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Complaint Review: Michael DiRaimondo - Melville New York
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Michael DiRaimondo
445 Broadhollow Road, Suite #107 Melville, 11747 New York, USA
Phone:
(631) 777-5557
Web:
http://www.diraimondoandmasi.com/firm_overview.html
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Michael DiRaimondo is a fraudulent, lying, scumbag - will ruin your immigration case - will rip you off for thousands of dollars Liar, sham of an attorney, ineffective, uninformed, awful, slanderous drama queen, unresponsive, unreliable -- ruined our case, possibly cost my father his life, Melville New York
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Worked with him in immigration through the IJ and BIA stages, and fired him after he let us down for the second time at the BIA. Now I am convicned that he is not just an awful attorney, but he is a horrific fraud, scamming innocent people, exploiting them when they are at their weakest.
We were in a much worse position after working with Diraimondo. He possibly cost my father his life.
Not at all effective as an attorney, very dishonest, extremely overpriced, and dismissive and unprofessional. One amongst many such rude occurrences was when he called me to be aggressive and rude to me about how I was allegedly "being rude to his secretary," which was an absurd and false accusation he made because I wanted to pick up my documents from their offices. In addition to all of this, his whole staff were always rude and dismissive, deflecting all work by starting Jerry Springer like drama episodes with baseless accusations.
He didn't listen to our pleas to include several strong evidence-backed arguments, and later it became clear that those arguments were extremely important. Instead of admitting to his mistake he continued to make more mistakes and put our case into an even worse position.
Worse than all of this, after we fired him, he went out to insult me, my father and my family before the very government prosecutors against whom we hired him to defend us, for sending him "nonsense illegible papers.... that he had no time to waste on" though he never said anything of the sort when we were actually working together, instead charging us for every minute of "reviewing documents," which is also clearly a criminal lie, stealing our money for not doing any of the work.
Again, turns out later, these "nonsense papers" he didn't want to read and lied to us about--while at the same time charging us $450/hour for 0.1hours, and 3.3hours and .7 hours and 1.6 hours, etc etc "for reviewing documents"--turned out to have all the arguments he failed to mention in his awful "brief."
When I fired him, he started texting me and harassing me, trying to get me to pay him another ~$10,000 for work he didn't do.
Also something that only occurred to me later after firing him is that I doubt he ever read most of the documents we sent him nor did he write any of the briefs. I believe he has a bunch of other younger attorneys at his little facade of a "law firm" to whom he contracts out his work that people paid for HIM to do. His bills also have several other lackeys listed as receiving the money we were paying him. Deceitful.
I would not recommend working with Diraimondo as I believe he is an awful attorney who will put you in a worse position than you started, and it will cost you thousands upon thousands.
I could write pages more and include more details. I only wish I could attach documents as I would gladly attach his "work" here as well as his text messages to me. Again, I could write pages more, but I am not going to bother wasting my time on this guy, and you shouldn't either.
