Tri Energy was a business enterprise run by Henry Uliomereyon Jones, better known as Dr. Henry Jones, a record producer in Marina del Rey, California, running MIG Records (later renamed Global Village Records) and Marina Investors Group Inc. Jones with two of his main associates, Arthur Simburg, a former marketing representative for sporting-goods manufacturer and Robert Jennings, an associate pastor at the New Life Fellowship Church in Perris, California were convicted of running a fraudulent Ponzi scheme operation and affinity fraud through Tri Energy, involving defrauding over 735 people of $50 million, resulting in several court actions both civil and criminal cases, and imprisonment of the three Tri Energy associates.