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anonymous said:
Sounds like he’s Hans on
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If by "Hans on" you mean getting credit for validations that were 100% conducted by Thermo. And scotty and shea were too stupid to understand that Hans in no way could execute such validations, yes "Hans on". And, of course, Hans would perpetuate the misinformation and BS because that is the only way he could get any credit foranything.
 




Can someone actually tell me how they haven't been tagged for all of the "fraud" that I have heard people talk about? I am in the industry but have never worked with them, but have never heard a good word.
 




anonymous said:
Can someone actually tell me how they haven't been tagged for all of the "fraud" that I have heard people talk about? I am in the industry but have never worked with them, but have never heard a good word.
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It all started back during Covid. They were running full respiratory (flu) panels on everybody! I'm talking the 99% of people who had zero symptoms. That's just the tip of the iceberg.
 




ERIC BEAUMONT, Plaintiff, v. WALTER SCOTTY BRANCH; SHEA C. HARRELSON; AVANTE DIAGNOSTICS LLC, a Delaware entity; MEDCOAST LLC, a South Carolina entity; and VIKOR SCIENTIFIC LLC, a South Carolina entity, Defendants.

No. 2:23-cv-03546-DCN

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Charleston Division

October 26, 2023

ORDER
DAVID C. NORTON, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

The following matter is before the court on defendants Walter Scotty Branch (“Branch”), Shea C. Harrelson (“Harrelson”), Avante Diagnostics LLC (“Avante”), MedCoast LLC (“MedCoast”), and Vikor Scientific LLC's (“Vikor”) (collectively “defendants”) motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim. ECF No. 14. For the reasons set forth below the court grants in part and denies in part the motion.

I. BACKGROUND
This dispute arises from two interrelated agreements to invest funds into start-up laboratory ventures to allow those ventures to expand and roll out “revolutionary laboratory diagnostic testing.” ECF No. 1, Compl. ¶¶ 10-11. Branch and Harrelson approached plaintiff Eric Beaumont (“Beaumont”) to solicit funding for their laboratory ventures and promised him “that his investment would make him a partner and co-owner in their laboratory ventures, and, if they succeeded, he would receive lifelong returns that would provide for his family for the rest of their lives.” Id. ¶ 12.
 




On April 13, 2019, Beaumont provided his bank account information to Harrelson to facilitate anticipated payments coming from Vikor starting on April 15, 2019. Id. ¶ 41. On April 17, 2019, Beaumont began receiving payments solely from Vikor, as opposed to from Harrelson or Branch. Id. ¶ 42. On May 23, 2019, Branch emailed Beaumont to express that the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018 (“EKRA”), 18 U.S.C. § 220, meant that they could no longer pay per sample or tied to revenues, which restricted Branch and Harrelson's ability to comply with the August 2017 Agreement and the September 2017 Agreement. Id. ¶ 44. As such, Branch and Harrelson limited Beaumont's payment to a lump sum of $7,500 per month every month moving forward, rather than as a percentage of gross profits or ownership as was stipulated by the agreements. Id. Beaumont received these $7,500 per month for nearly three years. Id. ¶ 49. Beaumont avers that Branch and Harrelson misrepresented the impact of EKRA on the agreements, and in so doing, Harrelson, Branch, and Vikor willfully, wantonly, or at the very least, recklessly “purposefully [and] severely reduc[ed] Mr. Beaumont's payments.” Id. ¶ 45.
 




But Branch said he "owns" his supply chain, which allows him to process COVID-19 tests more quickly. He said the facility in South Carolina operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, processing 9,000-11,000 COVID-19 tests a day from all across the country, including Kentucky and Indiana.
 




"Everything from plastics to the swabs you are hearing about, sourced by all the major companies, became totally on back order," said Scotty Branch, co-founder of Vikor Scientific. "Then the second reason is the bad reason is people just weren't willing to scale with the growth."
 




"The anxiety has been created because of a lack of execution by other entities that are extending this turnaround time deeming the result basically worthless," Branch said. "So you're just going to have to do your due diligence and find the labs that are executing."
 








I have an interview scheduled with Vikor and see a lot of negative posts on here, and have also heard rumors that the company is being sold?

Can anyone on here give me an honest answer on the state of the company and what the bonus structure is (is there any real $ to be made)?

Any insight you can give appreciated!
 




Anonymous said:
I have an interview scheduled with Vikor and see a lot of negative posts on here, and have also heard rumors that the company is being sold?

Can anyone on here give me an honest answer on the state of the company and what the bonus structure is (is there any real $ to be made)?

Any insight you can give appreciated!
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The comp plan changes with Scotty's whim and current cash flow situation. Once a year (at least) like clockwork he fires a decent portion of the sales staff stating cash flow then promptly begins restarting with new victims. And the best part of a former employees life is having to regularly get calls from the authorities every time the CEO does something wrong. The comp plan is the current problem.
 




anonymous said:
The comp plan changes with Scotty's whim and current cash flow situation. Once a year (at least) like clockwork he fires a decent portion of the sales staff stating cash flow then promptly begins restarting with new victims. And the best part of a former employees life is having to regularly get calls from the authorities every time the CEO does something wrong. The comp plan is the current problem.
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Calls from the authorities as a former employee?
 




Yes. Calls about how they pay their reps and whether they rehired reps after taking PPP funds during covid. What they spent PPP FUNDS on and if I knew what they were spent on. I specifically was asked if I was ever on a boat.
 








Listen, you should move on from a job and feel proud to put the last place on your resume. I know many of us don't even put this place on ours because of the toxic stench that it leaves or that it doesn't add a thing. That should say something
 












Anonymous said:
I have an interview scheduled with Vikor and see a lot of negative posts on here, and have also heard rumors that the company is being sold?

Can anyone on here give me an honest answer on the state of the company and what the bonus structure is (is there any real $ to be made)?

Any insight you can give appreciated!
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Run as fast as you can from this place. It is a run a muck laboratory, nothing proprietary, not real science and run by a couple of con artists.
 












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