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Complaint Review: JoJo Marengo Umbrella Publishing - Fullerton California
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2545 E. Chapman Avenue, Suite 200 Fullerton, 92831 California, U.S.A.
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JoJo Marengo, Umbrella Publishing THIS PUBLISHER VIOLATED MY CONTRACT Fullerton California
*REBUTTAL Individual responds: The facts of the matter
*Author of original report: JoJo Marengo of Umbrella Publishing is a Shameless Liar
*Author of original report: Serial Scammer JoJo Marengo starts World Art Institute
* : Scott Rose is a harasser, an extortionist and a balckmailer
* : JOJO MARENGO Ripoff? Impossible. Scott Rose is a harasser, an extortionist and a balckmailer
*Author of original report: JoJo Marengo's Integrity May be Checked with Angela Hoy of WritersWeekly
*Author of original report: JoJo Marengo/WAF/More unethical business communication practices unveiled
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: Scott Rose a loser who has nothing to write about exept harrasment letters to get attention.
In October 2007 I negotiated with JoJo Marengo of Umbrella Publishing for four articles I had written.
He told me he wanted to use them in the November/December issue of his magazine Orange County's Best.
He said he would pay me $1000 for the four upon publication in Umbrella Publishing's Orange County's Best.
The November publication date came and went; I heard nothing from him.
At long last and after I sent multiple e-mails he communicated with me, promising to send contributor's copies of the magazine and my check.
Instead of sending me $1000, he sent me $250.
In the Orange County's Best magazine, he had only printed just one of my articles, without my by-line.
Mr. Marengo and Umbrella Publishing publish numerous magazines in various other cities in the United States. I believe for example that they have a Cleveland edition. Another of their publications is Scottsdale's Best.
Mr. Marengo additionally is an owner of health and beauty spas.
Between December and today, January 28, 2008, I made repeated cordial attempts via e-mail messages to learn from Mr. Marengo what had become of his plans to publish my other three articles. He never answered that question.
He also never explained how he planned to make amends for having published my intellectual property without giving me credit for it.
Because Mr. Marengo ignored my requests to learn what had become of our contract, I became suspicious that he could have published my other articles in his other magazines without paying me for them and without printing my by-line with them.
Umbrella Publishing's and JoJo Marengo's other magazines are not available anyplace local to me and the content is not made available on line. I have no way of verifying whether he has published my materials in some of his other magazines.
I was willing to be flexible with Mr. Marengo and Umbrella Publishing about our contract so long as he communicated to me his plans for my remaining articles.
He did not see fit to respond to my e-mails until today when I complained about him to Ms. Angela Hoy of WritersWeekly, with an intent of having him denounced in that publication's Whispers & Warnings column.
What do you know but that cc'ing Mr. Marengo on the complaint brought him out of the woodwork and he e-mailed me at long last. Not that he offered any reasonable explanation of what had happened to my contract terms with him.
He responded with all kinds of weasel words, doing everything expect apologizing for breaking our contract, not communicating with me about it, and not telling me how he planned to make amends for publishing my intellectual property without crediting me for it.
He actually told me today that he was pulling one of my other articles from the printers where he had allegedly sent it to be in his next issue of Orange County's Best. How weasle-like can a weasle get? Why did Mr. Marengo not have time to e-mail me a note explaining what he was doing with the other pieces he contracted from me, but now that I make an official complaint against him, he has time to e-mail me saying that he's pulling one of those pieces from the printer?
An honest publisher in this same situation would say something like "I am so sorry that I previously neglected to contact you about your remaining articles. I can understand why you would be concerned. It turned out that instead of using all four of your articles in the November/December issue as per our original agreement, I have decided to spread them over a number of separate issues. In fact, your next article will be appearing on such-and-such a date and you will have a check for it within a month of publication. Rest assured that in the next issue of Orange County's Best we will be advising our readers that you are the author of the caviar article. May I include an author's bio for you along with that announcement? Again, I am extremely sorry that I did not answer your reasonable requests to know what had become of the contract I made with you via e-mail."
Freelancers should not hold their breath, thinking they'll ever see anything like that out of Mr. Marengo and Umbrella Publishing, no matter how sorely such a thing should be owed them by him and his company.
Freelance writers should not trust Mr. Marengo. He is still placing help-wanted announcements for freelance writers all over the internet. He had the motivation to post announcements for additional victims, but not to send me a few lines about what had become of the contract he made with me. He paid me $250 for one piece he used, but this was $750 short of the contract he made with me via e-mail communications. I sent him six cordial e-mails asking what had become of our contract; all six went unanswered. Only today when I sent a complaint about him to Angela Hoy and cc'd him in the complaint did he make any response. What he doesn't know is that I had informed Ms. Hoy regarding my suspicions about him in December. She has seen my documentation of the contract I had with Mr. Marengo; she knows that he did not answer my e-mails requesting an explanation of why contract terms were not met.
Scott
New York, New York
U.S.A.
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He told me he wanted to use them in the November/December issue of his magazine Orange County's Best.
He said he would pay me $1000 for the four upon publication in Umbrella Publishing's Orange County's Best.
The November publication date came and went; I heard nothing from him.
At long last and after I sent multiple e-mails he communicated with me, promising to send contributor's copies of the magazine and my check.
Instead of sending me $1000, he sent me $250.
In the Orange County's Best magazine, he had only printed just one of my articles, without my by-line.
Mr. Marengo and Umbrella Publishing publish numerous magazines in various other cities in the United States. I believe for example that they have a Cleveland edition. Another of their publications is Scottsdale's Best.
Mr. Marengo additionally is an owner of health and beauty spas.
Between December and today, January 28, 2008, I made repeated cordial attempts via e-mail messages to learn from Mr. Marengo what had become of his plans to publish my other three articles. He never answered that question.
He also never explained how he planned to make amends for having published my intellectual property without giving me credit for it.
Because Mr. Marengo ignored my requests to learn what had become of our contract, I became suspicious that he could have published my other articles in his other magazines without paying me for them and without printing my by-line with them.
Umbrella Publishing's and JoJo Marengo's other magazines are not available anyplace local to me and the content is not made available on line. I have no way of verifying whether he has published my materials in some of his other magazines.
I was willing to be flexible with Mr. Marengo and Umbrella Publishing about our contract so long as he communicated to me his plans for my remaining articles.
He did not see fit to respond to my e-mails until today when I complained about him to Ms. Angela Hoy of WritersWeekly, with an intent of having him denounced in that publication's Whispers & Warnings column.
What do you know but that cc'ing Mr. Marengo on the complaint brought him out of the woodwork and he e-mailed me at long last. Not that he offered any reasonable explanation of what had happened to my contract terms with him.
He responded with all kinds of weasel words, doing everything expect apologizing for breaking our contract, not communicating with me about it, and not telling me how he planned to make amends for publishing my intellectual property without crediting me for it.
He actually told me today that he was pulling one of my other articles from the printers where he had allegedly sent it to be in his next issue of Orange County's Best. How weasle-like can a weasle get? Why did Mr. Marengo not have time to e-mail me a note explaining what he was doing with the other pieces he contracted from me, but now that I make an official complaint against him, he has time to e-mail me saying that he's pulling one of those pieces from the printer?
An honest publisher in this same situation would say something like "I am so sorry that I previously neglected to contact you about your remaining articles. I can understand why you would be concerned. It turned out that instead of using all four of your articles in the November/December issue as per our original agreement, I have decided to spread them over a number of separate issues. In fact, your next article will be appearing on such-and-such a date and you will have a check for it within a month of publication. Rest assured that in the next issue of Orange County's Best we will be advising our readers that you are the author of the caviar article. May I include an author's bio for you along with that announcement? Again, I am extremely sorry that I did not answer your reasonable requests to know what had become of the contract I made with you via e-mail."
Freelancers should not hold their breath, thinking they'll ever see anything like that out of Mr. Marengo and Umbrella Publishing, no matter how sorely such a thing should be owed them by him and his company.
Freelance writers should not trust Mr. Marengo. He is still placing help-wanted announcements for freelance writers all over the internet. He had the motivation to post announcements for additional victims, but not to send me a few lines about what had become of the contract he made with me. He paid me $250 for one piece he used, but this was $750 short of the contract he made with me via e-mail communications. I sent him six cordial e-mails asking what had become of our contract; all six went unanswered. Only today when I sent a complaint about him to Angela Hoy and cc'd him in the complaint did he make any response. What he doesn't know is that I had informed Ms. Hoy regarding my suspicions about him in December. She has seen my documentation of the contract I had with Mr. Marengo; she knows that he did not answer my e-mails requesting an explanation of why contract terms were not met.
Scott
New York, New York
U.S.A.
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8 Updates & Rebuttals
Scott rose
New York,New York,
U.S.A.
JoJo Marengo/WAF/More unethical business communication practices unveiled
#2Author of original report
Sun, October 11, 2009
I have made a discovery.
A certain Max Donner, according to the article at the following link, is a Board Director of the World Art Foundation:(((Redacted)))
That same Max Donner serves as the "San Diego Art Examiner" for Examiner.com He's written various Examiner articles promoting WAF, without noting on the same pages as the published articles that he is a WAF Board Director.
Doing that is not ethical. Here's a sample Donner Examiner article promoting WAF: (((Redacted)))
What's more, Donner's Examiner articles are then reproduced on the WAF website *without* any by-line, that is to say, without Donner's name attached to them. And that is to say, WAF is making it look as though Examiner.com independently decided to report on and praise WAF, when in fact, it was a WAF Board Director who wrote the pieces praising WAF.
You can see those articles on the WAF site here:(((Redacted)))
This is not how business people who want to convey an impression of consistent integrity would behave.
CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.Scott rose
New York,New York,
U.S.A.
JoJo Marengo's Integrity May be Checked with Angela Hoy of WritersWeekly
#3Author of original report
Sat, October 03, 2009
My sole further interest as regards publisher JoJo Marengo would be in seeing that he not behave unethically towards other freelancers.
I presented my case with full documentation for it to Ms. Angela Hoy of Writers Weekly.
Persons interested in knowing her opinion of whether contracting with JoJo Marengo is an acceptable risk may contact her directly.
Umbrella publishing
Fullerton,California,
U.S.A.
JOJO MARENGO Ripoff? Impossible. Scott Rose is a harasser, an extortionist and a balckmailer
#4
Tue, September 01, 2009
JOJO MARENGO Ripoff? Impossible.
Scott Rose is a harasser who does not accept the truth of the
matter. Extortion is his game.
Umbrella publishing did not have any agreement written or oral
with Scott Rose for any other articles and none was used.
Scott Rose did not send the releases showing that he has the right
to resell any pieces. Printing any of these articles would have exposed
Umbrella publishing to possible lawsuits form the legal owners of the articles.
Therefore, Umbrella Publishing terminated any future relationship with
Scott Rose.
The word in the publshing world is that Scott Rose is a harasser who keeps on you by posting balckmail and extornion letters. Extortion is his game.
Publishers, who are not aware of Scott Roses shananigans, beware of this extortionist. Dealing with him might cost you dearly. The proof is right here in his postings. Read them and you can decide if you want to deal with such a person
Umbrella publishing
Fullerton,California,
U.S.A.
Scott Rose is a harasser, an extortionist and a balckmailer
#5
Thu, August 27, 2009
JOJO MARENGO Ripoff? Impossible.
Scott Rose is a harasser who does not accept the truth of the matter. Extortion is his game.
In 2007 Scott Rose approached Umbrella publishing on line and offered to sell them articles on caviar and wine. Umbrella publishing asked for a sample of the articles. He sent only one article titled Caviar. Umbrella publishing agreed to buy the article and printed it. Scot Rose was paid the agreed upon price in full. He never sent Umbrella Publishing any other articles.
Umbrella publishing did not have any agreement written or oral with Scott Rose for any other articles and none was used.
Scott Rose was asked to provide a release from the previous publisher allowing the use of the caviar article as well as any other articles Umbrella publishing would consider purchasing from him. Scott Rose responded with the following: Note that I do not at this time have resale rights to this piece.
Scott Rose did not send the releases showing that he has the right to resell any pieces. Printing any of these articles would have exposed Umbrella publishing to possible lawsuits form the legal owners of the articles. Therefore,Umbrella Publishing terminated any future relationship with Scott Rose.
Although he has been paid in full by Umbrella Publishing for the printed article Scott Rose he keeps harassing Umbrella Publishing to pay him for articles that Umbrella publishing did not print. He has been posting vulgar posting on various blogs hoping to blackmail Umbrella Publishing to pay them for articles that they did not contract nor print.
Umbrella Publishing does not have an address for Scott Rose to serve him legal harassment and blackmail summons.
Publishers beware of this would be extortionist. Dealing with him might cost you dearly
Umbrella Publishing
Fullerton,California,
U.S.A.
Scott Rose a loser who has nothing to write about exept harrasment letters to get attention.
#6REBUTTAL Owner of company
Mon, July 27, 2009
I guess anyone can write whatever they want on cyber space. These are insinuations, innuendos and lies. The accusations are not substantiated with address of the office, name of the landlord or any of alleged individuals mentioned. Just childish nonsense. If these allegations were true the people who lost their money or the landlord would have identified themselves. Our lawyers are looking for this Scott Rose writer to serve him with defamation papers. He has no address, no office and nowhere to be found. If someone owes you money you take them to small claim court and the matter is closed. The past 3 years this individual has been trying to make a name for himself by harassing us on cyber world. Publishers be careful not to be untangled with this, obviously, deranged man
Scott rose
New York,New York,
U.S.A.
Serial Scammer JoJo Marengo starts World Art Institute
#7Author of original report
Sat, March 14, 2009
Publisher JoJo Marengo, a serial scammer, has now started something called the World Art Institute. Involved with him in it are Monique Marengo and Antoine Marengo. After I involved writer's advocate Angela Hoy of Writer's Weekly in an attempt to collect the $750 of contractual obligations JoJo Marengo has not yet paid me, I heard from other victims of JoJo Marengo in California. One was an advertiser in one of his magazines, from whom he had taken money without ever running an ad. That person told me he was suing JoJo Marengo, and that when the papers server arrived at JoJo Marengo's office, they found a commercial property landlord telling him and showing him that JoJo Marengo had fled the premises, leaving them in a total mess, the night before the lease was to run out. That victim of JoJo Marengo however found a new address for him and the papers were served there. I have communications from other victims of JoJo Marengo. Again, names of people involved in the serial scamming include JoJo Marengo, Monique Marengo and Antoine Marengo. They have now started The World Art Institute, and again, that is The World Art Institute. Do not trust these serial scammers with a penny of your money. Do not waste on second of your professional time on them. They will cheat you, steal from you, and lie. Again: JoJo Marengo, Antoine Marengo, Monique Marengo; serial scammers, cheats, thieves, liars
Scott rose
New York,New York,
U.S.A.
JoJo Marengo of Umbrella Publishing is a Shameless Liar
#8Author of original report
Wed, July 30, 2008
Mr. Marengo made a rebuttal to my original Ripoffreport against him in which he made documentably false claims about the nature of the business agreement between us, and about the nature and content of the communications between us. At this point I realize there is no hope for me to collect the $750 this shameless crook owes me. I will not waste my time presenting the evidence here. The famed writer's advocate Ms. Angela Hoy has seen all of the documentation related to my having been so shamelessly cheated and stolen from by Mr. JoJo Marengo of Umbrella Publishing and Orange County's Best. Writers wishing to assess the situation in greater detail should contact Ms. Hoy through WritersWeekly. In addition to the bedrock documentation of how Mr. JoJo Marengo so shamelessly cheated me and stole from me, Ms. Hoy has direct knowledge of how Mr. JoJo Marengo attempted to use a lawyer to intimidate us out of publishing the complaint against Mr. JoJo Marengo and Umbrella Publishing and Orange County's Best magazine. The lawyer was sent the relevant documentation but never replied to it.
Umbrella Publishing
Fullerton,California,
U.S.A.
The facts of the matter
#9REBUTTAL Individual responds
Mon, June 02, 2008
To whom it may concern Although there is no contract with Mr. R, we acknowledge that we did want to use 4 articles that were commissioned and paid for by another publication. Mr. R sent us the Caviar article we printed it and we paid him the agreed upon price. We asked Mr. R to send us a release that we can use the caviar as well as the other three articles. Mr. R wrote to us the following As a sample of what such a piece would look like, I attach an article on Haut-Brion white wines that I wrote for an upcoming issue of The Affluent Page magazine (www.theaffluentpage.com) Note that I do not at this time have resale rights to this piece. Mr. R did not send the releases showing that he has the right to resell the 4 pieces. Printing any of these articles would have exposed us to a possible lawsuit form the legal owners of the stories. Therefore, we pulled out the Haut-Brion article and terminated our relationship with Mr. R.
