One of the largest ponzi schemes in America: Goliath Ventures Inc has now collapsed. It is telling investors that owing to a forensic audit the payouts due to “investors” on 14/Nov/2025 won’t be sent out till the “audit is complete.”

But we have learned that insiders such as Nick Petrillo, Tomo Marjanovic, Punit Shah, Jayson Newton and others have paid their romantic partners and family members tens of millions since 12/Nov/2025.

Why is it that those not in romantic relationships with the bigwigs of Goliath Ventures can’t get their money out but family members and romantic partners of Goliath Insiders, such as Stacie Shenkman who is very close to Nick Petrillo (but is married to Dr. Douglas Shenkman) are able to pull out large sums of money (I believe)?

When Ponzi schemes start running out of money, they never admit it. They don’t warn investors. They don’t tell the truth. They double down sending out more lies, vague promises, and half-truths designed to keep everyone calm while the walls close in.

Nick Gigolo Petrillo

Goliath Ventures COO Nick “The Gigolo” Petrillo and Goliath Super Recruiter Stacie Shenkman (who is married to surgeon Dr. Douglas Shenkman, who is a big investor in Goliath Ventures). Dr. Douglas Shenkman posted this picture on Instagram with the caption “We extended Nicks’ birthday celebration just to make the guy feel a little more special.” which likely means he’s a cuckold.

PDFGOLIATH VENTURES INC has now reached that stage. Goliath Ventures has suspended all payouts and has alerted investors with an email update “Forensic Audit Update and October Distribution”, and on the surface it reads like a confidence-building announcement.

Joel Glick (Berkowitz Pollack Brant Advisors + CPAs) Audit Claimed By Goliath

Goliath Ventures claims to have engaged auditing services from Joel Glick (Berkowitz Pollack Brant Advisors + CPAs).
But they have failed to release any proof of having done so.
Furthermore, they have hidden the name of the auditor and the audit firm even from people who have $10 million+ invested into this so-called crypto investment.

No Transparency While Lying About Transparency

“At Goliath Ventures, transparency and trust are the cornerstones of our operations…”

This is a lie.
Goliath Ventures’ cornerstones are lies, obfuscation, and slavish belief in the ridiculous delusions laid out by a conman, liar and former burger flipper: Chris Delgado, who has gotten close to figures like Patrick Bet-David, Eric Trump and Kash Patel.

If transparency were truly a cornerstone, this would be the moment they name the audit firm, show the engagement letter, list the CPA licence number, or provide investors something – anything – verifiable. Instead, they give nothing. Just more lies for an already long list.

The email only refers to “a leading Forensic Certified Public Accountant firm.”
No name.
This is not how real audits work. The auditor is ALWAYS revealed in these situations.
Look at the collapse of FTX, First Brands, Tri Color and other frauds — the auditor is always front and centre.

An Audit Investors Didn’t Ask For

The email tries to strengthen the story by claiming:

“This rigorous independent review was initiated at the request of our esteemed participants.”

This is simply not true.

Investors have been asking for basic things:

  • “Where is my withdrawal?”
  • “Can I see my trading records?”
  • “Why is support not replying?”

No investor asked Goliath to halt operations and begin a secret forensic audit.
Investors just want their money back.
And most will be happy just to get their principal back.

Many are suffering nervous breakdowns thanks to the stream of lies from Chris Delgado, Tomo Marjanovic, Jayson Newton, Punit Shah, and Nick Petrillo. These insiders have greenlit the withdrawal of tens of millions to their family and romantic partners while telling other investors that payouts are stopped.

“Irrefutable Proof” and Other Impossible Promises

The letter confidently promises that the audit will provide “irrefutable proof” that investor funds are generating “genuine growth.”

No legitimate audit firm on earth signs off on profit claims or growth projections.
A forensic accountant checks one thing:
what happened to the money.
Audit firms do not offer “irrefutable proof.”

Chris Delgado has run out of money.
He can’t even pay his Amex bills and is spending his last days pretending to be a boss with Tiffany Nguyen, Dianna Desboyaux and other shameful hangers-on who — I believe — have taken stolen money knowing full well it was all a scam.

Crypto Crash

Check the price of Bitcoin. Check the price of Ethereum. All major crypto currencies have collapsed in value. This made it far more difficult for Chris Delgado to raise funds with the story of forever profits from crypto. Having said this, Goliath Ventures dealt with very little crypto. Most of the money invested into this fraud scheme came via wire transfers. And less than 1% of the funds were actually used to do anything that touched a crypto blockchain.

Surprise! Surprise! Payouts Have Stopped

As I predicted since September 2025 — there were never any liquidity pools.
There was never any trading.

And insiders like Tomo Marjanovic, his mother Ankica Marjanovic, Nadia Bringas, and Harry M Samuels full well knew it was a Ponzi scheme — even discussing their million-dollar withdrawals coinciding with the last major transfers into the fraud — I believe.

Goliath Ventures is now telling investors:

“This adjustment means temporarily halting operations and your monthly distribution will be slightly delayed.”

There it is. The truth, buried under paragraphs of positivity.

A genuine audit does not require halting withdrawals.
Auditors do not need money flows to stop.
Everything they need exists regardless.

Goliath believes its investors are so desperate they will buy this lie.

Insiders Got Their Money, Everyone Else? No Timeline

The email then moves into the most worrying line of the entire document:

“We are not in a position to advise as to the exact length of the payout delay.”

You cannot claim everything is “robust” and “healthy” and “growing” while simultaneously refusing to say when people will get paid. Legitimate investment firms do not freeze withdrawals without a timeline. They do not go “offline.” They do not shut down operations to protect “sensitive data.”

That last excuse is particularly absurd. The letter claims:

“Going offline ensures no sensitive data is compromised.”

There is no connection between withdrawals and data security. Shutting down payouts does not protect data. Shutting down payouts only protects one thing: the remaining money which they are using to pay their family members and fund legal defense.

A False Sense of Reassurance

After all the delays, excuses, and technical-sounding language, the email tries to soothe investors with the familiar Ponzi-era lullaby:

“Rest assured you will receive your monthly distribution as planned.”

This line appears in nearly every collapsed MLM and high-yield scheme I’ve ever investigated. It’s always vague, always unsupported, and always designed to stop people from pulling out, filing complaints, or going public.

If Goliath truly believed this, they would say when.
They would explain why.
They would show the audit firm’s name.
They would provide proof of liquidity.

They would not release payouts to their romantic partners while everyone else waits.

Instead, they offer reassurance with no evidence attached.

Tone is Telling

One of the most unsettling aspects of the email is the tone. Words like “thrilled,” “significant milestone,” and “robust health” appear throughout, even as they admit that distributions have been stopped indefinitely. A company in the middle of a real audit crisis does not write like this. A company fighting liquidity issues with a delusional liar at the top using ChatGPT to generate lies is what this points to.

The overly positive language isn’t optimism – it’s a deliberate attempt to dampen the panic that normally follows a payout freeze. Investors read these emails looking for hope. Goliath has written this email to manufacture that hope.

Contact the FBI, HSI, RCMP, and the United States Secret Service. Join WhatsApp Groups

When you step back and read the whole letter without the fluff, the message becomes painfully clear:

Goliath has stopped paying investors, cannot say when payments will resume, refuses to identify the audit firm, refuses to provide any verifiable information, and has now shifted into full crisis-management mode.

This is exactly how Ponzi schemes behave in the weeks or months before they collapse.
The audit explanation is not a sign of strength — it’s a sign of strain.

The refusal to provide any honesty means Chris Delgado is going out like Tony Montana in Scarface. If you are an investor, please contact other investors you know and join a WhatsApp group to privately discuss how to protect your rights.

You should immediately report your case to U.S. federal authorities.
The United States Secret Service has a dedicated reporting channel for cryptocurrency fraud:

cryptofraud@usss.dhs.gov

This email address is specifically used by the United States Secret Service to receive reports from individuals who believe they have been victims of crypto scams, including investment-fraud schemes. The Secret Service, working alongside agencies such as the FBI, uses blockchain analysis and other advanced investigative tools to track these schemes.

If you suspect you have been defrauded, you should also file a report with the FBI through the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at:

ic3.gov

Please contact the FBI office in Orlando or Tampa, or Homeland Security Investigations in New Jersey. If you are in Canada, contact the RCMP. If you need help contacting law enforcement, then reach out to me. Your assets are being dissipated by sociopathic con men. Time is of the essence.

Here is my WhatsApp Group, but feel free to set up your own and add other investors who fell for this scam:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/GpOGvBYByW8LNFZhu2Rw3m

Previously in This Series on Goliath Ventures

  1. Glossy Promises, Shaky Contracts
    Goliath Ventures Exposed – Glossy Promises, Shaky Contracts, and the Dark Reality of Guaranteed Returns
    Where it all began: inflated promises of 60% returns backed by contracts that were flimsy at best.
  2. The Compliance Illusion
    Goliath Ventures Exposed Part 3: Christopher Delgado, Matt Burks, BlackBlock and the Compliance Illusion
    The smoke-and-mirrors routine — how Burks and BlackBlock tried to pose as “independent” while being insiders.
  3. The Smear Campaign Claim
    Chris Lord Delgado Claims “Smear Campaign” – Goliath Ventures Exposed in My Full Response
    Delgado’s pushback — calling legitimate questions a “smear campaign” while victims kept piling up.
  4. The Bookkeeper’s Vanishing Act
    The Bookkeeper’s Vanishing Act: Chris Delgado, Nadia Bringas, and Goliath Ventures
    When the money trail grew hot, Bringas dissolved her company in Florida overnight and popped back up in Wyoming.
  5. The Fake Audit
    Pull Money While You Can! Goliath Ventures Ponzi Exposed by FAKE Audit. Florida Ponzi Scheme SCAM
    A so-called “audit” that turned out to be nothing more than a Mailchimp blast with zero financial data.
  6. The Missing FinCEN Registration
    Goliath Ventures Inc (Christopher Delgado) and the Missing FinCEN Registration: Why It Matters
    Digging into why a real investment firm would never operate without this registration — unless it was hiding.
  7. Collapse and Clawbacks
    Goliath Ventures Inc Florida Ponzi Collapse, Coming Clawbacks and Arrests
    The unraveling accelerates: clawbacks loom, and indictments draw closer.
  8. The Securities Question
    The Unregistered Securities Problem: Why Goliath Ventures’ Contracts Are Likely Illegal
    Breaking down why Goliath’s contracts were never legal in the first place — a fatal flaw in their setup.
  9. What Real Funds Look Like
    What Real Quant Funds Look Like Vs. Goliath Ventures, FL Ponzi Scam
    Today’s deep dive: exposing how every part of Goliath’s structure collapses under scrutiny.
  10. Stolen money, gifts, and uneconomical deals
    Who Is Still Profiting From Goliath Ventures Inc, Orlando Ponzi? Don’t Drop The Soap.
    Unusual developments connected to the Goliath Ventures Ponzi scheme, which is now imploding.
  11. FBI Director Kash Patel, Ron DeSantis and even Andrew Tate
    Goliath Ventures Ponzi: Verlin Sanciangco & My Liquidity Partner (MLP) Scam Rebranded.
    Goliath Ventures Inc ponzi scheme has been running for a lot longer than most people realize.
  12. I just got sued for telling the truth
    Danny vs Goliath: New Zealand Journalist Sued by Christopher Delgado’s GOLIATH VENTURES INC.
    I uncovered what I believe is a large-scale Ponzi scheme.
  13. You now have 3 copyright strikes
    Dirty Tactics: How GOLIATH VENTURES INC Is Abusing YouTube’s Copyright System to Silence Journalism.
    Your channel (as well as YouTube channels associated with it) is scheduled to be terminated in 7 days.
  14. Crypto Crash!
    Crypto Prices Crash! GOLIATH VENTURES Investors Should Be Very Worried.
    Questions Goliath Ventures Investors Should Be Asking
  15. Filed a 22‑page Motion to Dismiss
    Florida Orlando Ponzi Scheme Sues New Zealand Journalist, $150,000 Bribe Attempt.
    This lawsuit isn’t about protecting a reputation—it’s about damage control and intimidation.
  16. You didn’t escape the scam — you benefited from it
    Whistleblower or Opportunist? The Anatomy of a Non-Whistleblower Who Protected Goliath Ventures.
    To show what a real whistleblower looks like, and what one doesn’t.
  17. The Banking Breakdown
    GOLIATH VENTURES INC’s Secret Bank Switch: The Collapse Behind the “Transparency” Spin.
    A false transparency update masking a banking crisis and ongoing promotion.
  18. Director of Administration at Goliath Ventures Inc
    Stephen Davis: The Fire Chief Who Walked Out of the Firehouse and Straight Into a Financial Inferno.
    There is one path still open to Stephen Davis — the only path that honours the uniform he once wore.
  19. Goliath Ventures Inc has now collapsed
    Goliath Ventures Payouts Stop: Insiders Pull 10’s of Millions While Everyone Else Waits. (this article)
    Paid their romantic partners and family members tens of millions since 12/Nov/2025.

Disclaimer: How This Investigation Was Conducted

This investigation relies entirely on OSINT — Open Source Intelligence — meaning every claim made here is based on publicly available records, archived web pages, corporate filings, domain data, social media activity, and open blockchain transactions. No private data, hacking, or unlawful access methods were used. OSINT is a powerful and ethical tool for exposing scams without violating privacy laws or overstepping legal boundaries.

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