Jeff and 73 other libertarians, including lucky me, were defrauded in the affinity scam run by a poser named Kenneth Dale Johnson. This con man (i.e., wolf) dressed in libertarian (sheep's) clothing used Berwick's anarcho-capitalist reputation to suck in $10.45 million dollars and deliver nothing on his promise of a community "to give Objectivists, libertarians and other proponents of individual liberty the opportunity to live according to their principles of free markets, voluntary association and minimal to no government interference." (See the original GGC press release)

Johnson enlisted lib celebrities Ben Swann, Josh Tolley, Bob Murphy, Jordan Page and Wendy McElroy to unwittingly lend their credibility to the fraud, and hired free market believers to work in marketing and sales. He even appealed to those who are worried about an economic collapse – a constant theme in libertarian leaning investment newsletters – touting the agricultural operations on the GGC properties.