Global Information Network

Global Information Network no longer appears to be active as a direct sales company.

GlobalInformationNetwork.com is still active, but the original Kevin Trudeau-controlled GIN/Global Information Network business did not simply continue unchanged. The old operation was pulled into the FTC’s long-running Kevin Trudeau enforcement case, placed under receivership, had its affiliate/recruiting program discontinued, and was later sold. The current site operates under GIN Unite, LLC as a paid private membership/personal-development “success club,” not as a conventional product-based MLM.

Original Npros business profile for Global Information Network, preserved below for archival purposes:

Global Information Network, commonly called GIN, was a private membership "success club" promoted by infomercial marketer Kevin Trudeau. The organization was built around personal-development, wealth, health, networking, and "secret knowledge" themes rather than a traditional catalog of retail consumer products. Its public pitch promised access to information, education, mentoring, events, high-level contacts, and private member-only materials intended to help members achieve financial independence, health, personal growth, and success.

GIN operated with multilevel-marketing-style elements during the Trudeau era. Members paid initiation fees and monthly dues, and the organization promoted multiple membership levels, private events, exclusive training, and an affiliate program that rewarded members for bringing in new recruits. Public reporting from the receivership period stated that GIN generated more than $60 million over three years, peaked at about 20,000 members, and later dropped to 3,908 members after the receiver took control. The receiver discontinued the affiliate program and informed members that the promoted "GIN Council" of wealthy advisers did not exist.

The company's legal history is central to its story. GIN became part of the fallout from the Federal Trade Commission's long-running case against Kevin Trudeau, who was ordered to pay more than $37 million for deceptive weight-loss-book infomercials and was later sentenced in 2014 to 10 years in federal prison for criminal contempt. A federal court later described Global Information Network as having played a significant role in Trudeau's asset-concealment issues. The receiver sold GIN to AXS Consulting LLC, an Idaho entity, which changed its name to GIN Unite, LLC. Trudeau no longer owned GIN Unite, but a 2023 federal court decision stated that he was a GIN Unite employee.

Global Information Network remains active online through GlobalInformationNetwork.com. The current site describes GIN as a private, members-only global association focused on financial independence, health, emotional well-being, mentorship, events, and personal-development education. The current Level 1 membership price listed publicly is a $1,500 initiation fee plus $150 monthly dues, and the site describes 12 membership levels, with higher-level qualifications, benefits, cash bonuses, perks, and rewards marked as classified or disclosed only to members at each level. The current public-facing business is therefore best described as an active private membership and personal-development club under GIN Unite, LLC, not the original Trudeau-controlled MLM/affiliate version.

GIN's regulatory and litigation history also includes a related SEC case involving one of its high-ranking members, Darrell Glenn Hardaway. In 2017, the SEC charged Hardaway and Hardaway Net-Works, Inc. with a multiyear securities fraud that targeted fellow GIN members. The SEC alleged that Hardaway raised at least $4.7 million from more than 100 investors, used much of the money for personal expenses, and relied on trust developed inside GIN, including a GIN-related rule discouraging members from criticizing one another. That case was against Hardaway and his company, not GIN itself, but it is relevant to the broader public record around the organization and its member network.

There are allusions on the GIN website to many influential and successful contributors who wish to remain anonymous. It is a multi-form foundation organized in the country of Nevis, which is an isolated 36 square mile island in the middle of the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Puerto Rico. This island is not under the control of the U.S. government.The method of making money with the Global Information Network is through the membership contacts that you make while a member and the information gained. The network also offers an affiliate program where members can make money by promoting the group to others. When another person buys into the group, members who referred them make commissions.Global Information Network offers 12 membership levels. The initiation fee is $1,000, and monthly dues are $150 a month thereafter. You must also be referred to the network by an affiliate, or a member in good standing. For this price, you will be given access to membership level 1 sections of the site, and receive no cash bonuses.

The remaining sections of the compensation plan are hidden and the information cited as classified.
Although the Global Information Network website lists the Founders as "Anonymous", Kevin Trudeau directly promotes the company through the Kevin Trudeau seminars. Many sites link Kevin Trudeau to Global Information Network as a founder. Definitive documentation is not available at this time.