Criminal Record & Public Persona

Felony Convictions & Supervision Conditions

• Court financial ledgers associated with the felony matter record restitution obligations originally totalling approximately USD $188,000. With statutory interest potentially accruing over more than twenty years, the realistic exposure may now be materially higher. The precise current balance remains subject to formal custodian confirmation.
• A Lifetime Prohibition Order issued by the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services — DIFS Order #06-4287 — permanently prohibits Willis from specified insurance / financial-services activity in that jurisdiction. Official FOIA replies confirm that the order exists and that related examination records are confidential by statute.
• Warrant-status indicators relating to the underlying case, supervision history, unpaid restitution and apparent long-term U.S. non-appearance have appeared in the record and remain significant. These indicators are strong enough to require direct custodian verification.
• Because portal displays can be outdated or inconsistent, only the originating agencies, courts, corrections authorities or law-enforcement custodians can confirm current active-warrant status.
• None of these matters — felony convictions, prohibition order, restitution obligations or warrant-status indicators — are apparent in Plus Brand / AGUA Plus public materials, investor-facing narratives, sponsorship documents or founder biographies reviewed for this archive.

For risk, KYC and compliance purposes, these are material facts and material verification issues. Any sponsor, retailer, marketplace, payment partner, investor, regulator, journalist or commercial counterparty reviewing Chad Eugene Willis or entities he controls should treat them as high-priority due-diligence triggers.

On 29 May 2026, further verification requests were issued or prepared for submission to relevant public-record custodians concerning Chad Eugene Willis, Oakland County Circuit Court case 04-197988-FH, warrant-status indicators, probation / absconder / fugitive indicators, restitution-enforcement status and current restitution balance.

• Requests were directed to, or prepared for, relevant Michigan / Oakland County records custodians, including court, sheriff, prosecutor, corrections and police-record channels.
• A Madison Heights Police Department FOIA request packet was prepared for police / warrant / enforcement-record review and is being submitted by the available official channel.
• The verification question is narrow and factual: whether any warrant, probation-violation, fugitive / absconder, restitution-enforcement or related enforcement record remains active, recalled, quashed, satisfied, expired or otherwise resolved.
• Until custodian confirmation is received, this page treats active-warrant status as strongly indicated but pending formal confirmation.

This update strengthens the public-record trail while separating confirmed conviction, prohibition and restitution records from current-status items still under direct verification.

This section maps publicly accessible, self-promotional, company-authored, aggregator-hosted and media-profile material connected to Chad Eugene Willis, Plus Brand Industries Inc., AGUA Plus and All-Scratch!® against the verified public-record evidence documented in this archive.

Inclusion of a platform or article below does not mean that every statement in that source is false, and does not imply that the platform operator knowingly published inaccurate material. The purpose is to document the cumulative public-facing persona and show the due-diligence gap between reputation material and material adverse public records.

Boiler-Room Style Operations

• The broader pattern around Willis and associated ventures mirrors classic boiler-room operations that regulators in the U.S., Canada and Australia have previously shut down: high-pressure sales, glossy marketing, opaque structures, offshore complexity, and investors left chasing promises.
• Public regulator warnings about entities such as Seisma Oil Research / Seisma Energy Research and related offshore structures describe unsolicited calls, unlicensed activity, fabricated or unverified project claims, and investor funds used for commissions and personal expenses.
• Timeframes, jurisdictions, sales methods and narratives overlap strongly with later schemes promoted by Willis and associates, even where a direct formal link to a particular prior entity has not yet been fully documented.

Where specific historical ties to earlier boiler-room entities remain unverified, they are treated here as allegations or pattern-consistent indicators, not as established fact. The confirmed record — felony convictions, DIFS prohibition and the long tail of investor complaints — is serious without needing overstatement.

World Energy, Guatemala & Bamboo Nutra

• Archived investigative material on World Energy Research and associated structures, including a promoted Guatemala dam / hydro project, describes investors who lost significant sums in projects that could not be independently verified or that never materialised as represented.
• A 2014 WordPress post titled “Is Bamboo Nutra a Scam? Beware of Bamboo Nutra” reports missed deadlines, broken promises, and characterises the company as a “flat out scam”, explicitly naming Chad E. Willis and warning readers to stay away.
• The same post mentions that if U.S. law authorities are looking for him, he is believed to be holding an event in Guadalajara, Mexico, reinforcing the offshore-operations and avoidance issue that appears elsewhere in the record.
• Complaints connected to these eras are consistent: pressure to invest, vague or shifting project details, non-performance, and difficulty recovering funds once concerns are raised.

These are third-party reports and opinions. They are included because they show how participants publicly described their experiences, and because similar conduct categories appear in later ventures under new brand names.

The archive preserves cease-and-desist / legal-threat correspondence received in relation to this public-record project, together with the substantive response, follow-up correspondence and delivery-status clarification requests.

• The correspondence is treated as part of the evidentiary chronology because it was directed at public-record publication, factual criticism, complaint-platform material, and the archive’s continued reporting on Chad Eugene Willis, Plus Brand, AGUA Plus and related parties.
• A substantive written response was issued. A further follow-up requested confirmation of the asserted U.S. mail transmission and clarification / substantiation of the allegations raised.
• As of the latest update, no substantive correction, evidentiary support, certified contradiction, or follow-through litigation step has been received in response to the archive’s position.
• The documents are preserved as a legal-threat / suppression-response record, not as proof that any law firm, attorney or recipient independently verified the broader Plus Brand / AGUA Plus public narrative.

Public framing is deliberate: this page records the existence, timing, content category and non-response status of the legal-threat correspondence without relying on the legal threat as proof of the truth or falsity of the underlying disputed issues.

This page provides an at-a-glance overlay of recorded facts — felony convictions, restitution exposure, prohibition order and supervision — with self-authored narratives, corporate opacity, curated persona material, complaint records and current verification issues.

It is designed to support risk assessment, due diligence, public-interest reporting, commercial-counterparty review and regulatory escalation.

• Official criminal-history printouts and correspondence.
• Court financial ledgers and restitution records.
• The DIFS Order of Prohibition #06-4287 and FOIA responses.
• Corporate records and historical web captures.
• Agreements, emails and messaging between Chad Willis and investors / affected parties.
• Cease-and-desist / legal-threat correspondence, substantive responses and follow-up non-response records.
• Public complaints, blog posts, media articles, sponsored-content captures and review samples.

If you are a regulator, law-enforcement officer, sponsor, retailer, partner, journalist or investor wishing to review the full evidentiary bundle, refer to the Law Enforcement, Registry & Records, Evidence Vault and Contact pages.