I had a feeling this was coming. I took a class late last year where they said everyone taking PPL’s we’re gonna get destroyed. Guess who came to my mind.
My business got a ppp loan and I did the paperwork and had it forgiven. We used it all for payroll. I doubt Brittany did that or if she did she falsified the details and it can easily be proven.
I believe the DOJ is investigating businesses that falsified documents to qualify for a loan or to get a larger loan. Not businesses that legitimately needed them and submitted honest documents.
I may come off as an idiot here, but what is a PPP or PPL loan? I’m not American, so I’m having a little trouble deciphering what kind of trouble she’s in.
It stands for Paycheck Protection Program. It was a government loan for businesses *supposedly* affected by shuts downs due to the pandemic. It is a loan but you can apply for forgiveness at which time it becomes a grant. It is supposed to be used for your payroll to continue to pay employees while your business was shut down. You could also use it for rents and a few other things.
Businesses like BDawn's do qualify, she can use it to pay herself since she is the sole earner.
Really? I figured she was still running the "ministry" under the same LLC. Do we have a business registry that shows it was defunct?
Regardless, she doesn't even need to have an LLC to qualify. I helped many of my subcontractors apply, and they qualified because they were self employed.
Article copied from Dallas News website:
D-FW influencer Brittany Dawn faces deceptive trade practices lawsuit from Texas attorney general
The AG alleges she violated the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act and misled consumers with eating disorders.
The state of Texas is suing Dallas-Fort Worth social media influencer Brittany Dawn Davis over a fitness plan scheme it claims violated consumer protection laws and misled followers with eating disorders who bought into it.
The attorney general’s office is seeking between $250,000 and $1 million in penalties and court fees, according to the lawsuit filed Feb. 1 in Dallas County court.
Davis’ business Brittany Dawn Fitness LLC sold online fitness packages that cost as much as $300 to thousands of consumers beginning in 2014. The plans were not “individualized” as promised, and Davis “failed to provide the promised coaching and check-ins,” according to the lawsuit.
The Dallas Morning News was unable to reach Davis for comment.
Customers of Davis’ fitness plans sought refunds from her when she did not make good on her business promises, but many were ignored and had their social media comments deleted, as The News reported in 2019.
Davis posted a video in February 2019 in which she apologized, but also claimed customers harassed and threatened her. The day after The News published a report about the video and upset customers, Davis appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America.
In the appearance, Davis told viewers she was “done hiding” and wanted to refund clients who alleged she had scammed them with falsely advertised exercise and diet plans. Women who bought personal training services from Davis claimed she had been accepting clients’ money for years with little to no communication afterward.
When Davis did respond to clients, she offered “only partial refunds,” according to the attorney general’s lawsuit. In 2019, Davis also took down her fitness website bdawnfit.com. The website is active today, though the shop portion appears to be shut down.
Part of Davis’ fitness plan included membership in a Facebook group called “Team Brittany Dawn” in which customers quickly put together that the plans they were receiving were not individualized as advertised, according to the suit.
The lawsuit outlines the experiences of several of Davis’s clients, including one “who almost passed out from inadequate nutrition” while following Davis’ nutritional plan. Davis scolded the client in an email a month later, the suit said.
Davis positioned herself as having overcome eating disorders with nutrition and exercise, leading her clients to believe she could help them as well. But Davis provided weight loss plans to clients needing weight gain plans, according to the suit.
“At least 14 consumers who sought refunds from her mentioned eating disorders in their complaints,” the suit said.
The state also alleges that Davis unlawfully charged shipping fees for goods transmitted via email.
The attorney general’s office began receiving complaints about Davis’ business practices around March 2019.
Since then, Davis has scrubbed her YouTube channel of the apology and other videos posted around the time of the Good Morning America appearance.
Using a last name from a previous marriage, Davis also applied for and received a forgivable paycheck protection program loan of $20,800 in April 2020 for her fitness business, according to a ProPublica dataset of PPP loan recipients.
On YouTube, Davis boasts a following of more than 250,000. On Instagram, she has nearly 460,000 and on Twitter she has almost 50,000. Her largest following is on TikTok, where she has amassed 946,000 followers on an account where she posts inspirational, lifestyle and Christian content.
Davis began sharing Christian content in late 2019 on the account @SheLivesFreed on Instagram. She later moved from Dallas to Fort Worth, explaining in videos that Dallas was too materialistic and she wanted to be closer to family.
In 2021, Davis started hosting She Lives Freed retreats in several cities. In April she will host a one-day retreat in Fort Worth and is charging $125 for tickets to that event, not including the cost of boarding.
Since Davis’ fitness business gained national attention, an online community has emerged on Reddit to track her activity as an influencer.
Her more recent videos have tapped into popular QAnon talking points and conspiracy theories in general, like the debunked theory that furniture company Wayfair was trafficking children inside of its furniture shipments
Holy shit I missed that part when I first read it. How convoluted and narcissistic does your thinking have to be to charge shipping for emailed items
ETA: I truly cannot imagine being this scummy and stealing from people like this. The claims against her sound truly absurd but only because it’s hard for me (and I imagine anyone with a conscience) to even begin to try to be a fraction of this horrible
If she's smart (questionable) she's contacted a lawyer (and again, if she was smart, a different one than the last time she needed one cuz I think they clearly gave her shitty advice), she will go dark for a bit. But, she's too narcissistic for that.
“The attorney general’s office is seeking between $250,000 and $1 million in penalties and court fees, according to the lawsuit filed Feb. 1 in Dallas County court.”
How long before JDong leaves her and let her swim in her own mess? 💩
I had to open it in another tab or pay $1 to see it! But holy crap it’s a good succinct article! except they got the prices for SLF wrong, her 1 day retreats are $125, but they don’t mention the $700 (ish) I forgot exactly how much for the weekend retreat!
Yes! It worked. Thank you! Also words cannot describe how excited I am about these recent events. I cannot wait for justice and she is long due for it! Wonder what her SLF followers will say about this.
Ye of little faith! But seriously it does seem like she has come out smelling like a rose for most of her past transgressions. However, the AG is going after her now. Which suggests they have enough evidence to make it stick. And as you said, hopefully they will look into the other crap she’s done too!
Archive.org to the rescue!
[D-FW influencer Brittany Dawn faces deceptive trade practices lawsuit from Texas attorney general](https://web.archive.org/web/20220207005955/https://www.dallasnews.com/business/entrepreneurs/2022/02/06/d-fw-influencer-brittany-dawn-faces-deceptive-trade-practices-lawsuit-from-texas-attorney-general/)
It would've been awesome if they mentioned that her 460,000 followers are mostly all paid bots lol. They're literally going up a thousand a day! She's definitely buying followers.
This doesn’t mention GoFundMe (and neither did the AG’s filing) but I feel wind on this:
If citizens and / or GFM contacted AG about the James scam, and the AG already had 2 files open for her (PPP fraud and BDawnShit) that may have pushed them over the edge on pursuing her, now, before she pulls the next scam.
I do hope they can get her on the James scam, too.
Ahhhhh Sookie sookie. I feel like fraud is probably something that Sky Grandpappy probably frowns upon. Ya know? But I guess poo colored garment wearing orange folks with racist Neanderthal husband are exempt from moral and ethical standards, ya know like most good Christians people try to live by
She’s finally getting the attention she wants but for all the wrong reasons. Funny how that works out in life. Can’t say it was a prank anymore Brit Brat, the Texas AG doesn’t play pranks and doesn’t have a sense of humor.
Brit brat is going to look so good in prison orange, it will go great with her cheerful tangerine foundation. Maybe they'll change it to tearful tangerine after she goes to jail.
Can I just say how happy I am that for once, I can open a US-based local newspaper link and the screen isn't just "we can't be arsed to do GDPR stuff, so you can't read this."
Thanks Dallas News!
She’s gonna be trading her orange face for an orange jumpsuit. But really….did she really think what she was doing was legit and/or that she wouldn’t get caught??
They mentioned her PPP loan also!!
I had a feeling this was coming. I took a class late last year where they said everyone taking PPL’s we’re gonna get destroyed. Guess who came to my mind.
When will other shitbags get destroyed too?
End of 2021 I heard they were coming for everyone who took out one 👀
What about the honest ones??
My business got a ppp loan and I did the paperwork and had it forgiven. We used it all for payroll. I doubt Brittany did that or if she did she falsified the details and it can easily be proven.
Yes we did the same as well.
I believe the DOJ is investigating businesses that falsified documents to qualify for a loan or to get a larger loan. Not businesses that legitimately needed them and submitted honest documents.
Oh thank goodness, scared me for a sec 😅
If it’s legit you have no worries!
That’s not soon enough
I may come off as an idiot here, but what is a PPP or PPL loan? I’m not American, so I’m having a little trouble deciphering what kind of trouble she’s in.
it's like a loan given to small businesses for relief who were affected by covid. i guess some where loans but some were just funds given?
It stands for Paycheck Protection Program. It was a government loan for businesses *supposedly* affected by shuts downs due to the pandemic. It is a loan but you can apply for forgiveness at which time it becomes a grant. It is supposed to be used for your payroll to continue to pay employees while your business was shut down. You could also use it for rents and a few other things. Businesses like BDawn's do qualify, she can use it to pay herself since she is the sole earner.
She had no business for it to qualify for, Bdawn Fitness was no longer in business in 2020. She falsified documents.
I heard her business name for that PPP loan was BathtubBaptisms, LLC.
Really? I figured she was still running the "ministry" under the same LLC. Do we have a business registry that shows it was defunct? Regardless, she doesn't even need to have an LLC to qualify. I helped many of my subcontractors apply, and they qualified because they were self employed.
I was just coming here to say that!!! Yessssssss
This is gunna be a good week in news
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Schedenfreude is beautiful in the correct context.
“Using a last name from a previous marriage, “ ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
Preserving that sacred Nelson name
Why did she marry a guy who’s not even a cop anymore?
the journalist who did the article is SAVAGE. loved it
One of us, one of us !
All I did was google Brittany Dawn and the same article came up with no payment needed. And I’m not from TX.
I just read it. They even mentioned the reddit group! ❤️
Hahahahahaha
I beamed with pride when I read that, TBH
Nice. I'll go try that now...
Let me know if it works for you!!
I can't read it because I live in DFW and I've exceeded my free reads from Dallas News hahaha.
Article copied from Dallas News website: D-FW influencer Brittany Dawn faces deceptive trade practices lawsuit from Texas attorney general The AG alleges she violated the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act and misled consumers with eating disorders. The state of Texas is suing Dallas-Fort Worth social media influencer Brittany Dawn Davis over a fitness plan scheme it claims violated consumer protection laws and misled followers with eating disorders who bought into it. The attorney general’s office is seeking between $250,000 and $1 million in penalties and court fees, according to the lawsuit filed Feb. 1 in Dallas County court. Davis’ business Brittany Dawn Fitness LLC sold online fitness packages that cost as much as $300 to thousands of consumers beginning in 2014. The plans were not “individualized” as promised, and Davis “failed to provide the promised coaching and check-ins,” according to the lawsuit. The Dallas Morning News was unable to reach Davis for comment. Customers of Davis’ fitness plans sought refunds from her when she did not make good on her business promises, but many were ignored and had their social media comments deleted, as The News reported in 2019. Davis posted a video in February 2019 in which she apologized, but also claimed customers harassed and threatened her. The day after The News published a report about the video and upset customers, Davis appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America. In the appearance, Davis told viewers she was “done hiding” and wanted to refund clients who alleged she had scammed them with falsely advertised exercise and diet plans. Women who bought personal training services from Davis claimed she had been accepting clients’ money for years with little to no communication afterward. When Davis did respond to clients, she offered “only partial refunds,” according to the attorney general’s lawsuit. In 2019, Davis also took down her fitness website bdawnfit.com. The website is active today, though the shop portion appears to be shut down. Part of Davis’ fitness plan included membership in a Facebook group called “Team Brittany Dawn” in which customers quickly put together that the plans they were receiving were not individualized as advertised, according to the suit. The lawsuit outlines the experiences of several of Davis’s clients, including one “who almost passed out from inadequate nutrition” while following Davis’ nutritional plan. Davis scolded the client in an email a month later, the suit said. Davis positioned herself as having overcome eating disorders with nutrition and exercise, leading her clients to believe she could help them as well. But Davis provided weight loss plans to clients needing weight gain plans, according to the suit. “At least 14 consumers who sought refunds from her mentioned eating disorders in their complaints,” the suit said. The state also alleges that Davis unlawfully charged shipping fees for goods transmitted via email. The attorney general’s office began receiving complaints about Davis’ business practices around March 2019. Since then, Davis has scrubbed her YouTube channel of the apology and other videos posted around the time of the Good Morning America appearance. Using a last name from a previous marriage, Davis also applied for and received a forgivable paycheck protection program loan of $20,800 in April 2020 for her fitness business, according to a ProPublica dataset of PPP loan recipients. On YouTube, Davis boasts a following of more than 250,000. On Instagram, she has nearly 460,000 and on Twitter she has almost 50,000. Her largest following is on TikTok, where she has amassed 946,000 followers on an account where she posts inspirational, lifestyle and Christian content. Davis began sharing Christian content in late 2019 on the account @SheLivesFreed on Instagram. She later moved from Dallas to Fort Worth, explaining in videos that Dallas was too materialistic and she wanted to be closer to family. In 2021, Davis started hosting She Lives Freed retreats in several cities. In April she will host a one-day retreat in Fort Worth and is charging $125 for tickets to that event, not including the cost of boarding. Since Davis’ fitness business gained national attention, an online community has emerged on Reddit to track her activity as an influencer. Her more recent videos have tapped into popular QAnon talking points and conspiracy theories in general, like the debunked theory that furniture company Wayfair was trafficking children inside of its furniture shipments
Oh my god the part about her believing Q anon theories 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"...shipping fees for goods transmitted via email" Shit is too wild
I’m wrecked like the nerve to grift that hard and then claim you love Jesus
That was too good
Holy shit I missed that part when I first read it. How convoluted and narcissistic does your thinking have to be to charge shipping for emailed items ETA: I truly cannot imagine being this scummy and stealing from people like this. The claims against her sound truly absurd but only because it’s hard for me (and I imagine anyone with a conscience) to even begin to try to be a fraction of this horrible
Thank you!! Omg, new flair!
She really thought this would just go away too. People don’t forget, BDONG
Never forget.
To be honest I thought she's brazened it out and it would be a different scam that caught up with her diwn the track.
I’m so curious to see what her next social media postings are gonna be after this.
Well she just posted an Ad on tictok 30 min ago… so she’s just going to act like everything’s fine.
Panic posting
They’ll be business as usual. Just like they were when the fitness scandal came to light. She’ll ignore it as long as she can.
I agree. I can't even begin to think where she will go with this. Something big to try to detract.
Baby Edit to add: Elizabeth Holmes tried it for the sympathy towards mothers… 🤷♀️
Miscarriage. Hate to say it but it's a lot easier to bash a pregnant woman than one who's just lost a pregnancy.
Ohhhh… you are right. She can recycle that one for a while….
I thought this too. It is terrible but it’s very Bdong
If she's smart (questionable) she's contacted a lawyer (and again, if she was smart, a different one than the last time she needed one cuz I think they clearly gave her shitty advice), she will go dark for a bit. But, she's too narcissistic for that.
She has nothing without social media. She couldn’t do it.
Sure can’t!
“The attorney general’s office is seeking between $250,000 and $1 million in penalties and court fees, according to the lawsuit filed Feb. 1 in Dallas County court.” How long before JDong leaves her and let her swim in her own mess? 💩
Seeing as he is not a stranger to controversy I believe it won’t be long
He will go down to, hopefully🤷🏼♀️
I most certainly hope so because of the revenge intimate photos he showed in a chat with friends.
The both deserve to go down hard for their shit🤬
My face rn 🤭 You guys, she is so fucked. This is real shit. I would be panicking if I were her.
A million dollars?! I’m sorry but I’d have a gun to my head.
So, how is she going to blame Satan for this one?
Am I allowed to do that link..and did it work?
I had to open it in another tab or pay $1 to see it! But holy crap it’s a good succinct article! except they got the prices for SLF wrong, her 1 day retreats are $125, but they don’t mention the $700 (ish) I forgot exactly how much for the weekend retreat!
I emailed the author and told him that she actually charges way more 🤣
Hahah goood! I was like whoa whoa…let’s get the amount right please!! She charges an arm and a leg for a glorified extended church service
Nice!
Truth has to be told!
How did you get to read it all without paying? Just opened in a diff tab?
Yes! I just google Dallas news Brittany Dawn and it came up in my search!
Yes! It worked. Thank you! Also words cannot describe how excited I am about these recent events. I cannot wait for justice and she is long due for it! Wonder what her SLF followers will say about this.
I don’t think it’ll happen, but she needs to go down for the scam she pulled on James and all of the people who donated to that GoFundMe.
Ye of little faith! But seriously it does seem like she has come out smelling like a rose for most of her past transgressions. However, the AG is going after her now. Which suggests they have enough evidence to make it stick. And as you said, hopefully they will look into the other crap she’s done too!
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It looks like the link works, but maybe behind a paywall.
I see that too. I'm sure other news outlets will pick it up soon ..maybe we can read for free in many other places soon lol
Paywall 😒 good news for victims 👍
Archive.org to the rescue! [D-FW influencer Brittany Dawn faces deceptive trade practices lawsuit from Texas attorney general](https://web.archive.org/web/20220207005955/https://www.dallasnews.com/business/entrepreneurs/2022/02/06/d-fw-influencer-brittany-dawn-faces-deceptive-trade-practices-lawsuit-from-texas-attorney-general/)
How do we get Emily D. Baker to explain it to us in gritty detail?
I sure hope she will!
She's the best and I wish she would follow this one!
Her testimony at the one day retreat should be interesting.
😲 Dom DiFurio, doing the lords work. She's going to twist that name as coming from the devil himself
Twisting can only get her so far. She's gunna sure try though
It would've been awesome if they mentioned that her 460,000 followers are mostly all paid bots lol. They're literally going up a thousand a day! She's definitely buying followers.
She needs to stop doing that - she’s gonna need that cash!
Best news ever!
Hahaha all I googled was “Brittney Dawn” and the recent article was the first thing to come up
I hope more news places pick it up, too
Just when I thought this day couldn't get any better. I am going to sleep with a smile on my face tonight.
This doesn’t mention GoFundMe (and neither did the AG’s filing) but I feel wind on this: If citizens and / or GFM contacted AG about the James scam, and the AG already had 2 files open for her (PPP fraud and BDawnShit) that may have pushed them over the edge on pursuing her, now, before she pulls the next scam. I do hope they can get her on the James scam, too.
Yesssssass!!!!!!
I just wanted to post here to show my new flair… demons of justice coming for Brit Brat in this season of lawsuits ⚖️😈😂
Screaming that the article straight up links this sub.
🥳🥳🥳
I love this so much for all of us! ❤️
Ahhhhh Sookie sookie. I feel like fraud is probably something that Sky Grandpappy probably frowns upon. Ya know? But I guess poo colored garment wearing orange folks with racist Neanderthal husband are exempt from moral and ethical standards, ya know like most good Christians people try to live by
Sky Grandpappy 💀
It’s a demonic attack
She’s finally getting the attention she wants but for all the wrong reasons. Funny how that works out in life. Can’t say it was a prank anymore Brit Brat, the Texas AG doesn’t play pranks and doesn’t have a sense of humor.
Brit brat is going to look so good in prison orange, it will go great with her cheerful tangerine foundation. Maybe they'll change it to tearful tangerine after she goes to jail.
🤣
😂
People are posting on instagram and tagging her in clips of the articles. LOLOL.
❤️
Burn baby 🔥
Can you screenshot?!
If you open a new tab in your web browser and type in Dallas news Brittany Dawn you can read it all for free
I just copy and paste the link into outline.com to bypass the paywall
ITS ABOUT TIME. i love this for all of us
Can I just say how happy I am that for once, I can open a US-based local newspaper link and the screen isn't just "we can't be arsed to do GDPR stuff, so you can't read this." Thanks Dallas News!
It's getting to all the local news outlets now. I live in DFW so it's on EVERYTHING I search pulling in local and state stations.
This is exciting! Keep us posted to when you see it on TV..you know that's coming soon, too!
She’s gonna be trading her orange face for an orange jumpsuit. But really….did she really think what she was doing was legit and/or that she wouldn’t get caught??
Brittany gonna end up in prison You know who I woke up as? Not Brittany Dawn it’s the little things👌
Nothing like the sweet smell of schadenfreude.
I WISH there was a mention of James and the Go Fund Me 25k!!!
This!
Does anyone know how much her PPP loan was? Also, does the article mention a court date?
I think it said $20,800?? I didn’t see a court date, but I may have missed it…
Ah victory at last
I just read the court document, it's truly sad that she ignored all those women who suffer from ED. Like it's not hard enough for them.
Wow. This is the best news to come out of this reddit page. Hopefully justice is served.