I am one of the 800+ victims, I have a 4yr degree in a science field. Granted, maybe I should have stuck with what I knew, but a kindly woman named Connie Duron, mother of my best friend, had me speak to her BIL who was in the air force. I thought, ‘How could someone in the AF be connected to a fraud, and he was religious to boot.’ Even the FBI has told us that they think these guys are some of the ‘best’ they have come across. We weren’t solely investing in RE, but mutual funds, annuities, precious metals, and foreign currency. I have documents in my hand that state I have my own brokerage account in a bank in Palm Desert. I have VOD’s in hand that the scammers falsely submitted (without my knowledge) to the banks. I have a copy of a Grant Deed that the FORGED my husband’s signature on. I have had so many lies fed to me it would choke an elephant.
Am I ashamed…why yes I am. I am ashamed that I trusted dear dear friends. I am ashamed that I looked up the company I was doing business with (Pacific Wealth Management) and saw a ‘LEGITIMATE” company website (see…that’s how these crooks work…they STEAL a legitimate co’s name and do business under it until they get caught. So…silly me…there was no negative BBB reports either. How COULD I have known??
So…let’s FLOG the poor victims….and applaud the efforts of the crooks…because that is in essence What you are doing.
I just spent my morning in front of Riverside Superior Court demonstrating and pleading for the DA to move a little faster in their efforts to put these men in jail.
See, if the DA and the DRE had done their JOB 2 years ago, I never would have become a victim, and neither would a lot of people.
The truly sad part is other people are becoming victims DAILY and more lives are ruined.
We can’t ALL be EXPERTS in this field, after all, we supposedly TRUSTED ‘Experts’ in this field. Most of us will NEVER trust again.
Just hope that these crooks FINALLY go to jail.
Did you know they actually were connected to the MX Factor case in Riverside a few years ago? Neither did we…they should have been jailed then, but Chris Oetting of Sunburst Financial took the fall for James Duncan. Even Barry Minkow recognized these names when he was called last summer.
Hope some of you will show a little compassion. Too many have already solidified my opinion of RE ‘professionals.’
