Dealing with the cesspool of trashy media outlets led by TMZ & Radar Online is a whole other matter. Expect them to cut your throat & stab you in the back. We recently identified this attempt to defraud DollarScholar.com, & despite their threats to sue us behind the wrath of their affiliation to National Enquirer & their parent company American Media if we published this, we are doing so anyways.

DollarScholar.com released the exclusive first picture of $380 million lottery winner Holly Lahti on Wednesday January 12, 2011, verified by this Facebook Wall Post.

The next day, at 11AM on Thursday January 13, 2011, the NY Post first asked to buy the photo, documented by this Facebook Wall Post. A few hours later, RadarOnline contacted us for the photo, & pretended to offer us credit for it while they secretly worked on their own story & delayed from tipping us off on it as outlined in this conversation. Their article coverage of the story ends up taking credit for leaking the first picture, as shown in the screen shot to the right.

We then broke the exclusive story on Holly Lahti’s new engagement to her next soon to be husband (FB Post), and RadarOnline came knocking again. Based on our first dealings with RadarOnline as opposed to reputable media outlets, we were hesitant & leery of their likely ulterior motive to STEAL our story by claiming credit for themselves again! We knew if we gave them the guys name, they could contact the Sheriff’s Office themselves & get the mugshot without our watermark! So we wrote the story without disclosing the fiancee’s name & just called him Trouble #2. Here is the conversation that ensued. Once RadarOnline realized we were on to their scam tactics of deceit, tempers flared! Just read this, it speaks for itself:

The intimidation & threat tactics to steal from us by RadarOnline!

Needless to say, without our assistance in handing up a story on a silver platter to do their work for them, RadarOnline took 4 days to come out with their “Exclusive” copycat of a story (See their Feb 3rd Exclusive Theft Here) with highly suggestive language that they obtained this & that detail to “reveal” & “discover” such a scoop for their audience! LOL! Seriously, don’t they think it’s just a little tacky to claim that every single story is an EXCLUSIVE – especially when it is most definitely, 100% a guaranteed fact to NOT BE their “Exclusive”, but rather a DollarScholar.com Exclusive!

What do you say gang? Should we sue the shit out of RadarOnline? Should they really remain a tabloid behemoth when they are nothing, but thieves?

We are not the only “little guy” whose had RadarOnline’s muscles flexed at us. Our research reveals that it seems last year, “Tabloid Baby” had their story stolen by RadarOnline.  How many more are out there? This is one big bad bully that needs to be shut down, & we propose a boycott of their website. Their “exclusive” works are stolen goods from hard working smaller outlets such as DollarScholar.com!

We have a real problem with this! Of course smaller outlets then ourselves are stealing our work left & right, as this South African PowerBall website shows us:

A South African Lottery Website Stealing Our Photo by Covering Our Watermark with a Tacty Solid Label LOL, & their caption is classic - that pic is 9 years old. Ah those Nigerian scammers...

But you expect a standard of professionalism from an establishment such as RadarOnline. Guess they are too reckless to understand what they have to lose….

Putting things in perspective though makes RadarOnline look like teddy bears. Our new friends at “Tabloid Baby” wrote this great article that we will now share all of you with to close.  Talks about how “TMZ’s shaved bronzed midget frontman Harvey Levin and his ill-wishing celebrity taunt team” guessed Michael Jackson was dead & reported it to get an edge, so in effect HOPED Jackson was truly dead, & points out how CBS News reporter Dan Rather was the first to report on the death of President John F. Kennedy by choosing to report on an unconfirmed rumor from a priest, & then prayed that he was right and that JFK was dead, so he wouldn’t be fired! (Rather talks about this in his book)…

I wanted to be a lawyer, but the thought of having to start off obligated to start with defending sickos made me sick.  Or sucking up to DA’s & exchanging favors at the expense of clients. I wanted to make a name for myself by scooping some exclusive stories in this industry, but its making me sick dealing with this scum. If we lose ourselves, we lose everything. Seems most are lost because what industry isn’t so manipulated & exploited for personal or business gain these days? Even Sports…Carmelo Anthony was only just traded to the Knicks because executives planned their strategy on circumventing NBA rules that prevent traded players from being traded again for 2 months – unless you package, wheel & deal separate trades under certain specific scenarios to let you get away with it. Without re-trades with a 3rd or 4th team, this blockbuster deal doesn’t get done. Similar manipulative loophole tactics where rule bending is encouraged & exploited was used in mark to market accounting which took a legitimate concept, but by the 90′s companies were exploiting it to the max & the world of Enron, World Com, White Collar Crime & Corporate Scandals exploded across the country. None of it is any different though, from executives Kenneth Lay & Bernard Ebbers of fallen Enron & Worldcom to the executives of the Nuggets or any sports team hiding the white collar business men who make the franchise runs. They all think the same, but the pawns are fans instead of stockholders. Perception is crazy. Out of sight, out of mind.

I digress. Just so much disgust from what I see going on. For another day…

Well that concludes the full circle blog series featuring the AZ Killer, the Mega Millions lottery winner, & to the Inner Workings of RadarOnline. We’ve given you poignant glimpses into the morbid curiosity of human nature through our AZ Killer facebook page, put you in the shoes of what it feels like to win the lottery & feeling the pressure of the responsibility in granting wishes/saving lives through our Holly Lahti lottery winner facebook page, & now have showed you just what a cut throat world some media outlets make it as we have exposed RadarOnline!

Coming Next Week: A Southern California 18 year old scammed out of $26,000 winnings by Sportsbook.com & the industry “authority” that oversees them is so far doing nothing about it.

Husband #2 is on the way.

Mugshot of Holly Lahti's New Fiancee

Other Photos Of the Next Husband/Holly!

DollarScholar.com has EXCLUSIVELY learned that 29 year old Holly Lahti, lottery winner of half of the 2nd largest jackpot in US History at $380,000,000, has quietly gotten engaged to a 21 year old that she has been dating for two years . Even though Holly has remained elusive since winning, going from bumping Tupac in her friends red Honda & smoking “super long cigs” on her front porch of 8247 W. Montana Street in Rathdrum, Idaho where she lived in the basement of her mom’s house with her husband Josh & 2 daughters, to completely dropping off the face of the earth, DollarScholar.com brings you what no other media outlet could. Numerous sources have confirmed to us that her new fiancee recently proposed & that they wanted it to remain a secret to prevent her separated husband Josh Lahti from finding out, as the battle over her jackpot windfall starts to play out in court. One source told us that once she won the January 4th Mega Millions Jackpot, the fiancee was told “You better marry that chick” & the fiancee replied “yeah I should “.

Troubling details have been obtained as the Sheriff’s Office in Kootenai County have provided DollarScholar.com a mugshot of her soon to be husband, who we will call Trouble #2*. Like her estranged husband Josh Lahti, Trouble #2 also has a rap sheet. Although not as serious or extensive as Josh’s, there are multiple drug convictions resulting in 90 day jail sentences on Trouble #2′s criminal record.

Scattered details are emerging about the mysterious girl who was portrayed in initial media reports by neighbors as a “most deserving” lottery winner, who was said to have put years of maturity & growth between her & the mistakes of her past, including distancing herself from her violent & abusive husband, despite still failing to get a divorce.

Exclusive Photo DollarScholar.com provided to media outlet

Last week DollarScholar.com reported the exclusive 1st picture of Holly, giving the nation it’s first view of the sudden mega millionaire, showing her in a stunning good light, beautiful & smiling – which the NY Post, NBC & Fuji Television paid for & gave DollarScholar.com on air credit, including The TODAY Show. Two days later, mugshots of the married couple made their rounds on every tv news channel & the internet, which gave a glimpse of their tumultuous marriage, which fueled DollarScholar.com to out-dig the big media right back with the first pictures of the entire family.

Large support was garnered on Holly’s side including domestic abuse groups, which protested the digging up of an irrelevant past for someone who had changed & moved on with her life. However, her supporter’s defense continue to take hits. It seems work employees & older neighbors have one view (the one that has played out in the media about how perfect she is), but her peers have conflicting statements. Suspicions that she refused the traditional lottery press conference to avoid having her estranged husband find out surfaced early last week before the mugshots of the pair were released. Now, multiple private sources claim to DollarScholar.com that her husband didn’t beat her up at all, that “they both got into it with another couple not each other!” (There’s a reason why the charges were dismissed against both of them, yet the media ran wild with inaccurate conclusions). While it doesn’t change the fact that Josh Lahti is a career criminal scumbag with a violent & scary record, it seriously undermines Holly Lahti as a victim. Another source claims his friend hooked up with Holly a few months ago, & that our 21 year old husband-in-queue knows about it, but would that deter you from inheriting a fortune? All is fair & forgiven in love & lottery. Other “friends” of hers say she was “banging OxyContin” pills. And now with today’s exclusive story of Holly planning on marrying a 21 year old with recent troublesome behavior, challenges are further made at Holly’s supporters, & questions of her responsibility to her children seem warranted. Asked for a comment on the engagement, all parties remained silent except the finance’s brother (Trouble #2) who replied, “Go fuck ur self.” Very civil. Not a surprise that the brother has a matching court record.

From the NY Daily News to the Seattle Weekly - reports on our Holly Facebook Pages

Meanwhile, over 100,000 requests & pleadings for money from the lazy & comical to the desperate & suicidal begging for help have poured into Holly’s Personal Facebook inbox, & the media is reporting on Holly’s posted updates & on the phenomenon of the flocking & gathering of thousands seeking help or handouts on Holly’s Fan Page – both of which are being ran by us! We believe the majority of peeps were content with giving it a shot by sending an online message, & so hopefully the bulk of the bombardment of phone calls, stakeouts, & letters were kept to a minimum & diverted to the set up Facebook pages to save Holly some harassment. The end result is a well researched experiment blog that is a must read if you have ever asked yourself, “What Does It Feel Like To Win The Jackpot!?” as we examine the human condition & nature of the force of money by showcasing a 1,000 of the requests & desperate pleas that were sent in hoping to get a share of what Holly won. And because we know Holly has seen our website, maybe just maybe the end result will also be considered a “miracle” for those who sent messages in if she chooses to spend some time reading our “What Does It Feel Like To Win The Jackpot” : The Lottery Request Diaries from her new life far away in a day, week, month or year, & pick some worthy candidates to help – like we believe she will. So read our powerful, extensive blog entry & ask yourself if you could handle the responsibility of saying no to thousands upon thousands of families in need, some of whom are on the brink of murder-suicides like you hear in the news from time to time because a father feels like a failure & can’t bear to see his children starving without a home they just lost, the shame & embarrassment of failing as the provider. Our heart goes out to those in need, & strongly urge Holly to set aside a portion of her winnings to save some families, hear some pleas & pitches, & help people directly instead of through impersonal charities who are sometimes corrupt & pocket large shares of the donations. If not Holly, then maybe someone else in a position of power will help those that requested – & so, all of the requests are for everyone’s view.

Anyways, we digress. Here’s to Holly & Trouble #2. Congrats. We would announce the wedding date for ya too, but obviously your waiting on the divorce & war over your lottery jackpot to play out first. Stay tuned.

*We have Trouble #2′s name, but we are tired of having big media take our exclusives after we dig up all the details & do the work. So if they want the mugshot & details, they got to go through us now or sharpen their skills & become competent to do what we already do for all of you! ~ Dollar Scholar & co.

See a few of the sources here & stay tuned because don’t put anything past DollarScholar.com – perhaps we are releasing her sex tape next. We continue to celebrate our launch by pulling rabbit after rabbit out of the hat!

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