its not even trial, its just painfully obvious this guys sells snake oil for a living and is a greasy little ball.

Thanks for starting thread. It's kinda fascinating what hustlers can do. Maciello's bio in the amici site (the whole site for that matter) is A+.


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Said bio:

Joshua began his business career on the New York Stock Exchange in 1994 where he quickly learned the ins and outs of managing money. He spent two years on the exchange floor before moving to Los Angeles to begin a career in the entertainment industry. In 2003 Joshua attended Valley College to learn about motion picture production.

Being on LATB so often has made him a small niche celebrity. These folks always get more attention and praise than they deserve, and they get more scutiny and personal attacks than they might deserve too. Seems this is the case with JM.

More scrutiny than he deserves? LOL. Are you saying that just to say something? To go against the current status quo opinion in this thread to seem insightful and validate yourself?

He deserves ten times as much scrutiny. There is probably a bunch more crap related to his Josh Ruiz name, maybe even convictions which is why people change names. Or to seem less Hispanic and more Italian for unfortunately real business image purposes ala Martin "Sheen."

Con-artists are always charismatic and pleasant and liked. At the end of the day they are deeply sick. What will help him is exposing this so he can take whatever money he has for his family, move into a modest home, and begin to live a true Christian life for his family. I'm sure he can find a decent respectable career and purpose to be proud of.

Listen, it was between buying multiple casinos in Vegas or the Dodgers...


Today, I'm deciding whether to bang Rihanna or Katy Perry

You seem to be on top of this pretty well. Keep up the good investigative work. Good. But I must add that I don't give a minor **** about this at all , or what your meaningless opinion is about it either. Thanks for your appearance on the forum.

Amazing how rich people are so easily duped into investing into scams. He didn't buy the Dodgers or any casinos. Matter of fact, he is broke again and waiting for his next scam to get back in action on live at the bike. He should be outed because his next victims will most likely be poker players.

Wow the Armital website looks like absolute **** too. How on earth did no one investigate this? Or his "mining claims" at the time either. Such a perfect way to latch on to something everyone knows (gold) and that can't be verified without a process that involves geologists coming on to your properties (never going to happen). Still amazed no one did their diligence on the initial "assessment" of his
mining claims-some small weird guy from Portland who was obviously fake too.

I've never seen 3 skeezier faces than the CEO/CFO/whatever on the Amici website other. Who are those con-artists?

You are 100% right that his next scam is in the works and he needs to be outed now. That's why I created this thread. And also deep down to help him as well. He does have a beautiful family and he clearly is an excellent salesman. If he can find someone who recognizes that talent and puts him in the right sales/maybe startup expansion/fundraising position, he could turn his life around tomorrow into something decent. He really could even with this out there. Others with worse backgrounds have.

Also for us all to see how even the most likable and charismatic people aren't always what they appear to be.

Lastly Interesting psychology trick how he keeps latching on to and comparing himself to big names throughout the interview (I'm the Michael Jordan of this etc) non-stop. Similar to "I don't have a full house, I promise you that" type table talk.

there is a lot to love about the amici site but i think my favorite part is the disclaimer at the bottom in fine print

LOL. Amazing find. This literally just keeps getting more entertaining by the day.

Football Gambler-have you played with Josh before? How do you have all this
Insight?

Who the **** is Derek Chen?

This looks like a fake news article here created by Josh and conspirators here to make him seem real. http://searchenterpriselinux.techtar...lmmaking-costs

That's all Google shows when searching for him and the Dreamworks Oriental company. Maybe writing that article would be too much for them. They did create the website though.

Or maybe he is just a con-artist by evening type.

I haven't played with him on the same table but I have seen him around. Even bumped into him in Vegas hanging out with some rich Armenians. He better not try to scam them because it might be his last scam.

I have been trading gold stocks for 20+ years. I know a scam when I see one. I even helped expose one run by Jim Sinclair and his company Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corp. No geologist I spoke to ever heard of Josh nor could validate his claims. Funny how not one media outlet, except LA Weekly, tried to verify his claims.

Here is a lawsuit from one of his investors:
https://www.***************/ChrisDio...ibits-22935138

Does anyone know what Harry and Michael do? They are supposedly successful businessmen as well and I am just curious now.

How do these rich Armenians such as Mike get their money to begin with? Does it come over from Armenia or are they actually smart businessmen up in the valley?

The last exhibit of the lawsuit is a fake news article created to suppress the LA Weekly one. More evidence he created the Derek Chan article I posted earlier as well.

LATB should never have him on again. Would love to see Doug or another poker personality delve into this one (Doug PM please and give me the credit I deserve.) I get the feeling it won't happen though, just because how sick and slimy this case really is. Almost too much for a fun and games YouTube video.

Yeah, that's how these things usually turn out. LOL

You're 36 years old. Sit the **** up for your NBC interview.

Harry supposedly owns a bunch of high-end body shops in LA. That claim has some credibility as his shop was featured once on "Living with the Kardasians" or whatever that show is. Although, that doesn't prove that he owns them, just that he is associated with them at least.

You did form an opinion though...typed it into a computer then shared it...had it replied to...then replied to your reply saying you don't give a crap about it.

You also expressed the fact that someone's opinion was meaningless, when he replied to your own opinion you seemingly didn't care about or give much thought to. Err, ok!

I'd bet it was helping his story-telling nerves to sit back and appear relaxed while telling his story. Lol'ed at his heartfelt mother's "advice". Him looking sideways after answering Fred Rogan with his lie is a tell. Is there an interrogation expert in the house?

Josh made his return back to live at the bike today. Busted his 1 bullet and quit the game. Does that sound like a billionaire to you? He is running low on cash and needs new suckers to con.

Thank you!

A billionaire? Yes it does actually. A billionaire would ask himself why he's sitting around a table with a bunch of degenerate *******s playing for pennies, when he could be out floating his 300ft yacht or something.

Of course I know what you meant though, lol.

Years ago on LATB I remember when Josh stood up over the table and was mad at another player and threatened to kill him. How you can make direct death threats and still be allowed back in the casino is beyond me.

Is there footage/more description of this Josh threatening incident??? Please share.

I think he has been back for even more action since football gamblers last update? Can anyone give us a TLDR?

Threats happens to me all the time from drunks/cokeheads in various casinos, who will even continue to sit at a table with zero plan to buy back in just to berate/threaten me further. And you are right it is completely bat****. The problem is no one at the casino has an incentive to do anything about it. Too much paperwork, too much calling attention to the casino, too much drama/risk for a floor who just wants his $10/hr and a stable job. No individual player wants to call the cops and risk getting blacklisted from the property etc.

The hand went down during the 7/30/2013 episode of LATB, starts around 2 hours and 27 minutes in. There used to be a clip of it up on Youtube but looks like it got taken down. Was a 3 way all-in PF between Jonas' AK, Jesse Sylvia's AK and Josh's QT where the entire board was run twice. The AKs split one board and QT scooped the other board, so QT should have gotten half the pot and the AKs 1/4 each, but Jonas was arguing that it was a chop and calling everyone else ******ed, then Josh tells him not to get disrespectful with him or "You will ****ing lose your life."