Hadari Oshri’s Gaya Ventures site claims she’s joined forces with convicted businessman Orlando Birbragher in new biz venture

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By Investor News/Aitana Vargas

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 IX)

Gaya Ventures LLC was formed by Hadari Oshri in Florida in 2022 following the demise of her partnership with LA-based conman Marc Lubaszka

Los Angeles, CA – Self-described “successful” entrepreneur Hadari Oshri has made both an online and a business comeback.

After her long list of demonstrated business failures, including Xehar, Trade Safe Pro and Hadari Online, the Israeli-American entrepreneur has finally launched her latest business website, www.gayaventures.com, an acquisitions and consulting firm combining AI and wellness that she’s started to publicize online.

Indeed, just this week Nasdaq.com released an article written by “guest contributors” referencing Oshri’s latest pet project. The author, Jenny Q Ta, sadly, got Oshri’s company name wrong…Luckily, we’re here to get it right. Gaya, not Gava.

Why Gaya Ventures LLC now?

Public records show that Gaya Ventures LLC was formed by Hadar Oshri in Florida in 2022 following the demise of her partnership with LA-based conman Marc Lubaszka, who’s been under investigation by the FBI and the SEC for his involvement in alleged business schemes, including defrauding gold IRA investors across the country and trying to sell nonexistent PPE and imaginary private jets.

Court records and exclusive documents and testimonies obtained by this outlet show that both Lubaszka and Oshri joined forces during the pandemic to sell nonexistent PPE through the former’s now-defunct private jet company: Fly Private X.

Hadari Oshri partnered with Marc Lubaszka in an alleged scheme to sell non-existent PPE. Shen then pivoted to a new company, Gaya Ventures, and named convicted entrepreneur Orlando Birbragher as CIO. Oshri tried to silence this series and lost anti-SLAPP case in LA in 2021. — Marc Lubaszka and Hadari Oshri attempted to sell non-existent PPE through Fly Private X, a phantom private jet company.

Also during the COVID-19 emergency, Oshri was involved in PPE sales through her Florida-based company Trade Safe Pro, LLC.

Additionally, in 2021, Oshri filed and lost an embarrassing SLAPP case against reporter Aitana Vargas in a desperate attempt to stop the publication of “A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar Crime,” a multi-part series that went on to win an LA Press Club award in 2022. Oshri will have to pay mandatory attorney’s fees to the reporter for filing a frivolous case.

In 2022, Oshri and A1A Management, a corporation she co-managed with entrepreneur Patrick Seller, aka the “Crypto King,” were sued for $250.000 for failure to deliver promised PPE. In their social media accounts, both Oshri and Seller bragged about the beachfront Malibu property they held parties at. Photos of them together have been deleted since.

According to Oshri’s public IG account, the Malibu parties continue to this date…

Who’s behind Gaya Ventures?

According to the company website (https://www.gayaventures.com), four people may be involved in the project. Oshri is listed as the CEO, whereas Gregory Witherspoon (Oshri’s former Xehar investor, who withdrew his support following widespread mismanagement claims by former workers and contractors) is listed as the company CFO. Witherspoon’s LinkedIn profile names Plan Bravo Partners as his most recent position and makes no mention of Gaya Ventures. Then, there’s realtor Darla Stuart, whose LinkedIn profile mentions the company. Lastly, the site lists Orlando Birbragher –a Florida-based businessman born to Panamanian parents– as the CIO.

Who’s Orlando Birbragher?

According to court records, Birbragher was ordered detained without bond in 2007 pending the resolution of criminal matters in a 31-count indictment, which included charges for conspiracy to distribute drugs through his company, Pharmacom.

2010 court documents state that “Orlando Birbragher conditionally pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(D), 841(b)(1)(D)(2), 846, 856(a)(1), and 861(a)(1), and conspiracy to launder money from the drug conspiracy, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1956(a)(1)(A)(i), 1956(a)(1)(B)(i), 1956(h), and 1957. The district court sentenced Birbragher to 35 months imprisonment to be followed by a two-year term of supervised release. The court also entered a preliminary forfeiture order of $2,465,209.92.”

In 2010, the 8th Circuit of the US Court of Appeals denied Birbragher’s request to dismiss his indictment.

However, several sympathetic columns posted by author David F. Bienvenu on Medium claim that the businessman was exonerated.

Fast forward to 2022, and Birbragher and his companies, including BBV International Consulting, were sued for civil theft.

Hadari Oshri has acquired two Instagram accounts with fake/bought followers

To obtain clout and notoriety, one of Oshri’s latest acquisitions is her @hadari_oshri_israel Instagram account, featuring over 10.6K followers. This impressive accomplishment is, however, followed by an even more impressive one, @gaya_ventures, an Instagram account with over 7.4K followers, four posts and a handful of likes.

It all looks like a fresh, promising start for the entrepreneur.

At the time of this publication, Mr. Witherspoon has not replied to a media request for comments.

*Read here the court’s anti-SLAPP ruling in favor of the reporter.

**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.

**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 May 14, 2023. Update on May 11th, 2023: Following the publication of this piece, Oshri has hidden her personal IG account from public view and her @hadari_oshri_israel IG is no longer available.

*****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 & Parte 8. Lea la serie completa aquí.