Stephen McCullah Tried to Bribe Me $5,000 to Remove My Exposé Videos

When you’ve been exposing Ponzi schemes as long as I have, you start to notice a pattern. The louder the scammer shouts about being innocent, the more desperate they become behind the scenes. And that’s exactly what happened when Stephen McCullah, the man behind Apollo, GSX, LunaOne, and now GRAPE (GRP/GGT), tried to buy my silence with a $5,000 bribe. The $5,000 Bribe Attempt After I released my last video exposing his latest project, I received a series of iMessages from McCullah — not from his team, not from a lawyer, but from Stephen himself . The messages started friendly enough: a bit of small talk, a few lines about how misunderstood he was, and then, slowly, it turned into the same manipulative tone I’ve seen a hundred times before. He told me, “I’m the opposite of a scammer.” He said he’d “sold everything” and “made no money in years.” He insisted his projects were legitimate — that the critics just didn’t understand his vision. It was a rehearsed performance, equal parts f...