By Dan Mitchell, MLM Blog Correspondent

A group of former YTB International, Inc. Referring Travel Agents (RTAs) has refiled their class action lawsuit against YTB in the U.S. District Court for Southern Illinois. They claim that while it's a national suit they should still be protected under Illinois consumer fraud law.

Travel Pulse reports that YTB "ran an illegal pyramid scheme that they called one of the
largest frauds in history, exceeded only by Bernie Madoff. The former
agents said that YTB and affiliated corporations took half a billion
dollars from unsophisticated customers.

In their refiled suit, the agents said that the court had said in an
earlier ruling that they hadn’t provided enough factual allegations to
be covered by the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
Practices Act to a nation-wide class action suit. The new claim
attempts to show that YTB’s pyramid scheme occurred primarily within
Illinois, meaning that it is covered by the Illinois law and is within
the court’s jurisdiction.

The suit was filed by Faye Morrison, Jon
Stull, Kwame Thompson, Jeffrey Hartman, Polly Hartman, JPH Development
Inc., Grace Perry and Courtney Speed."

Source: Travel Pulse.