Complaint Review: Satere Karenhatase - Internet

I am close to someone who was defrauded by H.E. Satere Karenhatase. I made the introduction -- and I am ashamed to have done so.

Satere Karenhatase was an Ambassador at Large for the Maori Tribal Government of Aotearoa and Maori State Te Atua E Wa. This state and its government is not yet being accepted by the UN, but as Satere showed documents, I believe that there are attempts to get that done. I have also an actual copy of Satere’s official appointment letter from May 19th 2014 -- valid at that time, signed by the supreme chief H.E. Manukau from the Maori Tribal Government of Aotearoa and seemingly secretary of state for the Maori State Te Atua E Wa. In the meantime I have also the termination letter dated Aug, 5th 2016, signed by Mr. Manukau, stating that Satere Karenhatase is not Ambassador at Large anymore. However, according to his website satere.com (published sometimes later in Sept 2016) and his LinkedIn profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/satere-karenhatase-490a248), he still tries to keep up his appearance -- falsely claiming diplomatic credentials.

As a matter of fact, he never had diplomatic immunity. Actually he used an unauthorized sovereign guarantee to defraud someone close to me - disgraced his position and the people he was formerly associated to. Instead of cleaning up his mess and paying simply back his debts, he pulled another scam and demanded that the person giving him the money needed to be compliant in order to be eligible for loan repayment. This compliance process would have only cost the pocket change amount of $20,000, non-refundable off-course -- and that all for payment "consideration".

In the meantime, I've been informed that this incident was not an isolated exception. Until very recently, I falsely believed that he was doing business with sophisticated business people. However, I now believe that his unethical dealing is responsible for damaging many more good hearted victims.

I see it therefor as my duty to warn other potential victims and to encourage them to better trust their instincts that something is seriously wrong with this person.

I am also calling other victim seeing this post to get in touch with me directly via eMail: Fake.Ambassador.Satere (at) gmail.com. Based on what I know, collecting on the money he owes you will be very unlikely, as he is often penny-less and literally homeless. His desperation is letting him defraud only new victims, while most of his (legitimate) business dealing seems to fall apart before they succeed.

His "Haudenosaunee Sovereign Storage & Depository" (HSSD) seem to be shady at best. I could not find any evidence that this business exists beyond his imagination.

Satere introduced himself to me as someone whose driver license was (recently) nullified by the state of Nevada because of his sovereign status. Additionally, because of circumstances out of his control he claimed to me that he has currently no access to the US banking system. He claimed to me also that he get for his ambassadorial activities $500K annually -- but I have reasons to believe that he got much closer to nothing from the Government of Aotearoa -- which raises in my opinion a lot more questions ... He also claimed that he was working on a deal that would have made him a few million dollar. He may have worked on these deals, but it is totally unfair and unethical to approach un-sophisticated people to fund these pipe-dreams. Moreover, it is totally unethical, even very likely criminal to use unauthorized, counterfeited sovereign governmental guarantees, which are not worth their paper, as promissory notes.

Just in case, Satere Karenhatase tries to swindle his way out by not knowing me – and claiming being again a victim of identity theft: I can say without any doubt, I know Satere Karenhatase, I can unambiguously identify him as the person behind the LinkedIn profile and behind the website satere.com and I have reason to say that his real name is Scott Gabriel. (see: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141025141925-66254926-fake-profiles-and-misrepresented-profiles-on-linkedin)

Also, it seems that he has put a lot of his victims under NDA (non-disclosure agreement). He also has tried to intimidate me with his "aggressive" and "wolves-pack" lawyers ... I've challenged him to let them get in touch with me ... but I got being disappointment here as well …

Additionally, on his satere.com website, he made a pledge: "Governed by the highest ethical standards, the service(s) provided strictly enforce a policy of integrity, honesty, and professionalism with our work, and anonymity beyond confidentiality for all clients." This statement is sickening. It only adds insult to injury. May this posting and warning serve its purpose!!

He may delete his website soon … but I made a copy of it ... and there is the wayback machine on the internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/*/satere.com -- Regarding the documents mentioned above. I am willing to share them with other victims so that they can bring forward criminal charges -- and if I get more cases together, than we as victims may have enough to get even the FBI interested in him -- so that they can build a cross-state criminal fraud case against him in the federal court system – which hopefully will give him the treatment that he has earned.