The operating record
Contemporaneous releases presented DHPI as a Scottsdale-based nutrition and dietary-supplement company pursuing product registrations, international customers, private-label manufacturing, and direct-response marketing.
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Desert Health
Products, Inc. Nutrition & Dietary Supplements DHPI Executive Record 008
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Desert Health Products, Inc.
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Benny Doro
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Editorial transcript for review. Lightly edited for readability. This is a first-person recollection and is not presented as independent documentary verification. Dollar amounts, motives, alleged conduct, legal strategy, and recovery outcomes remain oral-history claims unless matched to an exhibit in the Evidence section.
Desert Health, DHPI. What a roller coaster this one was. It almost hurts to do this because this was a bad deal. They came to Troy and me for an investment. We looked at the company; they had health and medical products, and they had been trading for a while. We said, “Okay, they have their act together. Let’s make an investment, help them with the stock, and get them the money they need to continue their business. Hopefully everybody will do well.”
Over a short period, we gave them close to one million U.S. dollars. They sent us the share certificates we were supposed to receive. Troy and I went to deposit the certificates, and our broker called: “Your certificates have been cancelled.” We called the transfer agent, who told us the company had instructed it to cancel the shares for non-performance.
We were holding pieces of paper. They had the money. When we tried to speak with the company, the response was aggressive: they said we had not performed and, in substance, told us to go away. In my view, it had been a setup.
While we tried to determine our next move, the market was doing well after the company announced that it had received substantial funds to expand. We decided we had to go on the offensive. We flew to Arizona, met an attorney, and hired her to pursue the matter. We filed a claim and tried to secure assets. My recollection is that boats and houses had been moved into the names of friends or relatives.
We tried to place the company into bankruptcy. Arizona protected them, as I remember it, and we lost the investment. I also remember paying approximately sixty to eighty thousand dollars in legal fees on top of the investment.
Deals do not always work out. That is why it is called a hedge fund: we had several microcap investments active at one time, hedging the portfolio so that the two or three that did well could carry the losses. People on the outside may see a two-million-dollar gain on one deal, but much of it goes into the next deal. DHPI—I need an Advil.
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Desert Health Products
Active Research · Evidence-led- Company
- Desert Health Products, Inc.
- Public symbols
- DHPI · later DHPIQ
- Documented public chapter
- 1999–2010 filings and regulatory record
- Industry
- Nutrition and dietary supplements · SIC 2834
- Jurisdiction
- Arizona corporation · Scottsdale identified in SEC order
- Bankruptcy
- Involuntary Chapter 7 petition filed by three creditors on December 15, 2005 · Chapter 11 ordered February 9, 2006 · later returned to Chapter 7
- Benny Doro connection
- Investor through Kick a Rock Productions · oral history; transaction documents not yet recovered
- Research status
- Active Research · local review only
Thirty-second briefing
Executive Summary
An Arizona public company selling nutrition and dietary-supplement products, followed by bankruptcy, reporting failure, trading suspension, and registration revocation.
- Business
- Nutrition and dietary-supplement products, private-label work, and international distribution initiatives
- Public record
- SEC reporting history beginning in 1999; final periodic report covered December 31, 2005
- 2004 initiatives
- European expansion and a reported Chinese manufacturing joint venture
- 2005 initiatives
- International orders and direct-response advertising work
- Bankruptcy
- Three creditors filed an involuntary Chapter 7 petition on December 15, 2005. The court ordered Chapter 11 reorganization on February 9, 2006; a later return to Chapter 7 is documented, with its date still under research.
- Regulatory endpoint
- SEC trading suspension and registration revocation in 2010
- Archival boundary
- The public record proves the company, business activity, bankruptcy, reporting failure, and regulatory endpoint. Benny Doro’s account of the investment, cancelled certificates, legal claims, and recovery effort remains oral history until the underlying transaction and bankruptcy documents are recovered.
Historical overview
An operating company, an investment dispute, and a bankruptcy record.
The documentary and oral records describe different layers of the same chapter. They are displayed together but never treated as interchangeable.
The investor account
Benny Doro recalls that Kick a Rock and a partner funded DHPI, received share certificates, and later learned that the certificates had been cancelled. DHPI's filings independently disclose cancellations of large share blocks for alleged contractual breach, but do not identify Benny Doro or Kick a Rock in those passages.
The legal endpoint
Official filings establish a three-creditor involuntary Chapter 7 petition in December 2005, a Chapter 11 order in February 2006, a later return to Chapter 7, a 2010 SEC trading suspension, and registration revocation. They do not, by themselves, prove who held the cancelled shares or who participated in the creditor petition.
Corporate chronology
The Evidence Spine
Verified events lead. Recollection and missing evidence are marked where they enter.
SEC filing record begins
The SEC company record contains filings beginning in 1999 for CIK 1097570.
European expansion announced
A contemporaneous company release announced a European office in Trondheim, Norway.
China joint venture announced
DHPI announced a manufacturing joint venture with Hebei YiXian in China.
750,000 Rule 144 shares cancelled
DHPI's annual filing states that 750,000 shares originally issued to institutional investors were cancelled for alleged breach of contract. The filing does not identify the holders as Benny Doro or Kick a Rock Productions.
Oral history only
Kick a Rock investment and share certificates
Benny Doro recalls a substantial investment, receipt of share certificates, and later cancellation. Notes, wires, certificates, transfer-agent correspondence, and transaction agreements are still required to connect this account to a specific corporate cancellation.
Marketing and international-order announcements
Contemporaneous releases described a direct-response advertising engagement and an expanded order from an Egyptian customer.
3,875,000 shares cancelled
DHPI's quarterly filing discloses cancellation of 3,875,000 shares due to alleged breach of an agreement. The holders are not identified.
Three creditors file involuntary Chapter 7 petition
DHPI's Form 8-K identifies three creditors and Bankruptcy Case No. 2-05-28174-Phx-CGC. The filing does not identify Benny Doro or Kick a Rock Productions as petitioning creditors.
Chapter 11 reorganization ordered
After DHPI answered the petition and requested conversion if jurisdiction applied, the court ordered the company into Chapter 11 reorganization.
David Stewart appointed chief executive
A filed company release states that David Stewart became chief executive officer following recommendation by the Unsecured Creditors Committee and court approval.
Date not recovered
Case returned to Chapter 7
The SEC order confirms the later Chapter 7 status. The conversion order and complete bankruptcy docket have not yet been recovered into Business Vault.
SEC trading suspension
The SEC suspended trading in DHPIQ for lack of current and accurate public information.
Registration revoked
The SEC revoked registration of DHPI securities by default.
Executive responsibilities
What the current record supports about Benny Doro.
The current public-source set does not identify Benny Doro as a DHPI officer or director. His connection is preserved as an investor and recovery participant through Kick a Rock Productions, based on his original narration.
The precise investment vehicle, co-investor identity, contractual obligations, share quantity, certificate numbers, and claim amount remain pending documentary recovery. Those gaps are visible by design.
Business development
Nutrition products and international expansion.
The company’s own releases describe dietary-supplement product registrations, private-label services, international offices and customers, manufacturing relationships, and direct-response marketing.
Documented public identity
Public symbol as the defining artifact
No authentic corporate logo has yet been recovered at sufficient quality. The tombstone therefore uses the documented ticker engraving, not a recreated brand mark.
Public company and bankruptcy
The documented institutional record.
The SEC identifies DHPI as an Arizona corporation in Scottsdale and records its last periodic report as the Form 10-KSB for the period ended December 31, 2005. Three creditors began the case with an involuntary Chapter 7 petition on December 15, 2005; the court ordered Chapter 11 reorganization on February 9, 2006.
A GAO survey of public-company bankruptcies lists approximately $0.3 million in assets and $4.6 million in liabilities at filing, with figures presented in millions and therefore approximate. The case later returned to Chapter 7. In 2010, the SEC suspended trading and then revoked registration.
Evidence drawers
Recovered, Missing, Unresolved
Official records, contemporaneous company statements, and founder recollection are catalogued separately.
Share-cancellation disclosures
The 2005 quarterly and 2006 annual filings document cancellation of 3,875,000 shares and 750,000 Rule 144 shares for alleged breach. Neither passage identifies Benny Doro or Kick a Rock Productions.
Open recovered 10-QSB text →Involuntary petition and Chapter 11 order
The February 22, 2006 Form 8-K records the three-creditor involuntary Chapter 7 petition and the February 9 Chapter 11 order.
Open recovered Form 8-K →SEC administrative proceeding
Identifies DHPIQ, the Scottsdale location, last periodic report, Chapter 11 filing, later Chapter 7 conversion, and the reporting failure.
Open official SEC order →SEC registration revocation
April 14, 2010 order revoking registration by default.
Open official SEC order →GAO bankruptcy survey
Lists the filing date and approximate assets and liabilities.
Open GAO report →2004 China joint venture release
Contemporaneous description of DHPI’s business and reported manufacturing initiative.
Open release →2005 advertising engagement
Company announcement concerning radio, television, and infomercial production.
Open release →Kick a Rock investment file
Promissory notes, wire confirmations, share certificates, transfer-agent instructions, contracts, proofs of claim, attorney correspondence, and brokerage statements have not yet been recovered.
Oral history boundary
The account is preserved without converting it into proof.
The narration records Benny Doro’s recollection of why the investment was made, the claimed funding, receipt and cancellation of certificates, legal action in Arizona, asset-recovery efforts, legal costs, and the ultimate loss.
DHPI's own filings corroborate that large blocks of shares were cancelled for alleged breach and that three creditors commenced an involuntary bankruptcy case. They do not identify Benny Doro or Kick a Rock in those passages. The private documents must supply that identity link before Business Vault treats the corporate events and the specific investment position as one fact.
Active research
Outstanding Questions
The record remains open for documentary enrichment.
- What were the exact dates, amounts, and contractual terms of the Kick a Rock investment?
- Who was the co-investor identified as Troy, and what entity held the investment?
- What certificates were issued, and what written instruction caused their cancellation?
- Can private records link Benny Doro, Kick a Rock Productions, Charlie McLaughlin, or Forte directly to either disclosed share cancellation?
- What proof of claim, complaint, or involuntary-bankruptcy filing was submitted?
- Was Kick a Rock or a related party one of the three petitioning creditors identified in the bankruptcy docket?
- Who represented the investors in Arizona, and which correspondence survives?
- When was the Chapter 11 case converted to Chapter 7, and what distributions occurred?
- Can an authentic DHPI logo, stock certificate, product package, or original corporate document be recovered?