He now calls himself Rawman Walking. The Rawman. Or Bobby. But hundreds of people who wish they had never met him know him as
If you are going to deal with Bobby “The Rawman” Morgan, you would be wise to read this post and the comments that follow, and to proceed with extreme caution. If you know Rawman Morg Morgan, please share your thoughts below.
Rawman is invited to provide clarification or rebuttal. Email us at UnhappyFranchisee[at]gmail.com.
Rawman Walking is now hawking women-only raw food seminars at a supposed retreat called The Sanctuary at a cost of $1500 – $14,000 for 3-28 day courses. He is also promoting a business opportunity that enables attendees to give their own seminars. The real strategy may be to use these seminars to solicit investment in the Sanctuary Expansion as mentioned by Ben Doyle. We don’t know.
But we know that there are many reasons to be wary of this man:
1) Insurance Fraud Rawman Walking, aka Robert Chrysler Morgan, was allegedly* featured in a book on notorious conmen in America, Master’s of Deception. On page 139, the author states: “…insurance agent Robert Chrysler Morgan was forced to pay $134,000 and surrender his license for defrauding thousands of customers.” If you Google “Robert Chrysler Morgan” you can read the excerpt of Mizell’s book.
2) Slender Lady Franchise & Lawsuit. Along with his friend Bruce Sharpe, Rawman Morg Morgan was an owner of the Slender Lady women’s fitness chain. His Slender Lady franchise company was successfully sued by its failing franchisees for fraud & deceptive practices. Almost every franchise closed; dozens of franchisees lost their savings, homes and were forced into bankruptcy. Sharpe fled to South America, assumedly to avoid paying his victims.
4) Cuppy’s Coffee deposit scheme. Using several different corporate entities, Rawman refined and
5) Medina Enterprises/Cuppy’s Coffee/Elite Construction deposit scheme. Unfortunately, those who could not raise the $200K – $400K to for the full Cuppy’s Coffee development program were the lucky ones. It’s estimated that as much as $29 million was raised via SBA loans and other sources – typically secured with individual franchisees’ homes and/or retirement accounts. However, Rawman’s companies collected money on these loans for work that was never done, done incorrectly or done so late franchisees had to begin repaying loans on empty lots. Many never got open. Others did, incurred more debt and closed. Cuppy’s Coffee franchisees never received the support services they paid for. Rawman Walking Morg Morgan walked away, selling (dumping) the embattled company and its franchisees before it collapsed completely. Read more about Rawman Walking Robert Morgan at Cuppy’s Coffee Overview.
6) Rawman Lawsuits. San Gelato Cafe is suing Rawman for deceptive business practices. Outstanding Case Number 2008 CA 004819 S SAN GELATO CAFE FRANCHISING GROUP LLC v. ROBERT C MORGAN;
7) Domestic Violence Charges. In 2008, Rawman was charged with domestic battery stemming from an alleged altercation with his stepson. Cases: Okaloosa County, FL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BATTERY (784.03(1a1)) 2008 MM 004059 S (784.03(1A1)DV) DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BATTERY); DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BATTERY (784.03(1a1)) 2008 MM 004058 S (784.03(1A1)DV) DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BATTERY
8 ) Rawman is Married. Rawman has been married for years to Peggy Morgan, the woman who took care of him when he had cancer. Yet, according to his website, “Bobby, spends most of the year at the Sanctuary in Florida… mentoring women who need a loving, gentle nonjudgmental approach to weigh loss…” He professes:
“I have exchanged an endless potpourri of sexual encounters, for… wholesome beautiful friendships with women where true affection abounds … I have vowed to my creator and too myself that I will remain in this state [celibacy] until I can love with a pure heart, to come to my loves arms as an equal not a conqueror…”
While he is engaging in beautiful, loving friendships with women, and awaiting the arms of his true love, he is still legally married to wife Peggy.
9) Multiple Aliases. On his 2 websites and active Twitter accounts, Robert Chrysler Morgan makes almost no reference to his real name or recent nickname “Morg.” He is now “Bobby,” “Rawman,” or “Rawman Walking.” His new age Rawman persona seems to be carefully crafted to be friendly, sensitive, open and, especially, non-threatening to needy, health-conscious women.
10) No Men or Children Allowed. Rawman states: “The Sanctuary is a women’s only retreat no men or children are allowed to stay in guest rooms or attend classes or events. Please do not ask as we do not make exceptions…” Why is that? Seems ironic that his only supposed success story is buddy Ben Doyle (aka @RawmanLivin). Says Rawman: “Just finished helping a 67 year old rejuvinate his life lost 37lbs 34 days got a new girlfriend lol.”
11) Ben Doyle. While Rawman is charming and well-liked even by some he’s wronged, his partner Ben Doyle is not. Fiercely negative comments regarding Ben Doyle have appeared on this website and others from those who claim to be have been his co-workers, employees and scam victims. When these two work together, bad things seem to follow.
12) “The Sanctuary” & Investment Schemes. Rawman claims he operates a raw food retreat called “The Sanctuary” on Florida’s Perdido Key. But there is no reference to such a place anywhere except his websites, and the phone number appears to be registered to a cell phone. It seems more likely that they are simply renting condos or rooms as needed. If so, why would they be “seeking investors” for the “Sanctuary Expansion” as was tweeted by Ben and Rawman Walking?
Morg Morgan/ RawMan Walking blog: Living Raw & Free
Morg Morgan / Rawman The Sanctuary blog: The Sanctuary
Morg Morgan’s declaration of celibacy: Celibacy 2009 The Right Reason
Morg Morgan on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Rawmanwalking
Ben Doyle on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Rawmanlivin
ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH ROBERT “MORG” MORGAN aka BOBBY aka RAWMAN WALKING? PLEASE SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS – PRO OR CON – BELOW.
* Unless there’s another Robert Chrysler Morgan who sold insurance in Arizona at that time
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STP:
Gambling is not the same as being robbed.
Read the interviews posted here https://unhappyfranchisee.mystagingwebsite.com/cuppys-coffee-overview/
Your pal Rawman who we know as Morg Morgan took people's savings as deposits and instead of putting them in escrow he spent the money. It wasn't his money and he was legally obligated to return it. This happened to dozens of victims.
Then there were people who had loan funds disbursed to Morg's Elite Manufacturing but they didn't do the work and they didn't pay their subcontractors. That's not gambling. That's theft.
Since you sound like a bold investor, why don't you invest in Morg's "sanctuary expansion."? We promise not to say I told you so.
On Facebook,Summer Hardy wrote:
First of all Morg didnt blame Sean Kelly for anything!!! He simply said it would have been easier to run the business without a douch bag reporting every little thing that went wrong!!!He spent day and night at the office making sure things ran smoot...hly. If yall are going to point a finger point it in the right direction. Dale Nabors promised to... Read More take care of you all, just like he promised us as employees. He fired the entire company minus a few people, and got rid of all of Morgs kin within the first 2 months, me being the first. SEAN KELLY, He wrote that so you COULD read it duh!!! He isnt hiding from you, he is simply TRYING to recover just like the rest of you!!! Yall think he has money, think again. All of his livelyhood, along with everything he owned was taken from him TOO!!! You lost 200,000 he lost 3 million. My whole family has suffered from this, you arent the only ones who lost. Everyone that was involved in the Cuppy's "FAMILY" has been affected by this.
On Facebook, Beware of Rawman wrote:
I'm sorry you have suffered through the actions of Morg. I am sure you are aware that your paycheck was paid for with depositors' monies and not through profits or owner's or debt equity which is how legitimate business pay for ongoing operations.
Do some research on it and let me know if you find otherwise. In other words, as an employee, you benefited from the fraud too. I feel badly for most (not all) of the employees. As someone close to the case, you are aware that Morg took tens of thousands, if not millions, of dollars from zees long before Dale Nabors showed up. Morg did not honor those contracts and his employees produced invoices to zees and the banks that were fraudulent.
Don't worry, Dale Nabors will have his day in court too. We haven't forgotten about him. Morg hasn't had the embarrassment (yet, perhaps) of being ambushed on TV. I am sure no one in FL missed that one. And to my knowledge, Sean Kelly hasn’t taken anyone’s money and “invested" it in his business.
This is what clueless Summer had to say about what happened with the SBA monies destined for store buildouts but used elsewhere:
Summer Hardy What money was he taking??? To pay the company for the business that it was doing. He had a fully staffed company, and I sure didnt see anyone complaining about the money they were making and if they were it was the lack there of, he didthe best he could with the business. he walked hand in hand with MANY owners. Making sure that they had a business to open. In any business you have to take money to make money aaron. You honestly think that he was using the money to support his lifestyle?? He didnt have a lifestyle, he used money to support a fully staffed daycare for everyy mother and father for that matter. Things would have been fine if we would have slowed down on the sales, yea true, focused more on the stores that needed to be opened, right again, but he didnt use the money for anything extracurricular. He supported his family and many families.
Mon at 11:46pm
So, according to Summer, Morg was right to disburse money from people's sba loans, because he had a business and daycare to take care of. I'm guessing that she doesn't have a problem then with what Madoff did because he had a business to take care of as well.
Exactly. The sad part about this is that people who are this clueless are just as easily scammed as to scam. But cluelessness is not a defense. I am wondering if Morg is considering the mental illness aspect mentioned on this site as a defense?
I don't call it clueless, I call it ignorance, plain stupidity, not being educated, or how about knowing deep down inside they are all guilty and need to jump to their own defense??? The apple doesn't fall far from the tree even if you're not "blood kin"......
And, she probably doesn't watch the news to be up on current events...i.e. Bernie Madoff...
The unofficial Bobby Morgan guide to running a coffee shop:
1. Outfit shop with typical coffee shop equipment. Don’t actually pay for the equipment. Keep stringing your vendors along as long as possible.
2. When you have a customer, be as sweet as a trailmix latte. Smile a lot. Tell them they'll love their drink. Take customer’s money, say $3 for a latte, $4.50 for a mocha. Tell them they are lucky they came in today because the price is going up tomorrow.
3. Turn around so your back is to the customer and distract yourself, or start waiting on another customer. Whatever you do, pretend they didn’t just order a drink. Or make fake steam wand noises so they think you are making their drink.
4. When the customer asks, “Where’s my drink? I just gave you $3 for a latte.”, say to them, “Are you kidding me? I have a business to run, baristas to pay, daycare for them even. Do you think this espresso machine is free? I’m still learning how to make lattes. My drink subcontractor is in a meeting with my consultant.”
5. Repeat as needed until you get a bad reputation. Then blame someone else, Sean Kelly if you like.
Future scene from the Rawman Juice Bar, inspired by Java Jo'z
Customer: I'll have a wheatgrass smoothie
Rawman: That'll be $4.50
Customer pays.
Rawman flips sign over.
Strawman: That'll be $4.50
Customer: I just paid you!
Strawman: No, You paid Rawman Juice Bar. This is Strawman Juice Bar! We purchased the assets, but not the liabilities. Sorry, you're $4.50 is gone. But if you sign this non-disclosure gag order I'll pay you a dime a month for 30 months from our refund pool! Not!
Then, you say..."no, I paid you my $4.50 for my wheatgrass smoothiem to which the Rawman/Strawman Juice Bar says, "oh that, it was used on operational expenses......