily move out of her Malibu beachfront rental around the summer of 2021. One source indicated that she was unable to afford rent and that she frequently referred to him as “Pinocchio.”

The Los Angeles County has, however, been under an eviction moratorium that allows those financially impacted by COVID-19 to defer rent while staying housed. According to Twitter posts dated as recent as December 2022 and January 2023, Oshri would still be working out of Malibu.

Hadari Oshri filed incoherent, embarrassing, and potentially incriminating legal petitions

Since the onset of the pandemic, Oshri has claimed she gained experience in highly lucrative import/export deals to the tune of millions of dollars, according to her own website. Online articles written in 2020 and 2021 by Oshri’s ghostwriter, Ryan Foland, deliver an account of a shrewd, experienced, trustworthy, and professional businesswoman. These articles were also posted on Oshri’s Medium account as a way of gaining PR for herself and her business endeavors.

However, court documents written by Oshri show a very different reality. According to her court statements, she was being harassed by Pinocchio, the Real Truth Fairy, and Krista Collinsworth, Lubaszka’s imaginary assistant. But more importantly, in her own petitions to the court, she made potentially self-incriminating statements that could implicate her in alleged identity theft related to the formation of her company, Trade Safe Pro, LLC, in FL.

Court documents also show Oshri’s participation in an alleged PPE scheme and her strong desire to silence both those with knowledge of her questionable business practices and the reporter who uncovered Oshri’s and Lubaszka’s alleged dealings.

In her incoherent court petitions, Oshri also made memorable statements, like claiming that her previous business partner, Lubaszka, did some “funny business” in describing his part in an alleged $2mil gold scam. She also called Vargas “Miss Dicks” (Miss Vergas) and “My Dicks” (Mis Vergas).

Oshri and her criminal defense attorneys got reprimanded by the judge at the anti-SLAPP motion hearing for the businesswoman’s confusing petition and failure to prove any of her bizarre claims. Her defense team did not even bother filing a declaration or authenticated evidence in their anti-SLAPP opposition, bound to become a classic in how to lose an anti-SLAPP case.

Oshri also interrupted the hearing several times, and the Judge ordered a recess so the businesswoman could collect herself. Shortly after the hearing resumed, the Judge filed in favor of the reporter.

Oshri was overheard outside the court asking someone over the phone: “Who’s gonna pay the attorneys now?”

Hadari Oshri was sued in a personal injury case despite her claims to the contrary

In 2021, Oshri and Tamborelli were sued in a personal injury case claiming that she was driving her lawyer’s car and caused an accident without proper insurance.

Astonishingly, Oshri’s criminal defense attorney, Veronica Barton, vehemently denied the existence of the PI case during the anti-SLAPP motion hearing and wrongly accused the reporter of having made it up. If only Barton had bothered to check her client’s legal past, she could have saved herself the ensuing embarrassment…

As a matter of fact, Oshri dodged multiple attempts to be served with court documents related to the PI case, as Vargas had corroborated.

Court records show that Hadari Oshri and her attorney, John Tamborelli, were sued in a personal injury case in 2020. In 2021, Oshri lost an anti-SLAPP motion to reporter Aitana Vargas. Image subject to fair use.

A convoluted history of businesses

Online documents show that the company Hadar Oshri LLC is in forfeited status along with several other businesses once owned by the self-professed business expert, including her defunct fashion company Xehar, clothing store Nicola Bertti, and Hadari Online.

One source claims that Oshri allegedly engaged in business activities under Hadar Oshri LLC without having the correct business licenses and forms filed with the state.

Hadari Oshri has a long history of failed companies. Oshri, A1A Management and Patrick Seller were sued for $250K for non-delivery of PPE in the COVID-19 pandemic. Oshri tried to use the LA courts to stop the publication of this exposé. She also used Trade Safe Pro and Marc Lubaszka's Fly Private X to sell non-existent PPE using a phantom jet company. Image subject to fair use.

Oshri’s Trade Safe Pro was not named in the COVID-19 i-home tests suit directly. But how the company was created in February 2021 in FL raises questions about potential identity theft impacting Oshri’s then-accountant, Robert Wolf.

In a 2021 email Oshri sent to Vargas, the entrepreneur attached a screenshot of past tense text exchanges between the entrepreneur and Wolf. In the screenshot, Wolf stated Oshri lacked consent to use his name and demanded its immediate removal from company registration documents and social media accounts.

In Oshri’s email to Vargas, she also demanded that the reporter stop investigating her, threatened legal action against her, and directed Tamborelli to send a cease-and-desist letter in an attempt to intimidate her.

Wolf passed away on February 14th, 2022 (a symbolic date for Oshri and her team of criminal defense attorneys led by Veronica Barton).

Company registration records show that Oshri’s business partner, Seller, registered Trade Safe Pro in Montana on February 25, 2021, and it was cancelled in December 2022.

*If you’d like to share your testimony or story, please contact the reporter at aitana_investigations@protonmail.com or connect with her on Facebook. All emails are checked for legitimacy, spam and viruses and deleted when suspicious malware is detected.

**This post is being updated as additional information becomes available. This story was last updated in 2026 to reflect that: Patrick Seller replaced Dylan Rottkov as the listed officer of Buy Gold Brightly on February 5, 2021; the gold company’s site is no longer online; Seller registered Trade Safe Pro in Montana on February 25, 2021, and it was cancelled in December 2022; Oshri’s criminal attorneys did not file a declaration or authenticated evidence in their anti-SLAPP response; the plaintiff in the lawsuit against Oshri, Seller, and A1A Management filed a request for dismissal after the court rejected entry of default in August 2022. The story has also been edited for clarity.

***Since Hadari Oshri filed a meritless case against Investor News contributor Aitana Vargas and had previously declined to provide written comments or go on a recorded interview, it is our policy not to seek further comments from the entrepreneur. Oshri is always welcome to reach out and agree to the proposed interview terms. The same policy applies to her former Counsel, John Tamborelli, Lubaszka and Patrick Seller.

****Some relevant documents and screenshots about this series are available at archive.org.

*****Story originally published in Investor News on August 13, 2022. Pinche aquí para leer el reportaje original en Investor News, un medio aliado a La Cronista. Lea Parte 1, Parte 2, Parte 3, Parte 4, Parte 5, Parte 6 & Parte 7.