Today: Max Polyakov's grift empire Pt. V, Universal Studios, and even more Facebook scams to look out for
How Max Polyakov Hides His Financial Interest in an International Web of Online Deception Pt. IV
Snopes’ 2020 investigation connected Noosphere Ventures — the entity through which Max Polyakov once held majority ownership of the U.S. aerospace company Firefly Aerospace — to over 100 predatory dating websites. The suggestion apparently touched a nerve. “Noosphere Ventures does not hold any shareholdings in any dating business,” a spokesperson wrote in a response to that story, “therefore the suggestion that Firefly Aerospace is funded by dating business activity is impossible.”
Polyakov no longer has anything to do with Firefly Aerospace. The U.S. government, reportedly citing national security concerns, forced him to give up his ownership in early 2022. Prior to the sale of his interest in that aerospace company, however, he quietly became an apparently significant investor in the Scottish aerospace company Skyrora Limited. See what reporter Alex Kasprak uncovered in the fifth and final chapter of this special Snopes investigation. |
