A Nevada Eyewitness
Bountiful,#2General Comment
Thu, February 14, 2013
I am posting a response to the above remarks because I was personally involved when much of this drama took place, and I feel another side of the story should be shared.
I know the A author of the Norfolk, Virginia report. His father is Charles Joshua Ketcham who passed away several years ago. Charlie was the owner of a Nevada Corporation called Gold Leaf Road Products, Inc., and his sons disparaging remarks about him are justified and in my opinion, severely understated.
The other company Charlie had at the time was called Water-Lok, also a Nevada Corporation. The two products Charlies son refers to in his second paragraph were a Patented Multi-Level RV and Pozzolan, a soil amendment that in its pure form can be added to soil to substantially increase its water retaining capacity.
Based upon my personal experience with Charlie, everything his son Josh points out above was very likely perpetrated by his father and had nothing to do with anyone else. Charlie persuaded me to invest over $125K of my own money; he pledged an RV he didnt own to secure my loan; he falsely represented his rights to market the Patented Multi-Level RV to investors; he paid debt service on existing loans with new investment dollars; he defaulted on virtually every agreement he made with me; and he lied to me and others about many things. It would be completely consistent for Charlie to lie to his son and his wife and blame others if it helped him get what he was after. He had a silver tongue.
As I recall, Michael Bianco was surprised, deceived and financially harmed by Charlie like me and many others. After learning about Charlies scam, Michael was deeply hurt and would have nothing to do with him, so it doesnt surprise me that he didnt visit Charlie in the hospital. I believe Michael did what he could to properly repair the situations involving Charlie in which Michael was personally involved. I KNOW FOR A FACT MICHAEL BIANCO DID SO PERSONALLY WITH ME ON WHAT WAS OWED!
With what I know, I personally question virtually everything Josh has said. It is probably hearsay from his victimized and deceived mother and unsubstantiated gossip at best. I can practically guarantee I have more documentation than he does on many of these issues and all of it points to directly his fathers misdeeds and to no one else.
Regarding the second posting by watchdawggie Redding, dont be so eager to jump on the criticism bandwagon based on such unsubstantiated gossip. Take your own advice and Do Your Due Diligence before casting aspersions and possibly committing slander. If looking at a Rip Off report is your idea of getting the facts, you should really give that more thought.
Also, examining business cards with generic names and no middle initial is a poor way to measure professionalism, and I seriously question your 98% statistic. Look at BBB ratings. Get a Dunn and Bradstreet report. Persist until you actually get the facts, but dont publish your opinion for the world to see because your e-mail hasnt been returned promptly and your questions havent been answered. Thats very unprofessional.
You have obviously had a very negative personal experience with your mother much like that of Josh Ketcham, so you may have been eager to believe and support the existence of wrong doing based upon a superficial appearance. Dont do that. Its wrong, its unfair, its unsubstantiated and its gossip. You wouldnt appreciate it if someone did that to you. Go back and Do Your Due Diligence the right way and verify the information where possible. If you find you have been hasty in your judgment, print a retraction and learn from your experience.
For those who read this or any unmonitored, unregulated, freedom of speech post like those placed here, always remember there are at least three sides to every storythe first persons perspective, the second persons perspective and the actual facts as they really occurred. Use your best judgment.
A Nevada Eyewitness
watchdawggie
Redding,#3Consumer Comment
Sat, January 26, 2013
Health First Technologies appears to be Renua Medical out of Carson City, Nevada. I have had only limited experience as I was invited to and attended a medical symposium from a stranger who contacted me via a classified ad.
The presentation was nice and there was food and refreshments. The products appeared to be promising with great claims and their compensation schedule seemed larger than life. I thought Id be able to easily sell the remarkable devices to my professional associates and make a small fortune. However, the persons in the circles I deal in would require actual clinical results prior to making significant financial outlays; a reasonable request from any real medical/healthcare practitioner.
After the symposium, I contacted staff of Renua asking about published clinical results, research from scholarly sources, etc., that support claims made. I kept getting emailed and CCd (and still do) about the amount of money Id be making from the person who initially invited me, but still havent gotten what I wantedresearch that supports claims made. In fact, the persons I have contacted havent even returned my email.
Thankfully, this morning I found this report. Phew! As I examined the business cards from all the staff I encountered at the symposium, the names are all generic and there is no middle initial, a characteristic that 98% of all professional business cards possess.
My elderly mother was living very comfortably in her retirement, but when my father passed in 05 proceeded to wire her entire life savings to mail fraud scammers and con-men. It was me who discovered it and finally put an end to it. She is on a fixed income and now struggles from day to day. All of the names associated in these scams were generic like Steven Marshall, Susan Cole, etc.
This is not intended to disparage Health First Technologies, Renua Medical or its CEO, Michael Bianco. It is merely to convey my brief experience with the above entities. Always remember, caveat emptor. In this day and age of the Internet, doing your due diligence is thankfully, much easier. I did it over my morning coffee. Thank you A from Norfolk, VA!!! You saved me a lot of time, money and grief