Complaint Review: The Stinking Rose Farm

The woman who runs the "business" called The Stinking Rose Farma is not licensed as a business, registered with the Dept of Agriculture or the IRS.  She has duped many people.  She enlisted the hired help off of craigslist to help plant garlic with the promise that they would make about $10,000 at harvest time.  

After the garlic had been planted, she forced those she hired to leave and refused to pay them one cent.  

Several of us were living on the property, helping Ms Uszenski out when she needed it.  She lives with her younger sister who is wheel chair bound.  What I witnessed was inexcusable and very cruel.  

Her wheel chair bound sister had a sizable bank account when Victoria had taken her in and gets a sizable monthly alimony check each month- about $2500 per month to which she pays Victoria $1000 a month.  Victoria had also acquired power of attorney over her sisters bank account.  The sister would constantly ask for her bank statements and for 6 months, I listened to Victoria tell the sister that it was the banka foul up and she'd straighten it out.  Every month they went through this same discussion.  

Well, January 2013, Victoria went out of town for a family event.  I did as I was asked and picked up the mail.  Low and behold there was a bank statement.  When I brought it to the sister, she was excited she had finally gotten a statement.  That was a very short lived excitement though.  When she had opened the statement, she broke into tears.  Victoria had taken her bank account from over $10,000 to about $1,900.  Early in the month Victoria had withdrawn $500 three different times.  It seems to me that that goes over and above the agreed upon amount of $1000 per month. 

The sister told me she felt betrayed and couldn't believe what had happened.  You have to understand that during this 6 month period, Victoria had been harassing her sister to also give her power of attorney over her 401k which held a very handsome amount- tens of thousands.  The sister remained stedfast by refusing to sign it over (thank God).  

I also witnessed other things.  Her sister is wheel chair bound due to a botched angio gram.  She only has her tv and very few visitors.  Victoria had decided to change the dish network cable plan, which in essence changed the available channels.  This caused the sister to lose her favorite channels.  I was told not to say anything to her about the switch.  When the sister asked about it, victoria just said "I don't know, that's weird" and she never told her sister the truth.  After seeing the confusion she was having, thinking she was losing her mind, I finally told the sister the truth and apologized for not speaking up sooner.  From that point on, the sister would bring it up to Victoria to see if she would finally tell her the truth and Victoria would just ignore her.  Ignoring her sister comes easy to Victoria.  She did it all the time.  She even walked away while her sister was in the middle of talking to her.  

The people in Williams refer to Vicotia as the Black Widow because she has scammed properties and emptied bank accounts of unsuspecting men.  One of those men now lives in a studio apartment flat broke while she lives in the house he built on 15 acres that she continues to claim she designed and built.  

Another man wasn't so lucky.  He had put Victoria in his will.  After spending time with her, he went to a neighbors house and asked them for a ride to town so he could change his will.  He never made it to see the next day.  

Please beware and use caution with this woman.  She's a smooth talker and quite the charmer.  DON'T BELIEVE A WORD OUT OF HER MOUTH and WATCH YOUR BACK.