I have been with the family debt center/ allegro law for about 5 months and none of my debts have been paid. I found out alot of my creditors weren't contacted so I got concerned and did my own research and called the BBB and they stated they had no information on them. I contacted family debt center to get out of the program thinking i was going to get my money back and they stated all the money i put into it went to legal fees something they didnt tell me in the begining so be very carefull dealing with debt settlement companies.

The Key is 100% correct. Family Debt Center/ Allegro Law IS CAMPOS LAW CENTER with a false name to fool you which means they are in cahoots with HESS KENNEDY. IT'S A SCAM PEOPLE. A very large scam. Also BBB gives Family Debt Center/Campos law a D. Soon it will be a F. If you have money to pay Campos just call your creditor and pay them instead. You can do what these so called debt elimination companies do for you for free.

WOW! I have been reading the post. I was just before going with Allegro Law. That is scary. I contacted the creditor today and was undecided as to just try and negotiate a lower balance myself or go with Allegro to do it. I got Allegro from Brokencredit.com. Now I am concerned. Not sure if they will negotiate with me on Monday for a lower balance. I owe 10K.

I work for a debt management company and the first thing that I would advise you is to check on bbb.org, which is the better business bureau. You can search the company and see if they have had any complaints or issues reported. debt settlement is typically for someone who is severly delinquent and whose accounts are already with outside collection agencies. I would typically suggest to pay the accounts without assistance, because with a debt settlement program, it has a negative impact on you fico score and stays there for 7-10 yrs. It also shows future potential credit lenders that you were not able to handle your bills and are at risk for not paying them in full.

I used to work for The Achievable. As an employee, I found their practices unethical. Yes, Allegro is the renamed firm of Hess Kennedy, which was renamed Campos. Or something like that because they liked to keep us uninformed of their business practices. I listened to salespeople, not counselors as they like to call themselves, flat out lie about the programs to get consumers in debt to sign with them. These salespeople make salary plus a commission on the first payment you send to the law firm-which, is actually to the sales company, because they service your account, customer service is located in the same building! They have multitudes of websites all leading to them and their parent company-AmeriCorp. I can only recommend a non-profit service, what these companies do is unethical.

Allegro Law has nothing to do with Campos or Hess Kennedy. Keith Nelms is the lead attorney that's headquartered in Montgomery AL. Where do you people get your information?

It doesn't matter if they are associated or not, it's the same scam. And Waltj what makes you think that they are not affiliated?

Look people if you are giving money to an entity into an escrow account that THEY control IT IS A SCAM. Just look at this site where people complain about Allegro and you will see Allegro reps coming in here and saying positive things about them to mislead you. THE SAME THING HESS KENNEDY DID.

Legit companies will not care about sites like these if they were legit.

This company has fraud all over it.

How can they come up with a payment plan upfront for paying your debts when the company did not do anything with your creditors yet? That's a sign of fraud

If they say they are going to represent you in court it's a fraud.

Allegro's site does not work properly when finding a lawyer of affiliated companies.

The site looks and is run just like HESS KENNEDY was.

They just signed up with the BBB in August 2008 so they look good right now. That will change.

People this has to be stressed. YOU CAN DO WHAT THESE COMPANIES DO YOURSELF FOR FREE.

This site has made me so aware of what's going on.

Cajunbulldog, Unclewulf, Shazzers, Goudah2424 and anyone who helped me thank you alot. I will no longer be bullied by my creditors. I have the knowledge to fight back now. And I WILL WIN.

The best is to just do it yourself so you know what is going on. There are plenty of tools out there to do this. Get a local attorney that has some knowlege in this area as a consultant to point you in the right direction and be there in case you get sued. Trust me, most of these settlement companies will do just fine on your easy accounts and then will leave you in a mess with the tough ones and then you are right back to square one after a lot of aggrevation. Save yourself some aggrevation and save your credit and make sure it gets done right the first time.

They are two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT law firms . Do a corporate records research. Oh, I’m sorry, you don’t know how. You can only speculate. "The Key" sounds like an ex employee from the Family Debt Center who got FIRED for being the idiot he is. Also "YOU CAN DO WHAT THESE COMPANIES DO YOURSELF FOR FREE." How much debt do you have... $1000? There’s a BIG DIFFERNCE negotiating $1000 and $100,000. Sorry to say but the information provided For you people that don’t know who Allegro is, I will tell you. They are bulk settlement facilitator that settles more than 4000 accounts per month. They basically wire transfer MILLIONS of dollars to the banks on a monthly basis. There program is actually the SAFEST AND MOST EFFECTIVE ON THE MARKET. Most of the clients in their program want to avoid bankruptcy. There are other Attorneys, Doctors, Business Owners and other sophisticated individuals with debts up to $300K in the Allegro program.

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Jury awards $11.3M over defamatory Internet posts

A Florida woman has been awarded $11.3 million in a defamation lawsuit against a Louisiana woman who posted messages on the Internet accusing her of being a "crook," a "con artist" and a "fraud."

Legal analysts say the Sept. 19 award by a jury in Broward County, Fla. — first reported Friday by the Daily Business Review — represents the largest such judgment over postings on an Internet blog or message board. Lyrissa Lidsky, a University of Florida law professor who specializes in free-speech issues, calls the award "astonishing."

BEWARE OF BLOGS: Courts are asked to crack down on bloggers, websites

Lidsky says the case could represent a coming trend in court fights over online messages because the woman who won the damage award, Sue Scheff of Weston, Fla., pursued the case even though she knew the defendant, Carey Bock of Mandeville, La., has no hope of paying such an award. Bock, who had to leave her home for several months because of Hurricane Katrina, couldn't afford an attorney and didn't show up for the trial.

"What's interesting about this case is that (Scheff) was so vested in being vindicated, she was willing to pay court costs," Lidsky says. "They knew before trial that the defendant couldn't pay, so what's the point in going to the jury?"

Scheff says she wanted to make a point to those who unfairly criticize others on the Internet. "I'm sure (Bock) doesn't have $1 million, let alone $11 million, but the message is strong and clear," Scheff says. "People are using the Internet to destroy people they don't like, and you can't do that."

The dispute between the two women arose after Bock asked Scheff for help in withdrawing Bock's twin sons from a boarding school in Costa Rica. Bock had disagreed with her ex-husband over how to deal with the boys' behavior problems. Against Bock's wishes, he had sent the boys to the boarding school.

Scheff, who operates a referral service called Parents Universal Resource Experts, says she referred Bock to a consultant who helped Bock retrieve her sons. Afterward, Bock became critical of Scheff and posted negative messages about her on the Internet site Fornits.com, where parents with children in boarding schools for troubled teens confer with one another.

In 2003, Scheff sued Bock for defamation. Bock hired a lawyer, but he left the case when she no longer could afford to pay him.

When Katrina hit in August 2005, Bock's house was flooded and she moved temporarily to Texas before returning to Louisiana last June. Court papers that Scheff and her attorney David H. Pollack mailed to Bock were returned to Pollack's office in Miami.

After Bock didn't offer a defense, a Broward Circuit Court judge found in favor of Scheff. A jury then heard Scheff's arguments about damages. Pollack did not seek a specific amount for the harm he says Scheff's business suffered.

"Even with no opposing counsel and no defendant there, $11 million is a huge amount," says Pollack, adding that Scheff is considering whether to try to collect any money from Bock. "The jury determined this was a significant enough issue. It's not just somebody's feelings are hurt; it's somebody's reputation is ruined."

Bock says that when she moved back to her repaired house over the summer, she knew the trial was approaching but did not know the date. She says she doesn't have the money to pay the judgment or hire a lawyer to appeal it. She adds that if the goal of Scheff's lawsuit was to stifle what Bock says online, it worked.

"I don't feel like I can express my opinions," Bock says. "Only one side of the story was told in court. Nobody heard my side."

LOL. Folks Waltj works for Allegro or is a surrogate mope...LOL. It's obvious now. Ummm yes we can look up these things genius. For those who know YES YOU CAN DO IT ALL YOURSELF no matter how MUCH debt you have. You got in debt by yourself you can get out by yourself. People who are educated in this matter know the truth so there is no need for me to even try to debate this with you. In fact during all this Hess Kennedy crap the Florida AG himself states in an interview that you can do it yourself as well so cut the CRAP. Spread your propaganda somewhere else PLEASE.

Do you people follow the same play book????? I'll say it one more time for you. LEGIT COMPANIES CARE LESS WHAT A SMALL FORUM SAYS ABOUT THEM IF THEY ARE TRULY LEGIT. Their work will speak for itself.

Posting that article of someone being sued for internet slander....LOL. HESS KENNEDY already played that hand. If you are with HESS KENNEDY or not, you are not representing the company very well right now. YOU sound like a child. YOU are the one calling people names.

If I'm not mistaken you sound a lot like the FRAUD EDWARD CHERRY/KENNEDY posts. HHHHMMMMMMM.

It's not like they have hundreds of complaints in here. Allegro Law has ONLY 2, let me repeat 2 threads about them in this forum....2....and they have already sent the sharks into this forum for damage control.....LOL.

SOUNDS VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY FISHY. I would STAY far away from them.

It appears that Tom is with debtconsolidationcare.com, or affiliated in some way. Your quick remarks to try to knock down other companies for no apparent reason along with your “do it yourself” message all over your posts makes it obvious. The problem is that DCC likes to cop company names in search results. There dozens of examples on this site.

I may be affiliated with Allegro in some form and also know who Hess Kennedy is. I’ve been in this business a long time. Making claims that they are on in the same organization is defamatory and uncalled for, and pisses me off.

There is not one once of proof or confirmation anybody can provide to substantiate such an absurd claim because it is impossible – They are two completely different law firms!

I really don’t have a problem concerning feedback via postings from consumers who have positive or negative things to say about Allegro. But when someone makes an uncalled for attack on the integrity of service, there will be retaliation, and unfortunately, there will be collateral damage in the reprisal. Sorry. I’m done here.

First off....I'm a GUEST genius just like you. I have no Allegiance to anyone. I just like to help people.

Second....ignore what is said about any other company on this site. Why do you care? Just worry about yours. The same thing you are saying this site is doing, you are doing yourself. You are speculating all over the place. (Examples below)

Quote Example 1: It appears that Tom is with debtconsolidationcare.com, or affiliated in some way.

Any proof in this statement Sir? NO because it is so WRONG.

Quote Example 2: The problem is that DCC likes to cop company names in search results. There dozens of examples on this site.

DCC and the moderators do not cop anyone on this site. The consumers do then the moderators my look it up to see if it's true or not. And it's not hard to do when they are dishonest.

Third.....Answer some of the questions here. Explain the program to us all if we have it all wrong.

Or will you run away?

Oh yeah I forgot.

Quote: I may be affiliated with Allegro in some form and also know who Hess Kennedy is. I’ve been in this business a long time.

If this is true WHO ARE YOU? WHERE DO YOU WORK? If you are legit and not a fraud you will have no problem telling us and answering our questions. I will look you up and if I'm wrong I will gladly apologize.