John B Webster - National Prison And Sentencing Consultants Rip Off Artist East Providence Rhode Island
I signed a contract with John Webster in November 2007, and paid him $12,500 for sentencing research for my husband's attorney, to assist with an aggravated involuntary manslaughter case. Webster knew that the sentencing hearing was on May 23, 2008, for at least two months in advance and provided a shoddy report on May 21. It was way too late to be useful to us or our attorney and only contained a compilation of various newspaper articles from across the country about cases of DUIs where someone had been killed. 10 days before the sentencing, he promised me that his report would be excellent and that he was finalizing it as we spoke.
He would only respond to my emails when I threatened him with reports to the FTC and the BBB and then had the nerve to acuse me of extortion. He never returned my phone calls.
I filed a complaint with the BBB of the NE area and he did not respond to their email. After 37 days, I contacted them and asked if they would at least remove him from their list of BBB companies and they responded a day later that he did not get the email and that they were faxing him the complaint that day. I am still waiting to hear.
I have also filed a complaint with the FTC for false advertising on the internet. Unfortunately, FTC will only take action, if a number of consumers file complaints against him.
77kendall
Arlington, Virginia
U.S.A.
3 Updates & Rebuttals
swt
norfolk,Virginia,
National Prison Consultants are a Rip Off!
#4Consumer Comment
Wed, July 16, 2014
John Webster promises a lot of great services and delivers NONE! He did absolutely notthing for our family. He never provided documents or proof of services. As soon as he received $1500 he left us without any information.
Sue
Rochelle,,Virginia,
U.S.A.
prove
#4Consumer Comment
Sat, April 11, 2009
John, Did she get in her contract what you were suppose to do. I didn't. Why now are you explaining what you was of was not not done. Her word is better than yours . Because it is her money not yours that was spent.
I learned that you will lead a person to believe that you can walk on water , Until you get their money.
Refunding on half of a person's money is scamming. You should prove to that person what the money is for in a contract. I learned the hard way. So has this lady.
Reason they will take half , half is better than none. I got none and $7500 is a lot of money . $12500 is a lot of money . What did you do take a private jet? You are doing a job for this lady.
If you did not explain to her , how was she to know what you were doing. Give her back her money or prove to her what you did
John
East Providence,Rhode Island,
U.S.A.
Our Response
#4REBUTTAL Owner of company
Sun, September 07, 2008
Ms. Kendall is correct in at least one respect. She did in fact retain our firm . She does fail to mention a great number of facts, however. She does fail to mention that our involvement required me taking a three day trip to the DC area to meet with counsel, friends, family and background witnesses. The memo written for counsel was 48 pages and including sections on Statutory and Regulatory Scheme, Background in the Defendant, Penological Considerations, Rehabilitation Potential, Specific and General Deterrence, Specific Mitigating Factors, and a Sentencing Disparity Analysis. Ms. Kendall's suggests that the disparity analysis came from newspapers is just plain wrong. Rather, they all came from a painstaking and detailed analysis of comparable cases throughout the country.
Our engagement, as she correctly noted, was to prepare the research for counsel of record, not for submittal to a court, and the memorandum was submitted to counsel three days before it was needed. This was plenty of time. As well counsel of record made it clear that due to several unrelated factors, the court had made up its mind well before the hearing and that since the crime involved the death of a relatively young man, little more could be done.
We did try to reach an accommodation with Ms. Kendall and she did threaten to file all these complaints unless we refunded all or most of her money. We considered filing an extortion complaint against her but decided that our goal is to keep people out of prison rahter than help them go tot prison. We refused to pay her demands as we stand by our work and did perform the work as contracted. We view this complaint as another attempt to force us to give her a refund for work completed. I suggest that she is still rather upset about the length of the sentence involved and is taking it out on us. We find no validity to her accusations.