This was posted at the Alticor Media Blog a few minutes ago.  If you lack time, I’ll give you the short version. 

The MLM Blog Summary: Hey Orrin, don’t let the door hit your butt on the way out.

The Alticor Media Blog Post:

We terminated Orrin Woodward yesterday, along with several other
leaders of his field organization, named Team. We’ll post our formal
statement when it’s ready. Informally, here’s the story:

We terminated Orrin Woodward for philosophical reasons. We did it for legal reasons.

But the main reason we did it is because the way Orrin Woodward ran
his organization was a disgrace to every person who’s ever tried to
build a Quixtar or Amway business the right way.

We have fought to clean up the reputation of our company for years.
We know that one of the biggest challenges our reputation faces is
misrepresentation of the Quixtar and Amway businesses to others.

And over the last several months, it became clear to us that Orrin
Woodward was a poster child for a long list of bad business practices
that our critics hate about our company. The other leaders we
terminated – including Chris Brady, Billy Florence, Don Wilson, Randy
Haugen, Tim Marks and Chuck Goetschel – also showed they were unwilling
to reform.

Not telling people they were signing up with Quixtar? Woodward would
hide that fact from new Independent Business Owners as long as he could.

Making people think it was easy money?  Same deal.

Telling people that Quixtar was merely a “supplier,” and not the company they were signing a contract with? Yup.

We’d told Woodward we had problems with the way he ran his business
for years, and we worked methodically to bring those problems to
resolution. We got ignored, we got lied to, and, boy, we got the
runaround.

So in the end, yesterday, we tried to give him one last chance to reform.

He didn’t even want to hear his options. So we terminated him. And
in return, he handed us a trumped-up, trash-talking lawsuit on his way
out the door. In response, we have a temporary restraining order issued
by a court that prevents him from looting the business as he seeks to
take his act to a new company.

So he’s gone, and so are others. We are doing our best to repair the
relationships Orrin Woodward damaged and protect the businesses of the
people in his organization that Orrin Woodward betrayed. And we will
continue building our business with thousands of people who know how to
build it the right way.

We would say we were sorry to see Orrin Woodward go. But only if that were true.