- Report: #426404
Complaint Review: The Grant People - Las Vegas Nevada
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The Grant People
4450 W . Oakley Las Vegas, 8146 Nevada, U.S.A.
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The Grant People they stole my savings and my resturant went under Las Vegas Nevada
Im hardworking hispanic man trying to earn good living for my family. Where do I start well I guess ill start at the beginning (nov 2 2005) thats the day I got the phone call from tim patrick from the company named the grant people. I had a small mexican resturant that was doing pretty good when I got the phone call i thought to myself too good to be true dam i wished i would've listen to myself this guy named tim patrick said so many things (things like i could get a grant for 50,000 to 80,000 for just being hispanic and having a bussiness, man did he play me for a fool.
after talking for about 45min i fell for his lies and gave him 2500 to get the ball rolling (in his words) he said that by the end of dec i would have a grant i said great cant wait so about two weeks pass by and a differnt guy calls me his named was mark he tells me that they are working on my grant and are coming close in getting one i said great, so then he starts telling that things would be much faster if i became a nonprofit corpration, at first i said not interested right now but he kept talking about how much better it would be, finally i said okay and folk over $5000.00 to them, so thats comes to a total of $7500.00 that i gave them, i said okay now i just have wait
well i waited for about month finally i get a call back from mark and he says great news i found a grant for you for $800,000 but its going to cost $7000.00 to apply for it i said no at first but he said this is garanteed its a SLAM DUNK in his words, once again i beleived him and folked over another $7000.00 so now that come to a total of 14500.00 that i gaved them.
I waited for another 2weeks didnt hear anything from them, finally i called they said that the grant is just about ready to be completed but what i needed was a business plan and they could do it for me but it was going to cost me $4300.00 and they said that this would be all i have to give they said after paying this they will not require me to pay anymore fees i said okay and folked over the 4300.00 so that comes to total of 18,800.00 that i gave them months pass by and i called and called and called and all they did was just give me the run around never heard from mark again i was tranfered to loman church, rentta, and to bryan green and they all said the same thing were working on it. I kept calling back left message after message after message finally i called and their number no longer worked.... These b***ards put me out of business and used up all my savings if there is any class action lawsuit agansit this company please e-mail me!!!
Manuel
ridgecrest, California
U.S.A.
after talking for about 45min i fell for his lies and gave him 2500 to get the ball rolling (in his words) he said that by the end of dec i would have a grant i said great cant wait so about two weeks pass by and a differnt guy calls me his named was mark he tells me that they are working on my grant and are coming close in getting one i said great, so then he starts telling that things would be much faster if i became a nonprofit corpration, at first i said not interested right now but he kept talking about how much better it would be, finally i said okay and folk over $5000.00 to them, so thats comes to a total of $7500.00 that i gave them, i said okay now i just have wait
well i waited for about month finally i get a call back from mark and he says great news i found a grant for you for $800,000 but its going to cost $7000.00 to apply for it i said no at first but he said this is garanteed its a SLAM DUNK in his words, once again i beleived him and folked over another $7000.00 so now that come to a total of 14500.00 that i gaved them.
I waited for another 2weeks didnt hear anything from them, finally i called they said that the grant is just about ready to be completed but what i needed was a business plan and they could do it for me but it was going to cost me $4300.00 and they said that this would be all i have to give they said after paying this they will not require me to pay anymore fees i said okay and folked over the 4300.00 so that comes to total of 18,800.00 that i gave them months pass by and i called and called and called and all they did was just give me the run around never heard from mark again i was tranfered to loman church, rentta, and to bryan green and they all said the same thing were working on it. I kept calling back left message after message after message finally i called and their number no longer worked.... These b***ards put me out of business and used up all my savings if there is any class action lawsuit agansit this company please e-mail me!!!
Manuel
ridgecrest, California
U.S.A.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Manuel
ridgecrest,California,
Thank God
#2Author of original report
Tue, September 17, 2013
Hello this is Manuel Astorga I just recived your update and this is the greatest news that I have heard in long time I always prayed and hoped that these scumbags get caught and hopefully get put away for a very long time. ever since then I never really recovered finically or emotionally this has been very hard not only for myself but my entire family. Thank you so much for this great news at least I can live in peace knowing that thes SOBs will not hurt anyone else the way they hurt me and my family. Please continue to update me with any new information that you may have. P.S if you by chance have the contact infomation of the lawyer or D/A please send me an email I would love to help anyway I could to put this bastards away.
thank you
Matt b
lake city,Michigan,
They Have Been Arrested!!!
#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Fri, September 13, 2013
LAS VEGAS -- Three Las Vegas residents have been indicted by the federal grand jury for allegedly defrauding almost 400 persons of over $5 million in connection with a grant funding telemarketing scheme, according to Daniel G. Bogden, United States attorney Nevada.
Gregory Villegas, aka Ray Matsui, aka Ray Mathis, 34; Christine M. Gagnon, aka Lisa Foster, aka Crystal Waters, 33; and Mickey Gines, 40, all of Las Vegas, are each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with telemarketing, and 31 counts of wire fraud.
They were arrested in Las Vegas on Thursday morning and were scheduled to make initial appearances in court later Thursday before U.S. Magistrate Judge George Foley, Jr. at 2:30 p.m. ..............................................
HOPE YOU CAN GET YOUR MONIES BACK,
