Trey Knight, also known as Haskell Knight, the founder of Navan Global, and his wife Emily Knight, also known as Emily Deborah Fryer, are scheduled to enter a guilty plea to bankruptcy fraud.
The trial in the case is set to begin on February 4, 2025.
We were unaware that the Knights had been charged with bankruptcy fraud in 2022 on their own.
On January 17, the DOJ submitted a Motion to Consolidate in the wire fraud case involving the Knights in Louisiana;
The defendants were charged with one count of bankruptcy fraud, which is against 18 U.S.C. § 157(3), two counts of false statement under penalty of perjury, which is against 18 U.S.C. § 152(3), and eight counts of false oath, which is against 18 U.S.C. § 152(2), in an eleven-count indictment returned by the Middle District of Florida Grand Jury on May 12, 2022.
In order to have the case moved to the Middle District of Louisiana, defendant TREY GRANT KNIGHT and his lawyer signed a Rule 20 on October 15, 2024, agreeing to enter a guilty plea to one of the indictments from the Middle District of Florida.
For the guilty plea and sentence, the case has been moved to the Middle District of Louisiana.
I had never heard of the Knights’ bankruptcy fraud procedures until now. The Knights lied under oath about prior bankruptcy procedures, according to the indictment.
June through October 2016 is the relevant time frame, during which the Knights distributed Kyani and Melaleuca.
Trey Knight and Emily Knight filed papers with Melaleuca in or around October 2016 to alter the account’s name from their personal capacity to Uninterrupted Marketing, a company they owned.
Trey Knight also got funding from Kyani, a network marketing company, in or around June 2017.
The relevant schedule showed total liabilities of $598,968.88 and total assets of $24,487.00.
Trey Knight and Emily Knight failed to report to the bankruptcy court their revenue from Kyani and Melaleuca.
The Knights were questioned under oath as part of the proceedings. Together, they concealed their MLM profits and their unsuccessful business ventures with Udoxa and Empower Outreach.
To recover their losses, three Udoxa investors filed a lawsuit against the bankruptcy estate as creditors.
Two of the four investors, according to Trey Knight and Emily Knight, were debtors, but not related to Udoxa.
The Knights faced the following charges:
The Knights will enter a guilty plea to the charge of bankruptcy fraud.
In November 12, 2024, the DOJ asked for a change of plea hearing in the Florida docket. On December 4th, the bankruptcy case was moved to Louisiana; however, no date for the new plea hearing has been established.
Now that both cases are in Louisiana, a decision on the DOJ’s wire fraud request to combine them is still pending.
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