Complaint Review: LAUTON FUNDING LLC AND LAURAN BONAPARTE - Dunellen New Jersey

Lauran Bonaparte of Lauton Funding LLC showing an address in New York on the 59th floor, but really operating at 191 North Avenue Suite 266 in Dunellen, NJ 08812.  I was referred to Bonaparte by Rick Tinsley or aka Rod Tinsley another con artist that works thru her.  Lauran Bonaparte referred me on to a company by the name of: A.Z.O. Holdings LLC 40 Wall St., 28th floor, New York, NY 10005 Tele: 917.546.6717, Toll Free: 877.629.7526, Fax: 917.591.1244  Paul Azous, President that does a Private Placement Memorandum (PPM) and claims to have over 500 investors ready to fund your project, but they require a PPM that explains everything before they'll do any funding. I paid Rod / Rick Tinsley $3,750. and Lauran Bonaparte $5,167. for the referral to get to Azous who charged me $8,000 for their work to do the PPM. This all took place last year in November and December 2008. The PPM was done in February and then it supposedly went out to all their investors. Several months went by and Stacy, the assistant for Paul Azous kept telling me to be patient, and that this takes several months to put this all together, and asking for $65 million is a lot of money, etc. etc. In June I find out that Paul Azous has left the company and went back to Asia, and his brother / partner, Robert Krane took over. He assured me that I would be funded and to be patient. A friend of mine saw Azous advertising for new clients on Craigslist.org where hundreds of prostitutes have ads. I took the PPM to a securities lawyer and he told me if I would have had anyone invest money in this PPM they could have asked for a full return of their money at anytime plus substantial interest. He told me that this PPM is not a Blue Sky Offering, and that the way it is written is a fraud. And, the PPM was never submitted to the SEC for comments and clearance. I immediately contacted Robert Krane and he agreed to give me back my money. When I went to Tinsley and Bonaparte and told them that they referred me to a company producing fraudulent documents, and told therm they MUST return all of the money to me, they refused to pay me back even after I told them about the payment from Azous. Lauran Bonaparte tried to say that the money I gave her was also for her help to talk with other lenders, and how they have spent hundreds of hours working on my funding. Needless to say, this is ALL lies, and the original referral fee had absolutely nothing to do with anything other than the referral to a fraudulent company producing fake documents. I told both Tinsley and Bonaparte that they are illegally holding my money now that they know I was defrauded by the referral they gave to me. When I told Azous that they charged me almost $9,000 for a referral to them he was livid and told me that they are never accepting any referrals from brokers charging upfront fees. Krane told me they have stopped doing business with all the vultures that were referring new business with upfront fees. I am in the process of reporting Tinsley, and Bonaparte to the FBI, US Attorney General, US States Attorney, the police in Denver & Dunellen, and I will plaster their names everywhere on the internet so others know who they are dealing with. IF YOU PAY THESE CON ARTISTS ANY MONEY, BELIEVE ME, YOU CAN KISS IT GOODBYE. DO NOT LET THEM TELL YOU THEY HAVE ONE IRATE PERSON OUT THERE THAT IS ANGRY WITH THEM. BELIEVE ME, THESE ARE NASTY PEOPLE WHO WILL STEAL YOUR MONEY AND YOU'LL NEVER GET ANYTHING FROM THEM. THEY ARE VULTURES THAT PREY ON INNOCENT PEOPLE WITH A DREAM TO GET THEIR PROJECT FUNDED, AND YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF IN THE SAME BOAT AS I AM IN AFTER DEALING WITH THESE CRIMINALS. IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE FBI SHUTS THEM DOWN AND THAT MEANS YOUR MONEY GOES DOWN THE DRAIN WITH THEM. DO NOT BE STUPID ENOUGH TO SEND THEM A PENNY - FAIR WARNING!!!!! IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE, FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL ME AT [email protected] I SWEAR TO YOU THAT ALL OF THE ABOVE IS THE HONEST TRUTH - THESE PEOPLE ARE LOW-LIFES SCUM OF THE EARTH!!!!