Complaint Review: First Federal Debt Relief Inc.

I Met this Man Jc Yeh aka Thomas Jiunn-Chiang Yeh about two years ago.  He answered an add on Craig's list where I was looking for work.  He told me a story about a college friend who was a business partner that ripped him off and stold all his money leaving him with nothing but complaining customers who wanted refunds and a quickbooks file that had a password on it that he could not get into.  I was a fool and I believed his story and helped him gain access to the file and begin cleaning up his business.  He had just moved to La Habra when I met him from a cypress address.  He also had an address in La on Wilshire.  He claimed to own many companies and wanted to "reopen" the last one he lost in Cypress which was First Federal Debt Relief Inc.,  All lies. 

First he paid me by the day and then he send an employment offer in writing and hired me full time.  One of my first duties was to hire a construction crew and renovate an office he rented in Santa Ana.  I was stupid.  I hired friends of mine who were out of work and really needed the cash.  They built him 22 cubicles to house call center reps who would be calling out to get business for something Called Power Success Center which is a package to start a web presence for a business or to establish a company on the internet.  He had me sit and watch the crew work and then claimed he had a deadline to beat and had them work double shifts back to back all night long to finish the work.  He gave excuses why he didnt show up to pay them as promised and asked me to use my own money to front them for materials.  Like an idiot I did and the first check he gave for these workers bounced. 

It took WEEKS to collect the money for that check.  I stopped working and he refused to pay me claiming he was unsure of my hours.  He had me sit and watch that crew.  If there hours were paid how could he doubt when I was there and what times I worked?  It was all a scam.  I had to take him to the labor commissioner to get paid.  He lost the hearing and was told to bring a check into their office by 5:00pm on 1/24/2011 for $582.70.  He brought in the check and I gave him an extra week to get the funds in the account (tried to cash it when issued and his bank said he had no money in his account).  When I did try and cash it, it was returned.  Now I owe money to a check cashing place who is ruining my credit as we speak.  The labor commissioners office has issued a judgement order and has given him instructions to pay $1,200 within 7 days or the bounced check becomes the judgement amount of $10,222.00. 

I called him and he says that he does not have the money.  Not even the $582.70.  He said he told us that in the Labor Commissioners office and we would not listen to him so he wrote a bad check on purpose.  He paid me under checks that say First Federal Debt Relief Inc., he rented his new office suite in Santa Ana under WEGLLC which stands for Wilshire Equity Group LLC which is a suspended corporation in California since 1992.  The new business he is running in Santa Ana is called Power Success Center and it has an internet website with an 800 number that I called and left a message on and a guy from Florida called and tried to pretend that he just received this number and does not know JC Yeh.  He is working this power success center as the website says but doesnt know JC Yeh?  Why would someone go around building office suites for a website that they are not affiliated with?  there are many people looking for JC Yeh from his past companies.  He has taken many illegal deposits from homeowners looking for debt consolidation.  He took the deposits and did no work and this was after it became illegal to do so. 

There are at least 16 complaints in the BBB and his rating for all companies are an "F".  He has website claiming that he is a licensed real estate professional and the truth is that he does not have a license.  Nor is he a real estate broker either.  He makes up compliments about his own business and posts them under different names and email address to try and seem credible.  The truth is that he is a scam artist who is constantly changing company names and using fake business accounts to try and rip off more people.  He told me yesterday that If I continued and pursued my judgement, then he would have to close his new company and no body would win.  Meaning I should allow him to pay me $10 a week so he could keep his newest scam pretend company allive and I should feel sorry for him?  I dont think so! 

This man lives on Kashlan Rd in La Habra Heights.  He has a brand new multi million dollar home that he sued the city of La Habra heights over an illegal fence in 2009.  He has the money to build a brand new milti million dollar house that they own out right but he cannot pay me the wages he owes after making me work a job that he knew in advance he had no money to pay for?  I am going to do everything I can to have this man arrested.  He cannot get away with this.