darceybussell - Judging by what I saw in my mother's home, my brother had many thousands of pounds committed to the brainwashing materials, and he was supplying these to his group, but he can never have made a profit out of them. He went to all the meetings, but I don't think he ever travelled abroad. He bought business suits and ties, 'Amway' stationary, folders, diaries, etc., and also bought a large black 4X4 (but only secondhand). My brother's partner also bought a new image as well as a makeup sales-kit (which was the thick end of £1000).
It's very difficult to say how much my brother, partner and my mother poured in total, into living the 'Amway' lie. My brother claimed to be turning over £100 000 annually in his 'business,' but this was the total ammount his group was handing over to 'Amway UK' for the wampum products. From what I personally saw and know today, I would guess my brother wasted well above £100 000, but possibly a great deal more. Even today, I don't know how long he paid to play the 'MLM' game of make-believe.
By far the worst damage my brother caused was whe he handed all confidential information about his family to his handlers, and they will have supplied him with a stategy, and the false justification, to take control of his family's capital assets.
When I was pushed out for initially refusing to join 'Amway', my brother sudenly had de facto control over capital assets worth in excess of one million pounds sterling, but he never progressed very far in the 'Amway' hierarchy. My brother used his control of my family's wealth to manipulate me into a position of dependence so that he could force me to join 'Amway', but I still refused.
When my brother moved into my mother's home, he gave up his job as a teacher, but his partner (another teacher) continued to work. He also rented out his own little house to his partner's brother. I think my brother recruited several of his partner's family. He probably was financing their own 'Amway' lies. Even without his salary, my brother had access to a substantial income, because was living for nothing whilst his partner, and my mother, were subsidising what they firmly believed would be a 'business' that would make all of them fabulously wealthy. My mother had state and private pensions, she also had rents from appartments she owned, and plenty of cash, and valuables; stashed away from inheritances.
My mother corresponds very much the whistleblower whom I am currently interviewing, except that my mother never faced the truth and would never have been able to understand. She died of heart failure 3 years before 'Amway' faced investigation in the UK. I have not had direct contact with my brother since the mid 1990s. In order for him to face the truth, he would first have to admit that he was defrauded, but he then he would have to face the fact that he defrauded his own mother and brother as well as his ex-partner and her family, not to mention a number of his friends.