Michael Bentley Publicist aka Catfish Hughes of Thru The Wire DJ Shoestring, Michael Barber Scam, Radio, Publicist, Fraud, Publicity, Promoter, Broadcast Charlotte, North Carolina Internet
Michael Barber and his wife Melissa Khaleesi Barber run a scam out of North Carolina, Florida and New York. They operate a makeshift PR firm and they post poor content on 100 plus sites they own for low rent paying clients. They act like writers, bloggers, journalists and more. Their agenda is to slander people online and hype themselves up.
The scaming couple's latest fraud is called Through the Wire, a poorly braodcast show that airs in the greater Charlotte, North Carolina-area on WGNC 1450 AM, 1340 WBGN, ESPN SportsTalk and more. You can't hear the show anywhere, not even in the couples apartment in Huntersville where they rip people off.
I never heard the show first, because if I did, I wouldn't have paid for an advertisment. It's the lowest quality, low rent thing I have ever heard. I sent them 3,500 dollars and my product was going to be promoted during their shows that had Pete Rose, Fast Eddie Chambers, Larry Holmes, Tim Donaghy and others. It wasn't promoted, but thank God we didn't affilate with them. They said Pete Rose, Eddie Chambers and Larry Holmes would all do a shot out for me but they didn't. It's all a fraud cooked up by the Spin Dr Pr firm.
Even Michael Bentley's dad Steve Barber (remember he's not Michael Bentley) has been on his show as Papa Catfish. That suprised me considering he is a lawyer in Indiana. Although it might not even be is real dad. Michael has all these fake names, companies and websites that he uses. I just want my money back or him and his wife to serve time in jail. Or both
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Michael Bentley
Huntersville,North Carolina,
USA
I am Michael Bentley This is Slander, Funny, But Slander
#3REBUTTAL Owner of company
Fri, August 14, 2015
Hello,
I am Michael Bentley. This report is laughable.
It was written by Jonathan Hay because he has a man crush on me, and he follows my whole life.
Plus he put my wife on this. My wife has nothing to do with this show, there is no way that anybody who listens to Thru the Wire would know my wife unless they had a personal relationship with me at point. Then he also listed my residence.
But that isn't the most laughable things mentioned. He writes this:
"I never heard the show first, because if I did, I wouldn't have paid for an advertisment. It's the lowest quality, low rent thing I have ever heard. I sent them 3,500 dollars and my product was going to be promoted during their shows..."
So he has never heard of the show, but he gave me $3,500.00 dollars for an advertisement? Seriously? Bill Gates wouldn't donate a dollar to a foundation he had never heard of, but this person put up $3,500.00 dollars?
If you believe that I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.
BUT THE FUNNIEST PART OF THAT CLAIM IS THIS:
Listen to our show, WE DON'T RUN ADVERTISMENTS.
That was the whole point of the show, 1 hour no advertisements just straight Sports Talk Radio. So how can he claim that he paid $3,500.00 for advertisements on a show that doesn't have advertisments?
That was pretty funny to me.
Then this person listed my dad because I had my father on the show. I thought he had never even heard of the show? How did he know my dad was on the show? How did he know what my dad did for a living?
Lastly, Tom Moon is a Jonathan Hay alias that he uses to write for different websites such as DubCnn.com and he even has a youtube channel named, Tom Moon, which only follows Jonathan Hay and his wanna be group, Pink Grenade, and it has liked every video on Jonathan Hay's channel.
Jonathan Hay also claims that I have a ton of blogs and write all this stuff. You can do a quick google search to see the blog I have.
Do a google search for "Jonathan Hay Tom Moon" or Jonathan Hay Joe Klien"
These are characters that he uses to write about himself with on different blogs.
What Jonathan is doing is a trait that is called, Psychological Projection. You can read about it here on WIKIPEDIA
But in a nutshell it is the projection of one's negative qualities onto others is a common process in everyday life.
So for example, a person who is rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude.
Case in point, and I just thought I would finally write a rebuttal to this HILARIOUS made up story that Jonathan Hay wrote.
Cupid Sam
Charlotte ,North Carolina,
Jonathan Hay Wrote This
#3Consumer Comment
Wed, November 19, 2014
Well it's pretty obvious that somebody who has something else up there sleeve reported this. As I will clarify what I mean.
First off off the radio show in question doesn't run advertisements at all and has never had any guest on that paid.
Second any show that has high quality guests like Pete Rose, Larry Holmes, Muggsy Bogues etc isn't going to be recorded on the phone nor care about how many plays it gets online when it's a real radio show on the air.
Third as stated this was written by Jonathan Hay aka Tom Moon who show starter Michael Bentley use to work with. It seems when the show was started Mr. Hay wasnt asked to be on it and he threw a major temper tantrum and fired Bentley from workinh with him because he wanted to be on the show.
When Bentley asked one of Hays buddies Jimmy to be on it as you can hear Jimmy on about 4 of the shows, well that made Mr. Jonathan Hay even more jealous and he wanted to Savantage the show.
Mr. Jonathan Hay has been upset by the success of others for so long that it has prevented him from being successful in his own life. Mr. Hay wanted to be a rapper by the name of Funk-E but after getting s few labels interested in his group Audio Stepchild they dropped him because they said he was too ugly and fat.
Now as Mr. Hay is being sued by Rihanna for lying about working with her it seems he is trying to bring down everybody he knows.
Misery loves company as they say.
As for mr bentley all I can say is the show has been a riveting success. If it wasn't then why would these lies be posted ?
The truth is they wouldn't. And even if This wasn't written by Mr. Hay, well it is obviously written by someone just hating and making up lies.
Why do I think it is Mr. Hay?
well I intern at the station that this show broadcasts out of and everybody knows when Hay calls up to hate.