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DIED. JAY VAN ANDEL, 80, billionaire co-founder of direct-sales behemoth Amway; in Ada, Mich. With his childhood friend Richard DeVos, Van Andel founded the company in the pair's basements in 1959 and built it into a worldwide network of individual distributors who sold cosmetics and furniture polish and earned a cut for recruiting others. In the 1970s the government investigated Amway, suspecting it was a pyramid scheme, but the charges were never proved. In 2000, it became part of a larger sales and business-services company, Alticor Inc., formed by Van Andel's and DeVos' families...
...DIED. JAY VAN ANDEL, 80, billionaire co-founder of direct-sales behemoth Amway; in Ada, Michigan. With his childhood friend Richard DeVos, Van Andel founded the company in the pair's basements in 1959 and built it into a worldwide network of individual distributors who sold cosmetics and furniture polish and earned a cut for recruiting others. In the 1970s the U.S. government investigated Amway, suspecting it was a pyramid scheme, but the charges were never proved. In 2000, Amway became part of a larger sales and business-services company, Alticor Inc., formed by Van Andel's and DeVos' families...
Leaning on her daughters for support, an emotional Ada Colono, mother of the victim, broke into sobs after the verdict...
Colono’s sister Wanda Rivera also read the translated statement of Ada Colono, the victim’s mother...
...would probably change only one thing: using a college-gift registry to avoid the kerfuffle of receiving six laundry hampers as off-to-college presents. "That," says Rebecca, "was a little over the top." --With reporting by Karen Ann Cullotta/ Chicago; Jeanne DeQuine/ Miami; Rita Healy/ Denver; Chris Maag/ Ada, Ohio; Jeffrey Ressner/ Los Angeles; and Nathan Thornburgh/ Princeton