Former Fruit of the Loom chief executive William Farley is backing a multilevel marketing company that sells a juice concoction called Zrii, made from the amalaki fruit.

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Cure-all fruit drinks are all the rage in the world of multilevel marketing, where distributors often sign up with the idea that they will get rich quick.

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From Ackman, perhaps his website could begin to highlight not just Herbalife, but other multilevel marketing companies that appear to prosper by appealing to financially vulnerable people.

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On his Web site, now defunct, Cope cited a bizarre source of income:the sale of multilevel marketing rights to a bioengineered bottled water said to alter drinkers' electromagnetic auras.

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Moreover, fellow multilevel marketing companies Mary Kay Cosmetics or ViSalus, another purveyor of weight loss and nutritional supplements, have both been the subject of scathing take-downs by journalists within the past few months.

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