DJ SRL- Thief - Grand Theft - Swindler
Complaint
Ed Harris
Country: United States
DJ SRL is Steven R LeFlar, a known con man who constantly changes the name of his DJ company in an effort to hide his identity. He is the former owner of 'Star Sounds Productions' (Google it), and currently owns Simply The Best Entertainment with Eric Symons.
He has been found guilty twice (so far) of ripping off live bands and DJs. He is under investigation for grand theft.
Do not do business with any of the following: DJ SRL, Steve LeFlar, Eric Symons, Simply The Best Entertainment, STB DJs, Steven McArthur. It's all the same operation.
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Steven LeFlar aka Steven McArthur, dba Simply The Best Entertainment and DJ SRL has stolen over $200,000 from Thomas Scoenberger, Keith Johnson, Eric Martin, Wendy Wiggs, Mike Luna, Gary Sparks, Allegra Events, Ron Israel, Associated Entertainment Consultants, Angela Takeishi, and several others.
Superior Court of Concord. Case number CSC09-1099Steve LeFlar (has recently been using the alias 'Steven McArthur') DBA North Bay Entertainment (later changed the name to "Star Sounds Productions", then changed it again to "Simply The Best Entertainment" & DJ SRL) found GUILTY of non payment of the live band, "Big City Revue" at the Intercontinental Hotel. Booking was made by Eric Symons, at the time working with LeFlar. Contract signed by LeFlar.Total judgement - $5200.00 awarded to Associated Entertainment (AE hired Big City Revue) Judgement entered on February 10, 2010.Although still working under the names "Simply The Best Entertainment", and "DJ SRL" in the Sacramento and Napa areas, LeFlar has not paid this debt. ==========================================================
Superior Court of Concord. Case number CSC09-1100Steve LeFlar again found GUILTY of non payment of the live band, "Six and The City" at the Adeszko Wedding at Auberge Du Soleil. Booking was made by Eric Symons, at the time, working with LeFlar. Contract signed by LeFlar.Total judgement - $3600.00 awarded to Associated Entertainment (AE hired "Six and The City") Judgement entered on February 8, 2010.Although still working under the names "Simply The Best Entertainment", and "DJ SRL" in the Sacramento and Napa areas, LeFlar has not paid this debt either.
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In order to hide his identity, LeFlar inserted an ex employee, Eric Symons, as the owner of "Simply The Best Entertainment" on paper. Symons claims he started the company in 2010, but LeFlar testified under oath that he started it in 2008.The collection agency, George Ballard Company, has been retained to collect this debt. Any information on Steve LeFlar, Steven McArthur (one of LeFlar's aliases) or Cynthia Gretch, Star Sounds Productions, Simply The Best Entertainment or DJ SRL,that would assist in collection this debt should be forwarded to both the George Ballard Company, (925) 677-0300 ... and Associated Entertainment Consultants (AEC), (650) 348-7972
He has been found guilty twice (so far) of ripping off live bands and DJs. He is under investigation for grand theft.
Do not do business with any of the following: DJ SRL, Steve LeFlar, Eric Symons, Simply The Best Entertainment, STB DJs, Steven McArthur. It's all the same operation.
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Steven LeFlar aka Steven McArthur, dba Simply The Best Entertainment and DJ SRL has stolen over $200,000 from Thomas Scoenberger, Keith Johnson, Eric Martin, Wendy Wiggs, Mike Luna, Gary Sparks, Allegra Events, Ron Israel, Associated Entertainment Consultants, Angela Takeishi, and several others.
Superior Court of Concord. Case number CSC09-1099Steve LeFlar (has recently been using the alias 'Steven McArthur') DBA North Bay Entertainment (later changed the name to "Star Sounds Productions", then changed it again to "Simply The Best Entertainment" & DJ SRL) found GUILTY of non payment of the live band, "Big City Revue" at the Intercontinental Hotel. Booking was made by Eric Symons, at the time working with LeFlar. Contract signed by LeFlar.Total judgement - $5200.00 awarded to Associated Entertainment (AE hired Big City Revue) Judgement entered on February 10, 2010.Although still working under the names "Simply The Best Entertainment", and "DJ SRL" in the Sacramento and Napa areas, LeFlar has not paid this debt. ==========================================================
Superior Court of Concord. Case number CSC09-1100Steve LeFlar again found GUILTY of non payment of the live band, "Six and The City" at the Adeszko Wedding at Auberge Du Soleil. Booking was made by Eric Symons, at the time, working with LeFlar. Contract signed by LeFlar.Total judgement - $3600.00 awarded to Associated Entertainment (AE hired "Six and The City") Judgement entered on February 8, 2010.Although still working under the names "Simply The Best Entertainment", and "DJ SRL" in the Sacramento and Napa areas, LeFlar has not paid this debt either.
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In order to hide his identity, LeFlar inserted an ex employee, Eric Symons, as the owner of "Simply The Best Entertainment" on paper. Symons claims he started the company in 2010, but LeFlar testified under oath that he started it in 2008.The collection agency, George Ballard Company, has been retained to collect this debt. Any information on Steve LeFlar, Steven McArthur (one of LeFlar's aliases) or Cynthia Gretch, Star Sounds Productions, Simply The Best Entertainment or DJ SRL,that would assist in collection this debt should be forwarded to both the George Ballard Company, (925) 677-0300 ... and Associated Entertainment Consultants (AEC), (650) 348-7972
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He also secured the services of Allegra Entertainment to provide expensive lighting for a concert by Chris Botti. LeFlar collected $20,000 and never paid Allegra for doing the work, a $17,000 rip-off.
He ripped off Thomas Schoenberger for $150,000. Many DJs and live bands have been ripped off by LeFlar & Symons.
LeFlar aka DJ SRL (so far) has lost 2 court cases for non payment of expensive live bands.
When Star Sounds got exposed, he changed the name to Simply The Best Entertainment and installed his employee, Eric Symons, and "owner" in order to hide his identity. He then went further by creating an alias, "Steve McArthur", for himself. He also operates under the name DJ SRL.
Do NOT do business with Simply The Best Entertainment, DJ SRL, or any company that Steve LeFlar aka Steve McArthur is involved with.
Leflar keeps changing the name of his company to try to hide his criminal reputation: "Steven's Music", "Star Sounds Productions", "North Bay Entertainment", "Simply The Best Entertainment", "STB DJs", "DJ SRL" are ALL the same con man, Steven Leflar. In the past he had used "Steven McArthur" as an alias to hide his identity.
Avoid ALL of the above "businesses", especially "Simply The Best Entertainment" and "Steven's Music" (these 2 have active web sites still up) Leflar uses 2 friends of his to pose as "owners" of his companies in an effort to hide his affiliation with them. He works most of his scams in the Napa, Sacramento, Elk Grove, Cotati, Sonoma areas, of northern California.
Here is a partial list of people in the music industry that Steven LeFlar ripped off:
Michael Halem
David Martin
Gig Xifaras
Thomas Schoenberger
Larry Lynch
Ellen Shea
Ron Israel
Brian Cline
Phillip Goodwin
Joe Sharino
Gary Sparks
Kier LaCrosse
Mike Luna
Larry Johnson
Wendy Wiggs
Shiela Groves
Allison Sharino
'Google' Steven Leflar. Then contact any of the above for verification. Stay away from "Steven's Music" and "Simply The Best Entertainment"
All musicians are urged to avoid taking any events from SimplyTheBest Entertainment or Steven's Music
Read below.
Summary of my 2009 unresolved payment due from Steve Leflar & Eric Symons.
On January 9, 2009 I received a phone call from Eric Symons of North Bay Entertainment (NBE hereafter) to hire my band, Hot House for an event at Korbel Champagne, Guerenville, Ca. on July 11, 2009. On January 10 I received an email and contract from Crystal McLaughlin of NBE confirming all details. I mailed a signed copy of this contract to NBE, 4093 Concord Blvd., Concord, Ca. 94519-1514. We were to be paid $2000 for our performance. The contract was signed by Steve Leflar, owner of NBE and Star Sounds Productions, also at 4093 Concord Blvd., Concord, Ca.
On July 11 Hot House performed at the wine club Speakeasy/Grapevine Swing event at Korbel. All went well with no problems of any kind.
On July 13 in accordance with the contract I emailed a summary of the completed event to artists@northbayentertainment.com.
After a few weeks I began to inquire about payment. Mr. Symons would always promise I would be paid, as late as October. Ms. McLaughlin claimed she no longer worked for NBE. Mr. Leflar claimed not to own NBE and tried to blame the debt on NBE’s previous owner Thomas Schoenberger. I contacted Mr. Schoenberger and he assured me NBE’s ownership was held by Mr. Leflar. I also contacted Julie Williams, Korbel’s Hopsitality Director. She mailed me photocopies of her contract – with Mr. Leflar’s signature - and both of Korbel’s deposit and balance checks for the event, all of which had been mailed to NBE/Steve Leflar, 4093 Concord Blvd., Concord, Ca. This was Steve Leflar's home address.
As of this writing, 1-23-13, I remain unpaid by Steve Leflar or Eric Symons. They have changed the name of their company to "Simply The Best Entertainment"
I have since learned that they have also ripped off Associated Entertainment Consultants, Allegra Events, Legendmakers Music, and several bands. I urge all DJs, musicians & wedding venues to avoid Simply The Best Entertainment, Steven Leflar and Eric Symons.
Bill DeKuiper
"Hot House"
phone: 415-454-3031