ONPASSIVE Leadership Council Member Jeffrey Morlock Deposed in SEC Case After Scrubbing YouTube Channel of Incriminating Evidence

One of the first ONPASSIVE Leadership Council members is subject to seven-hour deposition with the US SEC.

Mr. Morlock's Subpoenas

Jeffrey Morlock, an ONPASSIVE Leadership Council member, is the first publicly confirmed party to be deposed in the ongoing civil case brought against Ashraf "Ash" Mufareh, ONPASSIVE, and Asmahan Mufareh by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. This was revealed in an electronic case filing entered on January 10, 2025.

Per the original case management and scheduling order, both the defendants and complainant are allowed no more than ten depositions each. This stipulation remained unchanged in the amended case management and scheduling order issued on September 14, 2024. Both parties have until June 2, 2025 to file any discovery-related motions with the court.

Mr. and Mrs. Mufarehs' Objections

On January 10, 2025, counsel representing defendants Mr. and Mrs. Ashraf "Ash" and Asmahan Mufareh, and OnPassive LLC, filed a motion in opposition to the stipulations on Mr. Morlock's deposition scheduled by the SEC. They specifically objected to the SEC having a full seven hours of questioning with Mr. Morlock; requesting the seven hours be split evenly between the SEC and the defendants.

This filing revealed that the SEC served on December 18, 2024, Mr. Morlock with a Subpoena to Testify at a Deposition in a Civil Action to take place on January 21, 2025, following agreement between the SEC and Defendants the previous day. Subsequently, on January 7, 2025, the Defendants served Mr. Morlock with their own Subpoena to Testify at a Deposition in a Civil Action, also to take place on January 21, 2025. The Defendants notified the SEC of their own subpoena, proposing to split the time evenly between both parties, yielding any remaining time to the SEC.

On January 8, 2025, following the Defendants' serving of their own subpoena to Mr. Morlock, the SEC refused to limit their deposition to 3½ hours in an email between the SEC and Defendants' Counsel. The SEC asserted they were "entitled to 7 hours under the rules" but "might be able to reserve 2 hours" for Defendants' questions.

On January 9, 2025, Defendants' counsel offered to take three hours of the seven-hour deposition, leaving the SEC with four hours. In response, the SEC counter-offered them taking five hours, and giving the Defendants three hours; increasing the total deposition by one hour from the original order.

On January 10, 2025, the SEC continued to demand five hours for their questioning, and Mr. Morlock had "agreed to start at 9am [sic] and stay later in order to accommodate both of [the parties'] time requests for the deposition." Later that day, Defendants contact Mr. Morlock, at which time Mr. Morlock explained the SEC had told him that he was required by law to sit for two separate depositions of seven hours each, but that if he agreed to start the deposition earlier, it could be completed in one day with less than 14 hours of testimony.

After failing to come to agreement with the SEC, Mufarehs' counsel sought the presiding judge's order to limit the deposition of Mr. Morlock to a single day of seven hours.

Defendants' Bases for Objection

Per the filing, the Defendants objected, in part, because the SEC had previously obtained sworn testimony from Mr. Morlock. That testimony, which lasted approximately three hours, was obtained as part of the SEC's pre-litigation investigation. In other words, Mr. Morlock was one of an unknown number of parties interviewed by the SEC prior to filing their initial complaint with the Courts on August 11, 2023. The Defendants also objected to not being invited to participate in the SEC's initial questioning of Mr. Morlock. Therefore, per the filing, the Defendants felt entitled to half of the time allotted for the January deposition.

They Defendants also appeared to imply expecting depositions totaling more than seven hours was unfair due to Mr. Morlock's age. "Defendants respectfully submit that Mr. Morlock, a third-party witness who is 65 years old, should not be deposed for more than the maximum amount of time contemplated under [a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure rule] which specifies the same time limit for depositions of even party witnesses. This is, to us, a laughable argument as Mr. Morlock has regularly attended ONPASSIVE corporate webinars in excess of seven hours. He also seems to have no issue speaking at length on said webinars, or as guests on other webinars.

Mufarehs' Motion Denied

Three days after the Motion was filed, Magistrate Judge Robert M. Norway denied the Motion to Split Time Evenly. The Honorable Norway claimed the Motion failed to include a memorandum of law in violation of the Court's Local Rule 3.01(a). The Hon. Norway also ordered any future motion must include a memorandum of law providing citations to legal authority supporting the movant's request, and noted that the Defendants did not raise the dispute with sufficient time for the court to address the issues in regular order.

The Court quashed the Defendants' subpoena of Mr. Morlock.

Mr. Morlock's YouTube Channel Scrubbed of Incriminating Videos

Jeffrey Morlock has maintained a YouTube channel since August 17, 2018; which happens to be when Mr. Mufareh began recruiting Founders into the ONPASSIVE opportunity. His channel was originally under the channel name "JeffreyMorlock-ONPASSIVE-Leadership-Council," but has since changed it to remove any reference to ONPASSIVE and the ONPASSIVE Leadership Council, shortening it to the generic "@JeffreyMorlock" handle.

Prior to Mr. Morlock's deposition with the SEC, his YouTube channel was scrubbed of all recorded videos posted prior to March 16, 2021; and all live stream recordings prior to March 25, 2022. Whether this was done to prevent being questioned about the contents of those videos we cannot say with certainty, but there was no reason to remove those videos according to YouTube master marketers Marty "Dawn" DeGarmo and Mike Ellis "By the way," who claim every video is a recruitment and marketing opportunity.

Fortunately, as with all prominent ONPASSIVE promoters, we have a complete archive of the contents of Mr. Morlock's YouTube channel. We have identified at least 48 recorded videos Mr. Morlock has deleted from his YouTube channel.

In addition to removing any references to ONPASSIVE in his channel name, Mr. Morlock has also removed his channel profile description. Again, we're lucky enough to have a record of what he previously posted in his YouTube biography. One of his earliest bios read:

ONPASSIVE is a unique, revolutionary Artificial Intelligence / Information Technology Company set to completely change the online model! It's the first digital technology-driven startup of its kind to apply its prowess to online marketing and will severely disrupt core, old-model, online marketing businesses much the same way Netflix did for video, Uber did for transportation, Airbnb did for hospitality, or Paypal did for payments. Just like those businesses are the new model for their market, ONPASSIVE is the new model for marketing and beyond. Right now ONPASSIVE's ahead of the market by 3-5 years.

Check out what our CEO said recently:

“You pay and you own the world… that’s it. That’s what ONPASSIVE is. Everything you need to communicate, to learn, to educate, to earn, to connect with the world, to promote your business to any activity that goes around your daily life… today’s life… is already in ONPASSIVE. Once you make that payment, the light goes on.” -Ash Mufareh OCT20

Another iteration of his YouTube bio read:

About five years ago I started a very personal journey; a journey of the soul. Throughout this personal journey I've also been on the ONPASSIVE journey. WOW... what a journey this has been. Anyway, we are in a very good spot right now and I am ready to be in the best shape of my life. Right now ONPASSIVE is shaping up a centralized message for the world about who we are why we are so different. Getting ahead of that, because ONPASSIVE is a brand and I know it will be a household word before long, my YT and LinkedIn Channels have had a makeover and I am taking this opportunity to start making short videos about waking up, raising consciousness, and lifting humanity. I have left some of the thought-provoking video's up. I hope you join me. It really is gonna be quite spectacular & I would love the company. Many blessings...🙏🙏🙏

ONPASSIVE is a unique, revolutionary Artificial Intelligence / Information Technology Company set to completely change the online model!

Rather than just describe the videos that Mr. Morlock has deleted, we have decided a short compilation of what Mr. Morlock said in these videos. They range from unfounded income claims, outright false projections regarding the launch of ONPASSIVE, talk of bonuses, and more. All of these issues form the basis for much of the SEC's claims against the Mufarehs and ONPASSIVE.

Again, it's interesting that these videos have been scrubbed by Mr. Morlock. While we can only speculate, the selective removal of videos from Mr. Morlock's, as well as those channels belonging to other ONPASSIVE Founders and Leadership Council Members, only make ONPASSIVE, the Mufarehs, and others look more guilty of the accusations put forth by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Stay tuned for more updates regarding the civil case against ONPASSIVE, and more information on the pending launch of OnFusion Technologies.