Chad Eugene Willis
Also known as: Gabriel Condé, Michael Condé, G. Condé
A quarter of a century of documented fraud, deception, and commercial misconduct — still active today. This archive tracks his history from early financial offences through to current ventures and brands.
Chad Eugene Willis
Public Record, Evidence Map & Active Conduct Timeline
This page consolidates public records related to Chad Eugene Willis and the entities he has operated, including Plus Brand Industries Inc., Plus Brand, Agua Plus, Agua Plus Alkaline, AguaPlus (AUS), Agua Plus All-Scratch and other associated companies and shells. It links official filings, regulatory actions, IP claims, sponsorships, marketplace appearances, and structured first-hand materials into a single, navigable evidence map. Where matters are not finally adjudicated, they are presented as allegations or reported accounts, with sources indicated.
Public records indicate prior felony conviction(s) and that an outstanding warrant has appeared on relevant law-enforcement portals. Key references include Oakland County, Michigan court file 04-197988-FH, the Michigan DIFS Order of Prohibition #06-4287, and historical entries visible via MDOC/OTIS public offender indexes. Portal displays can be inconsistent; status should be confirmed directly with the issuing agencies.
Public-facing materials and communications indicate that Chad Eugene Willis has, for a number of years, primarily based himself in Mexico, with no obvious recent evidence in the public record of regular U.S. travel. The reasons for this are not formally documented here, but the combination of felony history, a lifetime prohibition order, and portal-level warrant indicators is relevant to any risk, association, or KYC assessment.
Verification: Formal written confirmation requests are in progress with the relevant Sheriff/agency. Certified replies will be posted here and mirrored in the Evidence Vault to remove ambiguity arising from portal caching or display variability.
Public records from Michigan indicate prior felony conviction(s) and a regulatory prohibition relating to financial services. Key references include:
- Oakland County, Michigan criminal court file 04-197988-FH (felony matter – “uttering & publishing”).
- Michigan DIFS Order of Prohibition #06-4287, issued July 2006, permanently prohibiting involvement in specified insurance/financial activities in that jurisdiction.
Certified documents are preserved in the Evidence Vault; redacted versions are available for public viewing, with full copies reserved for law enforcement, regulators, and legal counsel.
All-Scratch Patent / IP Claims – Confirmed Discrepancy
Public materials from Plus Brand Industries Inc. have repeatedly described “All-Scratch” as a patented or patent-protected technology.
- Independent searches of U.S. and international patent databases found no matching granted patent or published application consistent with those claims.
- A formal written request for patent evidence was sent to Plus Brand / Agua Plus more than seven days ago.
- No clarification, evidence or acknowledgement has been received.
Status: Confirmed discrepancy — patent claims remain unsubstantiated. This status will only change if formal documentation is produced by the company.
In addition to historic criminal and regulatory actions, public materials show that Chad Eugene Willis has promoted investment-style opportunities, licensing-based revenue programs, and return-linked “loyalty” schemes through brands including Agua Plus and Plus Brand Industries Inc.
These offerings go beyond simple product marketing. They function as financial solicitations and unregistered securities-style invitations (e.g., investor programs, licensing deals tied to volume or revenue, and structured participation schemes) – activities that are fundamentally incompatible with a lifetime prohibition order issued by the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS Order #06-4287).
Within days of this archive going live, key website sections referencing investors, licensing, and related financial programs were quietly removed or drastically reduced from the Agua Plus / Plus Brand public site. Their prior existence is preserved in date-stamped screenshots and screen recordings, including:
- Dedicated Investor navigation tab and associated pages.
- Public-facing materials describing licensing / programmatic participation tied to sales or technology usage.
- Additional dropdown content and calls-to-action relating to investment-style engagement.
First-hand accounts and preserved deal documents indicate that such structures have been used repeatedly over many years in ways that mirror regulated financial products — including promissory notes, investment pools, licensing revenue participation and “friends and family” capital raises — despite the standing prohibition order. The cumulative exposure across these deals is reported by affected parties to be in the tens of millions of dollars, with realistic lifetime exposure plausibly higher. Each affected investor or counterparty in such arrangements represents a separate instance of apparent non-compliance with the prohibition.
Regulatory relevance: A lifetime prohibition order combined with active investment solicitation and licensing-based financial schemes is a significant ongoing compliance issue. Evidence has been preserved for regulators, law enforcement, victims, and potential class-action firms. Detailed before/after comparisons and a chronological log of website changes appear on the Live Updates & Change Log page and in the Evidence Vault.
Over the last four–five years, public search results for “Chad Willis”, “Plus Brand”, and related terms have undergone a marked shift. Historically, searches returned pages of scam reports, consumer alerts, and critical commentary from victims and watchdog sites. Today, results are heavily weighted toward self-curated, flattering profiles and controlled narratives.
A clear pattern is visible:
- Suppression or removal of negative material. Multiple historic scam reports and consumer warnings that once ranked prominently now appear to have been removed, buried, or de-indexed, while neutral/critical independent commentary is far harder to surface via standard searches.
- Insertion of grandiose personal profiles. Pieces such as the IdeaMensch “interview” profile (“Chad Willis lives in a world beyond the normal; what most fantasize about, he visualizes and makes a reality…”) present a highly polished, overtly narcissistic, self-aggrandising narrative that is not meaningfully grounded in audited results or transparent performance data. These items function as credibility wrappers when scanned quickly by retailers, sponsors, or investors.
- Engineered social proof asymmetry. Social channels associated with Agua Plus Alkaline show posts with tens of thousands of “likes” and views, while official Plus Brand accounts and other related pages remain comparatively dormant, with negligible organic engagement. This asymmetry is indicative of bought or artificially inflated engagement directed at whichever brand narrative is currently being pushed.
- Pre-structured “ghost” assets. Several domains, social profiles, and content streams appear to have been created and lightly populated years before they were actively pushed, suggesting a deliberate practice of planting aged, apparently credible “assets” that can be quickly activated later to support new campaigns, pitches, or image overhauls.
Taken together, these behaviours are consistent with a long-term reputation laundering and search-result manipulation strategy: systematically reducing the visibility of negative history while building a manufactured public image of success, benevolence, and authority that can be cited in decks, pitches, and due-diligence “quick scans”.
Practical implication: Retailers, sponsors, marketplaces, and investors should not rely on surface-level Google searches or curated interviews as evidence of credibility. Independent document review, background checks, and direct verification via the Registry & Records, Evidence Vault, and official regulators are essential.
The purpose of this site is to preserve a structured, verifiable record of conduct associated with Chad Eugene Willis and the companies he has operated, and to provide stakeholders with sufficient information to make informed, lawful decisions.
- Collect and preserve official records, filings, and date-stamped captures in one place.
- Document patterns of conduct across projects, brands, and jurisdictions.
- Alert retailers, sponsors, marketplaces, investors, and regulators when serious red flags are evident.
- Support victims, journalists, and investigators with organized, referenced material rather than rumours.
Where any item is later disproven by primary evidence, this site will be updated accordingly. The intention is accuracy, not exaggeration.
The following points synthesize recurring patterns drawn from public records, preserved communications, corporate/registry trails, media reports, and first-hand accounts. Where examples are based on reports rather than final legal findings, they are treated as allegations and are documented as such.
- Borrowed credibility & halo effects. Aggressively attaching brands to celebrities, athletes, venues, and charitable causes, then recycling those names widely in decks, pitches, and marketing collateral to imply depth, scale, or validation that does not necessarily reflect underlying economics or delivery.
- Manufactured image & staged optics. Heavy emphasis on photo-ops (schools, charity events, “community” scenes) and polished language about impact, while hard, independently-audited data on outcomes, revenue, and benefit to counterparties remains thin or opaque.
- Investment-style schemes under a prohibition order. Persistent use of promissory notes, investor pools, licensing revenue participation and “friends and family” raises despite a lifetime Michigan financial-services prohibition. Each funder or counterparty drawn into such structures is another instance of apparent disregard for that order.
- Shells, aliases & brand recycling. Cycling activity through a chain of entities and brand identities — shifting between energy projects, nutrition, beverage and “clarity technology” — while re-using very similar narratives about innovation, imminent scale, and life-changing upside, and leaving unresolved obligations behind previous entities.
- Registry and jurisdiction hopping. Moving corporate registrations, trading entities and apparent control points across multiple jurisdictions, making it difficult for any single regulator or counterparty to see the full pattern without a consolidated map like this one.
- Technical and legal “baffling.” Use of complex legal/financial language and dense documentation (structured notes, layered IP stories, “global patent” claims) to overwhelm non-specialists and deflect from simple questions such as “who owns what”, “what is registered where”, and “when do we get paid”.
- Payment deferral & “imminent money” stories. Reliance on narratives such as “funding is about to land”, “major deal is closing”, or “you’ll be paid from X settlement” to justify repeated extensions and restructures while counterparties bear the financial and psychological load.
- Proxy communicators & intermediaries. Using others to communicate assurances, negotiate deferrals or carry messages, diluting direct accountability and creating buffers that make it harder to pin responsibility on the controlling mind.
- Social proof inflation. Follower counts, “reach” and engagement on some channels (e.g. Agua Plus Alkaline) appear heavily boosted relative to organic interaction, while supposedly central corporate channels remain anaemic — a pattern consistent with paid or artificial engagement directed where it best supports current narratives.
- Reputation laundering & search manipulation. Systematic removal or suppression of scam reports and critical commentary, and the parallel creation of flattering “entrepreneur” profiles and interviews (including highly grandiose, self-aggrandising pieces) that dominate search results when quick checks are performed.
- Deferral and reframing of hard questions. When pressed on specifics, responses typically pivot to future events, process complexity, or attacks on critics rather than straightforward documentary answers, while critics and victims are often framed as outliers, misunderstandings or “noise”.
Concrete examples and supporting documents corresponding to these patterns are referenced on the Registry & Records, Timeline of Conduct, and Evidence Vault pages.
Full datasets appear on Registry & Records. Highlights include:
- Corporate registrations and dissolutions across multiple jurisdictions (energy, nutrition, beverage, and “clarity technology”).
- Trademark and IP references connected with Plus Brand, Agua Plus, and related marks.
- Sponsorship and partnership references involving stadiums, venues, sports leagues, and personalities.
- Historical energy and nutrition ventures linked to the same controlling mind.
Where registry IDs, filing numbers, or URLs are used, they are listed so third parties can independently confirm the records.
A more granular chronology is provided on Timeline of Conduct. In broad strokes:
- Early–mid 2000s: Michigan felony case and financial-services prohibition order.
- Late 2000s–2010s: International energy and investment projects; investor complaints and media scrutiny begin appearing.
- 2010s: Nutrition and supplement ventures, including brands later connected to the same network of entities.
- 2020s: Beverage, hydration, and “clarity technology” ventures under the Plus Brand / Agua Plus umbrellas, with growing sponsorship and retail visibility.
- Recent years: Increasing convergence of prior patterns — complex narratives, high-profile branding, and questions about delivery, compliance, and transparency.
The Evidence Vault consolidates material into structured categories:
- Official & Regulatory: court orders, prohibitions, corporate records, and IP references.
- Commercial Footprint: marketplace listings, sponsorship announcements, and retailer placements.
- Marketing & Claims: extracts from websites, social channels, and collateral, including claims about IP, safety, “clarity technology,” and impact.
- First-Hand & Direct Communications: redacted excerpts from calls, emails, and agreements, with hashes and timestamps.
A separate Restricted Vault holds sensitive material accessible only to law enforcement, regulators, and legal counsel, referenced via the Law Enforcement and Contact pages.
Major retailers, sponsors, venues, and marketplaces typically maintain ethics and compliance standards requiring review — and in some cases suspension or termination — when credible information about serious past conduct surfaces.
- Truth-in-advertising and deceptive-practices standards (e.g. U.S. FTC guidance and analogous frameworks).
- Supply-chain, KYC, and integrity expectations for listed vendors and brand partners.
- Reputational risk policies where association with undisclosed criminal or regulatory histories may be unacceptable.
Formal notices and structured summaries are being prepared for relevant stakeholders (retailers, sponsors, marketplaces, boards, and responsible officers), with links to this site and supporting records.
Multi-year email threads, message logs, contractual drafts, and recorded calls are preserved with SHA-256 hashes and timestamps to evidence chain-of-custody. Redacted excerpts may be made available selectively where they illuminate specific patterns of conduct. Unredacted versions are reserved for law enforcement, regulators, and legal counsel.
Requests from authorities can be submitted via the Law Enforcement channel.
- Financial: statements and accounts from multiple cohorts indicate losses in the tens of millions of dollars collectively across different projects and periods. Given the duration, breadth of schemes, and number of affected jurisdictions, lifetime exposure may plausibly exceed USD 100 million, though precise totals would require formal forensic audit.
- Regulatory dimension: many of these losses arise from investment-style arrangements, promissory notes, and licensing revenue schemes promoted while a lifetime financial-services prohibition was already in force. Each such arrangement is not only a financial harm but an additional instance of apparent non-compliance with that prohibition order.
- Collateral damage: reports of retirement savings exhausted, properties sold or lost, and businesses compromised as a result of involvement.
- Human cost: consistent themes of stress, anxiety, family strain, and long-term mistrust arising from extended payment delays, broken assurances, and opaque explanations.
Victim identities are anonymised for privacy unless and until individuals choose to participate in media, legal, or class-action processes.
- Law Enforcement & Regulators: use the dedicated channel on the Law Enforcement or Contact page to request documents, hashes, or clarifications. Certified replies (e.g. warrant status, regulatory confirmations) will be summarized here and archived in the Evidence Vault.
- Press & Media: the Press Kit provides a structured overview, suggested angles, and a pathway to request supporting records, subject to privacy and legal constraints.
- Victims & Witnesses: individuals who believe they have been affected by projects controlled by or closely associated with Chad Eugene Willis can submit statements and documentation via the Class Action / Victim Liaison and Contact pages.
Every effort is made to ensure that this archive reflects the public record accurately. Where a claim is based on allegation or personal testimony, it is framed as such. Where a claim is based on official documents, registry entries, or primary evidence, the underlying source is retained and catalogued.
Removed or altered online materials — including historical scam reports, website pages, and social content that no longer appear in public search — have been preserved in date-stamped screenshots, PDFs and recordings. This ensures that attempts to “clean” or rewrite the online record do not erase the underlying history for regulators, investigators, or victims.
If you identify an error, or can supply primary documentation that materially clarifies or corrects any entry, you are invited to submit it via the Contact page. Submissions will be reviewed, and where warranted, this site will be updated with clear change-notes so that the evolution of the record is itself transparent.
Official social channels (LinkedIn, X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram) will be linked from this page once activated. Updates, new confirmations, and material additions to the Evidence Vault will be announced there and reflected in the site’s Updates / blog section.
Accuracy note: Identifiers, company names, and timelines on this page are drawn from official registries (corporate, IP, and regulatory) and preserved third-party sources where indicated. This site does not claim to be exhaustive; it is a living evidence map that will continue to be refined as further verifiable information emerges.