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  • Report:  #222383

Complaint Review: Law Offices Of Richard A Brennan United Christian Financial CreditCure - Frederick Maryland

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- Scottsdale, Arizona,
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Law Offices Of Richard A Brennan United Christian Financial CreditCure
Frederick Maryland Frederick, Maryland, U.S.A.
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I signed up with United Christian Financial back in February of 2006. I payed a $150 "refundable" deposit to this company and signed a contract. Basically, the deal was, UCF would hook me up with an attorney, The Law Offices of Richard A Brennan, and they would consolidate all of my 4 credit card payments into 1 monthly payment, reduce my interest rates and pay my bills for me. They were supposed to withdraw $157 from my checking account on the 17th of every month. $127 was to go to my creditor's and $30 to RA Brennan for their "services". Sounded like a good deal to me! WRONG! First, I began receiving calls from my creditors at the end of April indicating that they were not being paid. I looked at my bank statements and saw that the $157 was not being withdrawn from my account. So I called. They told me that it was a "system" error and that United Christian Financial never sent my checking account info over so they were unable to withdraw funds. I gave the info to her AND faxed over a copy of a voided check. Two weeks pass and I check my account, still no money has been withdrawn. I call again and speak to Andrew who tells me, Oooops, when Natasha entered my info in the system, she only entered it into one screen. It needed to be in two. So, he "fixed the problem" for me. June rolls around, start getting calls from the creditors again. Still, RA Brennan is not making payments and no money is withdrawn from my account. So, I make $200 payments to all my creditors to settle them down and call RA Brennan again. I speak to Joy. She tells me, oh, we just got a new computer system and some things got "lost in the shuffle". So she takes my info again an assures me all will be fixed. FINALLY, in June, $$ was taken from my account, however, no payment was made. In July, another payment was taken but again, no payment was made. I called and demanded to speak to a manager because I had paid $471 and no payments were made on my account. I was told it would be 24-48 hrd for a return call. I said fine, put me on the list but I want to talk to someone. I received no phone call back. At then end of July, payments were finally made to my creditor's. Oh, the excitement! Another $157 was taken from my account Aug. 17. At the end of August I checked with my creditors to see if more money had been paid on my account and guess what I found. NO, no additional payments had been made and the ones that were made in July were all returned for Non Sufficient funds. So, the payments they did make, the friggin checks bounced. I was pissed. I called and called and everytime I did I got a message saying the "mailbox was full". Or the phone would jsut ring and ring. Today is Nov. 27th and I still have yet to get a hold of these thieves. I have put in a complaint with the Better Business Bureau, the Maryland Attorney Grievance Committee and the Maryland Attorney General. Law Office of RA Brennan has been forced to respond to these complaints and in all of them they state, they never took money from my account (I have bank statements showing their name on ALL of the debits from my account), that when they did make payments on my behalf everything was fine (I have statements from all my creditor's showing that these payments were returned for NSF) and that none of this is their fault as Credit Cure went out of business (I signed up with United Christian Financial, who the hell is Credit Cure and what do I care if they are out of business?) So, at this point, I need to sue these jerks! Because of them my credit score went from a 630 to a 400! I have been charged over $2,000 in over limit fees, late payment fees and returned check fees that I feel RA Brennan is responsible for. I am pissed! Beyond pissed! Obviously if I am signing up with a debt consolidation company, I am not in the best financial position. To steal from someone like me is beyond LOW.

Kristy

Scottsdale, Arizona
U.S.A.


7 Updates & Rebuttals

Kristy

Scottsdale,
Arizona,
U.S.A.
Sick of the Lies

#2Author of original report

Fri, April 06, 2007

This is going to be my last post on this site in response to anything that Mr. Brennan has to say. Mr. Brennan, I have corresponded with you and shown you exactly why you owe me more that the piddly $186 that you sent me. You have my bank statements, my credit card statements etc... Tell me how, when you withdrew $633.32 from my checking account, and only actually paid out to my creditors $50 because 90% of the checks that you sent bounced, how does that equal a $186 refund??? Please enlighten me as apparently AP Math in high school did me no good if $633.32 - $50 = $186. That fact right there coupled with the fact that you are responsible for ALL of the Non-sufficient fund fee's that I was charged for YOU bouncing checks, the late payment fee's that I was charged because of your inept handling of the money that YOU debited from my account, the overlimit fee's that I got charged because YOU incurred a bunch of fee's on my accounts that pushed me over my credit limits, and the fact that ALL OF MY APR's went up a minimum of 7%, some as much as 16%, which I will deal with for a long time to come, these fee's and charges you owe as well and they total a pretty hefty sum as we have discussed. You say that I did not follow the rules, YES I DID! My money was entrusted to you on the dates that payments were required, you F'd up, not me. And yeah, after all this stuff started, I didn't sign your stupid papers, why would I sign those and pay you more money when you had already stolen from me for months? Do I have the word RETARD stamped across my forehead? No, I don't, you thieving SOB. For everyone else out there, our time is coming. There is a peer review set up for next week with the Maryland Attorney Grievance committee to look into this matter and I personally will be attending and boy, do I have a lot to say. I also want to mention the fact that a class action suit has been filed on our behalf against Brennan by a very nice attorney by the name of James P Koch. Brennan, your uppance shall come. Have you ever heard the Biblical verse, the Golden Rule, do unto others as you would have done to you? You have broken this cardinal rule of humanity, you have broken people who were not in the position to recover from the loss of their money. You are a horrible human being and I can only hope that once all is said and done, there will not be one person on this earth that will do business with you. Liar!


Richard

Frederick,
Maryland,
U.S.A.
Misinformation

#3REBUTTAL Owner of company

Fri, April 06, 2007

Kristy, I understand the anger and frustration. However, both my office and an independent auditor reviewed her files and found the same thing. She was indeed refunded what was owed. She also DID NOT follow instructions that would have prevented any further harm. I have gone out of my way to assist her, yet she rejects it because she wants money that is not owed to her. This will be born out in the facts. I wish Kristy no ill will, and only the best. Deeply distressed, Richard


Kristy

Scottsdale,
Arizona,
U.S.A.
NOT Fully Taken Care Of (not even close!)

#4Author of original report

Thu, February 08, 2007

First, I want to address Mr. Brennan's above post indicating that he has "prepared the necessary letters and refund". Mr. Brennan emailed me on 1/23/07 and indicated that he sent me a package with the letters that he sent to my creditor's, the credit buruea's and my refund, he actually indicated that he sent it overnight mail. Well, today is 2/8/07 and guess what I have not received? You guessed it, I have not received my refund. I also contacted ALL of my creditors and the credit bureaus' and they tell me that they have NOT received any letters on my behalf from LORAB. Shocking, I know. The above is just another in the LOOOOOOOONG series of lies told to me directly by Richard Brennan. Next issue I would like to address is the comment about me not being his client. Richard, when you took over the book of debt consolidation business for your client United Christian Financial, Creditcure whatever you want to call them, I became your client. You should not have taken over a book of business that you were not capable of handling with the inadequate staff that you employ. You took over that client to make money and unfortunately, you are now on the losing end. Just because you mishandled this situation by biting off more than you could chew does not mean that WE, your clients through proxy, should have to suffer. So, again, I stronly encourage all involved with this thief, liar etc... to stand up for yourself! THIS WILL NOT GO AWAY RICHARD, NO MATTER HOW MANY LIES YOU TELL, I WILL NOT GO AWAY! To rip off people who are in a shaky financial position, people who put their trust in you to help them with their debt, it is absolutely unconscionable. You should not only be ashamed of yourself, but you should pay in every way that the law affords us, and you will, it is my new life goal. Please everyone, continue to contact the Maryland BBB, the MAryland Attorney Grievance committee, the Attorney General of Maryland and your own home state. Also, please contact attorney James Koch who has been kind enough to help us with our fight against Tricky d**k. His email is [email protected]. I sincerely hope that Richard will be disbarred and hopefully at his hearing in April, that is exactly what will happen!


Richard

Frederick,
Maryland,
U.S.A.
Fully taken care of...

#5REBUTTAL Owner of company

Wed, January 24, 2007

I have corresponded and spoken with this individual and we have had pleasant conversations. She has complained of items that were not born out by the facts. We have prepared for a refund of any money due to her and I have prepared the necessary letters for her creditors and credit bureaus. We regret the problems experienced by these individuals, however the events were not caused by the Law Offices. No client had any money stolen by the law offices, and as she even states, she was NOT a law office client. She was a client of one of our corporate clients. We sincerely wish to assist these individuals, but must have them follow instructions. As for this client, we understand and appreciate her frustration. We only wish to assist in resolving this matter.


Kristy

Scottsdale,
Arizona,
U.S.A.
An update for all you Richard Brennan "fans"

#6Author of original report

Fri, January 12, 2007

I have been emailing back and forth with Dicky for the past 3 months because he FINALLY got back to me with a valid email address. He even gave me his cell #. We spoke and his was very "disturbed" by all that had happened and I thought after our 45 minute conversation that he would actually do something. Again, I was WRONG. The only things that come out of that man and his staff's mouths are complete and utter bullshit lies! I just got an email from him on Tuesday and he said he sent my refund what more did I want? Well, I emailed him and said, when did you send it cause I sure as hell don't have it. He replied, I sent it right after our phone conversation in November. Well, he didn't. He didn't even have my bank statements and the amount that needed to be refunded until December. Folks, he is an a*****e. There is a class action suit filed against him by Attorney James Koch in Maryland. If you have been screwed, contact him at email: [email protected]. He is looking for anyone else that has been screwed. We already have a good group of people in the lawsuit but EVERYONE deserves to get their money back from Brennan! Please also continue to send your letters to the BBB, they have a file on him as big as an ocean, as does the Maryland Attorney Grievance committee. Lastly, this guy is a criminal and I have found out that we can go after him criminally. Most of us put stop payments against him with our banks and told him we no longer wanted to do business with him but he still tried to pull from the bank accounts. This is wire fraud and it is a felony. I can think of no place better for this guy than a rotting jail cell. My email is (((ROR REDACTED E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR SECURITY PURPOSES))) if you have any other questions or concerns 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.


Toni

Green Forest,
Arkansas,
U.S.A.
Possible refund of initial deposit.

#7Consumer Suggestion

Sat, January 06, 2007

If you were initially referred to LORAB by United Christian Financial or Fidelity Reserves you may be able to get a refund on your initial deposit. Apparently, UCF has been accquired by FR and when I contacted them about LORAB's breach of contract they promptly refunded my initial deposit (less $75). Unfortunately you are still up a creek w/ LORAB.


Kristy

Scottsdale,
Arizona,
U.S.A.
Address for Law Offices of Richard A Brennan

#8Author of original report

Mon, November 27, 2006

Law Offices of Richard A Brennan 6809-D Bowman's Crossing Frederick, Maryland 21703 Show your support for the hundred's that this man has ripped off! Send him a letter, let him know what an &*&* he is!

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