Complaint Review: Beverage Plus - Las Vegas Nevada

Ronald serota was never an owner of first choice business brokers. He WAS our attorney who formed the corporation. As for the person who called us "another sleazy company", I suggest that you might listen to over One Thousand satisfied clients, just in las Vegas alone

Ronald Serota graduated with a class ranking within the top one-third of the graduates from the Charter Class of 2001 of the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV, and later that year was admitted to the Nevada bar.   Ronald raised his daughter full time since age 2 (beginning in 1992), without having the childs mother available to assist in any meaningful way.  His daughter attended the Hebrew Academy, a private school, and soon thereafter, attended public schools.  She studied Dance as well as travel and tourism. 
As a further challenge in Mr. Serotas personal life, Mr. Serotas former wife Mara Serota remains living in an assisted living facility and is visited by Mr. Serotas entire family.  The daughter is also appointed by the court to serve as the guardian over her Mothers estate.  Mr. Serota coordinates all monthly accounting, the annual report for approval by the court, as well as certain filings with other attorneys in order to submit Veterans benefits and Welfare Disability benefits. 

In 2004, Mr. Serota employed four associated attorneys and donated $25,000 to the law school to support a professorship.  Later, in 2008, he donated an additional $5,000 for a professorship for the Dean of the Law School.  The law school returned a portion of the donations made by Mr. Serota to the UNLV Foundation.  He was a member of several law professional associations including the Clark County Bar Association, the Nevada Trial Lawyers Association (since, renamed), and the American Trial Lawyers Association.  Mr. Serota served as faculty member and taught national level courses for the ABA AILA (American Bar Association, American Immigration Lawyers Association, division). 400 attorneys registered to listen to Mr. Serota's program.  In 1999 and 2000, he coordinated at least two major events sponsored by CCBA at the law school.  Over 300 members of the CCBA attended these functions.  He served as a faculty member for several CLE (Continuing Legal Education) programs and authored articles appearing in member journals of the CCBA and NTLA.  The Appellant also attended Annual State Bar conventions in Tucson and San Francisco.

Mr. Serota completed more than 500 hours of pro bono legal work.  He was recognized by the Clark County Pro Bono project for 100+ hours in both 2004 and 2006. In 2004 there were 20 such award recipients and 6 in 2006.   He also was honorably mentioned by the same organization during three other years, beginning in 2001. In 2004, Mr. Serotas associate attorney was paid by the law firm for all time she spent doing pro bono work (40 hours).  He completed pro bono work for Nevada Legal Services in reference to the Family Legal Resource Center in Pahrump, Nevada. The Appellants law firm offered free housing for the indigent living in Safe Nest (in an adjacent apartment) as well as work opportunities as receptionist.    Mr. Serota took on many cases referred to him by the Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada.  These involved the most complex cases, and many could not be handled by the staff at the charity.  Mr. Serota appeared in Immigration Court and the Board of Immigration Appeals in matters of removal proceedings of undocumented aliens referred to the Appellant by the Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada.  With one exception, no fee was charged.  Mr. Serota taught all of his staff attorneys and was responsible for monitoring their legal work.  One attorney, new to the firm, was just applying for entry to the Nevada State Bar and Mr. Serota made a favorable recommendation and agreed to continue mentoring this candidate. 

Mr. Serota was familiar with teaching courses.  He was the religious school teacher for over one dozen students in the 4th grade.  These students kept in touch with him for more than 10 years.  He volunteered to teach courses at several universities including CSN and UNLV. He also produced educational videos used by over 165 universities. The Appellant has been published within a treatise of the American Bar Association and taught at two annual conventions for ABA American Immigration Lawyers Association and International Association of Educators. 
Mr. Serota worked on many corporate securities (IPO) registration filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  He also worked on annual and quarterly reports required to be filed with the SEC on a timely basis.  One of his clients was the Royal Family of Dubai the owners of one-half of the City Center Project in Las Vegas, NV.  Mr. Serota met with the Sheiks immediate family and within less than two or three weeks was successful with their first listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Germany. 

Before creating his own law firm, in the 1990s, Ronald Serota managed the single largest tax return preparation and consulting practice in his entire office in Chicago.  Out of the 500 attorneys and CPAs, Mr. Serota was ranked number 1.  Although he was a young manager, He billed 1.6 million dollars in gross fees, which includes $225,000 international consulting fees other offices world- wide would contact Mr. Serota and discuss his areas of expertise and would agree to pay $235 per hour. Mr. Serota was listed in the world wide manager director as a leading expert in international tax.  Mr. Serota had no full time tax seniors or staff working for him and he had to borrow such individuals when they were not busy working for other managers or some partners. 

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CON ARTIST RON SEROTA OF BEVERAGE PLUS RACKS UP ANOTHER JUDGMENT.

On  June 4, 2010 another judgment against Ron Serota and his scam company Beverage Plus was awarded to Peter Moyer in the amount of $87,700.86. The case was filed in the Las Vegas District Court.

Case #A618131 Peter Moyer v Ronald N Serota, Beverage Plus Inc, MC2 Energy Drink Motorsports Corporation

Hey Ron why all the judgments against you, the arrest for theft and the suspension of your license to practice law if your such an upstanding model citizen? Maybe you can give us an answer to that.

As the above management requested I searched Beverage Plus traded as CLNP on pinksheets.com. This website states the last filing with the SEC for this company was a 15-12G in Feb 2009.  The document is signed by Ryan Gibson. I looked also at the financial statement that was received in November 2009.

The companies financial records prepared by Serota himself were quite impressive listing the the total assets for the company as $5,931,950.00 These financial records on pinksheets.com are a far cry from the testimony in the civil case against Ron Serota and Beverage Plus filed in  Las Vegas, Nevada. The minutes on 12/09/09 just one month later from case number A584724 which can be viewed online on the Nevada Eighth Judicial Court website state:

"Beverage Plus would be filing chapter 7 BANKRUPTCY if the accounts were emptied to satisfy the $49,312.00 judgment against them.

It appears that neither Ron Serota nor Beverage Plus ever satisfied the judgment for a lien has been filed against them with the Clark County Recorders Office on can be seen online.

The only names I can see associated with this company on pinksheets.com is Serota and Gibson. Serota's CPA license has been suspended along with his license to practice law and he was also recently arrested for burglary. Ryan Gibson was ordered to stop selling stock for his unscrupulous behavior. I think at this point considering the above facts Beverage Plus and the 2 parties associated with this organization are not the type of individuals I would care to do business with.    

The reader is being mislead by the author below.  Ryan Gibson is not an author or director or stockholder of Beverage Plus or CLNP.  He was replaced by new CLNP management when Ronald Serota took over in July, 2009.  Thus Ryans stock sales and any issues he has with Canadian regulators has nothing to do with Beverage Plus.  There is also no business trading between Beverage Plus and First Choice Business Brokers (USA).  The only links are that members of each company have previously served on the members of the board of advisors (not directors) of the other.  Lastly, Serota is not selling any shares of Beverage Plus / CLNP as all share he owns will always be restricted stock - not able to be freely sold.  In the past three months there have been no dumping or large sales of stocks and our stock has very little volatility over its recent history since August, 2009 when we took it over. The details of the company organizations, its most recent financial statement and the list of free trading stock (float) and total shares may all be found in public reporting section under Pink Sheets.com which is essentially regulated by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). The company pays an extra $3600 per year just to be able to report our shareholder information to the public.

After August, 2009, Beverage Plus did not complete the merger with FCBBI AG based in Zurich Switzerland and therefore, FCBBI AG continues to be owned primarily by the same founders of First Choice Business Brokers US.  For the past six to nine months there have been almost sales transactions of FCBBI AG - so there is no one promoting and dumping stock in Germany.

You have referred to management of CLNP and Beverage Plus as a bunch of career criminals.  I assume you mean to imply repeat offenders.  That certainly is not the case.  The entire management team of Beverage Plus has no convictions for any felonies.  The legal problems of Ronald Serota have been reported on the LVRJ.com and they related to a temporary suspension of his law license.  It did not relate to issues associated with his management of Beverage Plus as CEO.  It was Ronald Serota who voluntarily went to the State Bar and introduced the problem and entered into discussions seeking solutions so that the client would be made whole. The sanction was put forth as agreed by both Ron Serota and the State Bar as a proposed interim disciplinary action.  Later, it was reported that Ronald Serota was arrested for the same transaction involved in the State Bar disciplinary action.  These are allegations and a criminal case has not yet been filed so it is unclear what charges, if any, will be filed against Ronald Serota at this time. Ronald plans to defend any of the charges should they be filed.

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Ron Serota's partner in crime Ryan Anthony Gibson who is listed as the director of CleanPath Resources  has been implicated in a boiler room stock scheme.

According to a complaint filed by the B.C. Securities Commission Mr. Gibson's scheme amounted to an illegal distribution of Securities. To get the full story go to:

http://www.theftlossdeduction.com/phpbb/ryan-anthony-gibson-t26.html

Mr. Ryan Anthony Gibson has been ordered by the B.C. Securities Commission to refrain from acting as a registrant, investment fund manager or promoter.

Gibson is also prohibited from acting in a management or consultative capacity in connection with the securities market; and engaging in investor relations.

Gibson was also banned effective October 7, 2009 from trading and purchasing securities or exchange contracts for seven years.

Gibson was further ordered to resign from any position he may hold as a director or officer of an issuer, registrant or investment fund.

To view a copy of the order go to :

http://www.bcsc.bc.ca  and type in Ryan Anthony Gibson in the search box

Add this to the above list to Google:
Ryan Anthony Gibson CleanPath Resources

There you will find all the gruesome details. It's about time someone informs the SEC what is going on with these habitual criminals.