An FTC suit called Aventura ‘Millionaire Mentor’ a fraud. Here’s the settlement
A Federal Trade Commission lawsuit said a Miramar woman was being “deceptive” with claims about her multi-level marketing business, such as creating 60 millionaires in 2026.
Stormy Wellington doesn’t have to say the FTC was right. But Wellington does have to let everyone she recruited to Total Life Changes or Doral company Farmasi US know she was accused of lying about the companies’ potential to make those recruits rich and promise any future claims must be “typical and supported by evidence.”
That’s in the settlement between the FTC and Wellington, whose website calls her a “Millionaire Mentor — Spiritual Leader — Mindset Coach.”
Not only must Wellington refrain from statements such as “I will help 1000 families make 5-7 figures in the next 90 days to 12 months!” unless she can prove it, she’s got to give a copy of the settlement to “all principals, officers, directors, LLC managers and members” of any business she owns or controls.
A quick sweep through state records shows Wellington as the only such person on most of her businesses, including Wealth Connection Global, which Wellington runs out of an Aventura office building.
Wellington didn’t return phone calls or emails from the Miami Herald, but her attorney, Russomanno & Borello’s Herman J. Russomanno III emailed a statement that he negotiated “a favorable resolution for Wellington” in the settlement.
“There is no admission of liability by Wellington as to the allegations of the FTC’s lawsuit, and there is no monetary penalty that Wellington is required to pay,” Russomanno said.
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Is it multi-level marketing or pyramid scheme?
In a legal multi-level marketing setup, you make money via the sales you make and by the sales of people you recruit, also known as people in the “downline.” If this sounds like Mary Kay Cosmetics or Amway products, well, those are two of the most famous and long-running “MLM” companies.
In a pyramid scheme, however, “little or no effort is made to actually market the product,” the state of Michigan’s Consumer Protection bureau said. “Instead, money is made in typical pyramid fashion — from recruiting other people to market the program. Sometimes, new “distributors” are persuaded to purchase inventory or overpriced products/services when they sign up.”
The FTC said: “The promoters of a pyramid scheme may try to recruit you with pitches about what you’ll earn. They may say you can change your life — quit your job and even get rich — by selling the company’s products.
“That’s a lie. Your income would be based mostly on how many people you recruit, not how much product you sell.”
Wellington, the FTC lawsuit said, sold a pie in the sky lie much more than the product.
Selling people on selling Total Life Changes and Farmasi goods
Both Michigan-based Total Life Changes and Doral-based Farmasi market products purporting to help with health, beauty and wellness. Wellington sold and recruited for Total Life Changes from 2014 through August 2025, when she began doing the same for Farmasi.
“To induce consumers to join TLC, [Wellington] has represented in multiple widely-viewed and still-available videos that TLC participants will or are likely to make substantial income,” the FTC said.
An August 2022 video that Wellington posted to her YouTube page, the FTC said she claimed to “coach 35 families to millionaire and multimillionaire status.” In another video, she made the claim, “I will help 1,000 families make five to seven figures in the next 90 days to 12 months!”
In the caption to an Aug. 3, 2025, YouTube video after her jump to Farmasi, Wellington said, “This isn’t just skincare or weight loss. It’s generational wealth, leadership, and a money shift. I’m helping 60 people make seven figures by 2026 — no games being played.”
Each company puts an income disclosure statement on its website, numbers that don’t square with Wellington’s boasts.
According to Total Life Changes disclosure, of the 30,119 active sellers in 2023, the median income of the 70 sellers in the top 1% was $20,324. The vast majority of sellers, 76.8%, earned no compensation.
“Using the average monthly earnings provided in the Farmasi disclosure, fewer than 1% of its active participants earn an income in the ‘six figure’ range, contrary to [Wellington’s] claims that participants will earn ‘no less than six figures.,’” the FTC said. “Further, the disclosure appears to state that no rank of participant earns an average monthly commission large enough to earn a million dollars a year, despite [Wellington’s] claims that she will make ‘60 new millionaires’ in 2026.
“In sum, claims about the amounts of money that TLC and Farmasi participants will or are likely to earn are deceptive.”
