Who is Behind 12 Daily Pro?

In the 12 Daily Pro debacle, someone will have to give an accounting to federal and state investigators. Someone will have to answer to the estimated 300,000 – plus members in the now paralyzed money scheme. Right now, that someone is Charis Johnson, the administrator of 12 Daily Pro. But is here another?

ABC 4 followed up on rumors floating in internet forums and found the name of Kevin Wessell. Wessell signed the articles of corporation with the North Carolina Secretary of State. The rumors claimed he is the mastermind behind 12 Daily Pro. However, ABC 4 contacted Wessell at his business in Santa Clarita.

Wessell is the President of Companies Inc. It helps all sorts of people incorporate. Wessell says his signatures appear on roughly 20,000 filings for Limited Liability Corporations a year. His company does the paper work but nothing more.

Concerning the Canceled Convention Monday evening, just days before a convention of 12 Daily Pro members was scheduled to begin, Charis Johnson canceled it. In her original posting, she said her attorneys advised her to cancel. Now she says it was the fault of ABC 4 reporter Brent Hunsaker. In a post on her 12 Daily Pro forum today she wrote,

“This weekend, Mr. Hunsaker took it upon himself to not only announce and focus on the convention, but make our members think it was something that it wasn't. In doing so, he invited troubled and gave several other news media outlets the idea that this was a 12 Daily Pro convention and that we were out there having a party while people were losing money. He invited legal authorities (with whom we are already voluntarily cooperating with) to attend implying that I was hiding and that would be where they could find me and, he encouraged people looking for their money to attend, attempting to create a volatile situation that he and his media friends could catch on tape and make us look bad.”

In realty, ABC 4 only mentioned the convention Sunday evening in the 10:00 p.m. broadcast. Here’s the complete text: “Undaunted by allegations and investigations, Charis Johnson presses on with plans for a convention this weekend where sources tell us she'll likely push yet another internet based scheme: HitsDailyPro.”

That’s it. That’s all we said. And yet she now claims based on that sentence she canceled the convention. That move, her attorney tells the Charlotte Observer, cost her (or her company) $30,000. It also left 500 of her faithful members scrambling to cancel their travel plans.

Charis Johnson has made several unfounded, outrageous claims about ABC 4’s reporting on the 12 Daily Pro debacle. To answer charges made by her, we have posted at the bottom of this article the comments made by Jeff Johnson, in streaming video.

Jeff Johnson is a Provo, Utah resident and a member of 12 Daily Pro who last week traveled to Tennessee and North Carolina looking for answers. This is the final video interview with Jeff Johnson made before he returned to Utah:

Jeff Johnson's Complete Comments Concerning ABC 4 News

Story by: Brent Hunsaker
brent @abc4.tv