Harassment
Complaint
Debra M. Persiano
Country: United States
I got a call today at home from a man stating he was a process server for Collin County DA's Office and he is with the Sheriff's office and needed to come serve a warrant on me. I was shocked and asked why? He stated do you live ....are you still at this address are you now at this address and I stated who are you? He again, stated he was from the county going to serve court papers on me today. He gave me a toll free number for what he stated was the county's office which is 1 866.872.6116 gave me a case no. which he called a Cause No. 008307-TX. I called the number was transferred to a Mr. Fisher's office who stated that law suite in the amount of $6,214.24 was filed in Collin Co., Tx and that warrant was out for me. He then after back and forth said let me get more information from my secretary and state this was for an outstanding debt in from Capital One a credit card that I obtained several years back and had disputes over interest charges etc. He stated that if I did not want to go to court or jail that I could pay $1,951.00 in full by end of business today and this matter could be cleared up. I explained that I recently lost my job etc. Anyway, he stated that I needed to call him back by EOB today or they will serve the papers. Ok, so that was a heads up for me. I called the DA's office nothing is filed on me as of today, after searching PMG it is clear that they do not practice best practices for collections and have been in trouble for this before back in 2004. I need someone to give me advise. I want to pay off my debt, I don't want this type of collections to continue this upset me, made my blood pressure raise, this type of collections are not the right thing to do. Had they called and ask to make arrangements or give me an opportunity to clear the matter, rather then threaten me by taken legal action, or harassment stating they are sending a sheriff over today. This is wrong, bad business, and should not continue this company is bad news.
Comments
S.A.M.
John Cook
TLH
3D
Tina
If not justice in this life, then the next.
There's an old saying in the law that goes something like this:
If the facts are on your side....pound the facts.
If the facts aren't on your side, pound the table. Looks like a lot of table-pounding going on here.
I read what was filed in court, can you believe it!
Wayne & Jason are acting stupid, by blaming their managers. They pretty much said; "They did not know what the individual office managers were doing".
On the other hand, Jason & Wayne made up stories in the park. The FTC did not cease all their assets. They have millions of dollars hiding or transferring into other people names. They did have the money to pay their employees, but blamed it on the FTC. They pocketed everything, but they did pay the girls that work in the corporate office, including close friends Todd, John, Tim and Barbara, etc.
At the same time they are selling them out. It is well known that some of them signed checks and accounts so Jason & Wayne would not be directly linked to laundering money! Though they knew what they were doing.
I was shocked to read everything. I believe there is more to come.
This is in or going to federal court. To all the managers, Jason & Wayne, enjoy your freedom for now. Someone or several of you, are going to jail!
Several months pass and the business ends up closing down for two reasons: No written agreement will be given; and no money being put into their business. Only thing is, it's not really their business because their name isn't on any paperwork making it look like it's only your business and they "invested" cash with you.
They then file civil lawsuits and state you committed fraud by taking cash money from them, mind you, there is no paperwork leading back to this supposedly "borrowed money"; sure they come up with their own accounting of dollars but no solid proof or paper trail that indicates this amount of money was "borrowed" or "given" to the business.
Once the lawsuit is filed, a lawyer has to be hired by the other party, mind you, Michael Petersen is a paralegal who works for a law firm in the Palm Desert area and has free access to attorney's as well as the courts. He inundates the other attorney with frivolous paperwork, racking up enormous sums of money to the unsuspecting party. This will go on and on, serving papers to individuals who had/have nothing to do with the case. Once this is realized, attorney for business is fired and business becomes pro per. This is when all faxing, phone calls, harrassments stop. The case then gets dismissed because they never show up for another court hearing!
They don't drop the case, they just stop showing up to scheduled court hearings.
Whatever you do, if anyone by the name of Michael Petersen or Julie Montante approaches you to open a business, run away as fast as you can. You will regret ever having known these crooks who are still operating in the Palm Desert, CA area. Their goal is to win these fraudulent cases to get large sums of money from you, money that you never received from them in the first place! They will try to ruin your life, they get pleasure out of this.
Julie has a landscaping business with an expired business license; She also has another business called Ace Laminate Security; she is the person who gets these people and then Michael enters the picture as "her attorney". Of course when this fact is brought up in court, he venomously denies it. How these two have gotten away with this for so long is beyond me.
They have filed so many lawsuits against people, businesses, the like just go into the Riverside CA Court system website under Indio Civil Cases and type in their names. You will see everything said here is not a lie.