Public statement source · YT649

BLM Funding STOLEN!? Taxpayer Dollars EMBEZZLED!?

The sharpest dated statement in this slice of the grievance class that later becomes the pleaded core of the Saladino chain — that a competitor takes his published work and monetises it through supplement sales. research_notes.csv for C055 records that he "alleges Saladino, a fellow social-media health/diet personality, plagiarized his Carnivore Diet research without attribution and profited from it"; aliases.csv carries a supplement company (D0125) as a tracked entity. This statement is made while C100 (Saladino, MD v. Frank Tufano, S.D.N.Y.) is live against him: 2020-11-07 → 2022-04-11 = 520 days after that case was filed, and 1,025 days before the 2025-01-30 default judgment that court_findings.csv records as enjoining him from making public statements that a party copied, plagiarized, stole or improperly used his work (2022-04-11 → 2025-01-30). It describes no filing conduct — no suit, no threat, no count, no ruling — hence No filing-conduct factor and Moderate, not Strong. It is his own words, spoken immediately after the first read-aloud range closes. Possible case/dispute link: DSP003 (the Saladino chain) — tentative and unconfirmed. He names nobody. No person, company, channel, handle or product appears in the quote or anywhere in the track; the only identifying detail is "supplements" and a revenue figure. Searched aliases.csv, research_notes.csv, lawsuits.csv (case_title and defendants), disputes.csv and litigation_timeline.csv — there is no name here to search with. Treat the party as unresolved, not absent.

Litigation contextVideoApril 11, 2022
Published
FormatVideo
CategoryDispute context
Primary topic—
Research relevanceLitigation context
Case-link confidenceMedium
Last checkedSeptember 28, 2026

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Dispute background statement
Moderate pattern relevance02:01
that's like me asking these scumbags who plagiarize my youtube channel why they did it while they're selling two million dollars a month of bs supplements

The sharpest dated statement in this slice of the grievance class that later becomes the pleaded core of the Saladino chain — that a competitor takes his published work and monetises it through supplement sales. research_notes.csv for C055 records that he "alleges Saladino, a fellow social-media health/diet personality, plagiarized his Carnivore Diet research without attribution and profited from it"; aliases.csv carries a supplement company (D0125) as a tracked entity. This statement is made while C100 (Saladino, MD v. Frank Tufano, S.D.N.Y.) is live against him: 2020-11-07 → 2022-04-11 = 520 days after that case was filed, and 1,025 days before the 2025-01-30 default judgment that court_findings.csv records as enjoining him from making public statements that a party copied, plagiarized, stole or improperly used his work (2022-04-11 → 2025-01-30). It describes no filing conduct — no suit, no threat, no count, no ruling — hence No filing-conduct factor and Moderate, not Strong. It is his own words, spoken immediately after the first read-aloud range closes. Possible case/dispute link: DSP003 (the Saladino chain) — tentative and unconfirmed. He names nobody. No person, company, channel, handle or product appears in the quote or anywhere in the track; the only identifying detail is "supplements" and a revenue figure. Searched aliases.csv, research_notes.csv, lawsuits.csv (case_title and defendants), disputes.csv and litigation_timeline.csv — there is no name here to search with. Treat the party as unresolved, not absent.

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Watch at 02:01 — youtube.com ↗

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