ACCUSATIONS ARE ENTIRELY FALSE, UNJUSTIFIED AND UNWARRENTEDLY MALICIOUS
Boomer Events provided various rentals for a charity event held during the last 2 weeks in October 2012 for a Halloween Pumpkin Patch Carnival. The rental cost totaled $2,280.00. On September 14, 2012, we issued a check in the full amount of $2,280 to Boomer Events and that check was mailed to Boomer Events’ business office listed on its rental contract. On September 21, 2012, our bank honored the check and it was paid without endorsement on the reverse side of the check.
On or about September 24, 2012, we were told by David Miller, a principal of Boomer Events, that his mail had been stolen and he believed his ex-wife had run off with his business partner and stole the check. Mr. Miller asked us to go to our bank and file a fraud claim. We asked Mr. Miller for a copy of a police report or other proof that his wife and business partner did receive this money. Mr. Miller never provided any proof of his loss. Nevertheless, we cooperated with Mr. Miller and we did process a fraud request at our bank on or about September 28, 2012, with Mr. Miller’s signature on the bank’s form. We repeated the process on May 20, 2014, when we were informed by the bank that they had no record of the first request. The second request was delayed several weeks because it was incorrectly signed by Mr. Miller. Approximately 4 weeks ago we were notified that our bank received a credit from the institution that cashed the check and that our bank refunded the $2,280 to our account. We asked Mr. Miller to sign a written release to indemnify us before we reissued another check to him but he refused. Because he did not get his way soon enough, Mr. Miller became petulant, belligerent, rude and uncooperative (except for signing the bank’s affidavit of fraud). Mr. Miller refused to cease his wrongful smear campaign in spite of everything we have done to try to help. In spite of his child-like behavior, on November 4, 2014, we issued payment to Boomer Events of $2,280 and mailed it to their current address at 303 E. “A” Street, #646, Jenks, OK 74037.
The postings on Yelp by Mr. Miller are entirely false, unjustified, malicious and exemplary of everything wrong with the internet. Anyone can post anything on the internet with impunity because there are no safeguards of any kind and no way to verify the accuracy of the information or even the veracity of the person who writes the review. For example, we have learned that Mr. Miller does not maintain a physical business location anywhere in California, has no registered dba in Orange County, operates out of Oklahoma under a corporate name that is not legally licensed to do business in California. His corporation, Boomer Events, was suspended in April of this year and is now listed as dissolved with the California Secretary of State. For all we know we could have paid Boomer Events twice for the same job, as we have no proof otherwise. Theft of his business assets, if that occurred, is solely his responsibility. We did what we were supposed to do: we paid our bill. If one of his employees, his ex-wife, or even an unknown criminal stole that money then he should have reported it to the police and handled it. Instead, he made his problem our problem. We pay all our bills timely. We paid every other vendor on that event, and for the past 11 years have paid every vendor at that event, timely. We underwrite the costs of this event 100% and donate all proceeds to local charities.