Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Serial scammer Randy Cramer resurfaces

I have previously published the results of a 2019-20 investigation of Randy Alan Cramer. https://rkcolejr.blogspot.com/2020/07/randy-cramer-gofundme-investigation.html

My investigation obtained evidence that his claims of military service are false and I published those documents.  

GoFundMe.com conducted its own investigation of Cramer's "Holographic-regenerating- medbeds" fundraising campaign which was determined to be a fraud and removed.


After "disappearing" for over a year, "Covert Space Cowboy", "Mars Marine" serial scammer, and fraudster Randy Alan Cramer has now re-appeared.

https://www.facebook.com/randy.cramer.92

 

                  

Despite being exposed as a fraud, Cramer has doubled down on his previous claims to be an active-duty US Marine Captain ("special section") and former member of a top-secret Unacknowledged Special Access Program (USAP).

After relocating to Sedona, Arizona, Cramer created the University of Conscious Evolution.  https://www.universityofconsciousevolution.com/



Cramer has resurrected a retro, science fiction pseudoscience known as "Psionics".


Psionics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psionics

The word "psionics" first appeared in print in a novella by science fiction writer Jack WilliamsonThe Greatest Invention[14] published in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in 1951.[15] Williamson derived it from the "psion", a fictitious "unit of mental energy"

"Psionic" abilities began to appear frequently in magazine science fiction stories in the mid-1950s, providing characters with supernormal or supernatural abilities

In the years after the term was coined in 1951, it became increasingly evident that no scientific evidence supports the existence of "psionic" abilities.[6]

Some of the wind was taken out of the sails of psionics in 1957 when Martin Gardner, in the updated edition of his book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, wrote that the study of psionics is "even funnier than Dianetics or Ray Palmer's Shaver stories", and criticized the beliefs and assertions of Campbell as anti-scientific nonsense.


Kendra Soleil:

Cramer and his new partner, Kendra Soleil https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100084006010198 offer a number of courses and private consultations for various fees ranging from $100 to $1,000.00.  

Soleil is a self-described "Psionic healer, a conscious life coach", and works as an "owner at Evolve since 2018"

A search for Evolve in Sedona shows a hospitality/rental management company offering private home vacation rentals. 

https://careers.evolvevacationrental.com/vacation-rentals/search?query=Sedona--AZ--USA

Evolve lists about 80 private homes as vacation rentals near Sedona, AZ. Qualified homeowners can partner with Evolve to market the property and schedule rentals with 24/7 support. 

https://careers.evolvevacationrental.com/vacation-rentals/search?query=Sedona--AZ--USA&Property-Type=House


Cramer's University:

Once behind Cramer's paywall, students can review courses on meditation, psionic ability development, telekinesis, psionic self-defense and skill development, self-healing, and self-mastery.  

https://www.universityofconsciousevolution.com/events-services

A list of Cramer's "Psionic Abilities" also includes Remote viewing, dowsing, telepathy, Pre-cognition, Pyrokinesis, and Cryokenesis.


Sedona, AZ

Sedona, AZ straddles the county line between Coconino and Yavapai counties in the northern Verde Valley within the Coconino National ForestBest known for its red stone geological formations, Sedona is said to have energy vortexes and is a popular location for tourists, spiritualists, and self-described healers.


But Cramer leaves a previous history of fraud, lies, and theft by deception in his wake in an attempt to reinvent himself as a pseudoscience professor of psionic superpowers.

I obtained an Intelius background report that listed an address for Cramer in Sedona, AZ, and used that address to conduct a parcel search. 

https://gis.yavapaiaz.gov/v4/search.aspx

I also submitted a request for public records from the Sedona City Clerk's Office.

The Sedona City Records Clerk provided the following response:

"We find no records responsive to your request. We have no business license records for these individuals or the named entity. A business license would be required if a business is headquartered within our city limits."

"The address you referred to is actually outside Sedona city limits. It is in the unincorporated county jurisdiction. Addresses there are called Sedona by the Post Office and often, by businesses and residents as a selling point.  It is in what is technically the Village of Oak Creek. A business operated there would not need a City of Sedona business license."


According to the Yavapai County database, the property is located outside the city limits of Sedona in a subdivision of the Village of Oak Creek known as Bell Rock Vista Unit 2.

It lists the property owner as Steven Reiley Smith with a mailing address of PO Box 128 Kahului, HI, and that the property is not his physical address. 

I believe Cramer may be renting this property from Mr. Smith.

(I have redacted the physical address.)

Source: Yavapai County Parcel Database

Location of Bell Rock Vista 2

The 1/4 acre property is valued at over $550,000.00.

Since the location of the property is outside the Sedona city limit, Cramer avoids having to obtain a business license which the City of Sedona requires.

Cramer has published videos showing himself and Kendra Soleil in various locations in the vicinity of Sedona.


Cramer is shown in this video with the feature known as Cathedral Rock behind his right shoulder.

Oak Creek and Cathedral Rock


In this video published by Gaia, Cramer claims that "men in black" are showing up in his area.  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xbgDPiwa9Wc


Conclusion:

Randy Cramer has transplanted himself near Sedona, AZ but his reputation as a lying grifter will remain.  Although Cramer continues to falsely claim he is a USMC Captain as a basis for his credibility, his clever attempts to conceal his dishonesty have failed.  

Like many others, I suspect Cramer is not disclosing his income to the State of Arizona or to the IRS.    I expect he will "milk" this latest con for all it's worth.



 
Note:  During this latest investigation I also revisited the bizarre case of Karl Dorey.

I was able to eliminate Mr. Dorey as being a relation to Randy Cramer. Dorey, a Canadian citizen, and resident of Ontario appeared in a number of interviews from 2016-2020 including two by James Rink.

Dorey has an uncanny resemblance to Randy Cramer and made very similar claims.  I researched the elder brother of Randy Cramer and found he has lived in or near Eugene, OR his entire life.

I was able to determine this using background reports and Ancestry.com. 

I have obtained the High School yearbook images associated with both Randy and his brother Kevin from Ancestry.com

Randy Cramer was a graduate of Willamette, HS Eugene, OR in 1988.

Randy A. Cramer Yearbook photo 1988

I contacted Mr. Rink and questioned him about his initial contact and subsequent interviews with Mr. Dorey and why he had not mentioned that Dorey was making similar claims and that he physically resembled Cramer, but he refused to comment other than saying, "You can ask him yourself"https://www.facebook.com/karl.dorey

Mr. Dorey has not responded to my request for contact.