Grant Cardone sued in $1 BILLION defamation case

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]A Aon. Aaron.

[00:00:02]>> Why didn't you say it the first time I said Aon? Because it's pronounced Aaron.

[00:00:07]>> YOU DONE MESSED UP. A RON.

[00:00:10]>> A Aon is here. Welcome back everybody for more SPTV where everyday is a great day. Not to be in a cult. Happy Friday everyone. Uh streaming again from California today. By the way, you can see little Tommy Cruz. Uh not so little because the cardboard cutout is about a foot taller than he really is. And we've got Scientology Shannon back there.

[00:00:30]They're going to be our special guests this week at our Scientology protest in Hollywood. Uh we're not going to be pre-announcing the exact day and time of the protest, but if you're in the area, uh and you want to join us, email me at growing up [email protected] and um I will help you with that information. We are talking today, of course, about the internets and Scientology's most famous fake billionaire, Grant Cardone. You know, my Grant Cardone videos don't get any views hardly anymore on this channel. And I understand that people that are interested in Scientology aren't necessarily interested in Grant Cardone.

[00:01:05]And yet, that is the only reason I talk about Grant Cardone. It's not because I'm in the finance space. It's not because I'm in the real estate space.

[00:01:12]It's because I'm in the Scientology space. And Grant Cardone is one of the world's number one recruiters for the family destroying human trafficking cult known as Scientology. He's also one of their biggest financial supporters. So any Grant Cardone news that there is to share, I'm here for it. Uh I have reported for the last couple years that Grant Cardone's Cardone capital was under uh criminal investigation uh by the FBI and um and also the Southern District of New York. Um that uh was true. Uh it is true actually to the best of my knowledge. I'll I'll say it as factually as I can here. As of 12 months ago, I can confirm that the criminal investigation was still ongoing after 5 years. Now, that's an interesting thing, and I don't exactly know what to make of it. On the one hand, somebody could go, "Nobody conducts a criminal investigation for 5 years unless there's really something there." And someone else might go, "It's not possible to do a criminal investigation for 5 years and not actually bring charges yet." I don't know which one of those arguments is a better argument, but I can tell you that Grant Cardone's denial of the criminal investigation or in one instance confirming there was one, but it ended after 18 months. Both of those are completely false. And the criminal investigation was kickstarted by an internal whistleblower, an informant to the FBI who was working with the FBI as an informant undercover. Uh, actually not undercover because that implies it was an agent working undercover. It was a whistleblower working for the FBI while continuing to work for Cardone Capital as a key executive, the chief marketing officer for 18 months. And it is just this whistleblower who has now filed a $1 billion defamation lawsuit against Grant Cardone. Um, I have a copy of this complaint that was filed, but there's actually a news article that summarizes it even better than I could summarize it just from the filing. And so that's what I'm going to share with you today. Let's take a look at it. A1 billion dollar reckoning inside the Rob versus Cardone defamation lawsuit and Grant Cardone's mounting legal troubles reporting by Rachel Moore.

[00:03:29]Okay. Rob versus Cardone arrives at a moment when the courthouse has become an uncomfortably familiar destination for the self-styled Uncle G. The most consequential of Cardone's ongoing legal headaches is Pino versus Cardone Capital. Okay, you know what? I'm going to skip this one. I want to jump right to uh to the reporting about the current lawsuit.

[00:03:51]Oh, I'm on the wrong page. No wonder.

[00:03:53]Jesus, I'm on page two. Let's go back to page one, y'all.

[00:03:58]Okay. Grant Cardone, the bombastic real estate mogul who has spent two decades selling the gospel of 10x hustle to social media following that he says exceeds 16 million people, is being sued for 1 billion by the man he hired to be his chief marketing officer. The complaint filed May 20th in the circuit court of Columbia County, Florida paints a portrait that is starkly different from the swaggering image Card Cardone projects online. According to the lawsuit, the man behind a $4 billion real estate empire and a fleet of jets allegedly retaliate retaliated against an internal whistleblower with a barrage of social media attacks designed to leave his entire reputation cooked. The plaintiff is Brian H. Rob, a Florida resident who served as Cardone Capital's chief marketing officer and who, according to the complaint, helped raise approximately $50 million for the company before things went catastrophically sideways. The case is styled Rob versus Cardone and it names both Grant Cardone Personally and Cardone Capital LLC, the Delaware organized investment vehicle that anchors the Cardone brand. The complaint demands damages in excess of $1 billion.

[00:05:08]According to the complaint, Rob's troubles did not begin with a marketing disagreement or a soured negotiation over a bonus. They began, the lawsuit alleges, with a conscience while employed as chief marketing officer. Rob says he uncovered conduct by Cardone and Cardone Capital that he reasonably believed was fraudulent, and he reported it to the federal authorities, including the FBI. He says he cooperated with investigators for roughly 18 months, during which he continued in his role at the company. Oh, this is interesting.

[00:05:38]This is where Cardone comes up with his figure of the investigation ended after 18 months, but that's not true. It's just that the 18-month period is how long Brian Rob was working at the company and cooperating with the FBI.

[00:05:55]His employment was I can't remember he stopped working for the company at a particular point. Cardone seems to be conflating that with the end of the investigation, but that's not how that went down. Um, okay. Cardone, for his part, has publicly characterized that cooperation in very different terms. In a Facebook post in February 2026 that the lawsuit reproduces verbatim, Cardone wrote that Rob didn't come to me with concerns.

[00:06:20]Instead, he went to authorities and made claims that were false and without merit. This resulted in an 18-month investigation while he continued on payroll and without my knowledge, secretly recorded audio and video inside my offices. Yeah, by the way, at at the request of the FBI. Okay, let's not let's not leave that out. Uh, the case was closed as authorities stated absolutely no signs of wrongdoing, fraud, or misappropriations. Cardone went on to question whether whistleblowers should face liability when they get it wrong. Uh, then added a personal jab, calling Rob a little goofy mama's boy, entitlement issues, low energy, and insecure about his hairline.

[00:06:55]Interesting. Uh, two days earlier, Cardone had already taken to Facebook with a post that asked his followers, "Anyone know this goofy dude?" Cardone disputed that Rob had raised $50 million for him. Uh he said Rob's marketing genius was never revealed working for me, claimed Rob had no social following of his own, and stated that the company terminated Rob after a short stint. When he was gone, we did not miss him. Uh he signed off with the disclaimer that the post was just my opinion and experience and urged readers to do their full due diligence. Rob's lawyers argue that the opinion label does not insulate Cardone.

[00:07:34]They contend the posts contain verifiable factual assertions that Rob did not raise the money he claimed that he made false reports to the authorities that he was fired for performance and that those assertions are demonstrably false. Rob's complaint asserts two counts of defamation per se. One against Cardone individually and one against Cardone Capital under the doctrine of respondiat superior. I'm not sure I'm saying that right. Florida law presumes damages and defamation per se cases involving accusations that injure someone in their trade or profession.

[00:08:02]Okay. The complaint also describes a follow-up email from Cardone allegedly sent to third parties stating that Rob misled investigators, wasted taxpayers money, and made completely unsubstantiated and absolutely false allegations. Rob says the reputational damage materialized almost immediately.

[00:08:18]A third party reached out to him to tell him that he had been publicly exposed by Cardone in front of the entire world and threatened to in inform Florida commercial real estate brokers that Rob was a liar, a con artist, and a fraud.

[00:08:30]The same third party later told Rob his entire reputation is cooked and with Grant Cardone dragging your name through the mud.

[00:08:40]Okay, let's see. I don't The rest of the article starts going into some of Cardone's other legal troubles, which I do not want. um to rehash here just for the purposes of this video. It's not relevant. Uh let's see what's on page three. Okay. Grant Cardone has not yet filed a formal answer to the Rob complaint and he has consistently denied wrongdoing in his other matters, vowing on social media to clear his name. Um the Rob case is in its earliest stages and the plaintiff carries the burden of proving falsity, fault, and damages. But the filing makes one thing unmistakable.

[00:09:14]The same megaphone that turned Grant Cardone into a household name among aspiring investors has now been pointed back at him from a Colombia County courthouse. And this time the man on the other end of the bullhorn is asking a jury to put a 10 figure price tag on the consequences. Um I actually did a video specific I mean it feels like it's probably months ago now uh when Cardone started publicly naming and attacking and defaming someone with protected whistleblower status in a criminal investigation with the government. I did a video about that. I mean, I just seemed to me as a layman pretty obvious that was kind of a big deal. Up until that point, Brian Rob had never publicly attacked Grant Cardone. He had only been working behind the scenes with state and federal criminal authorities.

[00:10:11]And I don't know what it is that gave Cardone the impression that the investigation was over, but I've seen communication with my own eyes that absolutely proves the criminal investigation was not over. Um, and that was as of less than 12 months ago. Can I say for sure that the criminal investigation is still ongoing? No. I I'm not in the loop on that. There's only certain information I've seen at certain times.

[00:10:36]um but publicly naming, shaming, blaming, and attacking and defaming um someone with protected whistleblower status who's working with um federal criminal investigation authorities just seems to be absolutely crazy. Especially as well, as the lawsuit claims, and as the article claims, with such a giant megaphone, relatively nobody knew who Brian was. He he wasn't out running around publicly talking about um you know Cardone or working with the authorities against Grant Cardone. And Grant Cardone puts this guy on blast on the biggest one of the biggest platforms um available and just absolutely slimes the guy. So I have no idea which way this will go, but it'll be interesting to keep an eye on it and see what happens. Um, oh, real quick before I forget, I have been intentionally keeping my live streams uh kind of short and bite-sized uh uh for now strategically, but what I really do want to do is get back to doing longer form content and publishing segments and clips onto my clips channel. So, if you're interested in those uh bite-size segments of my longer videos, please go and check out the Growing Up in Scientology clips channel. That'd be awesome. Uh let's look at some comments and we'll wrap this up. Shannon should be taller than Tom Cruz. Tommy's probably uh a little taller than Shannon. Uh Billy, uh Gary Cardone's ex-wife, if you are looking if you're lurking in the chat, please start a YouTube channel and spill all the tea.

[00:12:06]Yes, Grant Cardone has an identical twin brother named Gary. Um who has somewhat recently divorced from his wife Monica Cardone. Um, it seems like Gary is still in Scientology and it seems like Monica is not. Oh, how I would love to talk with Monica. Um, and also a lot of people might look at photos of Gary and Grant and be like, "No, no, no, no.

[00:12:35]They're not they're not twins. Gary's obviously older." No, Gary's just not juiced up to the gills with uh testosterone and other steroids. That's the difference. They were completely identical. Now they are not.

[00:12:49]Um, okay. Matt Elliot. Uh, so it has been 6 years. Hopefully they can bring charges soon. I mean, who knows? Maybe they never will. I mean, look guys, uh, let's not forget the influence that billionaire, real billionaire, not fake billionaire Grant Cardone, but real billionaire Trish Dougen, the richest Scientologist. Let's not forget the influence that her money has politically with the current administration. both federally and in the state of Florida.

[00:13:21]Okay. There was Scientologist Clearwater, Florida uh resident um David Gentilly. I don't know if I know he lived in Clearwater. He had a business in Clearwater, but he might have also lived and had business in New York.

[00:13:35]Clearwater Scientologist David Gentilly convicted of running a billion dollar Ponziike scheme, defrauding investors of tens of millions of dollars, sentenced to seven years in federal prison. He served something closer to 7 days, whereas magically he gets a complete pardon from President Donald Trump. This guy did less time in prison on a 7-year sentence than I did in jail for mildly, briefly shoving someone who had just injured me, causing no injuries whatsoever. And that's David Gentilly, who doesn't have as much influence and pull as Grant Cardone. I mean, Cardone has spoken at some of Trump's rallies. Now, sure, Cardone had to pay a fee to be allowed to speak at those rallies. Like, Cardone spoke at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally. And and I I'm not exaggerating.

[00:14:39]Cardone had to pay at least $25,000 for the uh the opportunity to to speak.

[00:14:47]But Trump has also spoken at some of Cardone's 10X conferences, which means Cardone is paying Trump massive appearance fees to do that. Millions of dollars. Okay. And so if someone like David Chen Gentilli can get a presidential pardon, uh, something tells me that Grant Cardone via Trish Dougen might be able to pull a few favors as well. I guess my point is, but charges may never be brought. You know, there that's a very real possibility. Um, okay. Matt Elliot says, "Can you put a link to the article in the description or the comments?"

[00:15:21]Yes, I I sure will. Uh, deplorable duck.

[00:15:24]A federal investigation could go on for 5 years as long as the subject was confronted with the evidence and and given the choice to become a CI, confidential informant, or the evidence would be turned over to the prosecutor.

[00:15:36]All right, then. Jojo, um, it's his weird showers with his daughter that did it for me. That should be criminal in itself. Yes, Mrs. Braramlet Jr. Gary is peptide and steroid free allegedly. I mean, he looks like he's peptide and steroid free. All right, guys. That's it for now. Short and sweet. Uh, thanks for hanging out with me. I'll have more for you soon.

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