Just Desserts? Dinner Circle Pyramids

march 8, 2002  06:21 pm
Just Desserts? Dinner Circle Pyramids
Women recruit their sisters in the name of empowerment, but "dinner circle" pyramids often collapse into criminal charges. Chico News & Review writer Devanie Angel attends one of these psychobabble-soaked "gifting circles" that abound across the country, where those at the "appetizer" level pay $5,000 so that the woman in a "yummy dessert" position gets the $40,000 tax-free payout. "In about 30 cycles, the population of the Earth would be exhausted," Angel writes.